Depression you say? CHEER UP! Try a 'mimosa' cocktail.

[Dover]

A little color therapy...and that's a good thing.

Y E L L O W

Feeling Blue? Yellow is the New Black
By The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) _ Enough gloom and doom: There's a prediction from a leading color source that cheerful and sunny yellow will be the influential color of 2009.

Pantone, which provides color standards to design industries, specifically cites "mimosa," a vibrant shade of yellow illustrated by the flowers of some mimosa trees as well as the brunch-favorite cocktail, as its top shade of the new year. In general, Pantone expects the public to embrace many tones of optimistic yellow.

"I think it's just the most wonderful symbolic color of the future," says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. "It's invariably connected to warmth, sunshine and cheer — all the good things we're in dire need of right now."

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http://www.livescience.com/culture/081203-ap-yellow-2009.html


Yellow the new black! ACK!
What will New Yorkers do?

[islandmkl]

1. dupe

on edit #2: how is reply #1 a f***ing dupe?

[islandmkl]

2. that smiley-face fucker is going to make a comeback...

and i mean a BIG comeback...

:)

[Dover]

20. Nooooooo.....!

[aquart]

3. Not a chance.

We want things that don't need to be washed or dry cleaned so often because we can't afford that. Sunshiny colors are great if that's your mood, but it isn't going to be our mood for the next five to ten years.

I'd bet on blues and greens to calm the stress.

[EFerrari]

15. There was a year here when it rained for 8 months of the year.

Maybe 91 or 92? Flooding was terrible and it was DARK. It all started getting to us so we put yellow everywhere, including the new puppy. Clothes, table cloths, curtains, rugs. Anything to get some light going. It worked to a degree.

But doing the laundry was a pain.

[Dover]

21. Ahhh....but did you

paint the laundry room? A happy laundry room makes for happy clothes. :7

[EFerrari]

22. Lol! I might have. That would have been the next step!

I can still remember the yellow puppy and the two cats looking woefully out of the back door at the damn dark rain

:)

[Dover]

23. Awww. Yep...rain is for fishes.

[rucky]

4. swatch...

[carlyhippy]

9. mimosa doesn't look like the correct name for that color

I would rather see a brighter happier yellow, I could deal with that.

[carlyhippy]

5. Mimosa trees are pink- we had them in our yards in the southwest

I called them pink flamingo trees, and they have the sweetest smell ever, I miss me mimosa trees....I think pink mimosa is a better color

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. close up --

for the yellow:

[carlyhippy]

8. aaah now I see it! I can smell those flowers now....

I miss that.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. one of my favorites, too

:D :fistbump:

[xchrom]

6. day-yum -- i love champagne and i love orange juice!

life is good.

[DemzRock]

11. Oh, there is a yellow mimosa...

Who knew. Never saw one in person. Only the pink ones.

[Dover]

12. Ahhhh....I'm feeling better already

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. "They call me Mellow Yellow, Quite rightly."

Quick...without peeking....name the artist...

[madokie]

16. dion

Edit: I peaked and it was Donovan, I knew that :-)

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Close....no cigar.

[Dover]

18. Name that tune

[carlyhippy]

19. In memory of George Harrison and John Lennon.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdeHYlfnd_g

[Stardust]

14. Niiiiice! Our First Lady (elect) looks beautiful in yellow, too. (Me, not so much.)

[Dover]

27. Banana!!!

You wear it well. http://www.avatarist.com/avatars/Funny/banana!-dance.gif

[greyl]

24. In that case,

you might be needing these:

[Dover]

26. I'm HEALED!!!!

I feel absolutely radiant!

Thanks so much greyl!

[greyl]

28. :) !

Cool, I'm glad you like them. Enjoy.

[mwooldri]

25. I love yellow!

When I was a kid, my dad let me choose the colour of my walls in our house. I chose: bright yellow.

My favourite vehicle right now (not that I'd ever get to own one or drive it) - a yellow Jeep Wrangler type vehicle.

When did I make this colour pick? Late 80's... right before we lost the house. New home had walls repainted... yellow.

Mark.