Blue women

[redpaintednavi]

It is interesting how fascinated many artists and film makers seems to be of blue women. Is the girl of our dreams blue?

A woman from Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy land Pal Ul Don:



From the comic book Time Spirits:



From Star Wars, the Clone Wars, senator Chuchi from the planet of Pantora:



A blue Twilek woman from the Star Wars universe:



And Neytiri we already know.

Why do so many artists like blue women?

[Advent]

Originally Posted by redpaintednavi

Why do so many artists like blue women?

The agreeable colour? The calm exotic type? Something along those lines.

[Aquaplant]

I think the colour blue is something that catches attention, like how annoying blue power LEDs are for instance. Blue light in particular is really disruptive to eyes for some reason. Maybe we can get some scientific input from someone who has experience and or knowledge from that sort of thing.

[iron_jones]

Blue chicks are hot. I'd say that's the main reason.
Now... forgive me if I'm wrong but I think the Indian God Vishnu has blue skin, it could be possible for some people that different skin colours can be related to a certain level of divine-ness.

[txim_asawl]

Originally Posted by iron_jones

Blue chicks are hot. I'd say that's the main reason.

Especially the feline types - the Edgar Rice Borroughs classic above comes with a tail, too... And then there's the giddy purple (not quite blue, but close) Trance Gemini - she came with a tail, too... until it got shot off in season two.

Originally Posted by iron_jones

Now... forgive me if I'm wrong but I think the Indian God Vishnu has blue skin, it could be possible for some people that different skin colours can be related to a certain level of divine-ness.

Well, many deities from India are depicted with blue skin color - including the sometimes intimidating Kali - now, that's one blue female that can be plain scary - unlike Neyney, who's scary and beautiful at once.
And since an avatar, by definition, is the embodiment of a deity on Earth (very roughly defined, that is), the connection between blue and godly is easily made.

And it's easy to figure Neyney being a goddess in a worldly form. Plus, I bet, you'd find hundreds of followers, beginning here, if you were to start the First Church of Neyney Worship.

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Txim Asawl*~

[Raiden]

Blue is attractive to humans because it's a somewhat rare color amongst terrestrial life forms on Earth. It's unusual, so it catches our eye faster than other colors; especially the brighter cyan/sky blue colors.

It's not as rare amongst marine organisms, though.

[Human No More]

You forgot Liara - while nowhere near Neytiri, she's still very attractive


Blue is the perfect colour for aliens, it gives them that real attractiveness

Originally Posted by Raiden

Blue is attractive to humans because it's a somewhat rare color amongst terrestrial life forms on Earth. It's unusual, so it catches our eye faster than other colors; especially the brighter cyan/sky blue colors.

It's not as rare amongst marine organisms, though.

This. It's also the most common colour for people to have some form of liking it, as well as one of the most common favourite colours, and in terms of atmosphere, can convey a lot more different meanings than others.

Originally Posted by Aquaplant

I think the colour blue is something that catches attention, like how annoying blue power LEDs are for instance. Blue light in particular is really disruptive to eyes for some reason. Maybe we can get some scientific input from someone who has experience and or knowledge from that sort of thing.

Short wavelength, and Earth's sun is relatively lacking in the blue part of the spectrum compared to red/yellow. That makes it quite noticeable in quantity.

[Aquaplant]

Originally Posted by Human No More

Short wavelength, and Earth's sun is relatively lacking in the blue part of the spectrum compared to red/yellow. That makes it quite noticeable in quantity.

What is it exactly that makes star a certain spectrum when it comes to visible light? Also considering that it's such a short part of the radiation spectrum to begin with. Our sun just happens to be of the yellow spectrum, but there are also different colour stars, and I don't know what gives each star their predetermined colour. Is it the temperature that determines the wavelength when it comes to visible light?

[Sight Unseen]

Originally Posted by Aquaplant

What is it exactly that makes star a certain spectrum when it comes to visible light? Also considering that it's such a short part of the radiation spectrum to begin with. Our sun just happens to be of the yellow spectrum, but there are also different colour stars, and I don't know what gives each star their predetermined colour. Is it the temperature that determines the wavelength when it comes to visible light?

Yes. Hotter stars emit more energetic wavelengths. Blue, purple, and UV are the higher end of the light spectrum. Also, have you noticed that you can't focus directly on a blue LED? There's something about the human brain that won't allow you to focus on a blue-only source. As for power LEDs, I like blue power LEDs, just not when they're annoyingly bright. If you have a super bright one that bothers you, just stick another 1Kohm resistor in front of it. (or cover it up with black electrical tape, whichever you prefer )

I don't really know why blue women are more attractive, maybe because blue is so... different. I'm not going to argue with a color scheme that works.

[Aquaplant]

Originally Posted by Sight Unseen

If you have a super bright one that bothers you, just stick another 1Kohm resistor in front of it. (or cover it up with black electrical tape, whichever you prefer )

Strangely enough, I have already done exactly that. The one on my monitor, speakers and case have all been covered by black electrical tape.

[Mika]

Originally Posted by redpaintednavi

It is interesting how fascinated many artists and film makers seems to be of blue women. Is the girl of our dreams blue?

From the comic book Time Spirits:

LOL! Well guys you've come along way since the first days after Avatar came out. Now seems you can handle the idea of other 'blue women'. When I was the one that first found and posted that Comic Image on Avatar-Forums ...... I GOT LYNCHED for doing so, as i remember correctly :/

Originally Posted by redpaintednavi

Why do so many artists like blue women?

Originally Posted by Raiden

Blue is attractive to humans because it's a somewhat rare color amongst terrestrial life forms on Earth. It's unusual, so it catches our eye faster than other colors; especially the brighter cyan/sky blue colors. .

That wouldn't have occured to me, but when you explain that actually makes the most visual sense of the explanations.

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Mika

LOL! Well guys you've come along way since the first days after Avatar came out. Now seems you can handle the idea of other 'blue women'. When I was the one that first found and posted that Comic Image on Avatar-Forums ...... I GOT LYNCHED for doing so, as i remember correctly :/

It's all in the intention. In this case, you weren't trying to make some snarky point about how some obscure and probably bad comic had a similar looking character (a MASSIVE double standard, incidentally) - if people reacted against it elsewhere, I'd guess you were there.

Originally Posted by Moco Loco

For a while after I first heard of Avatar (about a week or two ), I thought it was somehow related to Hinduism.

lolwut
I always knew the normal definition of an avatar before I heard of the mythological definition, my first thought was that they copied it
I didn't hear a huge amount about Avatar before I saw it (scifi, beautiful aliens, James Cameron film) - that was enough - I don't have a TV so never saw the trailer until afterwards (disadvantage of seeing everything adfree).

Originally Posted by Moco Loco

I've noticed that most of these blue women happen to have yellow eyes >.>
me gusta

Contrast.
There are whole scales of how different colours interact.

[Moco Loco]

Originally Posted by Human No More

I always knew the normal definition of an avatar before I heard of the mythological definition, my first thought was that they copied it

Yes exactly

Originally Posted by Human No More

There are whole scales of how different colours interact.

>.> I was just saying that I like it. I'm a liberal arts major, I know about the color wheel.

[iron_jones]

Originally Posted by Moco Loco

I know about the color wheel.

There's a WHEEL!?

[mikkowilson]

Originally Posted by redpaintednavi

From Star Wars, the Clone Wars, senator Chuchi from the planet of Pantora:

Pantora is a moon, not a planet. Ironically.

I only know because I had to look up Pantora following your post. Amusing.

- Mikko