During my recent travels (Thailand for AIC; and China) i was thinking about podcasts and youtube etc. and I had an idea for creating a series of youtube videos about colour. What I didn’t want to do was create a powerpoint presentation and speak over it. I think we are all bored with that aren’t we.

But inspired by a youtuber who was posting about medieval England I had the the idea of just speaking to camera. No fancy graphic or slick production. Just speak to the camera about a number of colour-related topics that I find interesting. At the end of the day it is about colour and so I do include a couple of images and graphics – after all, a picture paints a thousand words – but I try to keep these to a minimum.

I recorded the first of these two of these videos from my hotel in Thailand (which was a brilliant venue by the way – congratulations to the Colour Society of Thailand for their brilliant organisation. You can view this introductory video here.

I also recorded the second video in Thailand and the third one in China. The concept os that I will try to answers questions about colour. These are questions that the public has been asking me for the last 40 years. The first question I decided to answer was Where is colour?

It turned out that this is a very complicated question of course and I decided to address it in two parts. You can listen to these two parts here and here.

It’s an experiment I am conducting. Way back when the internet was barely functional (late 80s / early 90s) I posted to the internet something called the Colour Physics FAQ which was a list of questions and answers about colour.

Eventually, FAQs became old hat I stopped supporting it online though I made it available on Amazon as a small e-book for old times’ sake.

My Colourchat blog has been another way to speak with people about colour and has been reasonably successful. In 2021 I had nearly 100,000 visitors to the blog. But of late I have been less convinced that a blog can really get to people. So my youtube videos can be seen as another experiment in a long-line of experiments – some more successful than others – where I get to talk to people about colour. Let’s see how it does.