I love the comment from these people when they say, “is this how everyone else sees?” I think that in itself says everything. Their world has just been rocked and they know it. Fantastic! Yes, we live in a most beautiful, vibrant, color full world. Filled with the most wonderous things of color you could never imagine. The Creators canvass and palate are infinite in variations!
I'm happy to discover Daniel Arsham's art. I hope to see it in person someday. I found him through looking for artists who have color deficiency (I don't like the term "colorblind" because it's not accurate). I use Enchroma glasses. I don't think the glasses work so well when you flip them up and down. When I first put them on, everything is shifted toward magenta. A blue sky is purple. After the glasses are on for awhile, say 15 or 20 minutes, the colors "settle down" and the sky again looks blue. It is amazing to see so much differentiation in what used to look like uniform areas of color - the grass, for instance. The most astonishing thing was to look at Fall, since the colors of the turning leaves are in the color ranges I have problems with. I couldn't believe my eyes and came close to tears. I also own a pair of glasses for indoor use. Those also require adjustment time. I took an online Ishihara test without the glasses and then with the glasses. I didn't pass but I saw a lot more of the numbers I was supposed to see - there was a considerable improvement. I've done a lot of painting and it was interesting to look at my work with the glasses on. I was happy that a lot of it looked "right" but there were occasional awkward passages. Anyway, my point is that with the Enchroma glasses you need some time for the brain to adjust to the new information and that if you flip the glasses down and back up you have to go through the reset process before what you see is brought into a more accurate range.
Hi, I like your comment. It's surprising how much I can relate with your words. I'm an artist too and just like you, the thing that the most astonished me were fall leaves, when they're already on the ground in heaps: I didn't ever noticed how much they're actually different one from another. It's crazy. But it's so sad too, if you think about it. Because that's a one-way-trip. To come back to your everyday eyesight can be very disappointing. As a painter, I love colors, and I would like to paint just as the old masters of painting, their use of colors is crazy. But knowing that it will be just impossible is so disappointing. How do you deal with that? Doesn't it bother you to know that you're able to draw and paint but not able to see all colors nuances? Wearing those glasses was amazing, but one easily could regret wearing them, because they show you how bad is your eyesight.
FINALLY a video that reflects my encounter with EnChroma glasses. Other videos show the initial open-eyed wonder but not the weird, unsettled feeling that can follow. It's like slipping into an alternate universe where familiar, everyday scenes are now alien or even "wrong". Like Daniel, I found the glasses to be a fascinating tool but not something I'd want to wear all the time. Thank you so very much for sharing his journey. Well thought-out and well filmed.
My brother(different mother) said that after he got over the psychedelic like part, they were ego shattering. It pointed out all the things he understood that were wrong, like having an annoying friend in your head constantly reminding you you are color blind. To me, the glasses didn't appear any different than any other pair of sunglasses, other than the strange purple tint, but nothing crazy.
@Richard Smith well I guess your someone they don't work for they say they don't work for everyone so that must suck hopefully one day they'll make some that will.
impumagirl it's more than 1% its out of 20 guys that are color blind there are 13 girls who are color blind. So ya 13 out of 20. So guys do get it more but women still get it to
Actually, I happened to learn about colorblind glasses on the internet and talked about it to my uncle and aunt, who have a colorblind friend. After a while, his son decided to gift him a pair of glasses for his birthday. He liked them and he still uses them from time to time, but he doesn't wear them 24/7, because he finds them distracting when he has to do daily life activities. It's not a matter of cowardice, like some people here suggested in the comments. It's more the fact that your brain learns to work in a specific way when you grow up, and then it's difficult to process informations in a different way. Let's say suddenly your furniture you use daily becomes a billion different colors. Your walls instead of white are all painted differently, and the books you usually read and the internet articles suddenly have each letter in a different color. That's basically how it would feel. While some people would find the experience nice, some other would find it simply too much in your face not to be distracting or unsettling. It would be chaotic.
I'm aware that some people do not initially prefer reality. But actually us humans can adapt to what is the new (or real) norm. And avoiding to adapt to reality is similar to saying: All people should go colorblind so they don't get any distractions in certain tasks, but absolutely NO one would do this. Therefore they are not being naturally brave enough to allow their brain to adjust to normal REALITY.
Kim Land wtf no, your perception of colour isn’t reality, it’s just how you see them! Colour is different to every person, because everyone’s receptors for them are individual. There isn’t one way to see it that’s „correct“. Some animals see more colours than us, yet if I somehow got the possibility to do so aswell, I’d try it, but I wouldn’t want to make it permanent! Would you say those animals view of colour is reality? If not, why should yours be? I grew up seeing the colours I do, why would I want to wear a hindering device just to have everything I came to know change colour? I’m not colour blind, but I 100% get the first comment. Some people just might not feel the need to change.
@@emdove I just stopped the video at 4:33 because the middle and right image look almost identical to me. Are they supposed to? I agree with first comment that seeing colors differently than a person was used to would be totally overwhelming at first. And it bothers me that most of these videos try to put it on camera to get that reaction. And they start in a VERY colorful place instead of letting the person adjust slowly. I hate surprises and cant' stand being overwhelmed. I would probably want to take the glasses off and go to my comfort zone of "home" every now and then. I have a pair of rose tinted sunglasses and with those on, out in nature the sky looks bluer, and the grasses and trees look greener and for some reason I feel happier. I first found out about these glasses from the Doodle date channel. And one or two of their vids they had their pet guinea pigs pick out which Copic markers they would use. one of them had a burnt sienna, which I think is a brown. But to me (and others in the comments ) it looked like a dark olive green. Another vid they used a marker that was some shade of green, maybe Viridian Green, but to me it looked like a pretty washed out pale tan. Not sure what is going on but my fave color is green and maybe the green I see isnt' what other people see. We can't know what another person sees unless we are in their head, or if an artist like this one, somehow makes the same picture the way he normally sees it, and how he sees it with the glasses on. The other thing bugging me is how the majority of the videos say the glasses help the person see colors "for the first time" or "like a NORMAL person". They already see colors and they are normal, just different from whoever wrote the title. We're all different. In the military colorblind people have an advantage of being able to see camouflage easier than people who are not colorblind. WE have all collectively agreed worldwide to point to the sky on a sunny day and to call that color "blue" and we have no idea what each person is actually seeing. Grass is green and so on. It's all very personal, and altering a person's reality, doesn't mean that is their new reality. They would need to wear the glasses all the time. THEIR Reality is how they see without the glasses. That's what they grew up knowing and that is their anchor. Taking away a person's anchor, ripping the rug out from under them and telling them to just instantly adjust is extremely cruel in my opinion. It's their choice.
Good point i guess. Seeing colors is actually quite distracting. Note that for example some movies are intentionally made just in few colors: skin color, white, yellow, brown and blue for example. No one wears green t-shirt, you can't see anything green in interiors, there's nothing red, purple or pink neither. Everywhere seems to be blue carpet, wooden furniture or grey office furniture, yellow decorations. Sometimes whole movie has some color shades desaturated. I bet you don't wan't to mix all colors in a room to feel comfortable there. Especially you don't want to see bright yellow, red or pink. When you take photo of your street and there are yellow containers for plastics and blue for paper, blue trafic signs it looks awful and you may prefer black and white version.
You are An artist. With or without Color. Wow. You are a gift. And so is your son. Dimention is a Beauty. Take your time. You have been given a gift through someone elses gift who invented this glasses. We are all so connected. I Love it and I enjoyed your video very much. I wish you Joy each and every day. Again Thank you.
Hey doc, if the glasses "don't work", then why did they effect this artist's perception so much? Sounds like another "I have a degree and you don't" practitioner.
Very interesting! I guess it's easier for children to adjust to the change than for an adult who literally spent decades without these Colors. I can imagine that it is very distracting and confusing when suddenly everything looks totally different. So using the glasses as another tool to use when he wants it is absolutely fine and understandable.
I'm not colorblind but I am an artist. When I was a child, I use to sit on the playground and look at the differences in every blade of grass, rock, grain of sand...I'm a details girls. The various colors in skin tone, rock and trees...it's the most beautiful art on earth.
I thought it was interesting that the 'nuance' of colours distracted from focusing on the 'hard-lines' of architecture. But that makes alot of sense for certain types of artwork expressions. Even North-west Native Line-form art only works with 2-3 colours of black/whites and reds. The least amount of colour possible so as not to district from positive and negative forms of the shapes.
Who are any of us to judge him? The vision he has lived with his entire life is his reality - I can only listen to his explanations and experiences and take them as genuine. Some deaf people choose not to hear even if given the choice to hear or remain deaf. If one has lost hearing, then he/she can remember what it was like and perceives it as a loss. For someone who never had it, it is normal and one would then maybe feel compelled to change to fit into society better - or not.
They are not "refracting light to see a broader spectrum of color". Rather, after a quick search, "Enchroma created a (patent pending) method called 'multinotch' filtering, cutting out sharp wavelengths of light to enhance specific colors. Enchroma lenses separate the overlapping red and green cones, helping improve vision for people who have difficulty seeing reds and greens."
what the, you're correct. Daniel & doctor seem to think that there is a color line and that the lenses "shift" the greens more to the left (blue), like a box of color pencils, and the reds more to the right (infrared), so widening the gap between the colors. And so Daniel would see green as a shifted green etc. This is all wrong. The glasses cut out the overlap, but the colors stay in place. However, in the psst Daniel's red and green cones would most of the time fire together, thus muddling the color, and now no longer. Now the brain gets 3 clear and distinct signals from the 3 cones instead of 2, and can start juggling with these signals as non color blind people's brains do all the time. After all, the brain sees no colors, it only sees the signals coming from the cones. It is a shame on her profession that this doctor, an eye doctor at that, ventures into pompous opinions on a subject she clearly has no clue about. She SHOULD have phoned the company, or have looked up the details on how the glasses work. It's all on the internet. As to Daniel, he could try the indoor glasses, which have a less in your face character, but still improve primary color separation and hence still help the brain to create a much fuller color spectrum. But I suppose that 27 minutes of pedantic artisticisianism is not enough time to bring home this simple point, that there are two types of glasses, a stronger and a milder one.
@@ernstraedecker6174Hello, that's interesting. Let me ask you then, are the colors that we see by wearing Enchroma glasses real? I thought that, by cutting out some frequencies, they also changed a little bit the color nuances around. For example, if they cut out the ability to receive some "yellow frequencies", greens must be perceived as more bluish than they actually are, and oranges more reddish. You're saying that they have the ability to just cut out the "confusion range" and leave colors as they actually are to people with normal color vision (of course many shades of colors are still missing then)? If you will ask me I would be very grateful, because I'm a painter and this is very important to me. Thanks
I think Daniel's mind was "at home" with the palette of colors he grew up with. It would be like if I went to a planet that had super vivid colors and some colors that were impossible to see on Earth because our atmosphere wouldn't allow it. Then you take the return trip to Earth and there's your good old colors and everything's familiar, which all leads to you feeling AT HOME. All I can say is, I'm glad I was born with full color vision, so that I'm at home seeing the full spectrum that non colorblind humans see. An interesting tidbit - there are about a half dozen people on Earth (all are women) who have a fourth type of cone in their eyes which allows them to see many more colors than anyone else. By comparison, people with ordinary color vision are colorblind. There's one other creature that has even more than the 3 (or 4) cones humans have. It's the mantis shrimp, and it has TWELVE different cones! (I've also seen information that says they have 17 types) We can't even imagine how the world looks to them - not just because of their eyes, but their brains are all different from ours, and that's where color is perceived).
I appreciate this man's experience and his decision to stop wearing the glasses. So many of these videos--which serve as free advertising for this product--are overly sentimental and histrionic. I have been studying these videos and find many of them to be cloying, verging on annoying, especially when there are people standing around recording these experiences so they can pat themselves on the back. On the other hand, I do appreciate the genuine experiences some of these people have enjoyed once they were given the glasses. Two things--or even more--can be true at the same time. The universe is a complicated place.
Not quite sure how I feel about this video. I think Daniel's experience with the Enchroma glasses was very interesting, particularly because his reaction differed from so many of the other videos of people who have been so grateful for the ability to see color. On the other hand, the film too readily capitalizes on the success and popularity of these glasses (and the videos of people's reactions) to promote Daniel Arsham the artist, then turns and discounts the value of the glasses (that got them some of these views). It'd be one thing if it were just Daniel sharing his opinion about the glasses, but a bit much for the ophthalmologist to discredit them as well on behalf of color-blind people (assuming she's not color-blind herself).
I have been watching and studying these videos and have been wondering about the ramifications of these glasses after the initial gifting experience. Someone should do follow-up research to see how effective they are in daily life, once the novelty wears off. Are they really practical to wear and use on a day-to-day basis? What about the practical effects in job/employment scenarios? What about driving, flying planes, etc? Are there safety issues? Does the effect last over time? It's easy to get drawn into the emotional resonances of these experiences, but is there lasting value? Are there side effects?
I agree they took advantage of the popularity of enchroma glasses videos, then had this guy and a doctor shit on them. Clearly age plays a huge factor as i can understand a visual artist in his 40's being distracted by a complete change in the way he sees, but to have a doctor basically say they dont work is discouraging to young people who can handle such a dramatic change and adapt, and completely contradicts the artists own experience with the glasses. Like others have said, this guy comes off as kind of a coward who wants to stay in his same little bubble forever. To say your gift was to be born color blind is just stupid
Confirms a nagging in the back of my mind as I have watch (way too many) of these Enchroma Glasses videos. I kept thinking how overwhelming, confusing, loud, noisy and distracting all that color would be. Like suddenly being thrust into downtown Manhattan or Tokyo after living your life in a quiet country meadow. I've seen similar depicted with people who received cochlear implants in adulthood. The constant sound would for some become too much and they would turn them down, turn them off, and quit wearing them altogether.
I have been studying these videos and I have been wondering how many of these people wear their glasses regularly once these saccharine videos have been recorded and uploaded to RUclips and other media. If I had the money, I would do a research project. In general, I am supportive of efforts to help color blind people see colors, but the sheer number of these videos here are just free advertising for a product that people pay for.
From my perspective as an artist, I believe that Daniel is actually afraid of colour. That being said, he still doesn't have to do anything as a result. One of my own eyes changed 3 years ago and had 7 operations including the retina being cut down drastically in size, leaving it seeing but with blindness above, below, and to my right and having no focus. We are each one of us a work of God, his creation, and being colourblind (as my husband is who is also an artist), or even partially blind as I am, does not detract from how one interacts with one's personal environment visually and therefore in totality. We are none the same. God created each one with their own measure of faith and gifts and walk to glorify him in all of it.
Interesting video. I understand the idea behind his perspective but I also think he has a huge resistance to change/grow/learn any other concepts of art color or not. The glasses/color just seemed to be an easy catalyst to make that more of a statement.
I wonder if his ophthalmologist negativity had something to do with his negative attitude. These are glasses, not new eyeballs. Of course they're not going to see the way a real eyeball sees. But he was given the chance to experience something the way the rest of us won't be able to do. He is lucky enough to see the world through Prismatic glasses. And he can take them off anytime he wants. I am an architect, and I can tell you that buildings do not live in splendid isolation. They interweave with the world around them. Seems to me like this artist is not willing to open up his mind, which by definition negates his artistry. If you don't like wearing them don't wear them but don't regret the fact that this opportunity was given to you.
I'm a graphic designer, I think he's just self-centered and doesn't want to be like us. He's in love with his disability and makes him feel special. The colos are distracting at first because he's not used to it. But give it enough time and he will see the beauty in it. So sad that he's afraid to GROW and broaden his horizons.
@ytuseracct what about the fact that they darken everything around you? I tried them, and seemed to me almost impossible to paint with them on al the time. It's like wearing sunglasses all the time, you can get tired very quickly.
"Color can be over rated" did she really say that. Only someone from New York could make such a hubris statement. @ 21:54 What the hell does she know about it, Zero.
And what do you know about it? This is a commercial product that is getting a lot of free advertising on the internet. We don't know anything about the lasting effects of these glasses, if people use them much after the initial experience, how durable they are, how often they need to be replaced (at cost). There's more to consider here beyond some overly-emotional homemade videos that manipulate people into having histrionic responses. You don't know anything about this either.
The doctor completely missed the main point of the glasses. It's not just about color. The glasses change your whole perception of reality because we are visual beings. I would feel gifted if I was colorblind because I would have the upportunity to experience something completely new and get to appreciate things other people don't care about, like starring at grass and being amazed at how it looks. It's like arriving on a different planet. There's nothing histrionic about the reactions because it's clear that people get very emotional when they first put them on. It's similar to seeing your newborn child for the first time. People get to be kids again, even if it's just for a short while. Most don't end up completely adopting the glasses because they're too used to their old world, like the artist in the video, but like I've said, that's besides the point. And if anyone cares about durability they can look up some reviews. They're just like any well built sunglasses. Unwanted side affects are also very minimal. This is one of the few products that legitimately should be getting a lot of free advertising. We should thrive on creating technology similar to this.
I agree completely!!! Shows how ignorant she is about Art ! I am an artist. Im not colour blind but colour is what I know. Daniel doesn’t but he is an amazing artist in his own right and I can appreciate he would be distracted by colour as he is not use to it. Very interesting video. He is a cool guy and great artist. Respect 🙏😌
interesting perspective. I can't help but wonder if it's genuine or just an attempt at notoriety for being one person who actually dislikes his experience. If It's genuine, It's sad. As if a blind person who can now see would say they prefer not too because the vision is too much to take in, it's distracting. Or an educated person who decides ignorance would have been better because to live not knowing about the Matrix is better than living with the knowledge it exists. Very poetic but ultimately cowardly. Afraid of what changes will happen to you if you continue to evolve. But to choose NOT to evolve? Not to grow? This is just my opinion. I think that choice is cowardly and, ultimately can't be reversed. I mean once you see the matrix you can't unsee it. Once you learn to read you can't just forget to again. Sad.
Assuming it's genuine, I think a big part of it is about him being a very structure, shape focused kind of artist is the "issue" for him. For those of us who aren't colorblind colors obviously aren't distracting because we're so used to seeing them. If you see a bright blue house you will notice it being bright blue but that'll be it. It's not something that distracts you from noticing details or different materials. You're so used to seeing bright blue that it's nothing particularly interesting for you to see. I can believe that a person completely unfamiliar with certain colors, the different shades of the colors etc. could find it distracting. For most people that obviously won't be much of an issue since most people don't really work with shapes and structures. I still think it'd only be a matter of getting used to it though. He's distracted by the colors because they're new to him. New stuff is interesting so we tend to get distracted by them. Just like people who aren't colorblind, I'm almost willing to bet he'd just get used to the colors and no longer find them distracting. When I pick up a pen, a piece of candy, a lighter or whatever I may not even register what color it is because it doesn't interest me so I'm not paying attention to it. Seeing a green pen is nothing new to me after all so why would I pay attention to it? I just need a pen so I grab one and start writing. We basically learn to "turn off" colors or to ignore them. And even when we do see something of a certain color it may not stand out enough for us to remember it a minute later if another person asks us about which color those flowers back there were etc. Assuming this is genuine I think he'd end up the same way where colors are just a part of daily life that you don't like think about most of the time. But oh well.. If he prefers not seeing them so be it. It's obviously up to him to decide. :P
the glasses just give a wider range in the spectrum of colors youre able to see. just think of them as prescription glasses. they help you to see the truth rather than a blurry image. stop making up this notion that "artists" perception of color is better appreciated. sure us mere mortals may take color for granted in our everyday lives, but when it comes to our creativity and imagination we appreciate it all the same.
I think what this comes down to is contrast and how color lowlights create feature depths opposed to color highlight variants we become accustom to. If we put on color blind perception glasses our brains would have to take all those differences in as well. In fact, those who oppose the notion somebody else doesn't want to see things as you do, go try on a pair of color altering glasses which may enhance certain aspects but note when you remove them aside from comparison after some duration. Any novelty can be exciting for a change but you will most likely revert back to what you know unless it is so life changing you cannot live without it. Like a magnifying glass, a useful tool, sometimes you want to see things up close and larger but sometimes you don't.... or I should say in this day, on your phone sometimes you want to widen the image to see certain details but you wouldn't want to keep it that way. (On a side note I couldn't help but notice the video description doesn't correlate to the video.)
I appreciate his perspective. His art emphasizes structure and so I can see how seeing full color (for the first time) might be too distracting for him. Also, his art in which he incorporated color wasn't extraordinarily special, although he is a phenomenal artist!! However, his doctor is such a KILLJOY. She gives no hope and offers blanket statements such as "those don't work" or "he doesn't what everyone else sees." How the heck does she know? None of us knows exactly what another person sees ( the blue/black dress debacle proved that). However many of these enchroma reaction videos do indeed suggest they these people are experiencing a close approximation of what normal color sighted people see. I think he should switch to a doctor who is a bit more positive and hopeful. Also, he should embrace the glasses more, except when doing art, perhaps, or emphasize structure and use color for accent. Just a thought.
"None of us knows exactly what another person sees "- I'll say! Take a gallery full of non-colorblind folks lookin' at a painting. Many might think it a masterpiece; one says "I hate Horses."
Ok, what the doctor said makes sense. The glasses become a tool when needed. I'm curious if young colorblind children who have the glasses (There's a few on IT) feel the same way.
I think his experience is very genuine. There is a reason people who have eye transplants, for example, have so much psychological preparation beforehand. I imagine that this would very much fit in the same category. His experience must be even more accentuated, as he uses his eyes all the time, as an artist. Monet had a similar experience (for different reasons) when he realised his vision was changing towards the end of his life.
Well... in your case the glasses can be used as a tool ... a sort of means by which you at least have a comparison... an option to see things differently, whereas before, you only had one way of seeing things.... Where most people would see colorblindness as a complete defect... in your case it is an attribute that you need in order to produce the art work you're accustomed to. The glasses are a way to produce a separate optional way of seeing life for comparison only in order to possibly enhance your artwork OR maybe not.
I'm a colorblind artist, and I've been dying for a pair of these glasses 😭 Do you think if I started a gofund me or something that Instagram followers would donate? Or is that not something people would be interested in? Just honestly curious 💕
Yes you should try. I would go on every video on RUclips that is about color blindness and put your fund raiser in the comments to. And if you end up making more then the glasses are. Buy a few "if you get that much" and do a giveaway to other color blind folks and make their day by giving them the glasses. 😃
If you're claiming colourblindness so your art has more credit use more colours than one. Im colourblind and I sometimes paint realistic portraits in full colour, now that's a bitch to do!
I can imagine it must be overwhelming to suddenly be able to see colors that you may not recognize and how much of an adjustment it must be. Maybe some never adjust.
As an colorblind artist myself with corrective glasses. Its a real game changer. Colour is imposing and enjoyable but distracting. I never wear them when creating or painting. Colour is a bit silly.
Time, time, time, years without a more colorful world may take time for adjustment. I'm not colorblind and do photography. For me color is very important. There are times that no color works in a picture, but most of the time without color, it looks dead.
I’m colorblind as well, and when he was talking about the black and blue shoes, I was really distraught and kind of broken hearted because that was pretty much my whole life growing up. I always wore a black sock with a purple one, or a green shirt thinking it was yellow. I see color, but shades also happen to be effective towards me. I couldn’t see some basic ass shades and people use to be little me extremely. Which is why I primarily wear very minimal colors like rustic orange, or military green, or sand stone, or gray, or even just all black. It’s the color I’m most comfortable with, but weirdly enough my favorite color is yellow.
I am a courblind artist too... he is overthinkinh it. What I like to do is paint something with my glasses off... know mix colours j know I can't see.. after it's done I put on my Glasses on... very cool... when half your greens are grey normally... its brill to see it change...
I think he is doing everything exactly as he should. If he de udes he wants a color fir a piece if his art then he puts on the glasses to figure out what color he wants. I very much understand how overwhelming colors can be for people who have not seen them their whole life. In his instance I can understand how much color would be distracting.
Wow, I've watched quite a few of these videos and have a hard time believing that most of these people are faking their reactions. My conclusion of this video is that with a Doctor who seems to be so totally convinced that the glasses don't or won't help, it's no wonder the guy in this video is a bit negative. I truly believe our minds, our brains, are capable of having profound impacts on our body and our health. Negativity feeds negativity and positivity can make amazing things happen. I have nothing against doctors or the medical industry but sometimes I feel people in those fields are so wrapped up in the "science" that they fail to see or accept anything else.
The doctor is a bit of a kill-joy. I hope the artist uses the glasses as another tool like any other material (s) he may use. Colour or not his work will redeem itself. Must be a brilliant experience in many ways.
15:25 The doctor isn't quite correct, she really underestimates the effectiveness of those glasses for some people (the effect depends on the exact type of the visual anomaly). I understand where she is coming from, the principle behind those filters is a bit tricky and mathematical, and it seems like they "shouldn't" work. There is obviously a need for an education campaign for doctors in that department. AFAICT very few optometrists even carry those glasses. This is all very strange considering how many people are affected.
The ending is magic though..l like the Dr’s idea ..yes it can be too intense …. We see a million different shades on the average , there are those rare people who see 10 million, they have a hard time at the grocery stores. Some have to wear sun glasses to go in…. So perhaps for some who are colorblind …it can be overwhelming. Whew…
His is an artists response. Growing up around, being involved and participating in a life of composition and creativity has taught me you never should attempt to understand or stand in the way of an artists craft. This video isn't about his life in color, it's about his life in art. The glasses are simply used as fodder for his explanation of the way he see's the world and translates that to his art. Describing it as a distraction is his way of saying it gets in the way of his art, his art is his life more so than color ever will be. The doctor is simply there to validate his words while the others' commentary are there to add support. The glasses clearly did something for him as evidence of the video and will work for others but this is a video used to draw attention to him as an artist and attempt to sell him and his brand of art.
u can tell that his life wouldn’t be the same if he raised by another family due to the fact that his parents are very supportive and treats him like a normal kid
You do abstract building structure. Those materials are white black and shades of brown and rust-brown colors. Trying to do abstract structure artwork with almost neon colors don't work. Color is busy but alive. Structure w normal structure colors are not alive. They just are. Wear glasses during times of emotional joy, taken em off during work.
It makes sense to have difficulty adapting to a different world. You loose your references. If I was to see different more vivid colours instead of what I am used to seeing (even though I am not colour-blind), I might feel also that I am in some kind of laser or video game.
Actually color blindness in a way can be cured. IN that if you had your eye lense replaced with encroma lenses. You will now always see color and right color.
Hi my name is Itzy and I'm a 17 year old colorblind painter. This video related a lot to me. I believe I have the similar type of color blindness. However, I'm legally blind as well on top of my color blindness.
Does the video play more than twice for anyone else? I mean, it's really that enjoyable to watch again, but I think others would immediately disregard the video due to the misdirected length (27:41) and their short attention span.
Seems like the people around him are more concerned that color would negatively affect his work as if they're invested in him too and this is a threat to their future. Seems very selfish to me.
WHY didn't someone with normal color vision tell him that his choice of muddy grayish/purple looked awful in the show? Muddy monotony in all of it. Loved his black, gray and white works, though!
It's interesting that at the exhibition where he used that (very ugly) blue, the pieces just didn't work. It's for him to decide how he wants to use the glasses - that's his individual choice - and I think in his case as an artist he should just proceed as he has done in the past. Whether he uses the glasses in his personal life, to see how lovely his wife and son are, isn't shown here. Maybe he doesn't, but undeniably he still has great love for them both. RE.
I see now! (No pun intended) This is why vintage black and white photos are so interesting. Without the color you're only looking at the details and people's features and so on. With the color it distracts in certain ways from texture. Hm... I never thought about it that way. I prefer seeing in color, but now I understand a bit more about visual perception from a photographer's standpoint.
There is a way to tell if the glasses lets him see what others see. Put 10 different variations of say blue or red and make a line of 1 of the blues and tell him to pick the exact blue crayon that matches the blue line. After he picks the 1 blue crayon that he thinks was used for the line. You'll be able to find out if the glasses lets him see the exact color we see. Or give him a solid color object and ask him to mix up some colors to match the color he sees with the glasses.
Its not sad but enlightened! I love this video! It took a period of time for him to come to this conclusion and I agree it must be very distracting!! I see crazy amounts of color but have my whole life!!
He's kind of pretentious. I understand his perspective of not wanting his work to be clouded and also how overwhelming it can be .... but his way of rejecting the glasses is like rejecting other people around him. I mean doesn't he want to be able to see what his daughter sees or see his wife's outfit on a date? It's the little things of daily life that can help you connect to the world around you....
There was nothing 'wrong' with the way he was seeing things. He learnt to see things that way for years, it was and is how he perceives his universe. Why must we all see things the same? He did not reject his glasses - he just said that he uses them as a tool. Just like my glasses are a tool to correct my myopia. I wear them when I need to but I don't necessarily need to wear them all the time. Surely, it's up to me, as it is up to him, whether or not to use these forms of aids? How pretentious can you be to assume he cannot connect with the world around him? He is an artist for goodness sake- his entire life revolves around finding different ways to connect with people. I am sure, there would be a very different opinion if he had been a surgeon, who had decided to wear his glasses only when operating.
This was more a comment on his personality than his vision. You are right, there is nothing 'wrong' with the way he sees and I wouldn't use the glasses on a day-to-day basis either. I am just put off by his genereal attitude and how he repeatedly distances himself from others.
I watched this video twice and I didn't see him distancing himself from others. He's an artist and his perspective may not conform to some norm that others experience. That doesn't mean he's creating distance between himself and others. He has a wife and child that he has an obvious meaningful connection with. He has friends and colleagues who love and respect him. He's also quite analytical and makes decisions based on many factors. I found this video refreshing among the hundreds and thousands of free promotional videos this brand has received via RUclips and other online media.
He's not seeing what people with normal color vision see though, the glasses only broaden the range of colors he can distinguish between. Yes they are brighter and its easier for him to tell colors apart, but they don't make up for the cones in eyes.
Ok, but probably 99% of colorblind people love to have the opportunity to see the real colors of the world as most of us see, but who’s to say what each person’s perception of color is or how important it is to each of them. His art is incredible without color though they all have color! Tans, whites, grays ARE colors. I just hope people don’t see this and think it’s not worth trying.
I love the comment from these people when they say, “is this how everyone else sees?” I think that in itself says everything. Their world has just been rocked and they know it. Fantastic! Yes, we live in a most beautiful, vibrant, color full world. Filled with the most wonderous things of color you could never imagine. The Creators canvass and palate are infinite in variations!
I'm happy to discover Daniel Arsham's art. I hope to see it in person someday.
I found him through looking for artists who have color deficiency (I don't like the term "colorblind" because it's not accurate).
I use Enchroma glasses. I don't think the glasses work so well when you flip them up and down.
When I first put them on, everything is shifted toward magenta. A blue sky is purple. After the glasses are on for awhile, say 15 or 20 minutes, the colors "settle down" and the sky again looks blue. It is amazing to see so much differentiation in what used to look like uniform areas of color - the grass, for instance. The most astonishing thing was to look at Fall, since the colors of the turning leaves are in the color ranges I have problems with. I couldn't believe my eyes and came close to tears.
I also own a pair of glasses for indoor use. Those also require adjustment time. I took an online Ishihara test without the glasses and then with the glasses. I didn't pass but I saw a lot more of the numbers I was supposed to see - there was a considerable improvement.
I've done a lot of painting and it was interesting to look at my work with the glasses on. I was happy that a lot of it looked "right" but there were occasional awkward passages.
Anyway, my point is that with the Enchroma glasses you need some time for the brain to adjust to the new information and that if you flip the glasses down and back up you have to go through the reset process before what you see is brought into a more accurate range.
Hi, I like your comment. It's surprising how much I can relate with your words. I'm an artist too and just like you, the thing that the most astonished me were fall leaves, when they're already on the ground in heaps: I didn't ever noticed how much they're actually different one from another. It's crazy.
But it's so sad too, if you think about it. Because that's a one-way-trip. To come back to your everyday eyesight can be very disappointing. As a painter, I love colors, and I would like to paint just as the old masters of painting, their use of colors is crazy. But knowing that it will be just impossible is so disappointing.
How do you deal with that? Doesn't it bother you to know that you're able to draw and paint but not able to see all colors nuances? Wearing those glasses was amazing, but one easily could regret wearing them, because they show you how bad is your eyesight.
Love the fact that he has the gift of choice. To wear or not to wear.
the feeling when we realize how lucky we are who seeing color.
FINALLY a video that reflects my encounter with EnChroma glasses. Other videos show the initial open-eyed wonder but not the weird, unsettled feeling that can follow. It's like slipping into an alternate universe where familiar, everyday scenes are now alien or even "wrong". Like Daniel, I found the glasses to be a fascinating tool but not something I'd want to wear all the time. Thank you so very much for sharing his journey. Well thought-out and well filmed.
My brother(different mother) said that after he got over the psychedelic like part, they were ego shattering. It pointed out all the things he understood that were wrong, like having an annoying friend in your head constantly reminding you you are color blind.
To me, the glasses didn't appear any different than any other pair of sunglasses, other than the strange purple tint, but nothing crazy.
@Richard Smith well I guess your someone they don't work for they say they don't work for everyone so that must suck hopefully one day they'll make some that will.
impumagirl it's more than 1% its out of 20 guys that are color blind there are 13 girls who are color blind. So ya 13 out of 20. So guys do get it more but women still get it to
Actually, I happened to learn about colorblind glasses on the internet and talked about it to my uncle and aunt, who have a colorblind friend.
After a while, his son decided to gift him a pair of glasses for his birthday.
He liked them and he still uses them from time to time, but he doesn't wear them 24/7, because he finds them distracting when he has to do daily life activities.
It's not a matter of cowardice, like some people here suggested in the comments. It's more the fact that your brain learns to work in a specific way when you grow up, and then it's difficult to process informations in a different way. Let's say suddenly your furniture you use daily becomes a billion different colors. Your walls instead of white are all painted differently, and the books you usually read and the internet articles suddenly have each letter in a different color.
That's basically how it would feel. While some people would find the experience nice, some other would find it simply too much in your face not to be distracting or unsettling. It would be chaotic.
I'm aware that some people do not initially prefer reality.
But actually us humans can adapt to what is the new (or real) norm.
And avoiding to adapt to reality is similar to saying: All people should go colorblind so they don't get any distractions in certain tasks, but absolutely NO one would do this. Therefore they are not being naturally brave enough to allow their brain to adjust to normal REALITY.
Kim Land wtf no, your perception of colour isn’t reality, it’s just how you see them! Colour is different to every person, because everyone’s receptors for them are individual. There isn’t one way to see it that’s „correct“. Some animals see more colours than us, yet if I somehow got the possibility to do so aswell, I’d try it, but I wouldn’t want to make it permanent! Would you say those animals view of colour is reality? If not, why should yours be? I grew up seeing the colours I do, why would I want to wear a hindering device just to have everything I came to know change colour? I’m not colour blind, but I 100% get the first comment. Some people just might not feel the need to change.
Shreeze Adding on to that, the channel has been inactive for a while, but they stream on twitch.
(I came here from their videos 😂)
@@emdove I just stopped the video at 4:33 because the middle and right image look almost identical to me. Are they supposed to?
I agree with first comment that seeing colors differently than a person was used to would be totally overwhelming at first. And it bothers me that most of these videos try to put it on camera to get that reaction. And they start in a VERY colorful place instead of letting the person adjust slowly. I hate surprises and cant' stand being overwhelmed. I would probably want to take the glasses off and go to my comfort zone of "home" every now and then. I have a pair of rose tinted sunglasses and with those on, out in nature the sky looks bluer, and the grasses and trees look greener and for some reason I feel happier.
I first found out about these glasses from the Doodle date channel. And one or two of their vids they had their pet guinea pigs pick out which Copic markers they would use. one of them had a burnt sienna, which I think is a brown. But to me (and others in the comments ) it looked like a dark olive green. Another vid they used a marker that was some shade of green, maybe Viridian Green, but to me it looked like a pretty washed out pale tan. Not sure what is going on but my fave color is green and maybe the green I see isnt' what other people see. We can't know what another person sees unless we are in their head, or if an artist like this one, somehow makes the same picture the way he normally sees it, and how he sees it with the glasses on.
The other thing bugging me is how the majority of the videos say the glasses help the person see colors "for the first time" or "like a NORMAL person". They already see colors and they are normal, just different from whoever wrote the title. We're all different. In the military colorblind people have an advantage of being able to see camouflage easier than people who are not colorblind.
WE have all collectively agreed worldwide to point to the sky on a sunny day and to call that color "blue" and we have no idea what each person is actually seeing. Grass is green and so on. It's all very personal, and altering a person's reality, doesn't mean that is their new reality. They would need to wear the glasses all the time. THEIR Reality is how they see without the glasses. That's what they grew up knowing and that is their anchor. Taking away a person's anchor, ripping the rug out from under them and telling them to just instantly adjust is extremely cruel in my opinion. It's their choice.
Good point i guess. Seeing colors is actually quite distracting. Note that for example some movies are intentionally made just in few colors: skin color, white, yellow, brown and blue for example. No one wears green t-shirt, you can't see anything green in interiors, there's nothing red, purple or pink neither. Everywhere seems to be blue carpet, wooden furniture or grey office furniture, yellow decorations. Sometimes whole movie has some color shades desaturated. I bet you don't wan't to mix all colors in a room to feel comfortable there. Especially you don't want to see bright yellow, red or pink. When you take photo of your street and there are yellow containers for plastics and blue for paper, blue trafic signs it looks awful and you may prefer black and white version.
Marvellous film. Thanks for this portrait of a great artist.
very educational and amazing and his work as an artist is incredible
I'm colorblind and I say "thank you" for expanding/changing my perspective with your comments in this movie.
Very interesting!
Dad and Casper have a very special bond. It's so beautiful. Love my boys so much too.
You are An artist. With or without Color. Wow. You are a gift. And so is your son. Dimention is a Beauty. Take your time. You have been given a gift through someone elses gift who invented this glasses.
We are all so connected.
I Love it and I enjoyed your video very much.
I wish you Joy each and every day.
Again Thank you.
Daniel, you are an amazing artist with amazing perception. Be who you were born to be.
Hey doc, if the glasses "don't work", then why did they effect this artist's perception so much? Sounds like another "I have a degree and you don't" practitioner.
Very interesting!
I guess it's easier for children to adjust to the change than for an adult who literally spent decades without these Colors. I can imagine that it is very distracting and confusing when suddenly everything looks totally different.
So using the glasses as another tool to use when he wants it is absolutely fine and understandable.
Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing your experiences :)
Something that so many of us take for granted - is really wondrous to see when others see it for the first time. I love these videos.
The doctor seems to be more invested in being right than helping him understand what is happening to him and getting the most out of it.
I thought that from the first sentence she said. She sounds very arrogant
...pretentious
Ikr!!!!! She doesn't seem like she is ready to grow with these new developments in technology. She's a bummer!
I'm not colorblind but I am an artist. When I was a child, I use to sit on the playground and look at the differences in every blade of grass, rock, grain of sand...I'm a details girls. The various colors in skin tone, rock and trees...it's the most beautiful art on earth.
Colorblind glasses are awesome
I thought it was interesting that the 'nuance' of colours distracted from focusing on the 'hard-lines' of architecture.
But that makes alot of sense for certain types of artwork expressions. Even North-west Native Line-form art only works with 2-3 colours of black/whites and reds. The least amount of colour possible so as not to district from positive and negative forms of the shapes.
Who are any of us to judge him? The vision he has lived with his entire life is his reality - I can only listen to his explanations and experiences and take them as genuine. Some deaf people choose not to hear even if given the choice to hear or remain deaf. If one has lost hearing, then he/she can remember what it was like and perceives it as a loss. For someone who never had it, it is normal and one would then maybe feel compelled to change to fit into society better - or not.
He said the F-word right in front of his son. Surely we can judge him as being an irresponsible parent for doing that.
This is so impressive. I can’t even put into words. Thank you for sharing.
Doctor Debbie Downer - WOW! His art is based on structure, so seeing color is distracting, not that it isn't better because it is.
A+ great work.
So much to see, learn .
E*
They are not "refracting light to see a broader spectrum of color". Rather, after a quick search, "Enchroma created a (patent pending) method called 'multinotch' filtering, cutting out sharp wavelengths of light to enhance specific colors. Enchroma lenses separate the overlapping red and green cones, helping improve vision for people who have difficulty seeing reds and greens."
what the, you're correct. Daniel & doctor seem to think that there is a color line and that the lenses "shift" the greens more to the left (blue), like a box of color pencils, and the reds more to the right (infrared), so widening the gap between the colors. And so Daniel would see green as a shifted green etc. This is all wrong. The glasses cut out the overlap, but the colors stay in place. However, in the psst Daniel's red and green cones would most of the time fire together, thus muddling the color, and now no longer. Now the brain gets 3 clear and distinct signals from the 3 cones instead of 2, and can start juggling with these signals as non color blind people's brains do all the time. After all, the brain sees no colors, it only sees the signals coming from the cones.
It is a shame on her profession that this doctor, an eye doctor at that, ventures into pompous opinions on a subject she clearly has no clue about. She SHOULD have phoned the company, or have looked up the details on how the glasses work. It's all on the internet.
As to Daniel, he could try the indoor glasses, which have a less in your face character, but still improve primary color separation and hence still help the brain to create a much fuller color spectrum.
But I suppose that 27 minutes of pedantic artisticisianism is not enough time to bring home this simple point, that there are two types of glasses, a stronger and a milder one.
@@ernstraedecker6174Hello, that's interesting. Let me ask you then, are the colors that we see by wearing Enchroma glasses real? I thought that, by cutting out some frequencies, they also changed a little bit the color nuances around. For example, if they cut out the ability to receive some "yellow frequencies", greens must be perceived as more bluish than they actually are, and oranges more reddish.
You're saying that they have the ability to just cut out the "confusion range" and leave colors as they actually are to people with normal color vision (of course many shades of colors are still missing then)?
If you will ask me I would be very grateful, because I'm a painter and this is very important to me. Thanks
AMAZING!
I enjoyed this perspective.
I think Daniel's mind was "at home" with the palette of colors he grew up with. It would be like if I went to a planet that had super vivid colors and some colors that were impossible to see on Earth because our atmosphere wouldn't allow it. Then you take the return trip to Earth and there's your good old colors and everything's familiar, which all leads to you feeling AT HOME.
All I can say is, I'm glad I was born with full color vision, so that I'm at home seeing the full spectrum that non colorblind humans see.
An interesting tidbit - there are about a half dozen people on Earth (all are women) who have a fourth type of cone in their eyes which allows them to see many more colors than anyone else. By comparison, people with ordinary color vision are colorblind. There's one other creature that has even more than the 3 (or 4) cones humans have. It's the mantis shrimp, and it has TWELVE different cones! (I've also seen information that says they have 17 types) We can't even imagine how the world looks to them - not just because of their eyes, but their brains are all different from ours, and that's where color is perceived).
That's so interesting!
Most elaborate and high-budget Enchroma video ever made.
Amazing as always! Omg what was that last song?????
I thought the same !
I appreciate this man's experience and his decision to stop wearing the glasses. So many of these videos--which serve as free advertising for this product--are overly sentimental and histrionic. I have been studying these videos and find many of them to be cloying, verging on annoying, especially when there are people standing around recording these experiences so they can pat themselves on the back. On the other hand, I do appreciate the genuine experiences some of these people have enjoyed once they were given the glasses. Two things--or even more--can be true at the same time. The universe is a complicated place.
Interesting to hear how colour can be distracting and nuanced
Not quite sure how I feel about this video. I think Daniel's experience with the Enchroma glasses was very interesting, particularly because his reaction differed from so many of the other videos of people who have been so grateful for the ability to see color. On the other hand, the film too readily capitalizes on the success and popularity of these glasses (and the videos of people's reactions) to promote Daniel Arsham the artist, then turns and discounts the value of the glasses (that got them some of these views). It'd be one thing if it were just Daniel sharing his opinion about the glasses, but a bit much for the ophthalmologist to discredit them as well on behalf of color-blind people (assuming she's not color-blind herself).
I have been watching and studying these videos and have been wondering about the ramifications of these glasses after the initial gifting experience. Someone should do follow-up research to see how effective they are in daily life, once the novelty wears off. Are they really practical to wear and use on a day-to-day basis? What about the practical effects in job/employment scenarios? What about driving, flying planes, etc? Are there safety issues? Does the effect last over time? It's easy to get drawn into the emotional resonances of these experiences, but is there lasting value? Are there side effects?
I agree they took advantage of the popularity of enchroma glasses videos, then had this guy and a doctor shit on them. Clearly age plays a huge factor as i can understand a visual artist in his 40's being distracted by a complete change in the way he sees, but to have a doctor basically say they dont work is discouraging to young people who can handle such a dramatic change and adapt, and completely contradicts the artists own experience with the glasses. Like others have said, this guy comes off as kind of a coward who wants to stay in his same little bubble forever. To say your gift was to be born color blind is just stupid
HubbzZ I agree that Dr. sounds very arrogant
"I'm hoping it's going to work because it's real expensive."
The same thought everyone has then they buy these glasses.
Spectacular
Confirms a nagging in the back of my mind as I have watch (way too many) of these Enchroma Glasses videos. I kept thinking how overwhelming, confusing, loud, noisy and distracting all that color would be. Like suddenly being thrust into downtown Manhattan or Tokyo after living your life in a quiet country meadow. I've seen similar depicted with people who received cochlear implants in adulthood. The constant sound would for some become too much and they would turn them down, turn them off, and quit wearing them altogether.
I have been studying these videos and I have been wondering how many of these people wear their glasses regularly once these saccharine videos have been recorded and uploaded to RUclips and other media. If I had the money, I would do a research project. In general, I am supportive of efforts to help color blind people see colors, but the sheer number of these videos here are just free advertising for a product that people pay for.
I am highly sensitive to light, sound and color. Not all the time, though . I understand what you're saying.
Not unlike hearing aids.
'I'll do you one better by not liking seeing colors haha' - some artsy guy
From my perspective as an artist, I believe that Daniel is actually afraid of colour. That being said, he still doesn't have to do anything as a result. One of my own eyes changed 3 years ago and had 7 operations including the retina being cut down drastically in size, leaving it seeing but with blindness above, below, and to my right and having no focus. We are each one of us a work of God, his creation, and being colourblind (as my husband is who is also an artist), or even partially blind as I am, does not detract from how one interacts with one's personal environment visually and therefore in totality. We are none the same. God created each one with their own measure of faith and gifts and walk to glorify him in all of it.
His sons are named for cartoon characters: Casper (the Friendly Ghost) and Felix (the Cat). Or so it appears to me.
Feels like a hit piece.
Interesting video. I understand the idea behind his perspective but I also think he has a huge resistance to change/grow/learn any other concepts of art color or not. The glasses/color just seemed to be an easy catalyst to make that more of a statement.
I wonder if his ophthalmologist negativity had something to do with his negative attitude. These are glasses, not new eyeballs. Of course they're not going to see the way a real eyeball sees. But he was given the chance to experience something the way the rest of us won't be able to do. He is lucky enough to see the world through Prismatic glasses. And he can take them off anytime he wants. I am an architect, and I can tell you that buildings do not live in splendid isolation. They interweave with the world around them. Seems to me like this artist is not willing to open up his mind, which by definition negates his artistry. If you don't like wearing them don't wear them but don't regret the fact that this opportunity was given to you.
I'm a graphic designer, I think he's just self-centered and doesn't want to be like us. He's in love with his disability and makes him feel special. The colos are distracting at first because he's not used to it. But give it enough time and he will see the beauty in it. So sad that he's afraid to GROW and broaden his horizons.
when I paint and sculpt, I take my glasses off. Its a question of acceptance, honesty. The world in full color... lacks a certain grace.
I agree, too Much whining
@ytuseracct what about the fact that they darken everything around you? I tried them, and seemed to me almost impossible to paint with them on al the time. It's like wearing sunglasses all the time, you can get tired very quickly.
"Color can be over rated" did she really say that. Only someone from New York could make such a hubris statement. @ 21:54 What the hell does she know about it, Zero.
And what do you know about it? This is a commercial product that is getting a lot of free advertising on the internet. We don't know anything about the lasting effects of these glasses, if people use them much after the initial experience, how durable they are, how often they need to be replaced (at cost). There's more to consider here beyond some overly-emotional homemade videos that manipulate people into having histrionic responses. You don't know anything about this either.
The doctor completely missed the main point of the glasses. It's not just about color. The glasses change your whole perception of reality because we are visual beings. I would feel gifted if I was colorblind because I would have the upportunity to experience something completely new and get to appreciate things other people don't care about, like starring at grass and being amazed at how it looks. It's like arriving on a different planet. There's nothing histrionic about the reactions because it's clear that people get very emotional when they first put them on. It's similar to seeing your newborn child for the first time. People get to be kids again, even if it's just for a short while. Most don't end up completely adopting the glasses because they're too used to their old world, like the artist in the video, but like I've said, that's besides the point. And if anyone cares about durability they can look up some reviews. They're just like any well built sunglasses. Unwanted side affects are also very minimal. This is one of the few products that legitimately should be getting a lot of free advertising. We should thrive on creating technology similar to this.
I agree completely!!! Shows how ignorant she is about Art ! I am an artist. Im not colour blind but colour is what I know. Daniel doesn’t but he is an amazing artist in his own right and I can appreciate he would be distracted by colour as he is not use to it. Very interesting video. He is a cool guy and great artist. Respect 🙏😌
Filip Senekovič I agree. Well said 👌
Corinne As you don't need to see color to make art.
interesting perspective. I can't help but wonder if it's genuine or just an attempt at notoriety for being one person who actually dislikes his experience. If It's genuine, It's sad. As if a blind person who can now see would say they prefer not too because the vision is too much to take in, it's distracting. Or an educated person who decides ignorance would have been better because to live not
knowing about the Matrix is better than living with the knowledge it exists. Very poetic but ultimately cowardly. Afraid of what changes will happen to you if you continue to evolve. But to choose NOT to evolve? Not to grow? This is just my opinion. I think that choice is cowardly and, ultimately can't be reversed. I mean once you see the matrix you can't unsee it. Once you learn to read you can't just forget to again. Sad.
smh
Assuming it's genuine, I think a big part of it is about him being a very structure, shape focused kind of artist is the "issue" for him. For those of us who aren't colorblind colors obviously aren't distracting because we're so used to seeing them. If you see a bright blue house you will notice it being bright blue but that'll be it. It's not something that distracts you from noticing details or different materials. You're so used to seeing bright blue that it's nothing particularly interesting for you to see.
I can believe that a person completely unfamiliar with certain colors, the different shades of the colors etc. could find it distracting. For most people that obviously won't be much of an issue since most people don't really work with shapes and structures. I still think it'd only be a matter of getting used to it though. He's distracted by the colors because they're new to him. New stuff is interesting so we tend to get distracted by them. Just like people who aren't colorblind, I'm almost willing to bet he'd just get used to the colors and no longer find them distracting.
When I pick up a pen, a piece of candy, a lighter or whatever I may not even register what color it is because it doesn't interest me so I'm not paying attention to it. Seeing a green pen is nothing new to me after all so why would I pay attention to it? I just need a pen so I grab one and start writing. We basically learn to "turn off" colors or to ignore them. And even when we do see something of a certain color it may not stand out enough for us to remember it a minute later if another person asks us about which color those flowers back there were etc.
Assuming this is genuine I think he'd end up the same way where colors are just a part of daily life that you don't like think about most of the time. But oh well.. If he prefers not seeing them so be it. It's obviously up to him to decide. :P
He took the blue pill.
He's depressing ... change is good... hes a coward
It's like VR. It takes a while to adapt. Like getting your sea legs.Some people just don't want to go to sea
Inspiring to watch :) Thanks Semaine!
The Penrax K 1000 was my first and only 35mmSLR....lived it!!!
the glasses just give a wider range in the spectrum of colors youre able to see. just think of them as prescription glasses. they help you to see the truth rather than a blurry image.
stop making up this notion that "artists" perception of color is better appreciated. sure us mere mortals may take color for granted in our everyday lives, but when it comes to our creativity and imagination we appreciate it all the same.
This pretty good video bro!
I loved this
I think what this comes down to is contrast and how color lowlights create feature depths opposed to color highlight variants we become accustom to.
If we put on color blind perception glasses our brains would have to take all those differences in as well. In fact, those who oppose the notion somebody else doesn't want to see things as you do, go try on a pair of color altering glasses which may enhance certain aspects but note when you remove them aside from comparison after some duration.
Any novelty can be exciting for a change but you will most likely revert back to what you know unless it is so life changing you cannot live without it.
Like a magnifying glass, a useful tool, sometimes you want to see things up close and larger but sometimes you don't.... or I should say in this day, on your phone sometimes you want to widen the image to see certain details but you wouldn't want to keep it that way.
(On a side note I couldn't help but notice the video description doesn't correlate to the video.)
I appreciate his perspective. His art emphasizes structure and so I can see how seeing full color (for the first time) might be too distracting for him. Also, his art in which he incorporated color wasn't extraordinarily special, although he is a phenomenal artist!!
However, his doctor is such a KILLJOY. She gives no hope and offers blanket statements such as "those don't work" or "he doesn't what everyone else sees." How the heck does she know? None of us knows exactly what another person sees ( the blue/black dress debacle proved that). However many of these enchroma reaction videos do indeed suggest they these people are experiencing a close approximation of what normal color sighted people see. I think he should switch to a doctor who is a bit more positive and hopeful.
Also, he should embrace the glasses more, except when doing art, perhaps, or emphasize structure and use color for accent. Just a thought.
Great perspective L Harris. I agree
It's not up to you to decide what he should embrace.
"None of us knows exactly what another person sees "- I'll say! Take a gallery full of non-colorblind folks lookin' at a painting.
Many might think it a masterpiece; one says "I hate Horses."
I hope Daniel had his own mini reniassance since he got the glasses.
Ok, what the doctor said makes sense. The glasses become a tool when needed. I'm curious if young colorblind children who have the glasses (There's a few on IT) feel the same way.
I think his experience is very genuine. There is a reason people who have eye transplants, for example, have so much psychological preparation beforehand. I imagine that this would very much fit in the same category. His experience must be even more accentuated, as he uses his eyes all the time, as an artist. Monet had a similar experience (for different reasons) when he realised his vision was changing towards the end of his life.
I am not color blind. What is shocking to me watching all this is realizing just how much of life we take for granted. The simple blessings of life.
Well... in your case the glasses can be used as a tool ... a sort of means by which you at least have a comparison... an option to see things differently, whereas before, you only had one way of seeing things.... Where most people would see colorblindness as a complete defect... in your case it is an attribute that you need in order to produce the art work you're accustomed to. The glasses are a way to produce a separate optional way of seeing life for comparison only in order to possibly enhance your artwork OR maybe not.
Reminds me a bit of an old Val Kilmer movie I saw a while ago, At First Sight.
I'm a colorblind artist, and I've been dying for a pair of these glasses 😭
Do you think if I started a gofund me or something that Instagram followers would donate? Or is that not something people would be interested in? Just honestly curious 💕
I would totally support you!
Or Kickstarter. I think I saw one of these reaction videos where Kickstarter was thanked
Just ask Daniel Arsham for his. He doesn't like them.
Yes you should try. I would go on every video on RUclips that is about color blindness and put your fund raiser in the comments to. And if you end up making more then the glasses are. Buy a few "if you get that much" and do a giveaway to other color blind folks and make their day by giving them the glasses. 😃
Go to EnChroma's website, find a local place that sells them and go and try them out.
If you're claiming colourblindness so your art has more credit use more colours than one. Im colourblind and I sometimes paint realistic portraits in full colour, now that's a bitch to do!
I can imagine it must be overwhelming to suddenly be able to see colors that you may not recognize and how much of an adjustment it must be. Maybe some never adjust.
As an colorblind artist myself with corrective glasses. Its a real game changer. Colour is imposing and enjoyable but distracting. I never wear them when creating or painting. Colour is a bit silly.
Time, time, time, years without a more colorful world may take time for adjustment. I'm not colorblind and do photography. For me color is very important. There are times that no color works in a picture, but most of the time without color, it looks dead.
pauldhoff You could become dead without color in fact. As why some jobs,careers you can't do.
I’m colorblind as well, and when he was talking about the black and blue shoes, I was really distraught and kind of broken hearted because that was pretty much my whole life growing up. I always wore a black sock with a purple one, or a green shirt thinking it was yellow. I see color, but shades also happen to be effective towards me. I couldn’t see some basic ass shades and people use to be little me extremely. Which is why I primarily wear very minimal colors like rustic orange, or military green, or sand stone, or gray, or even just all black. It’s the color I’m most comfortable with, but weirdly enough my favorite color is yellow.
I am a courblind artist too... he is overthinkinh it. What I like to do is paint something with my glasses off... know mix colours j know I can't see.. after it's done I put on my
Glasses on... very cool... when half your greens are grey normally... its brill to see it change...
I think he is doing everything exactly as he should. If he de udes he wants a color fir a piece if his art then he puts on the glasses to figure out what color he wants. I very much understand how overwhelming colors can be for people who have not seen them their whole life. In his instance I can understand how much color would be distracting.
Wow, I've watched quite a few of these videos and have a hard time believing that most of these people are faking their reactions. My conclusion of this video is that with a Doctor who seems to be so totally convinced that the glasses don't or won't help, it's no wonder the guy in this video is a bit negative. I truly believe our minds, our brains, are capable of having profound impacts on our body and our health. Negativity feeds negativity and positivity can make amazing things happen. I have nothing against doctors or the medical industry but sometimes I feel people in those fields are so wrapped up in the "science" that they fail to see or accept anything else.
She didn't say they don't help. She said that they won't give you truly corrected color vision.
Do the colors that harmonize well to those who are not color blind harmonize equally well to those who are but wear these glasses?
The doctor is a bit of a kill-joy. I hope the artist uses the glasses as another tool like any other material (s) he may use. Colour or not his work will redeem itself. Must be a brilliant experience in many ways.
The doctor will loose her patients cause of these glasses. MONEY
15:25 The doctor isn't quite correct, she really underestimates the effectiveness of those glasses for some people (the effect depends on the exact type of the visual anomaly). I understand where she is coming from, the principle behind those filters is a bit tricky and mathematical, and it seems like they "shouldn't" work. There is obviously a need for an education campaign for doctors in that department. AFAICT very few optometrists even carry those glasses. This is all very strange considering how many people are affected.
The ending is magic though..l like the Dr’s idea ..yes it can be too intense …. We see a million different shades on the average , there are those rare people who see 10 million, they have a hard time at the grocery stores. Some have to wear sun glasses to go in…. So perhaps for some who are colorblind …it can be overwhelming. Whew…
Very interesting
Are those Enchroma?
His is an artists response. Growing up around, being involved and participating in a life of composition and creativity has taught me you never should attempt to understand or stand in the way of an artists craft. This video isn't about his life in color, it's about his life in art. The glasses are simply used as fodder for his explanation of the way he see's the world and translates that to his art. Describing it as a distraction is his way of saying it gets in the way of his art, his art is his life more so than color ever will be. The doctor is simply there to validate his words while the others' commentary are there to add support. The glasses clearly did something for him as evidence of the video and will work for others but this is a video used to draw attention to him as an artist and attempt to sell him and his brand of art.
I'll keep the green, thank you 🙏
"I want to be what I am."
u can tell that his life wouldn’t be the same if he raised by another family due to the fact that his parents are very supportive and treats him like a normal kid
You do abstract building structure. Those materials are white black and shades of brown and rust-brown colors.
Trying to do abstract structure artwork with almost neon colors don't work.
Color is busy but alive. Structure w normal structure colors are not alive. They just are. Wear glasses during times of emotional joy, taken em off during work.
Daniel art is Great, but with the bits missing it's as if he's seeing things after a nuclear holocaust.
The glasses help, it's a tool. They are seeing true colors. What is her purpose in all of this, what a kill joy.
Enchroma follow up vid please?
Cool 😎 documentary
I hope by he gives those glasses to other colorblind who actually need it more.
It makes sense to have difficulty adapting to a different world. You loose your references. If I was to see different more vivid colours instead of what I am used to seeing (even though I am not colour-blind), I might feel also that I am in some kind of laser or video game.
Wow... so different than the other videos I seen😐 whatever makes him happy🙂
Actually color blindness in a way can be cured. IN that if you had your eye lense replaced with encroma lenses. You will now always see color and right color.
This was the longest video intro I have ever seen before someone put the glasses on them.
Hi my name is Itzy and I'm a 17 year old colorblind painter. This video related a lot to me. I believe I have the similar type of color blindness. However, I'm legally blind as well on top of my color blindness.
this is so enlightening ❤
Does the video play more than twice for anyone else? I mean, it's really that enjoyable to watch again, but I think others would immediately disregard the video due to the misdirected length (27:41) and their short attention span.
the video only plays once for me...
Seems like the people around him are more concerned that color would negatively affect his work as if they're invested in him too and this is a threat to their future. Seems very selfish to me.
WHY didn't someone with normal color vision tell him that his choice of muddy grayish/purple looked awful in the show? Muddy monotony in all of it. Loved his black, gray and white works, though!
It's interesting that at the exhibition where he used that (very ugly) blue, the pieces just didn't work. It's for him to decide how he wants to use the glasses - that's his individual choice - and I think in his case as an artist he should just proceed as he has done in the past. Whether he uses the glasses in his personal life, to see how lovely his wife and son are, isn't shown here. Maybe he doesn't, but undeniably he still has great love for them both.
RE.
I see now! (No pun intended)
This is why vintage black and white photos are so interesting. Without the color you're only looking at the details and people's features and so on. With the color it distracts in certain ways from texture.
Hm... I never thought about it that way. I prefer seeing in color, but now I understand a bit more about visual perception from a photographer's standpoint.
There is a way to tell if the glasses lets him see what others see. Put 10 different variations of say blue or red and make a line of 1 of the blues and tell him to pick the exact blue crayon that matches the blue line. After he picks the 1 blue crayon that he thinks was used for the line. You'll be able to find out if the glasses lets him see the exact color we see. Or give him a solid color object and ask him to mix up some colors to match the color he sees with the glasses.
Why do you need a doctor for colorblind?
Azuki B - ummm... clearly he wears glasses... makes sense he would have an eye doctor. Lol
infomercial, anyone?
7:17 instant respect
I think like it's the same when you have to listen to music that is too loud... it may be beautiful, but it will be annoying at the end...
Its not sad but enlightened! I love this video! It took a period of time for him to come to this conclusion and I agree it must be very distracting!! I see crazy amounts of color but have my whole life!!
"Color fatigue"
so basically, Color: thanks but no thanks
Sick shoes
He's kind of pretentious. I understand his perspective of not wanting his work to be clouded and also how overwhelming it can be .... but his way of rejecting the glasses is like rejecting other people around him. I mean doesn't he want to be able to see what his daughter sees or see his wife's outfit on a date? It's the little things of daily life that can help you connect to the world around you....
There was nothing 'wrong' with the way he was seeing things. He learnt to see things that way for years, it was and is how he perceives his universe. Why must we all see things the same? He did not reject his glasses - he just said that he uses them as a tool. Just like my glasses are a tool to correct my myopia. I wear them when I need to but I don't necessarily need to wear them all the time. Surely, it's up to me, as it is up to him, whether or not to use these forms of aids?
How pretentious can you be to assume he cannot connect with the world around him? He is an artist for goodness sake- his entire life revolves around finding different ways to connect with people.
I am sure, there would be a very different opinion if he had been a surgeon, who had decided to wear his glasses only when operating.
This was more a comment on his personality than his vision. You are right, there is nothing 'wrong' with the way he sees and I wouldn't use the glasses on a day-to-day basis either. I am just put off by his genereal attitude and how he repeatedly distances himself from others.
I watched this video twice and I didn't see him distancing himself from others. He's an artist and his perspective may not conform to some norm that others experience. That doesn't mean he's creating distance between himself and others. He has a wife and child that he has an obvious meaningful connection with. He has friends and colleagues who love and respect him. He's also quite analytical and makes decisions based on many factors. I found this video refreshing among the hundreds and thousands of free promotional videos this brand has received via RUclips and other online media.
Most artists are pretentious so no surprise there. And actually there is something wrong with the way he sees, as explained in the video..
He's not seeing what people with normal color vision see though, the glasses only broaden the range of colors he can distinguish between. Yes they are brighter and its easier for him to tell colors apart, but they don't make up for the cones in eyes.
Ok, but probably 99% of colorblind people love to have the opportunity to see the real colors of the world as most of us see, but who’s to say what each person’s perception of color is or how important it is to each of them. His art is incredible without color though they all have color! Tans, whites, grays ARE colors. I just hope people don’t see this and think it’s not worth trying.