Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Title

So I suppose a brief note on the title is in order-why? Because I make the orders around here.

Industrial Orange has a dual meaning.

1) It's the color of the Golden Gate Bridge. I live in the Bay Area.

2) Yes I ripped off Anthony Burgiss. From Wikipedia, the source of all truth:

Anthony Burgess wrote that the title was a reference to an alleged old Cockney expression "as queer as a clockwork orange".¹ Due to his time serving in the British Colonial Office in Malaysia, Burgess thought that the phrase could be used punningly to refer to a mechanically responsive (clockwork) human (orang, Malay for "man").

The title also connotes a conundrum of sorts, a machine vs. nature duality. Can something be an organic delicious breakfast drink producing fruit and yet a mechanical device that controls our lives???? I think NOT! Not yet that is, wait till science gets its hands on this idea.

So I take the title of the paint, ascribe new meaning to it and then, viola! It's my title now.

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