Blues also vary
in shade or tint; darker shades of blue contain black or grey, while lighter
tints contain white. Darker shades of blue include ultramarine, cobalt blue,
navy blue, and Prussian blue; while lighter tints include sky blue, azure, and
Egyptian blue. include
Blue pigments
were originally made from minerals such as lapis lazuli, cobalt and azurite,
and blue dyes were made from plants; usually woad in Europe, and Indigofera
tinctoria, or True indigo, in Asia and Africa. Today most blue pigments and
dyes are made by a chemical process.
So blue is a color but blue may also refer to:
Publications
Blue (magazine), a gay men's magazine
Blue is a gay
men's magazine from Australia that features artistically composed images of
nude and semi-nude men taken by top photographers from around the world. It
also contains a variety of interviews and articles on art, films, music,
culture, and travel. The magazine's format is oversized and it is sturdily
bound on heavy paper; Blue is conceived as a "coffee table magazine."
The magazine was launched in February 1995 under the name "(not only)
Blue." It later changed to simply "Blue," and since 2007 has
styled itself as "Blue+".
Music Albums
Blue (Diana Ross album)
Blue, also referred
to as The Blue Album, is a 2006 studio album released on Motown by American pop
singer Diana Ross. Recorded in late 1971 and early 1972, the album was
conceived as follow-up to Ross' #1 Lady Sings the Blues soundtrack but Berry
Gordy and Motown decided to shelve the album in order to return Ross to the pop
charts with the more 'Pop' oriented "Touch Me in the Morning" single
and album.
Blue was initially sold through Starbucks for
the first 30 days of release. Starbucks immediately sold out of their supply
nationwide.
Blue (Joni
Mitchell album)
Blue (1971) is
the fourth album of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Exploring the
various facets of relationships from infatuation on "A Case of You"
to insecurity on "This Flight Tonight", the songs feature simple
accompaniments on piano, guitar, and Appalachian dulcimer. Blue was a critical
and commercial success, reaching #15 on the Billboard 200 and #3 in the UK
Albums Chart. The single "Carey" reached #93 on the Billboard Hot 100
chart. In January 2000, the New York Times chose Blue as one of the 25 albums
that represented "turning points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular
music".[6]
Blue (Simply Red album)
Blue is the sixth
studio album by Simply Red, released on East West Records on May 19, 1998.
The album
includes five cover versions: "Mellow My Mind" from the 1975 Neil
Young album Tonight's the Night; two versions of the frequently-covered
"The Air That I Breathe" written by Albert Hammond and Mike
Hazlewood; the Gregory Isaacs hit "Night Nurse"; and "Ghetto
Girl" by Dennis Brown, from whom the band would cover another song in
2003. New versions of previously recorded Simply Red songs also appear here:
"Come Get Me Angel" is a re-written version of the 1996 single
"Angel", and "Broken Man" was first released as a B-side in
1987.The inlay to the album only features Mick and his production team [Andy
Wright and Gota Yashiki] in photograph. This is a first for a simply red album
as all before it featured the various musicians credited.
Animals
British Blue, a variant of the British
Shorthair cat breed
The British
Shorthair is a domesticated cat whose features make it a popular breed in cat
shows. It has been the most popular breed of cat registered by the UK's
Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (GCCF) since 2001, when it overtook the
Persian breed.
Russian Blue, a
cat breed
The Russian Blue
is a cat breed that has a silver-blue coat. They are relatively intelligent and
playful, but tend to be timid around strangers. They develop close bonds with
their human companions and are sought out as pets due to their personalities
and coat.
Clothes
Blue jeans
Jeans are
trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans"
refers to a particular style of pants called "blue jeans" and
invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873. Starting in the 1950s, jeans,
originally designed for cowboys, became popular among teenagers, especially
members of the greaser subculture. Historic brands include Levi's, Lee, and
Wrangler. Jeans come in various fits, including skinny, tapered, straight, boot
cut and flare.
Everybody is more
or less sure that Jeans are of American origin and specially from the West Coast. Even if it is partially
true, the Jeans have started in their carreer … in France!
The word “Blue
Jeans” comes from the French sentence “bleu de Gênes” , meaning the blue of
Genoa (Italian city on the Mediterranean Sea). Jeans fabric, or “denim” started
to be produce in the French town of Nimes from which ‘denim’ (de Nimes or of
Nimes in English) gets its name.
More references at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_(disambiguation)
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