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Has anyone ever told you to go out and smell the roses? Have they ever said to go out and look at all the colors? In this article they explored the colors outside while taking a walk in New York City. It is often hard to just focus on your destination when walking, especially in the city. There are many eye catching objects of many different colors. In the article they decided to take William Burroughs advice and take a color walk. The main objective of a color walk is to choose a color and focus on it in as you walk.  There are also a lot of things that catches your eye and slows down your journey. What the article recommends is that you pick and stick to one color or go out and let a color find you. In the article they expressed how at the end of their color walk they had many colors on their minds. In my opinion this could be used to improve health. I believe that a peaceful walk focusing on other things could help lower blood pressure or help sooth anxiety. This also helps us look more closely at the built environment and you notice that more important things like taxis, fire hydrants…etc colored in bright eye popping colors like yellow and red. Taxis are yellow because they stand out from the natural colors of other cars. Billboards are high above eye level so they must create a more eye popping display. Going out on a color walk you should be able to see more things you wouldn’t have noticed before. In America with our growing technology we forget about the little things around us. Things that we take for granted like the changing of the colors of leaves and art and graffiti on the walls is what this article, in my opinion, is trying to get us back to. The color walk could be an attempt to turn the technology era back to a time like the Renaissance. Overall the article was just giving a new way to step back and appreciate the little things.

“Color Walking” by Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/story/214709-color-walk/