in praise of red

"Red is the color of the communist flag, the color that makes a surgeon move faster and the color of passion"
Ettore Sottsass, 88-year-old Austrian-born design legend, long based in Milan (the first major American survey of his work is showing at the Los Angeles county museum through June, 11th). See my recent entry "this is how I feel" on his Cartier exhibit.

Red, red, red
Fiona Apple, Extraordinary machine

Red on Maroon, Mark Rothko