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the reason why I chose us call more than

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anything else is because underneath all

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our skin is a skull

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it's the universal image to everybody

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the formative way they use artosis of

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scholar desi traders who also nothing a

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la Vida is salgan wave a young

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my name is butch locsin I'm a

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contemporary performance artist here in

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Los Angeles I were a skull mask and I

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played with smoke grenades my word is

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reflective of Mexican culture and

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iconography and art work Maria saw a lot

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of the photos that I was doing and she

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wanted to actually collaborate on a

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project and integrating her into what I

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do has been really fun and successful

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Miami Maria there is a so unit ISTA

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comments up in Pelican Athenian relative

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impunity Nascimento solo kme plateau

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bazooka maintain a me simple my Mustafa

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mucho de los Muertos entonces cuando we

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SWAT team a rock we there's the kosis

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capoeira you tell Reza sir Cornell Maria

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to me has been such a blessing because

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now the characters the skeleton the

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colors actually married to her and we've

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been greeting like love scenes and

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stories colaborate con el como que hace

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una formal express army they develop

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either not reform enough no Tomas

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positiva I really like the David dead

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holiday

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it's not about celebrating someone's

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death it's more about celebrating

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someone's life my art working my

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performance is kind of a little bit of a

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reflection of that but even though I

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kind of represent myself as like this

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death character you know I'm very much

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alive

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me encanta lo que Pacho está siendo por

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que pienso que si esta trend o es a

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celebration a muchos lugar es on

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la gente no no kono saz's tradicion es

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mexicana SE Loa okay son

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what I love about performance art is

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honestly the brush that I get from

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working with so many people you know

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makes me want to go out there and create

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some more and do something different lo

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que estamos tratando the desert is n

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computo exponent mas arte alguno algo

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que nadie ha visto antes

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people make assumptions all the time

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so let's get the record straight if I

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was a drug addict

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how could I possibly have done all this

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I'm Lisa Frank and this madness that you

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see and all this excitement started with

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me I know that you weren't comfortable

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being on camera is there an element to

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secrecy

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well the secrecy has worked for so long

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like I come out of the closet I don't

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want to disappoint anybody what if I'm

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not who they want me to be our look is

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really been consistent for 30 years

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and people have tried to tell me bright

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colors are in you should do pastels and

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it's not who I am we are entering the

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vote that has all the original our

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argument okay I better figure out how to

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open it before you film it the room is

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fireproof so that we don't use the

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original art but look how bright

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everything still is we were involved in

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the big sticker craze in the eighties

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then it went to school supplies because

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a sticker is an inch to three inches so

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it was more fun to get the art bigger

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and you can see it says library sample

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do not remove that means like it's

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probably one of a kind in hindsight we

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could have been even smarter like

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keeping 12 of everything there are some

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things I don't even have it was so

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exciting because we were onto something

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that no one else was really on to I mean

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people thought I had horns coming out of

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my head when I would suggest things

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early on the buildings more than 300,000

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square feet and at one time like every

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Bay was filled up with drugs that was

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shipping product out of here in the

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beginning we probably had 30 artists at

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one time unfortunately now we don't need

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as many people in the art department

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because things are much easier on the

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computer so you now are doing only

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licensing right now what we do is we do

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the art work for a whole bunch of other

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companies who are then making it and

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shipping it I don't think I ever want to

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be a manufacturer again that takes away

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from Who I am and what I really love to

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do is to do our work we want to round

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out his face a little bit so he looks a

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little cuter I've obviously learned a

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ton over the years but in terms of the

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artwork and the process I would say that

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hasn't changed at all it was never about

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making money it was about making good

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product

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it's like my world is washed out and I

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see fewer shades of color than most

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people do so normal people see a million

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colors I may see as many as a hundred

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million my name is Wendy I'm a producer

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at CNN and I am colorblind my name is

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Maureen Seberg I'm a tetrachromats and

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I'm an author tetrachromacy is the

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presence of a fourth kun class in your

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retina

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if I keep naming my invisible colors

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maybe I'll have my own Crayola box one

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day when I was in kindergarten my

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teacher called my parents because I was

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coloring the leaves of my trees and the

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trunks of my trees the same color

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because I couldn't really see the

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difference between green and brown the

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only time it was ever overwhelming is a

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paint contractor came to my house and

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brought no fewer than 32 samples before

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I was satisfied that it was a true beige

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when I pick out clothes that's hard I

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have been known to buy the outfit that

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the mannequin is wearing because I know

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that that goes together you don't want

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to go clothing shopping with me because

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the salespeople tell me but it matches

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and I can only look at them

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sympathetically and keep looking I never

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think like oh if I weren't color blind

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it would be so much easier to get

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dressed in the morning it's just it's

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kind of part of me I guess I'm a unicorn

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or something

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in many many different cultures the

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rainbow appears as a symbol of hope

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beauty love in many ways the rainbow

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flag might be more important than ever

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our story begins in San Francisco in the

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late 1960s young gay men lesbian women

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were arriving from all over the country

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and all around the world many of them

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fleeing places where they were

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experiencing incredible violence and

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repression one of those men was Gilbert

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Baker everyone was aware of Gilbert

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it was extremely dramatic I think the

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operative word would be flamboyant

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that's Cleve Jones he wrote this book

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when we rise my life in the movement

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Cleveland Gilbert met his two young

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activists planning the 1977 San

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Francisco gay pride event back that is

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called a freedom day we were all part of

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a circle of activists who were talking

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about the need for a new symbol that

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would connect us all and one day Gilbert

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told Cleve about an idea he had come up

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with he showed me the drawings he'd done

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and I saw the power of it right away

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and each other had special significance

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one color meant love another was

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honestly I think he kind of made that up

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after the fact it came to him as he said

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from the sky with a team of volunteers

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including Cleve Gilbert sewed and dyed

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the flags in preparation for gay freedom

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day

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when those first flags went up these

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enormous polls and the wind took them

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and lifted them up against the blue sky

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it was really breathtaking hilburn I

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stood there and watched and we knew that

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everybody that was there was looking up

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at those rainbows and knowing at that

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exact moment that this now would be our

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symbol to take this beautiful symbol

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from nature and say this is the symbol

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of these people who were called

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unnatural who were required to live in

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the shadows he really devoted his life

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not only to making flags but banners for

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a few weeks between the wet and dry

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seasons this seemingly ordinary looking

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River bursts to life with color

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Carnot crystallis is located in Mehta

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Colombia when the conditions are just

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right an endemic aquatic plant species

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that lives in the riverbed blooms

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creating a brilliant show of red color

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often with hints of yellow orange green

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and blue because of this locals refer to

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the river

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as the liquid rainbow or the river of

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five colors before 2009 Meccano

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crystallis was closed off to the public

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due to guerrilla activity in the

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surrounding region today the river can

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be reached by horseback or by foot and

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is accessible under the guidance of

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local tour guides although this

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phenomenon only happens for a short

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period of time each year this living

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rainbow leaves a lasting impression

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