Comment on Anish Kapoor

Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Stuart Semple also developed a comparably “black” black to Vantablack, that is arguably darker and better suited for art use.

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  • DarkSirrush@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Isn’t it also 100x safer to use than vantaback?

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    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Vantablack isn’t even really a pigment. It’s a carbon nanotube structure that is suited to telescope interiors.

      Stuart Semple’s Culture Hustle’s Black2.0 and Black 3.0 are both fantastic paints. He doesn’t half step, his pink is fucking ridiculous. His glow pigments are intense and easy to use. His chrome isn’t just silver paint, it’s like actually chrome-like.

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      • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yea this is the thing that gets me. My understanding was he invented something to improve optics, and patented it. It wasn’t like he made some paint that nobody could use. Am I wrong?

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Vantablack is applied via spraying it on at some 200 degrees C, then putting the object in a vacuum to let the nanotubes align.

      Its not really a paint.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have both versions of Semple’s black. Paint brush works fine. You need a lab to apply Vantablack.

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is he the guy that owns culture hustle?

    I ordered $270 worth of pigments from them and they never shipped them. I followed up five times over four months and I got emails back saying they’d look into what was going on and I never found out what was goin on. I never got a shipping label. Never got confirmation the order was sent. They stopped replying to my emails eventually (I was polite, for the record).

    I finally ended up filing a dispute with my credit card company.

    Never in my life have I dealt with such a kafkaesque process.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes. Culture Hustle is Semple’s.

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      • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Cool.

        Yeah, literally the worst customer experience I’ve ever had anywhere.

        No product, no answers, ignored emails. It was fucking bizarre honestly.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I bought both versions of his “black” and they’re great. #1 is blacker by far, harder to apply though.

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• Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ll be honest, that does just sound like licensing a color. I wanna call dibs on blue

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sorry, but Yves Klein beat you to it by some 65 years.

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That is a sexy blue!

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      At least he’s in the same place as Charlie Kirk, so that’s good.

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• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Also he created The Bean and hates it when people call it “The Bean.”

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  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, and literally everyone everywhere calls it The Bean. LoL 😂

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