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.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 3 days ago
Isn’t it also 100x safer to use than vantaback?
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 days 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.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 day 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?
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Kapoor didn’t invent shit. He bought sole rights to use the medium in art (no loss at all to the art world for which it is not especially useful) and that’s just a dickish thing to do. Kapoor has always been a dick though. Stuart Semple’s Culture Hustle made acrylic pigments that eat almost as much light and are safe to use. Culture Hustle has a lot of neat stuff for artists and hobbyists.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 days 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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have both versions of Semple’s black. Paint brush works fine. You need a lab to apply Vantablack.