Comment on Anish Kapoor

• 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.

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  • 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?

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    • 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.

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      • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ahh I stand corrected. Thanks!

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• 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.

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• 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.

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