The SRGB color range isn’t even close to bright enough to display how pink this color is, in case anyone’s like “that’s just pink”
Fuck you in particular
Submitted 11 hours ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Okokimup@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
How does one see it in person?
Duranie@leminal.space 10 hours ago
I bought some lol. It’s a truly pretty, perfect pink.
I’ve made an unspeakable number of purchases from Culture Hustle over the last couple years for a variety of pigments and specialty paints (like Black 4.0 and glow in the dark and UV reactive pigments.) I paint board game minis for fun lol.
alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
From experience, you walk onto the barbie isle in Walmart.
RePsyche@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I suspect Stuart would be able to assist you: stuartsemple.com/…/worlds-pinkest-pink-50g-powder…
randomblock1@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Does anyone have an HDR photo?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
HDR isn’t enough
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
For what it’s worth, Vantablack isn’t a pigment, it’s a process for applying carbon nanotubes that absorb light. They don’t sell the “paint” part by itself because it requires special equipment and it finicky. They don’t sell it because then a bunch of social media influencers would try to spray their bathrooms with the stuff and make a bunch of videos about how it doesn’t live up to the hype.
The owner might be a douche who uses the licensing to make himself feel powerful, but there is a justifiable explanation for why the licensing exists in the first place.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The effect is also completely ruined if you handle it, and the broken off nanotubes from handling it are a serious health hazard. It’s expensive, dangerous, extremely fragile and almost impossible to clean.
But like mostly, having seen “Anish Kapoor” (which is the real name of the installation where that dickhead debuted his vantablack art), it… sucks. It’s impressive in photographs, incredibly lame in person. And, it can’t be cleaned without ruining the coating! so the dust from all those people builds up and just ew.
(also, and just on a personal note, he had nine years and did absolutely nothing conceptually interesting with it. Seriously it was the early-2000s 3D movie of art. Just one gimmick, repeated over and over with no change to the formula. “Look, it’s black”. It felt more like an ad for the lab that developed the coating than an art exhibition). It would have been cool if he’d developed the process, but we all know he didn’t, so it just fell so comically flat.
Corn@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
How hard is it to paint an irregularly shaped object in vanteblack, suspend it in a weighted 5ft plexiglass sphere sitting on some ball bearings, and let viewer or motors rotate it so the changing silhouette fucks with perspective, like a 3d shadow puppet?
altphoto@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
Plus that’s probably automatic lung cancer if you breathe it.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Damn just looked up the MSDS because i wouldn’t expect carbon nanotubes would be very dangerous. Probably not immediate cancer but definitely not something to handle outside a controlled environment for application. It is relatively safe once it is applied though.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The artist is Stuart Semple.
Not sure why we’re only hearing the name of the lesser cool artist.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Yeah I thought semple was cool too until it became apparent he’s a grifter. He started a Kickstarter years ago to build an adobe replacement suite of software. I believe he claimed there would be test builds available several times for at least two years:
kickstarter.com/…/abode-a-suite-of-world-class-de…
He basically has been unresponsive for months at a time and has set many deadlines that haven’t been hit. I don’t think that software will ever happen and I don’t think he ever truly planned to build it.
Meron35@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I think this is being overly judgemental. He originally created his reputation by going to war against Pantone, a company which holds a near monopoly on colours. At first it was patches to get Adobe to use colours it locked users out of, which he then expanded into Freetone, a colour palette that is free for anyone except Adobe.
Looking at his other behaviour (such as legally changing his name to Amish Kapoor to piss off Anish Kapoor who sued him for colour infringement) suggests that he’s messy, rather than a grifter.
Pinkest Pink | FREETONE | LIBERATING COLOURS SINCE 2016 | CultureHustle - culturehustle.com/products/freetone
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 8 hours ago
Yeah, fuck him! That gatekeeping asshole.
Luckilly, I can stare into the abyss without help. But still, fuck you! You don’t copyright COLORS you fucking twat.
Duranie@leminal.space 10 hours ago
If the story is true, Anish Kapoor got his hands on some and dipped his finger in the pink, flipping off Stuart.
In response, Stuart released a glitter made of shards of glass. Lol
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
Apparently Anish posted that on his instagram! Mentioned on his wiki page under “vantablack controversy”: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Kapoor
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 8 hours ago
It gets funnier and funnier. Is this how artists fight?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 hours ago
I want the pinkest green. Or the greenest pink? I forgot how it works but one of those colors is technically the other color where it lies on the light spectrum and our brains just freak out and create a different color.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 6 hours ago
Pink technically doesn’t exist as a part of light spectrum, yeah. It’s just what our brains make up when you light up blue and red receptors at enough brightness
Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Honey Lemons facial expression makes her look like a horror movie character in this frame lol
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
thought the issue is that ventablack is extremely dangerous to use, and Anish was allowed to use it as a publicity stunt and with proper liability forms. it’s not a paint that should be available to the public.
however, the problem is that Anish is a bit of a cunt about it and no one likes him.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I will never remember his name. He will always be The Bean Guy to me.
thaklor@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Flick it.
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
He made a competing black that anyone can buy, too.
culturehustle.com
Flipper@feddit.org 10 hours ago
I’m getting the feeling he really doesn’t like Anish. Every page I’ve looked at has Anish mentioned. The anal apocalypse is especially for him. The glow in the dark pigment is free, if you can prove that you are associated with him to share the light.
Do they have some big feud going on?
lime@feddit.nu 10 hours ago
most artists dislike the entire idea of copyrighting a color for the singular purpose of limiting its use to one person. some people care more about copyrights than others.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
The company that makes the paint version of VantaBlack licensed it only to one guy to use, the art community felt that was unfair. Thus the pink, and I think a new black etc.etc.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
does anyone like Anish Kapoor?
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
Website seems to force a login to even browse the store?
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Could be a vpn or location issue? It’s just a listing for another super matte black this artist made to fuck with Anish.
Krzd@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Weird, works fine on mobile for me
OmegaMan@lemmings.world 8 hours ago
Same. What a ridiculous practice.
Bongles@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Something seems to be sending me to shopify when the page loads
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Nice, finally something to fight Superman with.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Disaster of a website. Just why?
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I don’t know how to answer that question. Because of the tides? Because of a love of dance? Because they know you were coming?
Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 hours ago
I can’t see specifics of what they sell without “signing in”? Fuck that.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Mobile looks fine enough
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Culture Hustle’s chrome makes not metal things look like metal, not metal colored, look like metal. Also Semple’s glow pigments are intense.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
But must you must face the Captcha test to prove that you are, in fact, not Anish Kapoor.
Meanwhile Kapoor, not using a VPN - “Curses! Foiled again!”
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I see this posted a lot and I get the feeling that this guy just makes a big deal about the other guy being an asshole so he can make money for himself. He seems like just as big of an asshole haha
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Who knows. It’s harmless drama if it’s a marketing gimmick, or they could just be rivals playing off each other. Childish, sure, but spite can be motivating — the guy does make great quality products.
Like James Randi and Uri Geller. Randi made a career out of debunking snake oil salesfolks but there was no question about how much he despised Geller.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 9 hours ago
Serious question: If his black is the blackest and absorbs all light, why does that gadget/ trinket in the second video on this site cast a gray shadow? To my understanding, it should either cast a completely black shadow, or no shadow at all.
salarua@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
The reason the shadow is gray is because light is bouncing off the other surfaces in the environment. The shadowed area isn’t receiving direct light, but it is receiving reflected indirect light.
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I don’t know where you got that idea.
Your logic assumes there’s only one light source, no atmospheric dispersion, light is a particle, and everything around the object is non-reflective. And it’s moved to a white background, something we know reflects light.
Krudler@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Actual reason
en.wikipedia.org/…/Umbra%2C_penumbra_and_antumbra
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
On the backdrop you mean? That would be from light refracting off of other places in the background and converging behind the gadget, partially illuminating the shadow.
Krudler@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Oh wow, what a huge memory triggered! The total prioritization of whiz-bang on that site.
Shot me back to 1998(?ish?) where I met an absolutely amazing artist who started with street and scene art, huge airbrushed murals, and moved into digital media. He was an absolutely drug-addled, unprofessional lunatic. But also the best, if you could ever as the creative lead, draw a circle around him. We made a lot of games that were very bog-standard mechanically, but he took the creative design to places nobody had been in terms of visual game design. I love/hated him and I affectionately called him Mad Dog and it stuck at work lol
This website reminded me of his personal side project Dr Wash. I remember him showing off his site to me, which at the time was truly a marvel of what could be done artistically on the Web. After browsing every section and page, I was left with one question to him: What is it you actually do or sell?? I meant it! lol
This memory hit me when it took me 30 seconds of mystery meat navigation, then no-scrollbar but need to infini-scroll down to hopefully find textual information that actually says something. Etc. Some things never change haha