Explanation for the people out of the loop:
Anish Kapoor has bought the exclusive rights to Vantablack in art, meaning other artists are not allowed to use it.
He was critizised heavily by painter Stuart Semple, who told Kapoor to #ShareTheBlack. Semple in turn created the “world’s pinkest pink,” alongside the “world’s most glittering glitter.” And the license for those state that both can be purchased by anyone in the world, except Anish Kapoor.
Also he created The Bean and hates it when people call it “The Bean.”
Stuart Semple also developed a comparably “black” black to Vantablack, that is arguably darker and better suited for art use.
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.
Yes. Culture Hustle is Semple’s.
Cool.
Yeah, literally the worst customer experience I’ve ever had anywhere.
No product, no answers, ignored emails. It was fucking bizarre honestly.
Good to know, hopefully people will see this and not shop there.
Hopefully.
Like. If you can’t fulfill an order or something just tell me. But to keep the money, not ship a product, sign me up to your newsletter, say “you’re looking into it” and not ever look into it… it’s fucking shady af
Isn’t it also 100x safer to use than vantaback?
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.
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.
I have both versions of Semple’s black. Paint brush works fine. You need a lab to apply Vantablack.
I bought both versions of his “black” and they’re great. #1 is blacker by far, harder to apply though.
I’ll be honest, that does just sound like licensing a color. I wanna call dibs on blue
Sorry, but Yves Klein beat you to it by some 65 years.
At least he’s in the same place as Charlie Kirk, so that’s good.
That is a sexy blue!
What an obscure joke, I love it. Fuck Kapoor, btw.
Ask my homies hate Kapoor!
Hey Anish, this fish is black, like real black. Blacker than that. Way super black. Oh also Stuart told me to tell you “Suck it, Anish.”
I was pretty sure that was what that was and I was not disappointed.
+1 for obscurity. Beautiful.
When you look at it you think “how much more black could that be?” - and the answer is none; none more black.
It does look like leather. you can see yourself…in both sides
RIP Rob 😞
I didn’t know most of the details, this is a good write up https://www.thecollector.com/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-semple-controversy/
Vanta maki roll
I came, I looked at it, I got blacked, and I liked it. No necessarily in that order.
