Man, I bet that’s gonna work out just great for you. Hopefully it’s just fraud and not a disability…

He was going for "look at how this incredibly complex textured surface looks like it’s just an outline now isn’t it wild???" but failed to realize that a big pile of bullshit painted black just looks like… a big pile of bullshit painted black. It’s almost impressive how boring his ideas were. “Look the corner is triangular wooOOoooOOOooo”. He didn’t even go with something meta, like a scale model of his super reflective Bean sculpture coated in the stuff.

Just such a fuckin’ waste that vapid asshole was the artist that got to play with the stuff.

I award you the official title of “More Creative Than Kapoor”! It’s not a unique title, but it’s still one to bear with pride.

“That sounds like actual investment into the art. Howabout instead I vantablack a heap in the middle of a room, leave it uncovered an let people walk around it? Same effect but soooo much less work for me, Anish Kapoor’s straw-filled bodydouble”

Edit: My charming partner has pointed out that literally everyone that hears about Vantablack comes up with more interesting applications than this shit.

examples:

• Playing around with the ambient reflected light to create images on the otherwise textureless black background
• Do a darkroom, have people walk through it on a plexiglass sheet suspended above the void
• Get statues of people performing elaborate sex acts on eachother. Paint them black. Put them against a black background. Call it “censorship” or something.

Bam. 30 seconds of brainstorming. And those are ignoring all the cool ideas about playing around with emissive light effects in a room with no reflections.

This is drama from a decade ago so don’t take it as gospel: Iirc, the contract Kapoor signed with Surrey gave him the right to enforce the patent when used in art or aesthetic design applications. I can’t remember if he sues as an involved party on behalf of Surrey or if he somehow has the right to sue directly, but the effect is the same. Basically Surrey didn’t want to deal with enforicng it, and signed over that as part of the exclusivity deal.

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. You can see overlapping outlines, in some cases you could pretty clearly see the shadows from the contours of the coated object because of all the accumulated dust.

(also, and just on a personal note, he took 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.)

I think it’s just regular old photoshop.

Oh god, I can’t wait to see this reposted as actual evidence by that one uncle ffs…

Usually you see it for toolchests and generators, but it’s not uncommon to see things like portapottys hoisted up to prevent people tampering with them while nobody is at the site (also keeps a load on the sheave, which I was told is important if a wind starts up or similar). You don’t want someone coming in and dumping whatever old garbage in there, like for example Charlie Kirk’s exsanguinated corpse.

(trivia: a Shepard’s pie with beef is technically called a “cottage” pie!)

British food is a lot like the english countryside - lots of earth tones in the palate and everything sounds different (but after your third slice of hamlet you realize it’s all basically the same)

What’s it like, knowing that you’ve just peaked?

“This number has been disconnected. Please hang up now and try again…”

A hole lot worse.

Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” just got a whole lot worse.

Quick, someone teach it the soundtrack to Doom

It’s just low effort bait, dont feed em.

all perfectly reasonable outcomes.

Alright! I’m envious, personally. I have always been very sensitive to bitter flavours.

Like all things biological, some people are just fuckin’ weirdos do not follow the standard developmental cycles. Your tastes may start changing, or may never change, and those are all perfectly reasonable outcomes.

They taste quite sweet and oaky, without being overpowering. I’ve heard them compared to sweet fir tips too, which is not a bad comparison. Joking aside they’re pretty damn tasty but they aren’t really worth the risk of eating a seed. While just one won’t kill an adult they will make you super sick, and can really mess up a kid.