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.

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.

does anyone like Anish Kapoor?

Could be a vpn or location issue? It's just a listing for another super matte black this artist made to fuck with Anish.

Weird, works fine on mobile for me

Same. What a ridiculous practice.

I don't know how to answer that question. Because of the tides? Because of a love of dance? Because they knew you were coming?

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.

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.

Edit: This sounds bitchier than I intended so I'm adding in: questions are great and I upvoted you for it.

Imagine how shadows on earth would look if our sun was actually a cosmic LED bulb array with 9 bulbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbra%2C_penumbra_and_antumbra

Any light source they're using isn't a single beam of photons, it's a cast cone of light. Actually multiple cones because mostly it's LED array lighting.

So there's an (effectively) infinite number of shadows because it's being hit by photons coming from multiple angles, from multiple little light cones.

The shadows form a distributed pattern behind.

There's other factors like scattering within the media the photons travel through (air) as well as refraction.

e: I tried to make it make more sense. Its about understanding that a light sources are cones of light hitting from many angles at once.

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.

From experience, you walk into the barbie isle in Walmart.

I dunno. The Tom Scott video said it's like doubling the jump from grey to the color you see.

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.

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 - https://culturehustle.com/products/freetone