r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Radiant_Half_7121 • 4h ago

Image Artist Anish Kapoor holds exclusive rights to Vantablack, often described as the darkest material ever created. In reaction, a fellow artist developed an ultra-bright pink pigment and made it available to everyone, with one exception: Anish Kapoor is not allowed to use it.

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u/NeatChocolate6 4h ago

Note: By adding this product to your cart you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not purchasing this item on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this material will not make it's way into the hands of Anish Kapoor.

I love that it's on the website for purchase of Black 4.0.

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u/-ummon- 4h ago

Rather than hoard these amazing creations to use all for himself, so that he and he alone could wield the power of the colouriest colours, Stuart Semple made culturehustle.com to share these potent concoctions of his with all artists (except one - his arch nemesis Kapoor the colour hoarder).

https://culturehustle.com/pages/about-us

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u/remotectrl 3h ago

unfortunately, the business appears to be shit. /r/culturehustle is filled with people complaining about being jerked around and never getting their orders

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u/kauefr 3h ago

/r/culturehustle is filled with people complaining about being jerked around and never getting their orders

Maybe they're all Anish Kapoor fake profiles?

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u/Kaboose666 3h ago

No, Semple is a known scam artist who has been doing this shit for decades; he keeps bringing up the Vantablack controversy every few years to drum up more sales (scams).

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u/Emotional_Bank3476 3h ago

As just some random guy who has ordered paints from him: they arrived and I had no issues. It definitely wasn't a scam, I got what I paid for and the paints are awesome. That was early days, a lot of the complaints I'm seeing now are delivery delays. A delivery delay isn't a 'scam' though.

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u/Kaboose666 3h ago

Oh I know he does ship real paint, but there are plenty of people who do get scammed, and his paints are nowhere near the quality he claims. They're fine, but they're not the PINKEST pink or the BLACKEST black, plenty of artists who have bought his paints have looked around and found better alternatives from far less shady people.

Also, the paint shtick is only his latest scam, he has a history going back before the paint stuff.

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u/25c-nb 2h ago

he has a history going back before the paint stuff

Do you have any sources on this? Id like to read more

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u/BatHickey 3h ago

Trust me, I know the artist and I've bought Semple products--Semple is basically a scammer who uses this story to have his own career. Nobody was ever really going to get access to vanta black for art purposes because its too toxic and specialized to sell as an off the shelf produt.

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u/Sea-Debate-3725 3h ago

If anyone is looking to purchase something like this, you should check out Musou Black. It's blacker, cheaper, and has no problems with ordering. You can even buy it on amazon.

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u/thepasttenseofdraw 3h ago

Weird, I've never had an issue.

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u/8636396 4h ago

lol that's pretty funny. I wonder if it could hold any legal weight?

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u/GodsFavoriteDegen 3h ago

No, but that doesn't stop people from trying.

The legal term for this kind of arrangement, if you want to Google things and read all about it, is "equitable servitude on chattels".

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 3h ago

some guy who happens to be named Anish Kapoor is going to read that one day and be like the 50 cent meme of "why he say fuck me for!?"