I get annoyed when people call the Anish Kappor vs. Stuart Semple thing a “petty art squabble.”
There are so many important technological applications for better light absorbing black paint besides just painting. NASA uses super light absorbing black to make better telescopes and more sensitive light sensors [source] [source]. Darker black paint can be used to make better cameras, film/video projectors, movie theaters, etc., etc. Black paint has a ton of applications beyond just being another pigment for eccentric rich painters to use.
By copyrighting the darkest black paint so that only he could use it, Anish Kapoor was denying the public access to new technology.
ETA: People in the tags have pointed out that “he only copyrighted it for art use, so it’s still available for industrial applications.”
Here’s the thing – “available for industrial applications” basically means “available to corporations.” It basically means that only the people with the right paperwork and the right legal status and the right amount of capital have access.
What about ordinary citizens? Teenagers with technical hobbies, or amateur inventors working out of their garages? They can’t afford to hire a team of lawyers just to get one jar of a perfectly safe new technology, and they shouldn’t have to.
When you say “it’s available for artistic use” what that means in legal terms is that any ordinary private citizen is allowed to use it for any purpose they want without having to jump legal hurdles.
Stuart Semple’s “petty squabble” is making a statement that 1) everyone should have the right access new technology, not just the eccentric rich and 2) any eccentric rich fuck who would try to deny the public their right to new technology is a sucking leech on society and deserves public ridicule.
Oh it’s much better than this. You see, what Kapoor has the rights to isn’t a pigment and can’t be painted with, HOWEVER, Semple made a paint that is almost just as black he calls super black an being a paint and more specifically, pigment, it can actually be used in several practical ways and is much more versatile than kapoors carbon nanotubes.
1. im shook
2. im offended
3. how dare
4. im dead
5. literally anything just dont mock triggers cause i have gotten into arguments and had terrible panic attacks bc of this please dont say triggered
No kidding, I hate it when people use the “triggered” meme. It just trivializes what it feels like to actually be triggered into anxiety or panic attacks and even depression.
Please and thank you.
Kids near me are starting to say “I’m spiced” instead!
“I’m rustled” / “my jimmies are rustled” works in a similar meme format without being shitty af
do you ever watch something and think “this was written by a man”
i was up late night watching an episode of criminal minds fairly recently, for lack of a better thing to do. in the opening scene there are these two girls getting into their car in like a supermarket parking lot, not very well lit, in the middle of the night. another car drives up right behind theirs and won’t move out of the way so this one girl is like “im gonna go see what this guy’s problem is” and gets out of the car, in a poorly lit parking lot, to confront a man who was behaving aggressively to them.
so that was the precise moment i realised that episode was written by a man.
I was watching an episode of CSI where the entire reason they were going forward with the case was that ‘no woman would wear a bra this expensive without also wearing the matching panties’. What porn logic is this? I was, at that moment, wearing the exact bra the Jane Doe was wearing and fuck no I didn’t spring for the matching panties. Even if I did, I wouldn’t wear them as often as a bra. Panties I wash daily. Bras? Not so much.
But in CSI World, police resources were being mobilized on how irregular it would be for a woman to wear a $36 bra, but not caring about how she would look in just underthings.
Never mind not matching, but that they think $36 is expensive for a bra is probably the number one sign it was written by a man.
In Star Wars Padmé goes for Anakin while Ewan McGregor is around
