Serious question: If his black is the blackest and absorbs all light, why does that gadget/ trinket in the second video on this site cast a gray shadow? To my understanding, it should either cast a completely black shadow, or no shadow at all.
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.
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.
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.
On the backdrop you mean? That would be from light refracting off of other places in the background and converging behind the gadget, partially illuminating the shadow.
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Oh wow, what a huge memory triggered! The total prioritization of whiz-bang on that site.
Shot me back to 1998(?ish?) where I met an absolutely amazing artist who started with street and scene art, huge airbrushed murals, and moved into digital media. He was an absolutely drug-addled, unprofessional lunatic. But also the best, if you could ever as the creative lead, draw a circle around him. We made a lot of games that were very bog-standard mechanically, but he took the creative design to places nobody had been in terms of visual game design. I love/hated him and I affectionately called him Mad Dog and it stuck at work lol
This website reminded me of his personal side project Dr Wash. I remember him showing off his site to me, which at the time was truly a marvel of what could be done artistically on the Web. After browsing every section and page, I was left with one question to him: What is it you actually do or sell?? I meant it! lol
This memory hit me when it took me 30 seconds of mystery meat navigation, then no-scrollbar but need to infini-scroll down to hopefully find textual information that actually says something. Etc. Some things never change haha
I see this posted a lot and I get the feeling that this guy just makes a big deal about the other guy being an asshole so he can make money for himself. He seems like just as big of an asshole haha
Who knows. It’s harmless drama if it’s a marketing gimmick, or they could just be rivals playing off each other. Childish, sure, but spite can be motivating — the guy does make great quality products.
Like James Randi and Uri Geller. Randi made a career out of debunking snake oil salesfolks but there was no question about how much he despised Geller.
I own some of that pinkest pink. I’ve not in my life seen anything more pink. The blacks he sells are… okay I guess, but I feel like the pink is the only one that actually lives up to its name. The powder isn’t /that/ pink, but as soon as you use it as a pigment it turns startlingly pink.
Has his operation gotten any more reliable? I thought about getting some of the powders to put in resin but there were so many stories of people waiting months and then getting ghosted.
He made a competing black that anyone can buy, too.
https://culturehustle.com/
Website seems to force a login to even browse the store?
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
Are you already logged in / automatically logging in to shopify?
nope, don’t even have an account with them
Same. What a ridiculous practice.
I went straight in with no login or sign-up needed.
Seems like only certain people are affected and nothing to do with website practices.
Hitting the back button takes me back to the page I was visiting. An annoyance.
Disabling content blockers seems to prevent the behavior, but then you’ve disabled content blockers.
I experience similar broken site behavior from other online platforms, too. I suspect Shopify is trying to annoy users into not using adblockers.
Joke’s on them! They’re annoying me into saving my money!
Amen to that. I thought about having a serious look around, but I’d rather not deal with their nonsense.
Something seems to be sending me to shopify when the page loads
Disaster of a website. Just why?
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?
it forces a login just to browse it - I hope it’s unintentional
I think it’s a region thing, I wasn’t blocked. Someone here posted a screenshot for those who can’t get in.
I can’t see specifics of what they sell without “signing in”? Fuck that.
Mobile looks fine enough
Culture Hustle’s chrome makes not metal things look like metal, not metal colored, look like metal. Also Semple’s glow pigments are intense.
Serious question: If his black is the blackest and absorbs all light, why does that gadget/ trinket in the second video on this site cast a gray shadow? To my understanding, it should either cast a completely black shadow, or no shadow at all.
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.
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 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.
On the backdrop you mean? That would be from light refracting off of other places in the background and converging behind the gadget, partially illuminating the shadow.
Nice, finally something to fight Superman with.
But first you must face the Captcha test to prove that you are, in fact, not Anish Kapoor.
Meanwhile Kapoor, not using a VPN - “Curses! Foiled again!”
Oh wow, what a huge memory triggered! The total prioritization of whiz-bang on that site.
Shot me back to 1998(?ish?) where I met an absolutely amazing artist who started with street and scene art, huge airbrushed murals, and moved into digital media. He was an absolutely drug-addled, unprofessional lunatic. But also the best, if you could ever as the creative lead, draw a circle around him. We made a lot of games that were very bog-standard mechanically, but he took the creative design to places nobody had been in terms of visual game design. I love/hated him and I affectionately called him Mad Dog and it stuck at work lol
This website reminded me of his personal side project Dr Wash. I remember him showing off his site to me, which at the time was truly a marvel of what could be done artistically on the Web. After browsing every section and page, I was left with one question to him: What is it you actually do or sell?? I meant it! lol
This memory hit me when it took me 30 seconds of mystery meat navigation, then no-scrollbar but need to infini-scroll down to hopefully find textual information that actually says something. Etc. Some things never change haha
I see this posted a lot and I get the feeling that this guy just makes a big deal about the other guy being an asshole so he can make money for himself. He seems like just as big of an asshole haha
Who knows. It’s harmless drama if it’s a marketing gimmick, or they could just be rivals playing off each other. Childish, sure, but spite can be motivating — the guy does make great quality products.
Like James Randi and Uri Geller. Randi made a career out of debunking snake oil salesfolks but there was no question about how much he despised Geller.
Yeah his paint is good. I got the black though and it’s just a matt black lol. Maybe a little darker than some other matt blacks.
The pinkest pink sure seems pink but there could be a pinker pink how do you measure pinkness?
I’m more of a hot pink person myself. I would try the hottest pink for sure.
I own some of that pinkest pink. I’ve not in my life seen anything more pink. The blacks he sells are… okay I guess, but I feel like the pink is the only one that actually lives up to its name. The powder isn’t /that/ pink, but as soon as you use it as a pigment it turns startlingly pink.
Has his operation gotten any more reliable? I thought about getting some of the powders to put in resin but there were so many stories of people waiting months and then getting ghosted.