• khannie@lemmy.world
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    OK, for those like me who had no idea who this punter is:

    In 2014, Kapoor began working with Vantablack, which was thought to be one of the least reflective known substances. He would later be granted exclusive rights to use the material for artistic purposes

    Wiki link.

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      Yes. The additional context is that another artist was so annoyed about this that he founded a company (culturehustleusa.com) to invent an even blacker black paint for all artists to use except Kapoor. They’ve now expanded their product line to other “most-est” colours, including a world’s pinkest pink paint. If you buy any of their products, you must tick a box certifying that you are not Anish Kapoor, or buying on his behalf before they will sell to you.

      No idea how legally enforceable that might be, but it is hilarious.

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        It’s all publicity stunts. Nothing wrong with publicity stunts, except when you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars with the Kickstarter you never deliver on.

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        Would be really funny to paint the bean with the pinkest pink that he’s not allowed to use

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            It’s obviously an internationally known iconic landmark and I was 100% convinced it was “The Bean”. If I got asked that in a pub quiz and didn’t get the point for “The Bean” or “The Chicago Bean” I’d be raging.

            I will only ever refer to it as “The Bean”. Bonus points that it annoys him.

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      It’s Season 4 Episode 14. Clues. The one where they have lost time and Data is aware of it but can’t tell them what happened. Of course my gay ass INSTANTLY can recognize her hairstyle from an episode. To be fair, it is the only time her hair has ever looked like that. I just booted up the episode and took some screenshots for you but got distracted watching it lol

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      Yeah, she almost looks un-Beverly-like/uncanny. I thought it was an AI face-swap at first glance.