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@pixelatedforest

Howdy, I’m Pixel.
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Hi everyone,

As you all probably know by now (because i never shut up or stop complaining about it), I have Multiple Sclerosis and it cause my body to feel so awful and painful.

I have trouble walking, feeling my body parts and many other struggles that comes with being chronically ill and having a disability/disease.

I have been going on these walks on and off for as long as i can remember and it’s a very important cause for me as a person who experiences it all first hand.

If you have the ability or desire, even a small donation is worth so much to me and everyone who has MS. Thank you ❤️

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darubyprincx

"who radicalized you" ever since i was a child i wanted other people to be treated nicely and fairly because i didnt understand why theyd deserve otherwise and it fills me with disgust seeing how people treat their fellow human beings sometimes

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I wish I could autisticly hyperfixate on managing my finances, or working out. but no, the hand that’s been dealt to me is cat colours.

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vaspider

hi, I think it was u I saw on a post related to the whole Vantablack thing (I'm not sure tho, so if not let me know) and I wanted to ask for sources relating to the actual story instead of the one Stuart Semple has in everyone's heads? not for me, I'm trying to tell someone I know about this whole thing, and they asked for sources but I can't find the post I saw last night.

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Despite many places including news articles calling it a "pigment," it isn't.

Artists had gotten in touch; Surrey decided to work with Kapoor. “His life’s work had revolved around light reflection and voids,” Jensen says. “Because we didn’t have the bandwidth to work with more than one—we’re an engineering company—we decided Anish would be perfect.”
They signed a contract. Kapoor got exclusive rights to use Vantablack in art.
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And slowly, over weeks, people somehow started to get the (wholly incorrect) idea that Kapoor not only had the sole rights to use Vantablack … but to use the color black, “which is not possible and not correct,” Jensen says. “We haven’t licensed any color. We’ve licensed technology that we developed at considerable cost that absorbs light and has artistic applications.”
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(To be fair, it's not a "ban." It's an exclusive license to a proprietary process. Artists aren't allowed to print their own cash or make and sell their own Coca-Cola, either. But OK.)
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“It’s totally absurd. Anish Kapoor can’t make anything with this stuff. It’s prohibitively expensive to manufacture, and the manufacturing process is beyond his capabilities,” Conway says. “That renders the whole situation really a meta situation, and it just becomes about these ideas.”

So yeah.

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afronerdism
Anonymous asked:

Why is it that there are no sources cited for the backstory of Anish Kapoor? Because Googling it and reading all the links say that he approached them and was the highest bidder.

The same guy who hired people to terrorise the public taking photos of his public artwork. The same guy who raised his house by 30 feet - not because he added a new floor, he just wanted to. The same man who had only experienced "confusion at backlash" for his artwork named "The Queen's Vagina".

You've also turned off reblogs for such an important post. Why?

Firstly, I’m tired of this conversation.

Secondly, not only have I posted sources but like 50 other people have gone into so much more detail than I have with so many more sources than I have and really done a lot of legwork here only to end up in the same place I did.

I have never said Anish Kapoor was a good person and in fact, I think on several occasions at this point, I’ve outright called him an asshole. The problem is in the issue regarding Vantablack, Stewart Semple is also a fucking asshole. If you guys want to be mad about the fact that Surrey nanosystems only gave one artist a license to use something that is not even a paint or a pigment but rather a very toxic highly unstable material that can only be produced by a robot in the lab, That is a different conversation

I very clearly laid out in the post that a lot of artist approached Surrey nanosystems and Anish Kapoor was chosen for reasons that have already been discussed ad nauseum. That is not what is at the heart of this issue, so I’m not really sure what the point of this message is.

So, please go rifle through the notes and read all the long, fantastic deep dives People have done about this, and don’t bother me about it.

But more importantly, I really want to add that this is not “such an important post.“ This is literally not important. Like I cannot stress to you enough how not important This is in the grand scheme of things right now. Not even in the small scheme of things

I’ve also already explained like three times why I turned the reblogs on that post off. You’re simply going to have to do the legwork to find the information because at this point I don’t wanna talk about this anymore.  

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afronerdism

Can I just say that if y’all didn’t think Stewart simple was weird before, Outside of him weirdly getting on the Internet to talk about his quarter Indian child in response to a very nondescript sentence about how he was white and Anish Kapoor was Indian, he’s now taken to reading through a white womans pandantic response wherein she took the opportunity to clearly display the one year of political literacy that she’s taken to try and say that I am like an evil conservative attempting to manipulate people and all of these crazy weird things because of the language I was using in the post. and Stuart was just like “yeah.“ Without any level of like cognitive thought.

Now I’m not going to responding personally to either one of them anymore because they’re clearly very fucking stupid. And as a person who is literally writing their masters thesis in a political field I genuinely did not have time to entertain politically illiteracy outside of how I choose to educate people. But I just kind of wanted to highlight that while you guys are in my DM‘s.

So, if you didn’t think he was a fucking loser before. I think we can all agree, he’s a fucking loser now for sure. 

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