• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    “That sounds like actual investment into the art. Howabout instead I vantablack a heap in the middle of a room, leave it uncovered an let people walk around it? Same effect but soooo much less work for me, Anish Kapoor’s straw-filled bodydouble”

    (Seriously though, it was so lame. Even in photos, the effect was disappointing.)

    Edit: My charming partner has pointed out that literally everyone that hears about Vantablack comes up with more interesting applications than this shit.

    examples:

    • Playing around with the ambient reflected light to create images on the otherwise textureless black background
    • Do a darkroom, have people walk through it on a plexiglass sheet suspended above the void
    • Get statues of people performing elaborate sex acts on eachother. Paint them black. Put them against a black background. Call it “censorship” or something.

    Bam. 30 seconds of brainstorming. And those are ignoring all the cool ideas about playing around with emissive light effects in a room with no reflections.