Website seems to force a login to even browse the store?
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Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He made a competing black that anyone can buy, too.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Could be a vpn or location issue? It’s just a listing for another super matte black this artist made to fuck with Anish.
Krzd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Weird, works fine on mobile for me
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Are you already logged in / automatically logging in to shopify?
Krzd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
nope, don’t even have an account with them
OmegaMan@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Same. What a ridiculous practice.
D_C@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
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 they are trying to annoy users into not using adblockers.
QualifiedKitten@discuss.online 1 month ago
Joke’s on them! They’re annoying me into saving my money!
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Amen to that. I thought about having a serious look around, but I’d rather not deal with their nonsense.
Bongles@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Something seems to be sending me to shopify when the page loads
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Disaster of a website. Just why?
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t know how to answer that question. Because of the tides? Because of a love of dance? Because they know you were coming?
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
it forces a login just to browse it - I hope it’s unintentional
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think it’s a region thing, I wasn’t blocked. Someone here posted a screenshot for those who can’t get in.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I can’t see specifics of what they sell without “signing in”? Fuck that.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Mobile looks fine enough
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Really? I just get an immediate login wall on mobile.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Same here, it launches me into a “how do you want to login” page
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s weird. I just get the homepage
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Culture Hustle’s chrome makes not metal things look like metal, not metal colored, look like metal. Also Semple’s glow pigments are intense.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 1 month ago
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.
salarua@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
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.
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Actual reason
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Absorbs all the light in the universe as well as other universes
Nice, finally something to fight Superman with.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But must 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!”
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Doxin@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
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.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 month ago
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.
Flipper@feddit.org 1 month ago
I’m getting the feeling he really doesn’t like Anish. Every page I’ve looked at has Anish mentioned. The anal apocalypse is especially for him. The glow in the dark pigment is free, if you can prove that you are associated with him to share the light.
Do they have some big feud going on?
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
most artists dislike the entire idea of copyrighting a color for the singular purpose of limiting its use to one person. some people care more about copyrights than others.
oasis@piefed.social 1 month ago
Pretty sure vantablack was patented not copyrighted.
It's also possible that is wasn't either and just was really hard to produce.
Afaik vantablack isn't really designed to be be painted and requires quite specialised equipment.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
They sell it as a paint, however : “Controversy arose when Surrey Nanosystems granted Anish Kapoor exclusive rights to use Vantablack in artistic applications. Many artists voiced opposition to his monopoly over the substance.”
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
The company that makes the paint version of VantaBlack licensed it only to one guy to use, the art community felt that was unfair. Thus the pink, and I think a new black etc.etc.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
does anyone like Anish Kapoor?
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 month ago
No
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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monotremata@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Don’t forget that he paid for and directed a music video specifically to make fun of Kapoor. It’s called “Bean Boy.”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOQ6DbXXOo