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by inlikealamb 1796 days ago
There's a lot of backstory to this... it's a dig against Vantablack, which Anish Kapoor (famous sculptor) managed to buy exclusive rights for using in art:

https://www.wired.com/story/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-s...

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Indeed, and it looks like 3.0 still maintains this feud:

> *Note: By adding this product to your cart you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not purchasing this item on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this material will not make it's way into the hands of Anish Kapoor.

Dragging Anish Kapoor never, ever gets old.
That's, I think, a deliberate facet of Kapoor's art.
I misread this (ambiguous) line at first

> In 2017, Semple also released a cherry-scented version of the Vantablack pigment exclusively licensed to Kapoor.

and thought that Semple had mixed cherry-scent with Vantablack and licensed it to Kapoor exclusively. It would have been an interesting move, particularly from a legal perspective, although I would have expected a different scent than cherry...

For those who haven't heard of him before, Kapoor did the Bean in Chicago.
Just bear with me here.

Wouldn't it be funny if people only knew him as the guy famously slammed for getting a monopoly on Vantablack? If at all.

Apart from a wonky bit of space frame crap the black colour foolishness is in fact all I know about him.
Apparently he has done tons of work. His website is a straight list of image links left to right and up & down.

https://anishkapoor.com/

Anish Kapoor is not happy that people are calling it the bean. Cloudgate is the official name.
...Another good reason to call it the bean.
Ah, so you mean the official name is “the bean”?
The Amish grow lots of beans, and I doubt they like nanotubes.
Most people will remember Anish Kapoor as the bean guy