Orbital Assembly Corporation
Hang on, this is just the gateway foundation’s grift again. They pop up every few few years to do the same thing, it’s just a funding scam. Last time I looked into these losers they didn’t even have an office. Nothing they’re proposing will work once you delve deeper than the pure surface level. Main guy claims to have been a JPL engineer, and he was, but iirc he worked on terrestrial power regulators for test equipment (or something similar).
He was going for "look at how this incredibly complex textured surface looks like it’s just an outline now isn’t it wild???" but failed to realize that a big pile of bullshit painted black just looks like… a big pile of bullshit painted black. It’s almost impressive how boring his ideas were. “Look the corner is triangular wooOOoooOOOooo”. He didn’t even go with something meta, like a scale model of his super reflective Bean sculpture coated in the stuff.
Just such a fuckin’ waste that vapid asshole was the artist that got to play with the stuff.
I award you the official title of “More Creative Than Kapoor”! It’s not a unique title, but it’s still one to bear with pride.
“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”
Edit: My charming partner has pointed out that literally everyone that hears about Vantablack comes up with more interesting applications than this shit.
examples:
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.
This is drama from a decade ago so don’t take it as gospel: Iirc, the contract Kapoor signed with Surrey gave him the right to enforce the patent when used in art or aesthetic design applications. I can’t remember if he sues as an involved party on behalf of Surrey or if he somehow has the right to sue directly, but the effect is the same. Basically Surrey didn’t want to deal with enforicng it, and signed over that as part of the exclusivity deal.
The effect is also completely ruined if you handle it, and the broken off nanotubes from handling it are a serious health hazard. It’s expensive, dangerous, extremely fragile and almost impossible to clean.
But like mostly, having seen “Anish Kapoor” (which is the real name of the installation where that dickhead debuted his vantablack art), it… sucks. It’s impressive in photographs, incredibly lame in person. And, it can’t be cleaned without ruining the coating! so the dust from all those people builds up and just ew. You can see overlapping outlines, in some cases you could pretty clearly see the shadows from the contours of the coated object because of all the accumulated dust.
(also, and just on a personal note, he took nine years and did absolutely nothing conceptually interesting with it. Seriously it was the early-2000s 3D movie of art. Just one gimmick, repeated over and over with no change to the formula. “Look, it’s black”. It felt more like an ad for the lab that developed the coating than an art exhibition). It would have been cool if he’d developed the process, but we all know he didn’t, so it just fell so comically flat.)
code architect wizard
Okay, this is some pretty decent trolling. In the forest of low hanging fruit the current global political atmosphere has brought us, I’m glad there’s still people out there putting in the effort to hand craft some decent bait.
You give me hope, Gaja0. Keep up the good work.
I think it’s just regular old photoshop.
Some real incredible spins in that article:
In Manhattan, Ethan Myer, a senior at Union Square Academy, said the ban is also helping kids get their steps in.
“Most people are just walking around the hall, because there’s not really much else to do,” Myer said. "Some people are talking a bit more, which I guess was the goal.”
listless wandering is good for your health, kids!
Jem Bryant, a junior at Gramercy Arts High School, also near Union Square, is daydreaming more.
“I don’t really have a lot of friends in classes,” Bryant said. “So when they say ‘do your classwork’ and I’m already done, I literally just have to sit there and stare at the wall.”
Is this article satire and I’m just missing it? Fucking hell…
Oh god, I can’t wait to see this reposted as actual evidence by that one uncle ffs…
Before Jinseioshi arrived, Silva already had a zoo’s worth of reptiles in his animal family, including six snakes, a leopard gecko, a Komodo dragon, an ocellated skink and a second alligator. He also has a dog.
A komodo dragon. I didn’t even know those were legal for private ownership.
Like I said, truly awful morally. Not about to argue against that. But your link doesn’t speak to their adherence to reporting strictly true (if heavily manipulated as to the apparent context and implications) information, which is all I’ve claimed. They fuckin’ suck, but they know that, and they delight in being able to pull a charlie kirk smug face and pull out the recipts when challenged on it.
Usually you see it for toolchests and generators, but it’s not uncommon to see things like portapottys hoisted up to prevent people tampering with them while nobody is at the site (also keeps a load on the sheave, which I was told is important if a wind starts up or similar). You don’t want someone coming in and dumping whatever old garbage in there, like for example Charlie Kirk’s exsanguinated corpse.
Oh, then I quite apologize for misunderstanding & I totally agree.
That’s completely standard in journalism - and the WSJ, despite being an aggressively horrible publication politically and morally, is quite respected for the strict veracity of it’s reporting. I don’t doubt they were told that, by a reputable source. I have no idea if it’s true beyond that however, since the trump admin isn’t exactly overflowing with decent quality human beings.
I can’t say I would be surprised for that to be the case.
I think it’s far more likely for it to have been one decent person who couldn’t take the constant hatred spewed by Kirk. Everyone knows this has been brewing, for it to finally pop on Mr 'Puts His Punchable Face Right Out There And Taunts You For Not Hitting Him" himself isn’t much of a surprise.
Law enforcement usually does not care enough to solve a crossword puzzle - but there’s surprisingly few cases that can’t be solved through the careful application of an overwhelmingly massive surveillance apparatus (See: luigi - who could have gotten away with it had they not managed to find the hostel camera footage)
I’m really hoping this proves not to be the case here, just including the prior as a caution to anyone planning to be gay and do crimes that you can’t actually discount the cops completely. (And from having worked with LE in the past, the absolute #1 way to not get caught is to never ever tell anyone about it. Not your friends, not your mom, lips sealed no matter how cool it was. The number of calls in to their tip lines with people ratting out friend-of-friends is crazy.)
WSJ is claiming that the rounds recovered from the weapon used had pro trans / “antifascist” things engraved on the bullets - make of that what you will. Generally WSJ’s reporting is factually accurate but incredibly biased, so there’s that? Fuckin’ hell though this is already such a fucking clusterfuck.
Nothing like it.
Okay, and that’s why I didn’t write that list initially: it’s not useful to my initial point. I instead provided two examples of diplomatic restrictions from situations that are similar in political outlook, then called what trump is currently doing “an absurd escalation of that privilege for no other reason than trump’s ego.”
He is not considering restricting all Iranians from shopping at costco (or “bulk goods / warehouse stores” to borrow what passes for their exact language), he is considering restricting the Iranian diplomatic visa holders from doing that. Since the title, while technically accurate, could be easily said to claim the former, I clarified. I don’t disagree at all that this is fucking absurd, just less so than it could have been interpreted to be.
(A peace offering: consulate or embassy staff in the US often buy goods that cannot be supplied by their home country (food, linens, etc.) at these warehouse stores for safety reasons (this is how the whitehouse kitchen operates, too). Given the sales volume, the direct control the customer has over the product from the moment of selection and the sheer quantity of the stores that are available in a given urban area, it makes it infeasible for a product to have been tampered with prior to it reaching the diplomatic staff. By restricting access, Trump would create a massive logistical complication and threat vector for the Iranians)
Man, I bet that’s gonna work out just great for you. Hopefully it’s just fraud and not a disability…