As someone who’s reported alt-right harassment and rhetoric on various
social media sites and been told “there’s nothing here that violates our
TOS,” seeing what RPGnet is doing is a welcome breath of fresh air.
You mentioned a lot of stuff that people attacking Grace seemed to miss and god the hyper focus on legality and not just about treating someone better…
if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in the midwest, this is it.
You missed some of the best ones
the best part about it is that the art installation isn’t actually called the Bean. It’s called Cloud Gate, and artist Anish Kapoor (yes, THAT Anish Kapoor) hates that we call it the Bean.
But i mean, look at it. It’s a bean.
How could you forget this one though
I HAD NO FUCKING IDEA THAT THE BEAN WAS CREATED BY ANISH KAPOOR.
someone help me why is anish kapoor important what did he do?
Alright sit down for some Art World Drama bcause this is what I live for.
So, sometime last year (?) science invented Vantablack, which is the darkest possible shade of black. Art world got incredibly excited. But as it needs to be very carefully made in a lab, it’s hard to get a hold of, and is extremely expensive. Enter Anish Kapoor, aka FuckFace McGee. Anish Kapoor buys the rights to Vantablack. He is the only human being on the planet that can legally use it, and he’s kind of a prick about it.
Art world is not thrilled with that.
Enter Stuart Semple.
Stuart Semple is an artist, and also makes pigments to sell in his free time. Stuart Semple is astoundingly pissed about this Vantablack nonsense, and Anish Kapoor’s dickery. Stuart Semple makes a new pigment, the brightest shade of pink ever, called Pinkest Pink, and puts it for sale on the internet. To be bought by everybody except Anish Kapoor. Literally, to purchase, you need to confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, do not associate with him, and will not sell or give the pigment to Anish Kapoor or his associates. Art world has a good laugh, everyone buys Pinkest Pink because it’s awesome, and damn it we deserve something.
Anish Kapoor however is a penis, and will not take this lying down, because HOW DARE he not have literally everything.
Anish Kapoor gets his London associates to buy him a thing of Pinkest Pink, and being such a classy human being, posts a picture to instagram of him with his middle finger covered in Pinkest Pink, captioned with “Up yours. #pink”
Everyone flips shit, because. Y’know. Fuck that guy. Especially Stuart Semple. For context here, Anish Kapoor is one of the richest artists on the planet, and has repeatedly been referred to as everything wrong with the art world, and the epitome of the art worlds elitism problem. He’s a giant douchebag. Meanwhile Stuart Semple makes pigments just to get them out there. He turns 0 profit from his now enourmously popular pigments.
Stuart Semple launches an investigation as to who the fuck leaked Pinkest Pink, and plans to strike back. He does so by releasing two new products. First is Diamond Dust, which is a glitter made from glass, so that a painting is still visible after it’s applied, but glitters like a mofo. It’s the most reflective glitter out there, and is available to everyone who isn’t Anish Kapoor. And it being made of glass, if you stick your finger in there, it’s going to hurt quite a bit, so that was Stuart Semple’s way of saying “shove your middle finger in this, asshole, see what happens”. Except without saying that, because he can get an insult across while still being fucking classy.
He also releases Black 2.0, created with the help of over a thousand artists worldwide.
Black 2.0 is the answer to Vantablack. Black 2.0 is a slightly less black black, but looks functionally the same to the human eye. It’s completely safe, smells like cherries, and costs four pounds. Vantablack is highly toxic, potentially explosive, needs to be applied in a special laboratory and sealed properly, can’t be moved across borders, can reach 300 degrees celsius if you’re not extremely careful, and costs thousands of dollars. Anish Kapoor is the only human being who can use Vantablack. He is the only human being who cannot use Black 2.0.
So I think we can guess who got the better deal.
And thus the feud ends, Kapoor defeated.
…But not quite.
Kapoor, in this entire afair, has made exactly two comments to the public. The first being his charming message about aquiring Pinkest Pink, the second being claiming to Buzzfeed that he and his small army of lawyers will be suing Semple, an extremely poor artist who cannot afford a lawyer.
No lawsuit has been made yet, fyi.
The point is, Kapoor is a prick, and doesn’t like talking to the lower classes. So one day in July 2017, he decides he needs another floor on his London studio apartment, and starts making arrangements to have it built. His neighbors are fucking pissed, because this will ruin the light of their apartments. They call to Semple to save them, or at the very least piss Kapoor off some more.
Semple answers to the call, and releases two new paints, Phaze and Shift, as always, banned to Kapoor. They change colours, Phaze with temperature, and Shift is just iridescent. Shift needs to be painted over Black 2.0 to work, and Phaze just works on its own.
So that’s been the art world for the last two years.
Basically, get fucked Anish Kapoor your bean sucks and so does your vantablack.
Stuart Semple is organising a bean-kissing event for Anish Kapoor’s birthday.
Reblogging for “By attending this event you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated with Anish Kapoor, you are not attending on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information, and belief this event will not be attended by Anish Kapoor.”
ALSO HE JUST POSTED THIS!!!!!! LIGHTEST LIGHT!
I know this isn’t my art blog but this entire post gives me life
im sorry is that man holding a real actual miniature star in his hands
Y’all missed the best part about the lightest light, called aptly ‘Lit’. This is from their product page:
Two things:
1. “Anish Kapoor is however a penis” is the best line in this post.
2. I wish to be half as petty and half as awesome as Stuart Semple
Once, when I was around fifteen, I was out at my favorite diner with a group of my friends. Our conversation quickly turned to sex, and I found myself halfway through a brownie-Oreo-peanut butter milkshake and in the depths of a heated discussion of how many holes were “down there.” By this time I had friends who had had pregnancy scares, and who had been caught hooking up in school stairways or their parents’ hot tubs. My female friends talked about these things like it was something you had to do, whether they enjoyed their experiences or not. Even after a handful of my friends had started hooking up, there was still a lot we didn’t know about healthy sex and relationships. Looking back, I realize how in the dark we were about our own bodies. Sure, I could rattle off the periodic table of elements at the drop of a hat, but when it came to my own body I had no idea how things worked.
The dismissal of female sexuality and pleasure in sexual education is harmful to girls’ physical and mental well-being. When we don’t make comprehensive information available for young girls about their bodies and sex organs, we cannot guarantee that they are getting responsible and medically accurate information. In fact, only thirteen states require sexual education be medically accurate, which means there is a lot being missed by students about the bodies they inhabit every day. If students aren’t comfortable talking about sex with their parents (who may or may not give accurate information anyway) and they aren’t getting it in school, they are forced to look for answers elsewhere. Often, that leads them to media and pornography — which can reinforce or intensify sexist and heteronormative views. Even some of the most comprehensive sexual education courses still lack information on female sexuality.
Peggy Orenstein believes that teaching consent in school is incredibly important, but teaching female pleasure in sexual education is also important to girls’ health. Orenstein spoke to over 70 young women while researching for her book Girls and Sex. She asked them about their attitudes and expectations of sex, and what she found was that while girls felt more empowered in their lives, they were lacking empowerment when it came to their own pleasure. Orenstein told Fresh Air’s Terry Gross, “They’re supposed to be sexy, they’re supposed to perform sexually for boys, but their own sexual pleasure is unspoken.” The expectation that girls will perform sexually for their partners, but not vice versa opens the door for disrespect and a power imbalance. Orenstein found through these conversations that girls viewed their own sex organs as both “icky and sacred.” Because of that, they were uncomfortable exploring their own bodies.
Teaching girls about sexual pleasure can also aid in teaching about and preventing sexual assault. If girls are unable to advocate for their own pleasure, they are also less likely to feel able to advocate for their own safety. Sexual education puts an emphasis on male ejaculation and subsequently male pleasure — In short, boys have wet dreams, and girls get their periods. Emphasizing male pleasure, especially without teaching about consent, perpetuates rape culture. Painful or uncomfortable sexual encounters are normalized for girls and women. In all kinds of ways, we expect women to be complacent in their discomfort. We expect them to make their male counterparts comfortable or joyful even at their own expense. It’s disrespectful, and frankly, it’s unfair. The consequences of that are detrimental, and the reason so many women identified with stories like babe.net’s Aziz Ansari pieceand The New Yorker short story “Cat Person.” It is also important to chip away at this thought process for boys. Preventing sexual assault also means preventing sexual assaulters. What if we could emphasize how fun and cool sexual exploration can be with consenting partners? Making the pleasure of both partners an equal goal can help create healthier sexual relationships for young people — sexual relationships that are safe and respectful. When talking about consent, it is important to also discuss how positive sex can be with it.
Female sexual pleasure has been controversial since the beginning of time. It was believed that if women tapped into their own pleasure, they might realize they didn’t need men for sex anymore. Since the clitoris was not imperative to reproduction, medical professionals of the 1800s left the organ out of anatomical diagrams. At the time, medical diagrams were mostly drawn by men, who associated the external part of the clitoris with intersex people and lesbians. The clitoris has been added and removed from different editions of anatomy books depending on social concerns about morality. Although the clit has now been discovered in its entire eight-inch glory, the heteronormative emphasis on sex for reproduction has carried into modern education. Many diagrams still leave out external female genitalia, and leave the clitoris out entirely.
women are so considerate like they’ll put all the stuff you could ever need in their bags just in case and then they carry all that weight around and they’ll give band aid’s and ibuprofen and setting powder to any stranger in need, meanwhile men just put their ugly wallets in their back pocket and that’s it
You ever see something so funny you bypass laughing entirely and go straight for crying?
always reblog
I fucking HATE how this has almost one million notes and ive NEVER seen this. I have missed out on life. This was the best study break video I have ever seen. I’m dying. I most def sharted.
