#culture hustle

[audley-and-cherry]

What? Skaven?

I haven't painted in what feels like forever and man, I missed it.

[buckevantommy]

“Someone once told me: nothing good can come out of spite. How wrong they were!" 

#sharetheblack

It comes in 3 different sizes: 150ml, 1L, 6L (although I'm not sure about the larger sizes since there's a 5 item limit per customer atm) 

Black 4.0 is available exclusively from Culture Hustle and with thanks to Stuart Semple's tireless efforts and the help of artists from around the world

https://culturehustle.com/products/black-4-0

[orjdan]

“Get the Balance Right!”

Ink and Black 4.0 on illustration board

20”x20”

2024

[melonisopod]

I’m going through a particularly nasty experience with Culture Hustle and their nonexistent customer service after trying to order stuff from them over a month ago. Then I looked it up and realized I’m not the only one, and there is a long history of people not getting their products and bad reviews dating back to 2020.

Spread the word. Stuart Semple is a scam artist who takes your money and runs while touting his image as a “Robin Hood of the rainbow.�� Some “artist of the people” he is, to not even give people what they paid for!

[effulgentinara]

New dice casting - I think I've got a good handle on how much of the glow powder to add, just need to clean them up and decide how I want to ink them - I'm thinking of filling the numbers with a different color of resin

[rjavenuru]

Some of my earliest GH inspired stuff. Ink pens on card stock, in thrift store purchased frames painted with Culture Hustle Blk3 (Vantablack level black acrylic).

Did you know that only one artist in the world is allowed to use Vantablack in art cause he bought the rights to do so?

[inquisitorpsyduck]

I mixed pigments and created something new. Maybe not great but I'll say I created it. It's mine. Hail my act of creation

[geekwiththegoggles]

I did something indulgent...

Dollar store flamingo, meet Mr. Semple's very shiny paint.

[audley-and-cherry]

That's it. I've peaked.

(@skinslip!)

[apocalypticvalraven]

terminology note- Tiffany Blue is the official name of the actual color. Semple named his knock off, literally, "Tiff*** Blue." Also, I tried to use British spelling whenever I was using his words but stuck to American spelling outside of that. I may have slipped up.

Got a marketing email from Culture Hustle (Stuart Semple's company) talking about a BoGo deal where you get Tiff*** Blue if you buy White 2.0. Supposedly because Semple got an email from Tiffany and Co. saying he needs to stop selling Tiff***.

And... his wording just doesn't sit right with me.

Like, ok, first of all, this is just a fucking marketing email, not Martin Luther's 97 Theses. It's not the Braveheart speech. It's not even St. Crispin's Day. It's a fucking marketing email trying to get people to buy his shit.

Does he have a broadly good and correct point about companies owning colors? Sure. But "colours that have been colonised by corporations?" Fucking please. Unless a company literally finds a particular color used by a specific culture and appropriates that color, to the point where they claim it is literally their color and theirs alone and they own it, it's not colonization. I'm not one for defending the IP of big corporations, but Tiffany Blue is not colonization. And Semple, who is, so far as I can tell, a white man, and I know for a fact is British, does not fucking get to just throw the word "colonised" around.

to say nothing of his role in creating a vocal hate mob against the Indian/Iraqi/Jewish Kapoor, even if Kapoor is also a dick

But also, lets be fucking real. Semple is not "democratizing" anything. He's not breaking the model of private ownership of colors. If a color is only available to one company, and another company manages to copy it and turn it into a usable product for people to buy, that color is still privately owned, it's just now the property of One Company and something you can buy from a scalper. People who hock tickets to shows aren't "democratizing" shows and breaking the "colonization" of tickets by Ticketmaster, they're dudes profiting off of a resource that the law arbitrarily says only one entity is legally allowed to profit from.

If Semple wanted to "Democratize color," he would be making the information needed to formulate these privately owned colors freely available. He could maybe have a leg to stand on if he was saying "ok, here's how to make this color, and you can do it with any paint, but if you want the easiest way to do it, here are a line of paints you can buy from me that are the exact formulation you need." He could sell Black X.0 and say "I can't democratize Vantablack yet, because the very method of creation and application is entirely the domain of specialized, expensive, high tech machinery, but I want to work towards democratizing it, and as part of that work, here is the blackest paint I've been able to make, and if you buy it, proceeds go towards my work to democratize Vantablack." If he wanted to democratize art, he would be providing a way for people who can't afford his not-inexpensive paints to get them. Like, bare minimum, a "buy a bottle for a starving artist" thing on the site where you pay for a paint and it gets sent to someone who signs up as too broke to afford it.

I have to admit, he has done some good, philanthropic work outside of the splashy "hey, I'm using this color that Big Corporate Suits say I can't!" stuff that gets talked about. Maybe some of the money he makes through Culture Hustle goes towards these kind of projects. But I do also want to point out that it's very Liberal Proper Charity shit. Like The Creative Therapies Fund he cofounded with the charity Mind, where a specific project gets some funding each year (disclaimer, I don't know the nitty gritty details, this is my impression of how it works). That's... not democratic. That's just patronage. It's better than nothing, sure, but it's not democratic.

Semple's model of activism and philanthropy is "raising awareness" and "create and support organizations that people can go to for help." Which is great. But as a Fat, Trans, Satanist, I'm not exactly about to trust that Organizations are going to actually deign to give me the help I need, and I would much rather be able to just get the physical resources I need to do my thing.

Is he a horrible person? I don't know. I don't know him as a person, but I would guess he's actually probably a good guy, all things told. But he's also clearly a bit of a dick, and doesn't necessarily think through the flamboyant shit he does (ie, the result of his beef with Kapoor), and he gets put on a pedestal as this, like, shining beacon of Free Art! And that pedestal needs to be knocked down, imo.

[notalexhorne]

These things are always so flipping difficult to photograph, and I've done so many of them that you'd think I'd have figured it out by now. As always, the camera could not pick up the colours under the black light at all, and even under natural light, none of the detail actually comes through because these paints defy physics.

The first is outside, in the shade, vs inside under a black light. Paints used are Culture Hustle's Black 1.0, Black 3.0, White 2.0, Pinkest Pink Yellowest Yellow, Loveliest Blue, Greenest Green, and Orange (which I think is only sold at Halloween).

I'm not totally sure where it's going to go, but wherever it winds up, it'll be in close proximity with a black light. That's for sure, at the very least.

In the process of mucking about with this, I've decided I like the Black 1.0 much more than 3.0. It's easier to use and control, and while 3.0 is definitely a shade or two darker overall, 1.0 comes in a powder that can be mixed on the fly. 3.0 only comes as a pre-mixed potion, and was starting to dry out already in the bottle, needing it to be thinned out which rather dulled the effect quite significantly.

[orjdan]

“The Hand”

Ink, acrylic paint, paper, marker on panel

6.5” diameter

2024

[auressea]

Arting!

I am STOKED. I just mixed up a tiny batch of Lit™ glow-in-the-dark powder from Stuart Semple!

I used it to paint the Moon in my latest acrylic painting project! It's AMAZING! glowing moon in a dark room! so COOL.

pics later..

[melonisopod]

Shipping out my order literal hours after I cancel it, after a month waiting and more than a week not getting back to me on the status of my order and then filed a dispute with the bank to get my money back...I’ve gotten better customer service out of drop shipping sites than Culture Hustle.

[spacecasecreates]

Its 8.40pm which means its the PERFECT time to start a 20inx10in WTNV inspired painting 💕

[naomimonalpha]

I dunno how many people have had a chance to use Stuart Semple's stuff from Culture Hustle but I've been playing around with Pinkest Pink and his Superbase and I swear to Glod Superbase smells like caramel. Like am I going nuts? My brother is like "Why's it smell like a bakery? Oh yeah you're painting on the walls again."