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investigation reveals Semple / his studio / his partner Emily Mann (who's described as acting as his 'enforcer' in his business) :
mishandled Β£400k grant of public money intended for a public gallery, allowing the money to flow freely between the public project, his own personal studio and personal projects such as Culture Hustle (his online business selling paint etc)
underpaid or failed to pay many of his assistants to the tune of several thousand pounds each.
former assistants have taken him to court and he simply hasn't bothered to show up and he's threatened to sue former assistants who asked for their back pay
repeatedly funds ambitious projects that never see release eg Abode, an 'Adobe-rivalling' suite of creative software (he claims he still intends to release this)
encouraged a cult-like atmosphere at his studio in Bournemouth
was frequently in debt and having to negotiate with bailiffs etc for his debts while at the same time crowdfunding various projects
ran fake social media accounts boosting Semple and his work
The portrait that emerges is one of decades-long scam artistry tbh and someone who's juvenile, manipulative, narcissistic.
The Fence btw is a decent fairly small-circulation quarterly magazine from the UK which specialises in satire, investigative journalism, culture, and fiction. You can read the piece in its entirety if you register (which is free).
a few links:
The Fence's newsletter from April discusses this article & how Semple has tried to muddy the SEO waters
Semple threatened to sue The Fence for publishing this story - many of you are American so here's the relevant UK law on defamation.
& the subreddit r/culturehustle is worth a look to get an idea of just how badly run his paint business is
I got some of his paints when he first announced the mirrored paint.
The first thig that put up a solid red flag was the shipping material. It's cool that he has custom boxes for his studio, it looked really neat. Then I opened it and sae things like "Not for bean boy" printed all over the inside of the box.
Between Mirror, hyper pigments, and black 2.0, none of them were as extremely out there as the videos on his site made them seem. The colors are vibrant, the black is dark, and the mirror is shiny. But the level the videos showed them at are not levels I can recreate.
So like, he exaggerated as an advertising scheme. Alright, shame on him.
But reading that... Yeah. I don't expect him to sell anymore stuff.
If I remember correctly his whole beef with Anish Kapoor was over a misunderstanding about Kapoor was making sure no one could use vantablack as opposed to the reality that Kapoor was the only person who was licensed to handle vantablack due to its dangerous radioactive properties. Pretty dumb. Also, I kinda like cloud gate, it's neat looking in person.
The lab which actually owns Vantablack (which is not a pigment but a substance that has to be applied in a lab) chose one artist to work with to demonstrate its properties. The exclusion wasn't Kapoor's choice. He was just the artist they chose.
The whole viral trend of mocking Anish Kapoor is a good reminder that none of us are too smart or virtuous to fall for disinformation. It was funny! It didn't seem to be doing any harm, it was just mocking a rich and privileged person for being exclusionary. So we joined in.
We gotta put down the pitchforks and step back from the mob, and verify for ourselves the truth of accusations. Every time. Sometimes this is easy (is JKR really posting that hateful garbage? yep, there it is) and sometimes it involves looking for evidence and doing some critical thinking.
death of the author yeah whatever but death of the fandom is so integral to enjoying and having a decent read of legitimately anything like that is just a necessary step to take in ur head always. do not let them affect the text in any way exterminate them all with ur death ray. they r not real and cannot hurt u and have absolutely 0 bearing on the text itself
The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?
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my clover keep dying so i put them in a ceramic pot with plastic wrap. they sprout easily enough but they die so fast if i dont water them 2x a day, and sometimes i forget. hoping this will help them get past sprout stage and actually flower. most of my surviving plants are ones that are already grown a bit. heres to hoping.
ive never seen vsions of escaflowne, dont know anything about it
intro was nice, but the song seems a little forgetable on the very first watch. i'll have to sear it in my brain every episode lol
the intro was really beautiful though. angels? fantasy? beautiful bishounen? definitely up my alley.
tarot card intro, i hope they have a tarot card every episode.
girl having a sudden vision of another world, i assume thats why its called Visions of Escaflowne lmao
i usuall dont care for high school bullshit but this seems more like an inuyasha style premise (character happens to be in school before getting isekai'd into what i assume is Escaflowne) or at the least, if the main character remains in the "real" world that she lucid dreams or is in a coma or something while traversing escaflowne(?)
again im assuming thats what the fictional world is called considering.
beautiful art style. i really miss anime with this more shoujo, flowy, ostentatious art style. i know it takes a long time to make, but i hope someday oneday we can get a new hand drawn traditional animation (that gets properly paid giving the artists as much time as they actually need) (which is where im so fucking disappointed with uzumaki - they just gave up halfway through and said its taking too long instead of letting everyone take their goddamn time)
adjacent topic, i think its interesting when people try to recreate the "old school" anime art style and it still looks Off.
they're trying to recreate someone else's style rather than create a unique one of their own, AND theyre not using the same medium. the shoujo eyes look like that because of white gel pens, alcohol marker gradients, etc.
Even between mediums, sailor moon manga is much more flowy than the original anime, which changed proportions and used a different coloring method (glass painting i think?), and seeing people recreate the art style still add more detail than necessary to it. theyre not bad art ! theyre often very beautiful. but anime looks like that for budget reasons, too. too much background is too costly in both money and time.
thick lines were line weight differences between artists (pen and acrylic) not necessarily a conscious choice, its just how the hand flowed naturally. so its also weird to see people try to replicate random line weight in places that dont quite look right.
replicating "old school" anime style on a totally different medium i dont think will ever work. it will always be beautiful art, you have to find your own or just one art style to then replicate, not hodgepodge everyone else's for the "authenticity" of a recreated/resurrected "old school" style
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