The library of rare colors

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The Forbes Pigment Collection at the Harvard Art Museums is a collection of pigments, binders, and other art materials for researchers to use as standards: so they can tell originals from restorations from forgeries. It's not open to the public, because it's a working research library -- and because some of the pigments in there are rare, historic, or really shouldn't be handled by anyone untrained.
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@TomScottGo 5 лет назад

I realised, after filming this, that it feels a little weird to have my introduction outside the Museum and the interview inside. But I'm weeks out of Boston now, so it has to stand!

@wongmjane 5 лет назад

>1 week ago

@mug1wara262 5 лет назад

how long ago did you flim this and why did you put this 1 week ago

@mvwinf 5 лет назад

I didn’t think it was weird!

@cheersluv5510 5 лет назад

It feels like you're just pointing out a fact as you happen to walk past it, and not like you're about to go inside

@anto687 5 лет назад

Works just fine, gives a general location then the interview!

@kieran461 5 лет назад

This feels like something someone would start as a hobby, and somehow turned it into a job.

@jl721ATcairn 5 лет назад

The pigment library or the channel?

@GabyGeorge1996 5 лет назад

I have a feeling they’re referring to the pigment collection; but I also feel like the statement is equally applicable to the channel

@jl721ATcairn 5 лет назад

@@GabyGeorge1996 kind of my point

@GabyGeorge1996 5 лет назад

John Lasher touché

@dustinwheat4096 5 лет назад

As it should be. Passion will keep you driven for decades

@billysmith6891 3 года назад

Going straight from VantaBlack to showing Stuart Semple's Pinkest Pink and Diamond Dust was a move of pure classiness.

@jezusmylord Год назад

Now i get it, that is pure comedy genius

@bab00shka48 Год назад

@@jezusmylord Stuart Semple is the definition of classy kiss my ass

@finleydrage5066 Год назад

Omg yess I laughed at this so hard and my family looked at me weird

@The-Silliest-Little-Guy Год назад

@jezusmylord i might be stupid but whats the joke?

@crypticcorvid Год назад

@@The-Silliest-Little-Guy Iirc, Anish Kapoor is an artist who bought the sole right to use the vantablack pigment, so in retaliation Stuart Semple (also an artist) created the pinkest pink and made it available for everyone EXCEPT Kapoor. Semple said he'd make pinkest pink available to Kapoor only when he allows other people to use vantablack. Semple also created diamond dust, which is supposed to be the most shiniest glitter.

@cosmicjenny4508 5 лет назад

Imagine dying, being mummified, and then thousands of years later, getting mushed up and put on a canvas. There’s donating your body to science, and then there’s whatever this is...

@PhoenixClank 5 лет назад

Donating your body to art?

@Howtard 5 лет назад

I don't think it could be called "donating" in general, I doubt anybody thought to ask them for informed consent for paint-making in their lifetimes.

@Ellyerre 5 лет назад

Well, it's not as bad as being eaten as medicine which happened in Europe during the 12th to 16th century.

@peter_smyth 5 лет назад

Do you mean dyeing?

@theotherwalt 5 лет назад

I want to know how the idea of using mummified remains as a pigment in a paint came about.... Did someone dig up a body for some other reason and think, "that is a really nice color."?

@zappawoman5183 5 лет назад

I had a dream about a brand new colour I discovered! However, it turned out to be just a pigment of my imagination...

@OrionMelodyMusic 5 лет назад

Oh, hi Dad!

@daniellewillgruber2768 5 лет назад

Sighs. Take your upvote.

@Lardum 5 лет назад

@@OrionMelodyMusic I did not hit her I did nooooot. Oh hi Dad

@powpuck5031 5 лет назад

I see what hue did there

@rkirke1 5 лет назад

I had an inkling there would be bad puns to follow. Seems to be making people madder..

@lucweerts4970 5 лет назад

I study chemistry and one of the best things is when your product turns a colour you have never seen. I had a liquid that was red from the top and green from the side, turns out it was the Tyndall effect.

@pandakatiefominz 5 лет назад

I have a fountain pen ink that works something like that. It's a green ink with a red sheen. Jacques Herbin 1670 Anniversary Emerald de Chivor. It also shimmers gold

@rickh3714 5 лет назад

Pthalocyanine blue was invented by chance. My dad once worked with the ICI scientist that discovered it. Monastral blue. An enamel dish had a crack in it which turned bright blue when holding a solution.

@clockworkkirlia7475 4 года назад

Tyndall... TO THE GOOGLEMOBILE! It definitely rings a bell but Chemistry is definitely my weakest science. :P Anything I should know that google won't tell me? Thank you for this knew knowledge. EDIT: Oh, yay! Structural colour! Butterfly wings and irises and biological photo-physics! (as I'm sure you already know) I probably heard of it around cuttlefish or chameleons. Now I have a fun fact: the vast majority of blues in the animal world are not pigment colour; they're structural colour. That's still real colour, of course (eat it, NatGeo), but it's all down to processes like the Tyndall effect instead of simple pigment-based absorption-vs-reflection.

@gairisiuil 4 года назад

makes me think of the shiny bits on US $10s and $20s that's iridescent because of copper particles

@58mph48 4 года назад

@@clockworkkirlia7475 Huh. I heard of it in relation to Japanese toilet humour.

@acrouzet 5 лет назад

3:17 "Lead white is toxic in the way that lead is...toxic." Best quote in the video.

@gonaldocr24 5 лет назад

You can tell its an Aspen by the way it is

@TheVergile 5 лет назад

well, its a reasonable observation. Some lead compounds arent toxic at all (for example if the lead is bound in a very stable way). Some lead compounds are toxic, but in a different way (due to a different mechanism) than pure lead.

@veloriders 5 лет назад

@@TheVergile True. My mouth has a lot of mercury in it.

@Azivegu 5 лет назад

Instructions not clear, rubbed lead white over my phallus.

@anderslolle2147 5 лет назад

The mummi brown was really funny too 😂

@MarkWTK 5 лет назад

colour exist artist: *gotta catch them all*

@AngryKittens 5 лет назад

PETA: colors must be free!

@Mr_Makina 5 лет назад

*gotta shade them all*

@RafaelCouto 5 лет назад

now I just have to make a game about this.

@J374338 5 лет назад

天吉Mark I’m gonna be the KARAA MASTAA!!

@oceanfloor3524 5 лет назад

i am an artist, i can confirm

@iabervon 5 лет назад

Someone else was commenting on vantablack that it was especially odd when it was on crinkled aluminum foil; it absorbs light so well that the foil looks flat because how it looks doesn't depend on the angle of the surface. It looks like a hole in reality or a rendering error rather than a paint color.

@jimmurphy6095 Год назад

Someone had painted a ping pong ball with it and it looked like a hole in the Space-Time continuum when they held it up.

@smartereveryday 5 лет назад

Awesome video.

@WretchedHobbit 4 года назад

Oof

@dudebro3846 3 года назад

Sup, Destin!

@tammy9143 3 года назад

seems like the algorithm chose me to watch this video now

@siliconsulfide8 3 года назад

@nabibbs7937 3 года назад

Hi destin

@Axalon45 5 лет назад

Having a shot of Stuart Semple's "exclusive" dyes seconds after the bit on Vantablack was a class act that you may well never top, Tom. Well done.

@leonkoster01 5 лет назад

mummie brown = ground up mummie baby oil = ground up b..... wait what

@cesariojpn 5 лет назад

Baby Oil is distilled Baby. Put them into a pressure cooker, and tap the resulting distillate.

@Lyle-xc9pg 5 лет назад

Oh but its only late-term aborted fetuses

@The_Jzoli 5 лет назад

@@cesariojpn Baby powder on the other hand...

@torstengang5521 5 лет назад

I laughed. Am I bad person?

@baconwizard 5 лет назад

Fred Austere no, we are terrible people

@SomeGuyCalledJ 5 лет назад

Stuart Semple's pink is really the pinkest pink I've ever seen (4:36), and is worth buying just to make pink things at home

@LilChuunosuke 5 лет назад

It's insanely cheap as well, so it's worth investing in!

@kanamekiyru Год назад

I bought his pink and yellow just to see it in person. Camera doesn't do it justice

@neilsutcliffe5825 Год назад

I am fascinated by the extinction of Quinacridone Gold. It was discontinued as an artist grade pigment in 2018, as the automotive industry simply stopped using it, and it was no longer available to artists. Artists are a small percentage of the consumers of pigment and we simply get what other industries need.

@mydogeatspuke Год назад

PO49 stopped being used at the turn of the century in the automotive world, so it took almost 2 decades for the majority of the remaining supply to be used up. It's still available as a pigment, it just isn't commercially used to produce paint anymore, likely due to it being cost prohibitive to obtain in large quantities.

@DasGanon 5 лет назад

"We have 60 different samples of Hematite" How awesome would it be if they eventually got a Hematite sample from Mars to add to the collection after some astronaut decides "Hey, I'm going to paint something out of paint I make myself"

@Ezullof 5 лет назад

Hematite from Mars would probably be very abrasive, so not a good pigment. There are also probably many types of Martian hematites just like on Earth (well, technically Earth has a more diverse geology so not as many, but you get the point). Of course it's still cool if you can say something was painted with Martian pigments.

@vladolkhovetsky1070 5 лет назад

Wonder if you can turn the moons regolith in to pigment, luner gray,

@andreww2098 5 лет назад

@@vladolkhovetsky1070 One of the former Apollo astronauts Alan Bean painted pictures using moon dust and Apollo spacecraft parts

@Abdega 5 лет назад

@vlad olkhovetsky They did that in the video game “Portal 2”

@dewolen 5 лет назад

@@Abdega "The bean counters told me we literally could not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Bought 'em anyway. Ground 'em up, mixed em into a gel. And guess what? Ground up moon rocks are pure poison. I am deathly ill." - Cave Johnson

@jpe1 5 лет назад

Tom, while you are at Harvard you might enjoy visiting the *Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants* (aka *Glass Flowers*). It’s one of those “has to be seen to be believed” things, pictures don’t do it justice. Amazing in detail, artistry, and scope, it’s both a teaching tool and a stunning artistic achievement.

@Dinlitla 5 лет назад

Agree...that collection is remarkable!

@ballinangel3231 5 лет назад

I've seen these! They are truly lovely!

@stevepeaple9051 Год назад

It' so remarkable it's verges on ordinary. I was there a few years back and they are so perfect the collection starts looking like a room filled with random grasses. I also love those crystal rooms nearby. Wish I could see this collection.

@jpe1 Год назад

@@stevepeaple9051 I will have to remember the phrase “so remarkable [that it] verges on ordinary.” I definitely get what you are saying there!

@keinGenug 5 лет назад

I have a weird obsession with color and pigment, and this video was heaven for me

@lawrencecalablaster568 5 лет назад

isaac grandas Me too :)

@takarifan 5 лет назад

Yup, this is Color Mecca for me.

@dennismitchell5276 2 года назад

If I keep using egg tempra, I'm afraid I'll get that obsession.

@irissupercoolsy 2 года назад

i have been painting & drawing a lot most of my life, so same... I clicked on this video really fast

@creativesolutionstoart Год назад

Same… I got really giddy when I saw the title of this video

@mateuszmalenta4570 5 лет назад

I recommend reading 'Secret Lives of Colour' by Kassia St Clair if anyone wants to read about origins and uses of some of the most popular and influential colours.

@lars1588 4 года назад

I just put it on hold at my local library. I should be able to pick it up soon. Thanks for the recommendation! I've been looking for some new, interesting reading material.

@Tefans97 Год назад

thanks to Tom Scott for my win in a pub quiz last week, one of the questions was on mummy-based pigments, another about the 1904 olympic marathon (from citation needed). Couldn't have done it without him

@CrimsonMemes Год назад

Imagine how annoying an Earthquake would be there.

@TobiasRieper047 2 года назад

This is amazing, I could spend countless days glancing around there at all the colors, knowing they all have their own story behind them. Its fascinating, we should cherish things like this and the people that do those jobs.

@oliverp3545 2 года назад

I'm thinking about their practical uses, there are so many models I could use.

@poweradereal Год назад

0:01 i personally think of colors as how they are made through the combination of red yellow and blue watercolor paints. as i went to a waldorf school when i was younger and thats how they taught color

@limebanter4603 5 лет назад

Mummy Brown is people!

@TheGahta 5 лет назад

funnily enough, brown people

@diamond_miner_8670 5 лет назад

is Soylent Green a shade of green? It better be or I'll be disappointed

@futurestoryteller 5 лет назад

Interestingly that's said to be the reaction many people had to learning this news. Iirc artists knew, but the public was horrified, and that stymied the sale of "mummy brown" from that point forward.

@rachele3334 3 года назад

I love a good obscure movie reference, especially when I get the joke. 😂

@aburningwalloftext8778 3 года назад

When you didn’t have a skin color colored pencil:

@tommegg8486 5 лет назад

When I see old blue pigment what can I think about is only how expensive they are

@tommegg8486 5 лет назад

@LagiNaLangAko23 it's crazy expensive back then

@KamuiPan 3 года назад

Sure, look at the raw material and process of making it. Cobalt is not a soft material.

@emilv.3693 3 года назад

Purple was even more expensive

@allangibson2408 3 года назад

@@KamuiPan Ultramarine Blue has no cadmium in it. It is made by grinding up Lapis Lazuli gemstones from Afghanistan. Then as now, going to Afghanistan was bad for your health (for exactly the same reasons).

@eily_b Год назад

Nice to see some Kremer Pigmente 3:47 on their shelves, too. Amazing company making pigments in Bavaria, Germany.

@benmaughan7452 Год назад

I swear, these Tom Scott videos from 3 years ago literally just spawn in every day

@LingTinaTV 5 лет назад

As an artist, it's amazing to look at the differences in consistently and how paint changes over time. It's fascinating that we now have things like the Pantone charts and grading to get exact shades and variations. Furthermore, there are modern digital tools that try and copy traditional looks and textures of classical mediums. However, I don't think we've gotten to the point where we can simulate the exact outcomes. We can only get close to it.

@rayfairbanks6280 Год назад

The "blasted heath" has some very interesting colors I've been told

@crashrose6128 2 года назад

I work at an art supply store with some high end specialty paints, and one of my favorite things to do to demonstrate the difference between lead oils and non lead oils is have customers hold a tube of a modern paint, and then hand them a tube of red lead

@Khunark Год назад

so what's the difference?

@crashrose6128 Год назад

@@Khunark in terms of how the paint itself paints the difference is really in things like flexibility and achievability, but the reason i have people hold the two tubes side by side is to feel the weight. the tubes with lead in them are SIGNIFICANTLY heavier than those without.

@GordonHenderson 5 лет назад

Burnt Umber - one of my favourite colours when a kid in school - I now live a few miles from one place they used to make it and worked in the building for a short while - long after the furnace had been removed though. Fascinating stuff!

@martijnvanweele6204 5 лет назад

3:20 *looks at a shade of brown on a canvas* "Are you my mummy?"

@Vousie Год назад

Kudos to you for noting print uses cyan, magenta and yellow, not red, yellow, blue. Too many artists try red, yellow, blue and then find they can't mix the bright colours they want.

@michaelnelson2976 5 лет назад

I love this video, this is a perfect example of the things that matter out in the world in their own way that you shine light on Tom. Loving it.

@Віктор-с5щ3м 5 лет назад

Him: “Mummy brown is made up from crushed Egyptian mummies.” Me: Hmmm interesting Also him: “Indian yellow...” Me: absolutely disgusting..

@josinboop6132 3 года назад

Baby blue "crush up ba... .

@doubleT84 3 года назад

When the supply of ancient mummys ran out some people made their own, for the profits. Let that sink in.

@variegatus4674 3 года назад

if theres an 'Indian Brown' it'd obviously be the aftermath of cheap indian food

@trumpetperson11 3 года назад

This was way more interesting than I expected it to be.

@santiastronomo Год назад

the fact the thumbnail says the colors WILL kill me and not COULD kill you is scaring me

@juliaconnell 5 лет назад

it's one of my dearest dreams to see a new colour

@totallynoteverything1. Год назад

gotta love the old timey labels they use

@LindsayDaly 5 лет назад

Anish Kapoor is *S* *H* *A* *K* *I* *N* *G*

@ricchburglar 5 лет назад

Who is that sounds like a famous chess player.

@sciblastofficial9833 5 лет назад

@@ricchburglar Some guy who stole the Pinkest Pink pigment, after the guy who made the P.P. pigment got jealous at him becaude Anish got to have Vantablack (one of the darkest blacks) and the P.P. creator didn't.

@fomalhaut_the_great 4 года назад

@@sciblastofficial9833 Anish stole the (at the time) blackest pigment from the artistic community as a whole. The greedy bastard.

@moduspwnenz 3 года назад

@@fomalhaut_the_great how? Its an expensive pigment to make and used for aeronautics. Thats like complaining Apple is greedy for trademarking something they made

@IntegralKing Год назад

library: beautifully aligned by color and brightness curator: OMG EVERYTHING'S OUT OF PLACE! HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDYYY!!!!

@grabasandwich 5 лет назад

"This beautifully painted winter scene smells like sh*t!"

@Riolupai 3 года назад

well, y'see, the brown used for the wood of the tree is... well...

@a.w.1499 2 года назад

I could probably spend a whole day looking at the pigment collection.

@bluzshadez 5 лет назад

The best thing that I've learned from this video is that the Archive of Colours are like books that can be taken out of the display cases and can be studied/ used for reference. I thought those were just for display.

@PurpleShift42 5 лет назад

bluzshadez Yep, specialist research libraries can end up collecting all sorts of things! There are other libraries out there that collect various chemical compounds for people to do assays and chemical analysis on.

@bluzshadez 5 лет назад

@@PurpleShift42 Thanks for sharing information. I grew up with the notion that Libraries are only for books and other printed materials, movies, vinyl, etc. I learned something new today. God bless!

@Tvianne Год назад

I'd gladly spend hours there, just to look at the coours and learn about the ancient pigments. It's so fascinating. Pity is not open to the public.

@deannam-host6584 Год назад

As an artist i found this both fascinating and delightful 😀 thanks for spotlighting this! 👍

@lars1588 4 года назад

Casually pours all of the colors together in a bucket and mixes them.

@elmadicine Год назад

um... did we gloss over the part where it distinctly featured "dragon's blood" as an ingredient

@bronzejourney5784 2 года назад

1:38 I love the way the building and sorting is arranged.

@terrotorotbart8319 5 лет назад

This was certainly a colourful video. :D

@dlrss1v274 4 года назад

hue are nice

@HolyKhaaaaan 3 года назад

Sends mum to whack with an umbrella

@calvinthedestroyer Год назад

Must be hell to find and maintain all of their SDS

@artstsym 5 лет назад

So, is the gallery UV shielded? Obviously part of it is understanding how they age, but it still feels like that might compromise their practical use to some degree.

@niklasohlsson 5 лет назад

Meris I was thinking the same. Thought someone else had written a comment about it, and I was right :)

@Helveteshit 5 лет назад

Doubt that part of the gallery is within the light source. Even then, it is behind several layers of glass. At that point, most of the UV should of been filtered/diminished greatly in strength.

@MICHGO1 5 лет назад

IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS LINED WITH WINDOW WITH SUNLIGHT BEAMING IN.

@NazzaKandybar 4 года назад

All the light in the gallery is UV filtered. These pigments have been blasted by light for decades and only the thinnest edge where the light reaches the pigment is affected. If you take the lid off the containers you can see that most of the pigment is unaffected, so we get a sample of both the degraded and original material for analysis.

@Mama_of_a_dragon Год назад

I would love to visit that library and spend an afternoon just looking at everything.

@JollibeenosHasYourCoordinates 3 года назад

1:34 A "what Arabic"?! That caught me off-guard.

@SpeakerMunkey 3 года назад

Incredible. They should do some kind of public exhibition to show what they are doing. It would be so interesting.

@lordeisschrank 5 лет назад

If some of them are sensitive to light... then shouldn't they be stored in a darker room?

@JohnFleshman 2 года назад

That jar of Realgar with the Poison label is from about 40 miles from my home. too cool!

@MaraK_dialmformara 5 лет назад

This is wonderful. If you want to learn more about the histories of pigments, I recommend The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair.

@BrunoLuzdeJesus Год назад

love how the thumbnail goes "some colors WILL kill you" not as if the COULD kill you if you were to ingest them, but as if they were an impeding doom, they will be your ending

@radianzero 5 лет назад

"Lead white is toxic in the same way that lead is... toxic" Me: *_"Well yes, but actually _**_-no-_**_ yes."_*

@emmastilwell759 5 лет назад

Willing to explain? Now I'm really curious :)

@freeBalochistan-n7l Год назад

These pigments are so appetizing that I'd die eating them...

@arothmanmusic 5 лет назад

I highly recommend “The Secret Lives of Color” by Kassia St. Clair. It talks all about the history and invention of pigments like these. It’s really fascinating.

@LARAUJO_0 Год назад

Even with the limitations of cameras and digital screens, there were some really nice colours shown off here

@Screamo_RC Год назад

I somehow forget these pigments have to be made by things, they don't just happen. How amazing.

@Prawnsly 3 года назад

Something about this whole collection is really inspiring

@anotheraccount7637 5 лет назад

What do you do for a living? I feed cows mango leaves them collect the urine.

@dont-want-no-wrench 3 года назад

ask the same question to the cow, and it's even worse

@leonarodoaviation Год назад

The colors inside the 120 Crayon Box:

@ketsuekikumori9145 5 лет назад

How very colourful. (Also love how autocorrect highlights colour as incorrect)

@joshuaclare4860 5 лет назад

Ketsueki Kumori the autocorrect occurs because it defaults to the American spelling of the English words. So colour becomes color, armour becomes armor, and so on. Quite frankly it’s rather aggravating

@Hannah_Em 5 лет назад

Honestly, you can't trust the Americans to build anything properly! ;D

@ginismoja2459 5 лет назад

Just change your autocorrect language to literally any variety of English but American. Colour is the correct spelling everywhere else.

@andymcl92 5 лет назад

@@ginismoja2459 *any variety of English but Simplified.

@cityuser 5 лет назад

@@Hannah_Em Just look at 9/1... maybe too inappropriate of a joke.

@nope_118 2 года назад

I love that someone put star stickers on the jars, that's just so sweet :)

@mjmdiver1137 4 года назад

Tom, if you haven't, you should do an episode on how/why magenta isn't a 'real' color... Its a fascinating perspective on color theory;

@alexamg6675 3 года назад

Those purples were so nice

@cjsimmons6535 5 лет назад

The mummy brown is creepy though

@samschmidt8772 Год назад

I'm glad some samples of Stewart Semple's pigments ended up in here

@CatsMeowPaw 5 лет назад

This was a nice colour piece about Harvard

@aightman340 5 лет назад

I just binge watched every Tom Scott video and I’ve finally made it to the most recent

@psammiad 5 лет назад

"Chemical duplicates, but not colour duplicates"? Surely if it's they're chemically identical they'd be the same colour...? Am I missing something?

@graypetcoyle 5 лет назад

psammiad they can be chemically the same, but external factors made them a slightly different shade (like how pressure and heat can turn coal into diamonds, even though they are both pure Carbon)

@MissMagic 5 лет назад

Even how finely a pigment is ground can affect the shade.

@lemons1559 Год назад

@@graypetcoyle A bit of a bad example since the different allotropes of carbon aren't chemically identical due to different structures.

@dittocopys 3 года назад

3:20 i love him explaining how they make mummy brown

@dave8599 Год назад

I worked in an factory making ink, we had drums of pigments, some of the deepest purest colors! one day a co worker dropped the scoop used for removing pigments, dropped in in the drum, a cloud of bright blue pigment rose up, his face and upper body a nice deep blue. He was sent home to shower.

@jaymogrified 8 месяцев назад

Narayan’s suit is perfection. I know, not remotely the point of the video but it deserved to be noted.

@bonnie5076 5 лет назад

Only artists would think of all of those weird ways of creating pigments

@mathewng1988 3 года назад

3:03 Talks about lead white. Me, eyeing the dragon's blood.

@davidtitanium22 Год назад

i was laughing when he described the mummy brown thinking it was a joke but then he just coninues on and i was like "yo for real?"

@zachheilman784 5 лет назад

RARE COLOR RARE COLOR RA...sorry, forgot this wasn't a Regular Car Reviews video.

@kylejscheffler 5 лет назад

NOT A CAR!

@NextDoorGuy 5 лет назад

LMAO exactly what I thought midway of the video. Imagine the resale value!

@tommykl 5 лет назад

And here I thought the overlap between RCR and Tom Scott viewers consisted of literally just me

@Iiimitation 5 лет назад

@@tommykl there are dozens of us!

@Trogdor390 5 лет назад

B R O W N on B R O W N

@rashkavar 5 лет назад

As someone who enjoys chemistry and history in general and reliably winds up in hours long wiki dives every time I look up a paint pigment or dye, I'm really disappointed to hear this isn't available to the public. I'd love to visit a museum where I actually got to see the pigments on display like that, with a writeup about their historical use and interesting chemical properties. (Pigments can get very interesting on the chemical side - Han purple is an excellent example of this - it's a 2500 year old pigment that has some properties that are related to engineering goals for high temperature superconductors and quantum computing. I'd be more specific if I could, but even if I could find a more technical description of those properties, I wouldn't have a clue what it meant.)

@thatonedamncommenter885 5 лет назад

These the colours my printer ask for printing any image

@samuelsmith2707 5 лет назад

I'd love a series just on colour.

@RubmaLione Год назад

The Harvard Art Museums are incredible. Definitely worth a trip up to Boston/Cambridge just to visit. They often get overshadowed by NYC’s museums, but are wholly unique (this pigment collection being just one of the many specialties).

@technobabble7702 5 лет назад

I like my Uranium green paint. I got cancer but that's probably unrelated.

@mjmdiver1137 4 года назад

@@kirkhamandy Read a book called "Radium Girls" about that story here in the US. Not sure if it happened in other places as well.

@mirjanbouma 5 лет назад

I love all the interesting topics and places you she's with us, Tom. It's fun but also educational without talking to us like we are children. You have a great channel. Love from the Netherlands.