Mad Art Cast, the podcast of the science-art site Mad Art Lab recently asked Symbiartic's Glendon Mellow to join them and discuss the #SciArt hashtag, the new material Vanta Black, and more
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Oh-ho, see what they did there? One of the ways scientists display Vanta Black's near perfect non-reflective nature is by coating crumpled aluminum foil with it. Very cool graphic with the Mad Art Cast logo.
After declaring fine artist and jelly bean maker Anish Kapoor a super-villain, I was invited by the delightfully mad members of the Mad Art Lab, Surly Amy, Brian, Ashley and AB to talk about Vanta Black and the world of sciart online.
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