Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

This week we’re replaying some of our favorite episodes about the stuff painters use. In this episode from September 2019, paintings made with Day Glo paint, some made by well-known and influential artists, are losing their glow over time. Scientists are trying to keep the glo for as long as possible. Plus: a research team in Massachusetts figures out how to make a color that absorbs 99.995 percent of incoming light. Day-Glo masterpieces are fading. A conservator and her team are racing to save them (Los Angeles Times)How DayGlo Went From Utility Pigment to Design World Darling (AIGA Eye on Design)Engineers Just Unveiled a New Blackest-Ever Material, Even Darker Than Vantablack (Science Alert)Make life more colorful when you back Cool Weird Awesome on Patreon