This Man Protects the World's Rarest Colors
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 เม.ย. 2016
- The materials collection, at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, MA, houses thousands of pigments, including some of the world’s rarest. Dragon's blood, mummy, Indian yellow: these are but a few flashy highlights from the museum's collection.
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*And then we find out he is colourblind*
Inflake underrated
Shaheer Khan ikr
I am blind
Zetsuke4 i know it’s a joke but I winder if we will ever have brail phones and stuff like that it would be interesting to see
@@yeetsheet2146 Molly Burke made a video about how she uses technology as I blind person, its really interesting to see. I really recomend 🧡
This is 5 year old me having the 120 crayola.
that was gold to me
HAHAHA
With the sharpener at the back
Indeed. Or me now with my new set of 32 color stabilo felt pens. Lolll
yep. i remember when getting the 64 pack
“The other 24 hundred would feel left out” 🥺 🥺 he’s so wholesome
A v e l I was thinking the same thing lol, I love this guys attitude and how invested he is in what he does
So he had 1k fav color?????
Bruh! No freaking lie in this! When I was reading this, the dude literally said "The other 24 hundred would feel left out". No lies are in this! I am telling the f**kin truth!
😏
Simp
Bruh peach is the rarest everyone remember when u had to color something in school and everyone asking hey bruh u got peach ?
😂😂😂
I had dandelion
Accurate
I ran a lil illegal trade behind the scenes. I’d bring gum and “goodies” to school for things in exchange.. sometimes for money. Things that sold really well in Elementary school was Springs (the type of springs you’d find in a lead pencil or stapler..) gum, led pencils, 2 dollar bills, gold dollar coins, cool pencil toppers and erasers.. bonus if they were weird rare colors, cool lookin’ kinda alienish lead pencils, silly bands.. more if scented, bracelets.. more if charm bracelets.. can sell charms separately, these cracker sticks with cheese, candy cigarettes, markers.. bonus if sharpie, multi-pens, heat pencils, McDonald’s toys.. hell.. any kinda toy was the shit and ye. That’s all I’m writing. All I’m sayin’ is if you’re still in Elementary.. take advantage of it. Start an illegal trade/selling business. Stay sly and stay outta the teachers way.
Welp I miss when silly bandz were the shit ;-;
I want to find someone who loves me as much as this man loves his pigments.
Certified Edgelord Your mom loves you even more.
Alonso Martii 😂
Ill luv ya
Food loves you, and you live food. There you go.
Does that mean you don't want kids? Because this guy always wears gloves before handling the pigments. :D
"what's your jo-"
I PROTECT THE COLOURS
This made me laugh really hard for some reason. Thank you, I really needed to laugh today.
Sounds insane
😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
*PROTECC
This guy is a treasure. He’s so happy about colors, and it’s the purest excitement I’ve ever seen
10/10 pupper
imagine if he was colorblind
Underrated comment
It’s you!
He wouldn't work there....
Such roasting...
If he was color blind then how would he know the colors?
"It doesnt come from dragons"
*good. They stopped abusing dragons.*
Have seen Dragons as of late? Now you know how they died out...
ShoopyDoop
This is fucking hilarious.
danilov114 Komodo Dragons
They lied. That dragons blood is so rare because they had to slaughter the last of the dragons to obtain it.
Umm the likes before i liked dis comment is 666. Now im scared 3/9/2020
imagine if some little girl just comes in and uses the pigment to mix into her slime
Death to her. (I’m sorry!)
‘I’ll see you in hell, bitch.’
She proly dies if she uses the poison ones
YES! exactly.
Little did the girl know she placed colour yellow of Dried urine of cows that fed only with mango leaves.
The way he talks about colors kind of make me smile a lot when the video ends.
Omg saaaame
Your comment made me smile at the end
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." comes to mind.
That's why I'm a prostitute.
Because that field isn't hiring
"Escape the grind, let others do the heavy work."
@@dustis9274 what
@@dustis9274 amen
It's always refreshing to see someone who is passionate about what they do.
when you see a comment like this you literally cringe out of existence
+RavnKlaw When I see your comments, I cringe out of existence.
Most people start passionate about what they do until politics at work ruin everything
Ben Gun, its not always that, for instance I'm scared of sounding arrogant because I (unintentionally) use big words and am bad at sensing when something is apropriate.
how socially inept must you be to say cringe on a comment that's just expressing their like about someone who's passionate about their job. jeez get a life
I love how his eyes shine brightly when he tell about it. You can clearly tell he really love it and it's all that matters.
he has a strange fetish....my eyes shine brightly talking to a women
He's so poised and sophisticated. That's true passion for a job. I hope that one day I will be so lucky.
indeed. that's beautiful
Was gonna say the same thing. Clearly, he loves his job. They wouldn't need a database of all the pigments they have, I bet he has memorized them all.
@@coldogno7 good for you
He seems like someone fun to have around. Charming, I’d say. Out of all the artists and teachers I’ve met, he made such a simple thing as color sound so interesting. I’d like to meet him one day.
This channel always seems to be interviewing the most interesting of people, it almost feels unfair that I will most likely never met them.
He definitely is passionate. This was such a compelling interview, I’m so grateful this channel brought to light such a unique role through his lens.
you did not just call colour "simple"
If that man can love the cow’ urine like that, why is it so difficult for me to love my brother?
Hilarious 😂
Same
I-
LMAO
Ikr?
Don't lie you teach in HOGWARTS not Harvard.
Haward
@@CalebP618 Thank you, very cool.
This thread is hilarious
Plot twist: the dragons blood pigment is actually from dragons
Ah I love this😂
He loves pigments so much. It makes me happy there are people like him in this world, this video brightened my day.
christmas my favourite thing is when you see people doing something they're really really passionate about (especially when it's kinda niche like this)
christmas he is so adorable tho
when you see a comment like this you literally cringe out of existence
Emy Francisco Ikr
when the word cringe is cringey
This man definately loves his job. Wish I could find my soul job
*Dried urine of cow that fed only with mango leaves*
Me staring at our cows...
Hi fellow exo-l!
...and the cows staring back!...
Cow: no don't do it
Can i eat your cow?
I'll be the idiot that will spill the pigments on the ground
This broke my heart because I can relate.
but you'll create a new color to place in a jar.. just don't break that one too
I’ll be the idiot that accidentally eats them
and ill be the one cleaning that shit up
dahhhh sorry boss! -mimsy
Me feeding my vegan sister mango leaves and handing her a bucket
@Light Head yes
Lmaooo
LOOLLL
@@leoninenoble I thought she was a Lion
Cow cow cow
Hes so wholesome 😭❤ the way his face is beaming and glows when he talks about the colors it's just so warming.
0:45, the yellow is so yellow and rare that the pixels are having trouble creating it on a screen. Aight a non-intentional flex I see.
I feel like this guy gets off to colors. "OH THIS EMERALD GREEN IS QUITE THE PIGMENT MMMMNYESSS"
lmao ok?
CinnaBear _ fuck you
a cat
Ok?
CinnaBear _ goddamn it
a cat s
There's something incredibly special about people who are passionate about something so specific
Ngl i don't get it , everything is so interesting. Why pick just one narrow lane? we got one life.
@@SamosaJii look at him. Hes in possession of some of the rarest pigments artists could only dream of, and just think of how many things no one has gone out of their way to extract pigment from, theres so many different pigments that make up super specific colors, so why not pick one thing and stick with it for the chance to go deeper in the subject than anyone has already gone before? You have to pick something and stick with it, because juggling things for the sake of wanting something different hinders your ability to be the very best at that one thing, but if you’re switching between fields and careers constantly, the level of prestige at which you can achieve in those are mediocre at best
*imagine painting with these rare colours. how amazing would that be. also the guy is so sweet and wholesome. he seems to be really passionate about his job.* 🥺💫
If I had 2400 children I’d certainly have a few favorites amongst them. I love this dude’s enthusiasm and passion
He collec
He protecc
He protecc
He attacc
But most importantly:
He collecc
He collec
He protecc
But most importantly he has a cute tooth gap
He inspecc
But most importantly he knows all the shades of blacc
but most importantly he lovv.
*Crayola wants to know your location*
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Title: World’s Rarest Colors
Eyeshadow palettes: *am I a joke to you*
"These are the world's rarest colours"
Digital Artists: *interesting*
My dream is to name a deep shade of blue: Crippling Depression
Should be extracted from an actual depressive person with some gene making their tears blue-ish.
That sounds like a very dark indigo
A blue that is darker than black
o h w o w
It’s impossible to create a new colour or think of a new colour
This man should make an eyeshadow palette
Sarah Ashington yassss
Jeffree Star would be shook.
Ah, you beat me to it. a year ago xD
poli6ady lol
@@Rick-il3vn 😂
This is the most beautiful video I seen. I would love to learn everything this man knows. I want to work there and learn about colors. It's so amazing
That is absolutely amazing. I had no idea there was so much put into this.
“Virgin’s blood under the full moon” light red
Hey that's me when I get a papercut at midnight!
Did you know that blood looks black in moonlight?
Your virgins blood under the full moon would actually appear black and not have any red whatsoever!
😷
moonlight india
No one:
Pigment Scientists: ""I think the ancient corpses of Egyptian people will make a fine lipstick color"
They even ate mummies in the past
shannara fryer w a I t w a t -
@@samanthaclaremejia7975 yeah. Ever wonder why there are so little mummies in the world? It's not because they are hard to find, it's because the majority of them were eaten resulting in the scarcity of them.
You might be wondering who the culprits might be. They are none other than the Europeans. I'm sure there's no surprise there since they have a long history of invading foreign lands and taking what's not their's. Though I'm not really sure which century/centuries this happened but we probably would've had more mummies if it wasn't for someone who decided to eat someone's embalmed remains one day
shannara fryer so they were like delicacies?
@@samanthaclaremejia7975 it seems like it but they were consumed frequently enough to basically run out. A good comparison is the sturgeon fish. It was considered a delicacy (caviar) and now it's almost extinct
i love how this man loves his colors like children wow the genuine feeling
His enthusiasm is infectious! How do I get notified when he’s in another video? 😉
who else clicked just to see what the colors even are
Tyler 😏😏😏😏
"it doesnt come from dragons"
thanks for clarifying, I never would have guessed
Have you forgotten Komodo dragons are real?
@@quisadosoyo Yes but it's obvious they were referring to fantastic dragons. Komodo dragons are also known as Komodo lizards, by the way.
@@marcellabutay1090 yeah but komodo dragons sounds gangsta no one cares about komodo lizard lol
Who knows...I would make a trip to alternative Earth or a planet few million light years away to stock my Dragon blood - That sounds fun... Science move before I die! Please!
I'm disappointed, actually, while also wondering who would be badass enough to collect blood from a dragon.
0:44 there so rare and yet so close to falling off
Funtime_Swagbear they’re*
Did you have to correct him?
@@siviki3966 What's wrong with correcting someone? as long as you're not doing it in a passive aggressive way, then its O.K
@@kevin-7091 until your perfect you got no business correcting people on the internet
@@turbofart101 *you’re
My man loves colours this much but he dresses like a sad librarian after having an earl grey tea without sugar
Academic chic
its possible he has to wear stuff like that at museums and stuff, you're not the one everyones looking at its the art or pigments and colors in this case
Rare insult
This is beautiful. Something so amazing, but so elusive because no one would think of doing something so specific as this. It's a form of history and art... And it is amazing. Never stop adding on. Some day we may even find a special pigment that has never been used, so specific that you'd have to be looking for it or have it to even know it exists.
Yeah, the world seems bigger now.
what a beautiful thing to say :D
you should become a writer. this is the most poetic comment I've seen on youtube
Thank you, the three of you who commented, and the over 200 of you who agree with my message. Art and history are the two subjects that I have had a great passion for. I'm actually trying to become a 2D/3D animator someday and would love to work on a more history oriented project, a good example is a assassins creed-Esc cartoon movie or show that tells a fictional story in a non-fictional setting that teaches you something you would have never known about the history of the stories setting/location.
Sorry, I went on a tangent there.
As I was saying,
Art is a form of history, history is as much art as art is history. They are both worth protecting and striving to learn more about. And anyone can be an artist and anyone can make history. They just need to work hard enough.
Thank you all again. I'd love to talk more about art and history with anyone who wants to. Just send a message or reply to this message.
-Kyle
Kyle Sandberg I ruined your 666 likes
what is your favourite color?
dried urine of cow that fed only with mango leaves.
what?
yellow
8.2k? how? thanks
Or:
"I like the color of PISS"
no. *_oh_*
no. Oh okay, Thanks!
indian yellow* 😂
get knowledge bosadpapus
I saw the collection from across the museum. It was so cool!
I would like to work under him to learn all this. He seems really genuine!
Sucks that I'm color blind
enchroma.com/ Have you heard about this glasses? Hopefully they work!
Gaby Mendoza I think he's joking...
Have you tried them out though?
what colors can you not interpret?
Jackshuty What colors can you see and not see? Please don't tell me you're that one edgy kid in class that brags about only seeing black and white.
Imagine if an earthquake came in...
Lol
God: no
suddenly the place becones very colourful
u get all the colors in one, the rarest color EVER
Colorful rubble.
I NEEED A LONGER VERSION OF THIS
0:31 did this guy really just drop something 😂 😂
A card 😂😂
listening to this man talk about colors for 2 and a half minutes was the most relaxing thing i've ever done
elena edits ever seen/heard
I had to sorry
@@MrApple-or2bk She's not wrong though.
"do you know a legend?"
"Yes... Khandekar Narayan sensei, the great protector of the rarest color in the world".
The day this channel ended truly was a tragedy I always loved learning about people who have these obscure yet important jobs like this it was great while it lasted
It's back
Look how happy and passionate he seems though 😍♥️
Is this where my favourite colour has been hiding all these years?
Which is?
black
Lol I honestly don't know what my fav colour is 😂
Which?Urine from cows that have only been fed mangoes?
@@0atsyy Go to this picure allrgb.com/thingy that has ALL rgb colors exactly once and save at your pc zoom to your favorite part, then zoom again to the favorite part of this favorite part, then zoom again at the favorite part of this favorite part and go on until you cant zoom anymore, then use the color selector tool and pick the best color from this zoomed area, and this will be maybe one of your favorite colors.
I want to visit the pigment vault....
***** I know but that doesn't stop my desire from wanting to visit it.
Put this guy on a watch list, he seems to want to do a little more than visit the pigment vault🤔
go to harvard, take art major lol
Art major? lol art students are as dumb as a wet rag. You need to be a scientist.
yikes, i cant say that's true doe
He is bursting with joy for the collection, you can tell that he would put his life on the line to protect the integrity of the collection, so pure.
had to watch this twice, because the first time i just marveled at how put together this guy is. great hair, great glasses, great tie, jacket, watch . . . very old school esquire magazine vibe.
TH-cam recommendations:
Yall want some p i g m e n t
This channel should be more popular
shud
yeah
This is something that I never would have thought of before. I'll honestly look at colour in a different light now. There are colours in the world that are the one and only
I wish this doc was longer :(
I remember going to this one really old house, I can't remember where, but the walls in the one room were this brilliant red, and the tour guide said it's impossible to get that color anymore, it just doesn't exist.
Woah!! Really??
Is it anything like the one in ur profile pic?
wow
@@undeterminedstudent3636 Well, of course not. They just said it's impossible to replicate, duh
That colour would most likely be vermilion. It was used on wallpaper in many victorian era homes until they found out that the compounds used to bring out the brilliant vividness contained inordinate amounts of a highly toxic chemical; arsenic. It was outlawed after people began dying or becoming violently ill after having such wallpaper installed in their homes.
His voice sounds like Brandon Rogers
Alex Rogalski RIGHT THO
i thought the same thing!
I thought that too!!
I came from the valentines video but yeah I was thinking of the same thing
God I couldn't agree anymore, funny how he almost even looks like Brandon.
You can tell he loves his job. That's a lovely thing.
Man I wish this was longer 😩
We as a species need to settle our differences and come togheter for the sole purpose of protecting this wonderful man
I was just flabbergasted when the camera couldn't handle those yellowish colouts
ilias 2405 à
he is passionate about this and it shows! ❤️
Gosh, I love seeing people being passionate about what they love, so cute!
you know the colour is unique when your phone cant really show the colour and just flicker at that colour
I don't think that's how it works. You can probably recreate any color digitally.
@blueguisee You are 100% right about this.
blueguisee I don’t understand this video, don’t we already know all the colors by the color spectrum?
@@azice6034 it's about colors you can get from natural ingredients.
@@blueguisee - Nope. Not with only 3 primaries that are real.
this man is adorable pls protect him
yes i agreejejw
from what? u?
You're ugly
Sounds like a gay indeed
One of the things that comes to mind is "Warbreaker" by Brandon Sanderson. Color is so important to that world's civilization, magic, religion, basically a big chunk of the worldbuilding comes down to color.
Also I'd like to see someone of the First Heightening look over these.
i love so much when people enjoy working and loving their job
Robber: *breaks into the collection room*
This guy: *_"Welcome,adventurer,to your final challenge"_*
*bossfight music starts playing*
His jacket rapidly changes colors.
Goal: You must only attack the boss when he is shifting and in a 23.2 degree position then his jacket would turn into pigment 451 and that's the moment when you charge for 5.56392-428435uwu8039483-40935458948 seconds and attack with you're spear, then during this intermission of 0.00430000000100 seconds you must collect the pigment bottle number 2189 and throw it, but you must charge it for 0.000000000000000000690004 seconds, then you throw it.
Do this 6 times..
Upon defeating the boss, a bottle of ??? coulored pigment will fly to you, then you know that you have finished the boss and the Pigment library is now open to you. Colour 438, 69, 420, uwu and 1032 are deadly. Will result in unique death. Place the magical pigment you received and place it on the bottom left right uppermost hottest corner of the 38th shelf and place the pigment bottle you used to attack the boss on the 19th shelf and then place it in an angle of 1 degree and then shift it 34.3 centimiters left and right and choose the coldest corner to make sure that idk what I am saying and the library of pigment will open... Then...
*BOSS MUSIC 2*
Prepare for the new boss, The angel of pigments.
Mehdi Fernane where do you get the idea to make up all of that
I luv him hes so happy
where can I get a job lyk that?
Eren
first off, learn how to spell.
thanks for your kind concern but I know how to properly spell.
Then spell properly. It's not cool lol😂
be his assistant
I have never seen anyone so passionate about something...he has such a pure heart
Misheard rattan palms for tampons, just rly relieved rn
0:46 LOL camera couldn't even pick up that color.
That guy sure has alot of children....
JonnTheOne 200th like
Of what?
The man looks genuinely happy.
It would be cool if they had little swatches of how the pigments would look in paint
It wouldn't be that hard to feed a cow mango leafs for awhile. Why is that the rarest? I think the mummy resin stuff is way more rare.
Yeenosaur I imagine it is easy to do but rather the rarity of a farmer actually doing so that makes it such a rare pigment. Just because it's an easy process doesn't mean it would be a common one in the slightest.
darafeth Yeah but still, do you think that mango leaf cow feces is more valuable than mummy resin?
what if there are a lot more mummies (ys?) and we don't know? i think i'll feed my dogs blueberries from now on ahaha
perhaps because mummies are easily accessible? There are vast collections of mummified skin and bandages in all kinds of archives. Not endless, obviously, but enough to give you a stock of pigment. To create the yellow you would have to go out of your way to do the whole process by scratch. I think that's the reason, at least..
It would probably take a whole lot of urine to dry it down to make a significant amount of the pigment, especially if there are any treatments that need to be done to it after drying. The urine also has to be collected and processed etc which all takes labor. If there's not much demand for the pigment then there wouldn't be many people willing to go through all those steps to produce it just for the sake of having something rare
Imagine all the crayon colours! Crayola is coming!
Crayola sucks
Its overrated like fuck
Crayola 2,500 color so big set
Got excited when they showed Rothko’s painting ❤️
I love how passionate this man is about this topic
I want to be in a profession that I love as much as this guy loves his
"what if greys are colors that we cant see?"
We wouldn't even see them as grey then. Since our eyes couldn't pick up on the freaquency.
Colordeaf
@@Zetsuke4 why did that make me laugh?
@@cameoshadowness7757 Deafinitely because u cant hear color
@@Zetsuke4 while true for me, there is a condition where it is possible to see color with specific pitches of sound. Either way :) that just made me smile. Thanks for talking to me.
i like this mans passion for colors, its good energy
WOW .. IM BLOWN AWAY .... WHAT A GENIUS !
What would the color of the rarest Pepe look like
Bernardo Patiño green
Bernardo Patiño
A nice swamp green, the color of mucus-consistency algae left in some muddy lukewarm water.
cow on mango leaf diet peepee colour
Bernardo Patiño poop brown
Jariellz lol the Forrest being the deep dark depths of the internet
Well my world just got a little bigger, thanks for the knowledge share :)
I love when someone takes pride in their work
Indian yellow is really fascinating to look at.
Bright and toned down.
id love to see these up close they are wonderful
Yes, it's a nice thing to know I can see the world in more ways.
Who wants a collaboration between this guy and Crayola?
Me not know one
It would be cool
@oneone to exspensive
@oneone fuck me
This man protects the world's rarest colors
When I find a rare crayon color
Me:You're with me now
“The other 2400 would feel left out”
99 others: “Am I a joke to you?”
I was thinking the same lol...
2500-1=2499 xD