This Man Protects the World's Rarest Colors

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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[ish]

It's always refreshing to see someone who is passionate about what they do.

[clxxrr]

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.

[avel]

“The other 24 hundred would feel left out” 🥺 🥺 he’s so wholesome

[hristmas]

He loves pigments so much. It makes me happy there are people like him in this world, this video brightened my day.

[Inflake]

*And then we find out he is colourblind*

[ryanbobyan]

This guy is a treasure. He’s so happy about colors, and it’s the purest excitement I’ve ever seen

[insertnamehere]

There's something incredibly special about people who are passionate about something so specific

[Luxbecca]

I want to find someone who loves me as much as this man loves his pigments.

[ILoveMew]

Bruh peach is the rarest everyone remember when u had to color something in school and everyone asking hey bruh u got peach ?

[shoopydoop]

"It doesnt come from dragons"

*good. They stopped abusing dragons.*

[corazon]

"what's your jo-"
I PROTECT THE COLOURS

[sarahashington]

This man should make an eyeshadow palette

[stkhvwd]

imagine if some little girl just comes in and uses the pigment to mix into her slime

[afel]

The way he talks about colors kind of make me smile a lot when the video ends.

[kylejakob]

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.

[tryptamineodyssey]

“Virgin’s blood under the full moon” light red

[pantera]

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." comes to mind.

[LangugesLearning]

No one:


Pigment Scientists: ""I think the ancient corpses of Egyptian people will make a fine lipstick color"

[marcellabutay]

"it doesnt come from dragons"
thanks for clarifying, I never would have guessed

[frosch]

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.