Friday, August 03, 2007

Semi-Transparent Smoke VS Semi-Transparent Black

4D Rubber makes the Semi-Trans Smoke, officially termed Semi-Trans Grey, which I previously wrote about here. The Semi-Trans Black is made by Radical Rubber, the new latex kid on the block.

So what's the difference between them? I took pictures. Look.

I'm guessing both companies use some kind of black pigment for both. One's a hell of a lot greener than the other, obviously. However, S.T. Black does have a slight greenish hue, though on the whole it appears very brownish under most lighting conditions. This reminds me of one time in high school art class when I was mixing black and white paint together. You would think I would get gray paint out of the mix, but no....I got some fucked up chartreuse green. It may have been because of my Alice in Wonderland luck or because of the excellent fine arts department at my ol' high school where the track coach was also the art teacher. He was a real character, as are all high school teachers, and had no artistic ability or critical eye. His only direction to us art students was "You should put some more glue on this" or "Let me put some glue on that." On second thought, maybe I actually did learn something from that class. Excuse me while I go put some glue on some latex.


S.T. Smoke and S.T. Black photographed over a white background:


S.T. Smoke and S.T. Black over my arm:

3 comments:

Swiper said...

I love transparent/semi-transparent rubber! Farkin' cool shite yo! lol

So sexy.

SanderO said...

We have a dress which has one of these two colors... It's from SimonO and it has a greenish grayish cast now.. it's several years old. Recently it got stained and I want to replace one small panel... It's a triangle about 18" long and 7" at the top... it goes from the collar to the belly button more or less. I can send you a pic if that would help.

The piece fits between black panels so gluing a new piece in seems the way to go and doable. Can you supply a piece and or can you do the repair at a reasonable cost? Or can you recommend someone who can in NYC area?

Thanks in advance Betty

SanderO

Betty LaBamba said...

Can you supply a piece and or can you do the repair at a reasonable cost? Or can you recommend someone who can in NYC area?

Unfortunately, I no longer do repair work. Try The Baroness or inquire at Purple Passion.