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  • Published on Apr 17, 2026

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  • @BusinessInsider
    @BusinessInsider  3 months ago +4

    Also read "I've been to all 63 major national parks. These are the 8 I recommend visiting in the winter": bit.ly/49hViX3

  • @adamh6420
    @adamh6420 4 months ago +1007

    Silicate? Put on a respirator my guy

    • @Plasticjesus504
      @Plasticjesus504 4 months ago +44

      I know man. The inside of his lungs are getting ravaged. He needs a respirator desperately.

    • @G.Crispin
      @G.Crispin 4 months ago

      He's already a dead man walking.

    • @bizzyizzy9526
      @bizzyizzy9526 4 months ago +9

      I would put on two, better yet an closed air tight suit like an astronaut 🤨

    • @LeshyOutdoors
      @LeshyOutdoors 4 months ago +6

      It is the Pakistani work method.

    • @stevo3938
      @stevo3938 4 months ago +6

      He wont be alive very long

  • @gaveintothedarkness
    @gaveintothedarkness 4 months ago +2389

    My guy needs to wear a respirator..... guarantee his lungs are also blue.
    And everything he sees is just blue
    Like him inside and outside
    Blue his house
    With a blue little window
    And a blue corvette
    And everything is blue for him
    And himself and everybody around

  • @usmc1379
    @usmc1379 4 months ago +460

    Will someone please send this man a Painters mask or a box of good quality face masks? A blue sneeze isn't something to be ignored.

    • @BeachBumBoatsmith
      @BeachBumBoatsmith 4 months ago

      Yeah and at that price you know he's picking up that booger and using it. 😂

    • @thewillman112
      @thewillman112 3 months ago

      we should also send troops in there and take it all

    • @Whoopsh6c
      @Whoopsh6c 3 months ago +1

      He looks like the only employee, who's he gonna sue?😂

  • @spiritofdan613
    @spiritofdan613 4 months ago +320

    I don't understand why you never showed a comparison between the various types of Ultramarine paint: the Cellini, his method, and a couple of synthetics. I would love to see if there's any noticeable difference.

    • @MrPigments
      @MrPigments 4 months ago

      thats been done by the pigment collectors of youtube and a lot of watercolor people thankfully.

    • @TeamDreamhunter
      @TeamDreamhunter 4 months ago +38

      It's because there isn't one lol; natural ultramarine has like. A tiny bit of refraction in it that you can see when you're maybe a foot away or less, and the synthetic is nearly identical.

    • @ResidentFurryx
      @ResidentFurryx 4 months ago +103

      It's because the pigments are chemically identical. The main difference is that synthetic production gives you an inherently pure, and uniform, fine powder that actually has a more intense consistent blue color than crushing expensive as hell natural lapis then having to go through a long process just to maybe get a powder blue enough to be worth using in paints.
      It's similar to how lab grown diamonds are chemically and structurally the same as diamonds. But properly made lab grown diamonds tend to be more perfect than a normal gem quality diamond because of the controlled conditions. But the marketing around diamonds has people paying more for the "natural" diamonds because they come with a certificate of authenticity from some industry rating group.

    • @neerajnongmaithem392
      @neerajnongmaithem392 4 months ago +54

      ​@ResidentFurryx the expensive stuff must be used to restore old art or to replicate art from the era where real ultramarine was used. For daily use the synthetic stuff makes more sense.

    • @jeffreysoreff9588
      @jeffreysoreff9588 4 months ago +2

      @ResidentFurryx Well said!

  • @christianheichel
    @christianheichel 4 months ago +431

    2:04 that dude should be wearing some sort of filter over his mouth he's going to be inhaling that his lungs going to be blue and he's going to be dead

    • @annan.3283
      @annan.3283 4 months ago +6

      I was wondering if he’s ever thought dying his hair blue.

    • @elyzak333
      @elyzak333 4 months ago +23

      Silicosis

    • @PartyPete86
      @PartyPete86 4 months ago +22

      You're right. He is neglecting his health for no reason.

    • @yingofdarknes
      @yingofdarknes 4 months ago +19

      He might wear a respirator, but didn't want to use it for the video because they wouldn't be able to hear him very well.

    • @MrPigments
      @MrPigments 4 months ago +14

      @yingofdarknes as someone who works in this field, still no excuse. I have a respirator with a voice projection module, so should he

  • @Taydrum
    @Taydrum 4 months ago +41

    It's always satisfying to see a master craft so passionate about silicosis

  • @seanaslam
    @seanaslam 4 months ago +102

    Should have been the pantone color of the year

    • @jp8649
      @jp8649 4 months ago +3

      Much better than white, but they did a similar blue in 2020.

    • @TonkaJay
      @TonkaJay 4 months ago

      You tried.

    • @masly1451
      @masly1451 3 months ago +5

      but they chose toilet bowl white

    • @Noname-hs5lx
      @Noname-hs5lx 3 months ago

      Bahahaha yes yes I’ve found another person like me

    • @Noname-hs5lx
      @Noname-hs5lx 3 months ago

      What about the fug colour last year ? Poo colour ?

  • @RLeezyDeezy
    @RLeezyDeezy 4 months ago +17

    So is this where Warhammer gets their Blue

  • @SoCalFreelance
    @SoCalFreelance 4 months ago +127

    Great to see someone so passionate about a historic trade/craft.

  • @ashcoops6962
    @ashcoops6962 4 months ago +183

    Was about to make a comment about silicosis and see that so many have already picked up on the respirator thing. You can only muck around without PPE for so long...

    • @TheFloosy
      @TheFloosy 3 months ago +3

      It would be so sad for a man who puts his whole life into producing this pigment for artists everywhere to die a slow and very painful death from silicosis.

  • @bathdog54
    @bathdog54 4 months ago +96

    Rumour has it you can find knock off versions on the bluemarket

  • @VRacing
    @VRacing 4 months ago +20

    My printer ink must be made of this stuff. The price we pay for it.

    • @formes2388
      @formes2388 19 days ago

      the printer was cheap, so you would get that one.
      The ink is expensive: because that's where the profit is.
      Laser printers; Printers with ink tanks - those are the two better options.
      You pay more upfront - but the accessibility to getting solid value out of what you spend is there, far higher.

  • @Crazy_JamesWick
    @Crazy_JamesWick 4 months ago +198

    The paint can also be used for enchanting your brush

    • @petermccavington8232
      @petermccavington8232 4 months ago +4

      It actually can't tho

    • @christianheichel
      @christianheichel 4 months ago +1

      ​@petermccavington8232 lol facts thiugh

    • @Crazy_JamesWick
      @Crazy_JamesWick 4 months ago +10

      Efficiency V for the brush

    • @charliepea
      @charliepea 4 months ago +5

      Enchantment V brushes only used for the robes of the Virgin Mary 🤔

    • @zenlettering
      @zenlettering 4 months ago +1

      but it's only rare. you need a magenta or an orange paint to make it really good

  • @Adam-nv9zo
    @Adam-nv9zo 4 months ago +9

    Silicosis speed run

  • @BTG9191
    @BTG9191 4 months ago +28

    Love watching super passionate people in niche trades/crafts

  • @prototropo
    @prototropo 4 months ago +51

    It was a delight to watch Mohammed exercise his skill, and fascinating to hear his expert opinion on the value of real lapis lazuli blue.

    • @annapurna-c3v
      @annapurna-c3v 4 months ago +4

      It’s environmentally damaging and it supports the Taliban in Afghanistan

    • @parusol235
      @parusol235 3 months ago

      @annapurna-c3vThe Taliban closed the Lapis Lazuli mines and Afghan mining (more like most of Central Asia) is incredibly crude due to the lack of infrastructure and equipment not to mention investment capital and expertise.

  • @Flako2013
    @Flako2013 4 months ago +5

    W guy actually seems so genuine

  • @Ari-mo8qo
    @Ari-mo8qo 4 months ago +9

    Such a pretty color. I'm sending this to my grandfather that does oil painting I'm sure he will appreciate it.

  • @kellymckinney5082
    @kellymckinney5082 4 months ago +15

    I love Lapis Lazuli. It is beautiful.

  • @adamh6420
    @adamh6420 4 months ago +21

    “The lazurite will come quickly…and easily…” me too bud

  • @KiwiFlopsHere
    @KiwiFlopsHere 4 months ago +360

    Guys they made the thing from Minecraft real!

    • @SubjectiveFunny
      @SubjectiveFunny 4 months ago +3

      You think he made the rocks?
      Did you watch the video or are you just smoking rocks?

    • @KiwiFlopsHere
      @KiwiFlopsHere 4 months ago +33

      @SubjectiveFunnyr/wooooosh

    • @CouldBeSaladFingers
      @CouldBeSaladFingers 4 months ago +28

      @SubjectiveFunny Are you dense?

    • @trc7343
      @trc7343 4 months ago +12

      @SubjectiveFunny "I have a wife, job, and 2 kids.."
      nice, you still missed the joke though

    • @BrandonLiechti
      @BrandonLiechti 4 months ago +2

      @SubjectiveFunny You need a klippies and coke oubaas

  • @JapaneseAnimalover
    @JapaneseAnimalover 4 months ago +31

    I have used both natural and synthetic ultramarine and they work up very different. I do use it in water color form so I don't know about other paint mediums but the grain size makes the difference. For most applications synthetic is fine but the way the grain interacts with the water and other pigments can give a unique texture to the finished product. Not too dissimilar to when you add salt to your water color and get that crystal splotchy look.

  • @Bobbydell
    @Bobbydell 4 months ago +19

    For Ultramar!

    • @Obe_Qwaet
      @Obe_Qwaet 2 months ago +3

      Thank you brother, I was looking for this comment.

  • @lockout6896
    @lockout6896 4 months ago +12

    Dudes laughing about sneezing blue.respirator😂😂😂

  • @b.alexander3670
    @b.alexander3670 4 months ago +9

    The amount of lapis I skipped in Minecraft. 💀

    • @Rubeena.T
      @Rubeena.T 2 months ago

      Reminded me of Minecraft too! that's where I heard the name Lapis Lazuli first! 😂😂

  • @Northrop-Grumman1991
    @Northrop-Grumman1991 4 months ago +34

    I’m so high 😅
    My dude gonna end up looking like a Smurf when he retires lol

    • @namespolicy-th5he
      @namespolicy-th5he 4 months ago +4

      Your intoxication status is irrelevant to your comment.

  • @aoabali
    @aoabali 4 months ago +13

    mix of mastiqa and pine must smell like heaven. more like the aegean sea.

  • @CamonaTempest
    @CamonaTempest 4 months ago +5

    Thank you so much for putting this together

  • @simaknaveedakther8755
    @simaknaveedakther8755 4 months ago +3

    I Can't believe the thing we enchant our Minecraft weapons armors and tools is in real life

  • @kailengray2822
    @kailengray2822 4 months ago +4

    the name itself is already such a royal and mysterious

  • @RÅNÇIÐ
    @RÅNÇIР3 months ago +1

    Man, I thought I liked blue. This guy *really* likes blue.

  • @ysraelgarcia627
    @ysraelgarcia627 4 months ago +3

    This man has my respect . His a master in this world.❤

  • @DEichenberg
    @DEichenberg 4 months ago +10

    A true craftsman. Not many left.

    • @kriscarlson2716
      @kriscarlson2716 3 months ago +2

      if he keeps the way he gets its processed without protection, they'll be even less left.

  • @M.Debrah
    @M.Debrah 4 months ago +5

    Love this color!

  • @pgc6290
    @pgc6290 3 months ago +4

    Ai making real art work more valuable is a nice thing to hear. Love that.

  • @antoniohinojos3808
    @antoniohinojos3808 4 months ago +3

    Ah, how HP Cyan printer ink is made 😂

  • @JoaoRangel-s1s
    @JoaoRangel-s1s 4 months ago +28

    Even the guys hair is art

    • @smedoz
      @smedoz 4 months ago +2

      If there is sililicate I. There guy should be wearing a respirator

  • @jessieenglishclass5857

    Brilliant work! It looks so cool

  • @JenPurple2022
    @JenPurple2022 4 months ago +1

    Fascinating 😮

  • @zengara11
    @zengara11 4 months ago

    Incredible work

  • @batya7
    @batya7 4 months ago

    So interesting !

  • @bosvarkutube
    @bosvarkutube 4 months ago +1

    Great vid

  • @chadjones1266
    @chadjones1266 4 months ago

    Thanks again

  • @anaperez5442
    @anaperez5442 3 months ago +3

    No gloves, no mask or respirator.
    Blue sneeze 🤧.
    I worry about this man.

  • @SaitoVickey
    @SaitoVickey 4 months ago +8

    I was gifted a small amount of this pigment and used it in my watercolor painting. Magnificent is all I can say. It truly brings your artwork to life! Thank you Ifran! ❤🙏🏼

    • @MaxPower-vf8kt
      @MaxPower-vf8kt 3 months ago

      That’s awesome. My mom was an artist. So many time for Christmas I’d work to find her to find her real pigments. Like I got her ultramarine blue (a teeny tiny tube was like $150), a version of vanta black made by the guy who made the crazy pink pigment, etc. She loved it.

    • @JanetWilcox-t9c
      @JanetWilcox-t9c Month ago

      You can purchase it in a watercolor paint? What brand please!

  • @andrejohnson5928
    @andrejohnson5928 3 months ago

    A true artist and master craftsman. So cool

  • @margis.5873
    @margis.5873 4 months ago +1

    What a lovely man!

  • @duanecarr6712
    @duanecarr6712 11 days ago

    The world need more dudes like this guy

  • @BillC-u7b
    @BillC-u7b 4 months ago +16

    Fantastic!!! But the article I read, in C&E News, many years ago, blew me away. There was a Vermeer painting, hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, that was worth millions$$$, but had to be authenticated. One of those authentication processes, involved the "slightest removal" of a miniscule quantity of oil paint, to determine, if it in fact contained lapis lazuli in a manner which was knows to be employed by Vermeer. And that process, authenticated the painting.

  • @faerefolke
    @faerefolke 3 months ago

    I can totally appreciate its value.

  • @dragonwitch27
    @dragonwitch27 4 months ago +55

    This was fascinating! I have 2 degrees in art history and had no idea you could still buy lapis lazuli-based pigments--I assumed ultramarine paint would always be synthetic today. Thank you for highlighting this!

    • @gregfehr598
      @gregfehr598 4 months ago +4

      This guy eats it 😂😂

    • @MrPigments
      @MrPigments 4 months ago +5

      Yeah, you can buy it from places like Kremer pigments and a few paint companies. Its mostly Chilian lapis these days though since the afghani stuff is absurdly expensive for fran angelico

    • @GaudiaCertaminisGaming
      @GaudiaCertaminisGaming 4 months ago

      Have thought about asking for your money back?

  • @RareJewel777
    @RareJewel777 4 months ago

    Beautiful color 💙 💙💙

  • @TommyGreen-m3j
    @TommyGreen-m3j 4 months ago

    Amazing

  • @RayCryo
    @RayCryo 4 months ago +1

    3:20 good hustle Mark Ruffalo

  • @kerriekupar6466
    @kerriekupar6466 4 months ago +8

    We march for Macragge

    • @DmitriiPimkin
      @DmitriiPimkin 4 months ago

      Courage and honour! Ps that's why citadel paints are so expensive

  • @tayo0404
    @tayo0404 4 months ago

    Such a pretty colour

  • @e21big
    @e21big 4 months ago

    Courage and Honour

  • @NinaRaheja
    @NinaRaheja 4 months ago

    Very interesting

  • @dpayzant1999
    @dpayzant1999 4 months ago +10

    It can also be used to enchant your gear.

  • @Al_Capwned
    @Al_Capwned 4 months ago +1

    Expensive but it is beautiful.

  • @gabvisda1
    @gabvisda1 8 days ago

    even the grayish color is beautiful

  • @MattMurphyMusicTeacher
    @MattMurphyMusicTeacher 4 months ago +1

    3:30 - I thought he was going to start eating the dough balls.

  • @christianheichel
    @christianheichel 4 months ago +34

    3:53 I think it's funny if you read further at that point it talks about watch out for old ladies 😂

    • @solivagant3810
      @solivagant3810 4 months ago +4

      Thanks 😂😂😂

    • @abarrazarios
      @abarrazarios 4 months ago +2

      Lol 😆

    • @True_you_coming_through
      @True_you_coming_through 4 months ago +4

      Yeah, and he says it should be done by 'pretty girls'. The narrator sanitized it as 'young women' or something like that.

    • @DesoloZantas
      @DesoloZantas 3 months ago +2

      I like to imagine that they can mess up the process by thinking it's a toy and throwing it away.

  • @Yaksh-08x
    @Yaksh-08x 4 months ago +1

    Bro is cooking the blue stuff in his lab

  • @BentusiProgenitors
    @BentusiProgenitors 4 months ago +1

    Vevor.
    Lol. I love it.

  • @HyperionGaming
    @HyperionGaming 3 months ago

    Crushing rare stone and turn it into a color paint is the craziest activity I have ever seen

  • @HPAPER580
    @HPAPER580 3 months ago +1

    Bro eats it

  • @randyrosado2446
    @randyrosado2446 3 months ago

    3:54 Oh boy....This dude will be in the news some day...lol

  • @austinbevis4266
    @austinbevis4266 4 months ago +1

    I feel like they’ve made this video like 10 times now

  • @reivang7196
    @reivang7196 4 months ago

    6:39 man this shot looks like it was taken 2000 years ago.

  • @suzie2z
    @suzie2z 4 months ago +1

    I’m fascinated by anyone who does specialty work, who has great knowledge acquired over time, trial and error

  • @acf2802
    @acf2802 3 months ago +3

    "Sometimes I sneeze and it's blue"
    Your face is going to be blue when you can't get enough oxygen because you are dying from lung disease.

  • @MsTwissy
    @MsTwissy Month ago

    Man it’s like so common in Minecraft now that I forget it’s a actually a pretty rare valuable resource

  • @ralphferrara5152
    @ralphferrara5152 4 months ago +3

    Very interesting video. I couldn’t believe that color was so expensive. It is a beautiful color.

  • @MyriadTruths444
    @MyriadTruths444 4 months ago +1

    Guy looks like he came out of Expedition 33

  • @BogumiłaSracz
    @BogumiłaSracz 4 months ago

    Me watching this on my black and white screen due to sleep time hehe

  • @mandalorianperseus4662

    Its gonna be worth a lot more as time goes on

  • @dankachilles9356
    @dankachilles9356 4 months ago

    Soon as he said I sneezed blue I came to the comments and was not disappointed 😂

  • @venom_lowrider
    @venom_lowrider 4 months ago +1

    A color fit for the sons of Guilliman

  • @Fat.kurtis
    @Fat.kurtis 4 months ago +27

    0:20 CANADIAN TIRE MENTIONED RAHHH

  • @xebatansis
    @xebatansis 26 days ago

    Our world is full of interesting information.

  • @AndyDufresne4
    @AndyDufresne4 2 months ago

    Midnight Purple 3 is pretty darn expensive too.

  • @iem_bhondu
    @iem_bhondu 4 months ago

    Woohhh !!! 😮

  • @craftunleashed5195
    @craftunleashed5195 4 months ago +1

    8:24 67🤨... Iwill seem my self out.

  • @ZoruaZorroark
    @ZoruaZorroark 4 months ago +6

    i knew this dye was expensive, but seeing just this method makes sense on why the price is so high

    • @dulaan5689
      @dulaan5689 4 months ago +1

      He didn't show the "secret" method because he might just mixing it with synthetic and no one can tell the difference, even the so called "experts"

    • @jeffreysoreff9588
      @jeffreysoreff9588 4 months ago +1

      @dulaan5689 Good point! After all, they _are_ the same compound... 🙂

  • @MikeBrown-ex9nh
    @MikeBrown-ex9nh 4 months ago

    I would like to see some of those rocks cut and polished.

  • @L3GHO5T
    @L3GHO5T 3 months ago

    I need this for my war hammer models

  • @_unclecharles_
    @_unclecharles_ 4 months ago

    my favorite color since i was a kid

  • @pgc6290
    @pgc6290 3 months ago +1

    Its so nice that he 'remembers (and ) normally' ie his memory.

  • @davebullimore6447
    @davebullimore6447 2 months ago

    "Under criticism" followed with "but its still the worlds highest quality" tells you how much businesses cate

  • @jeffreysoreff9588
    @jeffreysoreff9588 4 months ago +2

    One irony, given how it has been used, historically: Lazurite's color is from the S3- anion. In old terms, brimstone! 🙂

  • @kingjams
    @kingjams 4 months ago +1

    Ancient Egyptians were making statues out of this rock. Egyptian Blue.

  • @franc650
    @franc650 3 months ago

    Colore meraviglioso

  • @DomsTCG
    @DomsTCG 3 months ago

    Thqnks for showing me how now i shall make and sell this color for half the price

  • @txtpeer5179
    @txtpeer5179 4 months ago +1

    40k

  • @AppalachianLefty
    @AppalachianLefty 2 months ago

    I saw the thumbnail and thought that looks like lapiz lazuli turned into paint. I was spot on. Didn’t know they made paint from them but I’ve always been fascinated by lapiz. I have them in all my house plants.

  • @selenawolf2466
    @selenawolf2466 2 months ago

    Man, I'm glad i stick to acrylics 😅

  • @TheFloosy
    @TheFloosy 3 months ago

    The best video I have seen on RUclips. Thank you for producing this.

  • @kieranod86
    @kieranod86 3 months ago

    Roboute Guilliman needs to sort that price out.