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finding anything in a pitch-black room is almost impossible
a pitch-black cat with green eyes
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Zoom in: Divers worked in 20-minute shifts around the wreckage, swimming through the pitch-black depths and taking breaks at times to replace their suits, torn by debris.
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Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
As the night wears on — and Slim, Pierre, Broken Feather, Dusty, and Pete are met by a group of singing girls out in the pitch-black pastures — the visuals fail to transcend, but the paradoxical party still feels like one that could only be put on by Lynch.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 Jan. 2025
Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2025
Memory of a Broken Dimension uses glitch textures laid on top of pitch-black spaces as a way to light the contours of the world’s abstract shapes.
—Yussef Cole, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
As the night wears on — and Slim, Pierre, Broken Feather, Dusty, and Pete are met by a group of singing girls out in the pitch-black pastures — the visuals fail to transcend, but the paradoxical party still feels like one that could only be put on by Lynch.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 Jan. 2025
Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2025
Memory of a Broken Dimension uses glitch textures laid on top of pitch-black spaces as a way to light the contours of the world’s abstract shapes.
—Yussef Cole, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Pitch-black.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitch-black. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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