Infighting among the powers of darkness

[Inkubus]

In 2016, an Indian-born British artist named Anish Kapoor was given exclusive rights to use Vantablack, the darkest material in the world with an absorption rate of 99.96%. This sparked a furious reaction from fellow artists... One artist in particular, Stuart Semple, retaliated by developing his own "blackest black" paint that was made available for everyone to use, all except for Anish Kapoor.

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Semple retaliated by moving into the super-black game. In 2017, he came up with a paint called Better Black, followed by Black 2.0 and now Black 3.0, which he says rivals Vantablack for blackness.

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Anyway, you see that Stuart Semple's "blackest black". Well there's a blacker one:



From minute 1:00 to minute 2:00 is all you need watch. Fascinating, I've just ordered some from eBay £39. No idea what I'm going to do with it but it'll get used on... Now there's a horrifying image.

[Kim]

Is it expensive? How much did you get for 39£?

[Inkubus]

Ah sorry, the £39 is for 100 ml. So yes its bloody dear and I just looked at Amazon uk and it's £50. Dafuq!

[Kim]

Ouch. Won't be trying that paint out ... not in this decade, anyway.
Very cool, though. I liked how it absorbed all the light in the box - no reflection at all!
Spooky.

[Bucky Ball]

Ouch.  Won't be trying that paint out ... not in this decade, anyway.
Very cool, though.  I liked how it absorbed all the light in the box - no reflection at all!  
Spooky.  

I need to git me some.
I always wanted an invisibility cloak.

[Inkubus]

Ho Ho, you could have some fine sport with this thing after its  been prepped.



The scythe will be a distraction leave it the cloak will do the business.

Now visit the local pubs known to cater for plonkie's and alkie's and all you need do is walk in one door and out the other, but no matter where you decide not to appear so to speak, make it brief. Give them enough time to be horrified then exit before some brave bastard whips a camera out.  

No, wait.. A church wedding, wait till the two numpties are in front of the juju man then walk down the isle and stop directly in front of the priest, look up for three seconds then turn round and walk out.

Love it! x3

[Thumpalumpacus]

That's blacker than a coal-miner's ass.

[no one]

Not as black as my cold dead heart though!

[Chas]

In 2016, an Indian-born British artist named Anish Kapoor was given exclusive rights to use Vantablack, the darkest material in the world with an absorption rate of 99.96%. This sparked a furious reaction from fellow artists... One artist in particular, Stuart Semple, retaliated by developing his own "blackest black" paint that was made available for everyone to use, all except for Anish Kapoor.

Link

Semple retaliated by moving into the super-black game. In 2017, he came up with a paint called Better Black, followed by Black 2.0 and now Black 3.0, which he says rivals Vantablack for blackness.

Link

Anyway, you see that Stuart Semple's "blackest black". Well there's a blacker one:



From minute 1:00 to minute 2:00 is all you need watch. Fascinating, I've just ordered some from eBay £39. No idea what I'm going to do with it but it'll get used on... Now there's a horrifying image.

q.v.

“It’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me,” said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, “Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?”

[Thumpalumpacus]

Not as black as my cold dead heart though!

I thought your heart was a coal-miner's ass.

[no one]

I just an ass.

[Dancefortwo]

It's always been really super difficult to get a true black color, especially using natural sources.  Often it's just a lot of very deep blue and very dark brown mixed together.   Even today, when black clothing fades sometimes it fades to a bluish color.  

Traditionally black was a color of the very wealthy because it took so much labor to dye fabrics black using natural dyes.  When you see portraits from the Rennaisance of people wearing deep black, that person is rich.  This guy ain't nobody's lacky servant.



Aw crap.  More useless shit I know about fabric.  Sorry.


Anyway, I wonder if they have this black in an artist's watercolor paint.  I'd loooove to get some.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I just an ass.

I'll give you this: your humor is blacker than a witch's cat.

[no one]

I do what I can.

[Inkubus]

It's always been really super difficult to get a true black color, especially using natural sources.  Often it's just a lot of very deep blue and very dark brown mixed together.   Even today, when black clothing fades sometimes it fades to a bluish color.  

Traditionally black was a color of the very wealthy because it took so much labor to dye fabrics black using natural dyes.  When you see portraits from the Rennaisance of people wearing deep black, that person is rich.  This guy ain't nobody's lacky servant.



Aw crap.  More useless shit I know about fabric.  Sorry.


Anyway, I wonder if they have this black in an artist's watercolor paint.  I'd loooove to get some.

It's the same guy as the first video he's a bit of a slaver so skip to minute 4:00 for just 10 seconds. I notice the sky is overcast I'd like to see that cloth under powerful lights.

400 x 950mm $70 US. ebay

More blackness