6Foot2 Posted March 9, 2016 Author Posted March 9, 2016 How much more black can it be? It's all to do with how much light it reflects. The original Vantablack reflects less than 0.04% of the light falling upon it. This new stuff reflects less than that.
Miscbrah Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 Thank god they made that because I remember seeing the original and thinking "that ain't black enough for me" so it's about time. 1
unixman_again Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 But is it as black as Disaster Area's black space ship in HHGTTG?
Koldov Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 Goths rejoice! Or not, because you know..... they are Goths...
Homer Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 I'm going to paint my car in it, so that if I have a crash nobody will know.
yugo Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 Heard a few weeks back on the radio that Artist Anish Kapoor has the exclusive rights to paint with vantablack. Can an artist ever really ?own? a colour? | Art and design | The Guardian
Arthur Posted April 25, 2019 Posted April 25, 2019 Heard a few weeks back on the radio that Artist Anish Kapoor has the exclusive rights to paint with vantablack. Not any more it seems. How Gesaffelstein’s Coachella Set Tricked Minds With The World’s Blackest Black One of the most visually impressive performances at this year’s Coachella was special, not just because of what the audience could see, but because of what they couldn’t see. Behind Gesaffelstein, the French record producer and DJ, was a monolith covered entirely in Vantablack, a very scarce, very expensive, and quite fragile material made by Surrey NanoSystems in the UK. It’s the world’s blackest black, erasing any visible features on a 3D surface and making objects very disorienting for the brain. Gesaffelstein’s show producer, Matthias Leullier, laughs as he tells The Verge how difficult it was for their own team to be around it. “One of our sound engineers was onstage and found himself in the monolith,” says Leullier. “[He] became confused and lost his balance. He fell, hit the surface, and I was like, ‘Okay that’s $20,000.’” Gesaffelstein is colloquially known as the prince of darkness, but he took his informal title to extremes at this year’s Coachella by becoming the first artist to use Vantablack in a live performance. It wasn’t easy, either. It required the team to visit Surrey NanoSystems in person, pitch the idea, create the set, have each block of the monolith sprayed with 70 layers of Vantablack in a special application room, and construct handling systems for the finished set. The end result: a 30 foot-high Vantablack monolith that can split in two and reveal video screens and a wall of lights. Looking at it creates the feeling that Gesaffelstein is standing in front of infinite darkness. People in the audience at Coachella could tell something wasn’t registering quite right in their brains during Gesaffelstein’s performance. "This is exactly why we were sober and thought we were trippin balls", one audience member commented on Twitter after learning about the Vantablack. "Remember me saying that was prob really expensive since it was absorbing all the light?" said another. When I tell Leullier about these tweets, he’s delighted. "That’s exactly the kind of confusion we were going for". https://youtu.be/B45avv_vFwM
Garacesh Posted April 25, 2019 Posted April 25, 2019 If you'd like something a bit more affordable, might I suggest Stuart Semple's Black 3.0?
Arthur Posted August 29, 2019 Posted August 29, 2019 (edited) Almost all BMWs need covering in Vantablack! Edited August 29, 2019 by Arthur
synaesthesia Posted August 29, 2019 Posted August 29, 2019 Isn't VantaBlack now owned by some muppet of an IP troll? Thought the internet was trying to entirely forget it so he doesn't get the attention.
stevejp Posted August 30, 2019 Posted August 30, 2019 Almost all BMWs need covering in Vantablack! Especially those small pesky orange bits on each corner...
Koldov Posted September 2, 2019 Posted September 2, 2019 Especially those small pesky orange bits on each corner... I didn't think BMW actually put those on anymore as most of the owners don't seem to know what they're for... 1
Norphy Posted October 28, 2021 Posted October 28, 2021 Came in here to post a Fast Show video. Noticed I’d already done it. Five years ago. Dang it
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