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Also: Black 3.0, the purchasable variant of Vantablack For sale at: https://www.culturehustleusa.com/ https://www.culturehustleusa.com/
by dejj 6y ago
Also: Black 3.0, the purchasable variant of Vantablack
For sale at: https://www.culturehustleusa.com/ https://www.culturehustleusa.com/
- cyberlab 6y agoThat's a great site. Thanks for the share.
- Timshel 6y agoNice they have a White 2.0 too since last year (up to 99.6% reflective). And as with Black 3.0 banned for Colour criminals ;).
- skykooler 6y agoIf that's 99.6% reflective, how is this new paint the whitest ever at only 98%?
- loonster 6y agoCould be the spectrum that its tested under. Maybe the 99.6% is visible light and the 98% is all energy from sun. If that's the case, the 98% is much more impressive.
- tux1968 6y agoFrom the thermal imaging results given in the article, i'd say your conjecture is correct.
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- kube-system 6y agoOf which, the picture of on the home page has clearly visible white text over it.... :D
- robocat 6y agoColour criminals are defined as: WHY ARE THE COLOUR CRIMINALS BANNED? Anish Kapoor & the creators of Vantablack for hoarding the material and for generally being rotters. Dupont for the imprisonment of tech consultant Walter Liew for espionage, after he stole and sold blueprints for their secret titanium white process for over $30million. T-Mobile & its parent company Deutsche Telekom for claiming magenta as their own and suing small businesses for using it. Scientists at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source who are in the process of investigating polar bear fur, insect scales and fathers for industrial and commercial applications. 3M for their ownership of Canary Yellow. Daniel Smith, for buying up the last reserves of quinacridone Gold pigment in the world, so that only they would be able to sell it to artists. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-stealing-dupont-white/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-stealing-dupont-whit... https://sandrinemaugy.com/2018/04/30/the-final-batch-of-quinacridone-gold/ https://sandrinemaugy.com/2018/04/30/the-final-batch-of-quin...
- spiritplumber 6y agoFinding a commercial use for polar bear fur is awesome, actually. It would ensure that polar bears never go extinct.
- legulere 6y agoLike how elephants were greatly reduced in numbers to make billiard balls?
- spiritplumber 5y agoI'm more thinking like cows
- arp242 5y agoCows are fairly peaceful animals that naturally live in a herd and have been domesticated for thousands of years (people can get killed by cows, but it's rare). Bears are huge ferocious animals that typically live solitary lives and will kill you and your entire family while hardly breaking a sweat. Keeping polar bears "like cows" sounds like some good comedy sketch material.
- walrus01 6y agosee also, color manufacturers that will sell to anybody who ISN'T Anish Kapoor https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/07/anish-kapoor-banned-from-using-stuart-semple-colour-changing-paint-design-news/ https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/07/anish-kapoor-banned-from-u...
- nerdponx 6y agoI know this is such a small microcosm of the world, but I really love to see, just once in a while, that someone with power uses their power for the greater good and not for selfish benefit (realistically "we won't sell to Kapoor" is a marketing spin but it's still a risk and a strong statement).
- JKCalhoun 6y agoFTA: > In response, UK-based artist Stuart Semple created a pigment that he claimed to be the world's "pinkest pink" and made it available to purchase on his website for "everyone but Anish Kapoor". I love artists.
- ceejayoz 6y agoHe managed to get his hands on some. https://www.instagram.com/p/BOWz73wgj7R/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BOWz73wgj7R/
- fennecfoxen 5y agoAre there unauthorized NFTs of Anish’s Vantablack works? It seems like it would be appropriate.
- madaxe_again 6y agoI wonder if you could use this with the white paint mentioned to make crookes radiometers capable of doing useful work.
- whalesalad 6y agoNeat. I was wondering if you could buy that stuff. There are trim pieces in my car I want to paint with it to eliminate reflections in the cabin.
- space_ghost 6y agoCan I get in on that action? I don't understand why instrument cluster bezels are universally chromed but I hate it and my eyes hate it and I'd really like to look at my gauges without getting blinded.
- teh_klev 6y agoSadly, from their FAQ[0]: Q. Can I paint my car / bike etc... A. NO - 3.0 is quite fragile and will just scratch off, it won’t weather well. Q. Can I put a topcoat over it then? A. NO that will destroy the matte effect, and many topcoats (including our COAT) will react with the paint and ruin the finish. https://culturehustle.com/collections/black/products/black-3-0-the-worlds-blackest-black-acrylic-paint-150ml https://culturehustle.com/collections/black/products/black-3... (it's on the right hand side a few scrolls down the page)
- whalesalad 6y agoHah, yep, same situation on both my Ford vehicles. I think I’ll end up removing the trim, masking the pieces I dont want to paint, and then hitting the chrome with Plastidip spray. It’s an aerosol can that contains a rubberized coating. It comes out looking like a matte finish paint but it can be peeled off of most surfaces so it’s not permanent.
- dheera 6y agoI tried it. It's not that black at all. My regular black T-shirt was blacker than a piece of cardboard I painted with Black 3.0. Super disappointing, to say the least.
- atVelocet 6y agoNe Joke: Use it on something you prepared before (eg sanded down). And use Black 2.0 as a primer. Results are way better
- neurostimulant 6y agoMaybe it was applied wrong? The website mentioned that porous materials must be sealed first before spraying with black 3.0.
- dheera 6y agoI did prepare it with Black 2.0 first.
- Applejinx 6y agoYour T-shirt's a 3d structure with microfibers. I'm not surprised it was able to be more black than a hard surface: fabric's actually a really good way to make an intense black. The Culture Hustle blacks are also matte, which is very much a limiting factor (and part of the concept). I find if you're willing to accept highlights, super gloss black is way better at being super black everywhere that isn't a highlight. At that point you're trying to get the most localized highlight as possible, to get it out of the way so everywhere else can look blacker.
- asah 5y agoI used Black 2.0 and 3.0 to make an distracting little sill disappear. 2.0 was easier to use, but 3.0 is really really black. before: https://photos.app.goo.gl/usBMEYDRgykc2bni6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/usBMEYDRgykc2bni6 after: https://photos.app.goo.gl/89cyApVzncXWcHYt5 https://photos.app.goo.gl/89cyApVzncXWcHYt5 https://photos.app.goo.gl/zxnGMrcUrodM78Lq8 https://photos.app.goo.gl/zxnGMrcUrodM78Lq8 night (really just gone): https://photos.app.goo.gl/La1KNutxn3PhSEAg8 https://photos.app.goo.gl/La1KNutxn3PhSEAg8 closeup: https://photos.app.goo.gl/uQ3d5oRYtnB3Tfzh8 https://photos.app.goo.gl/uQ3d5oRYtnB3Tfzh8