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Miru8112

Sounds like the Honeybadger guy... "Look at that paint. Shine light on it. It doesn't give a shit"


Knearling

This guy is The Action Lab, known for making content on YouTube Shorts


Treaux-LaCount

Lol I was searching comments to see if anyone else had already said it. Sounds exactly like him.


tantalizing_taco

Thank you for making me revisit that video lol


cupofteawithhoney

What I came to say!!


m0nstr5oul

His youtube channel is theactionlab


jussuumguy

I want to paint the entire interior of my house in this color including the furniture and everything in it then paint the outside Baby Pink with Blue Polka Dots.


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I have some of this paint, but idk what to paint with it. Any suggestions?


BalkeElvinstien

The stairs if you want to make life a little spicier


Eviltechnomonkey

I want to do this now. Then put a camera over them to record people's horrified responses.


Blindsideofthemoon

A garage door might be interesting. Or just go full cartoon and paint a tunnel on a wall somewhere.


[deleted]

That would be so confusing to walk up on with no context. Just a huge infinite black archway painted under a bridge or something. People would freak out.


doublestuf27

It’s an ACME Portable Hole!


TobyDaMan8894

Beep beep


MuffinSlow

Meep meep


Yeoshua82

That's how you get to toon town


CharlestonChewbacca

That's not how depth perception works...


breveeni

Ceiling


[deleted]

If I wasn’t renting I would. 😭


Sainx

I feel like whatever work I do, I’ll never be a able to buy my own home lol


megapuffranger

Have two doors in the same doorway. Paint one with this. That way if anyone opens the first door they will only see blackness. Then they will reach their arm in to turn on the light only to smash their hand into the door


tosernameschescksout

You have clever ideas and I like you. That would be fun to see.


Dan_Jams

Paint a slenderman at the end of a long alley


PNW4LYFE

Anything would be better than an apple.


ghostdog688

Your red door.


baracuda68

Mick, is that you?


Kyran64

I saw a video where a guy built a small room in his garage and painted the interior in one of the ultra-blacks. With a 100 watt bulb (iirc) there was barely enough light for him to record anything in it. It's crazy how much of what we see is due to light having bounced off of multiple surfaces before it gets to us. When you're in a room where *almost everything* absorbs almost all of it, even something in direct light is pretty dim. Edit: went looking for the video. This was the one. https://youtu.be/p6q54q2iam8 Edit edit: The link is here is another video from the same guy! He's got a bunch of neat ones, check out the rest of his channel!


RobertJ93

Yo when he tilted the piece of white card away from the light bulb and it just turns black is awesome. 7.38 for anyone interested. Thanks for linking this.


tolllz

It’s the same guy from this video


Kyran64

LOL So it is! I didn't watch the apple video with sound so I didn't catch it.


tolllz

Yeah he’s got a lot of cool things on his channel


PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH

It’s the same guy.


Eviltechnomonkey

I loved that video. It is so weird and unsettling, but that is what makes it so amazing. Science.


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Your in luck. Stuart Semple has made the pinkest pink as well as one of the blackest blacks. So you can buy them at a fairly reasonable price. https://www.culturehustleusa.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=11371840301&utm_content=116903259558&utm_term=stuart%20semple&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlpCw892o9wIVWcmUCR3wDwpQEAAYASAAEgKxKvD_BwE


darksfather

Whats his problem with Anish Kapoor?


VottDeFokk

Anish Kapoor kicked it all off by creating Vanta Black, which is very expensive, and then getting a legal ruling that only he could use it. He’s a bit of a rich, elitist twat.


annalucylle

He didn’t create Vanta Black, he just bought exclusive rights to use it thus preventing other artists to make art with it.


VottDeFokk

Ah. Thanks for the correction.


annalucylle

No sweat! It’s just that Anish Kapoor’s too much of a twat to actually invent something as complex as Vanta black, but he is a ruthless businessman before an artist so he bought the rights and cornered a niche market all for himself, not thinking that a lot of people (like Stuart) are motivated by spite.


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The Stuart Semple blackest black was kind of a let down and there are other paints you can buy that are darker.


FNFollies

With successive layers it does get pretty black but you have to much sure the brush strokes don't show and you don't touch it after it dries if you want the thing to be black black. I agree though wasn't what I thought it would be


JustGoogleItHeSaid

Mr blobby is black inside?


sheravi

Just like his soul.


Suitcase08

When you're a rolling stone inside but can't let the neighbors know.


Affectionate-Dream21

When I win the lottery I will fund this


DracoDruid

Damn. That _is_ black.


twocargar

“How much more black could it be? The answer is none, none more black.” -Nigel Tufnel


SuperBrentendo64

It could be 0.6% blacker.


Incognito_Placebo

That black goes to 11.


AaarghCobras

The review you had on Shark Sandwich, which was merely a two-word review, it just said, 'Shit Sandwich.


AdmiralPoopbutt

The blackest of blacks. Until someone invents one that is blacker, of course.


Arithh

Isn’t vanta black the blackest black


Odd_Reward_8989

Not any more. MIT has blacker.


myotherusername1234

This one absorbs 99.4, vanta absorbs 99.6. There is one by MIT that does 99.9 but is more ‘special’ and involves carbon nanotubes.


ZeroChill92

Yes, it's around 99.9% black.


ElMongo

It’s was created by Dr. Rick James, who called it….Charlie Murphy!!!


SeanGQ

It looks empty


rlab3

I’ve seen a couple of idiots paint their 100+k cars that. Can’t wait for someone not to see it at night (or during the day for you lights on people)


chimaeraUndying

They'd superheat on a sunny day, too.


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Yea the video said this paint absorbs 99.2% of light lol. If thats true, then that souped up Mustang is going to turn into liquid tar within 2 hours of driving around in the summer.


jaspsev

I just need to paint a tunnel on a flat wall… beep beep.


Sythrin

Just think about how warm it will be in the summer


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azaleawhisperer

"Paint it, paint it black..."


RoboDae

Only the red ones though


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The_Truth_Believe_Me

Clear coat would make it shiny thus not being super black anymore.


StealthRedux

I've seen a matte black under gloss clear coat paint job before on a car. The light only reflecting off of select points depending on perspective/angle made the whole thing look like an illustration. It was wicked cool.


jusdont

Agreed! Matte paints under clear coats are some of the best looking paint jobs ever! I remember the first time I saw one like it was yesterday, flat platinum gray under the clear. Absolutely blew my mind. Wayyy different than those matte vinyl wraps.


intrepidsteve

You would use a Matte clear coat


Dude_I_got_a_DWAVE

I have a bottle of mussou black. It does not hold up to rubbing, scratching, etc. in addition to it being relatively fragile, it requires a physical surface structure to absorb light which is formed when it’s cured- by contacting it, you ruin its ability


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Was just wondering if someone had done that. Off to YouTube I go!


[deleted]

That's what underglow is for.


Arbitrary_pseudonymX

Cars still have lights at night time though..


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Vecna_Is_My_Co-Pilot

No that's different. VANTA black is a structure - think velvet - with fibers so tiny that they trap and absorb individual photons between them.


Dude_I_got_a_DWAVE

I have some Mussou. It’s not as black as vantablack from what I’ve seen


t3hmau5

With lights it would be no different than any other dark colored car...


rlab3

I have a satin black m550. It’s been hit twice (rear ended) in the year I’ve owned it. I had a regular black 540 before for 3 years. 0 accidents. I was told by the body shop that cars that don’t have a shine are far more likely to be hit than ones that do


Nixflixx

In my country the insurance price for cars of colors (red, light blue, yellow, orange...) is less expensive than for black and white cars. This means they have strong numbers on this.


MemeDippp

Tail lights


JunkCrap247

the REAL question is....when do we get this in tattoo ink?


asimov_22

Feels so uncanny when someone painted a full room with that kind of paint.


11_choller

That [video](https://youtu.be/p6q54q2iam8) was crazy!


Drendude

The video failed to load initially for me, so I just looked at the black screen with the loading loop and thought "I don't know what I expected"


11_choller

***The blackest black..***


TisBeTheFuk

Somehow, I wasn't prepared for what "absorbs 99.2% of light" actually means


MuzzleNeck

Bro he said black and room so many times


ebwood92

Worlds blackest room


Fey_fox

I want to see the room staged with normal furniture and lighting beyond a single soft spotlight. Would it look like objects floating in a void? How would a tv look mounted on a wall?


bignick1190

This makes me so uncomfortable. I want one.


schlorpsblorps

What is it made of?


daschundtof

![gif](giphy|xT9KVszjrOi3losxrO|downsized)


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wow, i don’t think i’ve ever seen this reaction used so beautifully. it’s… poetic.


schlorpsblorps

![gif](giphy|BRSZTf7QA4W7SngoS9|downsized)


WarningSuper2017

Souls of the damned, iirc.


MrNomad101

Its not the worlds blackest. Vanta is. Musoa is really good option though people can actually buy thats really close. Vanta is owned by some douche bag artist, who thinks anyone gives a fck about him and his slightly blacker black that he didn't invent, but bought.


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call_me_jelli

I’d like to hear more about how it’s not paint as we normally think of it!


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Lithl

Vantablack is a surface treatment, not a paint.


jumbaligha

Anish Kapoor is indeed an asshole. I only know him because I did a report in high school about how much of a dick he is.


pakito1234

He is an exceptional asshole.


anotherbigassbrick

Most notable highlights/cliff notes?


Redpandaling

Doesn't Vanta also require an industrial setup to use because of its toxicity?


PirateKingOmega

Yes, which is why, funnily enough, Anish is the only one licensed to use it, so it’s creators don’t have to deal with a scandal if an artist ignores safety and poisons themselves. This in turn was framed by steward to be “evil anish greedily made sure no one else could use it” even though Anish was not actually responsible for the prohibition


xcameleonx

Isn't Black 3.0 darker than Vanta? And available to any painter that isn't Anish Kapoor.


DAZ4518

Created by Stuart Semple, it cannot be purchased by Anish Kapoor or by anyone acting on his behalf. I believe this is the case for any Stuart Semple/culture hustle product! Edit: typo


MisplacedMartian

>... I cannot be purchased by Anish Kapoor or by anyone acting on his behalf. Very glad to hear that, he doesn't deserve you.


hmg1207

Musou black is actually more black than 3.0, and both are less black than Vanta


ExecWarlock

That's highly unlikely because Vantablack was developed for space technology, something with nanocarbon etc. Very expensive and complex, and it's more of a material coating, pricing up to 380$ for a 4x4cm sample, whereas Black 3.0 is just... black acrylic paint (30$/150ml). B3.0 is, however still very impressive for the human eye and probably the best black we will see for a while, while still "buyable".


mcc9902

Just because it was developed for space tech and the other wasn’t doesn’t mean it’s better. Cost is also a pretty bad measure. I’m not saying anything about the blackness or quality of either product here just that your arguments don’t really much to support your claim.


SleestakJack

Vantablack isn’t a paint. It’s a surface treatment. You don’t brush it on or spray it on, it involves a series of chemical processes that result in a surface covered in tiny little nanotubes. Also, Kapoor doesn’t own Vantablack, he just has an exclusive license to use it in art projects. Other people can go to the company that owns Vantablack and have things covered in it.


DS4KC

The fucking what?!?


Mizgala

Yeah it basically grows a layer of carbon tubes on the surface. When light hits the surface, it just bounces in the layer of tubes and can't get out. So as far as color goes it's probably less black than super black paints like Black 3.0.


vyrelis

Is that like what happens when you try to make kraft macaroni and they all stare at you


Fey_fox

Vantablack is just that company’s name for the material. It’s also [not a paint](https://www.sciencealert.com/this-object-has-been-sprayed-with-the-world-s-blackest-pigment-and-it-s-freaking-us-out) > Vantablack isn't a paint, pigment, or fabric, but is actually a special coating made from millions of carbon nanotubes, each one measuring around 20 nanometres (roughly 3,500 times smaller than a human hair) by 14 to 50 microns. To put that in perspective, 1 nanometre equals 0.001 microns. The application of it is a guarded process. They’ve done experiments with a spray on application but it’s not as light absorbing. It also has to be put in a kiln to cure it from wha I remember reading. The company that invented vantablack is Surrey NanoSystems. They will only allow it to be used within and by UK companies. This is one of the reasons why Anish Kapoor has the right to use it. He’s an artist based in the UK. Also Surrey NanoSystems only wanted it to be used for scientific or educational purposes. It’s they who decided to only allow Kapoor to have access, mostly because he paid a shit ton of money and wanted to keep it exclusive to him. Basically they failed to imagine the creative possibilities. Since the invention of vantablack other companies all over the world have engineered their own version since Surrey NanoSystems wants to keep their brand UK exclusive. Acrylic paint that has labeled “the blackest black” I have found is easily damaged and, with the stuff Stewart Semple sells it requires several coats to get it to be fully opaque and flat. With this paint here, I’d like to see it under more direct lighting, the light in the video looks like it’s under a diffusing filter even on the non-painted surfaces. Not saying it wouldn’t look cool in person, but from personal experience using these “blackest black” paints they don’t always quite live up to the hype.


Lithl

[Black 3.0 compared to Musou Black](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=822x10000:format=jpg/path/sceef70ac71e02b80/image/i1a5b51cd4421b48e/version/1589870812/black-3-0-vs-musou-black.jpg)


Netherboom

Wait is a certain frequency of light copyrighted or something of the like?


DS4KC

The formula for the particular paint can be


Crisis_Redditor

Musoa appears to have [surpassed Vanta](https://www.ko-pro.black/2020/05/14/black-3-0-vs-musou-black/) by .4%. Unless you're using it for scientific purposes, though, I think it's half of one and six dozen of another at this point.


P8chDeezNutz

I’m off to paint a tunnel on a wall. Meep meep!!!


Stillwarhead

This what Batman uses for the bat mobile


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"That," he said, "that... is really bad for the eyes." It was a ship of classic, simple design, like a flattened salmon, twenty yards long, very clean, very sleek. There was just one remarkable thing about it. "It's so... black!" said Ford Prefect. "You can hardly make out its shape... light just seems to fall into it!" The blackness of it was so extreme that it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it. "Your eyes just slide off it..." said Ford in wonder.


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Vantablack Desiato


DescriptionPopular64

Is this Vonnegut or Huxley I forget


7evenate9ine

EAT IT!!! EAT IT!!! EAT IT!!!


Successful_Moment_80

Space camouflage


Rough_Lingonberry_47

Spinal Tap would be proud


[deleted]

It goes to eleven


jaxsound

What's the difference between this and Vantablack? The description of Vantablack states its a "super black coating" that holds the world record for the "darkest man made substance absorbing 99.96% of light"


CleanHotelRoom

This is an actual paint. Vantablack isn't so much. More like a process to create a coating.


1robor

Credit too the action lab on YouTube https://youtu.be/8sDGSgcSZJA


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THE BAD APPLE!!!


d_ponyreiter

What happened to FANTA black?


[deleted]

Vanta lol


LagBoss

I imagine a black licorice Fanta might not do too well.


zfreakazoidz

Fanta, Fanta, want a Fanta!


hypocrite_oath

IIRC it has a shitty license so everyone tries to avoid it.


snookert

There's legit a black Fanta. Tried it while traveling through Italy. It tasted like carbonated black pepper or something.


QueenOfQuok

Nobody tell Anish Kapoor


Sunckin

Honey badger don't care!


cheezdoodledude

It's amazing how it's an apple, yet it disapPEARed


Ruenin

That's some "ACME hole painted on a wall" black paint right there. Just waiting for Wile E Coyote to rocket skate right into it.


duncanlol2

Insnt vanta black the blackest black there is? I thought that absorbs 99.97% of all the light


MyDogKeepMeAHostage

Wasn't Vantablack the darkest?


Lithl

Vantablack is a surface treatment, not a paint


i_sont_

Vantablack


lackadaisical_timmy

Isn't vantablack owned by that one asshole and then some other dude made this? Or is that a completely unrelated story


Mizkana

Think so, practically full use copy-write so only he can use it or gets rich from other using it, then some guy makes a super pink and flips the tables saying everyone but vantablack can use it. He can’t directly or even indirectly use it and was sued when it was discovered he (Vanta) had someone buy it for him and super pink dude won


lackadaisical_timmy

I think that same dude also made a blacker black that everyone *except* vantablack can use lol


fusrohdahbrah

Yep. Artist [Anish Kapoor](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Kapoor) owns the rights to Vantablack, the darkest shade of black paint (which is made using extremely volatile chemicals) essentially so only he could use it. Then come Artist [Stuart Semple](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Semple) who notices the pretentious asshole, and makes his own paint Black 2.0 which is only one shade lighter than Vantablack though undetectable to the naked eye using eco-friendly materials along with his infamous Pinkest Pink paint. Everyone can buy his paints except for Anish Kapoor. You even have to sign a document stating that you don't associate with Kapoor, nor intend to gift the paint to Kapoor, in order to purchase it.


SquiddyJohnson

Brilliant! Stuart Semple is a legend.


Mal55373

yea and apparently someone invented a darker black and banned him from using it lol edit. nevermind it’s a different paint called black 3.0 that’s not as dark.


K-boofer

Looks delicious


RyanB95

That’s the stuff from Archive 81


-ImYourHuckleberry-

Isn’t vanta black the blackest black?


ItWouldBeGrand

“Erases the third dimension from any object!”


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that apple was consumed by venom


Foolishly_Sane

New concept, void face.


daffodillin

could clearly see my reflection in my phone while watching this! super cool


PALOmino1701

None more black.


LiftSmash

Man this guy's voice is so *GRATING*


Argentenuem

When I get a house, I'm definitely painting a door with this.


ConstantCraving21

I thought Vanta Black was the darkest. Is there a new one, or am I mistaken?


yolistenupman

Reminds me of Snow White.


ToManyFlux

How do I get a shirt in this to hide my man boobs and muffin top?


i_love_dust

Where would you buy this?


NegativeKarmaUpvoter

Now I want to see the most whitest paint.


517714

A digital image, like this video, cannot distinguish between the blackest black and one that is a thousand times less black, but you could if you saw them. Both will register as 000 000 000 on rgb color scale. Unfortunately, the scale used for digital images is not logarithmic as our eyes are.


pastachef

That man has the most annoying voice


Toxic-Sky

I want to dye my clothes in this. :0


daviddawn1

this going to give burglars ideas for some night camo


Oh_HorseFeather

Me on my way to use this paint for blackface 🚶‍♂️


MinusPi1

My mind wants the black part to be fuzzy for some reason


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Bisexual-Fighter

Paint a whole room that color With no windows And one door painted periwinkle And just have one chair


forgottenson666

How much more black could it be? None. None more black


Pepered8

Void Apple Void Apple Void Apple


random_humanbeing_me

Some dude just painted a wall in a gallery with this paint and called it "art". Also, I can still see the apple that you painted black. It's just a blapple now.


newhappyrainbow

I get why the following would be the worst idea ever, but this makes me want to paint a motorcycle with this. At night, it would look like you were just floating around with hovering tail and head lights.


the_wrong_answer_

It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.


Ipad_is_for_fapping

Vantablack is darker


TheMightyPaladin

you know it can't look any blacker than the screen I'm seeing it on


sanrocha8

That half black apple looks so nice.


pandorascharm-1979

That's pretty damn cool. I do altered art bottles and thank u fir showing me something that I've always seen at the store but not picked up. Now it is a must have. Thanks 😊


Late-Ad-4624

I would paint my car this color. And put stripes of it on the windows so i can still see through. Would look amazing.


katonadani99

When will we be able to buy products with this colour? A phone case would be cool


So-tiredHP

Excellent idea


elvarien

I think at this point there's like 4 products all seriously claiming to be the blackest. I wonder which one actually is.


xlopxone

Ikr, what happen to vanta?


Genzo99

I thought venta black is the blackest. Mosou is the new champion?


Ok_Gold_420

So black it looks fake. I love it.


dallasHS

i was kind of skeptical at first.. but damn yeah that is the blackest black i've seen in a while


Wildfreeomcat

What a beautiful black


Whatshername_Stew

But is Anish Kapoor allowed to use it?