Except Anish Kapoor owns the rights to it and doesn't allow any other artist to work with it now because he's a jerk.
But if anyone's interested, there's an alternative called Black 3.0 made by @stuartsemple and it's about to become fully public since it was just funded!
Vantablack is a material developed by Surrey NanoSystems in the United Kingdom and is one of the darkest substances known, absorbing up to 99.96% of visible lightpic.twitter.com/n1yp1ltlgL
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I actually own two bottles of the stuff myself since I was part of the crowd funding, and it's super cool. Here's a link for when it eventually becomes accessible to everybody!https://www.culturehustleusa.com/products/black-3-0-the-worlds-blackest-black-acrylic-paint-150ml …
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The VOID
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Scumbag artist Anish Kapoor is the only person who can paint with it though. If you want to have something only slightly less black, search Black 3.0 by Stuart Semple.
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How is he the only one that can use it?
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Patents
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Good article to summarise, not sure if it mentions Black 3.0 tho, which absorbs 99.6%https://www.format.com/magazine/features/art/anish-kapoor-stuart-semple-vantablack-blackest-black …
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O thank you!!
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when you obtain the n word pass
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If I ever get rich, I'm ordering a skin suit made of this so I can finally disappear
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good luck with that- noted scumbag Anish Kapoor has claimed all rights to use this substance and this lasts as long as he's alive
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So it's decided - we have to assassinate Anish Kapoor
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If you look closely, you can actually see the 0.04% of the reflected light
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For people who haven't heard of this stuff, I'm pretty sure it's being developed for use inside of space telescopes to help produce clearer images.
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https://twitter.com/Rory426/status/1127639598539079680 … nope anymore xD (That's being answered with a better one, vantablack 2)
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Vantablack: the shade that's incredibly surreal to look at, somehow copyrighted by one guy, and apparently slightly radioactive.
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For artists who want a paint that's almost exactly as black as Vantablack, but much cheaper, safer, and legal, look up "Black 2.0" by Stuart Semple.
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How much does it cost and can it be applied to a mask?
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It's $20 on Amazon and I don't know, I've never used it, but probably.
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