Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/21/video-about-making-blacker-tha.html
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99.965% of visible light.
Need for my Ninja outfit.
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I tried mixing up a batch of that stuff in my garage and it was a total disaster; it ended up spilling everywhere:
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My batch is a bit…grabby? Is that normal?
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You need dark-bluer-than-dark-blue for that
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A bit of soda will take that stain out.
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I just watched a video on someone making his own version using just carbon black and some clear base:
Vantablyat
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filming the super-black car against a background of new-fallen snow is cheating, of course
and trying to make one’s vehicle less visible is asking for trouble anyway
maybe instead
My experiment is so black it started glowing.
ETA: matte black paint from Michaels works pretty well too.
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Great. Now its all over my monitor.
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Wonder if he’ll stop Anish Kapoor using it?
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Obligatory is a link to Stuart Semple’s Black 3.0.
Semple’s been working on the same problem but without the toxic nano-fibres or flammable gasses.
It remains to be seen if my wife will leave me unattended long enough to get away with some interior decorating ideas I’ve had for this stuff … 
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Uh, oh. Cumulonimbus clouds. To the storm shelters!
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Philip Pullman wrote about this in “His Dark Materials”
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Yeah, i was going to suggest that. We used some black 2.0 on the black bits of the UV doppler circles i recently posted and it’s good enough.
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