Robin Verdegaal

Liquid maze

®bin — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:13:29 +0000

A fluid view on changing magnetic fields.

Ferrofluid in a shallow dish.

Mood

®bin — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:45:03 +0000

Flickrmood. Animated typography by Sebastian Lange.

Snow Circles

®bin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:38:30 +0000

This January Colorado’s Rabbit Ears Pass was turned into an artist’s canvas. Check this video of Sonja Hinrichsen’s take on a crop circle winter wonderland.

video: “This large-scale Snow Drawing piece was created with the generous assistance of 5 volunteers from Steamboat Springs and Hayden, Colorado.”

More about the project:
http://sonjahinrichsen.wordpress.com/snow-drawings-rabbit-ear-pass-co-sunday-jan-29-2012/
More snow art:
Simon Beck taking it to the next level.

Source: Colossal
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/02/snow-drawings-at-rabbit-ears-pass-by-sonja-hinrichsen/

20 Hz

®bin — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:44:25 +0000

20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. A visualization by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt visualize.

20 hz

“Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.”

More about the project:
http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/20Hz/20Hz.htm

Created for Invisible Fields exhibition:
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/invisible-fields

Source: yummie.hu
http://yummie.hu/archives/2011/10/23/20-hz/

Compressed

®bin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:16:50 +0000

Kim Pimmel makes wonderful timelapse shorts. From the series Compressed, here are Compressed 01 & Compressed 02 featuring toner particles, magnets, soap bubbles and ferrofluid liquid.

Compressed 01

Compressed 02

Via The Daily What

Clock of clocks

®bin — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:08:25 +0000

This clock by Christiaan Postma consists of more than 150 separate clocks, each of them playing a role in a hybrid typographic/hand device to tell what time it is.

Christiaan explains the concept:
The word “three” completely appears when it’s exactly 3 o’clock and will then transform again as time passes. The word “four” begins to appear and at exactly 4 o’clock the word “four” is clearly visible. The word “three” is by then totally vanished and no longer readable.

Hard to visualize? Watch the accelerated animation below to see how it works.

Via Lunch-url

Out of focus

®bin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:15:04 +0000

Photography may still be in the middle of the digital innovation era, but there is another technical revolution right around the corner. One that may just destroy the art of photography.

The Lytro light-array camera features a plenoptic sensor which collects directional data that allows software to recognize when objects are on different planes. This makes it possible for the audience to manipulate depth of field by just clicking on the part of the image they want to focus on. Don’t believe me? Try for yourself:

Click anywhere on the pictures below to change focus..

Crazy, right? This may just spoil some of the art of taking great pictures, but think of the possibilities on the publishing side!

Haven’t seen enough?
Take a look around the extensive
lytro.com picture gallery.

Leviathan

®bin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:03:15 +0000

Leviathan (English pronunciation: /lɨˈvaɪ.əθən/; Hebrew: לִוְיָתָן, Modern Livyatan Tiberian Liwyāṯān ; “twisted, coiled”), is a sea monster referred to in the Bible. In Demonology, Leviathan is one of the seven princes of Hell and its gatekeeper (see Hellmouth). The word has become synonymous with any large sea monster or creature. In classical literature (such as the novel Moby-Dick) it refers to great whales, and in Modern Hebrew, it means simply “whale.” (wikipedia)

where | Grand Palais
what | Leviathan by Anish Kapoor

Zimoun

®bin — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:51:43 +0000

BLDG blog posts a lovely compilation video of swiss artist Zimoun‘s work.

Titles like 200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements (2011) and 121 prepared dc-motors (2011) may be factually descriptive but you need to watch the video to see what they mean.

Zimoun : Compilation Video V2.8 | Sound Sculptures & Installations from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

VIA BLDGBLOG

Noord/Zuidlijn

®bin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:01:25 +0000

Dag van de Bouw 2011. Building site of the metro north to south line stations below Central Station en Vijzelgracht in Amsterdam.

Trying to find out how to manually adjust shutter speeds on my camera, I messed up some settings. All photos came out overexposed.

When I tried to save some of the images it turned out that they worked a lot better in black and white, but I then I was sad to see the lovely orange and yellow details go lost. So I fixed it.