The sun‘s surface and atmosphere are endlessly dynamic, with magnetic lines, plasma, and convection creating a constant churn. In this photo by astrophotographer Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau, a curving question-mark-like filament Keep reading
Tag: fluids as art
Ghosts of Rivers Past
Artist Dan Coe uses lidar data to create portraits of rivers and their past meanders. Used aerially, lidar produces high-resolution elevation data that provides a glimpse of features that are Keep reading
Slumping Ceramics
Dripping, drooping pottery is artist Philip Kupferschmidt’s specialty. Covered in drips and drops, slumping as if half-melted, Kupferschmidt’s ceramics seem partially liquid. With their colorful glazes, these pieces ooze personality. Keep reading
Melting Ice Cap
This award-winning photo by Thomas Vijayan shows waterfalls of ice melt off the Austfonna ice cap. The third-largest glacier in Europe, Austfonna is located in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. Like other Keep reading
“Animaris Rex”
Eighteen meters long and powered only by the wind, artist Theo Jansen’s latest Strandbeest strolls the sand in this short video. Its complex movements — a swinging gait in some Keep reading
“Shaken, Not Stirred”
James Bond notoriously orders his martinis “shaken, not stirred,” a request bartenders fulfill by shaking the cocktail over ice in a separate shaker. But what if you shake the martini Keep reading
Eroding the Sphinx
One theory suggests that the Great Sphinx of Giza formed — in part — naturally as a result of erosion, and ancient Egyptians added features to the bedrock formation. To Keep reading
“Chaosmosis”
After many years of featuring work from the Gallery of Fluid Motion, I’m excited to announce a new public exhibition of art drawn from the competition: “Chaosmosis: Assigning Rhythm to Keep reading
Red Sprites
Sprites, or red sprites, are high-altitude electrical discharges in the atmosphere. Although sometimes called upper-atmospheric lightning, sprites are a cold plasma phenomenon. They often occur in clusters, as in this Keep reading
Snake Tracks
Moving across sand is quite challenging for bipedal creatures like us, but other animals have their ways. Photographer Paul Lennart Schmid caught this snake on the move, with impressions of Keep reading