Sometimes the mundane events of life hide extraordinary phenomena. This award-winning photograph by Sarang Naik shows yellow-brown spores streaming off a mushroom during monsoon season. The plume is abstract and Keep reading
Tag: fluids as art
Inside Old-Fashioned Butter
Today’s video is a little different: it’s an inside look at a butter-making shop in France that uses traditional nineteenth-century methods to process the butter. Watching workers fold and shape Keep reading
Suspended Sediments in Lake Erie
Lake Erie’s Long Point is outlined in turquoise in this natural-color satellite image. The pale color is likely due to limestone sediments in the shallow waters getting resuspended by a Keep reading
“Playing With Time”
The Macro Room team is back with this clever video that messes with our perception of time. I’d hate to give anything away here, so just go check it out! Keep reading
“Phoenix Rising”
This aerial photo of Lake Owens by Paul Hoelen won a 2020 Drone Photo Award in the Abstract category. As Hoelen notes, “The phoenix rising is a symbol of re-emergence Keep reading
Kinetic Sculptures by Anthony Howe
These mesmerizing kinetic sculptures built by Anthony Howe are entirely wind-driven. It’s not necessarily apparent in these images, but these sculptures are several meters tall and weigh hundreds of kilograms, Keep reading
“Stream”
Roman De Giuli’s short film “Stream” explores a macro world of color and flow, with a few glimpses behind-the-scenes at how the visuals get made. The artistic canvas here is Keep reading
Light Painting
Light streams from the branches of trees in this series from photographer Vitor Schietti. The effect is created with a combination of fireworks, long-exposure photography, and compositing. I love how Keep reading
Lava Fields From Above
Lava flows are endlessly fascinating to watch. They’re a destructive act of creation that seems in many ways familiar; after all, lava moves the same way we see other viscous Keep reading
Visualizing Music With Ferrofluids
Here’s an ultra-cool DIY project: a Bluetooth speaker with ferrofluid music visualization! The music playing through the speaker drives an electromagnet, which causes the magnetic ferrofluid to pulse and shred Keep reading