20 Hz (by Semiconductor)
Fascinating project. The video gets really good around 3:30
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. 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.
“Above the surface of upwardly sonicated silicone oil, falling droplets of the liquid are suspended by a thin membrane of air, acoustically regenerated underneath each droplet. Without coalescing for extended periods, these palpitating spheroids bounce on the air-oil interface. The repeated impact of a bouncing droplet incites a standing capillary wave that interlocks with the waves of neighboring droplets. This close-range attractive force can result in the orbital motion of droplet pairs and clusters. During more stable modes of excitation, self-organizing geometric rafts emerge in accordance with the closest packing of spheres: the distance between droplets decreases with increasing frequency, leading to dense lattice formation.” Mucilaginous Omniverse. Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand.
Source: http://vimeo.com/30668685
Aurora Borealis in Finnish Lapland 2011 by Flatlight Films
Pendant Vaults designed by William Orchard.
Top: Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (c.1500)
Bottom: Oxford Divinity School (1427-83) (Photo by Xavier de Jauréguiberry)
I guess I’ll be spending the rest of the night drooling over fan vaults. XDOh! And HELLO TO ALL! :D
“Five metronomes are set to 176 bpm and placed on a Foam Core board. When empty cans are placed underneath, the board is free to move from side to side and the metronomes are able to influence each other into synchronization. When the cans are removed the metronomes are no longer physically coupled and some of them begin to fall out of step.” - from Harvard’s National Science Lecture Demonstrations
High Res (790x1280)
The Carpenter, by Dimitris Ladopoulos, Spiros Rasidakis
~ a short film showing a carpenter turning a spindle with overlaid infographics reminiscent of the opening scenes from Stranger Than Fiction
The Sierpinski Tetrahedron: A Metal Sculpture.
Hi Res (865x840)
PROTEUS
“Every age has its own image of the world, and every image reflects the vision of its time and of its maker.”
“The radiolarian are like an alphabet of possibilities, as if the ancient sea were dreaming in its depths all the future permutations of organic and invented forms, from backbones to bridges and from the Earth to the stars.”An inspiring documentary concerning the life, work, and philosophy of Ernst Haeckel, a 19th century naturalist.
Smoke issuing from a round jet undergoes transition from laminar to turbulent flow. As the smoke moves past the unmoving ambient air, the friction between these two layers creates shear and triggers a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, recognizable by the formation and roll up of vortices along the edges of the jet. Those vortices then roll together in pairs, detach, and devolve into a generally turbulent flow. Because turbulence is far more efficient at mixing than a laminar flow is, the smoke seems to disappear.
