Kim Pimmel is no stranger to time-lapse photography. In his latest video, the versatile San Francisco filmmaker pits ferrofluid and food colouring in a pulsating race across an expanse of soap suds.
Pimmel set up the shot by placing a magnet in the centre of a dish filled with normal soap bubbles and some exotic ferrofluid at the edge. Using a Nikon D90, macro lenses and slick time lapse techniques, he captured the ferrofluid as it was pulled towards the magnet and the food colouring as it spread due to capillary action. [Vimeo via Neatorama]
AdamW
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 1:48 PMThe 1:34 mark looks somewhat like my eyes after a heavy night out!
JonBOY
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 1:59 PMFerrofluid…….cool word.
Magnetic motors
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 2:56 PMVery cool clip!
logical
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 6:24 PMawesome.
Brett
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 12:38 AMCool vid, didn’t control his light source very well though.