Samantha, 25, Cardiff UK.
Physicist, gamer, synesthese, feminist, audiophile.
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Immigration patterns of facebook users.
I guess I’m that grey line from the US to the UK
Just outside my window at 5 in the morning, every single morning until my alarm goes off at 7:30.
Every seagull in Wales: AHHHHHHHH!!!
Every seagull in Wales: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Every seagull in Wales: AHHHHH HA HA HA HA!
Every seagull in Wales: ÄAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Every seagull in Wales: AHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA!!!!!
(Source: amit0des)
(Source: sephdoodles)
Explosions in the Sky - It’s Natural to be Afraid
SONIC WATER - laboratory for water sound images
Sonic Water is a cymatics installation. Cymatics is the process of visualizing sound and vibrations through matter, such as for example sand or water.
In the beginning there was sound.
The reason cymatics exerts such a strong fascination is that we are not conditioned to “see sound”. Cymatics is like a magic tool that unveils the true substance of things audible, but conventionally invisible. With it one can recreate the archetypes of different forms of nature.
How does it work?
The installation is very simple: A sound signal is used to vibrate a speaker. On top of the speaker membrane we have applied a plate and on the plate we have then glued an ordinary bottle cap. The bottle cap (or the whole plate) is filled with water. The water works as a flexible three-dimensional sculpture mass, that translates the sound into pictures. The vibration of the speaker creates one of a kind water-sound-images in response to the respective sound impulse - from chaotic patterns to standing mandala-like waves.
The camera films the speaker from above and basically shoots a macro mode live view of the bottle cap action which is projected onto a large screen.
The results are images reminiscent of the shape of flowers, the form of a starfish, the patterns of turtleshells, cell division, the golden ratio, the flower of life - all depending on the individual frequency impulse.
Official website: here
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things I learned today:
- Lecia microscopes are awesome
- Soldering really really small things is difficult
- apparently it’s easier to get flux everywhere and fuck up all the circuits than it is to properly wire up the connectors
- i shouldn’t be allowed to play with hot things
