Colors swirl and float, creating a dreamlike landscape reminiscent of planetary surfaces or microscopic life.
This macro video by Thomas Blanchard was created by filming milk, paint, oil and honey slowly mixing together. The artist says that the colors represent emotions that “mix and eventually ease.”
Inspiration struck Rus Khasanov when he was cooking with oil and soy sauce. He created this glittery macro video with ink, oil and soap. More of Khasanov’s work is available on Instagram.
A photographer known as Bullet captures stunning photographs of abandoned places.
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David Bulit’s photographic explorations of abandoned sites in Florida and beyond can be found on Instagram.
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His Abandoned Florida website has more photos, as well as documentation of Bullet’s explorations, and news about historic buildings slated for demolition, which may be useful to other urban adventurers.
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Now Bullet is releasing a book of his photographs, Lost Miami. The book is available for pre-order now, and promises to contain amazing photographs of the interiors of some of the city’s notable abandoned structures, such as the Coconut Grove Playhouse and the Miami Marine Stadium. Bullet also documents some of the little-known history behind the sites he photographs, from some of the first structures to rise out of the swamp, to CIA operations during the Cold War, to the 1980s, when drugs and violence left their mark on Miami.
Stanford professor Manu Prakash and his students have developed a microscope that can be punched out and folded together from a sheet of paper, origami-style, for a cost of 50 cents each, lenses and LED lights included.
The microscope was created to address the problem of diagnosing diseased such as malaria in the developing world. In many cases, a diagnosis must wait, simply because no microscope is available. Prakash’s research team is field testing thousands of microscopes to help with the problem, and contributing to hands-on science education along the way. Learn more at foldscope.com or watch the TED talk below.
Did you know you can use your smartphone to create a hologram? You can replicate the mesmerizing hologram shown above, and many others, with nothing but your smartphone, an old CD case, and a YouTube video. Here is the simple three step process:
Draw and cut out a paper trapezoid 3.5 cm tall, 6 cm wide at the base, and 1 cm wide at the top. It can be larger if you like, as long as the proportions are the same. You may want to use graph paper.
Use the template and a pen to outline four identical trapezoids on an old CD case. Then cut them out and tape them together so that they form an inverted pyramid. It doesn’t have to be perfect.
Turn out the lights, place your phone face up on a table or other elevated surface (it looks cooler if you are looking up at it), and play the video below, or other hologram videos that may be available on YouTube. It’s that simple!
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