Have you ever seen flowers made of moving liquid? These awesome images are the painstaking work of photographer Jack Long, who spends months planning and experimenting to create each stunning piece.
“Armed with superhuman patience, a high-speed camera and lots of paint, Jack Long set out to create a series of beautiful images called Vessels and Blooms in which he tried to create liquid flowers out of colored paint droplets captured in mid-air. The skilled photographer spent several months planning and testing different techniques in order to achieve the best results possible, and judging by his photos, I’d say his work paid off in the end.
The clever artist uses water mixed with dyes, pigments and thickeners and as this cocktail is suspended in the air for just a split second, he takes high-speed photos hoping to capture the right moment. Jack won’t reveal the exact technique used to create his paint flowers, though. “This series was a culmination of months of planning and testing. Hundreds of captures are made in testing and then many more during the actual final capture stage. A very few stand out as being the best,” the artist from Wisconsin said about his latest series.
You’re probably looking at these gorgeous liquid flowers and thinking ‘wow, these are so Photoshopped’, and I don’t blame you, but Jack Long says he uses the popular software just to clean up his photos and enhance them with basic tools. ’All of my images are created in one single capture. One picture. I do not make composites from multiple images, unless otherwise noted. All of my fluid flowers are as captured,” says the American photographer. He adds that the thing he likes most about his art is that it’s different from other splash photography.”
For more mind-blowing liquid flowers and other examples of brilliant splash photography, check out Jack Long’s Flickr profile and 500px page.
[via Oddity Central]
Death by Chocolate
Created by slathering melted Hershey’s chocolate onto a 22x30 sheet of fancy, class-provided paper, I then subtractively carved out a low relief representation of a guillotine with the blade substituted for a half-eaten chocolate bar. It is a playful but still tongue-in-cheek commentary on gluttony, the trivialization of death, and the misuse the term “literally” (i.e. “I literally died!” or “I was literally dying!”). This was made using only Hershey’s milk chocolate and the fancy paper along with my pocket knife, the point of a mechanical pencil (without lead), and the edge of a metal ruler for carving and creating texture.
This is a video I did a little bit ago for my Fin101 class. I figured I should start uploading quality work here to balance out that train wreck I made over the summer.
sangin for fun:)
THIS IS MY BEST FRIEND! SHE’S AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just wanted you all to know.
Indeed, it’s pretty decent. For a high schooler.
