Water Art

German photographer Markus Reugels creates these beautiful liquid sculptures using no more than an sony SLR camera with flash and a glimpse catcher, and an arduino-based timing device.




"At the Beginning I made my Water drops with a medicine dropper, a remote trigger in one hand and a cup in the other hand. With the cup I catch the falling drops, so that the water surface in the tray is very still (this is necessary to get a reflection, with a low Camera angle). I pull the cup out of the way and let 2-3 drops fall into the tray, when the first drop collide into the water I press the Trigger. With this technique I have 1 keeper out of 10 (in good times)."



"Now, I adjust all parameters exactly with a microprocessor, to have the most possible control over the water. This was the key to realize such complex images. In some of my pictures I synchronize 3 different colored drops with an air rifle, or air stream."



"Normally I start every series with a picture in my head. But this is very rare to reach. The shapes cannot be calculated so i must take what i get. With lots of patience, i know in which way i must adjust the settings to influence the shapes."



"The only thing you can control is the light and the Colors."



"To bring color into the picture is very easy. To bring color into the splash, I dyed the drop water with food-color or ink. The background or water surface is colored with the light."



"Normally I thicken my water with Guargum to increase the viscosity . I want a similar Viscosity as Milk or Cream. This helps to make smoother shapes and they hold longer together before they collapse. Sometimes I use only Milk , this is the best fluid for the droplets, you can bring Color into the Splash without coloring the Water, try only gels on the flash and the Milk will be colored."



"As Flashes, I use only the old Vivitar 285 with a little modification to set the Power lower than 1/16. Aperture around f/16 is used. This is the best compromise between sharpness and diffraction blur. The Shutter speed is not important in Highspeed Photography, the Action is frozen by the fast flash. The Flashes have a flash duration faster than 1/20000 at low power settings."



"No Camera has a shutter fast as the Flashes. I choose a Shutter Speed of 1/160 , but only for the wireless trigger. It work best with these settings!"



"Everything I know about photography is self-thought."

"I have a passion to taking pictures of Water drops. It so fascinating what shapes simple water drops can built !"













All images are © Copyright of Markus Reugels 

Check his website: www.markusreugels.de/ and http://500px.com/MarkusReugels

Source: photigy

Plate Glass Sculptures by Niyoko Ikuta

Kyoto-based artist Niyoko Ikuta, created these amazing plate glass sculptures for her 'Free Essence' series.

source:4rtgallery.

The Creature Cups

Brooklyn based group of designers Yumi-Yumi created these cute ceramic cups with little creatures on the bottom.

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source:www.creaturecups.com/ and http://www.etsy.com/sg-en/people/creaturecups

The Shoe Bakery

Designer Chris Campbell creates these high-end shoes that look like various forms of dessert and sell them at his shop, The Shoe Bakery.



Each pair of shoes created using actual tools used by bakers such as a piping bag and can take between two and four weeks to complete and cost between £60 and £200 pounds with custom orders starting from £30.



"The idea for cake-themed shoes came from my love for cake and the creativity, and thought that is put into women's shoes. One day I thought why not combine those loves together and bring something new into women's fashion and that's how the Shoe Bakery was born."



"When starting a design we try and think of common desserts and think about how we can transform them into a shoe. We then sketch out our idea, get the materials we need together then make the magic happen using an acrylic medium. In order to make it look like frosting, we use the same tools that bakers use such as the icing bags and tips."



"People think they are edible all the time. When we first came out with our shoes, most of our time was spent explaining to people that they are not edible."













Check the website: www.shoebakery.com/

Source: dailymail

Porcelain Sculptures- Nuala O Donovan

Irish artist Nuala O’Donovan sculpts hand-built porcelain that resemble fractal patterns found in nature. 

Check her website: www.nualaodonovan.com

"My work combines regular pattern with the characteristics of irregular patterns and forms from nature."

"Each element of the pattern is individually made, the form is constructed slowly over a period of weeks or months. The finished forms are a result of an intuitive response to the direction that the pattern takes as well as the irregularity in the handmade elements of the pattern."

"I have used the characteristics of irregular/fractal patterns in nature as a system of constraints or guidelines when making decisions about the forms: The patterns are regularly irregular."

"The patterns and form are self-similar. The pattern records a response to random events during the making process. The result of using the characteristics of fractal geometry in making decisions regarding the form of the sculptural pieces, is that the form is resolved but retains a sense of potential change."

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