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17. Compressed 02

by Kim Pimmel

5 months ago

16. Macro Dolly Test

by Kim Pimmel

9 months ago

15. Compressed 01

by Kim Pimmel

9 months ago

14. Displacement Mapped

by Kim Pimmel

10 months ago

13. Compressed Title Sequence

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

12. Time-lapse Test for Compressed Title Sequence

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

11. Coin Animation Test

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

10. Dolly Process

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

9. Whatever Your Resolution

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

8. Inbetween Frames

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

7. The Gift

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

6. Light Drive

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

5. In Its Right Place

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

4. Xbox 360 Disassembly

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

3. Light Painting Machines: Rotating Plotter Progress

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

2. iPhone + TouchOSC > Processing > Arduino > RGB LED

by Kim Pimmel

1 year ago

1. Shape & Sound

by Kim Pimmel

2 years ago

I combined everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble structures, drawn through by the invisible forces of capillary action and magnetism.

Time-lapse sequences: Nikon D90, Nikkor 60mm macro lens and custom built intervalometer.
Motion-control: Arduino driven scanner platform and mirror rigs
Score: Ableton Live

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myFIVEby 5 months ago

Really great work!
J-Scott 5 months ago

x2 and posted at icecreamhater.tumblr.com/
YL 5 months ago

Great work. You should check out this channel it has a lot of similarities and interesting researches too:
vimeo.com/ferrofluid
peace
djali petita 3 months ago

i have a question, where did u get the ferrofuid from? can you buy it? thanks!
HDtimelapse.net 1 month ago

Beautiful stuff!

hdtimelapse.net
TEMPONAUT Time-Lapse 5 months ago

Wow, very interesting. The red element is just colour? The music is matching very good! Great job!
djali petita 3 months ago

hi, iam very curios, how or where did u find the ferrofluid liquid??
TEMPONAUT Time-Lapse 3 months ago

You should ask Kim! ;)
Kim Pimmel 5 months ago

Thanks - the red is food coloring :)
Steven M. Bumgardner 5 months ago

Wow!
Przemysław Wawrzyniak 5 months ago

Great job !
Denis Hovart 5 months ago

I find really impressive how the ferrofluid finally converge straight to the black magnet at 1:27.
Such a powerful image. This wasn't edited at all ?
Kim Pimmel 5 months ago

Only post production was editing together clips and color correction. All the imagery is pretty much straight out of the camera
Aleksandar Rodic 5 months ago

Amazing! I would love to see making of...
Great job!
Jared Tarbell 5 months ago

Incredible. This is so fun to watch. I feel a thunderstorm in my frontal lobe.
Jared Tarbell 5 months ago

My favorite parts are the little traveling particles that precede the black line infill.
Kim Pimmel 5 months ago

Aleksandar & Jared - Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed
Sophy Wong 5 months ago

i love the little traveling particles too. it's like watching a single blood cell travel through a vein. incredible!
Jonnie Hallman 5 months ago

You got to see it IRL. Lucky...
Jungho Kim 5 months ago

She got to see it IRL while possibly wearing a Little Rad Riding Hood. Double Lucky...
Michael Cameneti 5 months ago

Cool stuff. Nice musical score as well!
Matt O'Grady 5 months ago

so rad.
MRfrukta! 5 months ago

it's cool!
Sam Morrill 5 months ago

Awesome.
Perpetual Beta 5 months ago

amazing!! and beautiful!...great sound too!
argifauve 5 months ago

wow congratulations..!!
Slacker 5 months ago

The next trailer for a demonic sci-fi movie!! Great work!!!
alfa smog 5 months ago

thanks for sharing this with me. i love analog effects that take a time and mind to create. :)
Joe Attanasio 5 months ago

Creepy...
steven phipps 5 months ago

very cool! really awesome stuff.
Joel Machemer 5 months ago

i love it. attention to the details of reactions like those is absolutely beautiful
Beck 5 months ago

genial
Andre 5 months ago

"Me likes it!"
Constantine 5 months ago

Stunishing
Dori Dumrong 5 months ago

Wowwww! :)
Kelsey Wynns 5 months ago

love it! What magnet did you use for this?

I have the fluid already...thinking about getting an electromagnet...
Kim Pimmel 5 months ago

The magnet is a spherical neodymium, a little bigger than the ones you get in a Buckyball kit
Ksenia 5 months ago

It's fantastic!!!
Brennan L. 5 months ago

Really cool. Great sound syncing.

Reposted on Acrylo: wp.me/p1ziIm-gv
Niklas Großmann 5 months ago

Insane! Very nice! Up on actuallygee.blogspot.com
Kiel 5 months ago

coooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Nate Horstmann 5 months ago

At 1:25-1:30 I got so excited I had to stand up out of my chair! Bravo Kim!
Kim Pimmel 5 months ago

Thanks Nate! That's my favorite moment too :)
dalioPhoto 5 months ago

Brilliant visuals and sounds. Guess I need to Google this "driven scanner platform" thing. Great work!
republic of 3d 5 months ago

so much more interesting than phony 3D
Chuck Wheeler 5 months ago

badass, nice work, so original, so creative...
mageii 5 months ago

Excellent, excellent job! Though im intrigued, did you filmed with the camera or did you take millions of photos?
Kim Pimmel 5 months ago

Thanks Mageii - every frame of the video was shot as a still image
Chou Lin Chen 5 months ago

It's really cool
kasumi 5 months ago

utterly amazing and ingenious!
Colin Cameron Allrich 5 months ago

i would love to have a whole music video of this, beyond cool.
Louisa Pang 5 months ago

That was strangely creepy, yet captivating to watch, great job!
Santiago Martinez Caicedo 5 months ago

This is absolutely fantastic. Beautiful work!
Justin Mata 5 months ago

I heart science
Erin Nash 5 months ago

I really like your experimental spirit, and the results are just fantastic. Kick ass.
Paul Chepikian 5 months ago

Who needs CGI! Great work. Every aspect. Imagery, editing, music, etc., all done very well.
erwan manchec 5 months ago

On bewaremag.com awesome as usual
mpared 5 months ago

brilliant ! its up at thecuriousbrain.com/ well done
Lynton Brown 5 months ago

Very nice. Something different.
Sid KAAN 5 months ago

This piece is just bananas! absolutely awesome mate
Xavier Plagaro Mussard 5 months ago

UltraCongratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alan Cotter 5 months ago

Fantastic.. the score is very cool also..
J Semedo 5 months ago

Absolutely astonishing.

Great work man
Keerah 5 months ago

splendid!!!
Jonathan Lindley 5 months ago

Amazing!
Rocketpanda 5 months ago

beautiful!
julien nantiec 5 months ago

pfiuuuu
Michael Kimani 5 months ago

Fantastic concept & execution.
You mention your "custom built intervalometer". Any further details on this?
Kim Pimmel 5 months ago

thanks! I took apart a Nikon corded remote and connected it to an Arduino. I programmed the Arduino to shoot any kind of time interval I want.
Michael Kimani 5 months ago

An Arduino!? That's genius!
Thanks for sharing.
La Bombilla 5 months ago

Fantástico.
Susi Arnott 5 months ago

Very enjoyable - what was the original speed of events?
ssnchz 5 months ago

Wow. i love it! Can you show us your DIY motion control?
Karen Abad 5 months ago

Soothing I love it :)
Angeline Gragasin 5 months ago

Bad. Ass. And you're using an Arduino! SO COOL. Maybe the first motion timelapse I've seen on Vimeo using something other than the oracle/pocket dolly combo. ^_^
Marc Rühl 5 months ago

a very creative usage of ferrofluid
Qyong Lee 5 months ago

fantastic!!!
Ayhan Cebe 5 months ago

Great!..
Echoic : Music and Sound Design 5 months ago

really cool effect. great idea nicely done!
Tonner Vi 5 months ago

Your art is amazing, congrats
drewish 5 months ago

really interesting. there some aperture flicker starting around 0:50, you could probably correct for it using some software like GBDeflicker (granitebaysoftware.com/Products/ProductGBD.aspx) or try to avoid the flicker in camera. wider apertures (f8 and below?) aren't as susceptible, or you can kind of hack the lens. on canon lenses you can hit the macro preview button then start to disconnect the lens. i'd imagine there's a similar trick for nikons.
dynomite reid 5 months ago

there is ALWAYS a critic that knows how to do what the original artist does better, right? you even sound 'drewish'!
drewish 5 months ago

kim made an amazing video. everyone has room for improvement and i made what i felt were constructive criticism.
Gabriel Franco 5 months ago

Really good stuff, man. Always wanted to see some macro timelaspes. cheers
Hamilton Junior 5 months ago

Awesome! I loved the editing!
Rooney Wimms 5 months ago

Bonza.
Don Lawrence 5 months ago

Amazing, going to watch this one quite a few times..
mat stevens 5 months ago

This is great atmospheric - graphic and ambient - all good things :)
Simon Strande 5 months ago

Excellent. Music and video is very symbiotic. To me this is very dramatic.

Thinking of it could had been nice to the movie IT or a campaign movie telling not to smoke, due to the spread of ultimate disease and finally death. ;-)
Kinora Films 5 months ago

I love it! Great concept and execution, and huge props for doing it all analog and in-camera!
Dominico (but call me "D") 5 months ago

Very beautiful and engaging. A simple concept presented in a thoughtful and brilliant manner. Great!
ewerybody 5 months ago

Oh Whooow! This is SO good work!
looks so CGIish but its all real! ♥!
last frontier would probably be: having unplugged music that sounds like electric
MOUNT Video Awards 5 months ago

Gold of the day! Congratulations!

mount-video.com/2011/08/gold-30082011.html
Pablo Marques 5 months ago

Amazing. Very procedural looking.
Kumaran Alagesan 5 months ago

Awesome work Kim...
Loved it.. :)
George Levitikos 5 months ago

Amazing!

posted @ post.ly/32BSi
Brian Schmitt 5 months ago

wow! amazing work. love it.
Manjunath M.C. 5 months ago

Awesome!
Sirob 5 months ago

Excellent!!
Ju hyun Cha 5 months ago

What on earth is it!? wow!