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5. Fluid Sculpture

by Charlie Bucket

8 months ago

4. Tap Dancing 1

by Charlie Bucket

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3. Sounds of the Superfluid Skirt

by Charlie Bucket

1 year ago

2. Casual Profanity presents the Superfluid Skirt A1

by Charlie Bucket

1 year ago

1. Teaser

by Charlie Bucket

1 year ago

This is a small prototype for a fluid dress that I showed at the 2009 Maker Faire in San Mateo. I hope to post videos of the dress soon.

More information at casualprofanity.com

MUSIC:
Ratatat, "Imperials" from their album LP3 (on tour now!)

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Clan McCloud 8 months ago

SO COOL! Did you build that yourself?
Rino Vervaet 8 months ago

wow that is realy cool
Charlie Bucket 8 months ago

Thanks for the comments, I appreciate it. And, yes I did make it myself.
Eugenia Loli-Queru 8 months ago

Charlie, great looking tubes, but the shooting and editing is not up to snuff to compete with the impressiveness of it all. You could have gone really close and do some macro shots on it and then cut the footage in an unconventional way. Possibly it didn't need to be more than 3 mins either.
Charlie Bucket 8 months ago

Hi Eugenia, thanks for commenting. Your posts on the HV20 forums and your website have been really helpful (despite appearances.)

I think I have produced compelling evidence that I'm a hack videographer, graphic designer, audio and lighting technician, and fiber artist.

I agree it should be much shorter; I fell in love with the songs first and tried to work within them, which is a bad idea, although I'm somewhat pleased I was able to do all of this in a (long) night.

EDIT: I followed Eugenia's advice and trimmed the video in half from 6 minutes.
Mary Ann Petro 6 months ago

Charlie:
Sorry I missed your sculpture at Maker Faire yesterday. Saw your video this morning for the first time. Interesting idea to knit IV tubing, but the fluid thing really makes it pop!
Mary Ann Petro
The Amazing Rolo 8 months ago

I feel so cool that I know you in person. this is seriously fantastic dude.
jonbro 8 months ago

so awesome. i am really enjoying this one. can't wait to see the full thing.
fat_butcher 8 months ago

Beautiful, love the intricacy of your craft. When are you going to put on a live show with these?

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Charlie Bucket 8 months ago

Hello Mr. Butcher, thanks so much for the comment. I will be showing some work like this at the upcoming Maker Faire in San Francisco -- it's a fun, crazy event that needs to be experienced.

The ultimate goal of the project is to translate this idea into a complete wearable outfit, so hopefully I can finish that and get it into a real, live fashion show.
fat_butcher 8 months ago

Yeah! I want a top hat made of straws full of cranberry juice, put me on your waiting list ;0)
Christopher Brinkmann 8 months ago

love it. also the music.
Christopher Brinkmann 8 months ago

what song is it?
Charlie Bucket 8 months ago

Thanks! The music is "Imperials" by Ratatat and I love it too. I'm kind of nervous about showing this stuff without music accompanying it; I'm sure it will be lacking some flavor.
Donia 6 months ago

You should set up a little radio hidden nearby and play that whole album on loop. It'd be awesome! lol
Congrats on the show and great work!
nicknight 8 months ago

simple fantstic, thx
Servando Barreiro 8 months ago

nice nice nice..
Siel 8 months ago

Very coool !!
Did you try to inject color spaced by the same lenght or time ?
I think it should make (another) great repetitive effect, if every loop are regular...
Check the arduino, really easy to use.
Charlie Bucket 8 months ago

Hi Siel,
Thanks for the comment. I will be using the Arduino to control my valves and some other things -- I agree, I think that will look great.
kellnekem 7 months ago

I've just registered on Vimeo to tell you how wonderful this is, thank you for posting it.
The music selection is just perfect. My favourite part is when that dark ink flows in at 0:52.
Charlie Bucket 7 months ago

Hello and thank you so much! That means a lot to me, I'm really enjoying Vimeo and I'm sure you will too.
Will Carr 7 months ago

wow, incredible, i had a similar plan, nothing nearly as amazing, with UV died water and ultrasonic mister, ive been inspired to try some way more complex shapes tho
Charlie Bucket 7 months ago

Hi Will,
Thanks so much, I played around with highlighters and oil-based UV dyes (sold at auto shops, for leak inspection) in these tubes and really liked the effect.

I'd like to hear how your project goes, the ultrasonic mister and fluorescent fog sounds really interesting.
fat_butcher 7 months ago

Hey Bucket, check out the BLOOD SCARF project on this site: laurasplan.com/

Maybe you two should bounce some ideas off each other ;0)
Curtis Lawrence 7 months ago

You should try alternating colored Oils/Water, that way you can get a solid color change with little to no color bleed. Not sure if the oils would travel the same through the tubes. could be worth a test.
Charlie Bucket 7 months ago

Hi Curtis,
Thanks for the comment and, yes, I'm totally with you on that. Your idea has worked well with my work in larger size tubing, but the sculpture above uses very small tubing and thus is not able to incorporate any common oils (like mineral oil) because of the high viscosity.

I'm working on it though!
Shuttle Systems 7 months ago

Simply Amazing.
~ 7 months ago

love it!... really stunning effect.
Viktor Ism 7 months ago

Wow, that's like SO cool! You should make a hat out of it, and put on a mannequin's head or something :) Maybe pimp the head with speakers playing music where the ears should be.

Edit: and maybe fill it with a fluid that glows in the dark :D
Jake 6 months ago

that would be sick!
Aaron Amodt 7 months ago

that's genius. wish i'd thought of that.
Charles Huettner 7 months ago

i like how it looks like bugs when it has air bubbles
Dré Labre 7 months ago

this could become the new lava lamp. i could have watched this video for a long long time.
Megan Ashley 7 months ago

beautiful
Uğur Özyılmazel 7 months ago

realy good idea for a wild compo! ( if you familiar with demoscene! )
Andy Balmer 7 months ago

This is incredible! Really beautiful and interesting. I don't know much about how you've created it but it looks impressive to me. I don't live in the States sadly but if you ever get famous and travel to the UK I'll be there.
Hajime Chan 7 months ago

Fantastic!!!
Mathew Dryhurst 7 months ago

Going to Maker Faire, and definitely checking this out. If you are in the Bay Area, maybe we can set up a live performance in future? Just need a projection screen and an electronic artist..
Pascal 7 months ago

amazing
Matthew Reyes 7 months ago

Nice job, I can see a larger version of this becoming an installation piece in some Casino in Las Vegas, or perhaps one day, in my living room :)
Jay Petrovic 7 months ago

this is sooo nice, great idea ! the fountain of the future... what do you think about adding some LEDs ?
Gaianna 7 months ago

I used the same set of looms for this project
gaianna.deviantart.com/art/Lan-Hat-2-43109340
gaianna.deviantart.com/art/Lan-Hat-1-43109086

I absolutely love what you have done with this project the music is so fitting and it is just mesmerizing
jimi hertz 7 months ago

Thxs for your Fluid inspiration
sprit3 6 months ago

Beautiful and inspiring work, thank you!
Paul Wong 6 months ago

Pretty cool, I was waiting for the lights to go off and you bust out the black light, or shoot some glow-stick neon solution through it.
Alan Miller 6 months ago

I can't help but think about that sitting on top of something holding multiple layers of differently colored immiscible fluids, drawing from it and feeding back into it at the same time.

Might require some careful planning & measurement since heavier fluids would sink back down quickly on dumping back into the reservoir, but I'm sure there's something there.....
Auditory Canvas 6 months ago

I'd certainly be interested in combining my live music performances with this, and would also be interested in creating a music video featuring it.

Get in touch if you are interested.

summerrainpromotions.net/auditorycanvas
Kevin Vimeo 6 months ago

(linkback) Cool or Lame? Cool plastic tube and colored water art - "Fluid Sculpture" [VOTE] - pikk.com/fefa7
Jo Jitty 6 months ago

Wow, absolutely amazing, I want one!

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Bear Silber 6 months ago

Charlie Bucket?!? THE Charlie Bucket? I swear...I love that guy. This is fantastic! I think I may have to head up to the San Mateo just to meet you...I've always wanted to go to the Maker Faire.
Jim Thorpe 6 months ago

Very nice idea. Not to sound like a weirdo but I work in an operating room and always found watching the different tubes fill with blood and saline to be sort of pretty. At times, when it enters the canister you could swear it is raining inside the room. If the drainage tube released fluid at the very top of the canister instead of sitting inside, you might get the same effect.
Look up some OR equipment up and you might find some interesting things to modify like a manifold that would allow you to hook up and titrate multiple pigments to the same line.
Again, very nice idea....I look forward to seeing what more you can come up with.
Marc Cohen 6 months ago

You've been dugg! Get ready for internet stardom...and possible real world fame. Good luck at your show.
Thomas Attila Lewis 6 months ago

unbelievably beautiful, and excellent choice in music
Mark Rigler 6 months ago

nice one
effesessantasei 6 months ago

Really new!
Michael Cole 6 months ago

mesmerizing.
Jeff Jones 6 months ago

You should try experimenting with some sort of neon or glow in the dark liquid. That would be sweet.
Jake McGinty 6 months ago

This is amazing, and the choice of music was perfect. Can't wait to see more with this and variations!

On the flip side of the editing comment by Eugenia, I thought your editing was spot on in putting the focus on the piece of art as opposed to overly-fancy shots and angles. The piece itself would lose value if the viewer got distracted by the camerawork.

Fantastic though, and love the use of arduino.
Oscar Falcón Lara 6 months ago

That was amazing! super fantastic even.
Herr Schnuff 6 months ago

awesome, I love it!
Bryn Jones 6 months ago

this is a really clever idea...welldone :)
SofaKing Diligent 6 months ago

How long was the original tube?
Eliza 6 months ago

SO tight.
Urs vom Schnee 6 months ago

What an IDEA!
And the music fits perfectly.
It must have been a bunch of work to build this sculpture...
Sunny Thaper 6 months ago

I'm pretty sure I want one of these in my house.
Clintus McGintus 6 months ago

fantastic.
Sunny Thaper 6 months ago

FINALLY got to comment/watch a video before you!
Nathan Colgate 6 months ago

Didn't blink for 3 minutes. Great show. Wish I could make it up to see it in person. Congrats.
Joseph Tagnipes 6 months ago

That was the coolest thing ever!
b gd73 6 months ago

spooky. looks like ants. is there a dead kitten at the bottom of the pail, appearing alive with the maggots wiggling there way inside the carcass...get a close up and see...glad it did not happen too.
AtomicAtom 6 months ago

Fanfriggintastic! Keep making things! I want to see a humanoid form next that starts from the heart. Blue and Red dancing together like the arterial system! That is your next project my friend!
Fillllll 6 months ago

sweeeet
Mark Johnson 6 months ago

holycrap awesome. Great work! I wish i could see it in real life! This will be close enough for now! Keep awesome stuff coming.
weno 6 months ago

awsome!
Eric Sanderson 6 months ago

crazy, id be tempted to turn off the lights and throw some glow in the dark dye in there.
Seams 6 months ago

such a cleverly simple idea :)
Mathieu Falaise 6 months ago

Omg ! This is insane! Very beautiful
minimal design 6 months ago

Really great idea and awesome execution... I wish the video itself was a little more artsy though. Love the music but there's so much potential for great visuals... I hope they will be a v.2.0! :)
Mario Crisci 6 months ago

Bellissimo!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeremiah Jacobs 6 months ago

Great idea - hope I get to see you at make!

Again, really outstanding sculpture.
Onur Aydın 6 months ago

amazing one!
parental guidance 6 months ago

Nice! Very nice! and "The Huber Family's " jam jar ta boot!
"Red Raspberry Spread" is my favorite too!
Salena Strate 6 months ago

Simply amazing
jack Fu 6 months ago

awesome.I really like your idea,and also you could express is so great.like it so bad!
John Berry 6 months ago

ch ch check it

vimeo.com/4621287
Henning Koczy 6 months ago

I bet it would look neat with a lightbulb in the center, casting colored shadows onto the wall.
simon yuen 6 months ago

this is goddamn amazing
isaac nogueira 6 months ago

cool !
Alius Levinskas 6 months ago

realy incredible, because its simple and no video montage neaded ;]
Light Trancefer 6 months ago

I LOVE RATATAT since heard wildcat and Lex and all the other awesome songs - The song really fits to your video about this crazy thing - Great work, Great work !
happyseaurchin 6 months ago

zowee... the digitising effect from bubbles is visually stimulating for sure

very simple
very effective
well done!
SOURCEVisuals 6 months ago

I would like a sweater like that. I like the film work too.
Victor Engel 6 months ago

Excellent. This gives me ideas on how to illustrate some new crochet stitches I have.
pasketa 6 months ago

hello, your sculpture is awesome, what is your inspiration, why? im very interesed in the movement of fluids, and i will find a little more of your work, but its so difficult with ur nick name haha

i hope see more about you and your work

congratulations!!!
Adamtastic 6 months ago

love this! you should make a wall of this and display it in a public area for all to enjoy!
carambolage 6 months ago

Wow. Love it.
Howard Berry 6 months ago

That was great - really inventive and very enjoyable to watch.
Syl Renaud 5 months ago

Hypnotic !
Dave Taylor 5 months ago

This is so amazing, I could watch it all day.
a bill miller 5 months ago

So COOL!!!!