29 Mar 2014

Sweet Sensations

This is one chemistry lesson we won't want to skip! No boring textbook or crazy professor tagging the blackboard with obscure chemistry theorems in double-Dutch speak. Here we have liquid poetry in motion, harmless explosions revealing their complexity, dilutions into water creating swirly bursts of colours mixing into ombrés, captured on camera, immortalised in their fleetingness by a host of talented artists. The inky shots lend a cocktail of special effects, illusory textures, modern ballet choreography, 3D profoundness that captivate and take us to the antichamber of dreamscape and the imaginary before they evanesce.

If only our science teachers had used the trick as a way to captivate a class of pesky teens to illustrate themes based around the periodic table of chemical elements, molecular formulae, density and gravity, then kids like myself would have given science more than a passing glance. Now I simply cannot take my eyes off those little beauties:


Source: (1) and (2) Part of Marcel Christ's non-commissioned 'Pario' series, via Wired. The paint and water mix was blasted with compressed air and captured at the staggering shutter speed of 1/10,000th of a second, to immortalise pattern effects that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye! The result creates unique one-of-a-kind ephemeral abstract artforms that look set in glass (akin to those glass marbles or paper weights that enclose swirly patterns). (3) and (4) From the 'a due Colori' personal portfolio by Alberto Seveso, via Behance (3), which also applies the high-speed camera process to an ink and water mix. We would be forgiven for mistaking the liquid mix for crunched organza or magnified close-ups of pollen! (5) and (6) 'Abstract 1931b', both part of the 'Across the Volumes' series by Kim Keever, via Co.Design. Artistry comes out of diverse talented guises. Take ex-NASA thermal engineer Keever, who has channelled his creativity via visual effects created by dropping industrial paint tints into 200-gallon fish tanks, with a scientific approach. "The natural properties of the different pigments allow them to move in different ways through water molecules" (via Co.Design). Here pigments and water create clouds reminiscent of renaissance paintings.

23 Mar 2014

Let's Do Happy!

This is the sort of illustrated material that automatically puts a smile to my face and sunshine to my day, even when I might not be feeling 'in the zone'. I mean, how can your vibration levels not raise by at least one notch when you come across such an upbeat message, delivered in happy candy colours set against cotton-candy pink background, with cutesy typeface singing a love song to your eyes, oodles of flowery stylee and loadsa doodle-like curves and dots and petals and pizzazz! Thanks, Katie Daisy!


Source: 'Oh Happy Day' print by Katie Daisy, available to purchase via her Etsy shop, The Wheatfield by Katie Daisy.

12 Mar 2014

Put Your Heart Into Whatever You Do!

Last time Mirabelle was around goes back a while, almost three months. Anyhoo, it's good to be back, my friends, and thanks for sticking around! As far as blogging is concerned, Mirabelle's heart wasn't in it lately, so decided to stay away until the inner flame returned. Sometimes you need to leave in order to give out your best when back on the scene. Let's make 2014 ace!


Source: (1) 'Pass This On' giclée art print by Danny Ivan, via Society6. (2) Present&Correct homepage. (3) Paper Glue, available to purchase from Labour and Wait. (4) 'Vintage Blossom' notebook, part of a set of two, by Rifle Paper Co. and available to purchase from Liberty. (5) 'Happy' giclée art print by Color & Theory, via Society6.
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