Dec 4 2007Liquid Sculptures Are Amazing To Look At
Martin Waugh's Liquid Sculptures are actually "high-resolution photographs taken at high speeds." And damn are they mesmerizing to look at.
I orchestrate these sculptures by accurately aiming the drops and releasing them with precise timing. As nature takes its course, I photograph the unfolding forms using a digital camera and electronic flash. I instigate the myriad of shapes by varying the drops' trajectories and manipulating their physical properties. Color, viscosity, and surface tension are controlled with dye, glycerin, and soap.
Pretty cool stuff he's creating. I can't stop staring at them and I'm not even that high. Fine, I'm high as hell. Dude, did anybody else just hear that? Sounded like a rocket ship landing in the backyard. Holy hell, a rocket ship just landed in the backyard! Dude, now there's a woolly mammoth screwing it. Wow, he's destroying that thing. The bug-eyed spacemen inside are freaking out. Oh shit here comes a saber-tooth tiger. Damn this is some good shit, I'm getting hungry again. I hope that saber-tooth leaves some mammoth for me.
A ton more pictures after the jump, but make sure to check out his gallery linked at the bottom.
Reader Comments
1. JB - December 4, 2007 5:39 PM
Holy awesomeness. This is a pretty simple concept at the core, but some of the images turned out wickedly cool.
2. JG - December 4, 2007 6:11 PM
Wow, thats pretty much amazing.
3. Amy - December 4, 2007 6:48 PM
Wow. I generally find concept art to be a pile of shit but this is really amazing stuff.
4. Michael Brown - December 4, 2007 7:28 PM
Very well done - I would hardly call this simple as I'm sure if I tried I'd end up with a big splash looking something like water hitting water and all out of focus. I might even add some fish.
5. Chris - December 4, 2007 9:53 PM
Micheal you gave me a crazy idea.. gona do Fish hitting fish... and fish hitting sidewalk from my condo (its on the 15th floor)
6. guate6 - December 4, 2007 11:55 PM
Neat...I don't know what he meant by "high-speed" camera. I'm guessing he did a wider aperture and a very fast shutter speed (like 1/10,000) and a synched flash. I'm interested in trying it out to see how mine come out. (I love photography). All I need is some spare time though...
7. woodhorse - December 5, 2007 6:16 AM
Bad on you for making me look at my beta fish like that. His name is Dragon and I took him through the Mall once. I guess I will alert the shoppers to bring their cameras the next time I go to the Mall. Damn you! I really like Dragon. It's like the curse my parents laid on me with "If your friends jump off a bridge, are you going to jump too?" and the answer was "yes" and I did jump off a bridge - twice.
8. jla45772 - December 5, 2007 7:59 AM
Wow those are awesome. I like the one with the pale colors the best :}
9. Uncle Eccoli - December 5, 2007 8:53 AM
Art is dead.
10. 123 - December 5, 2007 9:54 AM
They're awesome and neato, sure, but sculptures they ain't. Great photographs, though.
11. Meredith - December 5, 2007 10:16 AM
doesn't it bother anyone that these pictures are just rip-offs from fifty years ago--artist Harold Edgerton? Edgerton at least had some skill and creativity, since doing this without a digital camera is much more difficult. Nowadays anyone with an SLR thinks they're a photographer.
12. proteon - December 5, 2007 11:46 AM
Thank GOD I was hoping photographs would become regocnized as sculpture!
13. guate6 - December 6, 2007 12:36 PM
#11, I agree with you that anyone with a digital camera thinks that they are a photographer. Me, being a photographer feel the same way. I will disagree with you on the "ripoffs" part, because photography is art, and personally if I like images made by Edgerton or Ansel, or whomever, I like trying to replicate them just so I can see what it's like, what they come out like, etc. Yes, I do my own photography, but I like trying to get ideas from other people's works. That should make the older photographers (whether living or not) proud that their work inspires others to do similar/same things.