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Water Sculpture movie

David Pescovitz at 12:13 pm Mon, Jan 10, 2011

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Artist Shinichi Maruyama created this magical and elegant Water Sculpture Movie.

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • BTWBFDIMHO

    And here they write with water.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH0v8AJsM6Y

  • jfrancis

    Good for Photoshopping ‘water dresses’ onto people.

  • Anonymous

    Beautiful imagery. Curiously, it seems to draw upon an old entertainment form in Japan that is illustrated in Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1933 film, “Taki no shiraito” or “The Water Magician” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024641/). I have been unable to find any more detail on this unique entertainment form; in all likelihood, it has gone the way of Vaudeville.

  • ikoino

    Pretty cool! Like the setup of white walls and black clothing.

    I wonder what opportunities there are for sculpting with cymatics in weightlessness? Suddenly, a reason to sign up for Virgin Galactic: to create art!

    • Lobster

      Once the technology is more commonplace there’ll probably be a whole lot. For the time being, spacecraft tend to have a lot of delicate electronics around that haven’t been waterproofed and water is just as conductive in space as it is on the ground.

  • Cowicide

    The Steve Jobs guy in the background gave me a chuckle, but otherwise I’m in love with this art! Thanks for posting this, David!!!

  • Cat Vomit

    Just one more thing, but very slowly.

    • Cowicide

      one more thing…. bullet time!

  • howaboutthisdangit

    Made me think of Neo, in the Matrix, playing with his food.

  • Anonymous

    You know what I like best about this post? The author included a preview still image (or its just a function of their movie) for people like me that use extensions to turn off Flash by default in browsers. Very nice thx!