Comments on: a due Colori

a due Colori

quin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:02:17 -0800

Alberto Seveso creates mesmerizing photographic sculptures of ink underwater.

By: yoink

yoink — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:06:20 -0800

Sculptures? Does that mean that any photograph of something three dimensional is a sculpture?

By: Mister Fabulous

Mister Fabulous — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:08:13 -0800

hehehehe... underwater sculpture

By: The 10th Regiment of Foot

The 10th Regiment of Foot — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:14:10 -0800

Does that mean that any photograph of something three dimensional is a sculpture? No, sometimes it's a portrait or a film.

By: chapps

chapps — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:16:26 -0800

It looks like fabric!

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:37:06 -0800

Very beautiful. I would be curious to know what sort of inks he's using in these. The opacity, apparent weight, and relative lack of dispersion makes me wonder if he's using some type of printer's ink.

By: ThatCanadianGirl

ThatCanadianGirl — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:39:30 -0800

They do look sort of sculptural to me. I'd like one of them enlarged to about 4' x 6' for my family room, please.

By: scose

scose — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:53:13 -0800

super slow-mo video next time!

By: Trochanter

Trochanter — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:56:19 -0800

Looks like Cthulhu.

By: mochapickle

mochapickle — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:10:20 -0800

Wow. If you had said these were silk scarves or melted plastic or cells or sparks magnified by a million I would have believed you.

By: revikim

revikim — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:38:24 -0800

Amazing.

By: neuromodulator

neuromodulator — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:34:24 -0800

I'm in the group who considers the word "photographs" for these to be fully sufficient. But very beautiful.

By: ThatFuzzyBastard

ThatFuzzyBastard — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:09:33 -0800

That is just gorgeous. I wonder how he gets such consistent stripe patterns.

By: Len

Len — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:52:41 -0800

Wow, these are beautiful. Some of them look like weird spawning alien life forms about to emerge from pupal state.

By: darkstar

darkstar — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:53:02 -0800

I've done some photography of emulsions using oil and water with food coloring. There is really an element of three-dimensional "sculpture" about manipulating the fluids to set up the ______* you're trying to get. *Cannot for the life of me think of the word I'm looking for here, though I've used it repeatedly in the past few weeks. Related to the way one fluid flows into another. Darn senior moments.

By: Trochanter

Trochanter — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:59:52 -0800

mingling?

By: darkstar

darkstar — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:02:11 -0800

Mingling works. I fear I've left it vague enough that there are a hundred words that could fit, but there's one specific one, a technical term used in fluid dynamics, that is bothering me.

By: hypersloth

hypersloth — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:16:17 -0800

Is it the Reynolds number or laminar flow? I know nothing about this; I just looked up hydrodynamics.. it's damn interesting. Also, these are beautiful - exactly what I'd expect to see hanging on the walls if a squid invited me over for a cocktail party.

By: polecat

polecat — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:43:45 -0800

If you drill up, you can see more sets with this same technique. I thought this one was especially cool, with the streams of ink pouring into the layer below. It looks like there's even more on his Flickr stream.

By: Phire

Phire — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:58:31 -0800

Holy shit, these are amazing.

By: polecat

polecat — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:24:00 -0800

The Italian word he uses to describe the material he's using is "vernice" (see here), which may have been naively translated as "varnish", but the online translators tell me that it probably means "paint".

By: HeroZero

HeroZero — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:55:16 -0800

Misread title as "ink underwear," but still impressed.

By: DaddyNewt

DaddyNewt — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:38:18 -0800

I've achieved similar effects shooting smoke. What really makes it work is the strong light. It enhances the dimensionality of the subject. I've thought about doing the liquid stuff, but you really need a pretty good sized tank with the ability to turn over the contents quickly and often (not a good combination with high intensity lights).

By: Defenestrator

Defenestrator — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:46:58 -0800

"Hmm, how do I make these better? I know! I'll add a LEGO man!"

By: jabah

jabah — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:06:01 -0800

These look organic and cosmological at the same time.