Planets in a waterdish
June 18, 2008 6:28 AM Subscribe
Is that Jupiter or Saturn? Or perhaps a picture of extrasolar planets? Nope, it's one of Jason Tozer's beautiful pictures of soap bubbles. The Creative Review blog has a post about how Tozer took the pictures.
More pictures by Jason Tozer can be found on his website.
More pictures by Jason Tozer can be found on his website.
beats my psychedelic seven-colour moon geography background.
posted by parmanparman at 6:54 AM on June 18, 2008
posted by parmanparman at 6:54 AM on June 18, 2008
Neato. If you like soap bubbles and other objects in yer pictures, check out Mandolux, previously on MeFi.
posted by sadiehawkinstein at 7:21 AM on June 18, 2008
posted by sadiehawkinstein at 7:21 AM on June 18, 2008
Those photos are awesome. It's so refreshing to see awesome photos that haven't been Photoshop-ed to death. Thanks for sharing.
posted by geeky at 7:54 AM on June 18, 2008
posted by geeky at 7:54 AM on June 18, 2008
Neat. And something to try myself when I get some free time.
The one thing I miss about quitting smoking is blowing bubbles. There was something very cool about filling up a bubble with smoke and watching it drift around. I suspect there would be some good photo opportunities in that as well.
posted by quin at 8:32 AM on June 18, 2008
The one thing I miss about quitting smoking is blowing bubbles. There was something very cool about filling up a bubble with smoke and watching it drift around. I suspect there would be some good photo opportunities in that as well.
posted by quin at 8:32 AM on June 18, 2008
I like how that whole behind-the-scenes blog post basically boils down to "He made bubbles, and took pictures of them. With a camera."
posted by rusty at 8:34 AM on June 18, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by rusty at 8:34 AM on June 18, 2008 [1 favorite]
beautiful! thanks for this
posted by jammy at 9:09 AM on June 18, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by jammy at 9:09 AM on June 18, 2008 [1 favorite]
rusty, you forgot the bit where they explained that he used a background and bright lights.
posted by quin at 9:21 AM on June 18, 2008
posted by quin at 9:21 AM on June 18, 2008
quin: I don't understand that kind of photographic technical mumbo-jumbo. My own camera just blinks 12:00:00 over and over unless I can get a teenager to set it for me.
posted by rusty at 10:03 AM on June 18, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by rusty at 10:03 AM on June 18, 2008 [1 favorite]
I love macrophotography. For more, see the works of Chris Parks. Peter Parks, his father, did the amazing effects for Aronofsky's 'The Fountain'.
posted by eclectist at 11:59 AM on June 18, 2008
posted by eclectist at 11:59 AM on June 18, 2008
Wow, I didn't know anyone else had done this. I took most of these images in 2004.
I used a toy called a bubblescope.
posted by chuckdarwin at 1:06 PM on June 18, 2008 [1 favorite]
I used a toy called a bubblescope.
posted by chuckdarwin at 1:06 PM on June 18, 2008 [1 favorite]
That's so neat -- I'd long loved looking at the patterns on bubbles, how the light refracting off the inner and outer edges changes depending on how thick the bubble is... But I never thought of them as looking planet-like until now. Thanks for adding another association to bubbles!
posted by not_on_display at 7:39 PM on June 18, 2008
posted by not_on_display at 7:39 PM on June 18, 2008
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Does he mean glycerin or does that get created as a byproduct of adding glucose?
It would be really cool to do that photo again but put a little spin on it (blowing air through the straw?) to try to get the swirls to line up more like Saturn and Jupiter really are.
posted by DU at 6:41 AM on June 18, 2008