seen at Information Aestetics, one of my favourite bands take us on a trip around the periodic table.
Category: Science
About Science
garbage island on VBS
Fascinating documentary about the huge amount of plastic floating about the oceans. There’s a point in the pacific where currents bring all the pollution together and the number of parts of plastic per parts of water is dangerously high. Whilst there’s no actual floating island, that you can see, its because the plastic has broken down into so many small parts and as one of the crew say, its not the coke bottle you see, but the millions of particles that make up that coke bottle that have been dispersed through the ocean. Some amazing bits, for instance, they find few orange or red plastic particles, because these are what the fish eat…and we eat the fish.
This is part 1 of 3, head to the VBS site for more – an exciting channel, with some great content.
Magnetic Fields
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
An amazing film from a group that call themselves Semicondutor. In their wonderful films, they tap into science and visualise the incredible shapes, patterns, sounds and images that sometimes can be seen, but more often is invisible to the naked eye. The films have a lovely feel about them, the one above sparkles with magnetic fields, bouncing and shimmering across the screen like tiny mischievous creatures.
