An innovative take on the disposable tubs, tubes and jars of toiletry packaging by masters Material Sciences student Mi Zhou, to wit: elegant packaging entirely made from soap.
More about the project here.
‘Projection Wall’ by Japanese artist Rintaro Hara – an installation that invites visitors to raise a rope grid from a soapy trough into the path of eight motorised fans with a set of pulleys, generating prismatic bubble sculptures.
Who’d say no to that?
A similar work in 1998 by the same artist entitled ‘Soap Opera’ was inspired by the watery aliens in James Cameron’s The Abyss.
The fruit of photographer Angela Kelly and her 7 year-old son’s experiments with soap bubbles during the minus 12ºC conditions in Washington last month.
Miniature worlds froze, thawed, shattered and collapsed in on themselves.
Fun was had.
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Imaginary planetary surfaces created by London-based photographer Jason Tozer by carefully manipulating the swirls and patterns on the surface of soap bubbles.
A few years ago, he applied the technique in a smartphone commercial.
Star Wars re-imagined as the throbbing, Spanish language telenovela it was always meant to be.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OwUAawWeQk
Tivoli Heights.
We’re hooked.
Shane Langan writes:
DLRCTV is an online series of shorts, created by filmmaker Alex Gill, featuring snippets of content from a fictional South Dublin public access TV station. Today, we’re releasing our soap opera Tivoli Heights’- It’s written by me (Shane Langan from Diet of Worms) and comedian Eric Lalor. It also features myself and the rest of the Worms, along with Eric himself and Sean Flanagan from Foil, Arms and Hog. You can see more of DLRCTV’s output here.
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