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Permalink Reply by Strider on November 15, 2012 at 5:05pm

Wow, another really cool Mikey Please video! I knew it was his as soon as I saw the pure white foam - everything! 

That effect kind of reminds me of the effets they used to project behind rock bands in clubs in the 60's. I forget what song it was, but I remember seeing an old Black Sabbath concert clip with that stuff projected up behind them. 

The used to use a thin film of different colored oils and maybe water between two sheets of glass laid on a projector (lke the kind they used to have in schools - transparency projector). For something like that effect (in the video you just posted) I'd play around with a thin sheet of plastic laid in the bottom of the Pyrex dish and placing transprent forms on top of it while filming from underneath. Not sure how to make the forms move - maybe replacement pieces or hinged acrylic pieces? 

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Ah, try looking up Oil Wheel - that's what those things were called. Just ran across an eHow article that mentioned using two clear clock faces (glass or plastic shallow dishes essentially) with a thin film of mineral oil and various transparent candy tints pressed between them. The heat of the light makes it move around and you get different effects by spinning, pressing etc. and adding more drops of tinted oil or water. 

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Permalink Reply by Steve Boot on November 16, 2012 at 2:54pm

Thats a great film.  I really like his stuff to.  The paints are probably "marbling inks", but no idea what makes the shapes. 

It might help to look back over some of his old films and try and figure out how he progressed to that point.  He did one called "glens gloves" which is a very different technique, a kind of shadow play with drawing going on at the same time.  Then he did this, which is similar

http://vimeo.com/14428569

to which he says -

"An old test development on the Glens Glove's technique. Whereas GG was filmed on a little chair with the seat ripped out and a fish tank duck-taped to the top, here I build a chromed up, reverse light box with articulated lighting bulbs and internal rosewood camera tripod un'shit."

then on to the technique your trying to acheive

http://vimeo.com/13677684

"It was basically one long reverse shot filming through the underside of a fish tank. I had lots of compartments of the tank containing the different shots that i would then introduce section by section. thats not a very good explanation. I usually just say its stopmotion frozen jelly and people buy it."

Its good that he doesn't explain it fully, he's earnt his knowledge with innovation and experimention - and I'm sure you will too.  Even if you don't get the exact result you want you might hit upon something equally cool. Good luck

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Permalink Reply by Meki Haron on November 20, 2012 at 8:45am

you can achieve a similar burst of color effect using milk, food coloring and dish soap.   heres a link to a youtube video on it....   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPFwDaR1g70&feature=colike  

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