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Les Artificiers

Pixflow Admin — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 08:07:32 +0000

Les Artificiers directed by Jeanne Lula Chauveau

Envisioning Chemistry: Flowers & Colors

Pixflow Admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 08:57:15 +0000

Most red, blue, or purple flowers contain pigments called anthocyanins, whose colors are sensitive to pH (the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution)

As a result, when we immerse a blue flower into an acid or basic solution, its color is likely to change to red in acid condition, or to green or yellow in basic condition. In this film, to get the most dramatic effects, we immersed all flowers in saturated sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solutions and used macro lenses and a microscope to capture their glorious color transformations.

CYCLE

Pixflow Admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 07:20:21 +0000

Life is a cycle.
We are dying from birth, reborn till death

n physics, chemistry, and others, there is an idea of “dynamic equilibrium”.This idea denotes that, because two processes move to reverse direction each other at the same speed, the state changes continuously from a micro point of view but does not change from a macro point of view.

Human beings cannot be seen to be changed from outside, but many organs and cells repeat life and death in the body. In the work, I expressed the scene by magnifying and emphasizing it.The life exists by repeating life and death in its own body, and in its cycle, by changing itself little by little, it appears to change itself in a form of “samsara” or “evolution”.

DIFFUSION

Pixflow Admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 08:36:41 +0000

Why don’t humans have patterned texture like animals?

Diffusion short film by Kouhei Nakama was inspired by his encounter with mathematical formulas, Reaction-Diffusion Systems. It is reported that patterns generated by the systems have similarities to natural patterns of animals, insects and plants. It is also pointed out that this pattern could be the basis of the morphogenesis of an organism.

“Just after the encounter with the formulas, I had a question in my mind. Why isn’t human skin covered with patterns? As I researched, I found that human skin is also covered with the pattern, Blaschko’s lines. The stripes are ordinarily invisible with the naked eye, because they are very vague.

I consider that there is the possibility that people could obtain patterns like animals in the future. In the future, if we have a drastic environmental change we would need to recombine our DNA with different species’ for protection. Consequently, human skin could gain patterns.”

Nakama didn’t use any photographs or any hand-drawn illustration in his video: all patterns and the skin texture were programming generated and the human model was made by using a computer. In the video, human beings have DNA transferred from other natural organisms such as luminescent coral and a shell absorbing metal into its body.