Rare footage of real liquid crystals
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Max Cooper 'Music of the Tides' - official music video by Ben Outram [no CGI used in this film!]
Music taken from Max Cooper's compilation 'Balance 030': smarturl.it/Balance030MaxCooper
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Other credits:
Video edit by Jennifer Tividad
Video grading by Myles Bevan
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What you see may look like computer generated imagery, but it’s actually real lab footage of liquid crystals under a microscope, warping in structure and bending light to create these beautiful scenes of nature in action. The footage was taken by researcher Ben Outram at Oxford and Leeds Universities, and has been edited by Jennifer Tividad into this music video, set to a new track of mine just released on my Balance 030 compilation.
No need for me to give further explanation, as we have it from the expert, Ben Outram!
Enjoy,
Max.
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Early researchers in liquid crystals thought that liquid crystals might be some form of life. In fact, liquid crystals lie somewhere between chemistry and biology. They are phases of matter that are simultaneously fluid and structured. Their colours and iridescence have been the wonder of those who have researched them, and they continue to surprise us with their flowing forms.
The first liquid crystals were identified in biological materials, for example in the membranes of brain neurons. Life is a complicated organisation of liquid and solid components, but how does it self organise? Liquids are not organised enough, and crystals are too rigid. The answer lies in liquid crystal science. Every part of your body that has organisation has, or once had, liquid crystal properties. Liquid crystal membranes of cells are able to hold their shape, divide, heal, and transport in and out the molecules they need to survive, regulate, communicate and function. Unlike normal liquids, the structure of liquid crystals allows them to switch between different states, even encode information, while remaining adaptable, fluid, and sensitive to changes in their chemical and physical environment.
Liquid crystal displays have become ubiquitous, with more displays than people in the world, many times over, representing a multi-billion dollar industry. But their role in biology is still only thinly understood. When we look to the future of technology, we can aim at the very least to replicate the function and complexity of life, and to this, we will do well to unravel more of the mystery, from the mechanical properties of the webs of spiders to the colourful iridescence of beetles and butterflies. Spiders and silkworm contain pouches of liquid crystals from which they produce their silk. The resultant fibre, engineered at the molecular level, is stronger than steel. The spider can alter the chemical and physical properties of the silk to account for differences in temperature, humidity, or web function. A truly astonishing creature. Kevlar, a synthetic fibre that is used in knife-proof vests, owes its invention to the study of spider's silk, as it too starts in a liquid crystal phase. Scientists now are trying to genetically engineer goats to produce the spider silk proteins in their milk, in order to create new and stronger fibres. Further, the photonic properties of some types of liquid crystal produces the iridescence in some beetles and butterflies. Scientists have reverse engineered the optical properties of such systems for everything from producing iridescent liquids and colour-changing mood rings to heat-reflecting transparent insulation and electronic billboards.
In this video, we see some of the flowing forms and transitions that liquid crystals undergo as they flow and undergo transitions between phases.
This video is part of a larger work of photography that will be incorporated into a forthcoming book on liquid crystals. Photography will also be available as prints to order from my Etsy shop. To learn more, please follow my website at www.benjaminoutram.com/
Special thanks to Professor Helen Gleeson and her colleagues at the University of Leeds, and Professor's Steve Elston and Stephen Morris at the University of Oxford, without which the work would not have been possible.
Ben.
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@churchtechno8711
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your recent show at Printworks...my last rave before the Lockdown. Amazing A/V show
The footage was taken by researcher Ben Outram at Oxford and Leeds Universities
3:06 when you rub your eyes too hard and get blinded by this
There's something special here Max. The music speaks, and the patterns are submersive. Every time. You bring to earth something that's cosmic, something not supposed to be touched. But you manage. Thank you, Max.
Just walked out of my job I've been trying to quit for months...Glad I found Max Cooper today :]
@ipreferattitude
3 жыл бұрын
I wish you your highest and best results
@God-Emperor_Elizabeth_the_2nd
3 жыл бұрын
The fuck
@kawaiisenpai6602
3 жыл бұрын
:)
@wsketchy
3 жыл бұрын
@@God-Emperor_Elizabeth_the_2nd oh mighty God-Emperor, may I inquire what the Fuck you are doing in the Max Cooper youtube channel and not on the golden throne
this dude is pure genius
Ironic that I'm watching this on an LCD (liquid crystal display) TV.
@masondeitrick
3 жыл бұрын
Chances are that every person viewing this video is doing so through an LCD
@Zamarae
2 жыл бұрын
@@masondeitrick What kind of screen is a smart phone? :o
@MultiverseCODM
Жыл бұрын
@@Zamarae mostly OLED nowadays
It's comforting, I feel held.
You did it again! Thank you Max
The most beautiful thing ever thanks for showing!
Real Art
This bring me the joy of living, both the video and the song... Thank you!
Awesome! I'd love a 4k version
Everything on this channel blows my mind. Such a treat for the senses.
Masterpiece as always!
Thanks Ben!
Wow! Amazing work!
Fantastic job
I have a couple of questions. Are these liquid crystals always in motion? At what point do they become 'polarized?' Also, how do they react to electricity?
@ItsNeon9
2 жыл бұрын
They have the fluidity of the liquids and the optical properties of crystals.
Your music is equally magical
finally, I understand how the liquid in displays works! awesome
Beautiful
Song is amazing too
Awesome!
Stunning
Great Job 💡
wonderful video
Oh this is Max Copper lol I love your work.
Great show of liquid crystals 👍
I am seeking permission to use two minutes of this for a film project.
Beautiful, I am exploring real time visuals too. Inspiring
wunderschön!
I don't know how they work but I sure know they exist and I just found out they're beautiful
What it looks like when zooming in a mood ring
i wonder what liquid is this ? Is it the one use on tn, va, or ips lcd.
@benjamin_outram
4 жыл бұрын
Nematic, smectic A, smectic C, smectic E and F, discotic (nematic and columnar), crystaline, and chiral nematic (cholesteric).
@vegasvalley30
4 жыл бұрын
Yes the one in LCDs and everywhere even in your eyes
I kind of looks like Shapeshifting
State of the art-mind bogglin
so this the stuff they put in those "Lcd" screens huh?
ALCHEMIST
I just searched Cristalyzed liquated cametek and found this Good music btw so chilling to do homework
It looks like its alive....my trypophobia... lmao
Wow. Nice.
Acid trip:
these are real crystals ?
Holy. What. 😶😯
An impressive artwork, I really appreciate. Would you give us the permission of using parts of the clip for a live-recording of "Shine on you crazy diamond" (Pink Floyd)? We`re CHORD42, a PF - Tribute - Band from Germany. Of course we`ll recommend your work in our credits. Waiting for your answer
@joshuacomparan9090
3 жыл бұрын
Did you ever get an answer?
@trbowc
Жыл бұрын
@@joshuacomparan9090 im wonderin same thing.?
Meaning doesn't come from words, Words come from meaning....
@lazydazewithme
4 жыл бұрын
Woah bro...That's deep.
@Lone_wolf--br7fi
4 жыл бұрын
@@lazydazewithme this comment is deep... In the comment section
Poor goats though.
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The pattern you see when you take LSD or mushrooms looks a lot like this. Kinda makes sense if you the truth about our reality.
Its Liquid crystal on liquid crystal
Why I'm I here rn?
Чому тут так багато настільки геніальних відео?🤯😲😲😲
but liquid crystals are not rare, in fact your mucus is a liquid crystal
@kenmken
5 жыл бұрын
Rare "footage" m8. The description talks about all the ways liquid crystals are present around us. It's this kind of footage of liquid crystals that is rare.
As someone who has minor synesthesia, I feel that the music and video compliment eachother perfectly
This is exactly what I see tripping
I came for the crystals so I listened with the sound off, sorry. This video is breathtaking. Everything I always hoped for from "screen savers" and audio visualizers, but they inevitably disappointed with their predictable, formulaic patterns. Guess you can't still can't fake nature, not this convincingly.
Vigana