In recent years, the art of filming ink in water has been popularized in videos by fluid artists like Susi Sie, and French filmmaker Thomas Vanz who once recreated the scene of a dying star in a small aquarium. For Ink In Motion, the Macro Room team placed a medium-sized aquarium atop a light box and used thin syringes to dispense clouds of ink into the water. The macro lens picks up every intricate detail as the ink surges and swells around clever set pieces like a flower, a model solar system, and a 3D-printed cityscape. Watch the full video below:
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