Sachiko Kodama: When I Met This Material

[Harzzu]

Porsche uses magnetorheological fluid in their engine mounts which is pretty much same stuff as ferrofluid.

[Unundead]

Ferrofluid evaporates quickly. and the stuff isn't cheep. i wonder if the displays are air sealed.

[KDCindustries]

Is the spike hollowed out so that the electromagnet can be fitted within it, or is it a solid piece of metal?

[HybridWaterMan2]

It is a very tranquil and organic type sculpture- love the use of ferrofluid!

[welstijlfilms]

I published this video on the Dutch website WELSTIJL (14 april) Kind regards Sem Mallée

[kc7fys]

That is a typical mis-translation of "meet" from Japanese to English, in which inanimate objects are said to be "met" by humans. "Encounter," "come upon," "discover," or other words are more suitable and convey the intent of the speaker's Japanese expression correctly. Perhaps it was kept as a sort of novel phrase for an art idiom--but I'm willing to bet it was not Kodama's intent.

[IamTheEditor]

This stuff is super fun to play with.

[MusicologoImperfecto]

What would happen if you put this in a humans blood?.. i know you'd die, but WHAT WOULD THE REACTION BE WITH MAGNETS AROUND THAT BODY?...

This is fucking amazing..

[metamaterial]

There is research to do just that to deliver medicine to the right places. The toxicity depends greatly on the surfactant used, but regardless it won't form those nice spikes in the blood. To do that, you would have to practically replace the blood, and there we're back to boring, gruesome certain death.

And Now You Know!

[GoodTunesFtw]

They actually use some ferrofluids for contrast in MRI scanning, so in controlled situations it is not deadly. Don't drink it though....

[ChocolateArabian]

Wicked. But cool...

[Chavtheworld]

I had a shit that looked like that once.

[DeViLiN888]

I will buy it one day!

[boognish1975]

pfft ive been making these things for like six years with $30 of home depot parts

[askfoxy]

hmmm idk if i believe you . . .

[litlelowie]

for 1 week now i have been trying to find out where to buy this stuff

[luciferthecopy]

search ferrofluid in google

[historico69]

This work of 'art' is going to open new worlds to new physics of angular momentum and how quickly changing weight distribution relative to friction affects its gravitation to all objects around it.

[UntoldGood]

Well NASA did create it... for next-gen Space Suits.

[uetzel]

where can i buy this shit???

[hotyoko]

This is a spectacular work of art which needs to be realized on a grander scale very quickly, before the simple science is adapted to a cheesy commodification. It makes me sad to see Sachiko's work presented like this, with ridiculously inappropriate music in the background and random people of little credential giving commentary. Do this correctly and you have a place in history; do it this way and Spencer Gifts sells their version in the mall.

[MatSallehBoleh]

art wanker

[UntoldGood]

What are you talking about?

The "random people of little credential" you speak of are her American Art Rep - the only person you can buy one from in the USA - and the other guy is her publicist who she PAYS to talk about her.

And the music is from a FRIEND of Sachiko's.

GET A CLUE BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH.

[juneubugmints]

I wonder how they discovered this liquid... or did they create it?

[puretroubleman]

Its nano technology look up ferrofluid

[superhornet59]

theres nothing nano about it. its just a colloid of iron oxide and oil.

[skateboardnober]

i bet the guy/girl who discovered this liquid was drinking water and had a magnet on his hand. lol

[mamarracha]

* their... for all you pedants. lol

[Marceloyay]

amazing, I want this :/

[bobbystips]

That would be perfect if they adjusted it slightly and turned it into an ashtray.

[pboulding]

I want to hook it up to my itunes visualizations.

[MermaidPrincessMeg]

That would be so cool to see... brilliant idea!

[karlpaolokarlpaolo]

how can i get one of this???.. i want to put it in my room.. i like to stare it all day..

[lissabunny9]

so cool.

[MacoCoffee]

I have been thinking about DIYing this myself my only prob is that i cant find a electro-magnetic controller can anyone help?

[freeanderson]

Would this technology be a basis of robot like T-1000 in the Terminator 2?

[kaowietz]

If so, then Arnold would easily beat him without a shotgun

[mattisthegodofwar]

ive seen this before

when dealing with magnets, they use this liquid to show how the magnetic field works

i give this woman very little credit for simply using a spiral metal thing

because thats all she did, this technology has been around, she just made it look cooler buy using a metal spike

i could have thought of that

especially if i was in her field and dealt with magnets and that metallic liquid

[ace3001]

You could have thought of it, but you didn't did you?

[jennzillakilla]

thank you ace, it always pisses me off when people discredit artists' work because it "looks" like something they "could do" but they didnt do it! and it's more than an aesthetic, there is always a concept, and an inspiration behind it as well.

[mamarracha]

yes, so true. I hate when people say when they finish they're 'real' jobs they might write a book about their shit lives like writing wasn't real job that takes real training and discipline. ugh.

[beholder9000]

the way she talks is very funny!!

[dogstar75]

she talks just fine, you're a fucking idiot

[beholder9000]

I am Spanish, and she just remember me the way we speak English, don´t to insult.

[dogstar75]

im very sorry.

[xevilhunter88]

I understood her better than the other "native-speakers"

[StimsonsGhetto]

TO those that wanted to touch it... it is composed of microscopic pieces of Iron (ferrous) suspended in oil. Touching it would result in a tattoo-like stain on the skin.

[lolll666]

i guess it's kinda innovative. i got the same feeling watching this as i did watching a lava lamp for my first time as a kid. it's not so much the artistic factor as it is the shock factor of "how is this really happening?" captivating you. it'll probably wear off for some people and for others you'll remember it, that's art i guess... eye of the beholder and whatnot

[AstonMartinFREAK]

once i get a job, i dget 1 4 my desk. it wood b so cool 2 hav that sitting ther while ur working

[MacoCoffee]

sry to tell u but just to buy ferro fluid cost $150 just for a 1000ml. bottle sry :(

[yauchomifan]

I wanna touch it. :(

[nakedsanta1]

...that's what she said

[carcss]

es increible...

[mystermix]

It would be really neat to see this on a larger scale as an element in a sci-fi/futuristic environment. Even as a reality at some point. Imagine it as a focal point in a huge atrium or something.

Oh, the possibilities.

[zenshiva]

i am confused. so she took approximately 5-10 year old findings and "made it art"? i dont' give her the credit for this. all she is doing is showing a high school science project experiment to the public.

[jamawu]

you must be confused. obviously you have a very narrow-minded idea of what art should be if you have any idea what art is at all.

[IBSuperFan]

PAINT is an old discovery too... but "artists" keep using it.

It is what she did with the 'findings' that make it "art" and AMAZING.

[drplbiftin]

photography began as a scientific medium too, look where that went. open your mind...

[Sroek]

You're closed minded and ignorant.

[JuggernautXUG]

it's the prototype of the t-1000 or whatever the liquid metal terminator was called...

[icetea1977]

i think this stuff would be indeed very evil in a larger version...something out of a spiderman movie..taking over the world...wooooh

[bigblubox]

awesome!

she should build one 6 ft tall!! :)

[komalmomin]

delicious!!

[cransono]

Sure, the technology behind this is interesting. But as art? I think the childs toy liquid sand is in the same family. I would much rather watch a fire or the ocean. Filed as over-hyped. Lemme know when you guys post a video about the technology involved.

[lookingforit66]

If this art starts asking if your name is Sarah Connor, burn it!

[jilbert01]

that's it Im putting my lavalamp on Ebay

[MuslimGhost]

DIGG

[FrostBytePCz]

Why is so much shit put on digg now adays. . .

[j0se007]

DIGG

[Makave22]

mofo tower

[ratcatcher3000]

Do we really need this crap music played throughout? If the piece is silent, let some of this be in silence. I don't need dramatic music to tell me what to feel.

[Druid51]

FAGGOT

[ratcatcher3000]

i would respond but i'm guessing your f***ing your farm animals at the moment.

[Windblade07]

Trust me when I say mood music is better then no music. This would be exceedingly dry if it didn't have any background noise.

[earlvanze]

A lot of videos just have music that not necessarily is crappy, but just doesn't have the mood to it.

I like this one, it's very professional.

[crazycraka555]

gook

[gamertipz]

if you just use a magnet, they form little spikes towards the magnet if it is above the fluid.

If the magnet is below, then a dome of the liquid is formed.

I had a chance to play with this stuff at EAA AirVenture 2008 :-)

[FatPlus1]

Who cares about these yuppie guys. Damn.

[uniterscron]

They should put it in starbucks. An ever flowing coffee? Yum.

[ServeTheBeaver]

art made by people who already have shitloads of money XD

very cool though

[daysleeperchuk]

this is barely art, it's a happy coincidence that liquid w/metal in it responds to current and looks cool,but art ...

[optik404]

art is subjective. this may not be art to you. but ive seen "art" in gallerys where its nothing more than a blank white canvas with a red/blue/green circle somewhere on it. so how is that art and this isnt?

[robotsound]

you really saw that in a gallery? what gallery and who was the artist? this is just some BS statement that people make. i dont believe you actually saw that. pix or it didn't happen.

[IBSuperFan]

Um... Patricia Faure Gallery in Santa Monica CA??? It says it in the video...

[IBSuperFan]

People - you are all just SO WRONG.

If you take the fluid and a magnet and put them together... they do NOT look like this.

It is the form and the way it is composed that makes it special.

Just look at it! Does it look freekin cool? OK, well then that is art.

[Dystisis]

Art is about the laws of nature, ways we can represent them etc... so yes, this is art.

[skawt]

very beautiful, but the man who's explaining her art is overly annoying and has a horrible lexicon. He needs to STFU

[JEC18159]

Kinda reminds me of the T1000 in terminator 2! :o

[bobdole]

whats so amazing about magnets?

[rrearleii]

ferroliquid is OLLLLLLLDDD news.

[bentsimon]

too much talking. let me see it

[shoegazer666]

that's carbonite dude...

[twiddles01]

Buy some ferro-fluid and get yourself a magnet, you'll be fuckin' set.

The magnetic moment of the atoms in the fluid align with the applied magnetic field, but when they all align, the atoms repel one another(Like bringing magnets together the wrong way round; north pole to north and south to south). The structure which forms is just due to these two phenomena in equilibrium.

[funtastik1985]

It's the black goo from Spiderman :D

[insatiablesalami]

no it isnt you ugly shit

[Ortheos2006]

Learn to eat shit and die intolerant bitch.

[videodump]

Hahaha. Loser :)

[w4ck02]

ur probably some retarded american nub who has never left the country. try learning japanese and speak as fluently as them kthxbye. appreciate things

[sotarts]

Ok, so where do I buy one?

[jomomo]

Does it have to always be spikes?

[RocketmanUT]

It's the black death guy from TNG!

[meinrosebud]

The lava lamp 2008, yawn.

[g0dLikeGuitarist]

I want one

[Ch3mG33k]

Ferrofluid!

[TheKoopaBros]

Very cool. Reminds me of a lava lamp almost.

[Intervene]

SOUP COOKIES AND CHEESE

[hzhangcom]

SEXY!

[itzlagana]

"While most visual artists prefer traditional materials such as oil, acrylic, bronze and ceramic"

what century are you from??

[BichImPaid]

I can tell that you have a vagina. Your idiocy revealed the fact.

[smavey]

LOL

[rsquaredtheshow]

aesthetic can also be spelled esthetic. it's just less common.

[wsuwg]

does she really need subtitles? ...

[pfcmazz]

yep

[g0dLikeGuitarist]

Yes yes she does

[freshpinesent]

FUCK SALT!!! This is much better.

[felixmother]

something hard for me to do is figure out if you are stupid. esthetic is better known as aesthetic, retard.

[Mrstupid7]

This is old. Ferroliquids have been around for a while.

[proto0001]

well. i guess the main problem for this artist is how to distinguish if theres any actual esthetic quality in her work or if merely "the material is cool". i guess it will become like those pieces of decoration -you know?- of bubbles in plasma inside glasses ... or anything like that. art? not.

[geekoftexas]

Are those subtitles really necessary?

[deathcrypt]

Lava Lamps... OF THE FUTURE!!

[proudjester]

haha He STUMBLED across her work.

[WildAnimalJack]

Too damn cool

[MacoCoffee]

Your a complete idiot "asian people" are the one responsible for creating you Wii PSP and PS3 you idiot there also the ones who have made big advancements to the tech world...Im half Japanese and proud of it oh and asian people are not yellow retard...

[menindorf]

Anti-racist but clearly pro "retard" slamming? Interesting. . . *cough*

[Winnarly]

Shut up and watch the video again. You must have missed something if you aren't thinking peaceful, positive thoughts.

[TranceYourDestiny]

lol i want one!!!

[gatoyoshi]

can i do this at home?

what materials i need?

[LUEsho]

thats so fucking awesome

[catiun]

0:39 "I was screwin around online" looooool

Anyways nice video, that's really cool =D

[whywhyWHYY]

this is really cool... I wanna make the ferrofluid

[conceitarturo]

Somebody should get two cameras and make a stereoscopic recording of Sachiko Kodama's work. that way one could view it in it's full 3d effect....just by crossing one's eyes =)

[tefodeputa]

Amazing... Does it work with magnetic fields?

Crazy, cool, incredible...

Bring it to Brasil! I want one of that in home!

Congratulations!

Bye!