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Amazing video: Magnetic fields made visible

Magnetic fields are all around us, but they're usually invisible. Not when British filmmakers Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt get a hold of them. Their film group, called Semiconductor, created "Magnetic Movie," where they've turned audio recordings of magnetic fields into arty animations. This innovative work won them honors as Best Film at Cutting Edge at the British Animation Awards 2008.

Next, these creative filmmakers might want to scare up everyone with animation of the waves swirling around all of us 24/7 from cell phones, television, power lines, microwaves, radio and the sun. Let's just hope all this stuff doesn't cause cancer. Either way, any more movies like this one, and we'll all feel like wearing tinfoil hats.

Magnetic Movie via Semiconductor on Vimeo.

 
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By IsoTek at 7:57 PM ON 07/08/08

Mommy!

By DrMunzert at 9:24 PM ON 07/08/08

Great video, important topic! Thank you!
If you want to know what wild microwaves can do, visit www.mikrowellenterror.de . By the way tinfoil hats won't work!
Best wishes from Germany Dr. Reinhard Munzert

By Tech Life at 5:00 AM ON 07/09/08

Thank you !!! WOW !!!

By dailydesignspot at 2:24 PM ON 07/12/08

i must admit that after watching this i am filled with that sense of wonder and wanting more..
my name is jonathan harper and i am a canadian born individual living and working as a therapist in the US deep south.. my gf is a masters student (fibers) at SCAD and my passion is design...
i would really love to know more about the process, applications and possibilities of this amazing production... both for science and also art/design/fun
i mean think about the beautiful products you could create with this process.. very exciting
if anyone is interested in exploring this more get in touch!
take care
jonathan

dailydesignspot.com

By Anonymous at 1:48 AM ON 07/14/08

I'm really getting tired of sites that talk all about the iPhone's ups and downs and then try to look at a video about the subject and then can't watch it because it not in the h264 format neccessary to be viewed on the iPhone. Jeeze people, if you want to get the users attention you should at least make it so they can see what you're arguing about. I'm getting tired of the bait and switch tactics of the Internet sharks. So much so that maybe its time to have a good old fashioned boycott of the sites guilty of luring iPhone users to there stir only to be let down with the vision of the blue cube. I'm sure an electronic Internet boycott would be a whole lot easier to pull off than the old analog ones were!!!!

By eddy baby at 2:14 AM ON 07/18/08

maybe in the future… a way of broadcasting power along roads to power electric cars through antennas
nicoli tessla was the first on that thought


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