I'd wondered for YEARS what this was called, the local theater used to do one of these in between movies. Thank you so much, I feel like I've regained a lost piece of my childhood.
After almost two decades of VJ-ing on computers and staring at screens, I've recently wanted to get away from digital and dive more into analog, partly because I've been purging from too much technology, and partly because I started getting migranes. I love the idea of getting back to the roots, how it all started! I really appreciate analog visuals and I'm excited to experiment, thanks for breaking it down!
Dude.. solid. As a kid i was always obsessed with this. Went to new york city at 16 and me and dad saw a liquid light show at the hayden planetarium by Joshua Light Show Joshua was a dick to me when i asked him how this stuff was done. Told me to look it up online and found nothing Just found this video randomly, thank you so much its so goddamn helpful
Wow man is that ever cool! In the 1960's these were called heavy water displays. The Iron Butterfly album cover has one as the background. Also, in the 1980's the Allman Brothers Band used one as the back drop on stage and it was live and changed with the heavy beat and rythm. They used a glass brownie tray and an overhead projector. Thanks so much for showing us the way! Beautiful.
Nice that this is still around. I had the good fortune of being resident liquid light and other creative projection stuff for a nightclub, RPM Toronto, for 5 years or so back in the late 80s
Dude, that is so cool. I saw The Charlatans in 1991 and they had a great oil and water light show. I never saw another show like it but it made such an impression and has stayed with me until now, 29 years later. I think I saw you have a video about how you would set up for a live show. I'm gonna check that out too. When I put on a show I want to try to get this going on. It's brilliant. What a great tutorial. Many many thanks.
I use special slide projectors with horizontal light stages, these concentrate more light in less space so dyes can be more concentrated and colors more saturated, the mixing crystals are about 2 inches across, the lower layer can be patterned glass which imparts rigid shape onto otherwise fluid shape. Much less liquid is used. If one fills a crystal with heavily SALTED water (salt well dissolved) water dye such as food color or water based transparent inks will not mix together despite being water based, they float on top of the heavy salt water and I suspect imprint separate channels into it so that they do not mix of their own accord but may be stirred up. This looks like the clouds of Jupiter. I'd like to know if others are using the same technique with the salt water and water based dyes, this allows virtually any number of colors to remain separated unless stirred up too much, it operates much like the technique of book marbling only no sea weed is used, perhaps sea weed jells salt water, something like hair jell might work to0 further thicken the salt water but for my little stages salt alone is enough. sugar softens and feathers the patterns, alcohol or soap instantly destroys the separation erasing the patterns., oil adds a weird shimmer but has little effect on the water dye separation pattern because it floats above the dyes like a lacquer and LOOKS like a lacquer , dyed oil is particularly interesting because it adds a "finish" with tinted "shine" You move the dye about with pins that have been heated and imbedded in a sheet of clear plastic similar to the pins used in book marbling., or with fishing line, transparent comb, or other minimally invasive implement, but you do not squish them between crystals, it does not work. I would assume all this this would work on a larger scale for overheads but I've never tried it.
Maybe the best video I've ever seen on RUclips. I've tried this with a pair of clock faces before, but only using oil and water. I'd never added alcohol. And I used candy dye, but never got very intense colors. Thank you very much for demoing this!
Steve, thank you. Such a fascinating video on how to create liquid light shows. How generous of you to share your techniques! Was so into light shows when I was a teenager going to concerts, when my dream was to be a psychedelic artist. And I agree-these hand done optics are more interesting than the plethora of more mechanical creations-what you call “lazy,” ha ha. Beautiful, organic shapes & colors, like something Ma Nature would create.
this is a beautiful art form and i feel like a resurgence is on the way soon. at least i think i can't be the only one trying to get into liquid light projections
o yeah, almost forgot - the effects are awesome!! The alchohol tip, the advice to not bother wthi food dye and the detail explaining the use of separate dyes for water and oil are major secrets revealed saving countless hours of trial and error. THANK YOU!!!
Fantastic tutorial! I have had an OHP sitting in my basement for MONTHS just collecting dust. I'm-a pull it out an go psychedelic with that baby!!! A thousand thanks to you sir!!!
I have some more videos in the works... I also have a store where I sell some of the supplies to do this if you want to get into it - www.LiquidLightShop.com
no.. Thank YOU! i do projections at parties but am performing my first overhead projector liquid light show and your comprehensive video surely helps me a tonne right now. Subscribed !
was looking for awesome visuals to add to my band's shows and stumbled on a Dead tribute band with a live liquid show like this. said "damn, that so cool". then I typed in "how to do a liquid light show" and bam, here I am. thank you for your service.
Love the tutorial. I love the randomness you get from the dyes so much more than a typical light show (lasers and projected lights on their own). I hope to incorporate this style of light show into something in the future.
thanks man, super helpful. im looking to add this as a layer to my CRT video feedback looping rig. and hey, clock glass! i never would have thought of that.
This is absolutely fantastic. Great presentation. Really opened my eyes to the possibilities. My band Elephant Path is trying to work this into our live set with fans being able to participate in helping create the light show. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks for the tutorial! I managed to put together a small light show using etched glass for a friends performance and it was a hit. My bulb burned out after about 4 hours but I should be getting a replacement soon. I wouldn't have been able to do it without your tutorial. Much appreciated.
in the 70's and 80's i worked at a sound co. and would provide sound and light shows at parties, schools, we had two metior pro beams that had two steel rods that came out of the front and you would slide a motor unit over the rods and drop in these cassettes we had, we had a whole case of them, oil cassettes, flowers even a orgy scene that would rotate very slow but light up the whole wall. very bright, very sharp optics. i can't even find a picture of them now on the internet., not the projector, not the cassettes. nothing. i loved messing with that thing. just don't grab the orgy cassette at a high school gig. the cassettes were about 6-7 inches round and made of glass with a rubber edge so the motor could drive it. oil cassettes were a two pirce unit to make random shapes.
I watched a light show group called Little Princess 109 doing this at the Fillmore/Carousel in San Francisco many years ago. I was fascinated. They also ran 8MM loops of film on separate projectors with trippy M.C. Escher like animated drawings. The 60's version of an animated GIF.
big psyche head, but a youngin'. I never knew i wanted to do liquid light shows because i never knew they existed. This is the $#!T! Thanks for the demo, gl to ya...Here I am spending weeks with shader programs or days with AE+Blender and this guy makes me think...Why don't I just use and film natural effects >_> I'm pretty into film photography and painting so this isn't anything new to me, I understand fluid dynamics relatively well...But even so, this would have never occurred to me. With just this I'm already thinking of all sorts of chemicals and dyes that solute in different solvents....Man, I blew some glass before on someone else's bench and this is making me crave my own shop from carpentry and welding to glass blowing and painting...
Thanks dude this is awesome, very helpful! Glad you did it. After watching this I am now realizing that my biggest problem with what I was doing was not being patient enough... It looked very similar to the way it looked in the beginning.
Love the video. Amazing colors. Thanks for sharing. Is there a way - emulgation or something? - to stop the oil from "moving to the side" so fastly and kind of slow down the process a bit? Just thinking on a live gig... would be hard work to keep the liquids in motion by shaking the glass every 3 seconds for straight two hours.
This is really cool... I couple of questions... I wonder if by using permanent dyes (and maybe ice) that you could make some really cool custom frisbees
Amazing! thanks so much, there is so little out there about this, I had gathered the equipment and started doing it, but got bored as i couldnt get it quite right, i didnt knew about the alcohol, that opened my mind. Im starting doing again. thanks again for the huge help
Thanks for posting this, man. This was awesome, just what i was looking for. I'm in a Pink Floyd cover/tribute band, as well as one for The Doors, and I plan to do this and probably film a bunch and edit them together for projection next time we play.
Nice!! The last 3 concerts I went to showcased this and I had never seen it before. I was watching the guy do this and it looked at rudimentary that I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Would love to see a video on that digital processing side of it, like how it's transmitted to the screen behind the band. I'm guessing there's an info path using cameras, computers, processor, projector?
Yes! It's a camera and light table set up, and that goes through a video mixer and to the screens.. I actually sell some of the gear to be used for this: www.LiquidLightShop.com
Thank you SO much for creating and explaining!! This takes me straight back to my childhood. I was a kid in the SF Bay Area in the late 60s/early seventies, and these images up on a screen or wall were a huge visual part of that. (And the wiki page for liquid light show *really* sucks.)
You're welcome!... I checked out the wikipedia page after you mentioned it, and it is pretty bad. Seems like since anyone can edit it, there are quite a few people who seem to added their own entries while neglecting others, or moved themselves to the top of the list.. If you're interested, I recently posted a video here about the evolution of liquid light shows. While not as in depth with regards to the scope or artists who could be mentioned, the important ones are there, as are some key developments in the artforms procession. And some cool pictures too :)
Good stuff, brother! It's true there never really has been a lot of information about this craft. I very much into all kinds of analog effects as I'm making music all-analog these days too. I'll definitely be incorporating what I've learned here into music videos and eventually some live performances! Keeping the hand craft alive :)
Dude, I did my own wet shows in my folk's attic about a hundred years ago and I didn't even think about layering! That is a great idea, I just might start doing them again just for the grins. Have you ever tried a VERY small piece of dry ice in the dye mixture? It was really intense! Have you experimented with polarized light? Just wondering, what the effect would be?
This is f**kin AWESOME and i love the delivery. I'm wanting to take up this art form now. So thank you for that, so inspiring. I wanna add it to a film clip I'm working on so i like what you said at the end about clips today looking kinda fake and analouge art forms being great. :)
Muchas gracias por hacer este tutorial. He aprendido muchisimo. Hasta hace poco no sabia de esta tecnica. Este tutorial es exelente. Muchas gracias. (translation: Thank you very much for making this tutorial. I learned a lot. Until recently I did not know this technique. This tutorial is excellent. Thank you very much.)
nice effect! have you considered adding a basic parts list? the clock face glass seems like a rare item. could these pieces be done in plastic and not glass? then someone could have them fabricated more easily?
fractalmaui plastic won’t work well, because the oil will cloud up the material. I actually have had glass made custom, which I sell. We should have more in stock soon - liquidlightlab.bigcartel.com/category/art-supplies
This looks so simple to do and so fascinating. I had to rewatch a few times to see exactly how you recorded it before I realized you said you were using an HD camera. I kept wondering why you are using the LED screen Drawing Tablet? Just for the underneath light?
It's to illuminate the liquids. Normally one would use an overhead projector to transmit the image, but here I am just lighting it up, then capturing with a camera for demonstration. But I do also use video capture in a live setting as well.
Ahh, gotcha! I figured that was the sole reason, you're right, this is deceptively simple activity! It seems like a viable way to make original video clips that could make great graphics for music video. Finding this tutorial really has made me very uplifted and excited to give this a try, even if its just for fun! thank you for explaining this and making it fun to watch and learn about this art type. I'll come back to this post and share a video of my experiments once I find the money for this. The very last thing I wanted to be certain about is that you are using two types of color dye for this, right? First, you used the liquid water color which can be replaced with inks or certain types of dye, and then you add the oil based liquid candle dye? I know I can just re watch the video for the product names, but your answer I will still find very helpful. Thank you so much for making this video!
I think it'd be neat to do this over the top of a projection of some old school rubber leg cartoons... I'm not sure how you could get that to project though.
I know I'm late to the party here with this question since it looks like the last question answered was 7 years ago but I'll give it a shot. Will convex circular plexiglass (acrylic) work as a substitute for glass? I have access to the plexiglass, that's why I ask. Thanks.
No, plastic won't work because oil doesn't clear off it very well.. If you're interested, I sell high quality, custom designed glass in my shop - www.LiquidLightShop.com
They have to be different curvatures. That is more important than the size. That way, you can hold on to the top one and control it... I sell custom glass, made specifically for LL shows on my store, if you are interested. Cheers! - www.liquidlightshop.com/
@@LiquidLightLab thanks for the tip. I am getting inspired by your and Chris's videos. My uncle was brother ed langdon, one of the founders of the brotherhood of light.
Nothing, I sometimes like to show it so people know that it's a real person doing this live... But if you do want to blocks things off, using a mask on the light source helps. Check out my video about the overhead projector, which talks a bit about masks.
I'd wondered for YEARS what this was called, the local theater used to do one of these in between movies. Thank you so much, I feel like I've regained a lost piece of my childhood.
After almost two decades of VJ-ing on computers and staring at screens, I've recently wanted to get away from digital and dive more into analog, partly because I've been purging from too much technology, and partly because I started getting migranes. I love the idea of getting back to the roots, how it all started! I really appreciate analog visuals and I'm excited to experiment, thanks for breaking it down!
I've been wondering why this art form had nearly gone extinct. It seems that very few people still understand the subtleties behind it. Thank you!
Dude.. solid. As a kid i was always obsessed with this.
Went to new york city at 16 and me and dad saw a liquid light show at the hayden planetarium by Joshua Light Show
Joshua was a dick to me when i asked him how this stuff was done. Told me to look it up online and found nothing
Just found this video randomly, thank you so much its so goddamn helpful
Wow man is that ever cool! In the 1960's these were called heavy water displays. The Iron Butterfly album cover has one as the background. Also, in the 1980's the Allman Brothers Band used one as the back drop on stage and it was live and changed with the heavy beat and rythm. They used a glass brownie tray and an overhead projector. Thanks so much for showing us the way! Beautiful.
Nice that this is still around.
I had the good fortune of being resident liquid light and other creative projection stuff for a nightclub, RPM Toronto, for 5 years or so back in the late 80s
Wow, cool!
@@LiquidLightLab I just found out recently that the interaction of oil/water is used to model superfluids.
Dude, that is so cool. I saw The Charlatans in 1991 and they had a great oil and water light show. I never saw another show like it but it made such an impression and has stayed with me until now, 29 years later. I think I saw you have a video about how you would set up for a live show. I'm gonna check that out too. When I put on a show I want to try to get this going on. It's brilliant. What a great tutorial. Many many thanks.
Steve there should be a Discord for this
I use special slide projectors with horizontal light stages, these concentrate more light in less space so dyes can be more concentrated and colors more saturated, the mixing crystals are about 2 inches across, the lower layer can be patterned glass which imparts rigid shape onto otherwise fluid shape. Much less liquid is used. If one fills a crystal with heavily SALTED water (salt well dissolved) water dye such as food color or water based transparent inks will not mix together despite being water based, they float on top of the heavy salt water and I suspect imprint separate channels into it so that they do not mix of their own accord but may be stirred up. This looks like the clouds of Jupiter. I'd like to know if others are using the same technique with the salt water and water based dyes, this allows virtually any number of colors to remain separated unless stirred up too much, it operates much like the technique of book marbling only no sea weed is used, perhaps sea weed jells salt water, something like hair jell might work to0 further thicken the salt water but for my little stages salt alone is enough. sugar softens and feathers the patterns, alcohol or soap instantly destroys the separation erasing the patterns., oil adds a weird shimmer but has little effect on the water dye separation pattern because it floats above the dyes like a lacquer and LOOKS like a lacquer , dyed oil is particularly interesting because it adds a "finish" with tinted "shine" You move the dye about with pins that have been heated and imbedded in a sheet of clear plastic similar to the pins used in book marbling., or with fishing line, transparent comb, or other minimally invasive implement, but you do not squish them between crystals, it does not work. I would assume all this this would work on a larger scale for overheads but I've never tried it.
what is the name and model of the projector you use?
Maybe the best video I've ever seen on RUclips. I've tried this with a pair of clock faces before, but only using oil and water. I'd never added alcohol. And I used candy dye, but never got very intense colors. Thank you very much for demoing this!
You should also do a video on how to set it up for a live performance
Yes, this comment right here! 🤘🏼
Finally added part 2! - ruclips.net/video/vn7_ctQjqhE/видео.html
@@Z9zs Thanks! I usually sell them in my store www.LiquidLightShop.com. I have another shipment coming in a couple of weeks.
You’re referring to Pink Floyd I suppose..
I hope you still answer questions, but what did you use to record the art from up top? Or was the recordingg made from the tablet?
Steve, thank you. Such a fascinating video on how to create liquid light shows. How generous of you to share your techniques! Was so into light shows when I was a teenager going to concerts, when my dream was to be a psychedelic artist. And I agree-these hand done optics are more interesting than the plethora of more mechanical creations-what you call “lazy,” ha ha. Beautiful, organic shapes & colors, like something Ma Nature would create.
this is a beautiful art form and i feel like a resurgence is on the way soon. at least i think i can't be the only one trying to get into liquid light projections
Thamks for this tutorial. I am fascinated by this and wish to pursue this art form.
You're welcome. Check my website to learn more. I also have an online store where I sell supplies to make these - www.LiquidLightShop.com
You've permanently changed my life with this video. Thank you so much
o yeah, almost forgot - the effects are awesome!! The alchohol tip, the advice to not bother wthi food dye and the detail explaining the use of separate dyes for water and oil are major secrets revealed saving countless hours of trial and error. THANK YOU!!!
My 2015 project will be making one of these, full scale with cellophane wheels and cut outs too. I cant wait to get started.
Fantastic tutorial! I have had an OHP sitting in my basement for MONTHS just collecting dust. I'm-a pull it out an go psychedelic with that baby!!! A thousand thanks to you sir!!!
Email this guy. He is very friendly and helpful. I'm looking for part II....
maybe one day
Excellent tutorial...you fired up my imagination
Amazing I need to lern more get back in to this open the chanel again this is so Organic
I have some more videos in the works... I also have a store where I sell some of the supplies to do this if you want to get into it - www.LiquidLightShop.com
Love your page. picking up a projector for free from a church tomorrow, gonna be spending a lot of time on your channel.
Lime and limpid green, a second scene now fights between the blue you once knew
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground
13:53 On the left, it looks like earth spinning and in the center is the sun
Some of this I could’ve made with our guesswork, but you are a legend for making such a comprehensive guide!
Thank you!
@@LiquidLightLab Nah thank you!
not one dislike for damn good reason. 309 : 0 =majesty in like to dislike ratio. well done sir
no.. Thank YOU! i do projections at parties but am performing my first overhead projector liquid light show and your comprehensive video surely helps me a tonne right now. Subscribed !
was looking for awesome visuals to add to my band's shows and stumbled on a Dead tribute band with a live liquid show like this. said "damn, that so cool". then I typed in "how to do a liquid light show" and bam, here I am. thank you for your service.
Love the tutorial. I love the randomness you get from the dyes so much more than a typical light show (lasers and projected lights on their own). I hope to incorporate this style of light show into something in the future.
thanks man, super helpful. im looking to add this as a layer to my CRT video feedback looping rig. and hey, clock glass! i never would have thought of that.
This is absolutely fantastic. Great presentation. Really opened my eyes to the possibilities. My band Elephant Path is trying to work this into our live set with fans being able to participate in helping create the light show.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks for the tutorial! I managed to put together a small light show using etched glass for a friends performance and it was a hit. My bulb burned out after about 4 hours but I should be getting a replacement soon. I wouldn't have been able to do it without your tutorial. Much appreciated.
Thank you for explaining and showing so clearly how to do this.
Thankyou so much for this tutorial...I got my plates and ink from you a month ago and getting everything set up- sooooo fun!🙏🏽❤
Yay!
finally! I've been looking for a definitive tutorial on this. it'd be great if you continued this series!
Finally getting back to it! Added part 2 - ruclips.net/video/vn7_ctQjqhE/видео.html
LOVE IT !!!!!
in the 70's and 80's i worked at a sound co. and would provide sound and light shows at parties, schools, we had two metior pro beams that had two steel rods that came out of the front and you would slide a motor unit over the rods and drop in these cassettes we had, we had a whole case of them, oil cassettes, flowers even a orgy scene that would rotate very slow but light up the whole wall. very bright, very sharp optics. i can't even find a picture of them now on the internet., not the projector, not the cassettes. nothing. i loved messing with that thing. just don't grab the orgy cassette at a high school gig. the cassettes were about 6-7 inches round and made of glass with a rubber edge so the motor could drive it. oil cassettes were a two pirce unit to make random shapes.
I think what you might be referring to is Optikinetics. They still make them actually, and you can get the old ones as well.
Thanks, I really love the sun at the end.
I watched a light show group called Little Princess 109 doing this at the Fillmore/Carousel in San Francisco many years ago. I was fascinated. They also ran 8MM loops of film on separate projectors with trippy M.C. Escher like animated drawings. The 60's version of an animated GIF.
Fairly simple process but extremely effective - I do my own electronic music and would love something like this for a back drop.
This is insane! I've totally just got inspired for my final degree work! Thanks so much!
Thanks Steve!!! I have 6 free school projectors and just scored 10 clock faces at auction...I'm ready to try this out.
I am so grateful for this, I'm fascinated by this art form and can't wait to utilize it in my own videos!
Jack Stauber brought me here :)
Man, thank you so much for putting this up here!!! It’s true this art form is hard to find out about, so thank you for sharing!!
im new to this art style and this video has solidified my decision to start this art style and create my own art so thank you!
big psyche head, but a youngin'. I never knew i wanted to do liquid light shows because i never knew they existed. This is the $#!T! Thanks for the demo, gl to ya...Here I am spending weeks with shader programs or days with AE+Blender and this guy makes me think...Why don't I just use and film natural effects >_> I'm pretty into film photography and painting so this isn't anything new to me, I understand fluid dynamics relatively well...But even so, this would have never occurred to me. With just this I'm already thinking of all sorts of chemicals and dyes that solute in different solvents....Man, I blew some glass before on someone else's bench and this is making me crave my own shop from carpentry and welding to glass blowing and painting...
As a fan of all things 60s, this was fascinating, thank you so much for sharing
You're welcome. And thank you!
I saw someone do a liquid light show once very cool always remembered it
Awesome Joshua would be proud
Thanks so much for making this video.
I just discovered thru watching this, how much I want to start doing this!
Nothing looks like this looks.
Thanks dude this is awesome, very helpful! Glad you did it. After watching this I am now realizing that my biggest problem with what I was doing was not being patient enough... It looked very similar to the way it looked in the beginning.
Thanks, this is a great help for me in my quest to inject more colour into my overhead projected liquid light...
Love the video. Amazing colors. Thanks for sharing. Is there a way - emulgation or something? - to stop the oil from "moving to the side" so fastly and kind of slow down the process a bit? Just thinking on a live gig... would be hard work to keep the liquids in motion by shaking the glass every 3 seconds for straight two hours.
It is hard work. But the idea of the art is so that it is done by hand, and is alive and connected to the music better.
This is really cool... I couple of questions... I wonder if by using permanent dyes (and maybe ice) that you could make some really cool custom frisbees
Amazing! thanks so much, there is so little out there about this, I had gathered the equipment and started doing it, but got bored as i couldnt get it quite right, i didnt knew about the alcohol, that opened my mind. Im starting doing again. thanks again for the huge help
Thanks for posting this, man. This was awesome, just what i was looking for. I'm in a Pink Floyd cover/tribute band, as well as one for The Doors, and I plan to do this and probably film a bunch and edit them together for projection next time we play.
Nice!! The last 3 concerts I went to showcased this and I had never seen it before. I was watching the guy do this and it looked at rudimentary that I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Would love to see a video on that digital processing side of it, like how it's transmitted to the screen behind the band. I'm guessing there's an info path using cameras, computers, processor, projector?
Yes! It's a camera and light table set up, and that goes through a video mixer and to the screens.. I actually sell some of the gear to be used for this: www.LiquidLightShop.com
For a beginner, what you recommend to get started? What projector, etc?
Thank you rad work dude!
Thank you SO much for creating and explaining!! This takes me straight back to my childhood. I was a kid in the SF Bay Area in the late 60s/early seventies, and these images up on a screen or wall were a huge visual part of that.
(And the wiki page for liquid light show *really* sucks.)
You're welcome!... I checked out the wikipedia page after you mentioned it, and it is pretty bad. Seems like since anyone can edit it, there are quite a few people who seem to added their own entries while neglecting others, or moved themselves to the top of the list.. If you're interested, I recently posted a video here about the evolution of liquid light shows. While not as in depth with regards to the scope or artists who could be mentioned, the important ones are there, as are some key developments in the artforms procession. And some cool pictures too :)
@@LiquidLightLab i used to pay 750 dollars to have " Harold" and his gf to do our oil effects for rave parties in 1990's.
Good stuff, brother! It's true there never really has been a lot of information about this craft. I very much into all kinds of analog effects as I'm making music all-analog these days too. I'll definitely be incorporating what I've learned here into music videos and eventually some live performances! Keeping the hand craft alive :)
Great video Steve! I like your technique and narration. gonna try this later. THANK YOU
thank you so much for this tutorial, my VJing experimentations are going next level with that!
Love the oscillations
Incredible. Thank you!
Such incredible contents. The colors are incredibile! Could I ask you which lens are you using?
Thank you! I honestly don't remember. It was a stock e-mount lens
Dude, I did my own wet shows in my folk's attic about a hundred years ago and I didn't even think about layering! That is a great idea, I just might start doing them again just for the grins. Have you ever tried a VERY small piece of dry ice in the dye mixture? It was really intense!
Have you experimented with polarized light? Just wondering, what the effect would be?
This was an awesome introduction! Thanks so much for showing me how this is done!
Wow, you have just explained the whole 60s for me!!!
This is very cool! I first saw this on the 1969 Dick Clack show after Woodstock.
I love this. I'm looking to do this but with a vertical application. Have you any experience doing so? Would all colors just blend into a mess?
This is f**kin AWESOME and i love the delivery. I'm wanting to take up this art form now. So thank you for that, so inspiring. I wanna add it to a film clip I'm working on so i like what you said at the end about clips today looking kinda fake and analouge art forms being great. :)
Thank you. Great explanations. I’m going to try some of your ideas!
Rad i admire this bro thanks for keeling this art alive!
How does this not have a million views???
Thank you for uploading this I always had wondered how to do this.
Have you ever tried it with the subtractive color primaries; cyan, magenta, and yellow?
Muchas gracias por hacer este tutorial. He aprendido muchisimo. Hasta hace poco no sabia de esta tecnica. Este tutorial es exelente. Muchas gracias.
(translation: Thank you very much for making this tutorial. I learned a lot. Until recently I did not know this technique. This tutorial is excellent. Thank you very much.)
Great video! Is there a part 2 to this?
Thanks for the tutorial, motivated to make some art!
great work, thanks for demystifying that. I tried to figure it out on my own about 8 years ago and couldn't get there
nice effect! have you considered adding a basic parts list? the clock face glass seems like a rare item. could these pieces be done in plastic and not glass? then someone could have them fabricated more easily?
fractalmaui plastic won’t work well, because the oil will cloud up the material. I actually have had glass made custom, which I sell. We should have more in stock soon - liquidlightlab.bigcartel.com/category/art-supplies
Such a great tutorial! Question: is 2,500 lumens enough for a small space? What is preferred?
Wonderful and inspirational
where do I find square 10 inch convex clock glass?
Just an Incredible video !
Better impossible, Thank you so much for sharing the info !!
Narration becomes hypnotizing
This looks so simple to do and so fascinating. I had to rewatch a few times to see exactly how you recorded it before I realized you said you were using an HD camera. I kept wondering why you are using the LED screen Drawing Tablet? Just for the underneath light?
It's to illuminate the liquids. Normally one would use an overhead projector to transmit the image, but here I am just lighting it up, then capturing with a camera for demonstration. But I do also use video capture in a live setting as well.
Ahh, gotcha! I figured that was the sole reason, you're right, this is deceptively simple activity! It seems like a viable way to make original video clips that could make great graphics for music video. Finding this tutorial really has made me very uplifted and excited to give this a try, even if its just for fun! thank you for explaining this and making it fun to watch and learn about this art type. I'll come back to this post and share a video of my experiments once I find the money for this. The very last thing I wanted to be certain about is that you are using two types of color dye for this, right? First, you used the liquid water color which can be replaced with inks or certain types of dye, and then you add the oil based liquid candle dye? I know I can just re watch the video for the product names, but your answer I will still find very helpful.
Thank you so much for making this video!
I think it'd be neat to do this over the top of a projection of some old school rubber leg cartoons... I'm not sure how you could get that to project though.
I know I'm late to the party here with this question since it looks like the last question answered was 7 years ago but I'll give it a shot. Will convex circular plexiglass (acrylic) work as a substitute for glass? I have access to the plexiglass, that's why I ask. Thanks.
No, plastic won't work because oil doesn't clear off it very well.. If you're interested, I sell high quality, custom designed glass in my shop - www.LiquidLightShop.com
do two identical clock faces work well together, or is it better to have two different size plates?
They have to be different curvatures. That is more important than the size. That way, you can hold on to the top one and control it... I sell custom glass, made specifically for LL shows on my store, if you are interested. Cheers! - www.liquidlightshop.com/
@@LiquidLightLab thanks for the tip. I am getting inspired by your and Chris's videos. My uncle was brother ed langdon, one of the founders of the brotherhood of light.
Wow! Amazing. Thanks for watching. Feel free to reach out at any time.
@@LiquidLightLab thanks for making these videos! i have been enjoying all the history you and chris are putting out there.
what kind of gear would you recommend for a live show? what sort of projectors work best? what do you normally use?
does putting cold and warm water or liquids affect more the effect?
@@matthew_thefallen Not so much. Warmer liquids are a bit more fluid moving, but I don't notice the difference that much
Questionn, can you use acrylic for rounded glass instead of glass? Here in Perú is hard to find these types of glass
Would it better to have the 3 glass dishes curvature identical be better or have them ever so slightly different curvatures? Thanks for the vid.
This is absolutely amazing...wow!!!
Thank you Steve. This was great.
great work
WOW THANK YOU!! I have been contemplating buying a liquid light projector, but Id so much rather make these myself!!!!
Just wondering when you do a live show....What do you do to keep your hands and adding materials to the plate from getting projected onto the band?
Nothing, I sometimes like to show it so people know that it's a real person doing this live... But if you do want to blocks things off, using a mask on the light source helps. Check out my video about the overhead projector, which talks a bit about masks.
thank you for for this tutorial
this is what i have been looking for!!!!