Magnetic Movie

Entertaining videos about magnetic fields are usually confined to the broad video genre of MRI accident security tapes. Unless calamity strikes, what could be less interesting than watching a movie about magnetism?

But British film group Semiconductor's Magnetic Movie is marvelous: magnetic fields are animated as brightly colored tentacles that invisible spread through space like the tendrils of venus fly traps, licking up stray particles.

The finale, in particular, is spectacular: it looks like something out of an apocalyptic science-fiction movie, as a mass of magnetic fields spread outwards to consume the earth in a living, alien-like ball of primal energy.

Magnetic Movie [Vimeo via DVICE]

[#1 posted by mujadaddy , July 9, 2008 9:07 AM]

'Shopped.

[#2 posted by Agies , July 9, 2008 9:22 AM]

@1 No shit.

[#3 posted by ianm , July 9, 2008 7:55 PM]

Best thing ever.

thank you.