Waxing Lyrical
Frame-grabs from Oscar Oskar Fischinger’s animated WAX EXPERIMENTS.
What he would do, Mr. F, is he would melt different colour of wax together until he had a big cake of the stuff under his rostrum camera. Then he’d shave different layers off with a razor, exposing one frame at a time, to end up with a rippling, marbled effect as the different tones were exposed.
The effect is a cross between a weather formation and a medical condition — kind of disturbing as it ripples and throbs and spreads — also undeniably beautiful.
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February 9, 2013 at 3:15 pm
February 9, 2013 at 5:01 pm
Love Fischinger’s work! Are these frame grabs from a DVD?
February 9, 2013 at 5:54 pm
No, just a thing I found. I’m sure he’s collected on various experimental/animation compilations, but I don’t know if there’s one big box set.
Should’ve thought of the matmos!
February 10, 2013 at 9:04 pm
[…] Frame-grabs from Oscar Fischinger’s animated Wax Experiments – What he would do, Mr. F, is he would melt different colour of wax together until he had a big cake of the stuff under his rostrum camera. Then he’d shave different layers off with a razor, exposing one frame at a time, to end up with a rippling, marbled effect as the different tones were exposed. […]
November 4, 2013 at 10:24 am
Oskar Fischinger DVD is at http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/DVD.htm
Note his name is spelled Oskar with a K