The Time Fountain | A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

September 2, 2008 5:42 PM

What happens when you attach a stroboscope to a faucet? Something beautiful.
posted by furtive (13 comments total)

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posted by furtive at 5:44 PM on September 2, 2008

Aww shoot, my first search didn't return anything, but I now see this post is a double going back two years ago.
posted by furtive at 5:45 PM on September 2, 2008

That's the coolest fucking thing I've seen in a long, long time.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 5:47 PM on September 2, 2008

I'm flagging your killjoy third post, furtive. /shakes head
posted by cowbellemoo at 5:50 PM on September 2, 2008

Awesome video but whoever did the captions explains it completely wrong.
posted by GuyZero at 5:56 PM on September 2, 2008

Thanks, furtive. I never saw the previous post, but I'm glad I saw this video.
posted by chudmonkey at 6:00 PM on September 2, 2008

Most science museums have a display of this that you can actually adjust the speed (of both the strobe and faucet) of. Neat, yes. FPP....probably not.
posted by DU at 6:07 PM on September 2, 2008 [1 favorite]

Well, you can't stick a screwdriver into the museum ones. Usually. So I guess that's a little extra cool.
posted by DU at 6:09 PM on September 2, 2008

That's damn cool.
posted by brundlefly at 6:20 PM on September 2, 2008

Aww shoot, my first search didn't return anything, but I now see this post is a double going back two years ago.

Luckily, time can also be reversed.
posted by Dave Faris at 6:33 PM on September 2, 2008 [1 favorite]

I saw something like this on a massive scale at Sea World Orlando in the late 1980s - robotic controlled fountains set to strobe and music. Awesome.
posted by mrmojoflying at 6:38 PM on September 2, 2008

What's the music in the background?
posted by weston at 7:02 PM on September 2, 2008

strobolicious
posted by subgear at 7:06 PM on September 2, 2008