Pouring paint on top of paint on a wooden box timelapse

February 17, 2015 10:18 AM

Pouring paint on top of paint on a wooden box timelapse art piece by holton rower

DIY Psychedelic art is fun and educational

posted by bobdow (26 comments total)

I saw the description and I thought, "Mmmmmm."

Then I watched the video, and I was like, "Mmmmmmm."

So, in summary: "Mmmmmmmmm."
posted by BrashTech at 10:31 AM on February 17, 2015 [6 favorites]

Mmmmmmmmm.
posted by cjorgensen at 10:36 AM on February 17, 2015

Mmmmmmmmmmmeh.
posted by beagle at 10:38 AM on February 17, 2015 [2 favorites]

it's neat, though I wonder what they've done to the paint to make it run that much or the technique using to make it run like that ..
posted by k5.user at 10:49 AM on February 17, 2015

Like watching paint dry.
posted by tempestuoso at 10:57 AM on February 17, 2015 [3 favorites]

Paint.
They're pouring paint.

They're pouring paint on a wooden box.
posted by Floydd at 10:58 AM on February 17, 2015

I want them to do this but with some sort of stick squeeze arm and to frame the shot so that we never see the people working on it and it's just a weird magical paint box that slowly grows.
posted by edbles at 10:58 AM on February 17, 2015 [6 favorites]

Mmmmmmmmmmmeh.
Paint. They're pouring paint. They're pouring paint on a wooden box.

To quote the great Samuel Johnson: "When a man is tired of 'pouring paint on top of paint on a wooden box' timelapses, he is tired of life."
posted by nicolas.bray at 11:13 AM on February 17, 2015 [6 favorites]

The second link only says "there is no such site" soo...broken? (I'm on mobile, but wifi)
posted by sexyrobot at 11:13 AM on February 17, 2015

So... okay. That happened. Good concept. Okay execution (get out of the way of the camera people). End result was kinda meh.
posted by jeffamaphone at 11:22 AM on February 17, 2015

Am I the only person who was set on edge by them not pouring in the damn centre of the box? Auuuugh.

Very cool to watch, though the music should have been Jefferson Airplane or something.

(Also the youtube link skips to 183 seconds in, might want to ask a mod to fix?)
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 11:24 AM on February 17, 2015

Meh.

Needs more purple.
Needs more lime green.
posted by BlueHorse at 11:29 AM on February 17, 2015

I liked the part where they poured the paint on the box.
posted by crazylegs at 11:41 AM on February 17, 2015 [5 favorites]

You guys are jade green as fuck. That was cool.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 12:01 PM on February 17, 2015 [8 favorites]

Somewhat related: detroit agate.
posted by the Real Dan at 12:26 PM on February 17, 2015 [1 favorite]

it's neat, though I wonder what they've done to the paint to make it run that much or the technique using to make it run like that ..

1. Solvent.
2. Gravity.
posted by charlie don't surf at 2:35 PM on February 17, 2015 [2 favorites]

Neat. I found it interesting that the corners never got painted for any of the boxes.
posted by bluesapphires at 2:41 PM on February 17, 2015

It'd be awesome if later on they removed the boxes to let the paint stand up on its own.
posted by ardgedee at 2:51 PM on February 17, 2015 [1 favorite]

You got hot paint and you swung and you swung
Run paint run run
posted by davebush at 3:13 PM on February 17, 2015

So... okay. That happened. Good concept. Okay execution (get out of the way of the camera people). End result was kinda meh.

I know. Exactly. It's just like watching porn. I hate myself, but I think I'm ready to watch it again.
posted by Elmore at 3:34 PM on February 17, 2015 [1 favorite]

Nice. I hope if they are intended to last, that the plywood does discolor the paint over time ( that is assuming that it is not some sort of fancy conservation MDF).
posted by R. Mutt at 5:33 PM on February 17, 2015

* I mean does NOT discolor the paint...
posted by R. Mutt at 6:00 PM on February 17, 2015

Double.
posted by Sys Rq at 8:48 PM on February 17, 2015

art is what a machine cannot do...
posted by judson at 8:00 AM on February 18, 2015

These are neat, but I wonder why after one or two didn't get painted in the corners, they didn't start bevelling the box corners so the pain would run to the very edges. Would that have messed up the petals on the floor?
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 10:58 AM on February 18, 2015

Or they could have poured paint faster, causing it to spread faster. But this is not an experiment in fluid dynamics, these are presumably aesthetic decisions. I did notice an interesting painting standing up against a wall that was apparently executed on a flat surface, and I know other artists using these flow techniques on flat surfaces. I used to have a studio next to a horrible artist who did this sort of thing with pourable urethane foam, which created mountains of plastic garbage, and then he'd pour his solvents down the storm drains out on the street, because he didn't have a sink in his studio, nor did he have the inclination to recycle instead of dumping them.
posted by charlie don't surf at 11:48 AM on February 18, 2015