Was looking on Youtube earlier, browsing about (actually for references to my sound art research for Comm Tech still, to see if I could find anything of interest)... but came across this - which doesn't really link in with the Comm Tech brief, but still felt the need to share it.

It's hypnotising and just pretty impressive I think!!

It's an art piece by SACHIKO KODAMA, and the video poster states very clearly the video isn't in time lapse - it's fillmed and played back in real time.

Some other notes that accompany the video, which explain it a little more:

"In 2000, Sachiko began work on a ferrofluid art project that she named "Protrude, Flow". 

Ferrofluid is a very interesting material originally developed by NASA it has now found itself been used for a whole range of devices including dampers for controlling and stabilizing large building that move around in the wind. Whats also amazing is that they have such lovely visual qualities when magnetized. The term liquid architecture is used a lot in interactive architecture based on the ideas of how architecture becomes animated by adding the 4th Dimension of Time. Sachiko has taken this idea of liquid architecture more literally with these stunning sculptures made from Ferrofluid which changes its state by the introduction of electro-magnetic waves into the fluid turning it solid. As you stand around and watch this piece, you get literally mesmerized as the ferrofluid (guided by magnets) follows its track and changes its forms."