WoodSwimmer is a mesmerising music video that doubles as a wildly ingenious science experiment. Produced to accompany a chunk of digital music by the US visible results artist Conor Grebel below his moniker Bedtimes, this quick from the US animator Brett Foxwell makes use of stop-motion animation to disclose the hidden patterns of wooden. Utilizing an easy however ‘brutally tedious’ approach, Foxwell labored items of wooden by a milling machine, taking scans of every cross-section to create the visible sequences that make up the movie. The ultimate product proves to be well worth the super effort, exposing the types of development rings, knots, holes and hue adjustments which are usually hidden from the human eye. For extra from Foxwell, watch The Book of Leaves.
