Seeing sound
The beauty of salt
Explosive patterns from linseed oil and ink
Electricity moving slowly through wood
Extreme cinematography captures everyday phenomena
Photos and stunning video clips for print and online features for Science Week
Each reveal the fundamentals of science: energy, waves, light, and the beauty in the natural world in Josef Gatti's photographs and short films. Please watch these two short clips and consider how you could use them in an online feature: https://bit.ly/2VTGGet; https://bit.ly/37OiiO1
The clips and stills are from Phenomena, an ABC series of nine award winning episodes made by Josef Gatti and published through the ABC's YouTube channel and Facebook and as a half-hour short film on ABC iView. Each film focuses on a force of nature.
Energy: inks dropped into linseed oil, WD40 and other oils produce explosive patterns like those seen on the surface of the Sun
Matter: table salt, ammonium chloride and other salts burst into 'life' as they form crystals
Waves: see sound create geometric patterns in water and salt
Light: long-lived bubbles looking like gas giants – some lasted over ten minutes
Electricity: watch electricity move slowly across a piece of wood
Magnetism: magnets swimming like a school of fish
Gravity: the movement of stars and planets as you've never seen them.
Magnitudes: patterns of life from space and inner space
Evolution: a slime mould grows like lace or lungs, a tadpole metamorphoses.
These nine naturally occurring forces of nature shape the universe and everything in it.
Phenomena was produced by Josef Gatti, and Rob Innes from Mashup Pictures, with partners Screen Australia, the ABC, and Film Victoria.
