Alcoholic art???

The Daily Mail reports that a US firm has come up with a new twist in modern art.

These incredible pictures show popular cocktails magnified up to 1,000 times under a high-tech laboratory microscope.

Produced by U.S. firm Bevshots, they reveal the incredible molecules and kaleidoscopic colours created by the different combinations.

American Amber Ale

Capturing the constituent parts of favourite drinks such as vodka, pina colada and Chablis, the pictures were taken in Florida State University's chemistry department.

'What you can see in the magnified pictures are the crystalised carbohydrates that have become sugars and glucose,' explained Bevshots founder Lester Hutt.

Champagne

'Each image was created by using a pipette of each particular drink and squeezing a crop onto a slide.

'Then the droplets are allowed to dry out and then once they have the slide is placed under the microscope and a picture taken.'

Margarita

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The incredible shapes and colours of the boozy artwork are highlighted by shining natural light on top and through the bottom of the slide.

They are taken using an old-fashioned 35mm camera.

White Zinfandel

'It is like a prism and the separation of light that is caused when sunlight is shone through one,' Mr Hutt said.

There's more at the link.

Intrigued, I went to Bevshots' Web site. They provide many examples of their art - all the pictures above were taken from their Web site - and also this promotional video.

Interesting! No, they aren't paying me commission or anything like that - I'm just intrigued by the idea, and thought you might find it interesting as well. I don't know whether it could be classified as 'art', but it's certainly an intriguing use of technology. I guess if computer graphics can be art, so can dried drinks!

Peter