Days of our Lives

Here is a video of a SandScapes toy I got this summer at Otowi Station. Multicolored sand, glitter and water flow through gaps in wavy lines of plastic between two panes of glass. This results in pretty mounds of sand. You put this on your desk at work, flip the toy on its pivots and watch the sand drip. Over and over again. You don't get your work done.

Since the sand's motion is quite noticeable, I had the camera take pictures at a relatively high rate of two frames per second. My movie plays them back at 24 frames per second. We see 20 minutes of dripping sand in just a minute and 40 seconds! Exciting!

I taped a piece of white paper behind it to give it higher contrast than the wall would have. The paper is waving in a breeze and is kind of distracting.

One of the holes has some glue in the gap. Sand snags on it and it frequently clogs. Oh, well.