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A Novel Use For Noodler's Blue Upon The Plains Of Abraham - Thin Film Interference

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Okay, so I was sitting here refilling my pen with one of my favourite blue inks (a Canadian exclusive from Noodler's), and I noticed that there was a bubble of ink that formed on the surface of the bottle when I opened it.

 

At the right angle, the light from my computer monitor directly reflected off the surface of the bubble and revealed vibrant colours caused by "thin film interference", the same phenomenon that puts rainbows in soap bubbles. Why not try and take a photograph of these beautiful swirling colours?

 

http://donkom.ca/fpn/DKP_6719-800x.jpg

 

I lit this with a flash held over the bottle at the opposite angle of the camera, keeping the camera as vertical as I can get it to enhance my depth of field. There's a point where you can't get the reflection to show if you shoot too far vertically, so it seems there is a compromise in depth vs. colour. The only way around that would be to shoot at a greater distance crop in, letting the depth of field become naturally wider at the same aperture.

 

How many people can say that they've made art with ink while it was still in the bottle? :)

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Thanks for the compliments! I'm not sure how many inks reveal a thin film interference effect when seen as a bubble, but my guess is probably quite a few!

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That's incredible! I just got a bottle of this ink at the Toronto Scriptus pen show. Guess what I'm going to do right after I post this.

Thanks for showing us!

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Amazing! All that from a blue-grey ink.... :thumbup:

Thanks for posting.

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Thanks for the continued positive feedback, everyone!

 

I've also noticed similar interference patterns on my Noodler's Raven Black, and I think the plastic container is more conducive to creating a nice solid bubble on top. Both of my Canadian-exclusive inks came in the plastic bottles. I was able to see it slightly (very slightly) in my bottle of Whiteness of the Whale, but I think that darker inks work better to see this. The darker the ink, or at least the more opaque it is, the more the interference pattern is allowed to show through. More experimentation is required, and I have some fun photo ideas brewing. :)

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Have you ever had any issues with this ink?

 

I just had it in my twsbi eco, and it was drying up in the body of the pen and forming flakes. The flakes were hard enough that I couldn't flush them out with the piston mechanism and I had to take the pen apart. I've had that pen since May and this is the first ink (out of like 30) that has ever done that...

 

I'm actually wondering if there's something wrong with my sample :/

 

The ink before was Noodler's Red-black, and now I have Diamine Sparkling Shadows in it... Neither of those two inks have any issues...

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I haven't had a problem with the ink so far! Used in a Cross Calais for some time, but I haven't looked too closely for flakes.

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Have you ever had any issues with this ink?

 

I just had it in my twsbi eco, and it was drying up in the body of the pen and forming flakes. The flakes were hard enough that I couldn't flush them out with the piston mechanism and I had to take the pen apart. I've had that pen since May and this is the first ink (out of like 30) that has ever done that...

 

I'm actually wondering if there's something wrong with my sample :/

 

The ink before was Noodler's Red-black, and now I have Diamine Sparkling Shadows in it... Neither of those two inks have any issues...

 

:( No flakes but the ink likes to be used. Every pen it's sat in for more than a few days exhibits poor starts :(

 

It's so waterfast that I love sketching with it but now load and go prior to a sketch rather have having a pen always ready to go with it.

Shame.

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I think you're right Tas, it is a little hard to start but I still enjoy it.

 

.... and I've found another use for it that doesn't seem to have any issues at all! :)

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Slick work, Canadian dude!

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Have you ever had any issues with this ink?

 

I just had it in my twsbi eco, and it was drying up in the body of the pen and forming flakes. The flakes were hard enough that I couldn't flush them out with the piston mechanism and I had to take the pen apart. I've had that pen since May and this is the first ink (out of like 30) that has ever done that...

 

I'm actually wondering if there's something wrong with my sample :/

 

The ink before was Noodler's Red-black, and now I have Diamine Sparkling Shadows in it... Neither of those two inks have any issues...

 

Speak of the Devil and he shall appear . . . yuk.

 

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_blue_upon_the_plains_of_abraham_bits.jpg

 

This in my sink from cleaning out my non starting 3776 !

 

No other ink has ever done this to me let alone dry up the undryuppable 3776 :(

It's like the 54th Massachusetts saga all over again. I love the ink and it's writing properties, but sadly it is unusable in a pen for any reasonable length of time - by that I mean a week :mellow:

 

Surely it can't be just be getting bad batches of Noodlers. That makes three bottles now. 54th, BUPA and LCRoyale. :glare:

 

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Huh... So it's not just me. I think I'm going to pour the rest of my sample down the drain. I'm worried about it damaging the pens.

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Huh... So it's not just me. I think I'm going to pour the rest of my sample down the drain. I'm worried about it damaging the pens.

 

No !

 

Either keep it for use on demand in a cheapo pen, offer it to someone else on FPN or make some random mix out of it and hope for the best - as I did with Noodler's 54th.

 

I've got some in one of those new Ahab cartridges and will take it out on a trip in case I fancy a bit of BUPA.

Such a shame :(

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