Videos of Kinetic Art Gadgets

Select a video or gallery from the list below.

World Record Stick Bomb!
Detonation of a monster stick bomb with 2,102 sticks. More fun than you can *ahem* shake a stick at!

Escape to the Third Dimension
My biggest and best stop-motion animation video so far! Done with a strong kinetic-art flavor, this also has cool sound effects and a few tricks thrown in for good measure.

2009 Art Crawl Gadgets
Three modest gadgets I created for the April 2009 Saint Paul Art Crawl.

Xyloexplosive Xperiment
A small collection of test footage from stick-bomb experiments.

It's Alive!
Another wacky project combining kinetic-art techniques with stop-motion animation.

Magic Domino
My first real foray into the world of stop-motion animation.

Edifice Wrecks: A Geek Tragicomedy About the Fall of Man's Handiwork #1
A cool video I made during the Summer of 2008. It's Geek to me, but you'll be in Nerdvana after watching this!

And here's a link to a broadcast-quality Internet Archive version (123 MB):

Herringbone Fractal Created to Test High-Definition Video Camera #1
A small gadget I made to test out a new high-definition camera and also try a new fractal design for the herringbone technique.

En Passant
A small project in which I experimented with different techniques for kinetic art, video editing, and music making.

Deconstructionist Theory Applied to the Name and Visage of 'Bob' #1
A collection of slackified kinetic gadgets exploding in extreme slow motion and set to a psychedelic soundtrack. Praise 'Bob'!

Construction and Destruction of a Frangible Structure Through the Magic of Temporal Distortion #1
A small exercise in combining time-lapse, real-time, and slow-motion photography of a kinetic object.

High-Speed Video Camera Test Clips
A small collection of high-speed kinetic art clips used to test a new camera.

Kinetic Art Movement...Constructed in the City of New York Mills, Minnesota in August of 2005 #1
My biggest and wildest kinetic-art video ever! It's over six minutes of non-stop action using many stunts never seen before.

And here's a link to a broadcast-quality Internet Archive version (340 MB):

Deconstructionist Theory Applied to the YouTube Logo #1
A quick one-evening project to try a new picture mosaic technique.

Large-Scale Test Detonation of Clever-Lever Structure with Moon Men #1
The biggest clever lever-based exploding structure built to date.

Assorted Kinetic Gadget Videos

A collection of kinetic-art gadgets made hither and yon and recorded with a digital camera.

Vintage Kinetic Gadget Videos

A collection of videos of my earliest gadgets transferred from VHS tape.

Here's a cool animated .gif image of a stick bomb detonating in slow motion.

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