Today, I give an early holiday gift to your inner child…if your inner likes mad scientist concoctions and exploding things.
Engineer Alan Sailer created a fascinating photo set in which he filled Christmas ornaments with various substances and snapped pictures of them exploding (courtesy of a pellet rifle).
Cake Sprinkles:
All of these were done using a homemade microsecond flash.
Chapstick:
Vanilla Pudding (dyed red):
Play Doh:
See the rest of the set here.
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5 responses to “Alan Sailer: The War Against Christmas”
ohhh, shiny. can’t resist shiny things. what beautiful (and destructive!) photographs.
Yep, these made me light up. Shiny and explodey!
I have played with digital art for 15 years and so rarely like any digital art work, but this is noteworthy. Good work.
I feel equally picky about digital art (which is why you don’t see much of it on this blog). The amazing thing about these pieces is that they are ACTUAL PHOTOS. No digital design! Just a miscrosecond flash to capture these moments at unbelievably high speed.
SO cool! Really incredible images.