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Lightbulb Experince

This worked out about like I expected.

 

Take an old reflector style bulb, break the vacuum (I don't want it exploding as I work on it) and use a Dremel tool to hog out a hole in the base. Put it on a wooden base and put a fire cracker inside.

 

You can see the light from the firecracker (it's off center towards the right) and it has exposed the breaking glass. A few bitty-seconds later the fragments from the exploding glass set-off my IR sensor and fire the flash(s).

 

At this point the area in the vicinity of the firecracker is a fast moving spray of powder and fragments. The rest of the glass is starting to fly apart in a lovely pattern of crackle.

 

It's just how I like things, a balance of chaos and order. Not my best picture ever but a pretty thing non-the-less.

 

Cheers.

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Uploaded on November 6, 2013
Taken on November 6, 2013