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Giant Dominoes Made of 30,000 Dominoes, Fall Like...Falling Dominoes
Posted by Kit Eaton at 1:45 AM on September 27, 2008
"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum."
Alright...so these are just 30,000 dominoes stacked up in blocks to look a bit like giant dominoes, and tipped over to create a fab tumbling dominoes-made-from-giant-dominoes video, but you get my point. It's Friday, and the video has a cat in it and makes for good watching. [CollegeHumor]
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jakebathman
Posted 2:23 AM 27/9/08
@willyolio: yeah mhlaxp, that's what's in reverse (or the "obama")
jakebathman
blazedshaggy
Posted 2:20 AM 27/9/08
that was totally satisfying!
blazedshaggy
Atomische
Posted 2:18 AM 27/9/08
Again! Again!
Atomische
Curves Wants a Classic View Default
Posted 2:10 AM 27/9/08
I loved that. Wonder how may accidents happened before they got it all together. WAY cool.
Curves Wants a Classic View Default
ninjamurf
Posted 2:09 AM 27/9/08
That was awesome. Oh...and, uh...
CLEAN UP, AISLE 4!!
ninjamurf
willyolio
Posted 2:05 AM 27/9/08
@mhlaxp:
you mean it's like going back in time to before bush came into power?
willyolio
lankysob
Posted 2:05 AM 27/9/08
Underwhelming.
He should've built in a tiny tunnel, let a mouse loose and have the cat run through the dominoes after it.
lankysob
Bluesk1d
Posted 2:04 AM 27/9/08
@mhlaxp:
I just recently took a picture just like your avatar. You'd think cats were cold blooded.
Bluesk1d
WildWon
Posted 2:04 AM 27/9/08
That was a LOT cooler than i was expecting. Another link to pass around the office! (or twitter >_>)
WildWon
scandalmonger
Posted 2:03 AM 27/9/08
It's kinda beautiful and architecturally inspiring, until you see it collapse.
scandalmonger
Y2KGTP
Posted 2:02 AM 27/9/08
Should build a few city building looking structures and then knock it down
Y2KGTP
mhlaxp
Posted 1:55 AM 27/9/08
@FEAST: Funny, then, that I found the footage more interesting in reverse.
mhlaxp
FEAST
Posted 1:52 AM 27/9/08
A great metaphor for the current state of our economy.
FEAST
MadCrazy
Posted 1:51 AM 27/9/08
You know what they say about men with cats...Lol
MadCrazy
scarbrtj
Posted 1:49 AM 27/9/08
Jesse Jackson approves.
scarbrtj
easyeye123
Posted 2:38 AM 27/9/08
It's interesting to see that the interior of the loop travels faster than the outside.
easyeye123
LastAndLeast
Posted 2:33 AM 27/9/08
@MadCrazy: They love the pu...companionship?
LastAndLeast
exer881
Posted 2:50 AM 27/9/08
that was pretty nice, but fuck the cat.
exer881
Duc
Posted 2:48 AM 27/9/08
Anyone else hold their breath to see if that blue/purple one in the middle was going to fall?
Duc
quantumbits
Posted 3:33 AM 27/9/08
Open your eyes, sheeple: A controlled demolition brought the dominoes down! Join the dominoes truth movement!
quantumbits
johnnyabnormal
Posted 3:29 AM 27/9/08
@exer881: My cat will scratch your eyeballs out.
johnnyabnormal
ClintonOddfellow
Posted 3:28 AM 27/9/08
That was really rather beautiful, almost liquid as it goes from structured order to total entropy. Oddly inspring.
ClintonOddfellow
JEmlay
Posted 3:26 AM 27/9/08
Awesome cat!!!!!!
JEmlay
Zander
Posted 4:38 AM 27/9/08
The music is called "Is it real?". The link to it from the guy that makes it is broken, so here. [zpage.dmusic.com]
Zander
ripfire
Posted 4:29 AM 27/9/08
Go perpendicular?
ripfire
tek_nic
Posted 4:59 AM 27/9/08
I was rooting for the cat.
Comeon! Comeon! just brush the first one!
Just do it!
But no, the cat did not knock it over.
I'd bet he didn't want his cat in the room, the cat snuck in, and he video taped it.
The whole time saying quietly to himself - please mr. cat - don't ruin this for me!
tek_nic
thisisasignin
Posted 4:54 AM 27/9/08
You had me at "the video has a cat in it."
thisisasignin
Hap
Posted 4:51 AM 27/9/08
@easyeye123: I suspect that is just the result of chance -- which ever side had the first falling (single) domino would tend to always be the first to fall into the next.
Hap
sharmanova
Posted 5:12 AM 27/9/08
We'll be seeing this again during Pride Week.
sharmanova
Enochrewt
Posted 5:06 AM 27/9/08
@Duc: I did. I even cheered it on a bit.
Enochrewt
whiteknight
Posted 5:24 AM 27/9/08
So TGIF?
whiteknight
RE-L
Posted 5:45 AM 27/9/08
@thisisasignin: Me too. And I giggled when it meowed at the end.
RE-L
Mongoose
Posted 6:39 AM 27/9/08
So soothing to watch those just ripple-fall.
Mongoose
4ster
Posted 6:52 AM 27/9/08
I almost expected the cat to look at Helena Bonham Carter and meow "You met me at a very strange time in my life."
4ster
Loonie
Posted 7:17 AM 27/9/08
That was actually more interesting than I thought it would be. They kinda melted away, rather than just falling as one piece.
Loonie
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 7:49 AM 27/9/08
Nice. And the cat was a nice extra touch too.
I didn't want to say it, but this video asks for it: too much free time. :P
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
judacris
Posted 11:48 AM 27/9/08
The cat resisted temptation to knock the dominoes over.
I liked it. Plus, look at the pretty colours.
judacris
Timalay
Posted 9:12 PM 27/9/08
The cat the end is like "WTF going on?"
Timalay
Upsilon
Posted 12:26 AM 28/9/08
That make anyone else hungry?
Looked like a King Cake...
~Y
Upsilon
001
Posted 4:22 PM 28/9/08
beautiful.
001
ChristineMergus
Posted 10:25 AM 27/9/08
I think it's actually a result of the proximity of the inside ring, as the dominoes tumble, the closest one will follow, therefore at the beginning of the curve, it would naturally tend to shift inward as the beginning point, even if the dude pushed the leftmost domino first
ChristineMergus