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I, Lunatim Rex, invite you to partake of the fascinating videos and pictures contained herein!
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On December 8, 2011, I finished writing my history of stick bombs. It's the only real source of information on the development of stick bombs on the entire Internet.
On November 18th, 2011, I successfully detonated a world-record herringbone chain with 3,100 sticks! The event was featured on the evening news at KARE-11. You can watch this attempt, or learn the secrets of making herringbone chains on my Videos page. On November 26th and 27th, I created two gadgets for the Red Chapel in Rancho Cucamonga, California. It's more fun than you can shake a stick at!
On October 7th, 2011, I attempted a world-record stick bomb with 6,767 sticks as part of the Saint Paul Art Crawl. That attempt failed as the cobra weave locked up several times. On October 18th, I made another attempt which was successful, detonating a colossal stick-bomb field with 6,818 sticks in it. You can view both attempts, or my latest stick-bomb tutorial, on my Videos page. It's a real blast!
During the Spring and Summer of 2011, I was a contestant on America's Got Talent on NBC. I made it all the way to 13th place, out of 25,000 auditions, and barely missed out on making the Top Ten. Here's a link to one of my Facebook fan pages. I made five appearances on the show. My first appearance at the Minneapolis audition featured a
stick bomb and my second appearance in Las Vegas featured a clever-lever gadget. My Quarter-Final attempt at a world-record stick bomb was a disaster. I did make a successful comeback during the Wild Card round with this herringbone chain which got thunderous applause from the audience and Piers Morgan even genuflected before me and proclaimed that I was truly the King. For my Semi-Final gadget, I went with a world-record clever-lever gadget that shot ping-pong balls and candy over much of the audience, even hitting Howie Mandel in the face with a ping-pong ball. (Yes, he was practicing 'safe sticks' by wearing safety goggles.) You can also check out the official Kinetic King page on NBC's website here. Whoo, hoo!
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The Fun Stuff
Click on the icon below to go to my extensive collection of kinetic gadget videos.
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VIDEOS
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If you're not able to view the videos and want to see pictures of my kinetic gadgets, click on the link below.
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PICTURES
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Public Exhibitions
I've made so many public appearances with my kinetic art lately, that I've created a subpage devoted exclusively to public exhibitions of my kinetic art! Click on the icon below to check it out.
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The History of Stick Bombs
There's an almost complete lack of information anywhere on the development of stick bombs, so I decided to use my expertise on the subject to write up a history.
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What is Kinetic Art?
To the uninitiated, my kinetic gadgets are gnarly chain-reaction devices that collapse and explode in, like, really cool ways; to the discerning aesthete, they're mechanically-iterative, entropy-generating entities designed to confront the observer's pre-conceived notions about Newtonian physics and challenge their paradigms for processing reductivistic-mechanistic Weltanschauungen from a post-modernistic perspective. (Well, not really...)
Much more than mere domino tumbling, my kinetic gadgets use a wide variety of chain-reaction techniques of my own invention and they have Dalíesque names like Experimental Polymodal Slack-Generating Apparatus #9 and Test Detonation of 0.2 Kilostick Boosted-Yield Xyloexplosive Device #1. Not only can my gadgets collapse and explode in many ways, but they can play music tunes and have animation in them.
Kinetic art is a new, open-ended art medium whose potential has barely been tapped. The number of chain-reaction techniques is virtually limitless. You might find these articles on mechanical explosives and kinetic computing to be interesting. Enjoy!
Links to other kinetic art pages.
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Professional Information
My kinetic gadgets are truly one-of-a-kind as many of the techniques used are of my own invention and seen nowhere else. Their strong visual impact and their ability to incorporate logos or jingles into the design make my gadgets ideal for commercials. They've been in museum exhibitions where they always draw a crowd and have appeared on television several times. If you're a video production house looking for a unique idea for a short art film, I have a scenario available upon request. If you're a representative of a toy company looking for new product ideas (like the perfect domino, which nobody seems to get right), send me an e-mail. If you're a new band trying to get a killer music video on a reasonable budget, please shoot me an inquiry. If you have any other business inquiry regarding my kinetic art, please feel free to contact me at
lunatim@infionline.net
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The Kinetic King webpage was last updated on 12/16/2011. All content, except where noted, was created by and is © Timothy Fort. Creator makes no guarantees as to proper performance and compatibility of video files. The use of safety goggles is strongly recommended for anybody creating or detonating stick bombs.
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