Videos of Kinetic Art Gadgets

Select a video or gallery from the list below.

Frenetic Kinetics!
A cool kinetic-art video made during the Winter of 2009-2010 and featuring many cool and innovative techniques. Whoo, hoo!

Detonation of 2250-Stick Xyloexplosive Device for the World Record on 11/12/09
My latest world-record stick bomb containing 2250 sticks and detonated in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on November 12th, 2009. On March 11th, 2010, Guinness World Records recognized this as an official world record.

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.

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):

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):

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.

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

Test Detonation of World-Record Clever Lever Device
Test detonation of large clever-lever gadget with 225 exploding elements in my ongoing quest to make a really cool mechanical explosion.

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

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

From Here to There
A quirky little animation I made to test out some new ideas.

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 monster face done as a stick bomb and detonating in slow motion.

And here's a cool animated .gif image of a stick-bomb logo I did for radio station WFMU.

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

And another cool animated .gif image of a stick bomb detonating.

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