The MakeShift Challenge: Bomb in a Parking Garage
Do you have what it takes to avoid being blown up by a subterranean car park bomb?
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Ceramics Made From Controlled Explosions
By embedding explosives into lumps of clay and detonating them into molds, artist Adam Železný shapes clay into forms almost instantly in a series of ceramic pieces he calls “The Blast.”
How-To: Blast Through Boring Farmwork With Dynamite
I think it was in one of the WWI-era “Boy Mechanic” books that I found a DIY project opening with the direction to “pick up a few sticks of dynamite at the hardware store.” I can think of a lot of projects I would like to undertake – and many more than I would like to write – that would start out in the same way, today.
Utterly Insane Sledgehammer Fireworks During Carnival
This has to be the craziest DIY town fireworks celebrations ever!
“The joy of sex don’t last like the fun of shootin’ anvils”
To “shoot,” an anvil, for the record, is to blast it several hundred feet into the air using a charge of black powder. This delightful man, Gay Wilkinson, is apparently the world’s champion anvil-shooter. The fireworks start at 1:30. [via Boing Boing]
