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A Person Who Shall Remain Nameless, assisting with
the final assembly of a sparkler bomb that makes it into
the Bloody Large category. Ten
inch sparklers at the base, 28 inchers in the middle.
Note the newspaper under the bomb - this was used to help
hold together the unwired clump of sparklers during
assembly. The paper will also catch the inevitable
plethora of tiny sparkler-stuff fragments that's left
behind by bomb assembly, which makes it easier to pile up
the dust and torch it later. |
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Ignition! The bomb, stabbed into a hay bale that had
no idea its evening was going to be this exciting, has
just started. |
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The vertical line is an artefact of very bright light
on the video camera's CCD. It makes the situation look
like a test firing of the primary weapon of an ID4
saucer, but it's not really there. |
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Just getting going. Observe distinctive Australian
flora, and distinctive Australian Crowd O' Drunks (accept
no imitations). |
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Yee-haw! Oversaturation of the video camera CCD gives
the impression that the entire crowd has been swallowed
up in a cloud of flaming death, which is not actually the
case. But hey, it's a hell of a picture. |
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Ramping down (T equals about 3 seconds), with the
spark-blast falling through the rising smoke cloud. |
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Up comes the smoke. Spectators too close to the
action dodge small hot falling things. |
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Nice mushroom cloud, eh? |
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Show's over. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. |