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Title: Building Implosion - front row seats
Post by: retrometro on March 15, 2009, 11:03:11 pm

Hey guys,

I had the good fortune of being able to get front row "seats" at a local building implosion.  Took plenty of photos and video and have dumped them to http://www.chksum.com

Here's the video from the site.  I'm trying to get videos others have captured from different vantage points.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7AhS0Krv4[/youtube]

Title: Re: Building Implosion - front row seats
Post by: Blanka on March 16, 2009, 02:50:10 am

LOL, all those hi-speed DSLR clicks in the sound  8)
Were those photographers actually watching?

Title: Re: Building Implosion - front row seats
Post by: shardian on March 16, 2009, 08:18:56 am

I think they are prepping a building for that in my area. Maybe I should check the schedule so I can watch.

Title: Re: Building Implosion - front row seats
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 16, 2009, 08:30:30 am

They really should've hired better help. Look at all that dust.

Title: Re: Building Implosion - front row seats
Post by: retrometro on March 16, 2009, 01:10:05 pm

Quote from: Blanka on March 16, 2009, 02:50:10 am

LOL, all those hi-speed DSLR clicks in the sound  8)
Were those photographers actually watching?

Awesome.  I thought I was the only person that noticed that!

Title: Re: Building Implosion - front row seats
Post by: danny_galaga on March 17, 2009, 05:42:45 am

What a neat little pile it ended up being! I'd never thought about it before, but it's remarkable how the charges are small enough that you can hardly see anything happening behind that black shielding...

Title: Re: Building Implosion - front row seats
Post by: ahofle on March 17, 2009, 05:02:04 pm

Holy crap I was in the galleria area sleeping in a hotel that morning LOL.  How did I miss that?

Title: Re: Building Implosion - front row seats
Post by: Mauzy on March 17, 2009, 07:45:44 pm

If you guys like explosions and implosions, maybe ya'll should check out The Detonators on the Discovery channel. Looks pretty cool!

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/detonators/detonators.html

Title: Re: Building Implosion - front row seats
Post by: retrometro on March 17, 2009, 11:52:06 pm

Quote from: ahofle on March 17, 2009, 05:02:04 pm

Holy crap I was in the galleria area sleeping in a hotel that morning LOL.  How did I miss that?

Were you at the Hilton, Sheraton, Intercontinental?   Were you at least woken up by the blast?

Title: Re: Building Implosion - front row seats
Post by: ahofle on March 18, 2009, 12:34:26 am

It was a Courtyard by Marriott.  I didn't hear a damn thing LOL.