Dominoes Made of Dominoes

September 24, 2008 5:53 PM

Dominoes Made of Dominoes Awesome and very chromatically beautiful. Watch for the hold-outs that refuse to collapse.
posted by axltea (21 comments total)

Neat!
posted by brundlefly at 5:58 PM on September 24, 2008

whoa! Loved that. Kind of melted with satisfying noise.
posted by nickyskye at 6:00 PM on September 24, 2008

That guy has dozens of videos on YouTube.
posted by DU at 6:04 PM on September 24, 2008 [2 favorites]

PS, loved the meow at the end.

and wow, 30,000?!

and oh man, DU, cool to see FlippyCat's other videos.
posted by nickyskye at 6:08 PM on September 24, 2008

Man it's gonna be a bugger sorting all of those out again...

Neat vid though.
posted by gomichild at 6:11 PM on September 24, 2008

GET THE CAT AWAY FROM THE DOMINOES!

I almost had a heart attack.
posted by Rock Steady at 6:13 PM on September 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

GET THE CAT AWAY FROM THE DOMINOES!

That's how you know the whole thing is just a badass physics demo
posted by b1tr0t at 6:28 PM on September 24, 2008

Has anybody ever talked at length about the relationship between doing these elaborate domino sculptures and Buddhist sand mandalas? Because looking at this guy's other videos that's what I'm continually reminded of. Cool post.
posted by penduluum at 6:34 PM on September 24, 2008

Reminds me of Seuss's "The Economic Situation Clarified." How timely.
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 6:35 PM on September 24, 2008 [2 favorites]

Hey, when the cat in question is this cat, you pretty much let him near the dominoes if he wants to be near the dominoes.
posted by penduluum at 6:42 PM on September 24, 2008 [2 favorites]

The video of him cleaning stuff up is totally raw.
posted by milkrate at 6:46 PM on September 24, 2008

Wow. It took me a second to realize what I was looking at. It suddenly clicked and my jaw dropped. Incredible.
posted by niles at 8:06 PM on September 24, 2008

Only one camera?
posted by philip-random at 8:10 PM on September 24, 2008

Very cool!

And OMG, penduluum, that cat had me larfing. I can only imagine what it must be like to live with so vocal a feline.

(middle of the night)

"RAAAOWL! RAAAOWL! RAAAOWL!"

"*zzzsnort!* Sweet Jebus! Is the house on fire...!?"
posted by darkstar at 8:30 PM on September 24, 2008

That was beautiful. And that's also what came to mind for me, penduluum.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 9:13 PM on September 24, 2008

Amazing....

but not amazing enough!

30,000 dominoes only gets you dominoes made of dominoes. 5,000,000 dominoes gets you dominoes made of dominoes made of dominoes!
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 1:39 AM on September 25, 2008

Show me cats made of cats and I'd be happier, but this was still great. Thanks.
posted by tawny at 4:20 AM on September 25, 2008

Talk to me when he's got 700 billion dominoes.
posted by monospace at 11:21 AM on September 25, 2008

Yeah, I made that up.
posted by monospace at 11:21 AM on September 25, 2008

Funny how the dominoes fell in the opposite direction of the wave propagation. You'd think if the wave was moving to the back, the dominoes would also fall to the back. Any physicists in the house?
posted by Quietgal at 11:39 AM on September 25, 2008

That was really cool. Ditto on the "JESUS FUCK GET THE CAT OUT OF THERE WHAT ARE YOU THINKING YOU LUNATIC?", though.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 12:49 AM on September 27, 2008