Domino Spiral
September 10, 2016 9:51 PM   Subscribe

This is a pretty good domino spiral. It took 25 hours to build over 8 days with 15,000 dominoes.
posted by SpacemanStix (29 comments total) 31 users marked this as a favorite
 
Humans! Never stop being delightful.

I was grinning watching the first two spirals and when the big walls of dominoes started falling my face became this instead. I am so happy YouTube exists so people have a reason other than dubious bragging rights to do this sort of thing.
posted by the marble index at 9:57 PM on September 10, 2016 [13 favorites]


My kids LOVE Hevesh5's videos, they will adore this one in the morning! (My husband likes the straight-ahead dominoes, but finds it super-stressful when she does the walls and the walls fall.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 10:06 PM on September 10, 2016 [1 favorite]


I was like "how's she gonna knock down the walls? How's that gonna work?!" I was not disappointed.
posted by lunasol at 10:13 PM on September 10, 2016


It's not so much how is she gonna knock down the walls, but how she managed to knock down a big spiral beside them and a little spiral on top of them and NOT knock down the walls.
posted by jacquilynne at 10:15 PM on September 10, 2016 [23 favorites]


Definitely needs HappyFunSeptember tag. This is awesome.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 10:18 PM on September 10, 2016 [3 favorites]


Supremely satisfying.
posted by Joey Michaels at 10:58 PM on September 10, 2016


Who downvotes such delight??
posted by killy willy at 11:07 PM on September 10, 2016 [2 favorites]


"...third largest project..."
posted by fartknocker at 11:14 PM on September 10, 2016 [1 favorite]


Previous H5 content!
posted by rhizome at 11:23 PM on September 10, 2016


I think there are some similarities with today's extreme domino building and Sand mandalas. I'm sure I'm not the first to come up with this comparison, but it seems quite apt.

(great video!)
posted by el io at 12:07 AM on September 11, 2016 [4 favorites]


How, how, how does she do this?!?!?
posted by eggkeeper at 12:10 AM on September 11, 2016 [1 favorite]


That's beautiful.
Am I doing the math wrong? 10 dominoes a second?!
posted by LarsC at 12:12 AM on September 11, 2016


Yes, yes I am doing the math wrong.
posted by LarsC at 12:20 AM on September 11, 2016 [1 favorite]


Definitely needs HappyFunSeptember tag. This is awesome.

Awesomeness added!
posted by taz at 12:20 AM on September 11, 2016


A great analogy for The Walking Dead, which would actually be an interesting theme for a Halloween domino trick.

: )
posted by Beholder at 12:21 AM on September 11, 2016


Flipycat would have been proud.
posted by radwolf76 at 1:49 AM on September 11, 2016


I'd say that counted as quadruple.
posted by Segundus at 2:37 AM on September 11, 2016


Metafilter: Pretty good of the web!


(the pretty good in this case was pretty awesome)
posted by Nanukthedog at 4:49 AM on September 11, 2016


To be a great domino spiral, you need to spend 40 hours over 10 days and use 25,000 dominoes, obviously.
posted by jeather at 7:58 AM on September 11, 2016


Ack!
You couldn't pay me enough to attempt this. The stress, the anticipation of just one wobble.... Makes my hands sweat just thinking about it. Not to mention the imagination andd ability to spatially plan out the symmetry for the design would be totally beyond me.

I even wince slightly when I watch it fall. Maybe my brothers traumatized me by repeatedly kicking over my block towers during my youth.
posted by BlueHorse at 8:18 AM on September 11, 2016 [2 favorites]


I watched this with Man, and I was all "whee!", and he was all, "oh it hurts to think of all the cleanup, think about all the tedious ocd sorting...." Guess which one of us is the engineer. Now, off down the black hole of dominoes go I.
posted by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 8:38 AM on September 11, 2016


I'd love to play with these massive displays but even at a few cents per the cost of 10K domininos becomes prohibitive. Anyone know if there is a domino rental service; some googling around hasn't revealed any.
posted by Mitheral at 9:33 AM on September 11, 2016


The TV Producer side of me becomes equal parts frayed nerves and giddy delight when watching these. Well done, H5!
posted by Navelgazer at 9:36 AM on September 11, 2016


I watched the triple spiral on mute while one of the more tragic themes from Nick Cave's Hell Or High Water score was playing elsewhere in the room. Suddenly, those collapsing walls looked like the saddest thing on Earth.
posted by Paul Slade at 9:53 AM on September 11, 2016


It appears to have taken one minute and 25 seconds to fully fall. That's one long cringe in the event of an accidental premature tipping.

Anyway, this is delightful.
posted by Hot Pastrami! at 10:00 AM on September 11, 2016


Wonderful!
The excellent music is good vibes by axero in case anyone wants to know.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 11:10 AM on September 11, 2016


> Wonderful!
posted by thatwhichfalls


Well, of course you would say so.

[& I would agree.]
posted by Westringia F. at 1:13 PM on September 11, 2016 [2 favorites]


This made me think of the interaction between energy and entropy (I was maybe in a weird mood when I watched it?).
So, the Sun converts hydrogen into Helium and energy, the sunlight is absorbed by plants and the plants are maybe eaten by animals.
The plants and maybe animals are consumed by the Human (H5) who converts the biochemical energy into potential energy, in terms of raising these items against gravity and ordering them specifically.
Then that energy is expended when they full over and local entropy increases again.
(or something... I am not a proper scientician, so I don't know really? and also I watched it last night, in a post lifting heavy things fog of exhaustion, so...)

Anyway, point being dominoes make me think about human's propensity for turning fusion energy into localised decreases in entropy.
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 2:31 AM on September 12, 2016


The techniques of domino arrangements have been growing by leaps and bounds the past decade or two. I am reminded of what happened in origami in the '90s and '00s.
posted by Quasirandom at 11:07 AM on September 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


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