Materials
A dead printer, copier, scanner thingy.

Procedure
If you have a youngin’ you can skip the following steps….actually we’ll skip those steps entirely as I don’t feel up to writing a biology lesson. Have your youngin’ climb up to the top of the concrete wall, pass up the printer and give them the command they’ve been waiting for their entire lives. “Go ahead, toss that printer off the wall!”

Result
In short, a mess. It is interesting to see how the printer obliterates itself. If anyone had any doubts about the validity of gravity I hope this video puts their mind at ease that it is indeed still functioning to spec. The glass was obviously broken in previous attempts, as were parts of the printer, which made this one such an interesting shot. This was the third time we had dropped it. I have to say that Epson makes very sturdy printer, the first time we dropped it not a single thing broke. An eight foot fall and nothing broke. Amazing for a heavy, plastic printer like that. Anyway, enjoy the destruction.

Materials
A large dead light bulb.

Procedure
First determine your distance from the wall, A. The force at which you know you can throw, B. Then take the circumference of the earth minus A, and throw that away, it is quite useless. Then take B and go ahead and chunk that too, you won’t be needing it here. Then figure in the wind speed and gravity (9.8m/s/s in most places, your gravity may be different, please inquire at your local post office). Take all of these things and write them down on a large brown piece of paper. You won’t be needing them again. Now toss the bulb at the wall.

Result
A rather large and somewhat unsafe explosion of lots of tiny pieces of glass that can get lodged in your eye if you don’t have safety glasses on. If you do have safety glasses on, congrats you are now safely protected on a very very small portion of your body. In all seriousness this is a neat shot that I rather enjoy, one piece of glass becoming many. Mechanical reproduction at its…um….finest.

Materials
Paintball gun (Provided by Advanced Tronics in Waycross, GA)
Paintballs

Observations
This was a rapid fire paint ball gun that would belt out the paint balls at a pretty decent clip. The force these things hit with was rather amazing, it was actually taking the paint off of the wall. One of the things I like about this particular shot is the way each ball pushes the remaining paint around. This is a good one to still frame through, there are several really interesting hits.

Materials
Wood
Axe
Knot
Foam backed fabric.

Observations
This shot, while technically a failure, turned out beautifully. The ax hit a knot as it was cutting the first chord of wood which caused the ax blade to rotate, which in turn caused one half of the chord to bolt towards the backdrop. The impact on the backdrop is one of the more fascinating aspects of this shot. The shape the wrinkles take on as the wood impacts the cloth is neat. The wood chips as well as the motion of the ax are both interesting to watch as well.

Materials
Plastic jar of mayo.
An aluminum baseball bat.

Observations
This one is neat from the aspect of seeing how built up pressure in a vessel escapes. As one would expect it takes the path of least resistance, this being the cap. But interestingly enough it also comes out of the bottom of the jar. That was a bit unexpected. I like the path of the spray itself and wish the camera had been set back a bit.

Materials
One old broken Dell computer.
A sledge hammer.

Observations
This video is filled with all kinds of goodness. I love the flex we get to see in the fiberglass handle of the sledge hammer. The dust bunnies uprooted from their home is also incredibly interesting. It is amazing the amount of dust that builds up in these things. I also like to see the plastic flexing as the hammer comes down on it.