check in: someone posts up on the list asking where to buy explosives and people are engaging with him? really?
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Steven <ste...@gladstonefilms.com> wrote: > So, if you are doing anything more "explosive" than Flash paper. Find > someone who knows what they are doing and have done this before.Failing to > respect your media, any media leads to mistakes, and with anything that > burns or explodes. . . > > Sure sure I'm being overly cautious but people who load black powder are > not blowing up models, they are different applications. > > How do you want to blow it up, slowly in sections, one big bang? > Fire/Flame - not in space, probably would ruin your effect anyway. > > How many models can you blow up? > Perhaps instead you want to buy some explosions and do it in electronic > post? > > Remember the over-cranking calculation when working with models, which i > can't remember right now, but I'm sure Scott Dorsey will. I think it is 1/4 > scale model = 4x over-cranking. > > I once shot some balloons being shredded for an artist, we shot 5,000 fps > (Redlake HyCam 16mm), because the artest really wanted to see his sculpture > shredding. We found a pyro guy, who had access to everything we needed, big > open field, and the knowledge. He chose to use what he called dust, which > was very very fine shot in shotgun shells (who knew such things existed?) > He built a rig to fire ten shotgun shells at once, test fired it to aim a > few times, first time it kicked so much, we added more sand bags to hold it > down. Then I asked the pyro guy why his head was bleeding, he said that one > of the pipes he had wlded to the rig to use as the gun barrels had broken > free of the weld, flown twenty feet through the air backward and took a > piece of his hairline. A check of the rig showed another weld had broken, > so we were down to 8 pipes/barrels. The rig didn't fire on the first roll > of film - one power outlet on the quad box was broken - wasted 400 feet in > about 5 seconds. But the next shot everything worked, although I doubt the > rig would ever fire again. This was with a guy who had been doing pyro > effects for a while, and that was what he was focussing on and studying. > Just some food for thought. > > > On 9/8/13 6:35 PM, ben.weinst...@mindspring.com wrote: > > Hey, > I'm making a space pirates stop motion film and I was wondering if anyone > knew where I could acquire black powder to blow up model space ships with. > I know you can buy it in cans somewhere but I cant find a place in New York > that sells any explosives. Do I have to go to the south or something? Any > info is much appreciated. Thanx. > > -- > Steven Gladstone > New York Based > Filmmaker917-886-5858http://www.gladstonefilms.comhttp://roadtodad.blogspot.com/http://indiekicker.reelgrok.com/http://www.blakehousemovie.comhttp://www.hellion.gladstonefilms.com > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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