Biggest Daytime Fireworks Show Ever -- Mathaf Opening of Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab

At the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar this week, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang put on his largest "explosion event" of the last three years, utilizing microchip-controlled explosives to form incredible designs and patterns. The video we've embedded of the event is an impressive testament to how a volatile black powder explosion can be controlled and shaped by computer.

Each set of explosions was calculated to paint a different picture. One series of explosions created black smoke clouds that looked like "drops of ink splattered across the sky."

In another, 8,300 shells embedded with computer microchips exploded in a pyramid shape over the desert.

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[93Killio]

The coloured smoke in the sky are the gay dementors.

[jokerdascartas]

1:34 DEMENTORS

[liljonny84]

Its so weird how those clouds keep appearing over the fireworks

[frni]

My favourite bit was when he missed everything.

[brucebu]

would love to be there but too much wind noise in this one.

[mrkiky]

What a shitty camera job. Film the sky damnit! Not the ground....

[n5017858]

@ukillinmepeety Jew? American? Both?

[n5017858]

I was in Doha on this day, and the first I heard of the display was after it happened, in Al Jazeera. my wife even knew the curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Doha, and no-one mentioned this to us until after the event. But that is just Doha

[Fuzzy192006]

Looks like crap.

[jamiejamiejames1996]

8uiiiiiii



[Mackenzie2204]

Fantastic!!!