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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• Mathaf
• Opening
• of
• Cai
• Guo-Qiang:
• Saraab

[93Killio]

The coloured smoke in the sky are the gay dementors.

[frni]

My favourite bit was when he missed everything.

[SethB968]

still not as cool as regular fireworks.

[joshua53492]

1:10 r they getting crazy with frags?!?!

[24videowatcher]

in the making of this film, 5 aircraft where shot down

[gothbro111]

pro shit

[Aedecamp]

LOOK UP LOOK UP LOOK OP LOOK UP. let me rephrase that. LOOK THE #@!& UP!!!!!!!

[harveydog2006]

thats awsome

[Videophilmer]

this is amazcary!

[DarkOps2442]

Way cool!!!

[GregglesToTheMax]

by the fourth time he learns to point the camera upwards

[Cizuru1]

O4en klassno,osobenno kogda bil cvetnoj fejverk)!