Dominoes Everywhere

Join us May 7, 2011 at Rochester Institute of Technology for Imagine RIT, our annual festival focused on creativity and innovation of our students, faculty, and staff.
http://www.rit.edu/imagine/

The cardboard man at the beginning who kicks the first domino is RIT President Bill Destler, who started the festival at RIT in 2008.

Inspiration for the video came from some of my favorite videos including the Sony Bravia balls, paint, and rabbits commercials; the Honda cog commercial; the Guinness 'Tipping Point' commercial; and all of FlippyCat's domino videos on YouTube. It was created by myself and two coworkers.

Special thanks to everyone in RIT University Publications who helped with setup and cleanup, even more thanks to Alexander Gartley (gartley86) and Mark Marcello (mam3684) who helped with concepting and all the setting up of dominoes.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• domino
• dominoes
• rit
• imagine
• imaginerit
• office
• rochester
• creativity
• color
• rube
• goldberg

[jackhoff87]

The thing I always wonder about these videos is why don't they show the whole video in one continuous shot? Thats proof that they didn't fake it and that they didn't make mistakes at certain parts. To cover up the mistakes they just show parts.

[xmuzzledwolfx]

@jackhoff87 that's because it is virtually impossible, we're in a world where something must end. for a continuous shot, cgi must be involved. this still entertains that notion in an imaginative way. :)

[jlyon1515]

@xmuzzledwolfx I disagree that computer graphics would need to be involved to do this in a single take. It just would have been jerky as I moved around with the camera (I didn't have a stabilizer after all). I could have done this in one take if the dominoes fell at a slower rate.

[jlyon1515]

@jackhoff87 I didn't do it in a continuous take for a couple reasons. I don't like domino videos where you see the whole field at once and just watch the dominoes fall. It becomes boring. You know what's going to happen because you can already see it. This way, you watch the journey of the dominoes. I actually did test chasing the dominoes as they fell, but too much motion in the frame. It was just easier this way.

[TiaralovesTinsel]

a fan of the tigers perhaps? Or did they sponsor.

[jlyon1515]

@TiaralovesTinsel They didn't sponsor, but I work at RIT, and they're our sports team. It was just done for the school spirit.

[ytrewq6789]

Hey john I got it almost set up.... OH SHIT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[gabriellep323]

That employee is so fired.

[tew8197]

@jackhoff87 ...unless they were using several camera's...and, in which case, you'd need to splice those together...which means, it'll look cut. Someone would have to shoot from start to finish while holding the camera to do one continuous shot...which detracts from how cool it looks...which it does...run-on sentences, be damned! lol

[3TGV]

WHO KNEW THAT THE OFFICE COULD BE THIS FUN!?!?!?!

[xmuzzledwolfx]

THIS IS AMAZING.

[DominickJ]

@ytrewq6789 ROTFLMAO!!!

[DominickJ]

I'm from Rochester and am very familiar with RIT!! AND this vid was awesome. I couldn't set something like that up but admire those who can and not only set it up BUT with the tap of a toe let it all fall down WITH such synchronisity!!!