Tags for this video have been changed from 'tds, daily show, jon stewart, bush, doctrine, blinking, strobe light' to 'tds, daily show, jon stewart, bush, doctrine, blinking, strobe light, crab porn' - edited by calvados

If by titillating, you mean wide-eyed astonishment--wtf just happened here--wow is that a strobe light?, then I agree with your summary, Ox. (Sorry for the lack of grammatical agreement; couldn't figure out how to convey that shtstorm of mindblow in adjectival form)

I think you're right, eric3579. It has to be strobe lights.

Hell yeah, I remember this song at the end of a Blue Man Group performance, where they turned off the regular lights, turned on the strobe lights, and brought streamers/toilet paper all the way down the aisles. Good times.

If I had to guess I wouldn't say this is 10000 frames per second, but rather the same as the water drop strobe light thingy, if you take a picture every 1/10th sec at an engine running at 1000 rpm (or 60,000 rev/s) you could combine pictures to make an animation because the combustion is relatively repetitive enough combine frames from later.

ValiantCoward:

You aren't seeing 1 drop moving, it's several drops, each being illuminated at different points in their path from the tap to the pan.

eg: if the lights flash every time each drop is 1" from the pan, it will look like 1 drop hovering 1" above the pan. You won't see when the drops are above or below 1" because the lights aren't lit and the drops are dark.

Same thing happens when a mechanic does the ignition timing on a car engine with a strobe light.

so very close . . .


there is still no better musical cue for dumping foam/blasting strobe lights/other mind-altering dancefloor effects than min 2:19 of this song.

these kids are awesome. banned on mtv for the usage of strobe lights, according to wikipedia,

pretty rocking, and pretty gross, but not entirely new to those familiar with Cunningham's other work (or the Sex Pistols, for that matter).

the comintry at first introduces what it is .water bing vibrated at high freqency. and then viewd using a strobe light so that we can see the movement in real time. and then then gose on to exspain how complex forms and shapes can be formed sutch as the shapes that we see in alot of organisums today.

i think this sort of thing adds to evalutanairy thery and helps scintists understand how complex shapes that seem unlikly to evolve acure in nature