Those aren't smoke machines, those are the amps shorting out. Grohl is keeping everything going through the liberal application of pure awesome.

Ok, so now I need a smoke machine!
*promote

I couldn't figure out what all the garbage was he kept messing with. I guess it was all those ornaments and smoke machines? I don't know a lot about skydiving

This unbelievable performance is made possible by the artists third hard, which she cleverly obscures from the cameras through precise use of her body, mirrors and a smoke machine.

Perhaps hermaphrodite is the wrong word, and again, it only figures at the very end of the movie, so this is not necessarily a movie about a hermaphrodite.

The scene where the man and the woman are "combined" is somewhat sexual. I have vague recollections that they were kind of going at each other while the "chamber" was being flooded with psychedelic lights, maybe a smoke machine... stuff like that...

>> ^dannym3141:

I honestly don't know how you can imagine that a bunch of dumb-ass adrenaline junkies had such funds as to stage such an elaborate hoax, with the CGI work and the smoke machines and all the other stuff involved in making a non-event look this real.
Where did they get the money to make a 30 second internet video with the best faking technology available to the film industry? What's it advertising? Do you get what i'm trying to say?


No I don't think it was CGI. A simple fishline guide up to his crotch, and a second explosive that is set off as he jumps out of sight would do it. It would be tough to get the timing right, but not expensive. Still, there's really no reason to fake this either, so it's just as likely that it's real. I'm just astounded at how lightly some people take their reproductive ability.

>> ^MaxWilder:
I hate to say it, but this looks fake. The rocket is way too stable driving into his crotch, like it was attached by a wire. Then they explosion happens right when he falls out of view behind the car. But the clincher is he appears to have no burn damage to his hands or underwear, despite the apparent explosion of a firework attached to his pants.
And honestly, if it's not fake, what were they hoping to achieve? I know there are people stupid enough to risk neutering themselves for a stunt, but this looks like it was designed specifically to remove his ability to reproduce. It's not like taking a paintball to the crotch, we're talking about explosives here. It's like lighting an M80 between your legs. I just can't see anybody doing that on purpose, even dumb-ass adrenaline junkies.


I honestly don't know how you can imagine that a bunch of dumb-ass adrenaline junkies had such funds as to stage such an elaborate hoax, with the CGI work and the smoke machines and all the other stuff involved in making a non-event look this real.

Where did they get the money to make a 30 second internet video with the best faking technology available to the film industry? What's it advertising? Do you get what i'm trying to say?

From Popular Science Blog:

"To create the effect, the museum's designers set up a disco smoke machine, then activated a set of 144 nozzles on the ceiling of the building's enormous atrium. The ventilation system, designed for emergencies, sucks the disco smoke up from below. To produce a spinning vortex, however, they blew air in from the sides, forcing the smoke to swirl."