Cascade of 60,000 dominoes

[Video Link] From Neatorama: "FlippyCat assembled 60 walls, each consisting of 990 dominoes, and an additional field of 600 dominoes. The project took 65 hours over 8 days and some painful failures along the way. But when he finally pushed it over at 0:55, he made a beautiful cascade of color and sound."

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SomeGuyNamedMark

Then after he knocked them down he heard, “Ok, we’re ready to record.”
orangedesperado

This is very underwhelming…
- imag
  
  So is that comment. I was hoping for something better when I turned the page.
Jay Converse

Need the video where they’re resorted back to original colors.
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  Just play it in reverse.
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

Meh…..kind of neat in the American Beauty” bag in the wind” style of neat.
Christopher Vaughan

They don’t really look like dominoes. What are they?
http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

Pussy, a real domino nerd would have built those walls without the clear dividers between walls and made sure they didn’t fall and preemptively topple all the work so far.
- Marius van Voorden
  
  That’s not a real nerd, that’s an idiot. Real nerds are efficient.
  - dioptase
    
    A real nerd would use a robot to do the stacking.
imag

This person is a certain kind of crazy. Just a few of those failures would have made me want to scream.

But the glory is in the result. I applaud the insanity.
francoisroux

Anyone else notice his shirt changing to the same colour of the dominoes in the wall he’s building?
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/koocheekoo/ Koocheekoo
  
  I thought that was neat. I caught it too.