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1. Dominoes Everywhere
6 months ago
This video was created for Imagine RIT, an annual festival at Rochester Institute of Technology focused on creativity and innovation of its students, faculty, and staff. It was created by myself and two coworkers.

** The next Imagine RIT festival is May 1, 2010. Hope to see you there! **

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

Special thanks to everyone in RIT University Publications who helped with setup and cleanup.

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  • Jon Salazar 6 months ago
    hah this is crazy
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  • john hopkins plus 6 months ago
    Great work! How many times did you have to set this up? and how many cameras did you use?
  • Jared Lyon 6 months ago
    I filmed it with only one camera, a Canon Vixia HV30, at 1080p30.

    The production was done in three sections: my office, hallway 1, and printer hallway. We set up those three sections entirely for the main pan shots that are at the beginning. In the end though, we shot in sections.

    We knocked over the entire first section and tried following it with a camera, but it got to be too much motion in the frame. That's when we decided to lock the camera down and have the dominoes enter and leave the view. Definitely worked better that way.
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  • collide007 6 months ago
    That's awesome.
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  • Zhenia Lysionkin 6 months ago
    i love that!
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  • Pixel Music 6 months ago
    You are the most patient man in the world :)
  • Alexander Gartley 6 months ago
    Jared did it with a little help from myself and another coworker, but yes it took a LOT of patience to make this.
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  • Mark Johnson 6 months ago
    nicely done! that must have taken forever, but it looks like it was well worth it.
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  • corefault 6 months ago
    very cool. great idea.
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  • Christopher Lynch 6 months ago
    well done, congrats....your "views" are insane...May 7th - 4700...May 8th...10,000! congrats, and will share around as well
    -Mister Lynch
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  • Margot Cross 6 months ago
    AMAZING! I was nervous the whole time watching it though...
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  • Jo Jitty 6 months ago
    OMgosh dude that is absolutely amazing! Too funny!

    RT
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  • Kirbus Christ 6 months ago
    Did you re-wire the copier to have a switch near the floor? Or was that "movie magic" ?
  • Jared Lyon 6 months ago
    The dominoes don't hit anything to make the printer turn on. A printout was sent from my computer, and it was just timed so that when the dominoes hit, the printer started up.

    Initially it was planned to try to go up onto the printer and have it hit the copy button, but it got too complicated to try to figure out, so I figured "Let's just hit the side of the printer." :)
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  • drugsnboobs 6 months ago
    absolutely wicked!
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  • Jackson 6 months ago
    Coolness
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  • Travis May 6 months ago
    Nice! How did the copier start?
  • Alexander Gartley 6 months ago
    Jared explains it in a comment above.
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  • MovieMagic Video 6 months ago
    Amazing!
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  • Mike Roushey 6 months ago
    pretty sweet :D
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  • Antoinette Flores 6 months ago
    You must appreciate the animated movie Robots :0)
  • Jared Lyon 6 months ago
    Never saw it, but someone else asked me the same thing. Guess I'll have to watch it!
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  • marztar 6 months ago
    That's super cool/funny and jealousy inducing!!
    What a great place to work at... where the only thing that makes contact with work equipment is plastic dominos! lol
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  • William Hook 6 months ago
    Epic.
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  • Scott Ritchie 6 months ago
    more the more creative Domino arrangements I have seen that last bar going up to the top of the filing cabinet got me off guard. Great job

    Scotty
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  • Joaquin Moreno 6 months ago
    Great job guys!. . congratulations!
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  • aysegul donmez 5 months ago
    this is what an office is for =)
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  • Vladimir Morochkovsky 5 months ago
    Амазинг! :-))
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  • daddo.it 5 months ago
    Great!
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  • David Moffitt 5 months ago
    Good stuff Jared (Mark sent me a link).
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