Shooting Challenge: Water Fight

Shooting Challenge: Water Fight

Summer’s in full swing. So it’s time to make excuses. Excuses to use your camera, to be immature, and to hit somebody consentingly in the face with a water balloon.

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Sky Flowers: The Explosive and Deadly History of Fireworks

Sky Flowers: The Explosive and Deadly History of Fireworks

As you kick back under a glittering shower of high-production-value pyrotechnics on Independence Day this year, take a second to remember how the modern firework started out: As a tiny, but startling, accident.

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Shooting Challenge: Fireworks

Shooting Challenge: Fireworks

Say what you will about Americans, but we are really, really good at blowing things up. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge—and the 4th of July!—we’re going to celebrate that in our traditional fashion.

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Mexico’s National Pyrotechnics Festival Looks Absolutely Insane(ly Fun)

Mexico's National Pyrotechnics Festival Looks Absolutely Insane(ly Fun)

Who doesn’t love a good fireworks show? People the world over—from Beijing to New York—set off pyrotechnics to celebrate everything from home runs to national independence. Mexico has a similar celebratory tradition, they just don’t even bother launching the pyros—intentionally, that is.

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This Is What It’s Like To Play Street Fighter Using Real Fireballs [Video]

There is a dream harbored by everyone who grew up playing Street Fighter. In that dream you put your wrists together, shove them forward, shout “Hadouken!” and a giant fireball flies through the air. Last night, that dream came true. More »