Hasta La Gadget!

Sure, you love to watch a crash-bang firework show while you sip a cold beer on July 4th, but did you ever think about how the poor firework feels? Well did you, you callous spectator, you?

No, you didn’t, which means that Jeremiah Warren is a much better man than you. Not only did he ask himself about the firework’s welfare, he tried to see things from its point-of-view. Literally. Warren, a videographer, mounted tiny (808 #11) video cameras onto the rockets and fired them up into the sky.

The result is this short collection of clips showing the dizzying, spinning flight of the fireworks. You see the earth falling away, and showers of colored sparks erupting before the whole package returns to the ground with a thud.

What’s amazing to me is that Warren got any footage back at all. Here’s what he says about trying to get a decent shot:

It ended up being harder to get a good shot than I though it would be. I was going to mount fins on the to stabilize them, but by the time I got the idea I already shot through my supply.

Already shot through my supply. It sounds like he was sacrificing these $140 cameras one after the other, which makes it seem like only the microSD cards survived.

Thank you, Jeremiah Warren.

Wide Angle Camera Mounted on Firework POV [YouTube via PetaPixel]

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