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let's hope the tag line, "no plants were harmed during the making of this photo" will be added somewhere!

These are wonderful! And .... I'm "wondering" why I love them so. Violent...yet beautiful...thought provoking, (like how exactly...I don't see an object hitting them)...so creative...love them!

it seems so wasteful, to me anyway

it hurts me to look at them and i dont need pain.

Picking another comment, waste can beautiful. It depends of the prespective and to me it is quite brilliant:)

I wonder if there's a possibilitie to buy a framw with one of those images.

I don't know why but these seem very 80's to me. The look and feel of them. Not a fan.

Interesting but too violent for me to display in my home

Something I have never seen before!

I like the exploding warriors better. Those even my husband would love!

I love these! They are so interesting and unexpected. I too would be interested to know if prints are available for purchase.

Great post!

I'm ashamed to say this, but these images remind me of KoRn's video for "Freak on a Leash."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K27d7Ut5bXo

I would be forever grateful if anyone knows where to purchase prints outside of a gallery.

Interesting - but neither beautiful nor inspiring.

If you like these prints, you may also like a show on the Discovery Channel called, "Time Warp". It's all about High Speed photography.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/time-warp/time-warp.html

Does anyone know what the orange dried-flower looking things in this photo (from above) are called? I really like them...

Does anyone know what these dried-flower-looking orange things from one">http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/la/110508klimas_07.jpg">one of the photos above are called?

Chinese Lantern flower. The campus near me has a number of these trees, and now that it's fall, the flowers fade from orange to tan while they remain on the very shapely, 45' tall, 50' wide tree.

These are amazing, They are not really what I am looking for in art for my house but very fascinating and they exude so much energy!

I find it interesting that people find this wasteful. I mean one vase exploded and was turned into art. Imagine low many vases are thrown out in the trash every day and don't become art. Maybe this print can act of a reminder of waste

I misspoke: The flowers pictured do come from an annual/semi-anual shrub called Chinese Lantern flower.

However, the trees with the lantern-shaped flowers are Golden-Rain Tree, aka Chinese Flame Tree instead. Still, beautiful.

Its not waste if it was used for making worthwhile art.

oh wow... I love these. Something about the tranquility of the flower juxtaposed with the explosions. Love the contrast and the flow and surprise. nice. Wouldn't mind a print of one of these.

I make particle-based cg effects (like splashes and explosions) for a living so I guess its no surprise I like these.

I do not find beauty in the destruction of the fragile and living.

Try not to faint Gideon. I know looking at vases from the dollar store getting broken must be very upsetting for someone so sensitive and delicate. As for the flowers . . . they've been cut so they ain't livin' anymore.

C2, you may be thinking of the Memorex ad campaigns of late 70s and 80s.

This one has Ella:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkt8Dwzl6Sg

I'd gotten that one mixed up with this one from Maxell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DP89iMe0BY&feature=related

I would like to see more variation to this. All photos are essentially the same.

I think these are gorgeous. To all of the people commenting on destroying the delicate and living and so on, if you've never bought a bouquet of cut flowers, never picked a wildflower, or cut your lawn then go ahead and by all means voice your dismay. If you have done these things, the term hypocrite comes to mind and it seems odd to get so up in arms about something.

Cut flowers and what are most likely dollar store or thrifted vases? This artwork lasts longer than a bunch of cut flowers, and beautifies vases that may have otherwise been knocked off of a sally ann shelf or thrown out once they don't sell.

These images are wonderful and interesting in my opinion, I love the juxtaposition between the gorgeous, simplistic and elegant flowers, and the extreme sharp angles and 'edginess' of the exploding vases. They're quite eye-catching and thought provoking to me.

I would also like to know how to purchase prints of these without going through a gallery, as I'd love to have two.

As for how, I had at first thought perhaps someone was shooting the vases, but now I think that it is more likely that there were small firecrackers in the vases or something - would have to be positioned just so, so that they don't fix out in the water, but so far I can't think of anything else. If the vases were shot, there would be more movement from one side to the other in terms of debris but these explosions all seem to originate within the vase somehow, as a center point.

AT, some help with sources for this work would be much appreciated! Thanks :)

If you live in Boston, you can come see a reproduction of one of his photos at the Museum of Science, in an exhibit about using technology to enhance your senses. I work at the museum and helped design the exhibit.

Here is an image of it in the exhibit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11040835@N07/2592763873/in/set-72157605706232365/