I picked up the newspaper this morning and turned to the magazine and saw this awesome picture of a cob of corn being pulverized. I thought to me self that that looks very similar to the smash bat gallery that Walter and Luigi created. Since they just got interviewed by MAKE TV, I guess this is the hottest new thing in photography.
Check out Luigi’s new gallery on Flickr for more pictures of exploded fruits and veg. Here’s the link to his flickr page! And while the photographer with the cover shot, Martin Klimas, “is somewhat guarded about his technique”, the instructions for how to make your very own LuiWal Slugger can be found here and here
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Thanks for the plug, Ryan. Let me add that you can see recent and past SmashBat photos on our flickr group dedicated to that:
SmashBat on flickr
Also, Martin Klimas’s photos of porcelain dolls being smashed were one of the original inspiration for our Smashbat! We started thinking about ways to capture something being smashed; our initial idea was to drop statues on a hard surface, and we would embed the switch in the surface itself, so it would trigger a flash. Then Walter had the idea of using a bat, and putting the switch right into that. And the rest, as they say, is history…