Comments on: Pyramid of Glasses

By: Rocky Rook

Rocky Rook — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:19:11 +0000

I was waiting for the fat lady to sing and break all the glasses.

By: Moon

Moon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:30:46 +0000

blm, they really must be strong. I was thinking of the weight of all those glasses on top and why wouldn’t the glasses below be crushed? Or at least the stems broken?

By: blm

blm — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:59:15 +0000

The glasses at the bottom must be way strong…

By: R00B0y

R00B0y — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:50:03 +0000

OK maybe it is just the anarchist in me but I really wanted to see the whole pile collapse… safely of course.. but what a sight that would be!

smashy smashy

By: Bob 2

Bob 2 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:57:59 +0000

As we used to say at Bottle Stacking University, BFD!

By: Scrabbler

Scrabbler — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:57:43 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedral_number

By: Scrabbler

Scrabbler — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:56:39 +0000

187,460 glasses! (if there are glasses all throughout, and 103 layers).

By: renderanything

renderanything — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:22:18 +0000

I’d fear for the people standing close to the base of the pyramid. It looks like they had some sort of plexiglass barrier, but can you imagine a mountain of glass shards blowing out in your direction?

By: nick

nick — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:33:02 +0000

wonder how much champagne it’d take to fill all of them.

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:09:28 +0000

Not to be the cinema police or anything, but a “pan down” is more accurately called a “tilt.” A pan is used to describe horizontal motion from a fixed axis, while a tilt is used to describe vertical motion from a fixed axis.

While it IS possible to perform a pan while the camera is in motion, that isn’t the case in this shot (sometimes, as in Hitchcock’s Rear Window, zooms and tracking shots are combined to create a radical shift in the depth of field of a shot).

The beginning of the shot is a “zoom,” in which the optics create the illusion of pulling back, not to be confused with a “tracking” shot, in which the camera actually does physically pull back, push forward, or travel sideways (usually on dolly track).

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:12:09 +0000

Aw man, I was expecting him to lean over and accidently hit it after he put the last glass on lol

By: Gido

Gido — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:32:29 +0000

this was held in holland, the guy shouting in the end says: 103(referring to the number of layers i suppose), we made it. A new world record.

By: frightened

frightened — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:27:59 +0000

What were they yelling at the end? Not all of it sounded encouraging.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:57:38 +0000

i was really hoping to see it completely filled up

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:55:06 +0000

Wendy – why not?

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:50:01 +0000

Pretty cool, but why?

By: HollywoodBob

HollywoodBob — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:32:45 +0000

How’d you like to be the crew that had to clean that up.

By: sniggitysnags

sniggitysnags — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:53:19 +0000

wow! where was this held at? I was more nervous when he started pouring the champagne! ha