250,000 Dominoes and 3 World Records: Incredible Science Machine

I saw this amazing video on Facebook and just had to share it with you and do some digging to learn more.

They broke three world records:

• US Domino Field Record (12,450 dominoes)
• US Domino Structure Record (12,780 dominoes)
• US Domino Record (245,732 dominoes)

Prior to seeing this video, I didn't even know "domino art" was a thing. According to the video description, you can hire Steve Price & Lily Hevesh to do this stuff for you:

We organize and design custom domino projects for live events, commercials, and TV shows. Contact us at spricemachines@gmail.com and hevesh5@gmail.com for business inquiries or if you would like to sponsor our next event.

I think what I enjoyed most about this beyond the amazing art and patience required to pull it off was the nostolga of seeing so many games I've enjoyed both as a kid and an adult. My family and I are big boardgame fans, and I've done a number of Table Top Game Reviews which you can see here on Steemit:

• Dominion
• Pandemic
• Mastermind
• Qwirkle
• Hanabi
• Hive

In total, this domino build took 7 days with a total of 19 builders working a combined 1,200 hours (according to the YouTube video description).

Here are the builders and links to their YouTube channels (again, taken from the video description):

• Steve Price - Sprice Machines
• Lily Hevesh - Hevesh5
• Lyle Broughton - jackofallspades98
• Nathan Heck - SuperMarMarMan1
• Joel Yantha - TheInvention11
• Alex Huang - Flashdomino
• Mark Robbins - DoodleChaos
• Brady Dolan - BPDoles
• Chase Blanchette - TheRGMGuy01
• Hayden Russell - Dynamic Domino
• Evan Voeltner - E VoltageRGMs
• Marcel Pürrer - Austrian Domino Art
• Tim Dunsmore - DrComplicated
• Alexandra Benz - DominoERDMANN
• Michael Fantauzzo - StickTrickDominoDude
• Sascha Wilzewski - DominoFan0803
• Joseph Naberhaus - jdman1699
• Joel Dähler - Smileypeacefun
• Chris Wright - xXDominoMasterXx

If you enjoyed this build, be sure to let the sponsors know:

• Zeal Credit Union
• Smarter Every Day
• K'nex
• Trix Track

I was really stoked to see Smarter Every Day there as I'm a huge fan of their Edutainment, which I mentioned last year.

If you can't quite get enough of this build (I couldn't), check out the behind the scenes video:

I noticed they yell "Test!" whenever they test a part of the setup. I assume they do this so when people hear dominoes crashing, their hearts don't jump into their throats with anxiety thinking their work is crashing down. I was impressed with how slowly they placed each individual piece. They demonstrated some amazing patience.

The clock at the end doesn't run the whole time either (I figured that would be impossible!), but it does start running at 12 seconds and they nailed it perfectly, as you can see from the behind the scenes video.

As I watched these dominoes fall, I couldn't help but think about the time and effort involved in this. Part of my rational, engineer brain started to think, "What a waste of time!" but I quickly cut that thought off because this is art. Art, wonder, and beauty are things which make this human existence so amazing. I want humans working to solve climate change, improve the world, safely invent A.I., and travel to the stars, but I also have to appreciate how important it is to do things like this as well.

If we lose our wonder, we'll lose ourselves.

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Luke Stokes is a father, husband, business owner, programmer, and voluntaryist who wants to help create a world we all want to live in. Visit UnderstandingBlockchainFreedom.com

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