Trust Dan Saelinger to ring in the New Year with something fun: explosions and motion. Motionsplosions.

He recently blew up some game consoles for Fortune Magazine. I’ll let him tell it:

“I was recently brought on by Armin Harris for a job with Fortune Magazine. The story was about console gaming’s demise. We came up with a concept to incorporate still and video footage of exploding consoles and controllers, particularly Xbox 360′s, for the story. The shoot took place at a pyrotechnics studio in Brooklyn called J and M Special Effects. The location was great because they have a permanent NYC explosives permit as well as a pyrotechnician on staff. Below is a behind the scenes video of the initial set up.”

Fortune behind the scenes from Dan Saelinger on Vimeo.

Here are the spectacular results.

Mr. Saelinger has also been getting on the motion game. Here, he does very cruel things to flowers. I like it.

flowers from Dan Saelinger on Vimeo.

These flowers remind me of the classic Martin Klimas flower torture pictures.

I went over to check out what Martin has been up to recently. Apparently he is mad at his china doll collection.

And now advertisers are getting in on the trend: BBDO in Milan is using exploding beauty in their ads for Palladium theater.

lurvely.

Luckily, some flowers are being left intact. William Rugen found some specimens at the local fair that were being judged on their perfection.

I’d give first place to the Zinnea in the middle. You?