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The site has attracted a lot of international media attention since 2008 and has now been on TV programs or news in 17 countries from a total of 14 TV shoots. There has been coverage in 8 newspaper articles, 27 magazine or book articles and 7 radio interviews.
Discovery USA "Is it
possible?" on Discovery Channel in the
USA on April 7 10:00 pm EST with a rescreen on April 8 at 1:00 am and
May 2 at 2:00 pm EST.
WIN TV Australia had a news item on 21/12/09. Reported and filmed by Tiffany Wertheimer. Topic was the Xmas tree 2009. Filmed by Dean Lomax with video effects by Jordan. Video runs 1:18 mins.
Maximus Film Germany Feb 5 2010. For two segments, one of which is about crazy inventors. Director was Susanne Bogner, camera by Oliver and host was Harro. Topics included the mini-coil, exploding watermelons, the Faraday cage and the swimming pool. It includes a test with a sparks onto a dummy in Germany. Also some 3d computer graphics showing me moving my arm to show current flows. Very clever. Video runs 14 mins.
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Channel 9 A Current Affair
(no pun intended) Sept 21, 2009 by John Mort filmed on 15/9/09. Shown across
Australia. The
topic was a report on the medical risks posed by high voltage lines.
My opinion was on the basis of my high voltage knowledge and as a medical
specialist to interpret the extensive literature. Early studies had
suggested a leukemia risk but later much larger studies that actually
measured fields showed no risk. I would have no concerns living under a
power line (and in fact have done so when living near Hyde Park in Perth).
Channel 7 TV Today Tonight Jan 9, 2009. Reporter is Mark Gibson and it was shown across Australia. Link is here. Took 5 hours to shoot and runs for 5 minutes.
Channel 7 TV Today Tonight May 4, 2009. Reporter is Graeme Butler from Today Tonight and it was shown across Australia. Took 6 hours to shoot and video runs for 5 minutes.
"Elec-trickery" WIN TV Australia had a news item on 23/12/08 for 90 seconds. Reported and filmed by Tiffany Wertheimer. Also screened on Channel 9 news and A Current Affair to give wide coverage in Australia. This eventually went international to 16 countries. First a jukebox selection of 13 international TV news articles based on the Elec-trickery clip. Around 1 minute each.
Above, are a few pictures from the Win TV shoot. The 5kJ capacitor bank explosion of some steel wool and aluminum actually started 2 small grass fires which were caught on camera.
The sources of the jukebox clips above are here:
A few other countries whose clips I couldn't capture for the jukebox above
are: Also was seen in Pakistan, Vietnam, Peru, Bulgaria and Singapore.
The Canadian Discovery Channel - Daily Planet has done 4 videos of my stuff. Nice high quality production which took about 6 hours shooting for each 5 mins. And the first one won an award. Discovery Channel TV episode 1 shown Sept 4, 2007 in Canada. Runs 5:14 mins and includes smoke rings, electric shocks, capacitor discharges and sparks in the pool. If you have a fast broadband link then view it direct in higher resolution from the Discovery Channel here otherwise click the video below.
Above is the Gold Remi Award from the Houston International Film festival awarded to Discovery Channel Canada for this first video segment. Dean Lomax was the cameraman and Dennis Porter the producer. There are about 5000 entries and about 1000 winners in hundreds of categories. In this pdf winner list search for "electricity" will take you to the entry.
Discovery Channel TV episode 2 shown Sept 11, 2007 in Canada. Cameraman Dean Lomax shot episode 1 and 2 in 11 hours. Runs 3:45 mins and includes capacitor discharges, big TC construction. If you have a fast broadband link then view it direct in higher resolution from the Discovery Channel here otherwise click the video below.
Discovery Channel TV episode 3 shown Nov 21, 2007 in Canada. Cameraman Dean Lomax shot this in about 6 hours. Runs 5 mins and includes the big TC in a big domed building. Click the video below.
Discovery Channel TV episode 4 shown Dec 20, 2007 in Canada. Cameraman Dean Lomax shot this also in around 6 hours. Topic is the Tesla Christmas tree. If you are in Canada (only) you can watch it here otherwise watch it here. Video runs 5 mins.
Dutch Novus TV "Fobiac"
Filmed 7/11/08 Aired 7/1/09
German Pro Sieben TV "Galileo"
Filmed 14/11/08, Aired 16/6/09
Sadly my camera died during the night (see the last photo) and it wasn't filming sparks at the time at the time it started.
Cosmology Gallery opening 2009
The Cosmology Gallery Opening showed my pulse capacitor bank exploding some wire to simulate the big Bang. Also showed the mini Tesla coil in action. It appeared on other channels as well.
Magazines and books
2008
A French magazine for an exhibition, Palais de Tokyo (above) had a feature in Feb 2009. The exhibition also had a distinctive V shaped bipolar coil by Finn Hammer in an art installation.
Above shows my colored sparks integrated into a fashion spread by Anka Bardeleben in Feld Hommes 2008.
  (click to enlarge) Above is Ripley's Believe it or not 2010. There was one full page of my stuff (out of 256 pages). Also had my Tesla Envy video on their online link.
(coming ?June) Above is L_A_N magazine with a full page due in ?July 2009.
Above is Mississippi Review magazine with the cover showing me in the pool in June 2010. Circ 2,000.
(click to enlarge) Above is BBC Focus magazine with a full page in July 2009. Circ 70,000 in the UK.
 (click to enlarge) Above is De Morgen magazine with a double page in 24 April 2010. It is a weekend supplement to the newspaper De Morgen. Circ 53,000 in Belgium.
(click to enlarge) Science Illustrated had a small article March 2009. Circ 700,000 in Europe and US.
Science and Life Junior magazine (above, French) had a 4 page spread Nov 2007 (above).
Maxim Magazine above, (UK version above) Dec 2007. It is a "men's magazine" and the cover is perhaps too saucy for my front page. Ok it's here (UK cover) - not safe for work (NSFW).
Maxim Magazine (Czech version above) also Dec 2007 but with a different article. The cover here (Czech) is again NSFW.
German View magazine, above, had a double page spread in May 2008 .
German B.Z. magazine, above, from 23 April 2009.
German View magazine, above, from June 2009.
Nuts magazine, above April 2009.
Zoo magazine, above, had a double page spread May 4 2009 .
Vice Magazine, above, May 2009
The engineering magazine Spectrum.IEEE May 2007. (above)
Ser medico from Brazil (above) had an article July 2009.
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A Chinese book "Contemporary Art of Science and Technology" 2008 above contains some pics too.
Chinese magazine, YWeekend above, had a couple of pages and the online articles are here and here. Jan 09.
Above is the article in the interesting little journal "Electric Space Craft."
(click to enlarge) Above is a book by Kocsis Istvan with the title in English of "Nikola Tesla and the Secrets of the Universe".
A publication from Renault (above) included a photo.
A Finnish Astronomy magazine, above used one of my twilight shots to demonstrate a crescent moon.
My Comet McNaught photo made it to the front cover of the Chinese Astronomical Journal (top left), International Comet Quarterly (top right, bottom right) and to page 3 of our local paper (bottom left). Hey, my photos are in 3 astronomical journals and I don't even have a telescope.
Other magazines have featured photos and articles including Australian Medicine magazine May 2003 and Jafmate. Some that didn't make it include Shanghai morning post, the Sun, Trader monthly (went broke),
Newspapers
2008
Above, is the article in the West Australian newspaper (circulation 200,000) of 22/12/08 on page 3.
Above, a few months later in the same West Australian newspaper (circulation 200,000 22/04/09) on the Modern Thinker page 15.
Above is the Bunbury Mail (circ 25 000) Xmas article on 23/12/2009.
Above, the Bunbury Mail newspaper (circ 25,000) had an article on 14/01/09.
Above, the Guardian newspaper (UK circ 350,000) had this as the page 18-19 centerfold on 23 April 2009.
Above, the Independent newspaper (UK circ 215,000) from 23 April 2009.
Above, the Modern Thinker pic used in an advert for an Australian medical locum service.
Above, is the Metro newspaper page 3 article in the UK , 7 Dec 2007 (1 million circulation). This is my biggest print article.
A number of newspaper online editions have covered the "Electrickery" story
of December 2008 without a print article as far as I know) along with
a variety of links to the Reuters video.
Photo Competition, above (Aug 2005 Sunday Times circ 365,000). Won a AUD$2000 Nikon D70s digital camera. There were 5000 entries in 2 categories with 40 photos published in each. I took about 15,000 photos with this camera until 2008 with many of the most impressive pictures coming from it.
Radio
6PR radio (Australia). Graeme Maybury did an interview on 13/12/09 about the Xmas tree 2009 ABC Newcastle radio (Australia) has an interview recorded here in 2008. 6PR radio (Australia) did an interview on 20/12/08 6PR radio (Australia) did a second interview on 22/12/08. Basil Zempilas was the announcer and the interview was in reference to the newspaper article in the West Australian on 22/12/08. 92.9 FM (Australia) did an interview with Em' and Sam Mac' on 5th April 2009 to follow up the Modern Thinker article on Today Tonight.
HotFM had a segment by Chippy and Nay in which the Tesla coil was one of the "12 Dares of Xmas".
Above is Chippy from HotFM in the cage. I was outside gradually leading the sparks closer to him. YouTube is here.
This is Chippy in the cage.
Supercharged (nearly)
2008
Above is the promo. It was rejected with the comment from Phil Fairclough : Thoughts from Discovery development exec to ponder: It's great fun, but doesn't deliver enough "why are we bothering" to me - no big point to it. Good info along the way, but it's not driving to or coming from a bigger piece of knowledge - not really satisfying a larger curiosity other than "how will he build a force field?" Suppose I need some myths to bust ....
Miscellaneous
BMW site (click on Knck Out) with a YouTube link featured in July 2007
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