Arthur Ganson, an artist-in-residence at MIT, artfully engineered his 2nd Chain Reaction Event at the Exploratorium. He invited staff and volunteers to participate by building "mini-events" or contraptions that would trigger each other. We got excited about creating something with crickets, and ending up building an array of polaroid cameras which triggered each other and produced crude 360-degree photos. Polaroid images ended up raining down on the crowd as they reacted to the contraptions. We had a great time!

Wide-shot of the area as we're setting up.
  


Marcus' contraption triggered our photo-taking device.

 

  



Mike is loading film into the cameras and testing the trigger.

  


Here's a photo of the "umbrella" from below.

 

  

This shows the camera mount from the side.

Some of the contraptions.
  


Grabbing for polaroids as they fall.

 

  

 


Mike handing out some of the photos.

  


A group of people looking at one of the pictures.

 

  

Taking home a little momento of the event.