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Playing with fire
Created: 07/18/2006
Video description: Highlights from event on May 18, 2006, in order: Therm's Tesla Coil blasts electricity in the form of small lightning bolts, and it's juxtaposed with Thermo Kraken, a metalwork sculpture that shoots and drips fire; Nate Smith's "Fire Vortex" shoots a fire tornado as high as 20 feet in the air; Bob Hofmann's "Wishing Well"; San Francisco performance troupe Vau de Vire Society onstage.

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