Alan Sailer, an engineer, likes to shoot things with a pellet rifle in his garage and capture the results with high-speed photography. Since those things aren’t alive and they explode awesomely when shot, this is a happy story rather than the plot of a horror movie. His newest photo series is titled “The War Against Christmas” and is much different than the fictional War Against Christmas of Fox News hype. Sailer’s War is a literal one: he photographs Christmas ornaments filled with various liquids being destroyed by pellets, marbles, and fast-moving ping pong balls.
All 96 photos in the series are available at Sailer’s Flickr page, but we’ve placed our favorites here. Continue to the next page to see products made by underpaid labor exploding in an orgy of wastefulness and wonder. God bless us, every one.
Bulb ornament filled with cake sprinkles
“A ping pong ball traveling at about 300fps hitting an empty Christmas bulb.”
Bulb ornament filled with titanium dioxide spiked gelatin
Bulb ornament filled with titanium dioxide spiked gelatin
Bulb ornament filled with colored sand
Bulb ornament filled with wet colored sand
Bulb ornament filled with PlayDoh
Bulb ornament filled with beeswax, olive oil, and red candle wax dye
Bulb ornament filled with beeswax, olive oil, and red candle wax dye
Bulb ornament covered with glitter
Bulb ornament filled with flour
Bulb ornament filled with vanilla pudding and red dye
Bulb ornament filled with gelatin and shot with a marble
This Santa is filled with expired sour cream and red dye.