People Are Nuts (And We Love ‘Em)

We received a note from Johannes Wiebus, a senior producer at Jynx Productions, this morning. He’s working on a documentary about Arc Attack, an Austin, Texas band whose members regularly perform with electrified Tesla coils, using them to make strange, resonant music. Johannes writes of the video above, “A guy in a chain mail Faraday suit is getting hit with 500,000 volts, generated by a home made Tesla Coil.  Lightning is shooting out of his hands, right over our camera’s lens. We had mounted the camera in its own Faraday cage to protect it—and to attract the sparks.”

More on Arc Attack here.