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went off. >> a politician stairs down the barrel of a gun. >> suddenly jumped up and then pulled the trigger. >> and a real deer in headlights moment. >> it was a minute of panic. everything tightened up. waiting for the hit. >> caught on camera, don't blink. a day of fun on a boat turns to agony in an instant. as passengers are violently thrown with incredible force. august 24, 2012, thousands of people have descend and missouri's lake of the ozarks, a
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summertime play ground for the midwest with more shoreline than california's pacific coast. one of the lake's main attractions, the annual poker run. the event is covered from all angles by local television station lake tv. and its co-owner shawn coberg. >> the poker run started as a fund-raiser for local charities. basically, you show up at the restaurant, sign in, and then you go to six different stops. and at those stops you get a card and at the end of the day the best hand wins. really is a highlight of what the lake is all about. getting out on the water, enjoying all of the restaurants and the establishments there on the water. >> lake tv camera man an co-owner brett is tasked with shooting video on board the contestants' boats. on his last run of the day he positions his camera on a boat carrying a group of six other people. >> it was a beautiful, beautiful
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warm summer day. the event was wrapping up. it was the end of the day. of course was in good spirits. we rode in about 15 different boats that day and i get in the boat, i mount this camera on the dashboard. and this allows me to sit down safely and ride in the boat while we're filming all the action. i mounted this on the dash to get a shot of everybody. >> the high end power boat begins its journey to the last stop of the day. as the driver picks up speed, the passengers tighten their grips. >> as the boat was going along about half throttle at one point the captain took to the full throttle. at that point i said know, i'm going to take my seat and hang on. didn't feel safe at all. >> while the driver may have been obeying the 70 miles per hour speed limit set for that event, water patrol requires boats to slow down if the wake conditions call for it. >> it's not that uncommon to go
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fast on the water. it's just not that common in rough water like it was that friday. >> the boat is smashing down on the wakes more and more frequently and the people on board begin to look distressed. >> we had come up to four or five rollers what they call them, wakes from another boat. i had never been in a boat that slapped down that hard so i remember thinking this is not good. >> the boat impacts with more rough waters, and suddenly the force is massive. >> i really thought the boat was going to flip. i hung on as tight as i could and i remember closing my eyes thinking i'm going to fly out of this the boat, you know, it's way too fast. at that moment all i remember thinking i'm 30 years old, 30 years and this is what it comes down to. i thought yeah, i would definitely die. >> the back end of the boat slams down into the water, preventing it from rolling but it exerts a brutal force on the
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passengers. >> they basically spun out. it was very violent. everybody in the boat went to the one side. the driver was immediately flung to the ground and the female in the center was kind of as if her feet were almost tied down but her face and body rode the dash pretty violently. >> i believe the woman on the left bent the throttle side ways with her leg from the impact. it is quite scary the way the captain falls to the ground because it almost looks fake. just from the first hit, it looks like he goes to the ground because he's not able to brace himself to hold on. you see how much force was involved at those speeds. you see everybody slide from one side of the boat and back into the other and back again. it almost is like rag dolls.
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>> it's all over in seconds, as the boat slows the to a stop stunned passengers try to regain their bearings. >> then i remember kind of setting up being in shock, wondering where all the water had come from. and very dazed and confused along with everybody else. then everybody kind of started to come to and kind of point at each other hey, you're bleeding here, and we could all see each other's wounds unfold in front of us which was quite horrifying. a couple of us had yelled to a nearby boat, call for help. >> ask everyone on board is taken to the hospital and treat forward their injuries. and there are many. >> there were shattered eye
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sockets, one individual broken hips and pelvis, broken legs, broken foot. i broke my wrist. i broke my leg, ruptured a disc in my back, cracked some ribs. this is a scar from my head pounding on the boat. >> water patrol cites the driver of the boat for failing to freight a motor boat in a careful and prudent manner and allowing a passenger on the rear deck without adequate railing. he is ordered to pay a fine. despite the disturbing images from the accident those involved with the event insist that safety is always the number one priority. >> when you figure how many people come to the lake, it's a very small percentage that end up like that. it's a very safe place. boating accidents all over the place but no one has really seen one on film and you don't think
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about it until you see it. >> coming up, a politician is ambushed. >> suddenly jumped up, the audience was frozen. >> and later, fireworks blast off course. when "caught on camera don't blink" continues. ross... well you didn't use pam! so, it looks like you're stuck, with me... that's really a good one... thank you. i'm here all week, folks. no wait, i'm here forever. hahaha... bargain brand cooking spray can leave annoying residue. but pam leaves up to 99% less residue. pam helps you keep it off.
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commissioner travels the world to help shape his country's foreign policy. on january 19, 2013, he is in sophia, bulgaria attending a meeting for a political party. the party represents the country's ethnic turks and muslim minority. >> we are supposed to be elections around summer in bulgaria so it was very important to have this meeting, to be present in national media. it was an event that had big national importance. they are one of the opposition parties and they hope to be part of the government. >> the headline speaker is the party chairman for nearly a quarter century and one of bulgaria's most influential political figures. he takes the podium for the live televised event where he is expected to announce retirement and propose his replacement. >> he came to give his speech. i was sitting right in front of
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the place where he was speaking. i was in the second row. >> dogen is giving a speech when unexpectedly an unknown person dressed in black approaches the stage. >> i saw this young man walking up to him and thought okay, this is probably a technician that has some work to do at the podium. maybe one of the microphones doesn't work. >> nothing seems out of the ordinary until the man pulls out a weapon and points it directly in the politician's face. >> the audience was frozen for a moment when he was pulling out the gun, pointing it at the head and then pulled the trigger once and luckily there was no shot. >> it all happens in a flash. television cameras capture dogan staring into the barrel of the gun. >> then he yanked it. he pushed the gun away and i
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thought it was great. he still pushed him away and then fell over. and i got -- thought oh, my god maybe there was a knife or something i didn't hear or see. >> panic grips the audience. >> there was a moment of fright or shock, then i got up and i felt i was trembling inside because you know, this was nearly a murder happening just in front of me. security people were not where they should have been. normally they should have been in front of the podium but they were obviously at the side somewhere. >> audience members rushed the stage to protect dogan while others tackled the suspect to the ground. >> you could see that this guy was obviously a strong guy or a well-trained guy because even several guys had difficulties to push him to the ground. and then some of these guys
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started beating on him, one was beating with his fist, another one was kicking at him. this was in a very heated political emotional situation in this country. people felt that this was an attack against everyone in this room. and the fear on their faces, because none of them in that moment knew what would be the next thing. who sent this guy? was it the supposed to be the kickoff for something? >> the suspect is subdued, his face is bloody from the beating. >> one of the major party members showed up on stage and said cool it you know. don't hurt this man. i don't have any sympathy with him but you know, he has also a right to be arrested. he shouldn't be kicked or abused in that way.
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the >> the attacker is taken to the hospital for his injuries. dogan escapes unscathed despite his fall. >> he was leaving the place just by seeing his face you could see he was really under shock. >> the suspect is identified by police as 25-year-old oak tie memydue a member of a small group called i hate dogan. the suspect is armed with two knives and had actually not used a gunin the attack but a gas pistol. it's typically nonlethal to fire tear gas but can cause fatal injuries when fired from close range. >> at this distance you can see obviously you don't see the details of the gun. so to me it looked like a real gun and everybody took it for a real gun in that moment. >> the bulgarian national security service admits that security at the event had been inthe sufficient and fires two
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officers and disciplines six others. there is an investigation into the beating of the suspect. he is sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail for the threat to murder and holliganism. he stated in a court hearing he did not intend to kill dogan but to threaten him. he says his only regret is that his pistol misfired. >> i believe it's very important moment to make very clear that try lens is something that absolutely unacceptable in european politics. these kind of attacks are not something that is anywhere in daily life. as long as i'm a politician i have never seen anything like that. coming up, fireworks gone wrong. >> oh, my god!
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oh, my god! >> if the you think all fireworks shows look alike, take a look at this. it's not quite the show these spectators thought they would see. july 4, 2012. one of the largest annual fireworks displays in the country, the big bay boom, is set to go off across multiple barges in the san diego bay. the event takes nearly a full year of planning by executive producer sandy perden. he raises the $400,000 to fund the massive display of more than 7,000 fireworks. the night of the event perden hosts a viewing party for sponsors. >> i was on the deck of my house entertaining the sponsors.
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about 15 minutes before the show starts we start getting ready to watch the show. i do a last minute check with the coast guard and my patrol commander on the water and then we sit back and wait for the show. >> down on the ground, freelance videographer finds a perfect spot to watch. only a few hundred feet from where the fireworks will be launched. >> i had my camera out and checking to make sure it was all ready to go. and then once the thing started going off i swung around and hit record. >> but it's not the planned start of the show. an unexpected massive blast of fireworks erupts from the barges, five minutes before the scheduled start time. >> this was like a nuclear bomb went off. >> you could feel the heat coming from the explosions.
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it was -- it was very overwhelming. it got louder and brighter and more white and it was like you know, pretty much daytime where we were standing. >> what should be an 18-minute show explodes all at once. >> oh, my god! >> youtube videos uploaded by spectators capture the incredible scene from around the bay. >> just blinding white. it was a deafening roar of sound. >> we could see all of the barges from where we are, the whole thing exploded. they were all synchronized. that part of the show worked. >> less than 30 seconds later it's all over. >> obviously i was shocked. i mean, eyes were very wide and jaws were dropped. and then everybody sort of
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turned around and looked at me and i tried to hide but had no place to go. >> that wasn't supposed to happen, was it? >> most of the nearly half million people watching don't realize what has just happened. >> this is inthe sane. >> after everybody stood there not knowing what to do. i think it was when there was a slight dusting of ash and bits of cardboard falling on our heads realize maybe this is not what was supposed to happen. >> there was empathy for me. they now how long it takes to prepare every year. >> the cause of the mishap -- a technical glitch with the computer that triggers the fireworks causing them to launch all at the same time. >> the company stepped forward and said they were going to make up for it. they said the company has been
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around for 120 years it's never happened before. >> despite the tremendous force of the explosion no one is hurt which he attributes to his team's extensive safety protocols. >> while the show may have earned its nickname the big bay bust, many there to see it believe the spectacle is a one-in-a-lifetime sight. >> this is the best fireworks show ever. >> it was a lot of fun to watch. it it's still like nothing you've seen. the spirit at the time you're watching is like every fireworks show should be like that. yeah. >> there were people that were dils appointed of course because the kids were there and wanted a 20 minute show and wanted all of the fireworks that we set off, so for those people obviously i was sorry about disappointing them. but this year we'll make up for it. >> sometimes when fireworks shows go awry the result can be
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terrifying. october 13, 2012. in the city of hong jo in eastern china, locals have tickets to attend a fireworks spectacular organized by the government. the couple takes their assigned seats along the west lake where more than a half million people have gathered to watch the fireworks launch. >> the fireworks were beautiful that day. especially the shapes. we were so concentrated on the show. >> halfway through the show she notices something unexpected. >> two or three pieces of fireworks came toward my left side. but we thought it was special effects. >> with the strike fireworks is only the beginning. recording with her camera in a
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flash the crowd is in danger. instead of blasting into the air, fireworks are shooting into the crowd like bullets. the panicked spectators run for cover. >> when i was filming suddenly a piece of fireworks came straight to me. and the firework landed beside my feet. i heard people scream. >> people all ran. some fell down, some got hurt by the fireworks and their clothes were burned and they bled. when the situation got worse, we had to escape. >> it was so smoky. it made us choke.
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i cover my mouth like this and kept my body low together with my husband. >> the couple manages to escape with chen suffering only a minor burn to her hand. others have much more serious injuries and rush to a nearby hospital for treatment. more than 150 people are injured by the fireworks. the cause of the malfunction is unclear but the government compensates the victims for the injuries they suffer. coming up -- nature strikes in the blink of an eye. >> no! you kidding me? >> and with brutal force. >> we collided dead on. when "caught on camera: don't blink" continues. ♪ twelve o'clock pop ♪ we're gonna pop around the clock tonight. ♪
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a helicopter crashed friday in colorado, the pilot was fatally injured. the two others on board survived. the suspect accused of shooting a woman wednesday in san francisco was released from jail about four months ago. he was supposed to be turned over to immigration but was set free. an arizona man is charged with murder in the killing of a couple who went missing more than a week ago. more news in an hour. back to caught on camera. dark skies loom over drivers in russia in this 2012 viral video. a camera's rolling inside of a vehicle when in the blink of an eye a bolt of lightning strikes an suv. witnessing a lightning strike is rare enough, the odds are even slimmer of capturing it on
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camera. but head to florida, the lightning capital of the united states, and that chance encounter becomes much more likely. october 5, 2012. avid storm fans and naples, florida residents rita and nick, are preparing to watch an afternoon soaker. >> i looked out and it was so dark and he said let's check it out. we came out onto the linai. i thought this is a neat storm. i got to crab my camera, see if the i can film this. >> it's awesome. >> the skies were angry that day. we were watching the storm build and build. rita was filming it and panning her camera back and forth, just really taking the whole thing in. >> it's just beautiful. lightning.
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i love it. >> we could see the storm was stronger than what we frequently see around here. the rainfall was really good. >> winds are whipping and sheets of rain are pelting the enclosure. rita tries to record all of the action. >> i was panning across the backyard and as i was doing that i could see in the background the trees were really bending over from the wind. i thought okay, i'm going to pan back there so i can maybe catch this tree, you know, really bending. >> watch this tree. it will start getting real windy in just a second. >> rita doesn't know how spot on her camera work is about to be. an explosion of thunder and lightning sends rita scrambling for cover. >> it's like boom. >> arei jumped in the house, my camera goes flying around and my
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mouth shouted out. it was so instantaneous my body just felt like the base of a woofer or something like that. it's not like anything i ever felt. >> what you see on film is one thing. multiply that 10 fold an idea something we weren't expecting. >> almost simultaneously a ball of flames bursts up from where the lightning strikes down. >> in my recollection of things there were two events, one the lightning strike, the second was the fire ball. they were probably separated by a time measure i can't even comprehend. >> it lit the whole screen up. my next thought was where's the dog? >> there are some things in this world that would cause other dogs to skitter under the sofa. marge went on point and looked at it. she's an amazing pooch. >> rita and nick don't realize
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how close the lightning strike was to where they were just standing. they wait until the storm ends and head out beyond their back yard in search of the site of impact. >> we couldn't find anything that burned or charred. >> we went back into the office and i looked over that film and i found the exact angle that she was standing at and pointed right to this beautiful tree. >> and my husband said my gosh, it was way closer than we imagined. he said look how obvious this is. it's right here. >> so i walked out there and lo and behold there it was. the bark was stripped off the front side of the beautifulful little tabby that was scattered around the tree. pretty amazing. >> looks like about maybe a 4 to 6-foot section of that tree that just sliced down. and basically, it killed the tree and took a long time to die off. i thought it was going to make it. unfortunately it didn't. >> the tree's not the only thing damaged as rita and nick discover when they come across the source of the fireball.
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>> this tree had some ornamental lighting focused up in the tree. and the lightning had apparently skittered down the side of the tree and struck that fixture. it blew the fixture four or five feet away from where it was originally installed. it just went sailing and landed in the grass. i had to search around to find it. it completely crisped all of the wiring. >> not wanting to keep this once in a lifetime sight to themselves, rita decides to share her video online. >> i thought it would be a really great way for all of my friends to see just what a coincidence it was that it just happened to blow up right behind that spot. i thought oh, my gosh, i have to put this on youtube. what are the chances of catching a lightning strike. >> rita's audience expands quickly beyond her friends. the video goes viral garnering more than 3 million hits.
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despite all of the attention, she and her husband won't try to repeat their up close and personal encounter with a lightning strike. >> i have never stine a lightning strike this close to me, this experience has -- it has changed the way i view these things. i'm not quite as brave as i used to be. rita, probably going to continue recording all of these things but maybe stand a little further inside the house when she does. >> when nature strikes, it strikes fast. in this 2013 youtube video, a west point cadet is seen releasing a mouse that has taken up residence in his room. >> get out of here. >> the cadet has gotten so used to having the pesky critter around he affectionately calls it whiskers. >> come on, whiskers.
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free. go. get out. good luck. >> i feel relieved. he's not going to wake me up in my bed. kind of sad you know. got to know him. >> it's a touching scene. instead of killing the rodent, the cadet gives the mouse his freedom. but the sweet moment doesn't last long. >> no! are you kidding me? >> without warning a large bird of prey swoops in to view the and its sights are set on whiskers. >> no! are you kidding me? he didn't last five minutes. >> the hawk and mouse take their rightful places in the food
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bounding deer. it happened so quickly no one even knows what hit them. >> what is it a dog? no, it's a deer. >> in a nearby town another confused deer strikes. this the time crashing full speed through the window of a restaurant. in a heartbeat confounded customers go from sitting down to a relaxing meal to jumping up at their tables. and at this pennsylvania beer store, a typical night turns wild in no time flat when unusual customers come slipping and sliding through the aisles. a deer in a building is undoubtedly out of place. but even when a deer is in its right place it can sometimes be at precisely the wrong moment. july 28, 2012. motorcycle enthusiast braden childers is gearing up to
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compete in west virginia's rally motto. riders come from across the country to participate in a series of timed races. >> rally moto is a high speed type of racing. the rally will close off a piece of road, at each end of the road, 10 to 20 miles, sometimes longer where you have nothing else on the road but racers. and you spread the racers out and you compete to see if you can cover it the fastest. >> equipped with a helmet cam, childers takes off in the final leg of the two-day competition. he's racing against the clock to the top of the mountain for the finish. >> one i'm racing there is nothing else to think about besides staying on the bike, going as fast as you can. the rest of the world melts away. it's intense but peaceful too. >> with less than a mile to go to the finish line, childers
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smooth ride is interrupted when something catches his eye. >> i see a deer on the right side of the road just standing there. it's not looking like it's going to jump out or anything. and i assume i can get past it so i keep on throttling. what i didn't see was the one behind that one. >> as childers gets closer the second deer comes into focus. but it's already too late. >> a minute of panic, then you just are bracing for impact. everything tightens up. waiting for the hit. you don't expect that. you don't know what it's going to feel like. we just collided dead on. >> childers and the more than 100-pound deer smash into each other. a nearby photographer captures the scene. >> it's like getting tackled by a huge person running at you. the smallest thing feels huge at that speed. you can see it try to jump over
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the front wheel and clear but it ended up over the handle bars, knocking the handle bars back and hitting me square in the chest. you hear the the bike go sliding and grinding. you hear your own gear clacking around hitting the ground. everything's just happening super fast. >> childers pulls himself up to assess the damage. >> by the time i look and grabbing the bike i look over my shoulder and the deer's gone. took off in the woods, so seemed like it was okay. i was feeling around to make sure just no real pain, nothing's broken for sure. then i'm thinking about there's a rider coming behind me and he is going to come around that corner just as fast. i want to be out of his way so i don't get hurt and he doesn't get hurt. i know that the race is close still and then i hop on the bike which is still running amend brakes and levers all work so the bike's good enough to get me that last quarter mile, half
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mile to the finish. >> spectators at the finish line including childers' wife laura, hear the alarming sounds of the crash. >> we heard a thud and we heard a bike skid across the road and there was an audible gasp from everyone on the hill. i didn't look at braden's mother. i waited and then we third bike, weren't sure it was braden or not. saw him come around the corner and he shot his arm up and kicked out his leg and yelled. like there's braden having a good time. >> dazed, childers crosses the finish line. >> i was stunned still. i was really -- adrenalin's going, full on. so i get there and i'm sitting there staring off in the distance. the officials looking at me like i'm crazy. wondering why i'm not giving him my time card. >> i hit a deer. >> did you really?
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>> there's got to be awesome video. came up over the front. yeah. it was like -- yeah, that's deer hair right there. that's good. he's out of the way. thank you. >> despite losing time in the race, childers still manages to finish first in his class and second overall for the day. but his biggest win is walking away from something that could have changed his life in the blink of an eye. >> could have been broken bones or worse. having safety gear is one thing. doesn't mean you're not going to get seriously injured when you go that fast. that's a risk you take when you go racing but this was a lucky day. >> riding a motorcycle may seem more risky than a day at the
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mall. but sometimes appearances can be deceiving. >> december 18, 2012. a security camera is rolling outside a shanghai mall when suddenly 33 tons of water burst out of an aquarium, flooding the area, sweeping bystanders off their feet. chards of the glass shoot out onto the street along with the former inhabitants of the tank. sharks. the decorative aquarium is part of an exterior wall of the chinese shopping center. a security camera inside the mall captures a cosmetics counter near the aquarium moments before it shatters. when the tank ruptures the
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cosmetics counter comes crashing down. the heavy display collapses on top of a sales woman below. a crowd rushes to pull the trapped woman from the rubble. 15 people are injured in the accident, and most are treated for minor cuts and bruises. but one male customer suffers a broken leg. three lemon sharks and many small fish and turtles are killed. the cause of the sudden rupture -- according to a government official, a dip in the outside temperature made the tank's acrylic glass walls brittle causing them to give way in an abrupt and powerful explosion. coming up, seeing isn't always believing. >> your brain takes what you see on the surface of the water and makes you imagine. >> when "caught on camera: don't
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when you watch this, what do you see? a fish about to swim away. you can see every detail, each fin and scale. look again. it's an astonishing trick of the eye. a masterful approach to painting developed by a japanese artist. for more than a decade gold fish have been his unlikely muses. he can observe them for hours at a time. >> that's how they really get engraved in my mind. on the surface gold fish are only red and white but if you look closely, you can see the rainbow colors inside. >> a clear resin acts as his canvas.
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>> first, i pour a thin layer of resin into a container. then i would paint the pelvic fins and the fin on the underside. and then i would pour another layer of transparent resin, and then wait for two days. >> the tech neck requires inthe credible patience, it can take two months to complete even a small design. >> after it hardens, i would paint the bottle. when that hardens i paint another layer, this time of scales. i would pour transparent resin, wait for two days, and i would repeat that process until i'm satisfied, until it becomes three dimensional. i would keep adding layers. >> the result blurs the line between what is real and what is perception. his fish look so true to life they are frequently mistaken for the real thing. >> i have been described as a trick artist. but i don't consider trick art
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to be my main work. i do definitely use illusion, your brain takes what you see on the surface of the water and makes you think that the object you're seeing has been compressed. my gold fish don't have thickness. people imagine the depth and feel. >> per spekting this illusion takes years of pain staking trial and error. >> there would be pieces where i had spent months to make and just as i put in the last layer it would get destroyed. for each layer of resin, my heart is contracting little by little making sure that no air is getting in, sweating while doing it. >> don't blink. these 100 gold fish swimming through rippled water are actually part of his 2011 exhibit called gold fish salvation in london's gallery.
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the curator and director of the exhibit that boasts the largest resin creation. the inside of a wooden pail more than four feet in diameter. >> it has such power. i really love it. people have never seen anything like this before. it's a skill only possessed by him. a skill created by him. the fact that they appear to be alive in the wooden pail speaks to his skills, tech nenique ands thoughts. >> i realized if i didn't include air ventilation that they would die. so i decided to also include some air in the piece and through trial and error painted bubbles. >> also caught on camera, he wows his gallery audience by creating a massive painting on
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traditional paper using a very unconventional brush. >> when i'm painting a large gold fish i can see a large gold fish swimming and it's as if the i caught it with my broom like it's right here. it's fishing within the surface of the paper. and when i caught a glimpse of it and caught it, that's when i put my brush to work. >> his passion for gold fish and their beauty withstands the test of time. despite the eye bending realism of his creations he modestly believes he has not yet achieved perfection. >> i realize the gold fish is something incredibly important to us japanese. it carries many messages. how would i call it, identity.
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