Day 301: Blazing Ideas

I actually googled "fire cliches" for that title. I'm loosing my edge I think.

Ok, so here's how this works. Disclaimer: I say "you" in the upcoming instructions to refer to the experimenter. Please do not take this to mean you should try this at home, I am a trai-...er...well-studied professional, and you're not. So don't do it.
Here goes:
You take pliers and squeeze the glass nearest the metal part of the bulb, preferably in a plastic bag. It'll implode and you'll get glass everywhere if you're not careful. Then put the base, with filament hopefully in tact (if not try, try again). Then take you're power strip and flip it on and if you've hooked everything up logically, the light should flip on and you can go off taking as many pictures as possible in your one second. If you have a slower camera, or if you want to try something different, I have been told that if you flip the power on and off very fast and take the picture some time in that process or shortly thereafter, you will be able to see the filament better, and the smoke will be prettier. I think it's all about luck and timing in terms of the smoke, but you can find out for yourself. By that I mean, "please don't tell anyone I was the one who gave you this idea, and for gosh sakes don't set your house aflame."

The reason today and tomorrow's pictures have more visible filaments is because they were taken as the filament burnt out and broke.