In the future, the photographer plans to test out more exotic thermites like bismuth trioxide and manganese dioxide. (Canonized in Star Wars: The Clone Wars) Darth Revan.
All Heroes will be listed in Italic All Villains will be listed in Bold (Note: This page is meant for the deaths to be listed in chronological order) Darth Bane - Died of an unknown cause. A viewer told Cooley it looked like the Death Star exploding. Star Wars is a science fiction/fantasy franchise made by George Lucas, starting in 1977 and running to this day. Adding a tiny amount of titanium to a mix of copper oxide and aluminum, for instance, added a beautiful white edging to one explosion. Cooley and the pyrotechnist, who prefers to remain anonymous, created different types and colors of explosions by experimenting with different recipes. There are lots of takes for every good one.” Each blast was created from as little as four grams of chemical powder, including magnesium, aluminum, copper oxide, titanium, charcoal, and zinc. “I have plenty of photographs that are just white. “You have to catch the explosion at the right moment,” Cooley says. Meanwhile, Cooley programed his digital camera to snap away at shutter speeds as fast as 1/8000th of a second. For each explosion, the pyrotechnist produced a custom thermite mix from his extensive chemical library, wrapped it in nitrocellulose (flash paper), suspended it from a wire, and lit the fuse. Working with a professional pyrotechnist, Cooley staged small, controlled chemical reactions at several undisclosed-but safe, he insists-outdoor locations. For his latest series, Cooley continued his exploration of fire by photographing explosions up close.
