Here are 11 Australian TV segments about my stuff: GWN News, Ch 7, April 25 2013 – Sword swallowing and sparks ABC Open, Oct 12 2013 – A shocking passion Australia’s Got Talent, Ch 7, 2011 GWN News, Ch 7, Dec 25 2010 – Worlds Brightest Bike lights. Ten News, Ch 10, 2009 – Cosmology Gallery Opening A Current Affair, Ch 9, Sept 21 2009 – High voltage power lines. Today Tonight, Ch 7, May 2009 – Modern Thinker Today Tonight, Ch 7, Jan 2009 – Tesla coil effects WIN News Ch 9, Feb 21 2009 – Xmas tree. WIN News Ch 9, Dec 23 2008 – Australia and 16 other countries “Elec-trickery” Sunrise, Ch 7, Nov 4 2011 – Ripley’s believe it or not!
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I was invited to perform in the auditions of Australia’s Got Talent in Perth, Western Australia which screened on May 10th Channel 7. These are the videos of the show.
The setup and details are on the separate Australia’s Got Talent Setup page.
Here is a 7 second animation of the 2 minute act.
Below is my publicity and performance from the official site. Dr Electric if you please…
Below is the performance from my hidden video camera (used for safety monitoring). It includes the original sound track and lots of other stuff not seen in the televised show.
The performance had major problems however and the audience and judges had to wait for 6 minutes for me to get going.
Firstly I had left the power switch off, then there was the more complicated technical problem of my spark gap motor not self starting. Hence, power applied and no action. The problem was hidden under the skirt of the coil. Now this is dangerous because there is huge pressure to fix things fast and a risk I won’t realise power is applied and it suddenly starts.
All was well in the end, however.
I got passed through the next round but was eliminated after that. I must have been one of the few contestants that didn’t want to go to the next stage in Melbourne in view of the time and cost and a lot of technical issues.
Below is my recording of whole show. Almost a complete flop …. See how it panned out and how the Gods were not pleased. It’s a long clip (8 mins) and not that action packed. Perhaps skip this one.
Audience 1.7 million for episode 1 rising to 2 million for some later ones.
Above shows the main two stunts I did. Left shows how to burn CD’s and a wooden rod that I am holding goes up in flames. The right shows sparks onto a metal cage that surrounds me .
The music is an original soundtrack done by my son, Michael Terren who (was then) an 18yo pianist and composer studying at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. The music has a pounding industrial theme and runs for 2:17 mins.
Interestingly, I appeared in almost all of the promos for AGT including other episodes and even the second round which I wasn’t in. The sparks onto the cage can be very brief but striking.
All in all an interesting experience. I learnt a lot electrically as well.
I was invited to perform in the auditions of Australia’s Got Talent in Perth and it screened on May 10th Channel 7.
Here is a 7 second animated gif version of the 2 minute act.
Below is my performance from the official site (complete with 15 sec ad to start).
Dr Electric if you please…
Below is the performance from my video camera (used for safety monitoring). It includes the original sound track and lots of other stuff not seen in the televised show.
This is the 1 minute show promo. After the advert, I appear at 7 seconds in. Don’t blink as it is only for 1 second. They showed a second or so of my act on most promos and most of the 8 episodes including the semifinal one which I didn’t get to.
Jump to my media page here containing all the videos and describing my construction and setup.
Above shows the main two stunts I did. Left shows how to burn CD’s and a wooden rod that I am holding goes up in flames. The right shows sparks onto a metal cage that surrounds me .
Feel free to play the original soundtrack while you continue to explore this site. Resonant Air-Core Transformer (Australia’s Got Talent) by Michael Terren
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This TV news article shows my big Tesla coil running the “Electrickery” clip. From the USA on MSNBC news in Dec 2008. TV news clips like this from 17 countries of my stuff are shown on my Media page. (30 sec)
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Discovery USA screened “Is it possible?”in the USA on 3 occasions April 7 – May 2. My stuff was featured for 7 mins and the title was Dr Electric, human lightning rod….hmmm. Sounds like I need some colored tights and wear my undies on the outside – perhaps 2 pairs.
Directed by Neil Thomas (Thunderbird Films) who flew in from Canada. It was filmed by cameraman Dean Lomax on Nov, 7 2009. A long 13 hour shoot for 4 hours footage on one camera and 3h on the other. Filmed on location (my home in Bunbury, Western Australia) and shows lots of big sparks and stunts including sparks onto me while in a swimming pool. Hey, I even blew up a few watermelons. Video runs 8 mins.
