West Coast BuildersFlash Domino's 3 tables from Reactica 2019! Table 1 was the opening sponsor table and table 12 was the ending table with the final task. Table 6 had some cool event ideas as well.
I really have nothing to say for the closeup so please go watch the full official video!
Reactica 2019 Closeup- Tables 1, 6, and 12West Coast Builders2019-08-23 | Flash Domino's 3 tables from Reactica 2019! Table 1 was the opening sponsor table and table 12 was the ending table with the final task. Table 6 had some cool event ideas as well.
I really have nothing to say for the closeup so please go watch the full official video!
Main video: youtu.be/TmBD-oL0L3ATwo Story Machine: The FailsWest Coast Builders2018-07-17 | This machine had 70 fails and I wanted to make a video featuring all of them. I think you'd be able to understand my frustration, especially with all the early triggers and tape measure fails. I spent basically an entire day (until 12:30 am!) just filming fails and some of them were crazy. -BerlagawesomeReactica 2018 - Table 5 CloseupWest Coast Builders2018-07-02 | Reactica 2018- Table 5, the last of the machine tables to be set off. Left half designed by Pranav (blazerp99), right half designed by Alex H (Flash Domino). Built with help from the rest of the team.
(Reuploaded without typo)Berlagawesomes Tribute: Thank you bpdoles!West Coast Builders2017-12-27 | For donating $36 to BBYO after the berlagawesome video, bpdoles gets a tribute! Here it is!Best of Flashdomino 2011-2017West Coast Builders2017-09-06 | Montage of all of Flashdomino's best clips after six years of building. October 2011 to September 2017! Nothing much to say about this video but get hyped for 17,000 dominoes, coming to Flashdomino's channel on September 9th!!!!
Song: "Prelude" by TheFatRat and JJD (this video is not monetized)Role Reversal 3- The Machine as a ScreenlinkWest Coast Builders2017-09-04 | West Coast Builders Merch now available on our online store: http://tinyurl.com/ydybzcccSetups with 25 DominoesWest Coast Builders2017-06-12 | Made in October 2016 And then forgotten about Enjoy squad fam
Song: "Late Night Call" by Waterflame4 Domino Bridge Tricks (w/ Sprice Machines)West Coast Builders2017-05-06 | In April, I (berlagawesome) was at Sprice's house for a night while I was touring colleges, and while we didn't have time to build much, I was able to make some tricks with the domino bridges he had. Here's the result!WCBs 1 Year AnniversaryWest Coast Builders2017-02-28 | Today we celebrate our one year anniversary of our first video. And we also deliver some happy news. Watch the whole video please.
Even more than dominoes, I'm glad I could make so many friends and build with so many people. So here's to a great 2017, when I will have much more time to build!
wMitchell Park Library- The Lost Domino Project (3,000 Dominoes)West Coast Builders2016-11-18 | Please read for a full explanation of what happened at the event.
The Halloween Chain Reaction Event was a two-day project that took place at the Mitchell Park Library in Palo Alto that Berlagawesome and I (this is Flashdomino typing) planned weeks in advance. Work-wise, October was a very stressful month for me so I was looking forward to a weekend to relax and build, but I knew that the event would still be really busy. In addition, I had orchestra practice scheduled at the same time that the library scheduled the falldown, so Berlagawesome and I planned that after I left, him and my parents would administer the falldown instead.
The first day of building went smoothly, Berlagawesome built almost the entire machine in one day and I built the front half of the domino section. Berlagawesome had a slight fever but for the day it was no big deal. We were in a pretty good position for day two but I knew we would have to push a little, in order to get machine testing done and whatnot.
However, on day two, Berlagwesome's fever had gotten worse so he texted me that he may not be able to come to the library. We tried to figure out what to do, if we could FaceTime, and if we could move the falldown time, and I finally left the house when we had formed a decently solid plan. However, on the way there someone rolled down their window and told me a had a flat tire – this was the first one I had ever gotten and I had no idea how to recognize it or what to do. I pulled over into a parking lot and my parents drove me to the library instead, which was a pretty big delay.
At that point, I was totally speed-building when I arrived at the library. Berlagawesome did show up wearing a mask and taking medication, and we tried to finish as fast as possible. We barely talked – these were very difficult building conditions. Finally, we both finished, and three hours before the falldown, I left for orchestra.
After orchestra, I learned about what happened at the falldown – my mom had been filming when her camera ran out of storage, and she lost all footage of the dominoes. She had been the main camera, so I checked what I had on my backup angles. Most of them (shown in the video) were not filmed from good locations, and the static camcorder, which I was relying on in particular, was blocked by the audience members (I had asked mom to keep the view clear, but crowds will be crowds I guess haha).
This is basically all the decent footage there is – there was a really cool bucket-candy-dumping trick as well as elevated mini-setups connected by a golf ball and a giant lever with very precise paths. The conditions that Berlagwesome and I got our projects to work in were pretty rough but we did well, if we can brag about anything.
Despite our bad luck, the event was still a success. Hundreds (yes, hundreds) of people showed up, and the library staff thoroughly enjoyed the event. Filming and building wise, the event may have been slightly lacking, but even under circumstances like these, it is possible to pull off a domino event.
I know I covered the events in quite a lot of detail, but I do think there are a few things I took away from that weekend. If one could call this a learning experience, then I did learn a few things – make sure your backup plans are as good as your main ones, learn how to handle delays, and always, always, be there for the falldown.
Thank you to the Mitchell Park Library for a fun time! If we get invited back I promise our next event will run smoother. The event may have been a struggle but somehow, I would still take a weekend like that over a week of schoolwork.
Alright cool I'm done typing bye. Thanks for reading :)
-Flash DominoA result of sleep deprivation (berlagawesomes only ISM vlog ever)West Coast Builders2016-10-13 | Please don't unsub pls
Dab on emWork or Fail 7- Finishing the FailsWest Coast Builders2016-10-01 | SPOILER ALERT- Do not watch without watching the original video first! youtube.com/watch?v=1W07_4rSiiACDM Pong Shots (Flashdomino, xxDominoMasterxx, TheRGMGuy01)West Coast Builders2016-08-16 | During the week that we built CDM, Chase, Chris and I went home every afternoon after a morning of building and made pong shots. Here is our compilation!
xxDominoMasterxx: youtube.com/user/xXDominoMasterXx TheRGMGuy01: youtube.com/channel/UCdEAt5IDfLv6bSPWCmB-DfQ Flashdomino: youtube.com/user/flashdominoDomino Duel: East vs. West Coast (w/ TheRGMGuy01)West Coast Builders2016-07-03 | During my meeting with TheRGMGuy01, we had a domino tower duel to see which coast was better, the east or the west coast. It was a close game, but here's the result!West Coast Builders- Q and A Video!West Coast Builders2016-06-25 | We answered your questions. It was quite fun. And it was also quite difficult, since most of them were more hypothetical questions than personal ones.
Anyways, we're so proud of ourselves for keeping the video under twenty minutes! We even answered every single question while keeping it under twenty minutes. We didn't leave a single one out.
Intro/Outro Song: "Who We Are" by Archie, Itro, and Brenton MattheusMachine 21 FailsWest Coast Builders2016-06-11 | Here are all the fails of my soda machine. You may notice that there aren't 114, but that is because some fails happened more than once and that would be boring to watch. Also, a sound issue in the version of powerdirector on my dad's computer blocks the sound from some of the videos and I have no idea how to fix it (and I have no access to the good version of PD on my computer as I am in Israel right now). Enjoy.BABC Announcement VideoWest Coast Builders2016-05-30 | Subscribe to the BABC: youtube.com/channel/UClz6HFMMGX69Nl43XZ0R6bA
Thanks for watching!100 Subscribers! Q&A AnnouncementWest Coast Builders2016-05-28 | Thank you all for 100 subs on the West Coast Builders channel! We have a lot in store for you, including a Q&A coming this June, so ask any questions you want to in the comments section! We look forward to reading and answering them!What Makes A Good Domino Builder? (Top 5)West Coast Builders2016-05-19 | Here are five things that I think would make domino builders better. Some things in this video were difficult to describe, so I wrote out a script before filming (and I did place that script directly under the camera, maybe you noticed I was reading it haha). If you want to see the script, which I read almost verbatim, here it is: docs.google.com/document/d/1MXkdx9Dnba_ztMWQDpS8-EyIIw209J26gP3Nd0CvrR0/edit?usp=sharing
This video is my opinion, and if you also have an opinion I would love to hear it! You know where to leave it.
100 points to the person that can successfully build a stickbomb out of chopsticks.What Makes a Good Machine Builder? (Top 5)West Coast Builders2016-05-17 | Here are, in my opinion, the 5 most important things in a good machine builder. If you have all of these things, the machine community will appreciate your skills and really want to see your videos.EDM Artists in 15,000 Dominoes- ExtrasWest Coast Builders2016-05-12 | Original Video- youtube.com/watch?v=fmbfDVUgfT0
Enjoy!31 Domino Tricks: EXTRASWest Coast Builders2016-05-06 | WATCH THE ORIGINAL: youtube.com/watch?v=1hd8mgRz1Bs Yes, I know that this video is in 480p and is unfinished. But unfortunately, I lost all my needed files from my hard drive while I was making this video and this was the only backup. So I decided to upload what I had onto this channel. I think it should be kind of entertaining. -Berlagawesome
Also, most of the fails in here were re-filmed in the original video, not edited out.FLASHDOMINO vs SPRICE - Part TwoWest Coast Builders2016-04-24 | The better half tbh
Sprice Machines and Flashdomino face off in an epic round of domino tower duels! The first person to build a thirty layer tower gained a point, and the first to three points was the winner. Each player got one domino to throw at the other player's tower for every ten layers they built.
Apologies for the editing, iMovie kept giving me the "green screen of death".
Song: "Flight" by TeminiteWest Coast Builders Host a Chain Reaction Workshop!West Coast Builders2016-04-05 | This February, we created a chain reaction workshop for kids at the Palo Alto Children's Library. It was a great experience teaching younger kids how to build machines and have them experiment with sets of dominoes, HotWheels tracks, and other machine objects. In the end, they came up with some pretty cool things for their experience level!A Berlagacademic Math ProjectWest Coast Builders2016-03-28 | I spent an entire weekend plus some more time working on this with my friend instead of my screenlink :( but you still get to see the final outcome!Hevesh5- Looking Up (Flashdomino Remix)West Coast Builders2016-03-27 | Hevesh5 probably named her song "Looking Up" because she spends a lot of time looking up amirite
I made this song last November, and I'm pretty sure Hevesh5 has heard it already. I'm uploading it now so the rest of the community can hear it too :D
Thanks for listening! -FlashdominoChain Reactions in San Francisco- Behind the ScenesWest Coast Builders2016-03-15 | Well, aren't you a gentleman?5 Things Machine Builders HATEWest Coast Builders2016-03-12 | These are the things that a lot of machine builders really don't like, both when they're building and about life in general. These are generalizations so they might not be true for every machine builder, but these things certainly annoy me a huge amount, enough to share in a vlog. Enjoy!FLASHDOMINO vs SPRICE - Part OneWest Coast Builders2016-03-11 | Flashdomino and Sprice Machines face off with domino duels, best of 3.
Song- "Paper Planes" by Virtual RiotThe Domino Tower ChallengeWest Coast Builders2016-02-18 | Today, the West Coast Builders try the Domino Tower Challenge.
Disclaimer: TheVarietyGuy (mentioned in the video) got 87 on his domino tower challenge attempt, not 74.
Flashdomino nominates OfficialSillypooDominoes, Bpdolesdominoes, and DominoERDMANN.
Berlagawesome nominates The Kinetic 4.Welcome to WestCoastBuilders!West Coast Builders2016-02-15 | There is one fatal flaw in the American Domino Community: everyone lives on the east coast. The only way to sidetrack that flaw is to move to the West Coast. As you can see, Berlagawesome and Flashdomino are one step ahead of the game.
Welcome to WestCoastBuilders, Berlagawesome and Flashdomino will manage the channel together and upload vlogs, BTS footage and even previews. Between the two of us, we will upload about once a week.