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Sometimes you just want to blow something up…
Jon Smith fills incandescent light bulbs with objects, liquids and other substances and creates explosions which he then captures using high-speed photography.






![Charles Glass, author of The Deserters, tells Dave Davies about the Parisian black market run largely by deserters during WWII:
The Paris press was writing about it a lot at the time — that [there] was ‘Chicago-style vandalism and gangsterism’ in the streets of Paris, and the American military had to do something about it. There were shootouts between the Paris police and the American and British MPs on one side and the deserters on the other side. They would rob banks, they would rob cafes, they would stop people on the street and steal women’s jewelry, they were gangs of real, hardcore outlaws, and they were armed and trained.
Image of Paris in 1940 via the NEH Charles Glass, author of The Deserters, tells Dave Davies about the Parisian black market run largely by deserters during WWII:
The Paris press was writing about it a lot at the time — that [there] was ‘Chicago-style vandalism and gangsterism’ in the streets of Paris, and the American military had to do something about it. There were shootouts between the Paris police and the American and British MPs on one side and the deserters on the other side. They would rob banks, they would rob cafes, they would stop people on the street and steal women’s jewelry, they were gangs of real, hardcore outlaws, and they were armed and trained.
Image of Paris in 1940 via the NEH](http://25.media.tumblr.com/550828a34baeeb31c3e1d304395a4885/tumblr_mojtw9ubLP1qd9dz2o1_500.jpg)



![Charles Glass, author of The Deserters, talks to Dave Davies about how poor leadership contributing to desertion in WWII:
Some units had much higher rates [of desertion] than others. The 36thin the battles in France had the highest rate of any division in the American army. It can’t be accidental that there were junior officers … who were not interested in their men, and not talking to their men, and not looking after their men. [Private] Steve Weiss felt like his captain always led from behind, was never at the front lines, you could never find him, they couldn’t confide in him, they couldn’t ask him for anything, and they felt like they got a raw deal from him.
Image of Waldenburg, Germany, 1945 via Military History Charles Glass, author of The Deserters, talks to Dave Davies about how poor leadership contributing to desertion in WWII:
Some units had much higher rates [of desertion] than others. The 36thin the battles in France had the highest rate of any division in the American army. It can’t be accidental that there were junior officers … who were not interested in their men, and not talking to their men, and not looking after their men. [Private] Steve Weiss felt like his captain always led from behind, was never at the front lines, you could never find him, they couldn’t confide in him, they couldn’t ask him for anything, and they felt like they got a raw deal from him.
Image of Waldenburg, Germany, 1945 via Military History](http://24.media.tumblr.com/45867cab4179bed72c8ce8d9acbade43/tumblr_mojtm9trP81qd9dz2o1_500.jpg)

