Video · YouTube · Mark Rober · 2018
Craft · A teenager who can close it
Glitter Bomb vs Porch Pirates
48Or leave it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
The machine is worth seeing. The pleasure is the thief covered in glitter.
The glance
Household, Piety, Republic, Temperance, Stewardship are the thin ones.
- 8Industry
- 4Household
- 3Piety
- 5Courage
- 4Republic
- 4Temperance
- 6Truth
- 4Stewardship
This phone
Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
Someone takes a box off his porch. He builds another box. Inside is a cup on a motor, fine glitter, and cameras behind one-way film, so you watch the person in the car realize what they opened. The engineering is the part worth a teenager's time. You can follow the build without liking the ending.
The ending is the glitter in the air and the face. If the only piece a kid retells is that face, they missed the craft and kept the humiliation. Ask, after, what a house should do about a stolen package that does not require an audience. The answer is usually dull: a camera on the porch, a police report, a neighbor. None of those go as hard as the cup.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
8/10
A motor, a cup, one-way film, and cameras. He shows the mechanism.
Household
4/10
It starts on his own porch. The answer he builds is a trap, not a lock.
Piety
3/10
Getting even is played as the joke you are supposed to enjoy.
Courage
5/10
The thief takes the risk. The engineer is safe at the edit.
Republic
4/10
Theft is wrong. A private trap filmed for strangers is not the law.
Temperance
4/10
You stay for the glitter. The interesting part was the build before it.
Truth
6/10
He has had to answer people who said some reactions were staged. Keep that in mind.
Stewardship
4/10
A teenager might learn to build. They might also learn that shame is the payoff.
Live historicallyWatch the build. Then ask what you would do about a theft that nobody is going to film.