Software Exploration Final - Cirque du Monnaie

This is the final for my software exploration / subversion exercise.  Coming to grips with my "graceful failures" while trying to extract color spaces from light sources, I decided to redirect my findings into a different area.

I call this little funsie "Cirque du Monnaie" or Circus of the Mint, if you prefer.  I heard Big Gov is gonna crank out some more monies to help (wreck) our economy (even further).  Oh yay!  More monies!!!  Lights and bells and whistles and smoke and mirrors... oh my!  Of course, you realize, this got me thinking... How can I illustrate this farce and tie it into my project?  Heck, I made it my project!

I subversed the gamma correction effect to make it seem as if I was running some coins through a copy machine (and added a flash bulb charge sound effect to boot!).  For the "main event", I used gamma correction again, but at full tap, and also utilized a smathering of color emboss effects to get the dancing lights under the big top and to make the raining coins look like dazzling tin.  Oooohhh...  Aaaahhh...

*The music clip is Entry of the Gladiators, performed by The Big Top Orchestra