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So stressed out by the holidays that you’re having fantasies about blowing up the Christmas tree? Then you’ll probably find Cai Guo-Qiang’s Black Christmas Tree pretty cathartic. The Chinese artist, who is known for using pyrotechnics as a medium, recently lit up a 40-foot pine tree at the Smithsonian in DC — by inflicting three separate explosions upon it. [via Designboom]