Ok, just a warning though, if you fuck up, you will die. I am not an electrical engineer, I really don't know what I am doing, so forgive my incorrect vocabulary here...

Buy a large CRT monitor from a thrift store. As long as it turns on, it will work. However, it is best if you can find an old one that won't go into standby when there is no video signal (light on the front stays green / never turns off or goes amber)

Remove the plastic cover and you'll find a suction-cup like thing attached to the tube by a thick wire.

Splice high-gauge wire (the highest gauge you can find at Home Depot / Lowes) with this high-voltage wire. Thickly wrap the junction with electrical tape.

Attach this wire to whatever you want to eletrify. Never allow the wire to touch a grounded surface. You will, however, want to place the electrified object 1-2 inches from a groundwire / grounded surface.

Carefully turn the monitor on, and be prepared to take pictures as 60-80k volts flows into whatever you hooked it up to.

ALWAYS have a fire extinguisher nearby. The monitor honestly could explode, this isn't a safe experiment by any stretch.

There are many other things you can hook up for some fun results!

• Grounded antenna / charged antenna (parallel) = Jacob's Ladder
• Florecent tube = on
• strobe bulb = blinding light!
• incandescent lightbulb = plasma arcs!
• plants = sparks everywhere; also dead plants
• CD's = fractal burns and burnt plastic smell
• you = dead you

I have gone through 7 monitors doing shit like this. I did shock myself once, and that was the last time I messed around with this. I am lucky to be alive, the shock knocked me unconscious, and I was loopy for a few days.

Also, NEVER play with this without proper ventilation. When electric current passes through air it converts O² to O^3, which you cannot breathe. If the air starts to smell acidic, turn it off and get out of the room. Do this outside if possible, or don't leave it on long otherwise.

And as cool as it may seem on paper, don't hook up multiple monitors to get "more volts". It doesn't work that way, you'll just start a fire, possibly inside the wall you have them plugged into...