I have a book that details how and were to place explosives for maxim effect. It also goes into building trenches and bunkers
I blew up a dead tree in February, with flash powder though, not with nitro. I put the load near the ground and it made a "THUMP!" sound in the snow. It was 200 grams (almost ½lb) of potassium chlorate and German Black.
I'm sorry that is what excites you in life. Truly.
He isn't the only one, not by a long way. There's a whole sub-genre of television shows which cater for the demand (
Destroyed in Seconds,
Mythbusters), over fifty years' worth of
disaster movies, and last but not least, Big Jim McBob and Billie Sol Hurok of
SCTV fame, whose chiefest joy in life comes from seeing stuff blowed up REAL good.