Awesome Slow Motion

The Slow Mo Guys have shot more than their share of bullets through things. But we don’t think we’ll ever tire of seeing their amazing super-slow-motion videos. This time, they fired a massive 30.06 bullet into 50 panes of glass and captured some incredible images of the shockwaves produced along the way. That mirror POV footage was wild.

Most videos from The Slow-Mo Guys involve some kind of destruction. This one is a bit more tame. With the help of some super-crisp macro and microscope lenses from Laowa, Gav captured incredibly detailed images of an Omega Speedmaster watch movement in super slow-motion. It’s also a good opportunity to learn how he dials in his camera gear.

The Slow Mo Guys wrapped up their latest visit with Kentucky Ballistics by firing golf balls and metal projectiles from a massive punt gun. After taking some shots at an armored tank, they moved on to a more relatable victim – a human analog skeleton inside of gooey ballistics gel. The 82,000 fps slow-motion footage is both amazing and gruesome.

The guys from How Ridiculous spend a lot of their time dropping heavy and dangerous objects from towers and cranes. For this video, they went in the opposite direction by launching things like rubber band balls and an anvil sky-high using explosives. The hang time on that bowling ball was something special.

Damien Jalet is renowned for his artful choreography of the human form. If you haven’t seen his work in Thom Yorke and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Anima, you must. His 2015 collab with fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, Gravity Fatigue, featured a troupe of dancers working in perfect sync so they look like freeze frames from the same movement.

How Ridiculous continues to build its arsenal of destructive playthings with a cannon that fires harpoons. The cannon uses an explosive charge to launch a sharpened metal projectile with enough energy to shoot straight through a refrigerator. Other targets included ballistic gel, fire extinguishers, and propane tanks. Be sure to watch the final launch for a big boom.

Gav and Dan of The Slow Mo Guys met up with Brett and Scott from How Ridiculous to see what kind of damage a bowling ball cannon can do. Their subject: ballistic gel heads filled with fake skulls. For something a little less gruesome, enjoy some bowling balls vs. trampolines.

Ben Quaniche of Macro Room returns to YouTube with a bang. Instead of his usual close-up shots of everyday objects, EDEN is a short film made of montages that question humanity’s trajectory and priorities. As revealed in the post-credits reel, each scene overlays Ben’s distinctive slow-motion shots on CGI landscapes.

The Slow Mo Guys have been spending time with Kentucky Ballistics, because he’s got lots of things that go BOOM. In this video, they tested the one weapon in Scott’s arsenal that even he dreads shooting. The 950JDJ FAT MAC is the world’s largest sporting rifle. It fires a huge 20mm diameter bullet, kicks out a massive muzzle flash, and has insane recoil.

After trashing a PT Cruiser with their giant steel dart, How Ridiculous takes aim at a bunch more stuff with their pointy 1300+ pound projectile. Among its latest victims are a pile of inflated tires, a thick piece of timber, a safe, and the ultimate challenge, a stack of cars. The crane operator deserves a raise for his precision.

A few years back, Darren from Beyond Slow Motion teamed up with Kevin from The Backyard Scientist to check out an interesting phenomenon. When you toss an object at a wet section of a mesh screen, it creates a star-shaped shockwave. It’s barely visible to the naked eye, but when you slow it down with a high-speed camera, fascinating details emerge.

What’s better than watching stuff blow up? Watching stuff blow up in slow-motion. Darren from Beyond Slow Motion used Phantom high-speed cameras to capture a series of explosions at up to 49,100 frames per second, revealing fascinating details of each energetic reaction. The big booms were made possible by explosives expert Matt Barnett.

Do not attempt to replicate anything you see in this video. Ever. Blacktail Studio performed a series of dangerous workshop experiments to show how bad things can get when power tools are misused. After demonstrating just how nasty table saw kickback can be, he shows what happens when an angle grinder gets loose and other power tool mishaps.

Scott from Kentucky Ballistics got his hands on one of the most ridiculous weapons we’ve ever seen – a 9-foot-long shotgun. After testing it on an an armored truck he met up with The Slow Mo Guys to record its destructive force at speeds up to 200,000 fps. Suffice it to say, bulletproof glass is no match for a 1 lb. iron projectile.

More than eight years ago, The Backyard Scientist conducted an experiment to see what would happen when molten salt is poured into an aquarium. The results were quite explosive. Now, The Slow Mo Guys have revisited the classic experiment and revealed much greater detail in the explosions thanks to newer, more sophisticated high-speed camera tech.

In preparation for Independence Day, Warped Perception wanted to do something that involved fireworks. So he took an already-toasted junkyard Audi, covered it with 100,000 firecrackers, and lit it with a blowtorch. The whole thing was over in just a few seconds, but fortunately, he recorded it in slow motion for a longer fireworks show.