Awesome Slow Motion

The Slow Mo Guys promote Battlefield 1 by looking at how the guns mounted in front of some World War I planes were able to avoid shooting through the planes’ propeller. Then they turned off the synchronization gear and let the propeller have it.

Ever since the Hydraulic Press Channel broke big, people have been clamoring for a Slow-Mo Guys collab. While that has yet to happen, Gav and Dan headed to a machine shop with their high-speed camera and exploded a deck of playing cards at 28,500 fps.

The Slow Mo Guys filmed themselves waxing off patches of their leg hair at 28,000 fps. Our hairs really don’t want to come off that way. Props to Gavin for the realistic sound effects. We didn’t ask for this, but now we want to them to redo it with a macro lens.

The Slow Mo Guys played with waterproof fireworks in a small tank to see how they would react with the water underneath and at the surface. At 120,000 frames per second, the world turns into CGI. A world that takes up 24GB per second.

The Slow Mo Guys built a career on the backs of Vision Research’s Phantom high speed cameras. So it’s only fitting that the YouTubers checked out the company’s factory in Wayne, New Jersey to see how the cameras are assembled.

The Slow Mo Guys crank their high speed camera all the way up to 120,000 fps to capture the precise moment of impact between a flying hammer and a mirror, which creates a shockwave which is virtually indiscernible at slower frame rates.

A burger’s ingredients fly in mid-air separately before landing on top of each other. Sounds simple and natural right? Director Steve Giralt takes us through the astoundingly complex process and the cutting edge technology that he used to create the clip.

This unique display piece makes objects placed inside of it appear to move in slow motion. The trick is the use of an electromagnet and strobe lights that blink so fast you can’t see them. It only makes sense that it was designed by Time Warp host Jeff Lieberman.

The Slo Mo Guys turn their attention to a kind of destruction that isn’t permanent, this time building a jumbo jet out of LEGO then smashing it in front of their high-speed camera. The devastation was impressive, but the only real consequence was picking up all those bricks.

Beyond Slow Motion follows up on their previous video of yo-yo fanatic Ben Conde as he continues to turn a simple piece of string and a butterfly wheel into a living work of art. We love the water shot at 2:46.

While much welding is done by adding molten hot metals with a torch or electrical current, friction welding creates strong joints by rubbing metal together at a high speed. Here, two blocks of titanium are merged into one. If you thought that was cool, check this out.

Many of us use Pyrex glassware in our kitchens. The stuff is great, but physics make the stuff incredibly dangerous should it experience a dramatic temperature change. Gav and Dan show us what happens when the glass explodes, at speeds up to 343,900 fps.

The Slow Mo Guys make a big old mess, as they shoot, hack, and smash open a bunch of cans of spray paint in front of the lens of their high-speed Phantom Flex camera, and narrowly avoid getting paint all over its expensive lens.

SmarterEveryDay made a transparent potato cannon that can be ignited from the back or from the middle of its combustion chamber. He then captured it in action at 25,000fps to teach us about explosions and rarefaction. And to make the best Audible commercial.

There’s something hypnotic about Tito4re’s slow-motion video of molten copper being poured onto a block of dry ice. While the copper eventually defeated the dry ice, along the copper seemed to take on a life of its own.

Cullen Melton tried the no look three-point celebration popularized by some of the NBA’s sharpshooters. But he bombed harder than Nick Young did. This is Dude Imperfect, and we call this the Soviet Russian Trick Shot.

The Slow Mo Guys take on the corn drill challenge, where you try to eat an entire corn on the cob as fast as possible by sticking it to a power drill. Don’t worry, that’s just ketchup. No flesh or hair was lost.

The Slow Mo Guys celebrate the 5th anniversary of their biggest hit with a new giant balloon video. This time Dan somehow managed to step inside a 6ft. balloon and struck a pose while waiting for it to be overinflated. Skip to 4:13 for the festivities.

Gun enthusiast Jerry Miculek couldn’t get their hands on actual vibranium, but they did manage to make a life-size version of Captain America’s shield out of titanium. Watch Jerry shoot the shield with .45 ACPs in slow motion.

The Slow Mo Guys’ latest paint experiment involves powder paint and a drum kit. The 2000fps clip is really neat because it showed the instruments’ surfaces vibrating multiple times.

A team of talented and thrillseeking skateboarders literally set their boards and ramps on fire, then performed a variety of cool tricks in front of the watchful lens of BeyondSlowMotion. Needless to say, don’t dare try this at home.

The Backyard Scientist continues his literally and figuratively sloppy experiments by “testing” oobleck (cornstarch mixed with water). Like ketchup, quicksand and silly putty, oobleck is a Non-Newtonian fluid. It flows like a liquid but behaves differently when force is applied to it.

Gav and Dan of The Slow Mo Guys got their hands on a personal flamethrower from X Matter, loaded it up with fuel, then fired it up in front of their watchful lens for our enjoyment. The coolest shot has to be the face-on fireball at 2:40.