Awesome Slow Motion

Director of Photography Mitch Martinez shows off his custom made bullet-time rig with the help of fire breathers Mike Icon and Terry Lee Fields II. Mitch’s rig uses 50 Canon DSLRs, though he sometimes swaps one of them with a Red Epic for slow-motion shots.

It pained us to watch the wanton destruction of expensive hardware, but FullMag’s epic slow-motion footage of the cannon firing at this pricey iMac made us feel better – just a little. Though next time, send us the new computer, and we’ll send you an old one to blow up.

We can only imagine how many attempts it took to get this right, as a line of 43 people tossed coins into liquid-filled beakers to play back a passage from one of Mozart’s minuets. Though you can only hear the notes when played back in slow motion.

The Slow-Mo Guys have subjected themselves to all manner of torture so we could see it in excruciating detail. But when it came to being shot with a high-voltage weapon at Taser HQ, they left that to another human guinea pig.

The Royal Institution demonstrates a substance known as nitrogen triiodide, which is so highly unstable that merely touching it makes it explode. We’re not sure how they even managed to handle it to set up the experiment.

The Backyard Scientist celebrates 10 years of dangerous experiments – and perhaps the fact that he’s still in one piece – by recreating his first video, using various methods to make a propane-filled balloon explode.

“What you’re about to see is a 100% accurate depiction of what happened the moment the dinosaurs went extinct.” The Slow Mo Guys and Field Day teamed up to recreate this catastrophic mass extinction in the best way possible.

While filming the latest episode of Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie’s Phantom high-speed camera grabbed this jaw-dropping footage of a pistol being shot, capturing the bullet-sized explosion at an astounding 73,000 frames per second.

A family barbecue is ruined by an insanely powerful quadcopter. YouTuber ScottDW used a high end sprinkler compressor to warp the actor’s faces to extreme degrees. It actually looks painful.

The Backyard Scientist just got his hands on a shiny new camera that can shoot at 1,000 fps. Here, he shows off three neat experiments captured in slow-mo, including a “sword” that’s made from a stream of flaming butane.

Look away, California. The Slow Mo Guys revisit the bit that made them famous, but this time they put Dan inside the 6-foot water balloon. You can skip to 3:30 for the money shot, but you’re going to miss half the fun.

Saatchi & Saatchi London’s Pampers commercial features slow-motion videos of babies’ faces while pooping, dramatically set to Also sprach Zarathustra. You can tell Polka Dot Onesie here let out a big one.

YouTuber Anatoly Antipin shows us what happens to a tennis ball in a 142mph serve. The ball is hit with such force that it’s flattened like a pancake. Then it wobbles off like jello before returning to its original shape.

YouTuber Clint Blevins managed to take an up close and slow-motion shot of a lightning bolt hitting the ocean along a beach. The brunt of the strike looks like a rip in space and time. Skip to 0:10; press 5 to repeat.

The Smithsonian Channel shares this amazing slow-motion footage of violets, touch-me nots and squirting cucumbers (yep, that’s really a thing) as they procreate by exploding, which spreads their seeds all over the place.

While filming a snowboarder in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, Helipro saw a rabbit run right into a small avalanche. Don’t worry kids, Helipro says he’s fine. The song is Flanagan and Allen’s Run Rabbit Run.

Pit bull trainers Rafael Caraveo Saldivar and Vaders Pits demonstrate the immense pulling power and strength of these impressive dogs as one of their pups lunges with such ferocity that it can run more than 12 feet straight up a wall.

“Mother, if I don’t make it out of this alive, please, take care of Bobo for me.” GoPro used The Film Jar’s footage of children being launched off of a water blob at a summer camp to make this hilarious compilation.

Weapons expert Jerry Miculek shows off what happens when you simultaneously fire two stainless steel .45 ACP 1911 pistols, each one capable of unloading 10 bullets in under 1.5 seconds in Jerry’s able hands.

Freestyle skateboarder Kilian Martin teamed up once again with filmmaker Brett Novak to create a transcendent skate video. Watch Martin skate on streets, cliffs and salt flats, to the tune of Patrick Watson’s Good Morning Mr. Wolf.

The guys from Kuma Films got the opportunity to play with BeyondSlowMotion’s Phantom camera for a day. Bask in the warm glow of fire and the shattering of innocent objects in this short compilation of what they captured.

Like the spectating pug video, there’s not a whole lot to this video of two cats jumping in sync. However, there’s something about the slow-mo, combined with the trippy music that make the whole much greater than the sum of its parts.

Celebrate Star Wars Day with some Imperial destruction! After spending 16 hours building a massive LEGO Star Destroyer, WIRED did the unthinkable – they smashed it and captured the recording at 1000fps for our enjoyment.