Awesome Slow Motion

Some of you are sick of seeing water right now, but Scott Winn and Jay Davis’ video is guaranteed to put you in a good mood. Winn used Phantom, Photron, Red Epic, Canon and GoPro cameras.

The Slow Mo Guys – or at least one of them – have fun with an improvised torture device. We’re not sure when they crossed the line, but we think they’re not out to make slow-mo videos anymore.

With a Phantom Gold HD high-speed camera in hand, skatePHX put the camera to good use, capturing 1000fps slow-mo footage of longboarders smashing stuff in the hot desert sun of Arizona.

Best known for his 1980s act highlighted by the smashing of watermelons, watch as comedian Gallagher is captured doing what he does in slow motion by a Phantom Miro camera. More here.

The Slow Mo Guys attempt to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon. Watch them fail in glorious high definition slow motion. This is without a doubt the best (and nastiest) video they have ever made.

We might have missed the first round, but the second and third go-rounds of Conan tribute to the Olympic slow-mo cameras is chockful of amusing shots of stuff captured at thousands of fps.

Smarter Every Day explains the physics behind cats’ famous trick: landing right side up even from an upside down position. Now Destin, explain how your cat is able to make you fetch the ball.

The Slow Mo Guys take on the challenge “to make tennis more interesting” – by dowsing their tennis balls in gasoline and lighting them on fire. This should be an olympic sport.

Inspired by the Olympics, Conan’s production team rented their own super slow-motion camera and recorded some “great moments” – all of which could possibly Olympic events in their own right.

If you’re ok with never stepping in the ocean again, then please fill your screen with this amazing HD footage of sharks attacking seal decoys caught with a high speed camera. Jeepers creepers indeed.

Nucky’s darkest demons come to the surface in this dramatic slow-mo teaser for the next season of HBO’s awesome prohibition era drama. Don’t watch this if you haven’t seen the end of Season 2.

A stunning short film by Chris Bolton which captures the awesome and spectactular sight of massive fireballs being spewed forth and recorded at 2000 frames per second.

Filmmaker Sebastian Linda’s visual love letter to skateboarding, the once underground and now successful sport that embodies grace and rebellion, youth and mastery, dedication and recklessness.

The fourth installment of Mattzel89’s Racing in Slow Motion, a compilation of footage from Formula One and other motorsports in glorious slow motion. Watch the previous videos in his channel.

A speeding blue BMW M5 does its best job to recreate in full-scale the effect of a bullet slicing through an apple, balloons and other obstacles, all captured in glorious slow-motion.

Keith Hopkin and his best friends take in the warm California atmosphere in the latest edition of Dogs in Cars. We frequently knock dogs for acting like fools, but who can hate a face like that?

The high-speed specialists at The Marmalade use real technical genius to make their amazing slo-mo shots. That includes the use of Spike: a robotic arm that moves with incredible precision.

A team of skateboarders is captured in slow motion, pulling off complex and lesser-known tricks with names like “hardflip pretzel,” “nollied dolphin flip,” and the “backside 180 hospital flip.”

A compilation of slow motion footage of various athletes and competitors doing what they do best, assembled by YouTuber Grégory Villien. The song is Adagio in D Minor by John Murphy.

Filmbot shows off the slow-motion prowess of the new Phantom M120 camera, a portable rig capable of shooting full HD video at 730fps. Song is Reaching Out by Nero (er, really Hall and Oates.)

Capable of shooting high-speed video at 1280×1024 resolution at 500 frames-per-second – or up to 20,000fps at lower resolutions, the TS3Cine captures amazing slow-motion footage.

YouTuber FinalCutKing used a slingshot to smash porcelain wares, glass and other fragile objects. The destruction was filmed using a Phantom Flex camera, shot between 3,200 to 6,900 fps.

Lenovo asked The Slow Mo Guys to test out the Space Lab special edition of its Thinkpad Tablet. The two gladly obliged, shooting at the gadget with paintball bullets. Skip to 3:45 for the test.