Awesome Slow Motion

People are always arguing about what the NBA could do to make the All-Star Game more interesting. We have a pretty simple suggestion: more Phantom high-speed cameras, please.

We’re so used to seeing freerunning at full speed, we miss out on the sheer grace of the human form. Here we get some sick moves captured by Pwnisher in slow-mo using a RED Epic camera.

The guys from SPEED give us an eyeful with an old MG being blown to smithereens at a glorious 1,000 FPS. It’s all part of their Stuntbusters series, which is like, you guessed it, Mythbusters for car stunts.

Kelsey Wynns took a couple of GoPros and strapped one to Bishop the great dane, providing an entertaining point-of-view which kind of makes you wish you could live in their world for a day.

But will it explode? This spot for Moe’s Southwest Grill one-ups BlendTec’s ads with a more advanced but equally destructive approach – objects being wrecked by microwaves in slow motion.

The Slow Mo Guys whip out their 5000fps Phantom Flex camera, and give us an up-close and personal look at their Minecraft-inspired fire-starter, and end up with the world’s tiniest fireworks show.

Last August, photographer Chris Bryan captured the sheer beauty and fierce power of these massive Code Red waves in Tahiti’s Teahupo’o with his Phantom high-speed camera. (Thanks, Jack!)

Another slow motion skateboard video from Adam Shomsky. This time it’s a successful trick pulled off by Robbyn Magby. His feet just clear the twirling board right before he lands, and then – MOOOO

Stunt driver Terry Grant takes the compact Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio for a spin. But instead of hooning along on a dry track, he does donuts on top of 2500 water balloons.

What do you get when you combine cocktails, great lighting, the Beastie Boys and some 5000 fps Phantom slo-mo camera shots? Something pretty special, in our humble opinion. (Thanks Ty!)

Rip Curl teamed up with TimeSlice Films to capture “full-tilt surfing action” similar to the bullet time scenes from The Matrix. The effect was achieved by using an array of 30 GoPro HD cameras .

SawStops are table saws with an automated braking system which can halt the saw from 5,000 rpm to a dead stop in a thousandth of a second. The inventor even tested it with his own finger.

Destroying things in ultra-slow-motion can be a beautiful thing, as in this footage of a pillow being ripped to bits at 1000 frames-per-second, set to the musical stylings of The Cloud.

Different sides of Tokyo – from random citizens to the swarm-like urban populace, from snapshots of daily life, to a salary man sleeping standing up in a busy train station – presented by Alex Lee.

Rishi Kaneria couldn’t have picked a better title for his video. Using a Canon 60D and a bit of Twixtor magic, he was able to capture the grace and power of the movements of pro stuntman Dante Ha.

Next Level Pictures rented a Phantom Flex camera for one of their projects and decided to make the most out of it by shooting a side video – a slice of Brooklyn life in wonderful slow motion.

Don’t worry, there’s nothing too gruesome in this clip from Youtuber ashomsky. Just a 1000 fps peek at the punishment that even the smallest of falls inflicts on these skateboarders and their gear.

A slow motion video of 2007 MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner pulling off one of the most thrilling, graceful yet under appreciated maneuvers in motorsports – cornering on a bike at high speed.

While nailing your enemies with a couple of paintballs is annoying, there’s a more efficient way to annihilate your foes – assuming you have the Master Blaster, which fires pellets en masse.

Photographer Scott Alexander was shooting video for the Red Bull National Wake with a Phantom HD Gold camera, and captured this awesome slow-mo footage of a guy doing a flip off a wakeboard rack.

Electronic test tools maker Fluke Corporation commissioned this video (shot with a Phantom HD Gold camera) to better show one of the parameters that the company’s products measure – vibrations.

Here’s 51 secs. of unadulterated visual stimulation, simply described as follows: sexy girl in black with a samurai sword slices an orange in slow-motion. We want to see the rest of the fruit basket!

Celebration of the Hindu festival Holi aka Festival of Colors at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. Shot by Brian Thomson on a Canon 7D. The song is Optimist by Zoe Keating.