Awesome Slow Motion

The Slow Mo Guys bought a 6-foot water balloon to mess around with it and – what else? – shoot it in slow motion, but they probably didn’t expect it to be as resilient as it is huge.

You’ve seen Modernist Cuisine’s slow motion video of a popcorn popping. Here’s their video of a cube of gelatin bouncing, dancing and its hypnotic contorting as it absorbs force. Shot at 6,200 fps.

Slow-motion and dynamic imagery abound in the music video for Woodkid’s single Iron, off of his Iron EP. Also directed by Woodkid aka Yoann Lemoine. Get the music from Amazon or iTunes.

These incredible videos of everyday objects moving in slow-motion were shot with Weisscam HS-1 and HS-2 high speed cameras, and are completely unretouched. Second demo here.

GE explains the benefits of dynamic braking in trains using an oversimplified demonstration –  dropping objects onto jelly and then shooting them as they bounce or shatter in slow motion.

While it might look like the craggy surface of a distant planet, what you’re looking at is the tip of a match, lit on fire, and captured at 2000 frames per-second. Watch another perspective here.

As the Space Shuttle program comes to an end, a team from NASA created Ascent using footage captured by cameras that monitor shuttles as they take off, at up to 60,000 frames per second.

Some people have too much time on their hands. Take, for instance, the guys who rigged up a tiny little catapult to launch even tinier pies at bees and other bugs, then filmed it all in slow-mo.

YouTuber philipmserious slowed the Gimme Pizza song from “You’re Invited To Mary-Kate and Ashley’s Sleepover Party”, turning the harmless tune into a nightmarish gathering of insane kids.

We’re frequently amused by the strange goings on of felines, now let’s watch in slow motion. Filmed using a Casio High Speed EX-FC100 camera, here’s how Maru the cat gets in and out of a box.

Watch ordinary objects turn into spectacular flying projectiles in these incredible slo-mo shots captured by Philip Heron and James Adair with the high-speed Photron SA1.1 camera.

“Extreme marksman of the impalement arts” Todd Abrams (a.k.a. “Jack Dagger“) slices lettuce, oranges, and even a grape thrown in mid-air with his incredible knife-throwing skills.

RC cars race, drift, jump and crash in this slow motion video. Come to think of it, everything looks awesome – or at least interesting – in slow-mo. Extra points for the bangin’ soundtrack.

Because epic hair deserves an equally epic footage: media producer A. Tobias flips his wig with this Slow Motion Dreadlock Video, shot on a high-speed camera at 6,800 fps.