That fancy high-speed Phantom camera is pretty much a child’s toy when compared to MIT’s new hardware which can record at 1,000,000,000,000 frames per second. Fast enough to capture slow motion footage of light waves.
Tom Lowe has been restlessly working on Timescapes for more than two years now. You probably already saw the first trailer of this breathtaking ultra-HD silent film. This is the newest material. A must watch.
The Beauty of Mud features stunning high speed footage of someone splashing through a mud puddle. Except that it wasn’t shot at 4000FPS — it was actually filmed at just 60 — and processed with a plugin called Twixtor.
Is it just me or does 5000fps really make everything more awesome? This video is actually an amalgamation of deleted footage.
The Phantom HD Gold, a camera that brings out the life in things by capturing it in super slow motion, was used to film the oh so lovely ocean. Everything takes on a different personality in slow motion: waves look like jello, whitecaps look like cocaine and surfers, well, surfers are always awesome.
Sure, it was an iconic, angstish band some decades back, but have you ever actually smashed a pumpkin? What about watching them get shattered to bits and put back together at 1000fps? No? Well it’s the Great Pumpkin Smashing, Charlie Brown!
Save yourself the bad trip and watch Alex Lee’s amazing slow motion, stop motion, time lapse, time slow, mind bending, psychedelic video of Tokyo, Japan. Called Tokyo Slo-Mode, sometimes the video doesn’t even look real. Even though it’s slowed down, it captures the frenetic nature of Tokyo (and any big city) quite well. [Vimeo via Hypebeast]
The maniacs at Melbourne Skydive Centre are still falling off things with style. I’ve only ever gone cliff-diving once, and it was nothing like this. This looks shades of terrifying and exhilarating that I can hardly imagine.
