High speed, plus high speed, equals slow motion

Graeme Taylor had an intriguing idea, which in some ways is like a long-exposure photograph, but with video:

In all my slow-motion work so far, I’ve used a static camera to capture a high-speed event. But, I wondered, what would happen if the camera was the fast-moving object? Use a 210fps camera at 35mph, and on playback at 30fps it’ll seem to the observer that they’re moving at walking pace- but everything observed will be operating at 1/7th speed.

In this video, he’s filming the passengers waiting for a train as he blasts past. I love it. Great parallax effect with all the people, too.

You can tead his blog post about the endeavour here.

(via Coudal)

Surfing in super slow-motion

Love it.

Gigantic bubbles, popping in slow motion

This is pretty great, but if you can, play it in full-screen 1080p. The bubbles are ethereal.

(via Geekologie)

UPDATE: Upon rewatching, it may not actually be slow motion — I mean, look at the kinds running. Weird how the music makes it feel waaaaay slowed down, though.)

And if you like slowed down things…

Slow motion, meets reverse motion, meets water-filled condoms in the face

It’s actually much, much more interesting to watch than it sounds like:

In some of the clips, the bulbous, pulsating sacs of water look a lot like what I imagine water would look like in zero-gravity situations, floating around, held together only by surface tension.

Also, seeing the reactions before the impact is kind of cool.