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Microwaves Destroying Everything. Slowly. [Video]

shaun — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:14:25 +0000

If mankind can ever reconcile its determination to construct edifices with its lust for things exploding in slow motion, we will have unlocked our essence as a species—tête à tête with God herself. Until then, enjoy shit bustin’. More »

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What Tokyo Would Look Like If You Were on Drugs [Video]

shaun — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:14:18 +0000

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] More »

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Being a Stuntman Means Kicking Ass in Slow Motion [Video]

shaun — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:14:22 +0000

This balletic work of aerial badassery is performed by Dante Ha, a professional stuntman who you can find in movies like The Dark Knight Rises and X-Men: First Class. Just try to do half of what he does. More »

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Jello Hypnotically Bouncing at 6200 Frames Per Second [Video]

shaun — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:14:32 +0000

If I was going to start a new blog, it would be nothing but food under attack, shot with super slow-motion cameras. [Modernist Cuisine via brainpicker] More »

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Fastec’s DSLR-sized TS3Cine does 720p at 720fps for $30,000

shaun — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:14:19 +0000

For years, consumers have been able to shoot slow-motion videos — mostly with the help of Casio’s line of slightly gimmicky point-and-shoots. But Fastec’s TS3Cine aims for a more discerning customer — the kind of videographer who might spice up a promo or short with some slow-mo action. Unlike Casio’s cameras, which cut the resolution to little more than thumbnail-size as you crank the frame rate, the TS3Cine does 720p video at 720fps, and 1280 x 1024 at 500 fps. It’s only when you further slow down the video (up to 20,000 fps) that the image size starts to shrink. This camera also has a badass design, pairing a DSLR-like body with a gargantuan 7-inch WVGA LCD that effectively eliminates the need for an external monitor. Pros have their choice of a C-Mount, F-Mount, and optional SL-Mount, and can upgrade to a 256GB SSD for a cool two grand if the standard 128GB one isn’t roomy enough. It also has Gigabit Ethernet and USB ports, HDMI-out, support for an external power source, and a removable battery. Can’t afford the ,900 price tag? If you’re in the Boston area, at least, you can rent it for 5 a day, a price that includes a tripod and two batteries — enough juice for up to six hours of shooting. Head on past the break for a sample video clip and a tour of this beastly camera in action.

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Fastest animals on Earth in slow motion – Animal Camera – BBC

shaun — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:54:33 +0000

Learn how the fastest animals on the planet move with the help of some truly awe-inspiring slow motion wildlife camera technology. See the amazing movements of a water balloon when it is popped, a lizard on the attack, and a crab with a fearsome punch. Great animal video from BBC wildlife show Animal Camera. Hosted by Steve Leonard.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Very cool: super slow motion footage of Apollo 11 launch

othertech — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:00:20 +0000

While we have our own ideas about what should constitute a slow motion film, I guess this one from NASA is okay. I mean, if you like explosions and enormous hulks of metal rising into the air, and flames.

Okay, okay, it’s totally freaking awesome. I really want to know what the film speed and exposure were. It was going at 500 frames per second so there’s your shutter speed, but that sucker would have been bright.

[via BoingBoing]

CrunchGear Week in Review: Pro-Am Edition

othertech — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:00:29 +0000

Slow-motion RC cars look shockingly awesome
Laser beam clock tells time with mirrors
Magnetic communicator could help rescuers talk through solid rock
Hands-on with Honda’s U3-X, the amazing people mover
Going It Alone: How to Make Your Stuff In China

Slow-motion RC cars look shockingly awesome

othertech — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:12:39 +0000

How did I miss this earlier this week? Take a tiny car, slow it down to about 1/10th normal speed, and all of a sudden it’s the greatest thing in at least a week. Nice drift at 1:40. I was also pleasantly surprised by that Nissan commercial from the other day — apparently RC cars are pretty cool in any context. Like the Micro Machines NES game. Racing around a kitchen table with Cheerios for lane boundaries is more thrilling than you’d think.

[via Jalopnik]

Battlefield: Earth writer says sorry to all of Planet Earth

othertech — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:00:16 +0000

Contrition is a wonderful thing. Now, I’m not the biggest sci-fi guy here, but even I know that Battlefield: Earth ranks among the worst films ever created—some would even say that it is the single worst movie in the history of cinema. That may well be, but the gentleman who penned the original script has now, on the record, officially apologized to mankind for helping to create the movie. That’s called integrity, folks.

The script was originally written by one J.D. Shapiro, who started work on the project way back in 1994, six years before its unfortunate release. Ten years later, it won the Razzie for Worst Film of the Decade.

The apology begins:

Let me start by apologizing to anyone who went to see Battlefield Earth.

It wasn’t as I intended—promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.

Then it goes into some backstory, but coalasces around this point:

My script was very, VERY different than what ended up on the screen. My screenplay was darker, grittier and had a very compelling story with rich characters. What my screenplay didn’t have was slow motion at every turn, Dutch tilts, campy dialogue, aliens in KISS boots, and everyone wearing Bob Marley wigs.

…

I have no idea why they wanted to go in this new direction, but here’s what I heard from someone in John’s camp: Out of all the books L. Ron wrote, this was the one the church founder wanted most to become a movie. He wrote extensive notes on how the movie should be made.

So there you have it. There’s probably numerous why this movie was doomed from the beginning, but it looks like L. Ron Hubbard, the leader of Scientology, decided to meddle with movie-production.

Leave the movie-making to the movie-makers, and leave all the other stuff to, um, the other people.

Pretty safe to say I’ll never see this movie, not even in an ironic “bad movie night” fashion. No, sir.