To an industrial designer, few things are more fascinating than watching time-lapsed footage of an object being created, particularly when it's condensed into such a length that you can literally see the object "grow."
Gavin and Dan, two filmmakers from the UK operating as The Slow Mo Guys, film just the opposite: Objects being destroyed in slow motion. Things like a carbonated beverage can violently perforated by an air pellet become oddly compelling at 2,500 fps:
The Slow Mo Guys film more than destruction. Any kind of kinetically vibrant phenomena is fair game, from fireworks to Jackie Chan coin tricks to people doing backflips, and they've got a few showing the effects of physics on the human body: Below you can see what firing a shotgun does to the gunman's shoulder, and here's footage of a guy getting slapped and Dan catching a football in the face.
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