The prices at this restaurant are cheap, but you have to catch your own food. Andrew Mountcastle captured this footage of a dragonfly narrowly escaping a hungry frog.

Photographer’s Website – via Super Punch

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It’s always hard to resist Maru, but when he’s up to his antics in slow motion, it makes you want to reach out and grab him for all the cuddles he could handle.

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When you drop a slinky, which part of it moves faster? When you get a good look at it in slow-motion, it only raises more questions, which physics professor Rod Cross explains. See the rest of the experiment at The Daily What Geek. Link -via mental_floss

This eagle owl is coming in for a landing. The film was shot at 1000 frames per second, so you don’t miss a muscle movement. What you do think would be the proper musical accompaniment for this? -via Buzzfeed

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There’s always so much talk about apple pie and baseball near Independence Day, but I don’t like either of those things. And having practically lived inside the Internet for the last few years, I can tell you that most people are more impressed with 1.) explosions, 2.) slow-motion video and 3.) pictures of cats. Two out of three ain’t bad. This is from PopSci, where they blow things up for science. Link

I had no idea that a cymbal changed shape so much during a strike! This video was made by the Fluke Corporation, which makes electronic testing instruments. It shows a cymbal getting hit at 1,000 frames per second. -via The Presurfer | Company Website

Allegedly, this video shows a Russian T-90 tank firing its 125mm gun. A specialized camera called a Photron, usually used in scientific research, captured the action at 18,000 fps. -via Gizmodo | Photron Website

Bran Thompson made this video from footage taken at the annual Holi Festival (previously at Neatorama) at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. The song is “Optimist” is by Zoe Keating. -Thanks, Brian!

This video from Bruton Stroube Studios is “designed to showcase food in a beautiful and unusual way.” But really, it’s just fun to see flying food! A second video showing how it was done is posted at Stroube’s site. Link -Thanks, James McKenzie!

The Slow Mo Guys, Gav and Dan, acquired and filled a water balloon six feet across. They then jumped on it, trying to break it. It was quite a sturdy balloon, and the ripples that result from the impacts are neato-looking — like CGI. The action starts at 1:45 and the balloon ruptures at 4:15.

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Jell-o, is it a solid or a liquid? Watch it being dropped on a hard surface in slow motion and you’ll see it is both. And hypnotically entertaining, too. -via The Mary Sue

This video shot by Modernist Cuisine shows a drop of liquid nitrogen hitting a hot frying pan. It doesn’t instantly vaporize because a thin layer of vapor briefly insulates the drop. Scientists call this phenomenon the Leidenfrost Effect:

When a drop of liq­uid first con­tacts a sur­face that is much hot­ter than water’s boil­ing point, an extremely thin layer of vapor forms under the drop. This layer of vapor sus­pends the drop slightly above the sur­face, cre­at­ing the hov­er­ing effect. The vapor also acts as an insu­la­tion layer between the sur­face and liq­uid, keep­ing the liq­uid from rapidly boil­ing away. This fas­ci­nat­ing occur­rence is known as the Leidenfrost effect, named for the 18th-century German doc­tor and the­olo­gian who first described the phenomenon.

Link via Popular Science

Gliding through the Bath train station on a Saturday morning with a high-speed camera pointed out the window, capturing everything in detail. No plot, little action, and sadly, no music, but this video is oddly fascinating. -via b3ta

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Get a closer look at how Maru does his thing with boxes. This is almost hypnotizing. -via The Litter Box

This video of a lightning bolt was filmed at 9,000 frames per second. The entire minute-and-a-half video covers less than two seconds of real time. Is this cool or what? -via Dr. Isis

Watch amazing slow motion video of animals with extremely fast movements, from the BBC series Animal Camera.

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The last thing seen by many a field mouse.  1000 frames per second.  (via Cynical-C)

Ah, the beauty of slow motion video…with a crazy Japanese twist. I ended grinning like a fool by the end of the video as each individual running has a unique and hilarious run. This certainly made my day a whole lot bearable. Keep this in mind when you get near the end,”It’s like a lava lamp…”!

If anyone is interested in the song used for the video it’s “Luv (sic) pt.2″ by Nujabes.

TGIF!

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Here is an amazingly gorgeous slow motion captured video by Andrey Stvolinsky. The music by Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble helps give this video that added surreal noir factor that makes this video quite enjoyable. Also, here’s something fun to do while watching…look at the people’s eyes it’s quite trippy as they walk by but their eyes are fixed on you the viewer.

His official site – Link

A captivating video of sneezing captured on high speed camera. This public service announcement is from Australia. Now you’ll want to wash your hands and go get a flu shot!

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I know my description is confusing; but take my word, it’s pretty cool. Link -via Unique Daily