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    Tips For Shooting the Best Slow-Motion Video

    Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn "Will It Blend" Blender
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    Image of ravedown ravedown
    03/10/09

    In reply to Tips For Shooting the Best Slow-Motion Video
    remember to use it when its neccessary...not for self indulgent bullshit 'walking'or 'dodging bullets' shots that im so sick of- tarantino has become hack...slo-mo is played out.
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    03/10/09

    @ravedown: What makes you so sure Tarantino was ever anything but a hack?
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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/10/09

    In reply to Tips For Shooting the Best Slow-Motion Video
    Try as you might, you will never match the true slow-mo genius that takes place when Mister Pink is in the shot.
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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    03/10/09

    In reply to Tips For Shooting the Best Slow-Motion Video
    nice. now i just wish i had a camera that could do this!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/10/09

    In reply to Tips For Shooting the Best Slow-Motion Video
    Also remember: When walking away from an explosion in slow motion, as long as you do not look at the explosion, you can never be harmed.
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    Image of danger the pirate danger the pirate
    03/10/09

    @GitEmSteveDave: and if youre feeling doubtful, a dive away from the explosion makes you invincible.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/10/09

    @danger the pirate ★ finally got rid of the long name: That's only in real time. Slow motion diving doesn't always look cool.
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    Image of danger the pirate danger the pirate
    03/10/09

    @NoO and A_GitEmSteveDave: i didnt take that into account. you are a wise man.
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    Image of Griffehpoo Griffehpoo
    03/10/09

    @danger the pirate ★ finally got rid of the long name: For the doubtful, the standard fallback is to don sunglasses while walking away. This is a fool-proof way to ensure total safety, regardless of distance away from or size of the explosion that warranted it. Beware that drawbacks often come in the form of some mousey, weak-willed person walking beside you afterwards, complaining vehemently about how there could've been another way. Another common side effect is having a police chief/FBI agent immediately outside the blast range screaming about how what you did wasn't by the books.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/10/09

    @Griffehpoo: What about a song by "The Who" playing over a airboat ride?
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    Image of Jestermeister Jestermeister
    03/10/09

    In reply to Tips For Shooting the Best Slow-Motion Video
    i think we need a tutorial on slow-mo money shots. If not Gizmodo, then who?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/10/09

    @jestermeister: Fleshbot?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/10/09

    In reply to Tips For Shooting the Best Slow-Motion Video
    Now if only I could shoot our next birthday party like the slow-mo credit sequence of Watchmen. That would be sweet.
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    Image of Dragonis Dragonis
    03/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:

    Jeez, thanks for the spoilers. Not everyone has seen it yet.
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    Image of The Magnificen7 The Magnificen7
    03/11/09

    @Dragonis: I seriously hope you're kidding. It's the fucking credits. SPOILER ALERT, THERE IS TEXT WITH NAMES OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE MAKING OF THE FILM.
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    03/11/09

    @The Magnificen7: WOW THANKS DOUCHE, I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT PART
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    Image of Dave Bunting Dave Bunting
    12/18/08

    In reply to Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn "Will It Blend" Blender
    You can't film in slo-mo, you can only film in real time. You can present in slo-mo.


    Just sayin'.

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    12/18/08

    @Dave Bunting: The Grimace can.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/19/08

    @Dave Bunting:
    Presenting slo-mo footage that doesn't look like you're watching a stack of flip-cards requires a high-speed camera which is specifically designed to film footage that will look slo-mo when run at a normal FPS. Therefore, you _can_ film in slo-mo. Sort of.
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    Image of PeterSimpson PeterSimpson
    12/18/08

    In reply to Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn "Will It Blend" Blender
    I'm having some trouble understanding how the fuel got under the blender in the first place. The lighter(s) are in the blender, covered with a lid (which doesn't even blow off, as I would have expected, once the fireball reached the level of the lid). Those lids seal pretty well, as does the base assembly. So how does the fuel get to the level of the motor?


    I'm suspicious of something added to make the video more dramatic. Like some fuel gas blown into the base, maybe?

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    12/18/08

    @PeterSimpson: I agree. I can understand that the blender motor cools by taking air from under the base and funneling it past the motor and out the base. The only way this would not be Bravo Sierra is that butane is more dense than air. So if they blended it with the little cover on the lid off or replaced with a mesh screen, as it blended, the butane would fill the jug, and flow over the sides, and then get sucked into the motor. It would then get a spark from the motor spinning, and might result in what we see.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    12/18/08

    In reply to Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn "Will It Blend" Blender
    This ranks right up there with trying to kill the ants in your vacuum cleaner with natural gas.
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    Image of Knirfie Knirfie
    12/18/08

    In reply to Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn "Will It Blend" Blender
    This looks more like 100 lighters and a few bottles of lighter fluid.


    I've experienced often enough what happens when a lighter breaks or melts (in a fire). And the "explosion" is much smaller and gone within a fraction of a second.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/18/08

    @Knirfie:


    yeah but a regular lighter 'explosion' is just the release of the pressurized propane - even if you shoot a lighter, it tends to just release the gas, no ignite.


    I modify my lighters in a way that allows me to put a thick wire loop on them, so they hang with my keys, and every time i'm filing the requisite grooves into the side i always think, i should probably be wearing safety goggles.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/18/08

    @nutbastard: Don't blame me i voted for Ron Paul edition:


    apologies all around, it's too fucking early to read every single little word in all y'alls comments to avoid redundancies / idiocy.


    to the coffee with me.

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    Image of bboysca bboysca
    12/18/08

    In reply to Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn "Will It Blend" Blender
    So...what WON'T blend?
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/19/08

    @bboysca:
    Mostly stuff that's too big to fit in the blender, or made of material that's harder than the blender blades. Like a depleted-uranium-clad tank.
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