- Hello, the internet, I'm Gav. - I'm Dan.
Welcome to "The Super Slow Show."
Dan, when we were coming up with ideas to do on the spin rig,
we thought we couldn't leave out our powder paint
on an air bag experiment.
Love an air bag, love powder paint.
We're gonna start with one air bag.
and probably get carried away and escalate
beyond our means.
The camera's gonna be whipping around,
a thousand frames a second,
- shall we go on? - Yes, we shall, absolutely.
( music playing )
Dan: Ooh! It's nice to be back on the spin rig.
- Gav: Yes, it is, love a spin rig. - Dan: Love this thing.
- Okay, are we ready? - I'm ready.
All right, three, two, one.
( popping )
- Both: Ooh! - Gav: Oh, yes.
- See it goes right through? - Dan:
It's like it's being blown around more by the spin rig.
Gav:
It's gonna get us.
Dan:
( coughing )
It was a mistake.
- All right let's watch it back. - ( Dan laughs )
- Real good view. - Yeah.
This lens is nice because the world is in focus.
Dan:
Gav:
but you're in a plane.
Dan:
Gav:
Dan:
( both imitate explosion sounds )
- Gav:
Gav:
And there we go.
Dan: And there's the air-bag, we're out.
Shall we put four on?
- Four? - Four different colors.
Four. So, four airbags, four different colors
all around the thing.
I think that would be wise.
Should we stagger them so it's one after the other...
- Yeah. - And they all go off at the same time.
Otherwise the front one will block the camera.
Yeah, okay.
So, it's all good on me this time.
Gonna have to set one off at a time.
What's your difference between the airbags.
Uh, complete guess.
Oof, good luck.
Cheers, yeah.
Three, two, one, go!
- ( popping ) - Oh, geez!
- What a mess. - That is a mess.
And you can't even see the camera.
No, you can't. Flipping heck.
- Huh. - Hm.
Huh.
Dan:
Gav:
Dan:
Gav:
( Dan laughs )
Gav:
Yeah, that Bill Paxton is, like, inside the tornado.
Dan:
Gav:
( slow motion explosion sounds )
Yeah.
So, what we've done there
is basically get a spin rig...
- Yeah. - and span it up, time it perfectly
- so that it's all opposite things... - Yeah.
- Right, and then just gone, "Nah." - ( laughter )
You can't see it.
So, I reckon four, but opposite sides of this spin rig.
- Gav: Yeah. - With less paint so it just sort of
clearer definition between the explosions.
This is the opposite side four times,
in time with the camera.
Yeah?
And you're thumb is tired from the last time you did it,
- so it's actually. - Yeah, I've got lactic acid build up for sure.
- In the thumb. - In the thumb, yeah.
You should play more video games.
Maybe so.
- Right. - Three, two, one.
( explosions )
Gav: Oof! Huh! ( laughs )
Was that the right one?
Yeah. I think so.
- All right. - Wait, one, two, three-- yeah, it was.
It's just confusing because it's opposite.
It's weird that all the clouds just become weird.
Like, there's no color in that.
- Dan: It's weird isn't it? - Gav: Is it like mixing to white like light would?
- Dan : I don't know. - Gav: That doesn't make any sense.
It's like the opposite of liquid paint,
it just turns to vomit,
this turns to like white.
It just turns into a sneeze.
- Yeah. - Let's have a look and see what...
Dan: Viewing stations.
( slow motion explosion sounds )
Gav:
- Dan:
Gav:
So now it's just red is left.
Dan:
Gav:
Made a big mess. A big confusing puff.
- Dan: Oh, there it is! - Gav:
Dan:
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Ah, man, you and I were coughing at this point.
Feel we were quite ambitious.
Got some good stuff, but also a lot of it just didn't work.
A lot of failures.
But even the failed attempts
still had some amazing footage.
Like the shot of the camera coming through
the blue into the red cloud.
It's just so surreal.
It makes me want to keep watching it for some reason.
It's true, I can't really think
of any other way of getting that footage
other than with a spin rig
or just flying a camera through.
Yeah. So hopefully you enjoy our failures
just as much as our successes as we do.
Thank you very much for watching.
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( explosion sound )
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Yeah, click over there and you'll actually
get to see Gavin get to step up from behind the camera
and get his hands dirty.
That's true actually, I had to use soap.
Did you get both of them dirty?
Both hands. Unbelievable.
- Well done. - Yeah, thanks.