Hello, the internet, I'm Gav. - I'm Dan.
We're the Slow Mo Guy!.!!!
And I feel for this one Dan, we should just crack on. Everyone knows we're gonna smash this mirror.
Was that a joke? Crack? - Crack on? It wasn't. say wallah
Ah, well good work anyway. - Thank you very much.
We're gonna get a hammer, smash the mirror to pieces. Let's go.
Are you aware of the 7 years bad luck?
I'm currently on 23 years of bad luck. So...
Well, that's not a multiple of 7, so I guess you... - I've already had some.
Glass breaks rapidly, so it won't be high res one.
Um we're gonna shoot low, at a 120,000 frames per second. The pressure's on.
Gotta know it. - We only got one mirror.
Do you think we'll get it? - Yeah, why not?
I'm gonna frame it so you can see the reflection of this one in the mirror.
I like it. - Just like you're throwing it straight at the lens.
I've never missed so...
Well actually it'll be like you throwing a hammer at a hammer, that destroys itself
I reckon it'll look cool.
You ready? - Yeah
Flippin' egg, that hammer wen't right through.
Alright, so I'm playing this back sped up. This is the equivalent of if we were shooting this at 2500 frames per second.
Which is what we usually shoot at. - So normal camera?
Yeah this will be way too fast.
Instant brillant... - Yeah, that tells us nothing.
Yeah, one frame. We definitely need to slow that down a lot.
So this is 120,000 frames a second. - Has it stopped? Or what?
Barely look like it's moving. - Ok
It looks like... awwww -Oh god
Did you see that shockwave? - Yeah! Hold on, let me do it frame by frame. Hold on.
Aww -Ooooh
What, looks like that shot in the Matrix, where the helicopter hits the building.
It's exactly like that.
And the thing is, I was watching that at the time, I was like "Yeah, there's no way that happens."
Did they know? Or did they just guess? Did they know what would happen?
- They couldn't have known. How would they have known?
So there's a shockwave, that moves through the glass, before the glass cracks.
The glass cracks into the shockwave, that collapses into the bulb.
That's awesome. They were right with the helicopter.
Alright, let's speed it up again.
Ah, that lens flare is wicked. - Amazing! So we've recreated with a hammer what they did with the helicopter into a building.
Now I want to try with a much bigger pane of glass. To try to get some more lens flair's to hit... Look look look oooh.
That is stunning, there's a bit of rainbow there as well.
I like for some select moments, the sun is reflecting off a piece of mirror that's half hanging in the air,
like straight into the lens's face.
So I hit the middle of the glass, right? The hammer went...
All the way to the back here, hit that and bounced off.
I just realized, you almost smashed another video. - I know!
There's a pane of glass there.
If you fell through that, you'd be absolutely mullered. - You would, wouldn't you.
Look at it, really. It's so sharp, it's all these little shards.
That's real glass that is. - That's savage.
None of those plastic Walmart mirrors. - Target ones.
Good aim. - Thank you!
You're really good at like bizarre stuff. You could put an axe head wherever.
I've got a very specific set of skills, and they're all useless.
You can throw a lopsided, weighted hammer directly into one spot.
That was cool. - Yeah, it was.
The frame rate was definitely needed. Hopefully one day, cameras that can do 120,000 fps, also do it in like 4K.
That would be amazing. - That'll be the dream, we would probably be 58 by then
Well then, at that point, I will have run out of bad luck. So I'll have to redo this again.
You're nailing my eye sockets. - I keep trying, that's why.
So what yeah, you're at now 30 years bad luck. - That's older than me.
So you've got more bad luck to come than you've actually lived yet?
So I will be 58 by the time... - Really?
Did you just guess that, or did you realize? - I just guessed that, just threw out a random number.
That's literally the age I'll be, I was like "Alright, yeah." - So by the time your luck's run out,
We'll be able to film it again in 4K, and I'll have another 7 years of bad luck.
Alright, let's go wait for technology at this point.
Ok, well I hopefully you've enjoyed that video, pretty brief one.
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See if you can nail the lens.
Oh, you blinded them. Completely blind there. - I feel like I'm in school with my watch again,
trying to get the teacher in the eye.
Who did you get in the eye at second school? - Mr. Lear.
I got Mr. War. - I called him George once, he gave me friday detention.
I was just like, "George." he went: "Friday."
Can't first name a teacher in secondary school. Just not on.
Hopefully you enjoyed that video, we'll see you in the next one hopefully,
and if you wait around, 30 or so years, we'll be back doing this one again.
More bad luck.