Inside a Liquid Mirror Vortex in Slow Mo - The Slow Mo Guys

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Published 2022-05-31
Gav and Dan have re-melted their gallium and stuck it in a blender. Will it result in cool psychedelic slow mo footage with infinite reflections, or will it fly out of the blender and melt everything in the room?
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Filmed at 1000fps with a Phantom Veo 4KS
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Inside a Liquid Mirror Vortex in Slow Mo - The Slow Mo Guys

All Comments (21)
  • Incredible footage. That setup is impressively complicated and awesome. Well done guys.
  • @TimeBucks
    YouTube compression doesn't do this justice
  • I really wish there was a place we could go to see all these shots unaffected by Youtube's compression. Mainly this video and the glitter one. Amazing as always
  • The amount of money in that room is just mind boggling. And just when you thought it can't get more expensive, Gavin pulls out ten thousand dollars worth of extremely high end light tubes.
  • @nicrolis
    I would love to see the uncompressed video of this. YouTube compression really hurt this one! Still looks amazing!
  • @Benzy670
    That “test shot” you thought might be garbage is actually one of the coolest shots you got. Looks incredible!
  • @KyuubiSam
    Dan's smile, face and stutter after the "I mean we won't be able to go in as deep" cracked me up! 9:16
  • @JMS-2111
    It's hypnotic. I would love to see it in a round blender, where the currents of the spinning wouldn't bounce off the edges.
  • @TheRealSullyG
    I feel like you guys could make a small fortune selling some of these slow mo shots as stock footage. Amazing stuff!
  • @jumbleblue
    It blows my mind that you have actually filmed something real, physical, thing that truly does exist in the material world, which looks like part computer generated GFX and part what happens in ones mind while tripping. Nothing short of absolutely amazing.
  • @davidg5898
    I just watched this one again, except this time on a 4K OLED. Gorgeous results. I'd love to see some ferrofluid action from you guys. I don't think you've done that yet.
  • @TonyGrant.
    I'd like to see you do this again using a magnetic stirrer and in an egg shaped vessel. That will create a smooth rippling vortex.
  • Not going to lie, that’s some crazy relaxing footage to me. And any of it looped would make a really cool screen saver.
  • I feel like these shots should be used as reference materials for special effects going forward. Especially around 8:40 where it looks like some sort of tunnel collapsing as a mass is chasing the camera.
  • @Taracinablue
    It looks... computer-generated for some reason. And absolutely like some sort of sci-fi portal through space-time. Super cool!
  • @Villanite
    Made it about 90% of the way through the video thinking "this is cool, but I feel like it could have been better..." and that was when I realized YouTube set it to 720p by default. Rewatched the entire video in 4k. Blown away. At certain points I had to remind myself that it wasn't computer generated.
  • @devvie_hu
    "Melts about 30 degrees Celsius, that's about 85 degrees.. orange" that just killed me 😂
  • The shot at 12:28 was so insane that my brain was legitimately having trouble comprehending what it was seeing. Had to pause the video and watch it several times. The stuff you two make is just… incredible.
  • @fabbiomonte
    It's amazing how this looks like CGI! The wonders of the real world in slow motion still remain unbeatable! Awesome, Slo Mo Guys!
  • Speaking as a veteran of the 1967 Summer of Love, I rate your psychedelic footage as high enough quality to be in the centerfold of the SF Oracle. If you can get a hold of an ancient copy, you'll know what high praise that is!!