Flamethrower Versus Fire Extinguisher at 1000 Frames per Second
Lets say you had an uber-expensive Phantom slow motion camera, a flamethrower, and a fire extinguisher at your disposal. What would you do?
Well… probably this!
This is official music video for the song Ritalin by Dancing Pigeons. It was shot on a Phantom camera at 1000 frames per second.
(via Laughing Squid)
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very creative! and very well done!!! THANKS!
Come on, folks! That footage was only SO SO. Quit calling things that are mediocre ‘great’. This was a real let down. We wanted a clear winner and a good solid finish.
Much too much time spent in video that had no punch line.
pretty is rather overrated. it’s nice to see some non-dime-a-dozen faces.
wait… so, who won?
i loves me some rednecks.
also, awesome video
CG / Compositing of Original Footage, flame is unconvincing as it reaches further and further
because they are gonna put a human in front of a real flame weapon…….. morons its effects with practical elements..
Wish there was a fullspeed version of this video, too, for comparison.
Yeah but they don’t have to be so disgustingly ugly as those guys were. >>
How many Phantom cameras did they have? There were at least three different angles being used in slow mo…?
as i watched this i found myself waiting for something awesome. and here i am, still waiting. that had the potential to be AWESOME but fell short. oh well. and HOLY COW those are the ugliest mo-fo’s i have ever see LOL
Those guys made the video!
shut the hell up, emily.
Hahahaha. Ya know, its almost good to know that there are still people like you in the world, because even though I would be more comfortable knowing you will never breed, its nice to meet people like you every once in a while to remind myself that I have superior intelligence. Also, shallow people are funny to have drinking competitions with, because they always lose.
90% of that video was their two faces. i watched that for about 10 seconds of actual flame on extinguisher action. waste of a good opportunity.
this was incredibly anti climactic, also the music was incredibly boring, I kept wating for some small spark of creativity to pop out at me from this “creation” but the video position indicator kept on its track towards beautiful silence.
I thought the song was great and the video was great too. the guys made the video. if it were anyone else it wouldn’t seem as real. I agree that the video could have been something more but you can’t have it all. I wish people could just appreciate things without pointing out all of its flaws.
No, they were Amazing?
This is fucking brilliant.
[...] As some of you may know, I enjoy a good flame thrower… Sweet video, song sucks. Flamethrower Versus Fire Extinguisher at 1000 Frames per Second [...]
I believe that there could have been a story behind this. The old man and Hillbilly 1 are looking for Hillbilly 2. Hillbilly 2 knows that Hillbilly 1 has a flame thrower, so he goes out and buys a fire extinguisher. Oldman and H1 finally track down H2. H2 gets out of his beat up old car with his hidden extinguisher. H1 and Oldman expect an easy kill, as it is dark and they cannot see much. H1 starts his flamethrower. H2 starts his extinguisher as soon as the flames reach a point at which they could not burn him, but was within the reach of his extinguisher. The conflict lasts for about a minute to a minute and 30 seconds. H2 is clearly the victor as he was the smarter of the two.
OUTSTANDING! Not just a great idea visually and technically but it matches the mood of the music quite well. I can easily imagine a “Hatfields vs. the McCoys” storyline behind the video, the ol’ man in the truck loaned Junior his old flamethrower from The War so he could go defend the family honor…a story behind the story as it were….good stuff!
i personally thought the ugly faces were fucking awesome.
The video was pretty anticlimactic if you ask me. Get closer together pussies so I can see a real reaction between the fire and the extinguisher.