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Watching Paint Spin Off of a Drill Bit in Super Slow-Mo is Surprisingly Mesmerizing

Jackson Pollock meets Makita meets The Slow-Mo Guys

By Rain Noe - January 21, 2016

in Hand Tools

The Slow-Mo Guys are at it again with their fancy six-figure camera that shoots 2,500 frames per second. This time they're taking a drill bit (a 3/8" by the looks of it), rolling it in wet paint and recording what happens when they pull the trigger. In this "experiment" we learn that Dan doesn't know how to work a chuck, and we also hear some NSFW language—if you consider silly British euphemisms like "knob" a proper curse word.

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I want to believe that Jackson Pollack's eyes worked at 2,500 blinks per second, and that this is what he saw while he was creating his paintings.

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Bryce Moulton

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I would guess the image they saw was part of Fabian Oefner's "Black Hole" series. http://fabianoefner.com/?portfolio=black-hole-2
He has done some amazing things with color and high speed photography.

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