This terrible idea is among the most beautiful videos we've ever seen

12/16/2012

Do not try this at home. Repeat: Do NOT try this at home. In fact if you're even thinking about goofing off today, don't watch this video. Are all the impressionable youngsters out of the room? OK. Now enjoy what's maybe the most beautiful thing we've ever seen, a flaming pan of gasoline being kicked across a lawn. So wrong for so many reasons (all of which the self-described "Slow Mo" guys admit and describe during set up), but there's no arguing with our eyeballs. The Phantom Flex, the crazy expensive slow-motion camera that captures film at 2,500 frames a second, is a magical machine that is making us weep at the loveliness.

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