What if Every Second Lasted an Hour? - The Slow Mo Guys

Gav shows you the tranquil results of stretching every second to be an hour long.
What if Every Second Lasted an Hour? - The Slow Mo Guys

[theslowmoguys]

Does anyone else get slightly filled with dread imagining how bad it would be to be stuck at this speed. Even if you were surrounded by people you wouldn’t be able to communicate with anyone. It would be so lonely. It would take you so long to move anywhere. You wouldn’t be able to let anyone know what was happening to you. To them you’d be moving at normal speed but acting strangely… 🙁

[MakersMuse]

That is absolutely wild, everything pretty much stops. I've never felt closer to being in the matrix.

[lazyturtle]

I dont think enough people give credits to Gav's sound choice in editing. The music and everything is perfect to create a scene of awe but also relaxing

[EVILBUNNY]

The fact that when 1 second equals 1 hour rain basically appears to freeze in mid air really made me appreciate how fast a balloon actually pops.

[Thomas-yfve]

Dang, that really shows how insanely fast the water balloon popping is

[SeleneRoseRM]

The sound design, the engineering, the actual clips, everything about this is a 10/10.

Easily one of the best things on youtube

[SirWrender]

dude for some of these shots, time was so slow I literally thought the video was buffering. the only thing that gave it away was the slight twinkle in the specular highlights. Absolutely amazing haha

[sciurusvulgari]

This was incredibly trippy and mind blowing. The most realistic and grounded thing that kept me sane was that when Gavin dived backwards into the pool, his nose was the last thing underwater.

[karanverma]

Thanks for such an amazing video. Please make a second part

[Jogwheel]

The sound mix of this video is exceptional. Well done, as always, Gav!

[Duci]

These “falling into the pool for an hour” type of clips would make a pretty dope clock. If you have 24 or even 24*7 of them.

[T.E.I]

This might be my favorite video you’ve made. I’m sat in awe, especially at the rain one. It felt so surreal to suddenly see it slow down to a still image, or nearly one

[sniperfreek]

I love how light simply doesn't care. While everything seems to come to a stop, the light reflecting off the water droplets just keeps sparkling.

[RobiePAX]

4:43 it's crazy that even when you go so slow to practically freeze the world, the balloon still bursts at fairly quick speed.

[DraconaiAuracto]

I've actually contemplated writing a book with this exact concept. EXACTLY this concept. A person who travels through a frozen world where there is one hour between the tick and the tock of an analog clock's consecutive seconds.

I'm glad you used a bunch of water-based images, because I notice something very interesting. When something is in mid-motion, it appears stationary. But when a splash of water is in mid-motion, it appears SPARKLING. The droplets are so incredibly small that the angle of reflection of light actually changes at a noticeable rate. It's incredible. To say nothing of realizing just how fast something like a balloon pops.

[adamminix]

The closeup of the match is crazy, it’s still sizzling really fast even at 1s/1h, would be cool to see what’s going on at a microscopic level.

[Gochen]

I'm definitely down for a part two. Imagine the visuals we'd get with this kind of time dilation on glass breaking, firecrackers exploding, or even the flight of a bullet. Also, can't wait for Dan to be back in these videos.

[owensquelch]

Watching this back, this should definitely be submitted for some award. The idea is unique. But even without the initial concept, this video is just done so well, everything from choosing what and when to slow down to the music choice and the voice over.

[nickm]

It’s really cool to see how fast popping the balloon still is! It would be cool to see a comparison of extremely fast events, like balloon popping, glass breaking, rebar reaching its Tensile strength etc. But using this 1S=1H principal, it would be so cool to put into perspective how fast some of these things truly happen compared to others

[natebell]

This was profound and edited in a way that is on the level of high art.