Worth Watching: Super sloooooow

There's little that can be added to this Wired video of a water balloon being popped in super slow-motion. Except that it has introduced me to the genre of super slow-motion, which is my favorite YouTube genre of the week. The trick is to get things that involve very high-speed objects and slow them down until they're very slow. It's a window into the zooming, flashing, exploding universe that our brains are just too sluggish to grok. 

If that's tickled your slo-fancy, here are a few more:

Billiard balls

Bitch slaps

Invisible octopi

And my favorite: Archery