How the Slow-Mo Guys film their high-speed videos
This is a long but incredibly interesting look at the complicated process of setting up a proper slow-motion video shoot.
The stories behind Harold 'Doc' Edgerton's high-speed photographs
Harold 'Doc' Edgerton is known as the father of modern high-speed photography. An engineer by day, Edgerton pioneered various contraptions for use in high-speed photography, creating amazing photos and videos of things that at the time were incapable of being perceived slowly by the human eye. Today, this sort of technology is available in smartphones, but Edgerton turned his engineering expertise into an art (his work is in the MoMA).