Loading Ready Run’s Daily Drop Offers Elegant Slow-Mo Destruction

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Any Mythbusters fans in the house? Especially Mythbusters fans who tune in not for the science, but for the slow-motion footage of destruction? This one’s for you.

Daily Drop, the brainchild of Canadian sketch comedy maestros Loading Ready Run and run exclusively on Escapist Magazine.com, lives up to its name in a very simple way. In each daily episode, a speechless scientist portrayed by LRR members Paul Saunders or Graham Stark (the show’s creator) climbs up a ladder and drops something from an approximate height of ten feet. The ensuing collision with the ground is captured by a waiting high-speed camera, and presented for the viewer in elegant slow-motion.

While slow motion is far from a new concept, few have attempted to make serial content out of the technique. The closest thing to Daily Drop in recent memory is the now-defunct I Can Has Cheezburger series SuperSweetSlowMo.

But while that project lacked focus, the concept of slow-mo destruction has an enduring quality to it, and so far the Loading Ready Run team has shown a great deal of imagination in choosing what to drop, from pizza:

To binder coils:

To a Koosh ball:

The best part is when an experiment doesn’t produce very exciting results — for example, when a bag of coffee just plops on the ground. LRR’s solution? A crowbar.

The score is perhaps slightly too heavily influenced by old Nintendo tunes, but doesn’t end up detracting from these bite-sized moments of pure visual spectacle. It’s great short-attention-span content, the kind of single-serving mayhem that’s built empires for blender and microwave users. Except that in this case, Daily Drop only requires gravity, which is free, and everywhere.

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