Slow motion aerial birds eye view of fireworks exploding

[Video Link] Jeremiah says: "This is a video I shot using giant helium balloons, a GoPro, and a bunch of fireworks."

Fireworks rig

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But seriously, that’s a great concept well executed.
Stonewalker

I seriously love this video.

Also, the firework’s screams remind me of Super Metroid… ah…. :)
EggyToast

I love the video, but it also seems to work as proof that fireworks are more impressive when viewed from the ground.
- jimh
  
  And at night, generally.
  - EH
    
    And from a stable vantage point.
Antinous / Moderator

I once flew from Boston to San Francisco on the Fourth of July, timed just right to watch fireworks displays all across the country.
- phlavor
  
  If it was on purpose, that’s pretty bad ass.
- Finnagain
  
  Seeing huge thunderstorms from above is pretty cool too!
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Some of the fireworks displays were under cloud cover, so yeah, technicolor hailstorm.
styrofoam

As I clicked it, I thought, “Cool!” and then thought, “Wait a second. Aren’t fireworks generally going to explode in 3 dimensions? So a top view should look a lot like a bottom view and a lot like a side view?

Maybe different for those odd fireworks that add dimensional halos or orbits.

Glad to see I was mostly right.
http://twitter.com/TheRedMonk01 Red Monk

All fun and games until you blow up your balloons with a rocket.
- Tim Drage
  
  I would have thought that both fun and games can DEFINITELY continue into the ‘balloons destroyed by exploding rockets” phase.
stumo

Am I the only person that noticed a dog running around on the ground, often towards the fireworks just after they went off (and, with the final firework, just before a second was about to go off)? Made me very uncomfortable
- Tim Drage
  
  No just you. Thanks for that, I was starting to worry that nobody would be able to concern-troll this boingboing post.
  - http://twitter.com/jeremiahjw Jeremiah Warren
    
    I see what you’re saying, but the dog was fine. It did give me a scare during the filming, we kept him away after that. The fireworks were on an elevated platform so he was ok.
  - Sparg
    
    A slight bit of indirect concern-trollage in the first post about brush fires.
- http://twitter.com/jeremiahjw Jeremiah Warren
  
  The dog was fine, but it did give me a scare during the filming, we kept him away after that. The fireworks were on an elevated platform so he was ok.
Finnagain

That’s what I was hoping for!
Vian Lawson

The doppler effect as the rockets whizzed past the camera was also extremely cool.
http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski

Slow motion?
zuben

Surely there must be a better way to persuade balloon boy to come back to Earth.
Henry Pootel

Oh yea, money shot there!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Perkins/1314630060 Ray Perkins

Apparently YouTube has the ability to apply image stabilization to uploaded videos. Anyone know how to invoke it?
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Perkins/1314630060 Ray Perkins
  
  Never mind – it’s an editing option the uploader can use. Pretty cool. Maybe Jeremiah can give it a try.
  - http://twitter.com/jeremiahjw Jeremiah Warren
    
    I thought of stabilizing it before uploading, but the video wasn’t really at a high enough resolution to do so.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Perkins/1314630060 Ray Perkins
      
      You can stabilize a copy after uploading. Here’s a quick example (watch the timestamp bounce around): http://www.youtube.com/watch?edit=vd&v=6QG981CLZbo (before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdsb9AzlVsc&feature=relmfu )
MarcVader

Now just imagine what this is like for actual birds in flight at night. Worse than flak probably.