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What does it look like when you dunk explosives into buckets of paint and set them off? Well, it looks like an unholy mess, of course. When you're filming at 1600 frames per second, though, even an unholy mess looks rather beautiful. Straightforwardly named Intertube filmmakers The Slow Mo Guys have broken out their Phantom camera again, this time to capture the spectacle and splendor that is a bunch of paint buckets exploding, confirming once again that every knucklehead stunt you and your dumb buddies pulled off in sixth grade would have been art if you had had a very nice camera to film it with. We're especially fans of the shots where it looks like the paint is running away from an exploding car like it is in an action movie, but by all means -- check out the results for yourself below.

A capella and The Lord of the Rings are clearly two glorious things that should mix more often. YouTube user Paint has provided exactly both for your viewing pleasure. Given that the trilogy of movies takes over nine hours to watch -- let alone how long the book takes to read -- perhaps this will serve as a nice summary for all those wishing they could understand the references but not bother putting in the work. It also doubles as a hilarious recap for everyone that's both seen the movies and read the books. So, everyone wins.

Using a combination of high speed photography and precise paint splashes, artist Jack Long creates "liquid flowers," which are basically paint that has splashed in such a way and captured in the right moment that it looks like a flower. Even more impressively, a lot of the pieces depict flowers in vases, rather than just the flower itself. More pictures of the liquid flowers after the break.

Artist Fabian Gaete Maureira brings fingerpainting to a whole new level, in that he can paint an entire Bob Ross style landscape scene in about a minute, only using a finger or two. For those unfamiliar with Bob Ross, the style can be describe as stabbing and smacking a canvas with a brush, but in such a way where it looks like leaves and water. Check out Maureira's work over on his blog, and head on past the break to check out the mind-blowing video.

Canadian paint company CIL Paints has renamed 27 of their paint chip names to be geared toward men in an attempt to get men to be more excited about painting projects, a notion at which Tim Taylor would grunt. Dubbed "Ultimate Man Caves," the paint colors now boast names that CIL Paints feels would make men want to paint things, and how could we not, now that we can paint the color "Dirty Socks" instead of "Lexington Park?" Though, aren't all men's rooms filled with dirty socks to begin with, CIL Paints?

A Kinect hack that involves Minecraft? Even if it wasn't any good, we'd be contractually obliged to put it on this here website. Fortunately, it is! Nathan Viniconis has come up with a nifty hack to transform snapshots from the Kinect camera into Minecraft save files, with a pretty strong correspondence between real-world colors and block colors. Above: An enormous statue of Nathan Viniconis playing the guitar. Just wait until Notch introduces paint ... (Nathan Viniconis via Kotaku via RPS)

Stealth planes are so expensive these days, what's a spy to do? You can't just fly into enemy territory because now the enemies all have those damn radar devices that will go beep boop whenever you get too close, ruining your intricately planned diamond heist. Well for the low low price of an undisclosed amount that's sure to be less than the price of a plane, you can (mostly) escape all those radar woes with a shiny new coat of paint. Nanoflight, an Israel-based nanotech company, has just finished trials on a special paint that, when applied to your plane, missile, airship, or other method of espionage transport, makes it nearly undetectable by radar. Emphasis on the "nearly." This will not make it impossible for your spy plane to be detected, but it will certainly make it much more difficult for those trying to pinpoint your location. And even if the radar does find you, the paint will make it appear that your vehicle is some benign glitch or perhaps a giant bird, not a hostile craft.