A South African woman taught a group of Americans the 'Magumba' dance in slow motion, but social media users were captivated ...

Enough to go 8x on a Kickstarter goal. Slow Dance, a picture frame ringed with strobe lights, generates the surreal effect of turning small, everyday objects into languid kinetic sculptures.

The Slow Dance is for sale on Kickstarter for $249 per frame. The project shot through its initial fundraising goal of $70,000, and the campaign has raised over $389,000 as of writing.

The video is titled “Magnets look WEIRD in slow motion,” but we’d go so far as to call them beautiful. Especially when scored with cinematic music from Marc Teichert, the magnets, bouncing ...

Place a delicate object like a leaf or a feather inside the “Slow Dance” picture frame, and watch it appear to move in slow motion — in real time.

To me, it feels like this is the Harvard of 2012, not 1940. That led to my wanting to bring “Slow Dancing” to campus,” he says.

But all they wanted was to see me dance in slow motion. It was a heavily barricaded place and vehicles were lined-up, in such a situation, I performed the slow-motion dance that they wanted me to do".