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Filmmaker Ethan Brooks has created “Ghost Bikes“, a truly touching profile of Mirza Molberg, a member of the worldwide Ghost Bike Project. Molberg, a truly magnanimous person, not only creates many of the white bicycles found around New York City that memorialize the often-forgotten rider, but places it at the scene of the accident and...

A few years back, artist Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks built an old membrane keyboard using LEGO bricks. This year, he changed it up a bit by building a functioning custom mechanical keyboard out of LEGO. via JK Brickworks A Working Computer Keyboard Built Out of LEGOA Clever Machine That Ices Cookies With Festive Designs...

DoodleChaos has created a video where they pull off all sorts of epic ping pong trick shots that continuously increase in difficulty. via reddit A Funny Compilation of Highly Skilled Ping Pong Players Performing Amazing Trick ShotsA Compilation of Impressive Trick Ping Pong Ball Shots Into a Drinking CupTwo Ping-Pong Players Stand in Shocked Disbelief...

In answer to a listener request, the very talented multi-instrumentalist Rob Scallon composed a brilliantly dissonant guitar solo employing only tritone chords. These chords, known as the “Devil’s Interval“, were rumoured to be banned from churches for fear that the inharmonious sinister sound produced by a diminished fifth (with a flat) (or the augmented an...

Dutch filmmaker Gosse Bouma has captured the calming beauty and mesmerizing magic of a new snowfall in a gorgeous, slow motion video stroll through the snowy footpaths and city streets of the wonderful city of Amsterdam. The calm of the video was reinforced with a beautiful soundtrack of ‘Childhood‘ by Swedish composer Peter Sandberg. Amsterdam...

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) created an eye opening fire safety video that shows what could happen if an unfortunate fire started in a watered Christmas tree versus a dry Christmas tree. Watered tree for the win! According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), more than 200 home fires each year start...

In a heavy episode of Built for Science, host Tom Scott joined up with the European Space Agency (ESA) on their Airbus A310 to demonstrate and explain how zero gravity airplanes work. The European Space Agency offered me a seat on their zero-g plane: it’s an Airbus A310 that flies parabolic maneuvers, pulling up into...

The cast of Star Wars: The Last Jedi sat down with Wired to answer the web’s most searched questions about the themselves and their Star Wars characters during an Autocomplete Interview. The Last Jedi will force push its way into theaters on December 15th, 2017. Despite seven (going on eight) movies and myriad books, comics,...

Filmmaker Casey Neistat, no stranger to first class upgrades, traveled from Brussels to Dubai in the very lap of luxury, the quite opulent First Class Suite on Emirates Airlines while dressed in a bright red Christmas meme sweatsuit. His comprehensive review of the suite shows that it includes a sliding door for privacy, a well...

A post shared by Karl Taylor (@karltaylorphotography) on Nov 7, 2017 at 1:24am PST Renowned photographer and teacher Karl Taylor has recreated the iconic 1948 Philippe Halsman photo “Dali Atomicus” featuring Salvador Dalí jumping as he paints while cats fly through the air. Taylor explained the amazing process by which he captured the whimsical playfulness...

Photographer Geoff Greene has captured absolutely incredible up-close footage of a mega storm developing over Kimberley, Western Australia. Using a “Nikon D800 1 Frame per 2sec, Exp 1.6 sec ISO 2000”, Greene was able to hone in on the gorgeous lightning strikes within the clouds themselves. Greene also created an equally beautiful timelapse of the...

Upon hearing his two dachshund brothers chowing down on their dinner, a tiny bright yellow bird came sprinting out of the bedroom and immediately lay claim to his adorable heart-shaped bowl. Either the bird doesn’t like to eat alone or he needed to get there before his hungry canine siblings could get to it. Crusoe...

Curious about the seagulls that live near his coastal Norwegian home, photographer Kjell Robertsen left some bread along with his GoPro camera out on his porch in order to capture some close shots of the birds eating. What he didn’t count on was that an enterprising seagull would take off into the air with his...

Hodlmoon has created the perfect item to wear to the next Christmas party that requires the wearing of certain clothing that one might not otherwise at any other time of the year with their very amusing line of Cryptocurrency Ugly Christmas Sweaters, which fully embraces the popular blockchain trend. Discerning customers have a choice of...

In another of their very insightful video essays, film and television analysis platform ScreenPrism takes a look at religion in Star Wars, noting that there is no good or bad, but rather a dark side and a light side, both containing The Force, the closest form of spirituality that exists through the many different galaxies....

YouTuber infrared213 posted a video of a man poking a hard boiled egg with a fork and it violently exploding after being microwaved for one-minute. via The New York Times How to Create a Hard-Boiled Scrambled ‘Golden’ Egg Using a Pair of Nylon StockingsMicrowhat, Featuring Before & After Photos of Things Being MicrowavedAn Easter Egg...

Reigarw Comparisons created a fascinating video comparing the magnitude and frequency of earthquakes over the years. We previously wrote about their comparison of hurricane and volcano sizes. In this episode, we compare the power released for the biggest earthquakes, from an everyday 2.0 earthquake, to a 5.0 objects shifting quake, we get a visualization of...

A post shared by Chris Fox (@foxprojects) on Dec 3, 2017 at 8:20pm PST Australian artist Chris Fox has taken a wonderful piece of history from the Wynard Train Station in Sydney and reincorporated into the lives of commuters once again, albeit in a different form. When the wooden escalators were being replaced for newer...

Netflix released the first trailer for the upcoming second season of Jessica Jones, their live-action series created by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the Marvel character of the same name. The explosive trailer follows Jones (Krysten Ritter) as she hits the streets and gets back to some unfinished business. Season two of Jessica Jones will premiere...

How to DAD creator Jordan Watson of Auckland, New Zealand decided to help us all out this holiday season by demonstrating how to get the Christmas shopping done. Step number one is, of course, to leave the kiddos at home. New Zealand Father Demonstrates How to Go Grocery Shopping With a BabyHow to Dad, Hilarious...

Comedian Gus Johnson released a hilarious new video where he sings about being way too cool to wear a jacket when it’s cold outside. He would like to have some friends though. Pocket Like It’s Hot, Snoop Sings a Sexy Song About Hot PocketsPop Culture Memory Lane, Animated True Stories About Comedians Encountering CelebritiesFive-Year-Old Girl...

In a fun little POPSUGAR video, Saoirse Ronan, the wonderful actress with the difficult to pronounce name tried her hand at saying the name of fellow actors, who like her, sometimes have to explain how to say their name because of the spelling. Ronan did very well with names like Domhnall Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes and...

Bad Lip Reading is back with a brand new parody of Stranger Things that turns the popular Netflix series into a hilariously weird 1980s sitcom. It’s a lot like an upside down version of The Wonder Years. In this week’s episode, El watches the boys rehearse a scene from their play, while Joyce and Hopper...

The short, richly hued film “MYST” by the very imaginative color artist and creative director Thomas Blanchard, features lush plumes of colorful acrylic ink swirling over, around and through geometric shapes and letters that spell out the title. This beautiful piece is accompanied by a gorgeous soundtrack by Velvet Coffee and is part of a...

Sony Pictures released a trailer for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, an upcoming animated superhero film directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman. The film will follow Miles Morales, a teenager who steps up and takes the superhero torch as Spider-Man after the death of Peter Parker. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is scheduled for...

A post shared by Humza Deas (@humzadeas) on Nov 9, 2017 at 10:26am PST Award-winning New York City street artist and filmmaker Humza Deas has captured seldom seen overhead views of his native city through the lens of a drone. Throughout the years Deas has used the lively streets of Gotham as his canvas, finding...

A new featurette for Star Wars: The Last Jedi takes a behind the scenes look at many of the gorgeous real world locations used in the upcoming film. The Last Jedi is set to blast its way into theaters on December 15th, 2017. Behind the Scenes Look at Star Wars: The Last JediA Look at...

Warner Bros. released the first official trailer for Ready Player One, an upcoming sci-fi adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Ernest Cline‘s 2011 novel of the same name. The Easter egg packed trailer follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) as he embarks on an adventure where virtual reality (OASIS) violently collides with the...

At the end of November 2017, we wrote about a lively little cockatiel named Totoro who would gracefully tap dance whenever his human tapped on the box where he was standing. In just over a week, Totoro has learned do his little tap dance on top of a box without his human’s finger tapping encouragement....

A post shared by W a t s o n • K i k o (@wat.ki) on Oct 29, 2017 at 8:55am PDT Watson and Kiko are two beautiful golden retrievers who simply adore one another as much as they adore their feline little brother Harry. This wonderfully loving trio seem to look out for...

In a very prescient animated essay, The ever-insightful Kurzgesagt explains how establishing basic income program (UBI) amongst the population can help to create a sustainable way to eliminate poverty, help to close yawning wage gaps and perhaps even reduce government spending. We need to think about what kind of UBI we want and what we’re...

In an electrifying animated lesson from Ted Ed, scientific educator Eleanor Nelsen explains via narrator Julianna Zarzycki, why certain fish have the ability to create electricity, the different types of electricity created by different fish, how that electricity is used and why thes fish aren’t able to electrocute themselves. Nearly 350 species of fish have...

In or around 1910, a little girl named Eileen Margaret Elmes received a tin box of novelty chocolates for Christmas. The cover of the box was that of Red Riding Hood, while inside the box lay chocolate figures dressed in clothing made out of tissue paper. Elmes was so enamored with the figures that she...

Brian Kidd (a.k.a. “The Unipiper“) dressed as a rebel pilot and used his cunning skills to take down an inflatable AT-AT walker while playing his flaming bagpipes in Portland, Oregon. The Unipiper Dresses as Charmander and Rides a Poké Ball While Playing His Flaming BagpipesThe Unipiper Dresses as Harry Potter and Chases a Golden Snitch...

While on location in Queensland, Australia, adventurer Coyote Peterson and the Brave Wilderness crew visited the Billabong Sanctuary, where they met the very cute but somewhat reticent brushtail possum named Blossom. Coyote tried to encourage Blossom to leave the safety of her wooden hut by bribing her with several of her favorite foods, but the...

Sir Toby Toblerone is a beautiful rescued white cat with a black tail who lives a very full life despite not being able to walk. Toby’s doting humans take him outside, to the park, to smell the flowers, to the store and even to the train. Of course, being a cat Toby needs a bit...

In an eye opening video essay, Wisecrack host Jared Bauer takes a look at how the storytelling style of Adventure Time makes Pendleton Ward‘s popular animated television series so special. Adventurama, ‘Futurama’ Characters in the Style of ‘Adventure Time’A Fascinating Profile of Pendleton Ward, Creator of the Hit Animated Television Series ‘Adventure Time’How ‘The Hobbit:...

A post shared by Philippe Echaroux (@philippe_echaroux) on Nov 15, 2017 at 11:35pm PST In 2014, French artist Philippe Echaroux created “Painting With Lights” for which he used a digital projector to project pictures of faces onto buildings, trees, and other outdoor surfaces. In October 2017, Echaroux travelled to Los Angeles, California to revisit this...

A group of workers in Spartanburg, South Carolina ran for cover as a powerful tornado abruptly snuck up on them and quickly destroyed the concrete building that they were working in within seconds. Thankfully, everyone made it out of the ordeal without serious injuries. via Digg The Slow Mo Guys Build a Fire Tornado and...

The talented 12 Musketeers from Dayton, Ohio returned this year to release their stunning 2018 letterpress desk calendar that is lovingly filled with 12 unique designs by 12 different designers. Each calendar comes with a hand cut wooden stand, a 16 page booklet explaining each design, and translucent red and green overlays allowing all 12...

A sweet and gentle little flying fox named Harry sat very still and remained very calm as a compassionate caretaker carefully snipped away a piece of netting that entangled him and bound his wings. Even though the scissor came so close to his little body, Harry didn’t panic or even show a lick concern for...

Italian smart home company Digital Habitats has created an absolutely amazing and beautifully designed Ambient Light Color Swing that changes the color of the soft hanging light to match the room with a simple swing. The motion of the lamp uses a sensor that detects the colors of an object or a room and sends...

Comedian Jack Douglass of Jacksfilms has created a hilarious new Bitcoin parody. Douglass plays a confident man who doesn’t get Bitcoin, but attempts to inaccurately explain the world of Bitcoin anyway. Blockchain Expert Explains the Concept to Five People of Varying Ages and Levels of UnderstandingA Hilarious Apple Parody Referring to the Newly Announced iPhone...

Dumb Drum has created a fantastic low-budget shot-for-shot remake of The Last Jedi sneak peek trailer, that was titled “Awake.” They also released a side-by-side comparison with the original Star Wars trailer. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips A Low Budget Shot for Shot Remake of the Third Trailer for Star Wars: The Force AwakensA Low-Budget...

(larger) Beutler Ink created “Here’s to 2017,” a wonderful mashup art print filled with memorable pop culture news and references from this past year. Prints are available to purchase from Society6. We previously wrote about their mashups from 2013, 2014, and 2015. 2017 was a fun year for pop culture, from Stranger Things’ thrilling second...

Video producer Granger Willson of Vulture takes an in-depth look at how movie trailers have evolved over the last century. Movie marketing has always been an art form in and of itself, and movie trailers have now enticed audiences for more than a hundred years. With the passage of time, trailers have evolved from straightforward...

Universal Pictures released the first official trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the upcoming sci-fi adventure film directed by J. A. Bayona that’s a sequel to Jurassic World from 2015. The thrilling trailer follows Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) as they return to the Jurassic World to save the dinosaurs...

In a cephalopodic episode of BBC Earth Unplugged, host Maddy Moate explains some very interesting facts about the very elusive giant squid including their locations, their surprisingly light weights for creatures of that size and their rather odd eating strategies. The squid’s unique body plan means that their esophagus and therefore any food they swallow,...

Artist Nicky Nada of CZ Ferro has created the Nano Tree, an elegant red oak wood and glass sculpture filled with semi-solid magnetized ferrofluid that comes with a matching magnet to move the fluid around the glass. While the Nano Tree may look good on a desk or bookshelf, the use of the magnet along...

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) researchers at the National Sea Simulator partnered with BioQuest Studios to capture the absolutely magical process of coral spawning within the aquarium waters. This breakthrough offers hope for the future of the Great Barrier Reef, which has been slowly dying off to coral bleaching. The National Sea Simulator is...