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London animator Steve Warne has created “Pombo Loves You,” a beautiful stop motion animated short about a father who runs into problems while trying to run away from his troubled past-life as an 1980s TV show hero named Pombo. via Vimeo Staff Picks A Frantic Dad Gives His Family the Best Gift He Can in...

Spoon released a new music video for their song “Do I Have To Talk You Into It” featuring a bizarre Photoshop tutorial where lead singer Britt Daniel is repeatedly being digitally manipulated into oblivion. The song is from their 2017 album Hot Thoughts. via Digg You Suck at Photoshop, Hilarious Tutorials by Donnie HoyleDEVO’s Quirky...

Primitive Technology demonstrates how to make a natural draft furnace out of materials found in the wild. He built the furnace to test “ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows.” Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in...

With Halloween just a few days away, the adorable feline duo of Cole and Marmalade searched all over the house for the spooky spirits lurking about, causing their beloved human Chris to wonder whether or not cats can actually see ghosts. Are you a believer in the supurrnatural? … Things that go bump in the...

YouTuber Jenny Nicholson who likes to act out unlikely scenes, tried on a number of cheap Halloween costumes that are often found on the clearance rack, making fun of the various items. Amongst this funny fashion show was a boy’s Scorpion King costume, a sexy “One Eyed, One Horned Flying Purple People Eater“, a fun...

Josh Sundquist, a Paralympian, motivational speaker and author who lost one of his legs to cancer when he was young, is known for his fabulous Halloween costumes that specifically address his missing limb. In the past, Sundquist has dressed up as an IHOP Restaurant sign, a foosball player, a one-legged lampshade, a half-eaten gingerbread man...

The Japanese design house PARTY has created an incredible display of living art inside the grass space of the Tokyo Midtown venue, the location of the 2017 Design Touch event. Entitled “Digital Vegetables“, this piece features seven different living vegetables that reside inside a beautifully LED lit, touch-sensitive, futuristic greenhouse that offers an interactive multimedia...

ThinkGeek has created an officially licensed set of six Star Wars coasters that each feature a cross section of the Millennium Falcon. When the clear coasters are stacked up on top of each other, they reveal a 3D image of the popular Star Wars spacecraft. Bring the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy to...

An adorably hungry munchkin cat joined her human in consuming corn on the cob from opposite ends of the ear, while her siblings in the background watched intently. The little cat found that she enjoyed the bright yellow kernels so much that she began gnawing on her end with increasing gusto, until her human on...

On a stealthy episode of his Clueless Gamer series, talk show host Conan O’Brien sat down with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers to play Ubisoft‘s newly released game, Assassin’s Creed Origins. Later in their playthrough, they were joined by Packers offensive tackle David Bakhtiari. Assassin’s Creed Origins is available to purchase for Xbox One,...

In an amusing new short from Cartoon Network‘s Justice League Action television series, Mark Hammill vocally got into character as his two evil crooks, Joker and Trickster, as they both teamed up to abduct famous actor Mark Hamill. When famous actor Mark Hamill is kidnapped by master villain The Joker it will take all his...

Tracy, California music teacher Tom BetGeorge and the team at Magical Light Shows decorated BetGeorge‘s home with tens of thousands LED lights and put on an spooktacular Nightmare Before Christmas light show synced to the song “This Is Halloween.” An Incredible Halloween Light Display Synced to Disney Villains SongsHalloween Light Show, A House With LED...

Andy Boerne, Texas woodworker Andy Rawls has released a very relaxing 7-minute video where we get to kick back and watch as he carves a boomerang out of Ipe, a tropical wood from Brazil. Ipe is a tropical wood from Brazil that is very dense and resilient to decay. This was my first attempt at...

In honor of the second season of Stranger Things being released on Netflix, ScreenPrism released a fascinating break down of season one. They brought to light how the brave group of kids took on the dark and dangerous world adulthood with friendship, wonder, and imagination. Stranger Things teaches us how to think like a kid....

Suburbicon stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore sat down with Wired to answer the web’s most searched questions about the themselves during an Autocomplete Interview. Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions About ThemselvesAmy Schumer and Goldie Hawn Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions About ThemselvesWill Ferrell and Amy Poehler Answer...

A post shared by Manny Lopez (@paulmannplus2) on Oct 27, 2016 at 5:30am PDT Two fathers Paul Sandmann and Manny Lopez with a twin girl and boy (Adelaide and Augustus) have been creating amazing pop culture themed Halloween costumes for their adorable little family. They have made DIY costumes based on characters from The Wizard...

To celebrate the second season of Netflix‘s popular show dropping today, The Warp Zone unleashed a new upside down parody where they add hilarious lyrics to the Stranger Things theme song. A Capella Cover of the Eerie Stranger Things Theme Song by The Warp ZoneStranger Things Kids Attempts to Make up Lyrics to the Show’s...

Hulu released an exciting trailer for Runaways, their upcoming television series created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage that will be based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. The trailer featured the young superhero group finding out about their parents’ evil ways and learning how to harness their new powers. Runaways...

In 2014, we wrote about Simon Toland and his fundraising efforts to make an 12-minute color animation entitled “Off to the Vet“, which comically tells the story about getting an unwilling Simon’s Cat in to see the doctor. After three years of production and winning awards at film festivals, the finished video is now available...

MinutePhysics host Henry Reich has created an absolutely fantastic whiteboard animation documenting and diagramming the different forms of time travel employed in various films, books, television shows and video games and the challenging ethical questions each presents. For ages I’ve been thinking about doing a video analyzing time travel in fiction and doing a comparison...

In February 2017, the very talented Lady Gaga performed with the legendary Metallica an absolutely incredible version of the band’s song “Moth Into the Flame” for the 59th annual Grammy Awards. The performance appeared effortless and a peek into the pre-show rehearsal proved just how well the artists worked together. Filmed during rehearsals for our...

A post shared by ?? ???????????? (@photo.accent) on Oct 5, 2017 at 8:37pm PDT Japanese photographer Hisakata Hiroyuki has created a wonderful photo series in which very playful cats reach for a fishing rod toy right above their head and in doings so, appear to be practicing defensive martial arts of some sort or perhaps...

While visiting the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., a curious guest approached the touch activated Virtual Shark Tank and reached out to touch the glass, repeating the movement over and again. The lack of immediate results left the patron completely unprepared for what came next, when a giant (simulated) shark appeared out of nowhere...

Model Chrissy Teigen invited Joe Sabia of Condé Nast Entertainment into her gorgeous Beverly Hills home to answer 73 random questions for Vogue. Teigen affably shared her thoughts on Halloween, being a mom, her marriage to John Legend, being famously blocked by a certain someone on Twitter, her favorite recipes for her new cookbook, meeting...

The team at Webflow has created an amusing microsite that allows viewers to scroll through a funny, 20-second history lesson on the web. It uses a collection of impressive IX2 interactions and animations to show how the internet has evolved by leaps and bounds over the years. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips An Amusing Animation...

British inventor Colin Furze took a standard briefcase and turned it into a portable gas fireplace that comes equipped with necessary extras like a thermos for tea and a tasty biscuit. Hell yeah, people get cold, people have a case’s n stuff so why not stick a fire in one……Boom Briefcase Fireplace. Thanks to who...

Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer of Corridor Digital have created a new live-action comedy short about a heroic clockmaker who attempts to help out a smart watch that was stolen from the President. The duo works together to escape the clutches of a group of persistent thieves. A Group of Fangirls Get Fed Up With...

Earlier this week, during a Future Investment Initiative panel in Saudi Arabia, CNBC journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin conducted an interesting and creepy live interview with Hanson Robotics‘ humanoid robot named Sophia. Sophia demonstrated how she was able to socialize with humans through artificial intelligence and facial expressions. A Lifelike Robot Agrees to Destroy Humans During...

Epic Pictures Group has released the first official trailer for Radius, a Canadian sci-fi thriller film co-directed by Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard. It follows a man named Liam (Diego Klattenhoff), who just woke up from a car crash, with a deadly superpower that he cannot control. Whenever he gets to close some others, they...

Eclectic Method has created a powerful remix of the Wonder Woman superhero film. Patty Jenkin’s box office crushing Wonder Woman has cemented the chances of more female-led super hero movies. The fight scenes deliver a style of choreography only woman can elegantly pull off. Ignoring all the perfectly decent male actors in the movie I...

Stranger Things stars Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler) and Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair) sat down with WIRED to reveal what’s on their phones. ‘Stranger Things’ stars Finn Wolfhard and Caleb McLaughlin show us the last things they did with their phones. What was the last emoji they used? The last text message sent? What was the...

A hilarious Orting, Washington family, all of whom are dressed in t-rex costumes, ran up to their oldest daughter as she was trying to get off of the bus after a long day at school. The young lady didn’t waste any time running down the drive way to get away from the prehistoric madness. My...

Earlier this year, five-year-old Adam Mohammad Amer, amazed the pilots and cabin crew on board an Etihad Airways flight from Morocco to Abu Dhabi by explaining everything that he knew about the ins and out of the aircraft that they were on and demonstrating what needed to happen in an emergency situation. After the airline...

In a rather creepy Burger King commercial that appears to combine elements from the Netflix series Stranger Things with the Stephen King film It, a teenage boy who was riding his bicycle on Halloween night, suddenly and inexplicably found himself surrounded by clowns (including one dressed similarly to the mascot of the competition) who were...

Just ahead of National Black Cat Day on October 27 and Halloween, animator Simon Toland and animal behaviorist Nicky Trevorrow of the adorably animated advice series “Simons Cat Logic“, do their best to dispel the myth black cats cause bad luck and instead explain why it’s so difficult for black cats to get adopted, despite...

A couple of adorably competitive cats named Sweetie and Sam, attempted to keep up with one another while striding upon a quickly moving treadmill. Both cats got knocked off the machine a couple of times, but in the end received a lot of love from their nearby human. Sweetie and Sam were sharing the treadmill....

Creative director Sean Ohlenkamp and friend Rob Popkin created “Oh My Gourd“, a wonderful stop motion video of seasonally appropriate, cleverly carved pumpkins dancing to a soundtrack of music made with pumpkins by Grayson Matthews. Dozens upon dozens upon dozens of pumpkins were cut, gutted, rotated, scraped, poked, slapped, and banged to make this stop-motion...

In the fourth video from of his “Monsoon” series, photographer Mike Olbinski, a Phoenix-based stormchaser, once again captured the beauty of the skies over the American southwest during the summer storm season of 2017. One bonus this summer was a few successful chases up at the Grand Canyon. Finally. A couple of gorgeous sunsets, rain...

Air Measure by Laan Labs is a free iOS app that employs augmented reality to use in place of tape measures, rulers and yardsticks in a variety of situations. In addition to its usefulness in distance or height, the company is also testing out an augmented reality guide that can help a driver accurately parallel...

Great Big Story visited with John Moschitta Jr, actor and former Guinness World Record holder for World’s Fastest Talker, who shared with them how he learned to talk with such speed, how he got discovered, his breakout role and his long career in show business, all at varying speeds of speech. John Moschitta Jr.’s motormouth...

British designer Scott Jarvie has created the wonderful Void Rug, a clever floor covering that creates the optical illusion that, when viewed at a certain angle, makes it appear as if there is an unexpected gaping hole right in the middle of the room. The Void Rug, when viewed at a particular angle, creates the...

A really clever ad by Think!road safety employs pink kittens, a stylized music video theme and a soundtrack by Aphex Twin, in order to show how many cool things that people can miss when they are looking at their cell phones while driving. The ad was directed by We Are From LA, the duo behind...

In the thriller film WINCHESTER: The House That Ghosts Built, actress Dame Helen Mirren portrays Sarah Winchester, a grieving widow who inherited her late husband’s eponymous Repeating Arms business and vast estate. Having so much wealth to spare, in 1884, Winchester began building a fantastic mansion, later known as the Winchester Mystery House, in San...

Great Big Story traveled to London, Ontario to visit with Robert Wardhaugh, an amazing man who started his first game of Dungeons and Dragons in 1982 at the young age of 14. Wardhaugh has been the dungeon master of that exact same campaign for the past 35 years. He has built friendships with people from...

Los Angeles film critic Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, sat down to talk about how he celebrated Halloween growing up and what it is like now as an adult without sight. Blind Film Critic Tommy Edison Answers Questions About What He Thinks He Looks LikeBlind Man Tommy Edison Has Questions For Sighted...

A group of 245 thrillseekers joined together and attempted to break a world record by rope jumping at the same time from a 98-foot-high bridge in Hortolândia, Brazil. The attendees, who were all wearing proper safety equipment, beat the old world record of 149 participants that was set in 2016. via NDTV, Digg Chinese School...

Netflix released the second official trailer for Bright, their upcoming fantasy action film directed by David Ayer, written by Max Landis, and starring Will Smith. The trailer follows Scott Ward (Will) and his partner, Orc cop Nick Jakoby (Joel Edgerton), as they try to keep a magic wand from destroying the planet. Bright is set...

LEGO posted a wonderful timelapse video of their team of creatives building a life-sized version of the LEGO Speeds Champions Scuderia Ferrari SF16-H. The LEGO team brought the amazing Formula One racing car to life in 750 hours with the use of 349,911 carefully placed bricks. Wes Anderson’s Illustrious ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Built Entirely Out...

Venice, Italy illustrator and designer Jacopo Rosati created The Social Network Tarots, a series of illustrations imagining a modern tarot card deck inspired by social media and internet culture. A post shared by Jacopo Rosati (@jacopo.rosati) on Aug 3, 2017 at 12:49am PDT images via Jacopo Rosati via Ufunk, DesignTAXI A Spectacular Series of Felt...

A post shared by Stephan Brusche (@isteef) on Sep 23, 2017 at 9:35am PDT Dutch artist Stephan Brusche (a.k.a. “isteef“) has added to his collection of fruitful designs by transforming even more tasty bananas into amazing works of art. Brusche shared the full series of banana art on Instagram, Facebook, and his website. A post...