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Video editor James Casey of The Solomon Society created a wonderful new video featuring beloved dance scenes from animated Disney movies. Casey appropriately set his montage to Sim Gretina‘s remix of the classic Jungle Book song “I Wan’na Be like You.” A Homemade, Live-Action Remake of the Official Trailer for the Animated Disney Film ‘Frozen’Disney...

Actor Andy Serkis, best known for his portrayal of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes films, sat down with WIRED to share the history of his motion capture performances. Actor Andy Serkis Creates a Conversation Between Gollum and Caesar From ‘Dawn of the Planets of the...

During Helsinki Design Week, the Finnish multi-disciplinary firm Casagrande debuted their unique Tikku, an amazing prefabricated, three story, self-sufficient, environmentally friendly, micro apartment building with a footprint small enough to fit into a standard parking space. Tikku is a needle of urban acupuncture, conquering the no-man’s land from the cars and tuning the city towards...

In the Magnolia Pictures film The Square directed by Ruben Östlund, a rather altruistic art curator named Christian (Claes Bang), who is environmentally aware and a good dad to his two children, is studiously planning for an upcoming show also entitled “The Square” when his smartphone is stolen. The search for this piece of technology...

In 2016, a big mama bear and her two little cubs enjoyed a refreshing dip in the big, beautiful backyard pool of Gatlinburg, Tennessee resident Cindy Dorrow. Dorrow was surprised to see her ursine visitors so close to home, but she kept her wits about her enough to keep filming as much as she could....

A post shared by Augie and Aris (@babyandthebody) on Oct 16, 2017 at 5:04am PDT Photographer Katina Behm has created the adorable Instagram series “Baby and the Body”, recreating her younger brother Aristotle Polites‘s modeling photos with her toddler son Augie in standing in hs Uncle’s place. She got the idea for this from hilariously...

The town of Ísafjörður in northern Iceland has taken a creative step to slow down traffic by painting a pedestrian crossing with bright white lines that appear to jump right off the ground with a 3D illusion. Photographer Ágúst G. Atlason of Gústi Productions captured wonderful photos that show off the illusion in its full...

While promoting their book “Sisters First“, former First Daughters and fraternal twins Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush Jr very hilariously shared their respective phones with Derek Blasberg host of the Vanity Fair series “Derek Does Stuff with a Friend“, produced for Condé Nast Entertainment. Blasberg first examined Barbara’s phone, learning the nickname the...

During his fourth year at CalArts, artist and filmmaker Aram Sarkisian created “Winston,” an eerily poetic animated short film about a paranoid old man living alone during a freezing cold winter. via io9 ‘Feast’, An Animated Short by Walt Disney Animation Studios About a Cute Food-Loving Dog Named WinstonNews Personality Bob Herzog Sings ‘Just Don’t...

In an adorable ad campaign promoting the beauty and quality of handcrafted Japanese furniture, the city of Okawa in the Fukuoka Prefecture commissioned two local shops to build tiny versions of their own designs specifically for cats. Tateno Wood Art created a replica of their slatted bed, while the Hiromatsu Wood Work Company made a...

Vulture took a look at the history of scary clowns. They spoke with writer and clown expert Benjamin Radford to find out exactly what happened to make clowns so creepy. Clowns have always been represented as tricksters and jokers, from the days of jesters all the way through Ronald McDonald, but the high jinks were...

Rio de Janeiro motion and graphic designer Vinicius Araújo (a.k.a. “VA Designer“) has created 36days Electronics, a stunning digital alphabet featuring electronics as letters that each represent a popular brand. A post shared by Graphic and Motion Designer (@va_designer) on Oct 12, 2017 at 6:12pm PDT A post shared by Graphic and Motion Designer (@va_designer)...

A post shared by Sprout (@brussels.sprout) on Oct 21, 2017 at 3:19pm PDT On Saturday, October 21, 2017, the canines of New York City donned their most elaborate costumes and proudly marched alongside their proud humans at the 27th Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade taking place at the community managed Tompkins Square Dog Run....

The cast of Bob’s Burgers sat down with Vulture to improvise a special little mini-episode where Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda Belcher (John Roberts) have the talk with their kids — Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Louise (Kristen Schaal) — about how babies are made. The Dark and Cannibalistic Origins of Bob’s...

Domino artist Lily Hevesh (a.k.a. “Hevesh5“) teamed up with the brilliant Kaplamino to create a domino “screenlink” video where they capture footage of all sorts of unconventional domino tricks and edit them all together to make it look like one continuous chain reaction. Kaplamino and I live in different countries, so it was impossible to...

Competitive eater Matt “Megatoad” Stonie managed to stomach a new challenge where he devoured 100 slices of white bread in 39 minutes. A post shared by Matt Stonie (@matt_stonie) on Oct 23, 2017 at 5:05pm PDT Competitive Eater Consumes 200 Marshmallow Peeps in One SittingCompetitive Eater Consumes 100 Marshmallow Peeps In Just Over Two Minutes,...

In her latest tutorial video, the awesome Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome demonstrated how to make a spooky one-of-a-kind carousel “piescraper” based on Tim Burton and Henry Selick‘s classic stop-motion animated film, The Nightmare Before Christmas. The Nightmare Before Christmas is my all-time favourite holiday movie, and I wanted to do something really...

Determined Scottish YouTuber Mike Boyd of the Learn Quick series challenged himself to quickly learn how to throw an axe. He didn’t stop until he pulled off three successful throws in a row at a target. Boyd’s awesome tomahawk was made by blacksmith and fellow Youtuber Alec Steele. A post shared by Mike Boyd (@mikeboydvideo)...

Geoff Oxholm, a research engineer in the Creative Intelligence Lab at Adobe Research in San Francisco, took the stage at Adobe MAX 2017 to give the audience a look at Project Cloak, their new content aware technology that allows users to remove unwanted objects from video footage with only a few simple clicks. via PetaPixel...

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Davie504, the talented bassist who is constantly looking for new ways to play, demonstrated a truly unusual 15-string version of the instrument, impressively slapping the lowest strings for those of his fans who are all about the bass and no treble. Slapping the 15 Strings Bass Guitar :D This time I am playing the lowest...

After being separated for several weeks in September 2017, a newly reunited swan couple in Dordrecht, Netherlands immediately swam towards one another. As soon as they reached each other, the pair nuzzled each other, forming the shape of a heart as their heads touched. The female of the pair had taken ill with a case...

In the stunning Yoann Bourgeois performance entitled “La Mécanique de L’Histoire”, faceless dancers gracefully fell from an Escheresque rotating circular stairway and in an amazing demonstration of intertia, balance and control, immediately rebounded back onto the steps with a single bounce off of a trampoline. The figures repeated the movement over and again until only...

In a briny episode of “Things You Might Not Know“, host Tom Scott travelled to Calipatria, California known for being the lowest elevation city in the western hemisphere. While standing next to the city’s famous flagpole, Scott explained why Calipatria is not submerged under water despite being 184 feet below sea level, what the term...

While on location in Costa Rica, the adventurous Brave Wilderness host Coyote Peterson was back at the hotel when his camera crew came across a singular and beautiful red velvet worm. They brought this incredible creature back to Peterson, who excitedly built a miniature Planet Earth style set in order to feature exclusive footage of...

A post shared by Massimiliano Pelletti (@massimiliano_pelletti) on Aug 21, 2017 at 11:10pm PDT Italian contemporary sculptor Massimiliano Pelletti creates absolutely stunning Classical style busts and sculptures that are crafted out of quartz, bronze, marble and semi-precious stone such as black soapstone, many of which feature the tactile textures of both the smoothness of the...

While “playing around with a light-painting tool under the Milky Way”, visual artist Rod Evans conjured up an unexpected giant mushroom in his Northern NW Australian backyard. Pleased with the results, Evans went about creating more until he had a virtual garden of these magical creations. I somehow managed to conjure up a magic mushroom....

Performer Andy Williams of Liverpool, North West England is a man of unusual talent in that he has an uncanny ability to replicate the soothing sounds of a saxophone without any trace of the reeded woodwind in sight. Amongst his favorites songs to perform is the distinctive Henry Mancini-penned “Theme from The Pink Panther” as...

BuzzFeed employees Garrick Bernard, Sydnee Goodman, and Crystal House sat down and tried to play Grand Theft Auto V without breaking any laws. The three eager participants were each given a list of three tasks to complete while trying their hardest to be model citizens in the chaotic in-game world. “I had to take an...

The Rick and Morty YouTube channel posted a series of compilation videos (part 1, 2, and 3) featuring some of the funniest moments from the third season of Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty Scenes Recreated in Fallout 4A Sneak Peek at Animatics From Rick and Morty Season ThreeRick and Morty Accidentally Kill the Simpsons...

Jim Zimmerlin of Grover Beach, California strapped a GoPro HERO5 camera to his Amtrak Model Passenger Train and captured POV footage of the train traveling through his home and backyard. via reddit A Fast Moving Train Showers Waiting Passengers With Snow As It Moves Into the StationPOV Footage of a LEGO Train’s Epic Journey Through...

In June 2017, Veritasium, host Derek Muller explained the science behind Schlieren imaging, the specific process by which those things that are normally invisible to the naked eye reveal themselves to be present. Muller has since expanded this fascinating project, using cellophane filters and a flaming ping pong ball to add brilliant color to his generated wave....

The Magic of Making posted a short video, in partnership with with BBC Worldwide, that take us behind the scenes at a factory to find out how balloons are made from start to finish. Stolen rubber trees, lots of latex, and the music of Johann Strauss all come together in this magnificent study of inflatables....

YouTuber 68percentwater has created a fantastic Halloween tutorial where they demonstrate how to make an Arduino-powered jack o’ lantern that features multiple moving eyeballs. via Nerdcore Stock Ticker Mini Pumpkin, The Scariest Jack-o’-Lantern of 2008Flamethrower Jack-O’-LanternRobotic Snap-O-Lantern & Other Pumpkin Robots

Frustrated by the number of people who don’t look up from their phones while walking, Australian filmmaker Raphael Valenti created the short film “I’m Sorry“. Throughout the film, Valenti intentionally bumps into those fellow pedestrians around the city of Sydney who are too otherwise occupied to watch where they’re going. Walking through the streets of...

In their latest video, SoundWorks Collection speaks with the sound team behind director Denis Villeneuve‘s neo-noir sci-fi film, Blade Runner 2049. They interview supervising sound editor Mark Mangini, re-recording mixers Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett, sound designer Theo Green, sound editor Joe Walker and composers Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch. SoundWorks Collection Speaks With the...

Engineers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland developed a collapsible, origami inspired drone that is capable of delivering packages that weigh up to about a pound to tight, “last-centimeter” locations. The unique idea here is that the drone becomes the package that wraps around the cargo before flight, just like a...

“The Walking Gingerbread” is a delicious Sesame Street parody of The Walking Dead that features Cookie Monster as Sheriff Graham (Rick Grimes) who is attacked by a large group of undead gingerbread men and women. He is saved by Daryl Dixon and Michonne. The Crumbies come from a bad batch of cookies and are eating...

Illinois photographer Paul Frederiksen posted a problem photo he took on the /r/photography IRC chat of an old Domino Sugar building that had a giant crane parked right in front of it. Denyer, a photographer from Leicestershire, UK, helped Frederiksen out with his dilemma by using Photoshop to remove the crane and posting a wonderful...

A really adorable dog named Ripley, who is a rescued mix of dachshund, pug and chihuahua, evidently loves a good game of fetch. Despite how well an item is hidden, Ripley will always find and retrieve whatever she can from wherever she can, no matter how high or low she has to go. According to...

A post shared by Rich & Willow – travelling cat (@vancatmeow) on Oct 10, 2017 at 3:54pm PDT Tired of his corporate life in Hobart, Tasmania, adventurer Rich East decided to go off the grid in a campervan of his own design. He sold off all his things and hit the road with his beloved...

In 1980, Sesame Street took their viewers on a tour of a saxophone factory, showing each and every step that made the instrument take shape. This fantastic tour was set to an incredible soundtrack of freestyle jazz being performed by an off-camera sax player, who suddenly appeared and proclaimed “Saxophone” via reddit The Grace of...

Davie504, the talented bassist who is constantly performing in new and creative ways, successfully answered an online challenge to play a continuous solo on an triple neck bass. This bass was quite unusual as the first neck was fretless, the second had only two strings and the third only three strings. In typical fashion, however,...

A post shared by Asya Kozina & Dmitriy Kozin (@asya_kozina) on Oct 11, 2017 at 3:23pm PDT Russian artist Asya Kozina has created an absolutely gorgeous line of Baroque and Rococo style wigs that are made completely out of paper and are adorned with fabulously exaggerated modern twists, such as airplanes, ferris wheels, great ships...

Great Big Story traveled to Big Sur, California to visit with Jayson Fann, the proprietor and craftsman behind Spirit Nest Creations, a line of amazing handwoven, human sized nests, comfortable personal spaces that are sustainably made from different species of invasive eucalyptus trees. Seeing his designs as educational tools, Fann also works with local kids...

While riding in the car with his humans, a cautious umbrella cockatoo began growling when he “spotted some dogs in the neighborhood”. When the car stopped at a light, several dogs hanging out behind a backyard fence saw the bird and began barking. The cockatoo was more than ready for this response and immediately began...

After offering a gorgeous sneak peak, BBC Earth has created a stunning new trailer for Blue Planet II, which reveals the incredible beauty of all sorts of marine life, some rather common and others rarely seen. This Sir David Attenborough narrated sequel to their critically acclaimed sea life documentary series The Blue Planet will be...

A trio of tiny meerkat pups at the Symbio Wildlife Park in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia adorably began learning how to forage for food as they played with colorful plastic balls that had treats embedded inside. The pups were born two months ago and like many of the animals at the park, are part...

Indiana veterinarian Andy Manoloff (a.k.a. “DoggieDoc83“) posted a fantastic timelapse video that features him creating a realistic dog pumpkin carving, appropriately titled a “Dog-O-Lantern,” of his beloved Pomeranian named Sophie. image via DoggieDoc83 via reddit, My Modern Met Sculptor Carves Watermelon and Pumpkins Into Stunningly Realistic Heads of Fantasy Characters and AnimalsGrotesque, Lifelike Pumpkin Carvings...

The ever insightful duo of Kurzgesagt and CGP Grey took a two-part animated look at the subject of aging, choosing when to die, the common acceptance of death, the ethical considerations surrounding death avoidance and what’s being done now to extend life. Life extension is really just another phrase for medicine. All the doctors are...