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San Francisco filmmaker Mark Day created a captivating look inside 24 hours of dusty life during Burning Man 2016 and very proudly posted it just a few weeks before TTID starts. Burning Man 2017 begins on August 27 and culminates on September 4, 2017 in the Black Rock Desert. 24 Hours at Burning Man 2016...

A wonderfully friendly hippo named eMMa allowed herself to get in a few hugs from one of her favorite humans at the Care for Wild Africa Sanctuary in Gauteng, South Africa. eMMa had been rescued from a drainpipe when she was just a week old. Now a bit older and healthier, eMMa acts as a...

While out in the park one day, Kristen Bohlsen captured the very amusing sight of a stubborn golden retriever who quickly became an immoveable object the moment her human said it was time to leave. The dog even tried playing dead in the cutest way possible, but her human wasn’t having any of it. Surrounding...

A post shared by Justyna Wo?odkiewicz (@nibyniebo_) on Jul 12, 2017 at 12:17pm PDT Polish artist Justyna Wolodkiewicz slowly crafts wonderfully fun and vibrantly colorful 3D thread and polymer clay sculptures that are cleverly built onto embroidery hoops. These wonderful mixed media creations are available through the Nibyniebo Etsy shop. The name “Nibyniebo” means “just...

While appearing on a television show sometime in the 1980s, legendary funk bassist Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station very graciously demonstrated his incredible talent.The gifted musician also explained his unique right hand technique of “thumpin’ and pluckin'”, otherwise known as slap bass. Then a little time passed we...

Designer Richard Clarkson known for his beautiful cloud designs, partnered again with Crealev to create the “Floating Cloud“. While the designers made decision to remove the speakers that were in previous products, this soft light responds with colors to music and human voices while levitating above its base. After months of design research and user...

Great Big Story visited Keral Kalamandalam, a school in Kerala, South India to learn more about the beautiful tradition of Kathakali. Teacher Kalamandalam Ravi Kumar explained that this intricate dance encompasses the entire body, especially the eyes and requires years of practice. The students start young and work their way up to the stage. Kathakali...

aeroMorph by MIT Media Lab‘s Tangible Media Group is a project that investigates how to make programmable paper, plastic, and fabric that can fold itself into origami shapes when inflated. The project investigates how to make origami structure with inflatables with various materials. We introduce a universal bending mechanism that creates programmable shape-changing behaviors with...

On an episode of My Classic Car, host Dennis Gage met up with retired builder Ron Berry from Utah to take a ride in his gorgeous custom cartoon looking “Surf Seeker” Volkswagen Microbus. Ron designed and hand built the highly detailed vehicle out of steel on a 1965 Minibus suspension and added a 2175 air...

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert took a bit of umbrage with the fact that BBC anchor Simon McCoy showed very little enthusiasm while presenting a story about surfing dogs in California. In his typical style, Colbert outdid the indifferent McCoy with a hilarious skit that featured an anchor who was tasked with presenting so...

Loveland, Ohio company, Workhorse, has created a personal helicopter that runs on electricity and gasoline called the SureFly. The drone looking two seater comes equipped with eight counter-rotating motors on four arms, can fly at a range of 70 miles, and has a backup battery that gives you five extra minutes of flight for safe...

The Q channel demonstrates how to make a real life version of the Angry Birds video game in their latest tutorial. You can now physically slingshot your favorite bird character across your house or yard and destroy the bad piggies once and for all. In this video I show you how to make angry birds...

The Corn Stripper by Mobile Kingdom is a handy device that allows you to easily strip corn kernels off of cobs and collect them all in a removable container. It is available to purchase from the Laughing Squid store for $9.99 (33% off of retail price). Not everybody loves corn on the cob, so rather...

Filmmakers A. Todd Smith of Bellpond Films and Joseph Winter created a great Star Wars parody of MasterClass trailers where Jabba the Hutt teaches a dastardly class on comedy. In his first ever online course, legendary insult comic Jabba the Hutt brings his years of comic industry experience to you! 90 Imperial credits will get...

Ann Reardon of How To Cook That has released a tutorial video where she demonstrates how to make a caked based on the classic battery-operated board game, Operation, that actually makes sounds using electricity and TWIZZLERS. The full recipe is available to view on the How To Cook That website. I think board games should...

Federico Tobon aka Wolfcat , a maker and artist in Los Angeles, created a wonderful 24-frame flip board animation of a squid happily swimming diagonally across the page. While the animation would eventually end up living in a handmade wooden viewing box, Tobon brilliantly tested out the flow of the animation using the quick rotations...

A kayaker strapped on a GoPro camera and captured wonderful footage of himself paddling through the rusty abandoned MV E Evangelia cargo ship off the coast of Costinesti, Romania. via TwistedSifter Street Artists Visually Delete an Abandoned Car With a Photoshop Transparency Checkerboard PatternTime-Lapse of a Cargo Ship Transporting Containers in RotterdamAdventurer Documents His 17...

A wonderfully vociferous Siberian Husky named Zeus stubbornly defended his right to sit in the front seat of his human’s car when another human tried to claim it for herself. Per his human, Zeus had a right to do so. Zeus the Stubborn Husky did NOT want to move to the back seat of the...

Quebec City, Canada tattoo artist Phil Berge tattooed Bart Simpson doing a kickflip on a skateboard in a different position on 19 different people. He then took a photo of each tattoo and turned them all into a seamless stop motion animation. A post shared by Phil Berge (@philberge) on Feb 26, 2017 at 12:49pm...

YouTube musicians Rob Scallon and Davie504 faced off against each other in a friendly battle of the basses using instruments with an ever-changing amount of strings. In the video on Scallon’s channel, the number of strings counted down. In the video on Davie504’s channel, the number of strings went back up. The two talented guitarists...

A huge and rather astute elephant in eastern India decided he was hungry, so he came out of a forest in Garhbeta, West Benghal and out onto the road to stop a truck carrying food. Once the truck stopped, the elephant reached under the tarp, knocked a bunch of potatoes onto the ground and began...

In 1982, the Saturday Night Live comedy duo of Al Franken and Tom Davis did a live show at a small university where they performed a number of hilarious skits. One such skit featured Franken doing a flawless imitation of Mick Jagger while performing the Rolling Stones song, “Under My Thumb“. The show, appropriately entitled...

While out driving in the cold Belarus winter, Slava, the human behind CatPusic noticed a small, lonely bundle of fur perched by the side of the road, covered in snow and ice. Other drivers just drove by, but Slava stopped to investigate. The bundle of fur turned out to be a six month old kitten...

In February 2017, we wrote about Taiwanese artist Hsu Tung Han who crafts absolutely beautiful wooden sculptures that first appear as traditional but give way to incredible pixelation. Six months later, Han has created a masterful sculpture of a pixelated snorkeler that uses the same concept as the others, but with the changing context of...

In celebration of International Cat Day, a very ambitious Chris Poole hand built a wonderfully clever cat maze out of 50 moving boxes. He first cut door-shaped holes and then arranged the boxes in a random pattern that would be most satisfying to his famous cats, the lovable feline duo of Cole and Marmalade. The...

A really wonderfully clever service dog named Colt, a Weimaraner/English Labrador mix who is specifically trained to respond and assist with the effects of traumatic brain injuries, demonstrated with his beloved human Janaye Kearns, the various different methods he can employ to protect her head during a seizure in any type of situation, including slippery...

Adam Savage of Tested visited with the amazing Jack White before taking an exciting tour of his Third Man Records storefront and new vinyl pressing plant in Detroit, Michigan. In a truly immersive tour, Adam records his “Brain Candy” song and then follows his record’s eventual process from lathe to cellophane. Bonus: Adam also chats...