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The talented group of folks at Edison Creative released an amazing 4-minute teaser trailer for The Axiom Chronicles, a new sci-fi western animated series about a “young outlaw, robot overlords and a highly sought-after energy source called the Axiom.” The team of creatives are currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help with production costs and...

Warner Bros. released a new trailer for Ready Player One, the upcoming sci-fi adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Ernest Cline‘s 2011 novel of the same name. The trailer takes viewers to a virtual world of pure action and imagination as the fight to save the real worlds goes down. Ready Player...

Drone racer Johnny Schaer (a.k.a. “Johnny FPV“) shows off his amazing piloting skills in a mind blowing video where he maneuvers his decked out quadcopter around a city, does incredible tricks, and closely rides the side of a building. A post shared by Johnny Schaer (@johnny_fpv) on Jan 20, 2018 at 8:17am PST via Digg...

Canadian filmmaker Diane Obomsawin has created “Kaspar“, a haunting animation based upon the stated life of Kaspar Hauser, a German man who claimed as a teenager that he was grew up in total isolation of a darkened cell before emerging to join the Calvary. This amazing animation captures a firm sense of bewilderment, nascent wonder,...

Crokinole is a board game that requires each player to slide disc game pieces across a circular board with the goal of knocking out the disc slid by the other player and landing in a high scoring zone on the board. The game takes great dexterity and focus, much like the Olympic sport of curling....

YouTuber Polyphonic, who does incredibly informative video essays about music, took a long deep look at the iconic Bob Dylan song “Tangled Up in Blue” from the equally iconic album Blood on the Tracks and went through it verse by verse to unravel what was going on. What he discovered was a deliberately ambiguous time...

New York City sound designer Matt McCorkle, co-founder of cdza and a member of New Museum incubator NEW INC, who previously made a spooktacular interactive Halloween Soundboard and a festive soundboard that played “Auld Lang Syne” in four part harmony, has created an incredible Weather Machine that gives sound to adjustable online weather forecasts, including...

Before the Republican Party existed, I voted the Whig ticket. YouTuber Guy Jones has taken raw Movietone camera footage from 1929 and turned it into brilliant compilations of sound interviews with some of the oldest people in the United States at the time. These compilations offer fascinating insight into what was important to these people...

A post shared by Rene Smith (@renejsmith) on Oct 14, 2016 at 6:55pm PDT The large scale art installations of Burning Man have always been larger than life creations of wonder that could only be seen during the event and in pictures thereafter, mostly due to the fact that much of the art is burned...

Nick Brown of the LoreCraft channel, a talented sculptor who has no professional training, created an wonderful timelapse video that shows him sculpting and airbrushing a detailed bust of the creepy Demogorgon from Stranger Things. “Hundreds and hundreds of hand made and manually installed teeth. I do NOT miss the process.” A post shared by...

Still can’t believe we’ve flown over to Belfast not for the @ChiliPeppers but to see the ‘worlds best bagpipe band’ @chillipipers … thought I’d got a rate good deal on tickets n’all. Had a nightmare pic.twitter.com/YO72amVR4I — Duncan Robb (@Dunc_Cfc) February 10, 2018 Thinking that they’d gotten a really good price on tickets to see...

CLS Videos created a fantastic montage celebrating the evolution of movies since the year 1902. They featured everything from the 1902 adventure film A Trip to the Moon to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 from 2017. A full list of the movies, in order of appearance, are available to view on Tumblr. ‘2015: The...

Yearbook is a wonderful animated short film, created by director Bernardo Britto, about a man hired to write the definitive history of human existence before the planet is hit by an alien missile in 17 years. Yearbook won the Short Film Jury Award for the Animation category at Sundance Film Festival 2014. Who are the...

In the very funny Jimmy Kimmel Live segment “The Westminster Dog Show Without Dogs“, host Jimmy Kimmel, a self-described fan of the Westminster Dog Show, hilariously edited out all of the canines from the 2018 show in order focus on the movements of the humans leading them. This segment, like the dog show itself, has...

A post shared by Sándor Vámos (@vamosart) on Nov 17, 2017 at 8:30am PST Hungarian artist Sándor Vámos has created an incredible collection of 3D illustrations on paper that each look like they are jumping right off of the page. Vámos’ entire series of drawings are available to view on Instagram, Facebook, and his website....

SMELOV has created an adjustable desktop nap pillow for people wanting to catch some Zs while working at the office. It is available to purchase on Amazon. via DudeIWantThat.com The Ostrich, A Pillowy Sleep Cocoon For Your HeadOstrich Pillow, A Soft Cocoon for Power NapsOstrich Pillow Light, A Whimsical Nap Cocoon For People On the...

Toronto rally driver “Crazy Leo” Urlichich and co-driver Alex Kihurani rolled their vehicle straight into a snowbank at the Rallye Perce-Neige race and, somehow, managed to keep going to finish 2nd overall. Their team also won most stages in the event, outpacing not only all other Production cars, but even Open Class rally cars. The...

For a soaking wet episode of their The Super Slow Show, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys captured super slow motion footage of Gruchy getting hit by a massive tidal wave while he was in the middle of eating his lunch. Getting Hit With Water Shot Out of a High-Pressure Fire...

Disney•Pixar released a new sneak peek trailer for Incredibles 2, their upcoming animated superhero film directed by Brad Bird and a sequel to The Incredibles from 2004. The trailer features Helen Parr (Elastigirl) stepping up as the hero while Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) becomes a stressed out stay-at-home dad. Incredibles 2 is set to release...

Burger Fiction has created a new supercut video of every Oscar winner in the “Best Cinematography” category since 1929. They cover everything from the 1927 silent romantic drama film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans to La La Land in 2016. Supercut of Every Oscar Winner for ‘Best Visual Effects’ From 1929-2018Supercut of the Five...

A post shared by LEGO (@lego) on Feb 14, 2018 at 4:29am PST LEGO has unveiled their upcoming 1,414 piece Kessel Run Millennium Falcon set from the fast approaching film, Solo: A Star Wars Story. The set will become available to purchase from retailers and from the LEGO Shop in April 2018. Outsmart the villainous...

Black Panther stars Michael B. Jordan, Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong’o sat down with Wired to answer the web’s most searched questions about themselves during an Autocomplete Interview. Who is stronger, Black Panther or Captain America? Who would win in a fight, Black Panther or Wolverine? Does Chadwick Boseman do his own stunts? Does Michael...

Juniper, the playful fox who once dove into a white bed sheet thinking it was snow, is now going to be featured in a book by her human Jessika Coker. The book, titled Juniper: The Happiest Fox, focuses on life with Juniper and Fig (another fox Coker rescued), Juniper’s canine friend Moose, the special needs...

Talented luthiers James Goodall and Luke Goodall give a fascinating start to finish, step-by-step narrated demonstration of the elaborate process involved in a full build of an acoustic Goodall guitar from raw wood. Father and son team work together seamlessly at their Fort Bragg, California workshop, while a beautiful medley of musicians playing their namesake...

A post shared by I_am_puma (@l_am_puma) on Dec 29, 2017 at 2:48am PST A beautiful puma named Messi who was rescued from a Russian contact zoo lives the life of a spoiled domestic house cat with humans Sasha and Masha in Penza. Messi (named after football player Lionel Messi) is a very playful cat who...

A very silly cockatiel named Alex, who’s known for his honking voice, explored the space underneath an upturned cardboard box, occasionally popping his head out of strategically cut holes. Alex was so preoccupied that he didn’t notice or perhaps willfully ignored the treat his human was attempting to give to him, so she just set...

Doctor Popular, artist, musician, performer and good friend of Laughing Squid is celebrating his twentieth year of yo-yoing with a beautiful redesign of The Bolt, one of his favorite yo-yos. The Bolt (Part 2) was designed in collaboration with yo-yo champion and designer Hadrien Bennaceur and takes the best of the original design and updated...

Sean Green created r/hue, a mesmerizing video featuring an array of Philips Hue color changing LED lights coming to life throughout his apartment. Thanks to Green’s editing skulls, the smart lights were all synced to the Frank Ocean song “Super Rich Kids.” I just shot 45 minutes of a single vertical framed window and sort...

Installation artist Toby Fraley, who we’ve previously written about, has created “The Artwork Forge II“, a whimsical turquoise blue shed that sits in front of City Hall in Palo Alto, California and creates custom artwork for just four quarters. The produced image is based upon compiled data gathered from a series of questions. With this...

Researchers at the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS has developed a millimeter-scale origami-inspired delta robot, called the milliDelta, that is extremely small (the size of a penny), fast, and precise. Delta Robots are comprised of three articulating arms connected to an output stage. They are extremely precise and agile, and can be used for “pick...

In a rare, unreleased performance from 1983, a bespectacled, mustachioed and curly haired Weird Al Yankovic very cleverly parodied the Billy Joel song “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me“. Yankovic instead made the song about the Piano Man and substituted the lyrics of the chorus with “It’s Still Billy Joel to Me“. Very meta....

A post shared by Michelle Rial (@realifecharts) on Jan 19, 2018 at 11:50am PST San Francisco artist Michelle Rial has created a series of amusing real life charts from found objects like candy, food, wine stains, nail clippers, office supplies, and floss. We previously wrote about her charts for people obsessed with the crime podcast...

Musician roommates Evan Tyor and Luke McGinnis amazingly clear out their 500 square foot Brooklyn apartment in order to host an entire orchestra inside. To prepare, the two men remove everything from the apartment that has nothing to do with music, including doors, so that the maximum number of musicians can come in and play....

In a touching love story that’s perfect for Valentine’s Day, StoryCorps interviewed John Banvard and Jerry Nadeau, both of whom served during wartime. Banvard, who is 100 years old, served in World War II while Nadeau who is 72, served in Vietnam. The two men met 25 years ago, fell in love and recently got...

On February 6, 2018, a cluster of cephalopod egg sacs at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center began to erupt and newlyhatched baby octopuses burst through, instantly changing from their nascent white to a a different color before swimming away. According to the Center, it was the hatching process that cause the color change....

Jake Sadovich of Garden City, Idaho created an incredible ship in a bottle entirely out of LEGO. It is now available to purchase from the LEGO shop, due to the success of his LEGO Ideas submission in 2016. Continue a nautical tradition when you build the LEGO® Ideas Ship in a Bottle, featuring a highly...

Ben Ahles spent months gluing 42,000 matches together to create a giant sphere. He then captured wonderful footage of it being set on fire. A post shared by @benahlesahles on Feb 8, 2018 at 10:50am PST A post shared by @benahlesahles on Feb 8, 2018 at 8:44am PST A post shared by @benahlesahles on Feb...

Great Big Story visited with American bobsledder Aja Evans, who is competing at the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games 2018, to find out what it feels like as she rockets down a slick racetrack at 90 mph. Sliding down a slick racetrack at up to 90 mph, bobsledding requires a strong constitution and a need for...

For a high flying episode of their The Super Slow Show, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys captured 4k slow motion footage of Gruchy riding inside of a giant inflatable hamster ball equipped with powerful, tentacle looking water jets. Dan’s bravery reaches new heights as he ventures inside a water hose...

Ozark, Missouri mother Michelle Blackmann McNew captured slow motion footage of her teenage son, Dylan McNew, jumping onto his friend’s ice-covered trampoline. The ice instantly shattered and then gathered in the center of the trampoline. Diving Onto a Large Trampoline Filled With 1,000 Mousetraps in Super Slow MotionDan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys Gets...

The Welli Hilli Park Ski Resort in South Korea hosted a Edge of Robot: Ski Robot Challenge on February 12th, which was about an hour from the actual PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games 2018. It featured a group of robots competing in a friendly downhill skiing event, but the real treat was when the robots hilariously...

In 2014, Adam Rogers, an editor at Wired and author of the book Proof:The Science of Booze, gave a fascinating talk entitled “The Mother Eve of Booze” at The Interval at Long Now in San Francisco. In this short clip, Rogers spoke about a shard from the world’s oldest known container from 10,000 years ago,...

In the very thought-inspiring short film “Way to Artist” by TeamVOID, an artificially intelligent robotic arm and a human artist sit alongside one another to sketch the same image at the same time although with different skills. Without a word spoken, film loudly questions the role that artificial intelligence has within the creative process by...

As part of their Planet Earth series, Great Big Story profiled the very rare, recently discovered black beauty stick insect. Despite having specific defenses, their numbers are dwindling due to the very small area in which they live and the great deal of human interest in these beautiful creatures. Hope for the future of this...

Whenever his human’s wife walks in the room, a flirty little cockatiel named Doppler shows off his wings, dog whistles and then lovingly serenades her with a romantic cover of the classic whistling theme to The Andy Griffith Show. David Kelly, the bird’s human, lamented that he can’t teach the cockatiel anything whenever his wife...

71-year old Paul Alexander is one of the last people to live inside an iron lung. In 1952, Alexander had contracted a polio when he was six years old, which destroyed his muscles, including his diaphragm, leaving him paralyzed and unable to breathe. To save his life, Alexander was put into an iron lung, where...

In an earthshaking episode of “Built for Science“, host Tom Scott traveled to Göttingen, Germany to visit the oldest working seismic lab, where they create tiny earthquakes by dropping a four ton steel ball off of a tower that is 14 meters (46 feet) high. The information that these artificial earthquakes provide information of what’s...

“I’m Just a Robot” is an amusing music video, created by producer Louis Hudson of Dice Productions and director Craig Bush, for the UK band GorillaBot. It follows a guy who thinks he is a robot singing about trying to not kill his human pets. GorillaBot‘s single is available to purchase from iTunes. We previously...

A beautiful baby white rhino named Zohari, who was born on December 24, 2017 at the Toronto Zoo, gleefully discovered the fun of playing in the snow for the very first time. His keepers provided the little pachyderm with two small piles of snow that he sniffed, tasted, rolled in and adorably charged to his...

New treacherous villains arise and make life even more difficult for the Baudelaire orphans in the new official trailer for the upcoming second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Season two of the Netflix series, based on a collection of books by Daniel Handler, will premiere on March 30th, 2018. The Baudelaire Orphans Embark...