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Amigurumi pattern designer Jennie Faith (a.k.a. “JBcrochetwizard“) has created a crocheted doll of Sandor Clegane (a.k.a. “The Hound”) from Game of Thrones. The doll is available to view on Ravelry. images via JBcrochetwizard via KnitHacker An Illustration of the ‘Game of Thrones’ Duo Arya Stark and Sandor ‘The Hound’ CleganeThe Career of Rory McCann, The...

To celebrate the news of Quentin Tarantino developing a Star Trek film, producer Felipe Haurelhuk and editor Fernando Mendonça teamed up with Darth Blender to create “Pulp Trek.” It’s an out of this world mashup of scenes from Star Trek: The Original Series and audio from the original trailer for Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Loyalty, betrayal...

A very playful husky dog hilariously tried waking up a snoring pig by repeatedly pushing down on the pig’s hind quarters. After several unsuccessful attempts, the drowsy porcine got up to see who was creating a disturbance but the dog had cleverly bolted out of the room momentarily and then came back in, as if...

During an amusing “Audience Suggestion Box” segment on The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon brought out The Gentlemen’s Chorus (Arthur Meyer, Colin Elzie, Sage Boggs, Dion Flynn, and Dan Chamberlain) to sing the song “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” by Green Day. Here is the original song. Rashida Jones Joins Jimmy Fallon to Sing...

Doctor Popular has created a wonderful step by step tutorial on how to make your own mini-comics and zines. The handy paper guide template is available to download and fold from the comfort of your own home. He also posted a video of his friend Audrey talking about her first mini-comic that features an irritating...

Palm Springs, California author Eric G. Meeks presents a great video where he demonstrates how to clean and repair old vinyl records with wood glue. A friend of mine, Corey Yack’s girlfriend, Denise, showed me a YouTube video of how to clean an old vinyl LP record using normal wood glue. I’ve take a day...

French professional skier and filmmaker Candide Thovex teamed up with Audi to create two stunning Quattro advertisements, titled Ski the World, that features Thovex skiing arpimd the world on various surfaces. He skis across everything from a beautiful countryside to the Great Wall of China. via Kevin Kelly One of Those Days 3, First-Person Video...

Derek Herron of How Ridiculous set an incredible Guinness World Record for the greatest height from which a basketball is shot. Herron made an astonishing 660-foot basketball shot over the Maletsunyane Falls in Lesotho, Africa. A post shared by How Ridiculous (@howridiculous) on Jan 19, 2018 at 2:09am PST A post shared by How Ridiculous...

MetaBallStudios created a fascinating visualization back in December 2017 where they compare the sizes of movie monsters like Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc. and the massive Exogorth from Star Wars. The 2007 Transformers Film Reimagined as a Low Budget Monster Movie From the 1950sScreen Junkies Enlists ‘Monster Experts’ to Determine the Coolest Movie Monsters of...

The Super Slow Show is a new YouTube original show where Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys demonstrate their slow motion skills with special celebrity guests like Dylan Sprouse, Kevin Durant, and Tony Hawk. In their first two episodes, Free and Gruchy perform amazing action hero stunts and Hollywood style falls...

Legendary released the second trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising, the upcoming sci-fi monster film directed by Steven S. DeKnight and a sequel to the 2013 Pacific Rim film. The action-filled trailer follows Jake Pentecost (John Boyega) as he pilots a gigantic mech and battles an all new enemy threat. Pacific Rim Uprising is scheduled to...

When it was time for bed, a beautiful bright yellow Lutino Indian Ringneck parakeet named Dunkin gave his little human lots of kisses good night while saying really sweet things to the little girl. Dunkin also shares his chatty kisses with fellow ringneck and roommate Rukus. via reddit A Tiny Yellow Parakeet Successfully Completes an...

The very talented Rob Scallon who is know for being rather adventurous with his music, had the phenomenal opportunity to record in a studio using 100 year old Edison Cylinder Phonograph. He and friend Jeff Linville started off the session with the beautiful acoustic fingerstyle “Short Song” that Scallon wrote awhile ago. Then an oddly...

Simon Laprise, an artist and fabricator in Montréal, Quebec, with a wicked sense of humor, sculpted an amazing realistic, but inconveniently parked, car out of snow. The car looked so real that even the local police were fooled and came very close to issuing a ticket, but upon realizing their error left instead a note...

As with their thoughtful social experiment on bullying, an apparently woke Burger King brand addressed the confusing issue of Net Neutrality with Whoppers. In a frustrating but useful experiment, (actors posing as) employees served orders to (real) customers on a priority basis depending on how much the customer paid for the burger. If the customer...

In 1998, a 16 year old Rob Sheridan, a talented artist, photographer, former creative director for Nine Inch Nails and friend of Laughing Squid, sat down for an interview with local television station K5 in Seattle to talk about the website he made that was dedicated to the infamous “Dancing Baby“. The Dancing Baby already...

Upon hearing his human Nicolle‘s verbal request, a well trained pig named Paul eagerly walked back and forth across the room to grab each one of his toys in his mouth and then deposit them into a wooden chest. This adorable process was only slightly hampered by a plush monkey that refused to go in...

The great yarn war continued with no end in sight until General @atchoumthecat showed up. He gave the enemies a stern look and they all ran away like a bunch of scaredy cats. . . . . #digitalart #digitalpainting #digitalartist #creative #myart #photomanipulation #adobephotoshop #instaart #digitaldrawing #doodle #conceptart #fanart #artistic #sketchaday #portrait #painting #cats #catstagram...

Bobby Duke, the very talented wood carver and artist in Fort Worth, Texas who created a gorgeous sculpture of a floating coffee cup spilling out a rainbow of colored pencils, very humorously demonstrated his meticulous method for carving pencils out of pencils or as he calls it “Pencil Inception“. Has science gone too far? I...

Musician Dan Baker quite skillfully employed the amazing capabilities of the Mac OS program GarageBand to perform a solo, multi-track cover of The Buggles song “Video Killed the Radio Star“, completely on his iPad. With the use of this technology, Baker’s version is eerily similar to the original 1979 hit. Here’s my take on the...

Prankster Oobah Butler who is also a freelance writer for Vice, performed a brilliant prank in which he created a fake restaurant named for the shed in his backyard and submitted it to TripAdvisor to be reviewed. Butler, who had been paid in the past to write restaurant reviews, created just the right amount of...

In a spirited episode of the Condé Nast Traveler series Many People from Many Countries Say Things, 70 different people from all over the world shared how they say “Cheers” in their native languages. While the words varied from country to country, the ritual of declaring a general toast aloud with an accompanying drink was...

A post shared by Kate Kato (@kasasagi.design) on Oct 18, 2017 at 12:16pm PDT Welsh artist Kate Kato of Kassagi Design creates really wonderful sculptures using old books and manuals and then adorning them with beautifully decorative papercraft version of the subject found within the pages. For example, The Observers Book of Birds grew a...

A hero is something that I think I strive for everyday. I don’t think I will ever reach that goal. I think the challenge is in reaching for it, not achieving it The first episode in the second season of the AARP series Spinoffs features the very likable Dick Sine, a former Ohio police officer...

A post shared by Suzanne Saroff (@hisuzanne) on Dec 17, 2017 at 1:39pm PST Photographer Suzanne Saroff has captured a unique way of viewing common sundries such as fruits, flowers, plants and a fish, with her whimsical series “Perspective“. To get that unique view, Saroff places the item(s) directly behind clear cylinders and water glasses...

German photographer Tanja Brandt has captured the sheer beauty of unusual friendships with an absolutely stunning photo series featuring her beloved shepherd dog Ingo and his variety of feathered owl friends. Normally these species don’t interact together very much, but Brandt’s photos show that friendship can cross all sorts of unlikely boundaries. Brandt shared how...

In February 2016, we wrote about Microscape, a wonderful collaborative project between New York City based architectural design firms TO+WN Design and AJSNY and their 3D printed customizable topographically-correct tiny cityscape of New York City. Almost two years later, Microscape is raising funds through Kickstarter to create a second version of this amazing project for...

A post shared by Ruby Silvious (@silvirub) on Jan 7, 2018 at 8:45am PST 363 Days of Tea is a beautiful art project, created by artist and graphic designer Ruby Silvious, where she created miniature paintings on the thin paper of empty used tea bags. She turned her year-long collection of paintings into a book...

While visiting a friend, redditor AusSpyder captured the surprising sight of four beautiful orange tabby cats peacefully dining alongside their newly adopted crow sibling. The crow had been injured and appeared unexpectedly at his friend’s house. The friend to whom AusSpyder refers as “Doctor Doolittle” and calls her house “the petting zoo”. Animals know. This...

StatusSilver has created “Finger Kaleidoscope 2,” a great new video where the incredible trio of Japanese performers from the Xtrap Dance Crew join their 30 fingers together once again to perform a mesmerizing dance to DJ Snake‘s song “Let Me Love You (BOXINLION Remix ft. Travis Garland).” This is a wonderful follow-up to their original...

Using an MRI machine at the NYU Langone Voice Center, the very talented vocalist and teacher Tyley Ross brilliantly demonstrated the changing physicality of his vocal tract as he sang the classic Puccini aria “Nessun Dorma” in four different ways; a light and heady mix, “forward facing Broadway”, “back and down Opera” and in a...

DJI has released the Mavic Air, their new ultraportable, foldable 4K camera drone that boasts a 21 minute max flight time and can travel at speeds up to 42 MPH. As with the larger Mavic Pro, the Air features an onboard 4k camera mounted on a 3-axis mechanical gimbal for capturing smooth footage during flight....

An audacious little arctic fox attempted to convince Siberian fishermanb Ildar Biktimirov to share his bounty. Biktimirov repeatedly protested loudly in a gentle effort to scare the fox away from his day’s catch, but as soon as the fox did something really cute, the fisherman relented. Biktimirov spent much of the day playing with and...

Eclectic Method has created a fun-loving remix of Minions and Despicable Me films. Minions Mix Remix Mashup Song thingy. ‘Minions’, An Animated ‘Despicable Me’ Prequel About Three Minions’ Journey to Find a New Villainous Master‘The Secret Life of Pets’, An Upcoming Animated Feature by the Makers of the ‘Despicable Me’ and ‘Minions’ SeriesGru Battles a...

During the promotional trailer for the fifth season of the sublime HBO commentary series Last Week Tonight, a harried John Oliver and the narrator were repeatedly interrupted by ridiculous, but sadly believable, news alerts on Oliver’s phone. It all came to an end when the last alert ordered him to do just one thing. We're...

A talented man transfers from his original wheelchair to a wheelchair mounted on top of a hoverboard. He shows off his skills by riding around in a wide open area and maneuvering around obstacles in his own home. The Amazing Organization That Builds Elaborate Halloween Costumes for Kids in WheelchairsCanadian Man Sets Guinness World Record...

The Japanese company MinebeaMitsumi Inc. from Minato, Tokyo set a new Guinness World Record for creating the smallest fidget spinner. Their extremely tiny toy measures a mere 0.2 inches and can easily fit on top of a fingertip. Built using MinebeaMitsumi Inc’s existing record-breaking product, the Smallest commercially available steel ball bearing which itself is...

Filmmaker Ryan and editor Kurtis Jackson created a relaxing video that features their friend Alex’s graceful snowboarding journey down a large hill covered in soft, powdery snow set to “Clair de Lune” by Claude Debussy. via Boing Boing Tough Little Pug Snowboards Down a Snowy Hill While Wearing a GoPro CameraClever Man Plows Snow Using...

Back in December 2017, it was confirmed that director Quentin Tarantino would be developing a Star Trek film written by Mark L. Smith of The Revenant. Nerdist celebrated the news by creating a fantastic gritty parody trailer, using footage from the classic Star Trek: The Original Series, that imagines Star Trek as a Tarantino style...

Lauri Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel demonstrates how to forge a very sharp knife from a standard wrench with his 144 ton hydraulic press. Crushing LEGOs With a Hydraulic PressCrushing a Typewriter With a Hydraulic PressCrushing Stretch Armstrong With a Hydraulic Press

The film and television analysis platform ScreenPrism, who offer excellent analysis of film and television, turned their insightful eyes towards Walter White of Breaking Bad. At the beginning of the series, Walter was a mild-mannered insignificant good guy who was the punchline of his brother-in-law‘s jokes. Yet as he exerted his perceived power, he became...

When the Japanese town of Susami in the Nishimuro district of the Wayakama Prefecture, decided that they wanted to have more tourism, Toshihiko Matsumoto, the postmaster came up with the unique idea of putting a mailbox underwater. This mailbox currently in use, but it does require the purchase of waterproof cards and oil based pens....

After unloading the groceries, the humans to a wiry, athletic cat named Taylor noticed his interest in the empty plastic grocery bags that were sitting on the floor and decided to toss them in the air to see how he would react. Taylor immediately took to the bags, literally leaping up off the ground several...

A 360 webcam was installed on top of Seattle’s 605-foot-tall Space Needle back in 2015. Google VR engineer Ricardo Martin Brualla used the footage captured over the past three years to create a fascinating time-lapse video. It features a stellar look at the explosive growth all around Seattle. via Hacker Noon Enormous 3D Daddy Longlegs...

While in the park with his human, a spirited little greyhound happily splashed around in a puddle while repeatedly spinning his body in circles. The dog then took off, running laps around the park. When the dog finally rejoined with his human, he need a little bit of time to catch his breath. A Funny...

Warner Bros. released a fascinating new featurette 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 teaser features new footage from the upcoming film and Spielberg chatting about the past and how “virtual reality will be a super-drug” in...

A post shared by Ksenia Penkina (@ksenia.penkina) on Dec 26, 2017 at 9:51am PST Russian baker Ksenia Penkina makes absolutely beautiful mirror cakes and pastries that brightly gleam under the lights with the very creative use of reflective icing. In addition to her individual pieces, Penkina travels around the world to demonstrate her skills and...

Primitive Technology demonstrates how to build an A-frame hut and a celt hatchet out of materials found in the wild. He constructed the hut “as a large work space for projects.” The A frame hut is a simple shelter that can be built quickly and simply. It’s basically a large roof built directly on the...

Musician Julian Velard quite brilliantly matched the cadence of the legendary HP Lovecraft poem “Nemesis” from Collected Poems with that of the iconic Billy Joel song “Piano Man“. He the put them together and performed a brilliant recitation of the poem to the melody of the song. Velard stated on Twitter that this mashup was...

On episode 840 of Saturday Night Live, Method Man stepped into the role of a gangster in SNL’s hilariously dark parody of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air opening credits. Host Jessica Chastain played a fake FBI agent, Chris Redd did a fantastic job as Will Smith, and Kenan Thompson laid down the law as Uncle...