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Alexandr Misko, a remarkably talented guitarist in Russia, performed a lush, acoustic fingerstyle cover of the classic George Michael song “Careless Whisper“. As he played, Misko used every aspect of the guitar to provide additional color and depth to the sound incluing harmonics, finger tapping, slap techniques and even live tuning changes occuring multiple times...

The Moving Picture Company (MPC) presents a visual effects breakdown of how they were able to digitally recreate Sean Young‘s Rachael replicant for Blade Runner 2049. The Blade Runner Prequel Short ‘2036: Nexus Dawn’ Connects Events Between the 1982 and 2017 FilmsDave Bautista Goes Rogue in the Blade Runner 2049 Prequel Short ‘2048: Nowhere to...

Under the guidance of school teacher, s.s.kyo, a group of students at the Namsong Elementary School in Daegu, South Korea performed a stellar cover of the Daft Punk song “Something About Us” with electronic keyboards, drum machines, and a skilled kid on a vocoder. Here is the original song. via The Awesomer A Man Plays...

A wonderfully patient and accommodating Connemara pony named Comet quite happily took his unlikely best friend, an adventurous Siamese cat named Louis, for a ride around the Devon, England countryside. Their filmmaking and professional horse training human, Emma Massingale, Comet and Louis spend a lot of time together and are very affectionate with one another....

SuperHeroesEvolution has created a powerful video featuring every cameo that legendary comic book creator, Stan Lee, has made in movies and television shows over the past 29 years. via Geekologie Every Stan Lee Cameo In Marvel Comics FilmsStan Lee Cameo Appearances in Marvel MoviesSome of the Best Stan Lee Cameos in Marvel Films

Joseph Augusta of Austin, Texas was left with only 50% hearing in his right ear, after getting spinal meningitis at 14-months-old. On March 21st, 2012 he was activated with a cochlear implant by Advance Bionics. 30 minutes after the implant was activated, Augusta was brought to tears. The 31-year-old could actually hear the differences in...

In another of his truly insightful video essays, host Jack Nugent of the series Now You See It speaks to the immersive technique of vocal control as was regularly utilized by actor John Wayne in most of his roles and particularly with Daniel Day-Lewis‘ sublime performance as Daniel Fairview in the 2007 film There Will...

In a high-flying episode of his informative series, Wendover Productions explained the science behind the cost of airline flights, the cheapest days to fly, the different codes used in pricing and how the constant competition within the industry has caused airlines to lower their prices, particularly at larger airports. It’s all about competition. Different routes...

A post shared by Bobby Duke Arts (@bobbydukearts) on Dec 19, 2017 at 4:34pm PST Bobby Duke, a very talented wood carver and artist in Fort Worth, Texas, crafted an amazing floating coffee cup that’s tipped over and spilling a rainbow of colored pencils that lands with a big splash onto its base. The entire...

Finnish couple Lauri Vuohensilta and Anni Vuohensilta of the Beyond the Press channel captured slow motion footage of a snowman being blown up. They pulled of their explosive stunt by stuffing a large garbage bag, filled with about “100 liters of oxy-acetylene gas mix,” inside of their unlucky snowman. Blowing Up an Antique Television With...

The humorous and talented musician Seth Everman, clad in a striped sweater and occasional sunglasses, stared directly into the camera and skillfully performed the very catchy Oasis song “Wonderwall” in a number of genres and instrument styles while trying out all the features of his new, highly sophisticated synthesizer. since i don’t have human friends...

A photographer for the BBC Earth program Gorilla Family and Me followed the family of gorillas after their proud silverback blocked traffic as they crossed the road and found the gorgeous primates up in the trees searching for food. Noticing that they had a tendency to be a little clumsy sometimes, the photographer mischievously captured...

David Barragan did Christmas right last year by giving his wife Laura Mejia a special Cabbage Patch Kids doll from her childhood, named Tina, and she cried tears of joy. Mejia had to give up all of her toys at the age of 10, including Tina, before she and her family immigrated to the United...

In an elightening, brilliantly illustrated episode of After Skool, British philosopher Alan W. Watts eloquently explains that life should not be considered a journey because end is not the primary goal, unlike that of travel, which is all about getting there. Rather life is like a piece of music or a dance; tasks in which...

Finnish ocarina maker and musician Toni Patanen (a.k.a. “Pupsi“) went above and beyond while performing a cover of the Darude song “Sandstorm” with a homemade potato ocarina. Here is the original song. Boba Fett Playing The “Lost Woods” Song From Zelda on an AccordionThe Harp Twins Perform a Cover of the ‘Lost Woods’ Song From...

In a clever and amusing mashup that shows exactly how an animated Karl Pilkington quite accurate predicted several storylines from the rather unsettling Netflix show Black Mirror. By combining footage from the series Season Four finale “Black Museum” with that of a 2007 episode of The Ricky Gervais Show, the creator of this video proved...

Homegrown Memes has created an amusing video where “The F.U.N. Song” from SpongeBob SquarePants is performed in 17 different languages. They also made videos where Squidward blows a bubble in 10 different languages and “The Striped Sweater Song” is sung in 14 different languages. via Tastefully Offensive SpongeBob SquarePants Sings Black Sabbath’s Heavy Metal Song...

Storm chasing photographer Chris Ratzlaff has captured stunning slow motion footage of soap bubbles being blown outdoors and then freezing in the frigid cold of a Calgary, Alberta winter. The slow motion effect catches the amazing first stage of the freezing, when snowflakes appear to dance inside a globe before the creeping frost covers the...

The Baudelaire orphans embark on even more chaotic adventures in the first teaser trailer for the upcoming second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The Netflix series, based on a collection of books by Daniel Handler, will begin airing on March 30th, 2018. 2017 was bad, but 2018 will be so much… worse. Just...

In an enticingly chewy episode, First We Feast took a foray outside of their ongoing hot wings series, and instead went to Murray’s Bagels in Greenwich Village, New York City to learn how their legendary bagels are made. Owner Adam Pomerantz happily offered a tour and sat down to talk about the history of bagels...

John Stratman created an action-packed animation for Mr. Sunday Movies that reimagines a scene from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, where Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) battles Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), as a 16-bit video game. First ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer Features the Return of Rey, Finn, Poe, Kylo, and LukeKylo Ren Tells Luke...

In a sobering and reflective seven minute montage, Vox has encapsulated the most memorable cultural, political and tragic events of a very tumultuous 2017. Amongst this dizzying array are events such as Inauguration, the subsequent Women’s March, the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia during which protester Heather Heyer and police officers Jay Cullen, and Berke Bates...

Twitter user godi3 shared awesome footage of a toy train derailing, gliding across a floor, and using a wall to hop back onto the tracks once again. ??????????? pic.twitter.com/q8Gb5A4EUJ — ?? (@godi3) December 27, 2017 ??????????? pic.twitter.com/q8Gb5A4EUJ — ?? (@godi3) December 27, 2017 via Sploid Japanese App Developer Uses an iPhone X to Make His...

Jim DelCioppo picked up his happy little baby daughter Sadie Jae, balled her up, and rolled her around while making her do a funny impression of BB-8 from Star Wars. A post shared by Sadie Jae DelCioppo (@sadiejaed) on Dec 23, 2017 at 8:46am PST via Digg Star Wars BB-8 Waffle MakerA Real Life Remote-Controlled...

To celebrate the new year, The Graham Norton Show created a fantastic compilation of some of their favorite moments that took place on the show in 2017. They feature Hugh Jackman laughing uncontrollably at something Sir Patrick Stewart said, Will Ferrell slow dancing on stage, and Jack Black singing his Jumanji song. Some of the...

A post shared by Joachim Munter (@jockemunter) on Nov 23, 2017 at 8:55am PST Joachim Munter, a talented photographer who lives in Helsinki, Finland has captured the innate beauty and magical personalities of the various animals who populate the Finnish forest. In these photos, Munter’s connection with the animals is evident; birds perch on his...

Mexican motion graphic artist Oscar López Rocha (a.k.a. “LOROCROM“) has created RGB Forest, an uplifting animated short film where 3D red, green, and blue elements play and dance throughout a real forest to the song “Serotonin Diode” by BLÆRG. via prosthetic knowledge Makin’ Moves, A Mesmerizing Animated Film Featuring Human 3D Scans Dancing a Surreal...

In a flighty episode or MinuteEarth, host Emily Elert explains how migrating birds instinctually calculate their route according to which way the wind is blowing, the strength of ocean thermals and other weather conditions that help them locate the path of least resistance. Migrating birds care more about the ease of their trip than the...

In January 2017, a curious chimpanzee at the Twycross Zoo in Atherstone, Warwickshire UK, left the comfort of a warm enclosure and braved the icy chill that came with the first snow of the year. Rather than running back inside, the chimp gathered up snow from the ground, made a snowball and proceeded to a...

Kenton Whitman of ReWild University created a life saving video where he demonstrates exactly what to do after falling through ice into frigid water. via reddit An Illustrated Guide on How to Survive Falling Through Ice by The Art of ManlinessThe Stunning Process of Ice Stacking Upon Itself Along the Shore as Warmer Water Passes...

Simon’s Cat, who normally is the only one to offer helpful guides (with an occasional kitten), recruited several of his feline friends named Maisy, Chloe and Jazz, to help him and the kitten demonstrate how different cats with different personalities eat very differently from one another. Maisy, Chloe and Jazz along with Simon’s Cat and...

Bob Egan of PopSpots, who is a real estate agent and “Rock and Roll Detective” in New York City, very cleverly finds where historic album cover photos have been shot and rather artfully superimposes the album cover over the same locations as they appear in present day. Included amongst these amazing shots are The Rise...

A post shared by Evgeny Ches (@ches_ches) on Dec 28, 2017 at 6:27am PST Moscow, Russia graffiti and contemporary artist Evgeny Ches creates “Cellograffiti,” an artistic technique where he ventures out in the forest and paints images of animals on clear plastic cellophane wrapped between two trees. Ches’ full collection of work is available to...

Lauren Blake captured adorable footage of her son Mason opening a gift from his uncle Dustin Griffie for Christmas. The little toddler, who let everyone know that the package was his, was thrilled after unwrapping the present and realizing that he received a delicious banana. I gave my nephew a banana for Christmas. I had...

In the holiday themed “Life Accordion to Trump #3“, Australian videographer Huw Parkinson parodied Donald Trump‘s ongoing habit of moving his hands sideways, open and closed, while he’s speaking. Because this repeated motion makes it look like he’s playing an accordian, what better place, then to insert an animated accordion with appropriate sound effects? It...

In 1973, a wonderfully heartwarming commercial for the Hovis Bread Company entitled “Bike” featured a young delivery boy (Carl Barlow) who laboriously walked his bike to the top of the cobbled Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset, made his delivery and then fearlessly got back his bike and flew down the hill. The narration was told...

In an episode of the very talented puppeteer Barnaby Dixon‘s humorous series about puppet Dabchick. The titular bird awakes to find out that he’s wet the bed and explains this messy faux pas by reenacting the elaborate dream he had the night before. It seems Dabchick was running in a race but his name was...

Photographers for the BBC Earth program Gorilla Family and Me captured heartwarming footage of a proud and protective silverback gorilla who stood like a statue in the middle of the road in order to block any oncoming traffic that would impede the safe crossing of his big family. The silverback didn’t move until every last...

Emma is a super creepy 15-second horror film, created by director Daniel Limmer of Nemada Film Productions for the international 15 Second Horror Film Challenge, that features a little girl getting bashed in the head with a rock by a friend. They won first place for their eerie, yet amazing film. via Boing Boing The...

In a rather chilling promotional mashup for the fourth season premiere of the sublime Charlie Brooker/Netflix series Black Mirror, news footage from 2017 is seamlessly combined with the dystopian storylines from all four seasons of the series. The most eerie thing about this rather seamless mashup is that the bright line of absurdity that should...

Engineer Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day met up with Gordon McGladdery of A Shell in the Pit, the guy who creates the music and sounds for Smarter Every Day, to find out his intricate process for recording audio for their slow motion videos. What Beatboxing Looks Like in Super Slow MotionA Transparent Engine Filmed...

Bookshelf Productions has created a new LEGO stop-motion animated remake of some of the most memeorable scenes from the second season of Stranger Things. Last year, they remade scenes from season one. LEGO Stop-Motion Animated Remake of ‘Stranger Things’ Season OneLEGO Stop Motion Animated Remake of the Mall Car Chase Scene From ‘The Blues Brothers’A...

Voordeel has created an amazing video filled with epic scenes from Star Wars films that are all set to the heavy hitting song “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath. via Kimmi Markovic A Powerful Video Montage of Epic Game of Thrones Scenes Set to Black Sabbath’s ‘War Pigs’SpongeBob Sings ‘War Pigs’ by Black SabbathA Remix Music...

A post shared by Riko Okuyama (@rikookuyama) on Nov 27, 2017 at 8:00pm PST One day in 2012, a thoughtful customer left his waiter Yuki Tatsumi a tiny sculpture made out of the paper sleeve used to protect chopsticks. While tipping is not the norm, Tatsumi took it as one. It was at that time...

While driving along Highway 41 in Montana, YouTuber Big Sky Videos captured the remarkable sight of an antelope herd running en mass up and across the road to the field on the other side. Watching the little white tails bob on by, the dog inside the car was whining and barking and more than likely...

In 2016, filmmaker Sriram Murali, who specializes in night sky photography and is involved with the International Dark-Sky Association, created “Lost in Light“, a stunning and informative timelapse over the state of California that shows how each area is affected by light pollution. Lost in Light, a short film on how light pollution affects the...

An absolutely adorable little munchkin cat named Pooky parked herself in front of the computer where Chef Gordon Ramsay was demonstrating how to properly knead dough in order to get rid of any remaining pockets of air. While intently watching, Pooky was mimicking his actions and watching his every move intently, as if she were...

The very unpredictable comedian Gus Johnson created an amusing parody of the Learn Quick series challenge of breaking a wine glass using only the human voice. Just like Mike Boyd, Johnson was able to break a wine glass using only his voice, albeit using quite a different and much louder method. This is how to...

Momentum Pictures has released the first official trailer for Mom and Dad, an upcoming horror comedy film directed by Brian Taylor. The intense trailer follows Brent Ryan (Nicolas Cage) and Kendall Ryan (Selma Blair) as they, and other parents around the world, go crazy for 24 hours and want to kill their children. Mom and...

Moscow, Russia media artist Dmitry Morozov (a.k.a. “::vtol::“) has created the “Driver,” an amazing kinetic audio sculpture that uses speakers, copper balls, lights, and motors to generate obscure electronic sounds. To all intents and purposes, the object represents a complicated feedback machine, where the feedback doesn’t have a direct impact on itself, but uses kinetic...