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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...

Swedish photographer Henrik Trygg captured amazing footage of mathematician and skating enthusiast Mårten Ajne as he gracefully skated across millimeters-thin fresh black ice and the remarkable laser-like sounds reminiscent of old science fiction films and old-school video games that his blades made as they propelled him across the frozen Lissma Kvarnsjö near Stockholm. This is...

The Liberty University Wind Symphony in Lynchburg, Virginia pranked their band director by playing an awesome rendition of Kazumi Totaka‘s Mii Channel theme song, instead of a Bach composition that the director had ready to go. The cover was written and orchestrated by Drew Harris. Here is the original song. via reddit Volkswagen Ad Channels...

Orlando photographer Brian Carlson, the man behind the short documentary Mr. Gold, and the Orlando Creatives released a new inspirational short film, titled 41x, that is about lawn mower racing. Mike Graves races. He always has because it’s in his blood. The funny thing is he races lawn mowers. The Avon Park Mower-Plex in Avon...

On January 19, 2018, two compassionate animal control officers from the Daytona Beach Police Department held close a shivering puppy who had been found abandoned in the Halifax River, near the Seabreeze Bridge. The weather that week was very cold and the wet puppy could find no warmth. Luckily, a good samaritan alerted the police....

Zbynek Šuba and Michael Podešva have created Snowfeet, a lightweight pair of mini ski attachments that clip on over your boots, allowing you to hit the slopes, and take out the burden of carrying around large skis and poles. They are available to purchase from the Snowfeet store. You don’t need to carry any heavy...

A post shared by Ulla-Stina (@uskonst) on Dec 29, 2017 at 4:23am PST Swedish embroidery artist Ulla-Stina Wikander has created a wonderful series of found household items from the 1970s covered in colorful cross-stitched designs. According to her website, Wikander got the idea to “dress up” these items in 2012 and has been doing so...

For a high pressure episode of their The Super Slow Show, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys captured 4k slow motion footage of Gruchy getting hit with water from a firehose. Super Slow Motion Video of a Swimming Cap Full of Water Being Dropped on a HeadSuper Slow Motion Video of...

On a gooey episode of Tooned Up! by Channel Frederator, host Jacob Atkinson explores the history of slime. Slime has taken over the world. Where did it come from? How do you make it? How many different kinds of slime are there? Channel Frederator answers these questions and more in A History of Slime. How...

Netflix released a heartwarming trailer for their upcoming reboot of the classic 1974 dog hero film, Benji. The family film, written and directed by Brandon Camp, will premiere on Netflix March 16th, 2018. Two school kids strike up a friendship with an orphaned puppy named Benji. When danger befalls them and they end up kidnapped...

Boston Dynamics posted an adorable video of their upgraded SpotMini, four-legged doglike robot, using an articulating arm and clamp to open a door for its SpotMini robot pal. An Amazing Demonstration of the Boston Dynamics SpotMini, A Doglike Robot For Home UseBoston Dynamics Is Releasing New Version of SpotMini, Their Four-Legged Doglike RobotSpotMini, A New...

Reigarw Comparisons created a new animated video where they compare the prices of some of the most expensive buildings, structures, and properties in the world. Includes most expensive house, most expensive mansion, most expensive penthouse, most expensive stadium, most expensive resort, most expensive skyscraper, most expensive castle, most expensive hospital and more. As well as...

John Carlucci and Brandon LaGanke of GHOST + COW have tapped into their creative sound editing skills once again to create a series of videos featuring Olympic athletes farting their way to a smelly victory at the 2018 winter games. We previously wrote their flatulent coverage of past Olympic games. A post shared by The...

Experimental musician and artist Kamiel Rongen of Water Ballet captured the graceful slow motion movement of drowned color as it formed vivid threads and shapes that danced their way up to the surface. Rongen stated that this was all created in his Amsterdam studio for his original song “Barbapapa“. For several years I’m exploring the...

While waiting to cross a street in Manila, Philippines, a perceptive human captured footage of a very clever tortoiseshell cat who also wanted to cross, but was playing it safe by waiting for the pedestrian signal to turn green before doing so. As we were waiting for the light to turn green, this cat passed...

A post shared by Redbubble Create (@redbubblecreate) on Feb 10, 2018 at 11:09am PST British installation artist Alex Chinneck, who previously created a house facade that appeared to be sliding off and a car parked upside down on a curved piece of asphalt, moved his talent indoors. In a piece called “Birth, Death and a...

A post shared by Bruno Alencastro (@brunoalencastro) on Dec 31, 2017 at 2:01am PST During his travels to Spain, Brazilian photographer Bruno Alencastro created a gorgeous series of 360° panoramic photos that puts a number of the city’s scenic attractions of the city of Barcelona at the center of tiny worlds created by these shots....

Burger Fiction has created a new supercut video of every Oscar winner in the “Best Visual Effects” category since 1929. They cover everything from the 1927 silent war film Wings to The Jungle Book from 2016. Supercut of Every Oscar Winner for ‘Best Visual Effects’ Since 1927Supercut of Every Oscar Winner for ‘Best Visual Effects’...

After returning from their post-college adventures, conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel excitedly shopped and prepared for their first day of school as fifth grade math teachers. As their mother remarked, when they were younger, the twins each wanted separate careers from the other, but are now thrilled about embarking on their new shared career....