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In 2016, a vocal German shepherd named Randell howled during the Zootopia scene in which Gary the Canine Security Guard was goaded into howling by Judy Hopps in order to distract him. Taking the cue, Randell joined in along with Gary. After that, Rodrigo Capuski posted a video of his dog Leica howling along with...

Ghetto Spider, a sixteen-year-old Atlanta talent who dresses up as Spider-Man and knows how to move, threw down an amazing dance to the song “Take On Me” by A-ha while in the middle of a GameStop. They have any more dance videos available to view on YouTube and Instagram. A post shared by The Kid...

On episode 842 of Saturday Night Live, Natalie Portman played Eleven in a hilarious Stranger Things season 3 parody and, alongside a very excited Mike Wheeler, met a new group of weird super kids in a warehouse. Mike couldn’t help but try for another kiss while all of the super kids were showing off their...

In the beautifully shot Season Two Super Bowl trailer for the thought provoking HBO series Westworld, the newly awoken hosts make it very clear that life from this point on will be only be lived on terms that are acceptable to them, even if they have to burn down what came before in order to...

Marvel released a new TV spot during Super Bowl LII for Avengers: Infinity War, the upcoming superhero film directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and a sequel to The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). The thrilling trailer finds Marvel superheroes from all over assembling to save the galaxy by putting a stop...

The Cloverfield Paradox, producer J.J. Abrams‘ new sci-fi horror film directed by Julius Onah, became available to stream on Netflix immediately after Super Bowl LII. The third installment of the Cloverfield franchise follows a group of astronauts who are working in space to solve a giant energy crisis on Earth. In the near future, Earth...

Disney and Lucasfilm released a teaser trailer and a TV spot for Solo: A Star Wars Story, the upcoming Han Solo origin film directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Ron Howard. The trailer follows young Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) as he embarks on an exciting adventure with Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) onboard the Millennium Falcon, has...

Bad Lip Reading is back a hilarious compilation of bad lip reading at NFL games that took place during the 2017-2018 season. A Hilarious Compilation of Bad Lip Reading From the NFL 2016-2017 Football SeasonA Hilarious Compilation of Bad Lip Reading From the NFL 2015-2016 Football Season – Part TwoA Hilarious Compilation Bad Lip Reading...

There are 50 eagles, 10 crocodiles, 3 bears, 7 bulls, 1 hunter, 15 wolves, 10,000 rats, 5 gorillas, and 4 lions. The challenge is to select two sets of these animals to protect you from the rest. Choose wisely… via Vice Two Rescued Calves Gleefully Receive an Exuberant Welcome From the Rest of the Big...

In an informationally odiferous episode of the KQED series “Deep Look“, narrator Lauren Sommer takes a high definition look in the life cycle of the rare Titan Arum plant more commonly known as the “Corpse Flower”. It only blooms once a decade and the stench of it can be overwhelming. Sommer explains that the this...

The Boss Katana-Air guitar amplifier is a modern marvel that requires neither cables nor outlets of any kind to play. Its petite size makes it portable and the standby mode makes it ready to go at a moment’s notice. The amp runs on batteries for 12 hours at a time and uses motion sensing transmitters...

German filmmaker Florian Nick traveled to North America to explore the vivid landscapes of Canada, where he traveled over 3,400 miles over the course of six weeks. Nine months and 55,000 photographs later, Nick created the gorgeous timelapse short film “ALIVE | Canada 4K“. With 54.000 single photos shot along the way I created ALIVE...

Barnaby Dixon, the highly creative puppeteer behind MANU the incredible performing warrior finger puppet and a rather playful Raptor puppet, has revealed the newest, latest version of his beloved puppet Dabchick. This new version sports a mechanized tail, a mechanized mouth and a much lighter weight. As he leans forward you see how the tail...

In a fabulous episode of the brilliant series Seder-Masochism by the very talented filmmaker Nina Paley, an animated Moses finds himself confronted with a bevy of ancient goddess serenading him with the classic Pointer Sisters song “You Gotta Believe“, causing him to question decisions being made by the newly installed Patriarchy. In this episode of...

In yet another brilliant stop-motion film by PES, a Nikon camera lens is cleverly pounded down with a wooden mallet into a lens cap without a scratch. Western Spaghetti, Stop-Motion Animation by PESThe Deep, Fantastic Stop Motion Animation by PESA Table of Produce Prepares for Takeoff in the Stop Motion Animation ‘Still Life’ by PES

Billy Idol (Howie Pyro in zebra sweater) by Julia Gorton #billyidol #howiepyro #theblessed #beatitfanzine #punk #punkrock #70snewyork #70smusic #cutandpaste #diy #fanzine #juliagorton #howiepyro @howiepyro #generationx #punkstyle #punkhair #zebraprint #lowereastside #unretouched #unretouchedphoto A post shared by Julia_gorton_nowave (@julia_gorton_nowave) on Nov 15, 2016 at 7:15am PST Julia Gorton, a talented New York City photographer and graphic has...

Riot, the mischievous domestic red fox whose best friend is a German shepherd named Castiel, remarkably allowed himself to be trained by his very patient human. Riot quite obediently followed her directions to sit, shake, spin, lie down, stand, kiss and even was able to successfully leave the yummy treat for which he’d been working...

On the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel presented the third NFL edition of pro football players reading savage mean tweets about themselves. Peyton Manning, Rashad Jennings, and Gerald McCoy are only a few of the courageous players who stepped up to get slapped down by people on the internet. NFL Football Players Read...

KIRO Radio station in Seattle captured surveillance footage of a vandal, who seemed to be intoxicated, trying to use the end of a mop to break into a truck in their parking lot on the evening of January 31st, 2018. To spice things up a bit, they had radio host John Curley of The Tom...

A post shared by Kolari Vision (@kolarivision) on Jan 3, 2018 at 7:39am PST Photographer Vladimir Migutin traveled to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to photograph what remained after the catastrophic nuclear plant disaster of 1986. What Migutin found when he arrived, however, was not a barren wasteland, but an amazing example of the power of...

DUST presents Little Thing, a short sci-fi film directed by Or Kantor about a tiny creature who looks around for companionship in an empty city. His music transforms the space around him and calls to others. A post shared by DUST (@watchdust) on Feb 1, 2018 at 9:33am PST Isolated, Animated Sci-Fi Short About a...

British meteorologist Simon King of the BBC morning show 5 Live Breakfast quite brilliantly incorporated listener submitted slang expressions from various region of the UK into the day’s weather report. King’s report was part of a Twitter campaign by The Met Office (national weather service) to get people involved with how the weather is reported...

On a highly charged part six of their The Super Slow Show, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys teamed up with special guest Dr. Austin Richards (a.k.a. “Dr. MegaVolt“) to capture slow motion footage of the electrifying man interacting with a super high voltage Tesla coil using a variety of objects....

Simon Peterson (a.k.a. “The Peterson“) has created a new video series, titled This Week – 20 Years Ago, where he takes viewers on a pop culture nostalgia trip to find out what all happened twenty years ago this week. Peterson’s first episode takes us back to the first week of February in 1998. What movies...

A determined man in Dearborn Heights, Michigan was caught trying desperately to mow his lawn that was covered in snow on January 31st, 2018. “I was watching tv when heard a lawn mower running. I looked outside to see a guy mowing his lawn which was covered in snow!” Clever Man Plows Snow Using a...

BMX biker Daniel Bungay of the Bone Deth crew posted a video on Instagram of him grinding and hopping off of a handrail and onto a pile of carefully arranged traffic cones that are knocked over. When he hits, the cone on the end, the rest of the fallen cones magically pop back up. A...

Musician John D. Boswell (a.k.a. “Melodysheep“) of Symphony of Science has created “Phone Home,” a musical remix of Steven Spielberg‘s classic 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Here’s a happy little E.T. song to brighten your day. Cheers, my internet friends. Couple Makes an E.T. Music Video, A Parody of Maroon 5’s PayphoneE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, A...

Fired up about snow removal. pic.twitter.com/fOrhVohCvE — Will Stafford (@wx_will) January 18, 2018 Nathanael Caplinger of Amherst, Virginia used a flamethrower to melt away the snow from his driveway after a troublesome snowstorm. According to ABC 8News – WRIC, public safety officials in the Amherst area said that “while Caplinger’s method worked, it may not...

Jon Murray has created “Windows of San Francisco” a wonderful interactive virtual tour of San Francisco featuring 100 different window views taken from different location throughout the city that are specifically mapped. Having lived in San Francisco for several years, Murray became familiar with the quirks, the oddities and the grittier areas of the city,...

After Skool explains via an illuminating whiteboard illustration, the very chaotic and rather political reasons as to why February has only 28 days plus an additional day every four years. It all started with the Romans, who made many attempts to accommodate their beliefs into the flow of time. We can thank the Romans for...

In 2012, a young Swedish woman named Felicia Grimmenhag was recovering from a losing both her legs in a particularly horrific car accident when a friend presented with an opportunity to ride horses as a manner of rehabilitation. This opportunity turned into a passion. Grimmenhag excelled. She became a champion horseback rider and in an...

In the first episode of his “Passion Projects” series, filmmaker Andrew Leibman created “Rooftop Refuge“, a beautifully shot short documentary about aviculturist Dave Malone. Malone, a native of Brownsville, Brooklyn, proudly stayed out of trouble because he preferred going up to the rooftop to care for and fly his pigeons. Calling it “love at first...

An adorably determined dog eagerly bounced up and down as if he were on a trampoline, all in a futile attempt to reach at the piece of yummy pizza that was left out on the counter. This hungry little dog looks just like Chong, one of my father’s very very determined dachshunds, who bounces just...

In a ominously informative animated essay, the ever-philosophical design house Kurzgesagt explains why the arrival of extra-terrestrial alien life upon Earth would be bad news for all of humanity. This newly arrived civilization may require a specific environment to survive, which may not be compatible with the existing civilization. If the newcomers are stronger, then...

Vanessa Hill, host of the PBS Digital Studios series Braincraft, took a fascinating look into the popularity of remixes and specifically what makes them so very appealing. As with the principles that make pop music so catchy, the perception of a collaborative environment and the comfort of familiarity helps drive the creative process in a...

Fellisimo, the clever Japanese novelty company, has created a wonderfully snuggly sleeping bag that is shaped like a giant pair of jeans and can easily fit two people (or a person and a bear) – one in each furry lined leg. The bag also comes with a pair of bandana patterned pillows that are perfectly...

Actress Reese Witherspoon sat on the stage of the Vanity Fair‘s Secret Talent Theatre and just like previous episodes of Celebrity Slang Lesson, very charmingly defined the Southern slang and expressions that she heard and used while growing up in Nashville, Tennessee. On this episode of “Secret Talent Theatre,” Reese Witherspoon teaches you Southern slang...

In a wonderfully animated episode of the NPR series SkunkBear, host Adam Cole amiably explains the physiology that causes many a domesticated dog to possess both floppy ears, shorter snouts and spotted patterns more so than their ancient ancestors. The specific question of these specific features proved quite vexing to Charles Darwin, even as he...

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Ethen of the Sideways has created a brilliant video essay that explores the four chord arrangement that exists in most modern pop music, its gorgeous classical history and why this combination, when played in a certain way, makes the music so darn catchy. If you have four chords that loop over and over and over...

Adam Savage of Tested visited Aardman Animations‘ workshop in Bristol, UK and got a good look at the gorgeous stop-motion animation puppets and sculpting material used in their upcoming film, Early Man. Savage chatted with senior model maker Jimmy Young about their “model making processes for the puppets’ sculpts, clothes, and armatures.” Early Man is...

Melbourne, Australia artist Isaac Moores (a.k.a. “Izac Less“) has created “Pop Culture Typography,” a wonderful mashup of iconic logos and fonts from pop culture set to the mashup song “Pop Culture” by Madeon. We previously wrote about Moores’ face folding video series. Here is Isaac’s mashup with references. Fan.tasia, A Video Mashup That Seamlessly Blends...

Lauri Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel released a new video where he easily slices through a huge stack of paper, a frying pan, and a barbie doll using his hydraulic press that is equipped with sharp blades. Folding a Piece of Paper More Than Seven Times Using a Hydraulic PressCrushing an Ancient Nokia 3310...

Patton Oswalt sat down with Wired to answer the web’s most searched questions about himself during an Autocomplete Interview. Is Patton Oswalt Albanian? What college did Patton go to? Can Patton Oswalt cook? Chris Evans Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions About HimselfMatt Damon and Julianne Moore Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions About ThemselvesMatthew...

The BooBuddy Ghost Hunter Interactive Bear is an adorable teddy bear that senses changes in the environment such as EMF, movement, temperature and vibration and responds to those changes with a cute, non-threatening voice and strategically placed lights. BooBuddy is also able to respond to questions as well. The paranormal may be spooky, but this...

Bleecker Street released a creepy trailer for Unsane, an unnerving psychological horror-thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh that was shot entirely on an iPhone 7 Plus. The trailer features a young lady, Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy), who can do nothing other than dwell on the fact that she thinks that she is being stalked. Unsane will...

In the humorous Amazon Super Bowl LII commercial, the omnipresent Alexa suddenly lost her voice. In a panic, Jeff Bezos asked his team what they planned to do. The team had a backup plan in place to employ several celebrities whom they believed to be subject matter experts. While Gordon Ramsay was an obvious albeit...

A post shared by Dexter The Peacock (@dexterthepeacock) on Jan 27, 2018 at 7:01pm PST A proud trained peacock named Dexter who lives in Brooklyn and provides emotional support for his human, artist Ventiko, was on his way to Los Angeles with her when was denied entry onto a United Airlines flight at Newark Airport,...

Hasbro will be releasing a special cheaters edition of their classic Monopoly board game franchise sometime in fall 2018 that will come with handcuffs for players who are caught cheating. According to INSIDER, the game will encourage players to cheat and come with 15 cheat cards that ask them to carry out sneaky tasks behind...

A24 released the official trailer for Hereditary, a terrifying upcoming horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. The terrifying movie will follow the peculiar Graham family and reveal how their nightmarish family secret slowly becomes unraveled. Hereditary is set to ravage theaters on June 8th, 2018. When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family,...