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A robot lamp attempts to use a Sani-Hut porta potty at Burning Man 1996. The lamp was a constant companion to the motorized couch that cruised around the Black Rock City that year. Recently I’ve been digitizing and uploading a bunch of video I shot at Burning Man 1996. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to...

In a clip from the three part PBS series “Animals With Cameras“, a rescued chimpanzee named Kimbang was outfitted with a camera and sent along to climb some trees so that her caretaker could assess her diet and ensure she was making the right choices before being set out into the wild. When Kimbang began...

A post shared by Gerard Mas (@gerard_mas) on Feb 7, 2017 at 9:20am PST Spanish artist Gerard Mas has created a gorgeous series of busts that are sculpted in the Renaissance style but reimagined with some very humorous, surprising and modern twists. These additions include sporting tan lines, blowing a bubble with gum, wearing customer...

A post shared by Twiggys Lagoon (@twiggyslagoon) on Mar 2, 2016 at 9:47am PST A tiny squirrel named Twiggy is quite the party animal. She and her human travel arounds the world in order to showcase her incredible talent of waterskiing. Making appearances at such events Toronto Boat Show, The X Games and The Richmond...

Wired UK went inside the High Voltage Laboratory at the University of Manchester to witness first hand the incredible lightning that they create indoors via Tesla coils to test electrical equipment and predict failures within the electrical grid. The lab works to predict failures on the electrical grid and protect it from blackouts. To do...

Pink Donut has created the RokBlok, a small wireless record player that instantly plays music when you place it on top of a vinyl record. The RokBlok is currently out of stock, but the next batch being made is available to reserve from the RokBlok website. Rock out to your favorite records with RokBlok’s built-in...

A pair of very limber Staffordshire bull terriers named Cooper and Emma leaped to great heights in a cooperative effort to keep a red balloon aloft in the air. These two adorable canine siblings do absolutely everything together and don’t limit themselves solely to red balloons. A post shared by Cooper & Emma (@cooperandemma) on...

Filmmaker Hani Dombe and visual artist Tom Kouris of Tom & Hani Animation have created “Lili,” a stunning ten-minute stop motion animated short about a young girl who fights a huge sandstorm to hold on to her childhood. via Neatorama Paper War, A Stop-Motion Animated Short About Two Hand-Drawn Boys Fighting Over a Girl‘Foxed!’, A...

Great Big Story went inside the driving force of London, The Knowledge Point Taxi school and the legendarily difficult exam they administer to hopeful taxi drivers. These students study for at least four years in order to become a human GPS, learning every corner of the city and memorize over 25,000 street names. Imagine a...

Alvaro Gracia Montoya of MetaBallStudios created a great visualization that compares the sizes of known galaxies by light years. Fascinating Facts and Figures About the Milky Way GalaxyBeautiful Space Images From NASA’s Chandra X-ray ObservatoryThe Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Smiley Face Galaxy Cluster Thanks to Strong Gravitational Lensing

The On-Set Facilities (OSF) teams in UK and Madrid built a fascinating real-time visual effects set-up that allows filmmakers to get a live look at actors interacting with a virtual environment while still on the set. OSF used a huge green screen, camera tracking, color correction software, game engines, and hardware compositing tools to bring...

A post shared by Alexandra Dillon (@alexandradillonartist) on Jan 21, 2018 at 12:15pm PST Los Angeles surrealist artist and sculptor Alexandra Dillon has painted a unique series of portraits on all sorts of worn paintbrushes. She also paints amazing faces on axes, shovels, cleavers, and many other found objects. A post shared by Alexandra Dillon...

A tiny baby greater one-horned rhinoceros who was born on January 4, 2018 at the Toronto Zoo gleefully splashed around in the very first shower he took all by himself. Seen here on January 14th, at 11 days old, was the first time we saw him frolicking, jumping, rolling on his side and tummy, and...

Identical twins Camille and Kennerly Kitt, also known as the Harp Twins, performed an awesome cover of legendary rock band Led Zeppelin‘s “Immigrant Song.” Here is the original song. A post shared by The Harp Twins (@camillekennerly) on Jan 25, 2018 at 5:21pm PST Identical Twins Camille & Kennerly Perform Cover Songs on the HarpThe...

A traditional table of produce prepares for takeoff after ignition in yet another brilliant stop-motion film by PES entitled “Still Life“. LEGO in Real Life, A Boy Prepares a Breakfast of Eggs and Toast Made Entirely Out of LEGO BricksScrabble 60th Anniversary Stop-Motion Animation by PesPrank Call by PES

Marek Gibney of the AI company Global Network Of Discovery (GNOD) has created a really clever interactive music map that plots through search terms, the name of an artist and those artists that are closest in style to the artist searched. The closer the other names are to the original artist, the closer they are...

Writer and director Rian Johnson posted a magical video of John Williams conducting the opening theme song for Star Wars: The Last Jedi back in December 2016 at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles. Nothing I can type will set this up well enough, so I’ll just say: John Williams. https://t.co/KpPnDMcOoL — Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson)...

Cineplex has created a wonderful supercut video highlighting the 2018 Academy Award nominees. The Oscars also posted a video of Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis announcing the 90th Academy Awards nominees. Supercut of the Early Roles Played by 2014 Oscar Nominees and WinnersThe 17th Annual Webby Awards Nominees Have Been AnnouncedClever Poster Designs for the...

On a speedy episode of their Frontiers series, Great Big Story travels to Japan to chat with robot designer and builder Takahiro Ito about Robot Sumo. The lightning fast sport features two competitors who place their little custom built robots in a circular ring to battle for mechanical supremacy. The robots quickly smash and ram...

For part three of their The Super Slow Show, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys strap on jerk vests and crash through a wall in super slow motion. Super Slow Motion Video of Air Pistol Pellets Shooting Through Old Spice Deodorant SticksSuper Slow Motion Video of a Dog Running and Leaping...

While visiting the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, DC, digital strategist and political activist John Aravosis engaged an active game of virtual fetch with a playful sea lion from behind the plexiglass of the aquarium. Aravosis stated that he got the idea when watching the seal following the finger of another visitor until the very...

Zebra Corner has inserted a “Real Person” named Mahk into a Chevrolet‘s new J.D. Power Dependability Award commercial that takes place on a busy highway. A ‘Real Person’ Named Mahk Is Inserted Into the Blind Panel of Chevy’s ‘More Awards’ CommercialA ‘Real Person’ Named Mahk Is Inserted Into a Commercial for the 2017 Buick EnvisionA...

In a fascinating Ted talk, George Steinmetz, photographer for National Geographic and climate change/global food supply documentarian, spoke about his amazing experience of capturing absolutely gorgeous aerial shots of various parts of Africa from a motorized paraglider aka a “flying lawn chair“. Steinmetz explained how his flying lawn chair worked, how high he was comfortable...

The Mermen playing at sunset just before the burn at Burning Man 1996. Legendary art car artist Tom Kennedy (who we lost in 2009) can be seen driving by at the beginning in Max the Daredevil FinMobile. La Contessa vs. The Whale at Burning Man 2003HELCO at Burning Man 1996 by Chuck CirinoWeird America’s Video...

In a heartwarming episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explained the origins and history of the legendary Sriracha chili sauce by Huy Fong Foods, the origins of the iconic rooster on the bottle, the number of knockoffs being made by big companies due to a lack of trademark, despite an unchanging market...

In 2012, we wrote about the “Song Map”, a whimsical road map by British design group Dorothy, that reimagined all roads and locations with names taken from song titles (e. g. “Highway to Hell” and “Heartbreak Hotel”). Since that time, the designers have updated the map to include 150 new songs that have come out...

A post shared by emmanuelle moureaux (@emmanuellemoureaux) on Dec 27, 2017 at 6:58pm PST Emmanuelle Moureaux, a French architect and designer who lives and works in Tokyo has created “Color of Time“, a beautiful installation that features hanging numbers that use the changing color of the day to mark the passage of time over the...

In 2012, digital artist Massimo Pietrobon created “PANGEA POLITICA“, which takes a look at the world as it once was before all the tectonic plates shifted, as the supercontinent Pangaea, but with the country borders of modern age. With this map, Pietrobon also posited whether or not the countries of the world would come together...

A fascinating map posted by redditor Georgie Washington shows that more people live in the 304.8 square miles of the New York City’s five boroughs, which is more than a large swath of the midwest and northwest United States put together including parts of Colorado, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington and...

In a truly informative piece for Vox, foreign video editor Christina Thornell very succinctly explains the history of Puerto Rico, how it became a commonwealth of the United States, how that status differs from that of a state, what governmental representation a commonwealth has and what the future holds for the American citizensof Puerto Rico....

On January 20, 2018, photographer Gary Cranfield and a friend went out into the snowy cold of Oswego, New York to look for animals they could photograph. They were just about to give up for the day when they spotted a beautiful snowy owl perched upon a sign, but by the time they were able...

Great Big Story visited with Dewi Tjahjadi, the proud proprietor of Warung Selasa (Indo Java), an Indonesian grocery store in Elmhurst, Queens that turns into one of New York City’s tiniest restaurants every Tuesday. The very amiable Tjahjadi explained that she and her family opened the store in order to provide people with Indonesian groceries...

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...