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British Columbian digital design student Ben Marken of Dragonfly Fabrication created a double barrel candy corn wrist shooter. Marken shared the tutorial for his candy corn launcher, as well as the 3D printable models used to make it, on Thingiverse. via Make: A Wonderful Animation by PES of a Crackling Candy Corn ‘Fireplace’ Loop Remastered...

Dutch photographer and filmmaker Frans Hofmeester filmed his lovely daughter, Lotte, once a week from the time she was an infant until she was 18. Hofmeester created a stunning timelapse video that shows Lotte aging from a baby to a young adult in a little over five minutes. The time-lapses confront us with our mortality....

Paris, France freeride mountain biker Antoine Bizet captured POV footage on a GoPro camera of his exhilarating first downhill canyon run at the Red Bull Rampage 2017 challenge in Virgin, Utah. The crowd went wild when Bizet knocked out an amazing double backflip. A post shared by Antoine Bizet (@antoinebizet) on Oct 30, 2017 at...

Members of the United States Army Field Band paid a visit to Dr. Paul Cohen, a teacher and musician who has in his possession an incredible collection of rare and antique saxophones of all sizes and shapes. Each of the band members picked out an instrument that looked interesting and played it best he could....

In an inspirational episode of Amazing Places, host Tom Scott visited the California desert town of Slab City, to find out the story behind Salvation Mountain, a colorful memorial to one man’s devotion. In the 1990s, Leonard Knight was looking for a way to demonstrate his faith and somehow came up with the idea of...

Knowing how much their big, fluffy Persian cat enjoys boxes, very considerate humans made a little car out of a shoebox, tied a string onto the front and took him for a little ride. Although the ride stopped after a couple of minutes, the stubborn little kitty absolutely refused to leave his beloved custom box....

For Halloween 2017, Jesse Wellens and model Carmella Rose dressed as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia and rode around New York City on a custom Star Wars Speeder Bike built by Lithium Cycles. Vlogger Casey Neistat captured the entire adventure on video, including footage showing how it was all made. A post shared by Jesse...

In another of their very insightful video essays, film and television analysis platform ScreenPrism dug into the classic series Friends. looking specifically at how the platonic relationships between the characters were often portrayed as familiarly romantic whenever there was a responsibility to be met, an argument, a tender moment or moving out of an apartment....

Jibo is a digital assistant that, like the Amazon Echo and Google Home, is always-on with a listening capability to answer questions, search the Internet, set alarms and play music. What makes Jibo different is a video screen, an embedded camera that uses facial and voice technology to recall personal interactions with specific individuals. Jibo is...

98demake, the YouTube channel that turns modern games into their late 1990s equivalent, is back to give us a glimpse at what Studio MDHR‘s indie platformer video game, Cuphead, might have looked like if it was made back in 1992. A post shared by @98demake on Oct 26, 2017 at 5:23am PDT New ‘Cuphead’ Video...

“Mojave Forsaken” is a creepy timelapse video by filmmakers Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinović that goes on a magnificent nighttime journey through ghost towns of the Mojave Desert. The new video is part of their SKYGLOW project, a photo book and video series focused on the night sky. Flanking the infamous Death Valley to the...

In a fortifying episode of the PBS video series It’s Okay to Be Smart, host Joe Hanson explains how the surprising science that originated from a bowl of Cheerios such as cereal clumping, surface tension and the Meniscus Effect, helps to explain how certain insects interact with water. How does the physics of cereal clumping...

Hot Toys has created an amazing collection of figures for their for ongoing Movie Masterpiece series. Their latest Star Wars themed creation is a beautiful porcelain pattern version of a stormtrooper, which is available to purchase from Sideshow Collectibles. This very special Star Wars collectible: a sixth scale Stormtrooper figure is inspired by the highly...

Omar von Muller, a very skilled animal trainer and dedicated human to the Jumpy the Dog, shared a wonderful video of Lucy, another talented dog, as she propelled herself across a park on while standing amazingly upright upon a skateboard. Lucy also knows how to count and even dances the Merengue with von Muller. Jumpy...

A post shared by Denis Cherim (@denischerim) on Aug 31, 2017 at 12:46am PDT Turkish world traveling photographer Denis Scherim who is currently doing an artist-in-residency program in Taiwan, has created “The Coincidence Project“, a stunning photo series that focuses on the synchronicity of subject and surroundings – the intersecting lines that create a geometric...

Christian Ihlo (a.k.a. “Mr.Puzzle“) demonstrates how to disassemble and reassemble the Pento T, an incredibly difficult wooden puzzle designed by Jean Claude Constantin. Not only the most difficult but also one of the most beautiful jigsaw puzzles ever build. Wait until you see the parts interlock and high in plain sight. A real masterpiece that...

New York City filmmaker, photographer and creative director Daniel Soares has created “The Normal People,” a short film that takes a look inside The Race of Gentlemen in Wildwood, New Jersey. Every year people from all over the world meet in Wildwood, NJ to race their bikes and hotrods from the 1920’s and 1930’s on...

While playing upon a miniature pool table, an adorably eagle eyed calico expertly sunk a couple of shots into both the corner and side pockets one-by-one, as her human put new balls on the table. The kitty could have become a serious pool shark if only she didn’t keep looking for the sunken balls after...

A post shared by Dave Pollot Art (@davepollotart) on Oct 14, 2017 at 9:15am PDT Rochester, New York artist Dave Pollot, whose work we have written about in the past, has returned with a new collection of old thrift store paintings that he has added even more pop culture characters and objects to. Prints of...

London animator Steve Warne has created “Pombo Loves You,” a beautiful stop motion animated short about a father who runs into problems while trying to run away from his troubled past-life as an 1980s TV show hero named Pombo. via Vimeo Staff Picks A Frantic Dad Gives His Family the Best Gift He Can in...

Spoon released a new music video for their song “Do I Have To Talk You Into It” featuring a bizarre Photoshop tutorial where lead singer Britt Daniel is repeatedly being digitally manipulated into oblivion. The song is from their 2017 album Hot Thoughts. via Digg You Suck at Photoshop, Hilarious Tutorials by Donnie HoyleDEVO’s Quirky...

Primitive Technology demonstrates how to make a natural draft furnace out of materials found in the wild. He built the furnace to test “ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows.” Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in...

With Halloween just a few days away, the adorable feline duo of Cole and Marmalade searched all over the house for the spooky spirits lurking about, causing their beloved human Chris to wonder whether or not cats can actually see ghosts. Are you a believer in the supurrnatural? … Things that go bump in the...

YouTuber Jenny Nicholson who likes to act out unlikely scenes, tried on a number of cheap Halloween costumes that are often found on the clearance rack, making fun of the various items. Amongst this funny fashion show was a boy’s Scorpion King costume, a sexy “One Eyed, One Horned Flying Purple People Eater“, a fun...

Josh Sundquist, a Paralympian, motivational speaker and author who lost one of his legs to cancer when he was young, is known for his fabulous Halloween costumes that specifically address his missing limb. In the past, Sundquist has dressed up as an IHOP Restaurant sign, a foosball player, a one-legged lampshade, a half-eaten gingerbread man...

The Japanese design house PARTY has created an incredible display of living art inside the grass space of the Tokyo Midtown venue, the location of the 2017 Design Touch event. Entitled “Digital Vegetables“, this piece features seven different living vegetables that reside inside a beautifully LED lit, touch-sensitive, futuristic greenhouse that offers an interactive multimedia...

ThinkGeek has created an officially licensed set of six Star Wars coasters that each feature a cross section of the Millennium Falcon. When the clear coasters are stacked up on top of each other, they reveal a 3D image of the popular Star Wars spacecraft. Bring the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy to...

An adorably hungry munchkin cat joined her human in consuming corn on the cob from opposite ends of the ear, while her siblings in the background watched intently. The little cat found that she enjoyed the bright yellow kernels so much that she began gnawing on her end with increasing gusto, until her human on...

On a stealthy episode of his Clueless Gamer series, talk show host Conan O’Brien sat down with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers to play Ubisoft‘s newly released game, Assassin’s Creed Origins. Later in their playthrough, they were joined by Packers offensive tackle David Bakhtiari. Assassin’s Creed Origins is available to purchase for Xbox One,...

In an amusing new short from Cartoon Network‘s Justice League Action television series, Mark Hammill vocally got into character as his two evil crooks, Joker and Trickster, as they both teamed up to abduct famous actor Mark Hamill. When famous actor Mark Hamill is kidnapped by master villain The Joker it will take all his...

Tracy, California music teacher Tom BetGeorge and the team at Magical Light Shows decorated BetGeorge‘s home with tens of thousands LED lights and put on an spooktacular Nightmare Before Christmas light show synced to the song “This Is Halloween.” An Incredible Halloween Light Display Synced to Disney Villains SongsHalloween Light Show, A House With LED...

Andy Boerne, Texas woodworker Andy Rawls has released a very relaxing 7-minute video where we get to kick back and watch as he carves a boomerang out of Ipe, a tropical wood from Brazil. Ipe is a tropical wood from Brazil that is very dense and resilient to decay. This was my first attempt at...

In honor of the second season of Stranger Things being released on Netflix, ScreenPrism released a fascinating break down of season one. They brought to light how the brave group of kids took on the dark and dangerous world adulthood with friendship, wonder, and imagination. Stranger Things teaches us how to think like a kid....

Suburbicon stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore sat down with Wired to answer the web’s most searched questions about the themselves during an Autocomplete Interview. Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions About ThemselvesAmy Schumer and Goldie Hawn Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions About ThemselvesWill Ferrell and Amy Poehler Answer...

A post shared by Manny Lopez (@paulmannplus2) on Oct 27, 2016 at 5:30am PDT Two fathers Paul Sandmann and Manny Lopez with a twin girl and boy (Adelaide and Augustus) have been creating amazing pop culture themed Halloween costumes for their adorable little family. They have made DIY costumes based on characters from The Wizard...

To celebrate the second season of Netflix‘s popular show dropping today, The Warp Zone unleashed a new upside down parody where they add hilarious lyrics to the Stranger Things theme song. A Capella Cover of the Eerie Stranger Things Theme Song by The Warp ZoneStranger Things Kids Attempts to Make up Lyrics to the Show’s...

Hulu released an exciting trailer for Runaways, their upcoming television series created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage that will be based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. The trailer featured the young superhero group finding out about their parents’ evil ways and learning how to harness their new powers. Runaways...

In 2014, we wrote about Simon Toland and his fundraising efforts to make an 12-minute color animation entitled “Off to the Vet“, which comically tells the story about getting an unwilling Simon’s Cat in to see the doctor. After three years of production and winning awards at film festivals, the finished video is now available...

MinutePhysics host Henry Reich has created an absolutely fantastic whiteboard animation documenting and diagramming the different forms of time travel employed in various films, books, television shows and video games and the challenging ethical questions each presents. For ages I’ve been thinking about doing a video analyzing time travel in fiction and doing a comparison...

In February 2017, the very talented Lady Gaga performed with the legendary Metallica an absolutely incredible version of the band’s song “Moth Into the Flame” for the 59th annual Grammy Awards. The performance appeared effortless and a peek into the pre-show rehearsal proved just how well the artists worked together. Filmed during rehearsals for our...

A post shared by ?? ???????????? (@photo.accent) on Oct 5, 2017 at 8:37pm PDT Japanese photographer Hisakata Hiroyuki has created a wonderful photo series in which very playful cats reach for a fishing rod toy right above their head and in doings so, appear to be practicing defensive martial arts of some sort or perhaps...

While visiting the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., a curious guest approached the touch activated Virtual Shark Tank and reached out to touch the glass, repeating the movement over and again. The lack of immediate results left the patron completely unprepared for what came next, when a giant (simulated) shark appeared out of nowhere...

Model Chrissy Teigen invited Joe Sabia of Condé Nast Entertainment into her gorgeous Beverly Hills home to answer 73 random questions for Vogue. Teigen affably shared her thoughts on Halloween, being a mom, her marriage to John Legend, being famously blocked by a certain someone on Twitter, her favorite recipes for her new cookbook, meeting...

The team at Webflow has created an amusing microsite that allows viewers to scroll through a funny, 20-second history lesson on the web. It uses a collection of impressive IX2 interactions and animations to show how the internet has evolved by leaps and bounds over the years. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips An Amusing Animation...

British inventor Colin Furze took a standard briefcase and turned it into a portable gas fireplace that comes equipped with necessary extras like a thermos for tea and a tasty biscuit. Hell yeah, people get cold, people have a case’s n stuff so why not stick a fire in one……Boom Briefcase Fireplace. Thanks to who...

Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer of Corridor Digital have created a new live-action comedy short about a heroic clockmaker who attempts to help out a smart watch that was stolen from the President. The duo works together to escape the clutches of a group of persistent thieves. A Group of Fangirls Get Fed Up With...

Earlier this week, during a Future Investment Initiative panel in Saudi Arabia, CNBC journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin conducted an interesting and creepy live interview with Hanson Robotics‘ humanoid robot named Sophia. Sophia demonstrated how she was able to socialize with humans through artificial intelligence and facial expressions. A Lifelike Robot Agrees to Destroy Humans During...

Epic Pictures Group has released the first official trailer for Radius, a Canadian sci-fi thriller film co-directed by Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard. It follows a man named Liam (Diego Klattenhoff), who just woke up from a car crash, with a deadly superpower that he cannot control. Whenever he gets to close some others, they...

Eclectic Method has created a powerful remix of the Wonder Woman superhero film. Patty Jenkin’s box office crushing Wonder Woman has cemented the chances of more female-led super hero movies. The fight scenes deliver a style of choreography only woman can elegantly pull off. Ignoring all the perfectly decent male actors in the movie I...

Stranger Things stars Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler) and Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair) sat down with WIRED to reveal what’s on their phones. ‘Stranger Things’ stars Finn Wolfhard and Caleb McLaughlin show us the last things they did with their phones. What was the last emoji they used? The last text message sent? What was the...