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A hilarious Orting, Washington family, all of whom are dressed in t-rex costumes, ran up to their oldest daughter as she was trying to get off of the bus after a long day at school. The young lady didn’t waste any time running down the drive way to get away from the prehistoric madness. My...

Earlier this year, five-year-old Adam Mohammad Amer, amazed the pilots and cabin crew on board an Etihad Airways flight from Morocco to Abu Dhabi by explaining everything that he knew about the ins and out of the aircraft that they were on and demonstrating what needed to happen in an emergency situation. After the airline...

In a rather creepy Burger King commercial that appears to combine elements from the Netflix series Stranger Things with the Stephen King film It, a teenage boy who was riding his bicycle on Halloween night, suddenly and inexplicably found himself surrounded by clowns (including one dressed similarly to the mascot of the competition) who were...

Just ahead of National Black Cat Day on October 27 and Halloween, animator Simon Toland and animal behaviorist Nicky Trevorrow of the adorably animated advice series “Simons Cat Logic“, do their best to dispel the myth black cats cause bad luck and instead explain why it’s so difficult for black cats to get adopted, despite...

A couple of adorably competitive cats named Sweetie and Sam, attempted to keep up with one another while striding upon a quickly moving treadmill. Both cats got knocked off the machine a couple of times, but in the end received a lot of love from their nearby human. Sweetie and Sam were sharing the treadmill....

Creative director Sean Ohlenkamp and friend Rob Popkin created “Oh My Gourd“, a wonderful stop motion video of seasonally appropriate, cleverly carved pumpkins dancing to a soundtrack of music made with pumpkins by Grayson Matthews. Dozens upon dozens upon dozens of pumpkins were cut, gutted, rotated, scraped, poked, slapped, and banged to make this stop-motion...

In the fourth video from of his “Monsoon” series, photographer Mike Olbinski, a Phoenix-based stormchaser, once again captured the beauty of the skies over the American southwest during the summer storm season of 2017. One bonus this summer was a few successful chases up at the Grand Canyon. Finally. A couple of gorgeous sunsets, rain...

Air Measure by Laan Labs is a free iOS app that employs augmented reality to use in place of tape measures, rulers and yardsticks in a variety of situations. In addition to its usefulness in distance or height, the company is also testing out an augmented reality guide that can help a driver accurately parallel...

Great Big Story visited with John Moschitta Jr, actor and former Guinness World Record holder for World’s Fastest Talker, who shared with them how he learned to talk with such speed, how he got discovered, his breakout role and his long career in show business, all at varying speeds of speech. John Moschitta Jr.’s motormouth...

British designer Scott Jarvie has created the wonderful Void Rug, a clever floor covering that creates the optical illusion that, when viewed at a certain angle, makes it appear as if there is an unexpected gaping hole right in the middle of the room. The Void Rug, when viewed at a particular angle, creates the...

A really clever ad by Think!road safety employs pink kittens, a stylized music video theme and a soundtrack by Aphex Twin, in order to show how many cool things that people can miss when they are looking at their cell phones while driving. The ad was directed by We Are From LA, the duo behind...

In the thriller film WINCHESTER: The House That Ghosts Built, actress Dame Helen Mirren portrays Sarah Winchester, a grieving widow who inherited her late husband’s eponymous Repeating Arms business and vast estate. Having so much wealth to spare, in 1884, Winchester began building a fantastic mansion, later known as the Winchester Mystery House, in San...

Great Big Story traveled to London, Ontario to visit with Robert Wardhaugh, an amazing man who started his first game of Dungeons and Dragons in 1982 at the young age of 14. Wardhaugh has been the dungeon master of that exact same campaign for the past 35 years. He has built friendships with people from...

Los Angeles film critic Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, sat down to talk about how he celebrated Halloween growing up and what it is like now as an adult without sight. Blind Film Critic Tommy Edison Answers Questions About What He Thinks He Looks LikeBlind Man Tommy Edison Has Questions For Sighted...

A group of 245 thrillseekers joined together and attempted to break a world record by rope jumping at the same time from a 98-foot-high bridge in Hortolândia, Brazil. The attendees, who were all wearing proper safety equipment, beat the old world record of 149 participants that was set in 2016. via NDTV, Digg Chinese School...

Netflix released the second official trailer for Bright, their upcoming fantasy action film directed by David Ayer, written by Max Landis, and starring Will Smith. The trailer follows Scott Ward (Will) and his partner, Orc cop Nick Jakoby (Joel Edgerton), as they try to keep a magic wand from destroying the planet. Bright is set...

LEGO posted a wonderful timelapse video of their team of creatives building a life-sized version of the LEGO Speeds Champions Scuderia Ferrari SF16-H. The LEGO team brought the amazing Formula One racing car to life in 750 hours with the use of 349,911 carefully placed bricks. Wes Anderson’s Illustrious ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Built Entirely Out...

Venice, Italy illustrator and designer Jacopo Rosati created The Social Network Tarots, a series of illustrations imagining a modern tarot card deck inspired by social media and internet culture. A post shared by Jacopo Rosati (@jacopo.rosati) on Aug 3, 2017 at 12:49am PDT images via Jacopo Rosati via Ufunk, DesignTAXI A Spectacular Series of Felt...

A post shared by Stephan Brusche (@isteef) on Sep 23, 2017 at 9:35am PDT Dutch artist Stephan Brusche (a.k.a. “isteef“) has added to his collection of fruitful designs by transforming even more tasty bananas into amazing works of art. Brusche shared the full series of banana art on Instagram, Facebook, and his website. A post...

Video editor James Casey of The Solomon Society created a wonderful new video featuring beloved dance scenes from animated Disney movies. Casey appropriately set his montage to Sim Gretina‘s remix of the classic Jungle Book song “I Wan’na Be like You.” A Homemade, Live-Action Remake of the Official Trailer for the Animated Disney Film ‘Frozen’Disney...

Actor Andy Serkis, best known for his portrayal of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes films, sat down with WIRED to share the history of his motion capture performances. Actor Andy Serkis Creates a Conversation Between Gollum and Caesar From ‘Dawn of the Planets of the...

During Helsinki Design Week, the Finnish multi-disciplinary firm Casagrande debuted their unique Tikku, an amazing prefabricated, three story, self-sufficient, environmentally friendly, micro apartment building with a footprint small enough to fit into a standard parking space. Tikku is a needle of urban acupuncture, conquering the no-man’s land from the cars and tuning the city towards...

In the Magnolia Pictures film The Square directed by Ruben Östlund, a rather altruistic art curator named Christian (Claes Bang), who is environmentally aware and a good dad to his two children, is studiously planning for an upcoming show also entitled “The Square” when his smartphone is stolen. The search for this piece of technology...

In 2016, a big mama bear and her two little cubs enjoyed a refreshing dip in the big, beautiful backyard pool of Gatlinburg, Tennessee resident Cindy Dorrow. Dorrow was surprised to see her ursine visitors so close to home, but she kept her wits about her enough to keep filming as much as she could....

A post shared by Augie and Aris (@babyandthebody) on Oct 16, 2017 at 5:04am PDT Photographer Katina Behm has created the adorable Instagram series “Baby and the Body”, recreating her younger brother Aristotle Polites‘s modeling photos with her toddler son Augie in standing in hs Uncle’s place. She got the idea for this from hilariously...

The town of Ísafjörður in northern Iceland has taken a creative step to slow down traffic by painting a pedestrian crossing with bright white lines that appear to jump right off the ground with a 3D illusion. Photographer Ágúst G. Atlason of Gústi Productions captured wonderful photos that show off the illusion in its full...

While promoting their book “Sisters First“, former First Daughters and fraternal twins Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush Jr very hilariously shared their respective phones with Derek Blasberg host of the Vanity Fair series “Derek Does Stuff with a Friend“, produced for Condé Nast Entertainment. Blasberg first examined Barbara’s phone, learning the nickname the...

During his fourth year at CalArts, artist and filmmaker Aram Sarkisian created “Winston,” an eerily poetic animated short film about a paranoid old man living alone during a freezing cold winter. via io9 ‘Feast’, An Animated Short by Walt Disney Animation Studios About a Cute Food-Loving Dog Named WinstonNews Personality Bob Herzog Sings ‘Just Don’t...

In an adorable ad campaign promoting the beauty and quality of handcrafted Japanese furniture, the city of Okawa in the Fukuoka Prefecture commissioned two local shops to build tiny versions of their own designs specifically for cats. Tateno Wood Art created a replica of their slatted bed, while the Hiromatsu Wood Work Company made a...

Vulture took a look at the history of scary clowns. They spoke with writer and clown expert Benjamin Radford to find out exactly what happened to make clowns so creepy. Clowns have always been represented as tricksters and jokers, from the days of jesters all the way through Ronald McDonald, but the high jinks were...

Rio de Janeiro motion and graphic designer Vinicius Araújo (a.k.a. “VA Designer“) has created 36days Electronics, a stunning digital alphabet featuring electronics as letters that each represent a popular brand. A post shared by Graphic and Motion Designer (@va_designer) on Oct 12, 2017 at 6:12pm PDT A post shared by Graphic and Motion Designer (@va_designer)...

A post shared by Sprout (@brussels.sprout) on Oct 21, 2017 at 3:19pm PDT On Saturday, October 21, 2017, the canines of New York City donned their most elaborate costumes and proudly marched alongside their proud humans at the 27th Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade taking place at the community managed Tompkins Square Dog Run....

The cast of Bob’s Burgers sat down with Vulture to improvise a special little mini-episode where Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda Belcher (John Roberts) have the talk with their kids — Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Louise (Kristen Schaal) — about how babies are made. The Dark and Cannibalistic Origins of Bob’s...

Domino artist Lily Hevesh (a.k.a. “Hevesh5“) teamed up with the brilliant Kaplamino to create a domino “screenlink” video where they capture footage of all sorts of unconventional domino tricks and edit them all together to make it look like one continuous chain reaction. Kaplamino and I live in different countries, so it was impossible to...

Competitive eater Matt “Megatoad” Stonie managed to stomach a new challenge where he devoured 100 slices of white bread in 39 minutes. A post shared by Matt Stonie (@matt_stonie) on Oct 23, 2017 at 5:05pm PDT Competitive Eater Consumes 200 Marshmallow Peeps in One SittingCompetitive Eater Consumes 100 Marshmallow Peeps In Just Over Two Minutes,...

In her latest tutorial video, the awesome Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome demonstrated how to make a spooky one-of-a-kind carousel “piescraper” based on Tim Burton and Henry Selick‘s classic stop-motion animated film, The Nightmare Before Christmas. The Nightmare Before Christmas is my all-time favourite holiday movie, and I wanted to do something really...

Determined Scottish YouTuber Mike Boyd of the Learn Quick series challenged himself to quickly learn how to throw an axe. He didn’t stop until he pulled off three successful throws in a row at a target. Boyd’s awesome tomahawk was made by blacksmith and fellow Youtuber Alec Steele. A post shared by Mike Boyd (@mikeboydvideo)...

Geoff Oxholm, a research engineer in the Creative Intelligence Lab at Adobe Research in San Francisco, took the stage at Adobe MAX 2017 to give the audience a look at Project Cloak, their new content aware technology that allows users to remove unwanted objects from video footage with only a few simple clicks. via PetaPixel...

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Davie504, the talented bassist who is constantly looking for new ways to play, demonstrated a truly unusual 15-string version of the instrument, impressively slapping the lowest strings for those of his fans who are all about the bass and no treble. Slapping the 15 Strings Bass Guitar :D This time I am playing the lowest...

After being separated for several weeks in September 2017, a newly reunited swan couple in Dordrecht, Netherlands immediately swam towards one another. As soon as they reached each other, the pair nuzzled each other, forming the shape of a heart as their heads touched. The female of the pair had taken ill with a case...

In the stunning Yoann Bourgeois performance entitled “La Mécanique de L’Histoire”, faceless dancers gracefully fell from an Escheresque rotating circular stairway and in an amazing demonstration of intertia, balance and control, immediately rebounded back onto the steps with a single bounce off of a trampoline. The figures repeated the movement over and again until only...

In a briny episode of “Things You Might Not Know“, host Tom Scott travelled to Calipatria, California known for being the lowest elevation city in the western hemisphere. While standing next to the city’s famous flagpole, Scott explained why Calipatria is not submerged under water despite being 184 feet below sea level, what the term...

While on location in Costa Rica, the adventurous Brave Wilderness host Coyote Peterson was back at the hotel when his camera crew came across a singular and beautiful red velvet worm. They brought this incredible creature back to Peterson, who excitedly built a miniature Planet Earth style set in order to feature exclusive footage of...

A post shared by Massimiliano Pelletti (@massimiliano_pelletti) on Aug 21, 2017 at 11:10pm PDT Italian contemporary sculptor Massimiliano Pelletti creates absolutely stunning Classical style busts and sculptures that are crafted out of quartz, bronze, marble and semi-precious stone such as black soapstone, many of which feature the tactile textures of both the smoothness of the...

While “playing around with a light-painting tool under the Milky Way”, visual artist Rod Evans conjured up an unexpected giant mushroom in his Northern NW Australian backyard. Pleased with the results, Evans went about creating more until he had a virtual garden of these magical creations. I somehow managed to conjure up a magic mushroom....

Performer Andy Williams of Liverpool, North West England is a man of unusual talent in that he has an uncanny ability to replicate the soothing sounds of a saxophone without any trace of the reeded woodwind in sight. Amongst his favorites songs to perform is the distinctive Henry Mancini-penned “Theme from The Pink Panther” as...

BuzzFeed employees Garrick Bernard, Sydnee Goodman, and Crystal House sat down and tried to play Grand Theft Auto V without breaking any laws. The three eager participants were each given a list of three tasks to complete while trying their hardest to be model citizens in the chaotic in-game world. “I had to take an...

The Rick and Morty YouTube channel posted a series of compilation videos (part 1, 2, and 3) featuring some of the funniest moments from the third season of Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty Scenes Recreated in Fallout 4A Sneak Peek at Animatics From Rick and Morty Season ThreeRick and Morty Accidentally Kill the Simpsons...

Jim Zimmerlin of Grover Beach, California strapped a GoPro HERO5 camera to his Amtrak Model Passenger Train and captured POV footage of the train traveling through his home and backyard. via reddit A Fast Moving Train Showers Waiting Passengers With Snow As It Moves Into the StationPOV Footage of a LEGO Train’s Epic Journey Through...