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In an animated episode of Great Big Story, the amazing historical tale of H.A. Rey and Margret Rey, the creators of the iconic mischievous monkey Curious George was told. The couple had escaped Germany to Rio de Janeiro, but after they married, the Reys made their way to Paris from Rio de Janeiro. The couple...

The Dorothy Collective has released “Hip-Hop Love Blueprint“, a beautiful print about the rich, musical history of the genre, through its origins up through its most modern iteration using a circuit diagram of a classic turntable to connect them together. The print is available for purchase through the Dorothy Collective site. Our Hip-Hop Love Blueprint...

24thry posted a video of a Chinese chef performing incredible tricks with an egg and a metal spatula. After bouncing a fragile egg up into the air numerous times and catching it on his spatula, he turns the spatula on its side, chops into the egg, and creates a beautiful heart and arrow design on...

Legendary released a new trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising, the upcoming sci-fi monster film directed by Steven S. DeKnight and a sequel to the 2013 film Pacific Rim. The thrilling trailer follows Jake Pentecost (John Boyega) as he tries to redeem himself as a Jaeger pilot and lead a new generation of pilots into war...

The AnZa is a unique concrete espresso machine that fully embraces the classic Brutalist style with it’s modular design and raw modern lines. Designed by Montaag Design, the AnZa was created in Berkeley, California where they share an an office with a coffee machine repair shop. The AnZa also comes in a sleek Art Deco...

Duncan Frazier and Steve McGuigan of Bitbanger Labs in Brooklyn have created the colorspike, a portable animation-driven RGB lighting system for both video production and photography that can easily be controlled by a smartphone. They are raising funds on Kickstarter to help with production costs. images via Bitbanger Labs submitted via Laughing Squid Tips ‘Never...

An adorable little rescued prairie dog named Peanut is very, very friendly to humans. So friendly in fact, that the Wild West Wildlife Center in Amarillo, Texas determined that releasing him back into the wild would be unwise and dangerous to the little mammal. Instead, Peanut lives at the rescue as an animal ambassador where...

An HVAC expert was sent out to a house in Plant City, Florida on September 19th, 2017 to change out an air conditioning system as part of a home renovation. After having his work inspected, the expert found out that there was a leak in the duct work. He searched the ducts and found a...

A post shared by Soo Min Kim ??? (@fseo) on Aug 8, 2017 at 5:57am PDT South Korean illustrator Soo Min Kim has been transforming regular Starbucks cups into fun works of art. He has featured the Starbucks mermaid logo in all sorts of pop culture and original settings. Their entire collection of doodles are...

Prolific filmmaker and storyteller Gary Turk visited a retirement community in the seaside town of Seaford, East Sussex UK to speak with residents about how they lived before the advent of such computer technology as the internet, mobile phones and selfies. While each of the residents first lamented the loss of personal interaction, they each...

On a hilarious episode of his Clueless Gamer series, talk show host Conan O’Brien sat down with comedian Kumail Nanjiani to play the upcoming action-packed game Middle-earth: Shadow of War. The game is available to pre-order for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC with a release date of October 10th, 2017. Conan makes fun of...

Signs.com conducted an interesting experiment, titled Branded in Memory, where they asked over 150 people to draw 10 famous company logos from memory as accurately as possible. The individuals blindly drew logos for Apple, Adidas, Burger King, Domino’s, 7-Eleven, Foot Locker, Starbucks, Walmart, Target, and IKEA and the results were quite hilarious. When a brand’s...

On an amusing episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon and Gal Gadot have a blast playing charades against Miley Cyrus and Tariq Trotter of The Roots. The Roots Perform a Magical Harry Potter-Themed Rap on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’Jimmy Fallon Plays a ‘Vanilla Ice Electronic Rap Game’ During a New ‘Do...

Netflix presents a new and creepy promo for the upcoming second season of Stranger Things that takes a close look at how upside down the year 1984 was. Season 2 will land on Netflix October 27th, 2017. You thought 1983 was strange… Trick or treat. pic.twitter.com/77LMRPzdex — Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) October 1, 2017 The Upside...

In a short piece for Vanity Fair, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hilariously acted out a number of pre-recorded facts about the universe that were being breathlessly voiced over his movements. Neil deGrasse Tyson shares mind-blowing facts about the universe. Everything Wrong with the Film ‘Gravity’ Featuring Guest Narrator Neil deGrasse TysonNeil deGrasse Tyson Answers Science...

Gus Johnson, a comedian with a wonderfully goofy sense of humor, donned a pair of pointy ears, drew a set of whiskers on his face and set his alarm at a specific time. Upon waking, Johnson shot out of bed and ran crazily around the house, knocked random things off of flat surfaces and upended...

“Ballet Rotoscope” is a short experimental film by Masahiko Sato and EUPHRATES that very cleverly uses the foundations of rotoscoping to illustrate with animated geometric shapes and lines, the fluid and graceful movements of a ballet dancer as she performs. Through research, we rediscovered and developed this technique from a new point of view by...

German insect enthusiast and breeder Adrian Kozakiewicz of Insecthaus captured amusing footage of two really beautiful African spiny flower mantises facing off against each other in a brief staring contest. One mantis had proudly raised wings, while the other started off that way but lowered them as the the visual confrontation continued. Maker Faire: King...

In 2010, Australian “investigative humorist” Dan Ilic hitchhiked his way across the United States, making his way over the course of seven days from Seattle, Washington to the heart of New York City. Along the way, Ilic met a lot of very interesting people (but no axe murderers), rode in the back of a truck...

In a fascinating animation, the ever-philosophical design house Kurzgesagt explains the vital importance of the bacterial microbiome that lives symbiotically inside the human body, from where the microbiome originates, where it exists and how it “talks to the brain” in regard to such issues as behavior, mental health, body weight and blood sugar. To survive...

Los Angeles professional beauty and special effects makeup artist Mykie of Glam&Gore posted a special effects makeup tutorial where she demonstrated how to turn yourself into a terrifying White Walker from Game of Thrones using cotton and liquid latex. Mykie then ordered a pizza, picked it up from a delivery guy, and enjoyed the pie...

For his school project, Paulo Raposo created a wonderful stop-motion animated video of a man using a laptop made entirely of paper to communicate with someone over instant messenger. He gives up and slams his laptop shut, after Adobe After Effects comes up with an irritating error message. via The Awesomer Classic Video Games Recreated...

XtremeTeamTV posted a video of a man attempting to do a backflip on his bicycle off a ramp over the open waters of Port Bay in Wolcott, New York. Unfortunately, he smashes his bike into a drone that was flying by. XtremeTeamTV also released a full video featuring their numerous jump attempts from that day....

Alison Hammond of This Morning sat down with Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling to conduct a playful interview with the duo about their upcoming film, Blade Runner 2049. Ford and Gosling could not stop laughing with the constant barrage of hilarious jokes going back and forth between them and Hammond. If you missed my Harrison...

While appearing on the Tonight Show, guest Miley Cyrus and host Jimmy Fallon hilariously recreated Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton as they appeared during their 1983 Grammy performance of their hit duet “Islands in the Stream“. Cyrus quite impressively hit the high notes of the song in the iconic Dolly Parton style. The original Dolly...

In a high-flying episode of Great Big Story‘s Frontiers series takes a trip to witness the shortest scheduled passenger flight between the Orkney, Scotland islands of Westray and Papa Westray. It takes a mere 80 seconds for the plane fly from one location and land in the other only 1.7 miles away. Got a tight...

Researchers Dr. Michael Pickard and Gurpreet Singh of the University of Sunderland submitted to 2017 Best Illusion of the Year Contest a simple but brilliant animation that explains in two different scenarios why windmills appear to spin in the opposite direction while staring at them. In this illusion, by removing alternate dots or using alternate...

Amazing Timelapse created two fascinating timelapse videos of both a plastic cassette tape and a VHS tape melting while in the presence of acetone fumes. Tube, A Giant Tunnel of Magnetic Tape from VHS CassettesA Retro TV Smartphone Magnifier That Enlarges Movies and TV Shows in an Old-Fashioned WayPBS Arts: Off Book – We Love...

On the Wednesday episode of The Ellen Show, Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey had a lot of fun while grocery shopping at Gelson’s in Los Angeles to promote Winfrey’s new food line, O, That’s Good!. The duo then made a random fan’s day by driving the lady and her daughter home to make them a...

In this video clip, a guy at a gas station in Sofia, Bulgaria apparently refused to stop smoking a cigarette while at the pump so a fed up employee took matters into his own hands by walking out to the pump and spraying him with a fire extinguisher. via cheesecakerulez, Boing Boing Alton Brown Whips...

BonusXP created a free retro style mobile game based on Stranger Things ahead of the popular series’ season 2 premiere on Netflix October 27th, 2017. The mobile game is available to download from the Apple and Google Play app stores. – It’s 1984 all over again. Experience an action adventure game just like the ones...

A post shared by Nicholas Manga (@nicholasmanga) on Sep 7, 2015 at 10:09am PDT Every year for the past ten years, students from Musashino Art University and local artists in the Niigata prefecture in Northern Japan build incredible animal sculptures out of rice straw for the annual Wara Art Festival. The sculptures are currently on...

Historical reenactor Roland Warzecha of Hamburg, Germany very gracefully demonstrated upon the grounds of History Park Bärnau, the proper gait of a person who lived in Medieval times. Explaining that because common footwear was no more than a “leather sock”, people had to walk with the ball of their foot forward first. The way that...

While stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas after suffering a traumatic brain injury in Iraq, soldier Josh Marino fell into a deep pit of anxiety caused by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). On the evening he decided to take his own life, he sat outside the barracks to smoke a final cigarette and heard a kitten meowing...

While performing at the Triad Theatre in New York City, comedian Drew Tarvin performed a hilarious spoken word interpretation of the meaning of life. In doing so, he employed over 100 well known clichés, song lyrics, product slogans, and TV show titles, all of which he brilliantly connected together. As they say money makes the...

A post shared by TimNewtonPhotography (@timnewtonphotography) on Oct 2, 2017 at 6:21pm PDT On September 27, 2017, Tim Newton of Anchorage, Alaska, awoke to strange noises he heard outside . When he went to investigate, he discovered a mama lynx and her seven adorable kits just hanging out on his back deck, exploring the environment....

In a fascinating essay about the sublime dystopian series Black Mirror, video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter takes a deep look into how the darkeness of the series affects the audience in such a way as to make the show as popular as it is. As Puschak notes, Aristotle defined tragedy...

In her latest tutorial video, the super talented Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome celebrated fall by demonstrating how to make a beautifully decorated pumpkin pie featuring an edible self-portrait. A post shared by Pies Are Awesome (@thepieous) on Oct 3, 2017 at 6:53am PDT Pie-Modding, A Cookbook on How to Modify Pre-Made Desserts...

Truck Drivers U.S.A shared an aerial footage of a man explaining how he backs up his semi-trailer truck in a very tight spot with ease. The video of the relaxed man’s smooth parking job, along with the chill guidance goes together so well. BMX Expert Tim Knoll Explains How To ‘Bike Limbo’ Under Big RigsStuntman...

Los Angeles producer Ron Cicero and director Kimo Easterwood teamed up to create Happy Happy, Joy Joy – The Ren & Stimpy Story, an independent documentary that will shed light on the the hilarious 1990s animated series Ren & Stimpy. They are currently raising funds on Indiegogo to help with finishing the film. The feature...

District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp of Oats Studios has teamed up with Unity to help create the next installments of their ADAM franchise. First up is ADAM: The Mirror, a follow-up to the original sci-fi short film ADAM from 2016. The magnificent short, created in real-time using the Unity game engine, follows an...

A big beautiful St. Bernard named Mochi, who was rescued from the Big Dogs Huge Paws shelter and lives with her doting humans Carla and Craig Rickert in Sioux Falls, South Dakota set a Guinness World Record for her incredibly long tongue, which measures an amazing 7.3 inches. According to Carla, Mochi came to them...

On a gorgeous episode of The Great Big Story series Human Condition, they met up with Los Angeles performance artist, painter, and illustrator Butch Locsin (a.k.a. “Skeleton of Color“) to take a look at how he collaborates with others with his large skull masks, vibrant attire, and a plethora of colorful smoke grenades inspired by...

In anticipation of season two of Stranger Things coming to Netflix on October 27th, ScreenPrism has created a two-part series where they unearth all of the amazing references, homages, and Easter eggs scattered throughout season one. Easter Eggs in Season One of Stranger ThingsDaredevil Season 2 Easter Eggs, Secret Cameos and Hidden ReferencesEaster Eggs, References...

On an amusing episode of The View, special guest Larry David dropped in to chat about his life, future projects, and the revival of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The ninth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm began airing on HBO October 1st, 2017. SpongeBob and Squidward Reenact a Scene From Curb Your Enthusiasm In an Amusing MashupLarry...

Lisbon, Portugal art director and illustrator João Rocha has released 2 Kinds of People: A Visual Compatibility Quiz, his new interactive book featuring clever side by side illustrations comparing the two kinds of people in this world. The book is available to purchase from Amazon. 2 Kinds of People is the interactive visual personality quiz...

The Action Lab demonstrates the power of polyethylene glycol, an amazing liquid that can pour itself out of a container due to it’s very long chains of linked molecules. Polyethylene Oxide, The Liquid That Pours ItselfAn Explanation Why Ketchup And Other Non-Newtonian Fluids Are So Hard To PourHow To Inexpensively Create an Elegantly Smoked Cocktail

Australian musician Alan Gogoll who is known for his gorgeous Bell’s Harmonics” guitar technique performed a number of original songs with a camera facing out fromthe instrument’s sound hole, giving a limited but really unique view of the strings in play. Gogoll had been releasing each song on Instagram and then compiled them all into...

A post shared by Karin Pfeiff Boschek (@karinpfeiffboschek) on Jul 20, 2017 at 1:52pm PDT Baker Karin Pfeiff Boschek who runs the Our Delicious Food blog, makes absolutely gorgeous homemade pies that are topped off with really creative crust designs. The designs may vary – floral, geometric, cut out or built on – but each...

“Pitch” by Alex Norris on webcomic name DifferentWebcomic Name, A Daily Comic Featuring Blob Characters in Silly and Awkward SituationsPitch Deck, A Hilarious Game That Fully Embraces the Absurdity of the Startup Funding Process