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French photographer Stephane Vetter captured and created an absolutely stunning panoramic eclipse composite with sparkling star trails. The photos were taken in near Lake Magone in Oregon during the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. According to Vetter, the process took a bit of time, but the resulting image was worth it. It was...

The first photo from the upcoming biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody about the history of Queen, directed by Bryan Singer, was released to Entertainment Weekly.

An 87 year old woman attending DragonCon in Atlanta, Georgia garnered a great deal of attention as she came in on a rolling iron throne, elegantly dressed as Olenna Tyrell of Highgarden and holding a sign that said "It Was Me".

The 2017 World Beard and Moustache Championships took place Saturday, September 1-3 at the Long Center in Austin, Texas.

Rob Beschizza of Boing Boing created this wonderful Shopping Cart Alignment Chart that accuratly categorizes people based on how they return their shopping cart. via Boing Boing Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors by Fred Armisen & Carrie BrownsteinShopping Cart LoungerMoonwalking With Shopping Cart at Walmart

In May 2017, a father and son rather excitedly and profanely reacted as a powerful microburst took out five trees one by one in the yard of their Greenville,Tennessee home. As this was happening, the son, named Alex, went out to retrieve his scooter, despite his previous declination. Dad:’Do you want to try and get...

In 2015, we wrote about the then 20 year old Hugo Cornellier, who had created a timelapse made up of 8 years worth of daily selfies, wearing the same expression. Since that time, Cornellier has been adding more daily selfies to the timelapse. This version concluded on his August 2017 wedding day. It’s that time...

While watching his dad run around their County Kerry kitchen in an attempt to catch a wayward bat, Irish filmmaker and comedian Tadhg Fleming took it upon himself to hilariously narrate the situation from a safe place in the utility closet. In doing so, he paid careful attention to his father’s rapid movements, his mam...

Filmmaker Devin Graham (a.k.a. “Devin Super Tramp“) teamed up with Subaru to film a group of thrill seekers (Marshall Miller, Jesse Hall, Carson Klein, Sean Chuma, and Hartman Rector) as they did incredible Slip ‘N Slide base jumps off of a 500 foot cliff. Devin also posted behind the scenes footage of the insanely awesome...

An adorably lively little dachshund named Bernie bounced up and down as if he were on a trampoline until he could grab hold of the handle of a sliding glass door with his mouth. Once the handle was reached, Bernie very cleverly used the force of his own weight to open the doorjust enough for...

In 2015, construction worker David Bradley was working with his rock crusher when he accidentally disturbed a coyote den underneath. After four pups ran out, Bradley continued on with his work when he discovered a fifth pup caught underneath. The tiny blue eyed coyote peeked his little head out, but his legs were trapped. Very...

In an ominous trailer for the third season of the sublime USA series Mr. Robot, a befuddled Elliott (Rami Malek) wakes up in a place he doesn’t know, unable to remember anything that happened. While he was sleeping, however Mr. Robot (Christian Slater) and Tyrell Wellic (Martin Wollström) were busy planning the unstoppable demise of...

On an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live that aired back in 2014, host Jimmy Kimmel featured a hilarious video where Hodor (Kristian Nairn) from Game of Thrones attempted to play the final round of Family Feud. Due to poor Hodor’s limited vocabulary, he botched the game and sadly walked off stage. The Cast of ‘Modern...

Harman Productions has created an incredible compilation of past 22 presidents addressing the people of the United States as a whole (for a variety of reasons). The video begins with #23 – Benjamin Harrison and concludes with #45 – Donald Trump. It’s remarkable to listen how the American accent changed over the course of a...

Los Angeles filmmaker Andrew McMurry of Nukazooka created an action packed animated mashup that merges together the world of LEGO with the Grand Theft Auto video game series. Grand Theft Auto meets LEGO. Live Action Movie Trailer Based on the Video Game ‘Grand Theft Auto V’Grand Theft Auto: RISE, Video Game Inspired Live Action Short...

While at 2017 Oktoberfest 2017in Bavaria, 38-year old tax inspector Oliver Strümpfel smashed his old Guinness World Record for the most beer steins carried a distance of 131 feet. In 2014, he was able to carry 24 steins. This year, Oliver managed to carry 31 beer-filled tankards stacked up in two tiers and then set...

Barney and friends perform the song “Playa Hater” by The Notorious B.I.G. in an amusing mashup by Mylo the Cat. Here is the original music video. Barney and Friends Perform the Song ‘Big Poppa’ by The Notorious B.I.G.Barney and Friends Perform the Song ‘Get Money’ by The Notorious B.I.G.Earl Sinclair, The Dad From the Television...

A wonderfully devoted cat named Nabi has taken it upon himself to protect his feline friend, a beautiful, disabled orange tabby whose back legs don’t work very well. The cats are feral and live outdoors, but locals ensure that both have plenty to eat and get their medicine. The relationship between the two is remarkably...

British inventor Colin Furze created a video where he demonstrates how to make an auto Nerf blaster firing system that shoots foam darts from your toy with the press of a button. This is 1 of 10 exciting projects from Colin’s upcoming book, This Book Isn’t Safe. It is available to pre-order from Amazon and...

Pusic, the funny cat who warmly greets his human at the door, very elegantly rang a bell in order to peruse a menu of yummy foods. Once he made his decision, Pusic again rang the bell to let his willing waiter know of his choice. Finding that he was still hungry, Pusic rang that bell...

Helsinki, Finland artist Jonna Pohjalainen attended an Environmental Art workshop at the Pedvale Open Air Museum in 2006 and carved a collection of local fallen aspen trees them into giant colored pencil sculptures. According to Jonna, her Color Pencils work “shows us how it is connected with its surroundings and how it changes during different...

The Electric State is a new narrative art book, created by sci-fi artist Simon Stålenhag, about a girl and her robot in the 1990s traveling west across the USA in an alternate reality. After a successful fundraising campaign on Kickstarter, Simon is now finishing the remaining pieces of art and writing text before he and...

Over 50 graceful peacock spiders dance and preen to the iconic disco song “Stayin’ Alive” by the The Bee Gees in a colorful compilation created from footage taken by Australian photographer Jurgen Otto aka Peacockspiderman. These beautiful arachnids have also been seen waving around lightsabers and dancing to the song YMCA. A short compilation of...

Finnish couple Lauri Vuohensilta and Anni Vuohensilta of the Beyond the Press channel inflated a giant weather balloon, given to them by Sent Into Space, with a leaf blower and captured footage of it exploding in slow motion. The slow motion shots were filmed with a Chronos 1.4 high speed camera. The Slow Mo Guys...

This post was sponsored by Aqua Jet Razor via Syndicate Ads. Aqua Jet Razor is a new advance in shaving industry that uses water jets instead of shaving foam, for a perfect shave. The device promises to reduce both the irritation and waste produced by traditional shaving. The founders of Aqua Jet Razor have launched...

To celebrate Star Wars: The Last Jedi blasting its way into theaters on December 14th, 2017, The United Kingdom’s Royal Mail will be releasing a series of eight new collectible Star Wars stamps that feature new (Maz Kanata, Supreme Leader Snoke, Porg, BB-8, K-2SO) and classic droids and aliens (Chewbacca, R2-D2, C-3PO) from the legendary...

After getting in a nice luxurious scratch on his new post, a rather contented Simon’s Cat turned territorial when Simon’s kitten came out to play. Seeing the new post, the kitten attempted to take a turn at scratching, but the Simon’s Cat was in no mood and repeatedly tried to shoo Simon’s kitten away. Of...

Martha Perkins, editor-in-chief of the Vancouver Courier in British Columbia, very tentatively stepped into the Lost Lagoon of Stanley Park, poked her hands in the water and very nervously lifted out a brown, brain shaped blob. Luckily, Celina Starnes of the Stanley Park Ecology Society was nearby to takeover and explain that the blob was...

Music theorist and musician 12tone analyzed the iconic Pink Floyd song “Comfortably Numb” and explained how functional harmony was employed to tell the song’s story. The verses subsist of external dialogue happening around a rather disoriented Pink and are represented by a lack of musical resolution, while the chords of the chorus, which encompass Pink’s...

Walker White by Butcher Billy, a wonderful reinterpretation of Breaking Bad’s Walter White as the Night King, leader of the White Walkers on Game of Thrones.

The fascinating animated series RealLifeLore takes a look at all the geographical and financial challenges that would arise should someone ever attempt to build a road around the world – connecting Europe, Asia, Africa with each other and with North and South Americas. What if we constructed a road around the world that connected most...

In Warm Springs, Oregon on August 21, 2017, photographers ByoungJun Jeong, Young Sam Choi and director Professor JunHo Oh from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology captured absolutely amazing up close footage of the sun as it completely disappeared behind the moon during the 2017 total solar eclipse. In order to get such...

Musician Sierra Hull used the steady beat of her old washing machine as a metronome for a little bluegrass song she plucked out on her mandolin. In case your metronome breaks…. We previously wrote about guitarist Aaron James McAvoy doing a similar thing. via reddit Musician Performs Don’t Stop Believin’ on Guitar to the Steady...

The very talented Jun Yoshizuki of Jun’s Kitchen prepared a lovely meal of homemade tempura udon noodles with his beloved long haired orange cats Kohaku and Nagi standing at the ready. Kohaku was particularly excited by the carrots, which were fresh from Jun’s uncle’s garden. The garden I went to is my uncle’s garden. He’s...

Filmmaker Kristian Williams aka “kaptainkristian” explains how the simple error of omitting the notice of copyright from the title card of his iconic horror film Night of the Living Dead, led to creator George Romero‘s ideas being widely shared in the public domain without any protection from copyright. This mistake cost Romero millions of dollars...

The Great Big Story series Human Condition traveled to The Strong (a.k.a. “Museum of Play“) in Rochester, New York to take a look at their astonishing collection of over 500,000 toys, dolls, and games from throughout history in the United States. Ready your senses for nostalgia overdrive: the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York, has...

While at the Speelklok Museum, musician Martin Molin of the band Wintergatan and creator of the Ingenious Marble Music Machine presented the amazing Philipps & Son’s Paginini. The Paginini is an incredible orchestrion that was built in 1921 and able to replicate the sound of 17 different instruments. It is the flagship model of Philipps...

Oltedal, Norway musician Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios created a heavy metal cover of the 1999 song “Smooth” by Santana and Matchbox Twenty vocalist Rob Thomas. Here is the original song. A Banjo Cover of the Heavy Metal Song ‘Psychosocial’ by SlipknotMusician Rob Scallon Creates a Heavy Metal Song Using Only One Fret on...

Katana Ice is a delicious Japanese ice cream that is shaped like a deadly samurai sword.

A post shared by @piaseavres on Sep 4, 2017 at 4:42am PDT A team of 10 designers from around the world met in Duisburg, Germany to build a giant sandcastle measuring almost 55 feet tall. The amazing work of art, which included “architectural and cultural elements from across the globe,” took the Guinness World Record...

From behind the wheel of his car, the incredibly talented Jack Black performed a fabulously absurd a capella version of the Nirvana song “Polly“. Black’s version was a combination of singing, scatting along with employing various sounds and nonsensical words that oddly made perfect sense. Commenter generously Bill Vapes took a stab at translating. Lyrics...

In a delightful new video essay, filmmaker Karsten Runquist explored how new characters are cleverly introduced on the Duffer Brothers‘ popular Netflix series, Stranger Things. An Exploration of Robin WIlliams’ Craft in Films and How He Expressed Character Through MovementA Video Essay Exploring the Evolution of Zombie Films and Television ShowsSuperfruit Comedy Group Reenacts the...

The visuals team at Vox analyzed the color pallets used in all 67 episodes (7 seasons) of Game of Thrones and found that the show slowly shifted from using lots of warm and vibrant hues to much colder and darker hues. Their interesting data solidifies the fact that winter has arrived in Westeros. image via...

SmokyMountains.com has released their interactive map for 2017 that helps predict the best time for seeing the beautiful fall foliage colors throughout the United States. It allows users to change the details of the map by week, via a slider at the bottom, to see when the foliage in their area is expected to change....

Mother creative agency in London created a hilarious television commercial for MoneySuperMarket that features He-Man and Skeletor. The hero and villain channel their inner Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey while doing a little Dirty Dancing to the 1987 film’s theme song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life“. Skeletor Sings a Sinister Remix of Mariah...

Teenager Patrick Ponce set a world record solving a Cubicle Valk M (Rubik’s Cube) in 4.69 seconds. Rubik’s Cube Champion Sets New World Record Solving a Rubik’s Cube in Just 4.737 SecondsRecord Breaker Kevin Hays Solves Six Increasingly Larger Rubik’s Cubes in Six and a Half Minutes14-Year-Old Breaks the World Record for Solving a 3×3...

The late, great neighbor Fred Rogers, creator of the PBS show Mister Rogers Neighborhood, had told his viewers that the best way to deal with hard times is to always look for the helpers in life, because when things get really bad or tragedy strikes, there will always be someone who will reach out and...

From rescue to motherhood, get to know the new mums of #dswt & watch rare footage of their their calves here: https://t.co/kftL3yZLts pic.twitter.com/BNzoSRbnbE — Sheldrick Wildlife (@DSWT) August 29, 2017 Over the years, the amazing people of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust have rescued a number of orphaned, injured and/or abandoned baby elephants. Since that...

Great Big Story visited with Mark Lord of the Burlington Beadles, the very traditionally dressed, waist-coated 200 year old private police force that patrols Burlington Arcade in London to ensure that all shoppers mind their manners. Roth opened up about the history of the Beadles, their regular costume and their daily politeness duties. The original...

In 2015, Dr. Jace King, DVM of the Washington Family Veterinary Clinic in St. George, Utah, offered some very helpful advice in regard to recognizing the signs and symptoms of feline depression. Assisting him was a sweet tabby cat named Austin, who was feeling a bit frisky, but not particularly depressed. generally when a cat...