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John Stratman created an action-packed animation for Mr. Sunday Movies that reimagines a scene from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, where Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) battles Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), as a 16-bit video game. First ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer Features the Return of Rey, Finn, Poe, Kylo, and LukeKylo Ren Tells Luke...

In a sobering and reflective seven minute montage, Vox has encapsulated the most memorable cultural, political and tragic events of a very tumultuous 2017. Amongst this dizzying array are events such as Inauguration, the subsequent Women’s March, the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia during which protester Heather Heyer and police officers Jay Cullen, and Berke Bates...

Twitter user godi3 shared awesome footage of a toy train derailing, gliding across a floor, and using a wall to hop back onto the tracks once again. ??????????? pic.twitter.com/q8Gb5A4EUJ — ?? (@godi3) December 27, 2017 ??????????? pic.twitter.com/q8Gb5A4EUJ — ?? (@godi3) December 27, 2017 via Sploid Japanese App Developer Uses an iPhone X to Make His...

Jim DelCioppo picked up his happy little baby daughter Sadie Jae, balled her up, and rolled her around while making her do a funny impression of BB-8 from Star Wars. A post shared by Sadie Jae DelCioppo (@sadiejaed) on Dec 23, 2017 at 8:46am PST via Digg Star Wars BB-8 Waffle MakerA Real Life Remote-Controlled...

To celebrate the new year, The Graham Norton Show created a fantastic compilation of some of their favorite moments that took place on the show in 2017. They feature Hugh Jackman laughing uncontrollably at something Sir Patrick Stewart said, Will Ferrell slow dancing on stage, and Jack Black singing his Jumanji song. Some of the...

A post shared by Joachim Munter (@jockemunter) on Nov 23, 2017 at 8:55am PST Joachim Munter, a talented photographer who lives in Helsinki, Finland has captured the innate beauty and magical personalities of the various animals who populate the Finnish forest. In these photos, Munter’s connection with the animals is evident; birds perch on his...

Mexican motion graphic artist Oscar López Rocha (a.k.a. “LOROCROM“) has created RGB Forest, an uplifting animated short film where 3D red, green, and blue elements play and dance throughout a real forest to the song “Serotonin Diode” by BLÆRG. via prosthetic knowledge Makin’ Moves, A Mesmerizing Animated Film Featuring Human 3D Scans Dancing a Surreal...

In a flighty episode or MinuteEarth, host Emily Elert explains how migrating birds instinctually calculate their route according to which way the wind is blowing, the strength of ocean thermals and other weather conditions that help them locate the path of least resistance. Migrating birds care more about the ease of their trip than the...

In January 2017, a curious chimpanzee at the Twycross Zoo in Atherstone, Warwickshire UK, left the comfort of a warm enclosure and braved the icy chill that came with the first snow of the year. Rather than running back inside, the chimp gathered up snow from the ground, made a snowball and proceeded to a...

Kenton Whitman of ReWild University created a life saving video where he demonstrates exactly what to do after falling through ice into frigid water. via reddit An Illustrated Guide on How to Survive Falling Through Ice by The Art of ManlinessThe Stunning Process of Ice Stacking Upon Itself Along the Shore as Warmer Water Passes...

Simon’s Cat, who normally is the only one to offer helpful guides (with an occasional kitten), recruited several of his feline friends named Maisy, Chloe and Jazz, to help him and the kitten demonstrate how different cats with different personalities eat very differently from one another. Maisy, Chloe and Jazz along with Simon’s Cat and...

Bob Egan of PopSpots, who is a real estate agent and “Rock and Roll Detective” in New York City, very cleverly finds where historic album cover photos have been shot and rather artfully superimposes the album cover over the same locations as they appear in present day. Included amongst these amazing shots are The Rise...

A post shared by Evgeny Ches (@ches_ches) on Dec 28, 2017 at 6:27am PST Moscow, Russia graffiti and contemporary artist Evgeny Ches creates “Cellograffiti,” an artistic technique where he ventures out in the forest and paints images of animals on clear plastic cellophane wrapped between two trees. Ches’ full collection of work is available to...

Lauren Blake captured adorable footage of her son Mason opening a gift from his uncle Dustin Griffie for Christmas. The little toddler, who let everyone know that the package was his, was thrilled after unwrapping the present and realizing that he received a delicious banana. I gave my nephew a banana for Christmas. I had...

In the holiday themed “Life Accordion to Trump #3“, Australian videographer Huw Parkinson parodied Donald Trump‘s ongoing habit of moving his hands sideways, open and closed, while he’s speaking. Because this repeated motion makes it look like he’s playing an accordian, what better place, then to insert an animated accordion with appropriate sound effects? It...

In 1973, a wonderfully heartwarming commercial for the Hovis Bread Company entitled “Bike” featured a young delivery boy (Carl Barlow) who laboriously walked his bike to the top of the cobbled Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset, made his delivery and then fearlessly got back his bike and flew down the hill. The narration was told...

In an episode of the very talented puppeteer Barnaby Dixon‘s humorous series about puppet Dabchick. The titular bird awakes to find out that he’s wet the bed and explains this messy faux pas by reenacting the elaborate dream he had the night before. It seems Dabchick was running in a race but his name was...

Photographers for the BBC Earth program Gorilla Family and Me captured heartwarming footage of a proud and protective silverback gorilla who stood like a statue in the middle of the road in order to block any oncoming traffic that would impede the safe crossing of his big family. The silverback didn’t move until every last...

Emma is a super creepy 15-second horror film, created by director Daniel Limmer of Nemada Film Productions for the international 15 Second Horror Film Challenge, that features a little girl getting bashed in the head with a rock by a friend. They won first place for their eerie, yet amazing film. via Boing Boing The...

In a rather chilling promotional mashup for the fourth season premiere of the sublime Charlie Brooker/Netflix series Black Mirror, news footage from 2017 is seamlessly combined with the dystopian storylines from all four seasons of the series. The most eerie thing about this rather seamless mashup is that the bright line of absurdity that should...

Engineer Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day met up with Gordon McGladdery of A Shell in the Pit, the guy who creates the music and sounds for Smarter Every Day, to find out his intricate process for recording audio for their slow motion videos. What Beatboxing Looks Like in Super Slow MotionA Transparent Engine Filmed...

Bookshelf Productions has created a new LEGO stop-motion animated remake of some of the most memeorable scenes from the second season of Stranger Things. Last year, they remade scenes from season one. LEGO Stop-Motion Animated Remake of ‘Stranger Things’ Season OneLEGO Stop Motion Animated Remake of the Mall Car Chase Scene From ‘The Blues Brothers’A...

Voordeel has created an amazing video filled with epic scenes from Star Wars films that are all set to the heavy hitting song “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath. via Kimmi Markovic A Powerful Video Montage of Epic Game of Thrones Scenes Set to Black Sabbath’s ‘War Pigs’SpongeBob Sings ‘War Pigs’ by Black SabbathA Remix Music...

A post shared by Riko Okuyama (@rikookuyama) on Nov 27, 2017 at 8:00pm PST One day in 2012, a thoughtful customer left his waiter Yuki Tatsumi a tiny sculpture made out of the paper sleeve used to protect chopsticks. While tipping is not the norm, Tatsumi took it as one. It was at that time...

While driving along Highway 41 in Montana, YouTuber Big Sky Videos captured the remarkable sight of an antelope herd running en mass up and across the road to the field on the other side. Watching the little white tails bob on by, the dog inside the car was whining and barking and more than likely...

In 2016, filmmaker Sriram Murali, who specializes in night sky photography and is involved with the International Dark-Sky Association, created “Lost in Light“, a stunning and informative timelapse over the state of California that shows how each area is affected by light pollution. Lost in Light, a short film on how light pollution affects the...

An absolutely adorable little munchkin cat named Pooky parked herself in front of the computer where Chef Gordon Ramsay was demonstrating how to properly knead dough in order to get rid of any remaining pockets of air. While intently watching, Pooky was mimicking his actions and watching his every move intently, as if she were...

The very unpredictable comedian Gus Johnson created an amusing parody of the Learn Quick series challenge of breaking a wine glass using only the human voice. Just like Mike Boyd, Johnson was able to break a wine glass using only his voice, albeit using quite a different and much louder method. This is how to...

Momentum Pictures has released the first official trailer for Mom and Dad, an upcoming horror comedy film directed by Brian Taylor. The intense trailer follows Brent Ryan (Nicolas Cage) and Kendall Ryan (Selma Blair) as they, and other parents around the world, go crazy for 24 hours and want to kill their children. Mom and...

Moscow, Russia media artist Dmitry Morozov (a.k.a. “::vtol::“) has created the “Driver,” an amazing kinetic audio sculpture that uses speakers, copper balls, lights, and motors to generate obscure electronic sounds. To all intents and purposes, the object represents a complicated feedback machine, where the feedback doesn’t have a direct impact on itself, but uses kinetic...

In 2006 Matt Rutledge, the founder of Woot! and partners launched Wine.Woot, a unique community model of online wine sales. The wine, came directly from the producers and were shipped directly to consumers, eliminating the need for a middleman. A community grew organically from of this consumer base and the site became a place to...

Unusualist Raymond Crowe showed off his talents on an old episode of the Australian television series, Spicks and Specks, when he performed an amazing display of shadow puppetry along to the song “What A Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong. via reddit Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World”, The Death Metal VersionCookie Monster vs. Al Pacino...

An adorable little budgie named Kiwi demonstrated his ability to perfectly imitate the sound of a zipper upon request whenever his human zipped and unzipped an earphones case in front of him. After a short while though, Kiwi began doing the impression just upon seeing the distinctive black case. Kiwi’s human explained why Kiwi is...

Dawid Szmandra of Poland created a giant 24 foot tall fully functioning remote controlled model of a Liebherr LR 11000 crane. Szmandra’s full collection of photos are available to view on Flickr. Made 99.9% of LEGO, exceptions are PRINTED pulley wheels, stickers, strings. Slewing ring is made 100% of LEGO. I used minifig heads as...

12Medbe Network, a faithful fan of the sublime and hilarious live improvisational comedy show Whose Line Is it Anyway?, has put together a comprehensive compilation and calculation of point assignments made by host Drew Carey during the first eight seasons of the show. Being that Carey was constantly and indiscriminately handing out points without rhyme...

Cinematographer Tim Sessler used his iPhone 8 and Freefly‘s new Movi gimbal to create “VORTEX,” a beautiful short video featuring a dizzying trip through New York City as the phone’s camera rotates. via Vimeo Staff Picks Run 4 Cover, Nigel Sylvester Biking Through New York CityNew York Year, Time-Lapse Film Featuring a Year in New...

When it was her turn to open presents, a beautiful chocolate lab named Sadie climbed off the couch, located her gift and eagerly tore off the wrapping paper to see what was inside. The gift turned out to be a giant tennis ball with which Sadie immediately began playing. She did become a little frustrated...

Ben Actis captured the heartwarmingly hilarious sight of his 85 year old Italian grandmother as she learned how to interact with her new Google Home Mini. It took a bit of time, but when his grandmother got a response from the device, she jumped back and said that she was scared. My 85 year old...

A team of Japanese researchers from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at The University of Tokyo have created two humanoid robots, named Kengoro and Kenshiro, to help with the design of future crash test dummies, prosthetic limbs, and better understand how humans move. The robots are able to perform human-like movements, exercise,...

The Q channel demonstrates how to make a flipbook animation machine from cardboard. They used a scene from The Simpsons, featuring Bart, for reference. I’m a big fan of Simpsons so I chose Bart Simpson as animation model but you can use any animation you want (even draw one) :) Follow steps from this video...

A post shared by The Eggs-hibit? (@the_eggshibit) on Dec 23, 2017 at 1:31pm PST Mexican artist Michele Baldini has created The Eggs-hibit, a series of photos that feature fried eggs on a skillet that he turned into delicious works of art. He features everything from pop culture references to beautiful landscapes. A post shared by...

Verne Troyer unboxed Radio Flyer‘s new Tesla Model S battery powered ride-on car for kids that he bought from a charity event. Troyer “rides dirty” while drifting and cruising around his home at 6 MPH. I bought myself a gift for the holidays. 6mph, electric, and black rims. This thing is a beast! Hope everyone...

Filmmakers Gavin Heffernan of Sun Chaser Pictures and Harun Mehmedinovic who are collaborating in the ongoing Skyglow project, captured as a timelapse video, the remarkable sight of an inverted cloud being formed within the bowl of the Grand Canyon. They follow its foggy progress over and through the canyons, during the day and at night....

Connor Margetts, the proud human to Dacelo, a laughing kookaburra, decided to record the bird’s distinctive quality to see what it would sound like in slow motion. While the kookaburra is a relatively small kingfisher, the tone coming out of that slow motion laugh seemed like it belonged to a great ape of some sort,...

In February 2017, Norwegian photographer Ole Salomonsen of Arctic Light Photo captured the absolutely breathtaking sight of a lone reindeer with a head full of antlers seemingly becoming smaller than his sizeable stature, as he was immersed in the gorgeous green and purple light display of the shimmering Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). Reindeer and aurora...

While promoting their new book Amazing Animals: Packed Full of Your Most-Loved Animal Friends, the Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday took a tour of the longstandding Battersea Dog & Cats Home. Throughout the tour, Glenday met a number of the animals who are temorarily staying at the shelter while waiting for their forever home...

xkcd suggests a few creative phone security options that could be added to help discourage theft. …wait until they type in payment information, then use it to order yourself a replacement phone. Grand Theft Auto V Mod Replaces Sticky Bombs With Exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 PhonesStreet Photography V, A Photo Series Shot Entirely in...

A post shared by Fox Wildlife Photos Fineart (@roeselienraimond) on Dec 13, 2017 at 7:16am PST In 2016, we wrote about Dutch wildlife photographer Roeselien Raimond and her gorgeous Foxy Faces portrait series. In her more recent series “Red Foxes in the Snow“, Raimond has once again captured the wonderfully personalities of individual vulpines as...

Bad Lip Reading released “Christmas Is Here!,” a hilarious musical parody of Donald Trump that features the 45th President attempting to sing a song about Christmas. Trump gets a little help from his wife and first lady, Melania, as well as animatronic robot Trump located at Disney’s Hall of Presidents. A Bad Lip Reading of...

Scott Bradlee, the very talented musician and founder of Postmodern Jukebox, performed an amazing jazz piano cover of the rather catchy theme song from the sublime animated series Rick and Morty. Here’s my jazz version of the “Rick And Morty” theme song (with a little bit of “Get Schwifty” thrown in for good measure). A...