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“Lego in Real Life” by BrickBrosProductions is a brilliant stop motion animation that features a human boy preparing a yummy breakfast of LEGO eggs and LEGO toast, topped with LEGO jam. The animation was inspired by the creative work of filmmaker PES and took three days to shoot. In our newest stop motion animation, Lego...

Adam Savage of Mythbusters and Tested went incognito at Comic-Con 2017 dressed as King Arthur from the 1981 film Excalibur. He was geared from head to toe in shiny armor made by amazing armorer Terry English, who also created the original armor for the film. Adam fulfills his lifelong dream of becoming King Arthur from...

At Comic-Con 2017, Warner Bros. released the first trailer for Justice League, director Zack Snyder‘s upcoming superhero film based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name. The trailer follows Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Cyborg (Ray Fisher), and The Flash (Ezra Miller) as they band together to...

During Comic-Con 2017, Warner Bros. released the first trailer for Ready Player One, an upcoming sci-fi adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Ernest Cline‘s 2011 novel of the same name. The pop culture filled film follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a teenager from Columbus, Ohio living in a dystopian future, who sets...

Warner Bros. has released the a new trailer for The LEGO Ninjago Movie, their upcoming animated action comedy film directed by Charlie Bean (Tron: Uprising) and the second spin-off of The Lego Movie. The trailer follows Lloyd (Dave Franco), also known as the Green Ninja, as he and his team face his evil warlord father...

In the wonderfully spooky trailer for the second season of the runaway Netflix series Stranger Things, a frightened Will Beyers tries to make sense of his life after a series of events involving the malevolent entity that returned with him from Upside Down derailed his joy of returning to his Hawkins, Indiana home. The late...

Returning to the America’s Got Talent stage for a second time, the golden-voiced Puddles Pity Party once again wowed the crowd with a gorgeous operatic cover of the classic Eric Carmen power ballad “All By Myself“. Evidently P3 has even won the hardened heart of judge Simon Powell. The only clown @SimonCowell can stand. #JudgeCuts...

The wonderfully foreshadowing trailer for the eighth season of The Walking Dead released at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con, shows the beleaguered characters of the various communities forming a fierce united front in an effort to take down the sadistic Negan and his group of callous tormentors once and for all. Season eight of The...

A post shared by Liam York Art ? (@misteryorkie) on Jun 2, 2016 at 11:25am PDT British artist Liam York creates absolutely amazing pencil illustrations that are drawn in the negative that when inverted, fully resolve to perfect reproductions of his intended celebrity subjects. Included in these negative drawings are Marilyn Monroe, Henry Cavill as...

Simon Whistler, host of the informative video series “Today I Found Out” shares the historical manner in which the alcohol content within a spirit was determined and how this determination was all the “proof” needed for the King to charge higher taxes. The process began in England around the 16th century. Its original purpose was...

A post shared by Irene Malakhova (@irene_mia_) on Jul 12, 2017 at 1:03am PDT Russian artist Irene Malakhova of Tiny Worlds Living creates absolutely beautiful water color and pencil illustrations of animals in miniature. With exquisite attention to detail, Malakhova amazingly captures the texture of each animal’s fur/feathers, expression, personality and even feelings in a...

An Ode to Love is a wonderful animated short film, created by the talented team at Brown Bag Films, about a lonely man on a deserted island who falls in love with a stick. It was written and directed by Matthew Darragh, produced by Suzie Belton and Danielle Considine, and features music by Stefan French....

Adventurous juggler and magician Joey Fratelli has created an exciting POV video where he successfully solves a Rubik’s Cube while water skiing across a lake. I made my family vacation a little more interesting by bringing a Rubik’s Cube and a pair of skis. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips A Man With A Rubik’s Cube...

Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University teamed up to build “spring loaded energy recycling stairs” that make walking up and down a lot easier for users. According to Georgia Tech, the device makes the entire process much easier on the knees and ankles than conventional stairs. The spring-loaded stairs compress when someone comes down...

A rhythmically-inclined Goffins Cockatoo sat up upon the carpeted steps of hist Utah home and create very short bursts of danceable beats with bottles of pills filled with nuts and seeds. The musical bird was having fun until he decided it would be more fun to throw the entire lot down the stairs. My Goffins...

On a delicious episode of the PBS Digital Studios series Reactions, narrator and fact checker Kyle Nackers explains why battered and deep friend chicken is so scrumptious. Pumpkin Spice, A Parody Horror Movie Trailer About the World Becoming Brainwashed by Pumpkin SeasoningsFried Chicken and Waffle SandwichMatching Funds For Chicken John’s Mayoral Campaign

Cast members from Game of Thrones sat down during an interview with Mashable and asked a dragon egg shaped Magic 8-Ball about the fate of their characters on HBO‘s hit show. ‘The Real Housewives of Westeros’, A Silly Parody Poking Fun at the Women of ‘Game of Thrones’Game of Thrones Characters Reimagined in Mad Men,...

Esthetician Anita Mander captured footage of her adorable little boy, Brock, getting super excited while helping pick out paint colors at Home Depot. via reddit A Little Boy Has an Adorable Reaction to a Butterfly Landing on His Face After Setting It FreeAdorable Little Girl Gets Super Excited While Watching the First Trailer for Star...

Conan O’Brien worked together with West Coast Customs to create a spectacular superhero vehicle that matches hero alter ego and his anatomically correct supersuit. Conan revealed the custom car by rolling it out onto a stage at Comic-Con. Ironhead Studio Makes Conan O’Brien a Crotch-Enhanced Supersuit for San Diego Comic-Con 2016Conan O’Brien Mingles With Strangers...

In her wonderful photo series “Fancy Rats“, French illustrator and graphic designer Diane Özdamar created adorable scenes that showcase the softer, playful side of the rescued rats whom she and her circle of friends foster. Özdamar’s hope is to remove the stigma often associated with the misunderstood rodent. As far as I can remember I...

Radio Flyer has released the first kid-sized Landspeeder, modeled after Luke Skywalker‘s speedy vehicle from Star Wars: A New Hope, that you can actually drive. The 12 volt Landspeeder has room for two riders, features an interactive dashboard with lights and sounds, and can cruise up to 5 MPH. It is currently available to pre-order...

Legendary has 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 trailer features John Boyega, known for playing Finn in the new Star Wars films, urging people to join the new generation of Jaeger pilots and...

A wonderfully pampered Chinese Gray Gander goose named Jack is a constant companion to his two beloved humans who are happy to take their silly bird everywhere they go about in their hometown of Market Drayton, Shropshire in the English West Midlands. Jack has become so domesticated that he doesn’t even mind being on a...

YouTuber Ursinarium has created a video where every lightsaber sound from an epic battle in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith is replaced with actor Owen Wilson saying “wow.” Ursinarium was inspired by a tweet shared by Josh Billinson. Star Wars, but all of the light saber sounds are Owen Wilson saying "wow" pic.twitter.com/t5Yll0AV4h —...

In a striking episode of Vox Almanac, video producer Phil Edwards headed to his childhood bowling alley in Howell, New Jersey to explain a little known secret regarding hidden oil patterns on the floors of each lane that guide bowlers to a higher score. Pro-bowler Parker Bohn III demonstrated how it’s done. Bowling isn’t just...

To celebrate the success of the Wonder Woman film at the box office and his return to Comic-Con this year, Conan O’Brien created a hilarious Wonder Woman themed cold open. It featured Conan landing on Paradise Island, being mistaken for a weird looking sea jelly, and getting rejected as a man by a group of...

London artist Simon Chong of Explosive Alan created an amazing animated crossover of the Archer and Bob’s Burgers television series that finds Sterling Archer visiting the Bob’s Burgers restaurant. There was an episode of Archer from 2013, titled “Fugue and Riffs” (S04E01), that did a similar Bob’s Burgers crossover. 7 months of animating, illustrating and...

A teeny-tiny snowball white kitten was left a bit disconcerted when her efforts to encourage her canine sibling to play went unnoticed. Despite the repeated batting of his nose, the really tolerant but drowsy dog made it perfectly clear that he would much rather take a nap than play. Iben the Kitten Attempts to Get...

The talented folks at Tourism Ireland have created the Northern Ireland Game of Thrones Tapestry, a giant 253-foot-long medieval style tapestry illustrating some of the most iconic scenes from the first six seasons of HBO‘s Game of Thrones series. The tapestry will go up on display at the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland starting...

Awaken is a gorgeously shot feature length documentary by filmmaker Tom Lowe that explores how humans from all over the world interact with nature and technology as well as time and space. Like his previous films, Lowe uses timelapse and other creative camera techniques to tell a powerful story. Shot over a 5-year period in...

In 2015, World Bird Sanctuary curator Paige Davis aka PythonPage and her buddy Mischief the White-Necked Raven gave a rather amusing but informative demonstration of the bird’s talking skills. Mischief, however, remained true to his name and repeatedly refused to say “hello”, but was happy to use the more colloquial “hi” for the camera instead....

ThinkGeek has released their new set of six ceramic Star Trek: The Original Series Tiki Mugs that include Mr. Spock, James T. Kirk, Dr. Leonard McCoy, a Gorn, a Klingon, and a Mugato. We’ve previously written about their collections of geeky tiki mugs. Be the hit of the landing party with these Star Trek: The...

Cute one-year-old twin babies, Noah and Micah, can’t help but to laugh hysterically while sitting on top of a their mother’s (Kelly Thomas) vibrating PowerFit machine. Kelly’s sister, Lauren, shot the video of her nephews having a great time and sent the footage to the Loving Ellie’s Belly Facebook page for everyone to enjoy. via...

In another creepy-crawly episode of Brave Wilderness series “Beyond the Tide“, the inquisitive Coyote Peterson went digging around in the mud with a local guide along the coast of Maine in search of a copper-toothed, venomous bloodworm. Upon locating several rather juicy specimens, Peterson asked one of his favorite questions, “Will it bite?” Just below...

Fox Searchlight released the first official trailer for The Shape of Water, a magical Cold War era romance film directed by the great Guillermo del Toro. It will follow a lonely, mute woman named Elisa (Sally Hawkins) who works as a janitor in a secret underwater government laboratory. Her life is changed after discovering a...

Earlier this month, real estate agent Thomas Lupski captured footage of a small plane making an incredible emergency landing on the Sunrise Highway in Yaphank, New York. The pilot was somehow able to successfully land on the highway, maneuver underneath an overpass, and safely make a stop on the side of the road without anyone...

Looper takes a look at what some of the cast members from Game of Thrones look like in real life. They features Vladimir Furdik‘s major transformation into the Night King, Conleth Hill sporting a head of hair when not in character as Varys, and the beautiful Gwendoline Christie‘s major changes for the part of Brienne...

A post shared by Adventures of Tupper & Lego (@tupperandlego) on Feb 8, 2017 at 5:03pm PST A young boy named Tupper and a gentle dog named Lego are the best of friends. They do everything together and can always be found side by side. Lego is especially diligent in her role as an autism...

Great Big Story visited with renowned marine biologist Dr. Andrea Marshall, who has dedicated her life to documenting and becoming friends with the gentle manta rays that populate the waters near the coast of Mozambique where she lives. Marshall shared her utmost love, respect and concern for these intelligent sea animals who are happy to...

In 2016, YouTuber Julian Cianciolo explained the often confusing task of reading sheet music in a rather humorous way, offering simple explanations for the most complex concepts and noting specific exceptions to the rules. The two main clefs, treble and bass, are connected by a middle note we call C. You’ll find that a lot...

While out on a walk near the mountain town Ymitos, Greece, a wonderfully gallant dog named Aragon led his human directly a box of tiny kittens who had been abandoned by an unknown person, like so many other vulnerable animals had before. Luckily, Aragon was with a Second Chance Animal Rescue Society (SCARS) volunteer who...

In a fascinating collaborative video from Vox and podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz, video producer Christophe Habursin explains how noise from increased boat traffic and explosive seismic surveying is affecting life underwater, particularly those marine animals (i.e. whales, dolphins) who rely upon sound as their primary sense. We often think of the ocean as a quiet,...

Dog trainer and security consultant Robert Zembrzuski and his amazing dog Milo” The Machine” of K9 Lenin in Luton, Bedforshire, England, very skillfully demonstrated a specific form of tactical crowd control in which Milo positions himself between Zembrzuski’s legs and the two walk, run and move perfectly in synch with one another. The two are...

Middle of Beyond has created a motion activated Alien Xenomorph egg storage container that “opens while emanating a green glow.” It is available to purchase from their shop. A Creepy Set of Glow in the Dark Alien Xenomorph Eggs Carefully Placed in a CartonAn Adorable Alien Xenomorph PlushHow to Make a Xenomorph Cryo-Stasis Tube and...

In a wonderful Ted Ed lesson written by educator Hanan Qasim and animated by Adriatic Animation, the purposeful pharmacological effect of caffeine is explained, specifically how it works in the human body to promote wakefulness. In the human body, caffeine acts as a stimulant for the central nervous system. It keeps us awake by blocking...

The late, great Ronnie James Dio is known for his powerful voice, his pioneering sound, his slight stature and his iconic use of an old Italian hand gesture to indicate the devil’s horns of heavy metal (also handy memory tool for major/minor pairs on guitar per Suke Cerulo.) What is lesser known about the musician,...

A post shared by JAXA (@jaxajp) on Jul 14, 2017 at 5:49am PDT The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency brought a cute spherical camera drone, called the Int-Ball, to remotely float around and watch over the astronauts while they work on the International Space Station. According to JAXA, the “camera drone can record video while moving...

A wonderfully sweet yellow Labrador retriever named Messy offered his neighbor, an anxious Siberian husky named Audi, an affectionately comforting hug over the wooden fence. Audi had escaped from his front yard when his human inadvertently left the gate open and immediately ran over to see his reassuring canine friend. Oranit Kittagul, Messy’s human told...

Improv Everywhere conducted their fourteenth MP3 Experiment in New York City’s Battery Park and it featured thousands of people listening to synchronized instructions before engaging in an epic ping pong battle with tuned percussion tubes. For our latest mission, thousands of people followed secret, synchronized instructions delivered via headphones in New York’s Battery Park. Participants...

Volcom and Stab teamed up to install a 100-foot floating dock, named “The Dock,” in the middle of a ocean surf break in Bali, Indonesia and invited a group of talented surfers to have some fun on it. They captured footage of Balaram Stack, Imaikalani Devault, Noa Deane, Ozzie Wright, Mitch Coleborn, and Yago Dora...