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“Kill the Lights” by Darren Pearson is an amazing long exposure animated film short that captures stop-motion animated light paintings of some really happy skeletons playing music, dancing, skating running, setting themselves on fire and partying really hard, as they move around an ever-changing selection of nighttime landscapes. Skeletons come to light at night in...

The Eleven Bleeding Nose Candle by Firebox has the appearance of being a ceramic face of a sweet little girl, but light a red candle behind that face and she becomes the enigmatic Eleven from Stranger Things, whose incredible psionic powers cause her nose to bleed. The Eleven Bleeding Nose Candle is easily the strangest...

While on their regular routes, drivers for UPS get to know their human customers by name. It’s also not unusual for the driver to encounter a friendly dog or two who also become part of their daily life. UPS Dogs on Facebook and on UPS Dogs on Instagram are adorable places for driver and customers...

The short film “The Best Gravediggers in the World” by MEL Films takes a deep look into the relatively unknown, but incredibly fascinating world of competitive grave digging. The annual event, which takes place in Trencín, Slovakia and is sponsored by funeral homes all over Europe, is a not chance only for these workers to...

Naughty Dog and Sony Interactive Entertainment released a new trailer at PlayStation‘s Paris Games Week 2017 for The Last of Us Part II, their upcoming post-apocalyptic survival video game, a sequel to their popular 2013 game The Last of Us. The violent trailer features new characters getting threatened with knives while strung up by a...

On this Halloween day, weatherman Alex Deakin apparently lost his head just before going on air. Luckily he found it and held it football-style under his arm while delivering the week’s forecast from the Met Office – the National Weather Service for the United Kingdom. Here's a peek behind the scenes of our #Halloween forecast,...

On July 2, 2017, a single drone was spotted flying in the direct flight path of Gatwick Airport in London, England. Not wanting to take any chances, all incoming traffic was put into holding patterns. Some flights with fuel concerns were diverted to another airport, while the arriving flights stacked up. The drone disappeared and...

During episode one of Beyond Stranger Things, a Netflix series enlightening viewers on the creation of Stranger Things, host Jim Rash shared an unseen collection of audition tapes for the cast of kids. via HYPEBAE, DesignTAXI David Harbour (Jim Hopper) of Stranger Things Originally Wanted to Play the Role of ElevenWinona Ryder Talks About How...

Two brave little boys in Cobram, Victoria held a long strip of paper as a man repeatedly cut it in half with an Australian stockwhip. As the strip of paper got shorter and shorter, the two kids stayed calm and were amazed by the man’s control. Daniel Clowes: Mister Wonderful & The $40,000 ManMissing: Little...

To celebrate the autumn season, caretakers at the Oregon Zoo set out giant gourds of squash (including pumpkins) inside the elephant area and invited the beautiful pachyderms to come out and squish the squash, which they gleefully performed without hesitation to great audience acclaim. Once the gourds were sufficiently gored, the elephants enjoyed the yummy...

Kevin Rose has released Oak, a convenient iOS app that seeks to teach those with busy lives, the basic principles of meditation and mindfulness. Unlike other similar apps, Oak encourages users to learn introductory forms and movements, incorporating the practice daily until they feel confident enough to practice on their own. Progress is shown through...

Musician Aaron Grooves performs both the “Overworld” and “Underworld” theme songs from Super Mario Bros. on a marimba with four mallets. via reddit Super Mario Bros. Theme by GameboysSwedish Man Plays the ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Video Game Theme Song Using Finger SnapsMariachi Band Performs the ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Theme Song at a Wedding

A post shared by Simon Davies (@simon.a.davies) on Oct 27, 2017 at 1:44pm PDT Pastry chef Simon Davies of the wonderfully unconventional Chicago tasting restaurant Alinea put a gorgeously transparent spin on the traditionally autumnal treat of pumpkin pie. The resulting Crystal Clear Pumpkin Pie is a amazingly surreal sight to behold. While not giving...

A post shared by justmops (@justmops) on Oct 30, 2017 at 12:09pm PDT A beautiful Hungarian puli named Keki and her beloved human created a very clever Halloween costume that put her adorable dreadlocks to use in a most convenient way. Riding along a Covington, Kentucky sidewalk in a bright yellow utility bucket on their...

Artist Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks built a spooky LEGO chocolate machine to help him hand out candy to the kids on Halloween. With the use of a remote control, Allemann can choose to either close the skeleton hand or make the giant spider leap forward at the candy. A post shared by Jason Allemann...

Korean speedcuber SeungBeom Cho set a new world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in 4.59 seconds at ChicaGhosts 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Patrick Ponce set the previous record last month with 4.69 seconds. via reddit Teenager Sets New World Record Solving a Rubik’s Cube In 4.69 SecondsRubik’s Cube Champion Sets New World Record Solving...

British Columbian digital design student Ben Marken of Dragonfly Fabrication created a double barrel candy corn wrist shooter. Marken shared the tutorial for his candy corn launcher, as well as the 3D printable models used to make it, on Thingiverse. via Make: A Wonderful Animation by PES of a Crackling Candy Corn ‘Fireplace’ Loop Remastered...

Dutch photographer and filmmaker Frans Hofmeester filmed his lovely daughter, Lotte, once a week from the time she was an infant until she was 18. Hofmeester created a stunning timelapse video that shows Lotte aging from a baby to a young adult in a little over five minutes. The time-lapses confront us with our mortality....

Paris, France freeride mountain biker Antoine Bizet captured POV footage on a GoPro camera of his exhilarating first downhill canyon run at the Red Bull Rampage 2017 challenge in Virgin, Utah. The crowd went wild when Bizet knocked out an amazing double backflip. A post shared by Antoine Bizet (@antoinebizet) on Oct 30, 2017 at...

Members of the United States Army Field Band paid a visit to Dr. Paul Cohen, a teacher and musician who has in his possession an incredible collection of rare and antique saxophones of all sizes and shapes. Each of the band members picked out an instrument that looked interesting and played it best he could....

In an inspirational episode of Amazing Places, host Tom Scott visited the California desert town of Slab City, to find out the story behind Salvation Mountain, a colorful memorial to one man’s devotion. In the 1990s, Leonard Knight was looking for a way to demonstrate his faith and somehow came up with the idea of...

Knowing how much their big, fluffy Persian cat enjoys boxes, very considerate humans made a little car out of a shoebox, tied a string onto the front and took him for a little ride. Although the ride stopped after a couple of minutes, the stubborn little kitty absolutely refused to leave his beloved custom box....

For Halloween 2017, Jesse Wellens and model Carmella Rose dressed as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia and rode around New York City on a custom Star Wars Speeder Bike built by Lithium Cycles. Vlogger Casey Neistat captured the entire adventure on video, including footage showing how it was all made. A post shared by Jesse...

In another of their very insightful video essays, film and television analysis platform ScreenPrism dug into the classic series Friends. looking specifically at how the platonic relationships between the characters were often portrayed as familiarly romantic whenever there was a responsibility to be met, an argument, a tender moment or moving out of an apartment....

Jibo is a digital assistant that, like the Amazon Echo and Google Home, is always-on with a listening capability to answer questions, search the Internet, set alarms and play music. What makes Jibo different is a video screen, an embedded camera that uses facial and voice technology to recall personal interactions with specific individuals. Jibo is...

98demake, the YouTube channel that turns modern games into their late 1990s equivalent, is back to give us a glimpse at what Studio MDHR‘s indie platformer video game, Cuphead, might have looked like if it was made back in 1992. A post shared by @98demake on Oct 26, 2017 at 5:23am PDT New ‘Cuphead’ Video...

“Mojave Forsaken” is a creepy timelapse video by filmmakers Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinović that goes on a magnificent nighttime journey through ghost towns of the Mojave Desert. The new video is part of their SKYGLOW project, a photo book and video series focused on the night sky. Flanking the infamous Death Valley to the...

In a fortifying episode of the PBS video series It’s Okay to Be Smart, host Joe Hanson explains how the surprising science that originated from a bowl of Cheerios such as cereal clumping, surface tension and the Meniscus Effect, helps to explain how certain insects interact with water. How does the physics of cereal clumping...

Hot Toys has created an amazing collection of figures for their for ongoing Movie Masterpiece series. Their latest Star Wars themed creation is a beautiful porcelain pattern version of a stormtrooper, which is available to purchase from Sideshow Collectibles. This very special Star Wars collectible: a sixth scale Stormtrooper figure is inspired by the highly...

Omar von Muller, a very skilled animal trainer and dedicated human to the Jumpy the Dog, shared a wonderful video of Lucy, another talented dog, as she propelled herself across a park on while standing amazingly upright upon a skateboard. Lucy also knows how to count and even dances the Merengue with von Muller. Jumpy...

A post shared by Denis Cherim (@denischerim) on Aug 31, 2017 at 12:46am PDT Turkish world traveling photographer Denis Scherim who is currently doing an artist-in-residency program in Taiwan, has created “The Coincidence Project“, a stunning photo series that focuses on the synchronicity of subject and surroundings – the intersecting lines that create a geometric...

Christian Ihlo (a.k.a. “Mr.Puzzle“) demonstrates how to disassemble and reassemble the Pento T, an incredibly difficult wooden puzzle designed by Jean Claude Constantin. Not only the most difficult but also one of the most beautiful jigsaw puzzles ever build. Wait until you see the parts interlock and high in plain sight. A real masterpiece that...

New York City filmmaker, photographer and creative director Daniel Soares has created “The Normal People,” a short film that takes a look inside The Race of Gentlemen in Wildwood, New Jersey. Every year people from all over the world meet in Wildwood, NJ to race their bikes and hotrods from the 1920’s and 1930’s on...

While playing upon a miniature pool table, an adorably eagle eyed calico expertly sunk a couple of shots into both the corner and side pockets one-by-one, as her human put new balls on the table. The kitty could have become a serious pool shark if only she didn’t keep looking for the sunken balls after...

A post shared by Dave Pollot Art (@davepollotart) on Oct 14, 2017 at 9:15am PDT Rochester, New York artist Dave Pollot, whose work we have written about in the past, has returned with a new collection of old thrift store paintings that he has added even more pop culture characters and objects to. Prints of...

London animator Steve Warne has created “Pombo Loves You,” a beautiful stop motion animated short about a father who runs into problems while trying to run away from his troubled past-life as an 1980s TV show hero named Pombo. via Vimeo Staff Picks A Frantic Dad Gives His Family the Best Gift He Can in...

Spoon released a new music video for their song “Do I Have To Talk You Into It” featuring a bizarre Photoshop tutorial where lead singer Britt Daniel is repeatedly being digitally manipulated into oblivion. The song is from their 2017 album Hot Thoughts. via Digg You Suck at Photoshop, Hilarious Tutorials by Donnie HoyleDEVO’s Quirky...

Primitive Technology demonstrates how to make a natural draft furnace out of materials found in the wild. He built the furnace to test “ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows.” Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in...

With Halloween just a few days away, the adorable feline duo of Cole and Marmalade searched all over the house for the spooky spirits lurking about, causing their beloved human Chris to wonder whether or not cats can actually see ghosts. Are you a believer in the supurrnatural? … Things that go bump in the...

YouTuber Jenny Nicholson who likes to act out unlikely scenes, tried on a number of cheap Halloween costumes that are often found on the clearance rack, making fun of the various items. Amongst this funny fashion show was a boy’s Scorpion King costume, a sexy “One Eyed, One Horned Flying Purple People Eater“, a fun...

Josh Sundquist, a Paralympian, motivational speaker and author who lost one of his legs to cancer when he was young, is known for his fabulous Halloween costumes that specifically address his missing limb. In the past, Sundquist has dressed up as an IHOP Restaurant sign, a foosball player, a one-legged lampshade, a half-eaten gingerbread man...

The Japanese design house PARTY has created an incredible display of living art inside the grass space of the Tokyo Midtown venue, the location of the 2017 Design Touch event. Entitled “Digital Vegetables“, this piece features seven different living vegetables that reside inside a beautifully LED lit, touch-sensitive, futuristic greenhouse that offers an interactive multimedia...

ThinkGeek has created an officially licensed set of six Star Wars coasters that each feature a cross section of the Millennium Falcon. When the clear coasters are stacked up on top of each other, they reveal a 3D image of the popular Star Wars spacecraft. Bring the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy to...

An adorably hungry munchkin cat joined her human in consuming corn on the cob from opposite ends of the ear, while her siblings in the background watched intently. The little cat found that she enjoyed the bright yellow kernels so much that she began gnawing on her end with increasing gusto, until her human on...

On a stealthy episode of his Clueless Gamer series, talk show host Conan O’Brien sat down with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers to play Ubisoft‘s newly released game, Assassin’s Creed Origins. Later in their playthrough, they were joined by Packers offensive tackle David Bakhtiari. Assassin’s Creed Origins is available to purchase for Xbox One,...

In an amusing new short from Cartoon Network‘s Justice League Action television series, Mark Hammill vocally got into character as his two evil crooks, Joker and Trickster, as they both teamed up to abduct famous actor Mark Hamill. When famous actor Mark Hamill is kidnapped by master villain The Joker it will take all his...

Tracy, California music teacher Tom BetGeorge and the team at Magical Light Shows decorated BetGeorge‘s home with tens of thousands LED lights and put on an spooktacular Nightmare Before Christmas light show synced to the song “This Is Halloween.” An Incredible Halloween Light Display Synced to Disney Villains SongsHalloween Light Show, A House With LED...

Andy Boerne, Texas woodworker Andy Rawls has released a very relaxing 7-minute video where we get to kick back and watch as he carves a boomerang out of Ipe, a tropical wood from Brazil. Ipe is a tropical wood from Brazil that is very dense and resilient to decay. This was my first attempt at...

In honor of the second season of Stranger Things being released on Netflix, ScreenPrism released a fascinating break down of season one. They brought to light how the brave group of kids took on the dark and dangerous world adulthood with friendship, wonder, and imagination. Stranger Things teaches us how to think like a kid....

Suburbicon stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore sat down with Wired to answer the web’s most searched questions about the themselves during an Autocomplete Interview. Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions About ThemselvesAmy Schumer and Goldie Hawn Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions About ThemselvesWill Ferrell and Amy Poehler Answer...