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A post shared by Manny Lopez (@paulmannplus2) on Oct 27, 2016 at 5:30am PDT Two fathers Paul Sandmann and Manny Lopez with a twin girl and boy (Adelaide and Augustus) have been creating amazing pop culture themed Halloween costumes for their adorable little family. They have made DIY costumes based on characters from The Wizard...

To celebrate the second season of Netflix‘s popular show dropping today, The Warp Zone unleashed a new upside down parody where they add hilarious lyrics to the Stranger Things theme song. A Capella Cover of the Eerie Stranger Things Theme Song by The Warp ZoneStranger Things Kids Attempts to Make up Lyrics to the Show’s...

Hulu released an exciting trailer for Runaways, their upcoming television series created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage that will be based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. The trailer featured the young superhero group finding out about their parents’ evil ways and learning how to harness their new powers. Runaways...

In 2014, we wrote about Simon Toland and his fundraising efforts to make an 12-minute color animation entitled “Off to the Vet“, which comically tells the story about getting an unwilling Simon’s Cat in to see the doctor. After three years of production and winning awards at film festivals, the finished video is now available...

MinutePhysics host Henry Reich has created an absolutely fantastic whiteboard animation documenting and diagramming the different forms of time travel employed in various films, books, television shows and video games and the challenging ethical questions each presents. For ages I’ve been thinking about doing a video analyzing time travel in fiction and doing a comparison...

In February 2017, the very talented Lady Gaga performed with the legendary Metallica an absolutely incredible version of the band’s song “Moth Into the Flame” for the 59th annual Grammy Awards. The performance appeared effortless and a peek into the pre-show rehearsal proved just how well the artists worked together. Filmed during rehearsals for our...

A post shared by ?? ???????????? (@photo.accent) on Oct 5, 2017 at 8:37pm PDT Japanese photographer Hisakata Hiroyuki has created a wonderful photo series in which very playful cats reach for a fishing rod toy right above their head and in doings so, appear to be practicing defensive martial arts of some sort or perhaps...

While visiting the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., a curious guest approached the touch activated Virtual Shark Tank and reached out to touch the glass, repeating the movement over and again. The lack of immediate results left the patron completely unprepared for what came next, when a giant (simulated) shark appeared out of nowhere...

Model Chrissy Teigen invited Joe Sabia of Condé Nast Entertainment into her gorgeous Beverly Hills home to answer 73 random questions for Vogue. Teigen affably shared her thoughts on Halloween, being a mom, her marriage to John Legend, being famously blocked by a certain someone on Twitter, her favorite recipes for her new cookbook, meeting...

The team at Webflow has created an amusing microsite that allows viewers to scroll through a funny, 20-second history lesson on the web. It uses a collection of impressive IX2 interactions and animations to show how the internet has evolved by leaps and bounds over the years. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips An Amusing Animation...

British inventor Colin Furze took a standard briefcase and turned it into a portable gas fireplace that comes equipped with necessary extras like a thermos for tea and a tasty biscuit. Hell yeah, people get cold, people have a case’s n stuff so why not stick a fire in one……Boom Briefcase Fireplace. Thanks to who...

Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer of Corridor Digital have created a new live-action comedy short about a heroic clockmaker who attempts to help out a smart watch that was stolen from the President. The duo works together to escape the clutches of a group of persistent thieves. A Group of Fangirls Get Fed Up With...

Earlier this week, during a Future Investment Initiative panel in Saudi Arabia, CNBC journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin conducted an interesting and creepy live interview with Hanson Robotics‘ humanoid robot named Sophia. Sophia demonstrated how she was able to socialize with humans through artificial intelligence and facial expressions. A Lifelike Robot Agrees to Destroy Humans During...

Epic Pictures Group has released the first official trailer for Radius, a Canadian sci-fi thriller film co-directed by Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard. It follows a man named Liam (Diego Klattenhoff), who just woke up from a car crash, with a deadly superpower that he cannot control. Whenever he gets to close some others, they...

Eclectic Method has created a powerful remix of the Wonder Woman superhero film. Patty Jenkin’s box office crushing Wonder Woman has cemented the chances of more female-led super hero movies. The fight scenes deliver a style of choreography only woman can elegantly pull off. Ignoring all the perfectly decent male actors in the movie I...

Stranger Things stars Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler) and Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair) sat down with WIRED to reveal what’s on their phones. ‘Stranger Things’ stars Finn Wolfhard and Caleb McLaughlin show us the last things they did with their phones. What was the last emoji they used? The last text message sent? What was the...

A hilarious Orting, Washington family, all of whom are dressed in t-rex costumes, ran up to their oldest daughter as she was trying to get off of the bus after a long day at school. The young lady didn’t waste any time running down the drive way to get away from the prehistoric madness. My...

Earlier this year, five-year-old Adam Mohammad Amer, amazed the pilots and cabin crew on board an Etihad Airways flight from Morocco to Abu Dhabi by explaining everything that he knew about the ins and out of the aircraft that they were on and demonstrating what needed to happen in an emergency situation. After the airline...

In a rather creepy Burger King commercial that appears to combine elements from the Netflix series Stranger Things with the Stephen King film It, a teenage boy who was riding his bicycle on Halloween night, suddenly and inexplicably found himself surrounded by clowns (including one dressed similarly to the mascot of the competition) who were...

Just ahead of National Black Cat Day on October 27 and Halloween, animator Simon Toland and animal behaviorist Nicky Trevorrow of the adorably animated advice series “Simons Cat Logic“, do their best to dispel the myth black cats cause bad luck and instead explain why it’s so difficult for black cats to get adopted, despite...

A couple of adorably competitive cats named Sweetie and Sam, attempted to keep up with one another while striding upon a quickly moving treadmill. Both cats got knocked off the machine a couple of times, but in the end received a lot of love from their nearby human. Sweetie and Sam were sharing the treadmill....

Creative director Sean Ohlenkamp and friend Rob Popkin created “Oh My Gourd“, a wonderful stop motion video of seasonally appropriate, cleverly carved pumpkins dancing to a soundtrack of music made with pumpkins by Grayson Matthews. Dozens upon dozens upon dozens of pumpkins were cut, gutted, rotated, scraped, poked, slapped, and banged to make this stop-motion...

In the fourth video from of his “Monsoon” series, photographer Mike Olbinski, a Phoenix-based stormchaser, once again captured the beauty of the skies over the American southwest during the summer storm season of 2017. One bonus this summer was a few successful chases up at the Grand Canyon. Finally. A couple of gorgeous sunsets, rain...

Air Measure by Laan Labs is a free iOS app that employs augmented reality to use in place of tape measures, rulers and yardsticks in a variety of situations. In addition to its usefulness in distance or height, the company is also testing out an augmented reality guide that can help a driver accurately parallel...

Great Big Story visited with John Moschitta Jr, actor and former Guinness World Record holder for World’s Fastest Talker, who shared with them how he learned to talk with such speed, how he got discovered, his breakout role and his long career in show business, all at varying speeds of speech. John Moschitta Jr.’s motormouth...

British designer Scott Jarvie has created the wonderful Void Rug, a clever floor covering that creates the optical illusion that, when viewed at a certain angle, makes it appear as if there is an unexpected gaping hole right in the middle of the room. The Void Rug, when viewed at a particular angle, creates the...

A really clever ad by Think!road safety employs pink kittens, a stylized music video theme and a soundtrack by Aphex Twin, in order to show how many cool things that people can miss when they are looking at their cell phones while driving. The ad was directed by We Are From LA, the duo behind...

In the thriller film WINCHESTER: The House That Ghosts Built, actress Dame Helen Mirren portrays Sarah Winchester, a grieving widow who inherited her late husband’s eponymous Repeating Arms business and vast estate. Having so much wealth to spare, in 1884, Winchester began building a fantastic mansion, later known as the Winchester Mystery House, in San...

Great Big Story traveled to London, Ontario to visit with Robert Wardhaugh, an amazing man who started his first game of Dungeons and Dragons in 1982 at the young age of 14. Wardhaugh has been the dungeon master of that exact same campaign for the past 35 years. He has built friendships with people from...

Los Angeles film critic Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, sat down to talk about how he celebrated Halloween growing up and what it is like now as an adult without sight. Blind Film Critic Tommy Edison Answers Questions About What He Thinks He Looks LikeBlind Man Tommy Edison Has Questions For Sighted...

A group of 245 thrillseekers joined together and attempted to break a world record by rope jumping at the same time from a 98-foot-high bridge in Hortolândia, Brazil. The attendees, who were all wearing proper safety equipment, beat the old world record of 149 participants that was set in 2016. via NDTV, Digg Chinese School...

Netflix released the second official trailer for Bright, their upcoming fantasy action film directed by David Ayer, written by Max Landis, and starring Will Smith. The trailer follows Scott Ward (Will) and his partner, Orc cop Nick Jakoby (Joel Edgerton), as they try to keep a magic wand from destroying the planet. Bright is set...

LEGO posted a wonderful timelapse video of their team of creatives building a life-sized version of the LEGO Speeds Champions Scuderia Ferrari SF16-H. The LEGO team brought the amazing Formula One racing car to life in 750 hours with the use of 349,911 carefully placed bricks. Wes Anderson’s Illustrious ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Built Entirely Out...

Venice, Italy illustrator and designer Jacopo Rosati created The Social Network Tarots, a series of illustrations imagining a modern tarot card deck inspired by social media and internet culture. A post shared by Jacopo Rosati (@jacopo.rosati) on Aug 3, 2017 at 12:49am PDT images via Jacopo Rosati via Ufunk, DesignTAXI A Spectacular Series of Felt...

A post shared by Stephan Brusche (@isteef) on Sep 23, 2017 at 9:35am PDT Dutch artist Stephan Brusche (a.k.a. “isteef“) has added to his collection of fruitful designs by transforming even more tasty bananas into amazing works of art. Brusche shared the full series of banana art on Instagram, Facebook, and his website. A post...

Video editor James Casey of The Solomon Society created a wonderful new video featuring beloved dance scenes from animated Disney movies. Casey appropriately set his montage to Sim Gretina‘s remix of the classic Jungle Book song “I Wan’na Be like You.” A Homemade, Live-Action Remake of the Official Trailer for the Animated Disney Film ‘Frozen’Disney...

Actor Andy Serkis, best known for his portrayal of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes films, sat down with WIRED to share the history of his motion capture performances. Actor Andy Serkis Creates a Conversation Between Gollum and Caesar From ‘Dawn of the Planets of the...

During Helsinki Design Week, the Finnish multi-disciplinary firm Casagrande debuted their unique Tikku, an amazing prefabricated, three story, self-sufficient, environmentally friendly, micro apartment building with a footprint small enough to fit into a standard parking space. Tikku is a needle of urban acupuncture, conquering the no-man’s land from the cars and tuning the city towards...

In the Magnolia Pictures film The Square directed by Ruben Östlund, a rather altruistic art curator named Christian (Claes Bang), who is environmentally aware and a good dad to his two children, is studiously planning for an upcoming show also entitled “The Square” when his smartphone is stolen. The search for this piece of technology...

In 2016, a big mama bear and her two little cubs enjoyed a refreshing dip in the big, beautiful backyard pool of Gatlinburg, Tennessee resident Cindy Dorrow. Dorrow was surprised to see her ursine visitors so close to home, but she kept her wits about her enough to keep filming as much as she could....

A post shared by Augie and Aris (@babyandthebody) on Oct 16, 2017 at 5:04am PDT Photographer Katina Behm has created the adorable Instagram series “Baby and the Body”, recreating her younger brother Aristotle Polites‘s modeling photos with her toddler son Augie in standing in hs Uncle’s place. She got the idea for this from hilariously...

The town of Ísafjörður in northern Iceland has taken a creative step to slow down traffic by painting a pedestrian crossing with bright white lines that appear to jump right off the ground with a 3D illusion. Photographer Ágúst G. Atlason of Gústi Productions captured wonderful photos that show off the illusion in its full...

While promoting their book “Sisters First“, former First Daughters and fraternal twins Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush Jr very hilariously shared their respective phones with Derek Blasberg host of the Vanity Fair series “Derek Does Stuff with a Friend“, produced for Condé Nast Entertainment. Blasberg first examined Barbara’s phone, learning the nickname the...

During his fourth year at CalArts, artist and filmmaker Aram Sarkisian created “Winston,” an eerily poetic animated short film about a paranoid old man living alone during a freezing cold winter. via io9 ‘Feast’, An Animated Short by Walt Disney Animation Studios About a Cute Food-Loving Dog Named WinstonNews Personality Bob Herzog Sings ‘Just Don’t...

In an adorable ad campaign promoting the beauty and quality of handcrafted Japanese furniture, the city of Okawa in the Fukuoka Prefecture commissioned two local shops to build tiny versions of their own designs specifically for cats. Tateno Wood Art created a replica of their slatted bed, while the Hiromatsu Wood Work Company made a...

Vulture took a look at the history of scary clowns. They spoke with writer and clown expert Benjamin Radford to find out exactly what happened to make clowns so creepy. Clowns have always been represented as tricksters and jokers, from the days of jesters all the way through Ronald McDonald, but the high jinks were...

Rio de Janeiro motion and graphic designer Vinicius Araújo (a.k.a. “VA Designer“) has created 36days Electronics, a stunning digital alphabet featuring electronics as letters that each represent a popular brand. A post shared by Graphic and Motion Designer (@va_designer) on Oct 12, 2017 at 6:12pm PDT A post shared by Graphic and Motion Designer (@va_designer)...

A post shared by Sprout (@brussels.sprout) on Oct 21, 2017 at 3:19pm PDT On Saturday, October 21, 2017, the canines of New York City donned their most elaborate costumes and proudly marched alongside their proud humans at the 27th Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade taking place at the community managed Tompkins Square Dog Run....

The cast of Bob’s Burgers sat down with Vulture to improvise a special little mini-episode where Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda Belcher (John Roberts) have the talk with their kids — Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Louise (Kristen Schaal) — about how babies are made. The Dark and Cannibalistic Origins of Bob’s...

Domino artist Lily Hevesh (a.k.a. “Hevesh5“) teamed up with the brilliant Kaplamino to create a domino “screenlink” video where they capture footage of all sorts of unconventional domino tricks and edit them all together to make it look like one continuous chain reaction. Kaplamino and I live in different countries, so it was impossible to...