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Upon hearing his human tap upon a toy drum, a really cute pink-cheeked cockatiel named Mr. Inko (translated) walked right over to the drum and began tapping out a beat with his beak. The rhythmic bird kept perfect time, only occasionally looking up to his human for guidance. (translated) I tried tempting Mr. Inko to...

The Dorothy Collective has released “Stamp Albums“, two beautiful lithographs that reimagine the most seminal albums of the post-punk and post-rock eras as colorful postage stamps. Included on the post-punk version of the print are such bands as DEVO, Joy Division, Talking Heads, The Cure, The Smiths and Depeche Mode. Included on the post-rock version...

Cambridge, UK self taught artist Zenia Kli Zafska (a.k.a. “The Lady Moth“) has created an adorable collection of needle felted animal sculptures, brooches, and decorations. They are available to purchase from The Lady Moth Etsy shop. A post shared by The Lady Moth ART (@theladymoth) on Feb 26, 2017 at 3:12am PST A post shared...

Filmmakers RalphGM and RandyFX of iVideoMaking created TimeLAX, a series of beautiful timelapse videos showcasing the mesmerizing sights and congested traffic of Los Angeles. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips Beautiful Timelapse of 4th of July Fireworks Going Off All Around the City in Los AngelesTime-Lapse Video of Downtown Los Angeles During a SupermoonDrivelapse Route 66,...

A post shared by Coconut Rice Bear (@coconutricebear) on Aug 14, 2017 at 12:36am PDT A rather well spoken Samoyed named Coconut Rice Bear (Coco) who lives in San Francisco, California, took to her Instagram pulpit to vent her frustrations about the way the humans of the United States have been treating one another as...

B. Co Creative Agency posted footage from 2017 Silicon Valley Comic Con of former MythBusters co-host Adam Savage explaining why the long running Discovery Channel television series ended after its 14th season. Adam Savage of MythBusters Builds an Elaborate Fart MachineThe Epic Grand Finale and Reunion of MythBustersA Wonderful Tribute to 14 Seasons of MythBusters

Ototo industrial designer Lior Bartal has created the Space Masher, an out of this world potato masher. It is available to purchase from Ototo. Potatoes beware! We’re on a mashing mission to make mashed potatoes that are out of this world. A post shared by OTOTO Design (@ototodesign) on Aug 2, 2017 at 8:05am PDT...

A retired father celebrated the 2017 total solar eclipse by creating his own hilarious version of the “eggclipse” with an egg, some toast, and string. Make sure to wear your special glasses, those tasty ultraviolet rays are no yolk. via ViralHog Explaining What Happens During a Total Solar Eclipse and the Precautions to Take Viewing...

Agility Customs drove their custom rear steering Jeep Wrangler Unlimited SUV straight down a vertical cliff at the challenging Double Sammy trail going through Utah’s Sand Hollow State Park. They also posted footage of the Jeep climbing up the wall. Most people go up the obstacle, but we have never seen anyone go down it,...

Hello In Elephant is a really wonderful project by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust that seeks to connect humans with elephants by way of an online tool that translates simple human speech into a language that elephants will understand. Once a message is recorded, a video with an elephant communicating the translation appears and can...

Poko, a beautiful cockatiel with a very good ear, skillfully whistled a beautiful tune alongside the graceful accompaniment of his piano playing human. via reddit A Musical Tabby Cat Gazes Lovingly at His Musician Human Whenever They Play Piano TogetherSpikey the Cockatiel Skillfully Whistles the First Few Bars to the Game of Thrones Theme SongGerman...

Using a ping pong paddle and ball, a dedicated Japanese team set in motion a truly impressive Rube Goldberg machine that demonstrated very clever engineering for approximately four minutes. One of the remarkable features of this machine is that it used a single side of a whiteboard before employing the gaining momentum of the marbles...

Photographer wildwingsla captured absolutely amazing footage showing a charm of thirty hummingbirds partaking in their daily ablutions together in a bubbling bird bath. The photographer made particular note of the peaceful co-existence of the bathing birds, particularly since they are known to be a bit territorial. A record 30 hummingbirds bathe together at one time...

In 2015, we wrote about the short film “Covers” by German visual artist Henning M. Lederer who animated the geometric patterns of 55 vintage book covers. Two years later, Lederer has followed up with “More Covers“, which presents 36 additional covers from vintage psychiatry books that were animated so that they would move in a...

An adorably hungry dog who was watching his human enjoy a cup of yogurt, stared longingly at the sweet dairy treat as it went from spoon to mouth, never looking away, that is until his human tried to return the gaze. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips Hungry Dog Generously Offers to Trade His Toy for...

In 2003, filmmaker Edgar Wright directed a very clever music video for the Mint Royale song entitled “Blue Song“. In the video, a car pulls up, three men exit to go rob a bank while the driver (Noel Fielding) was left behind to keep watch. In order to keep himself entertained, the driver put on...

America’s Funniest Home Videos has compiled some really funny clips of different kitties who were slightly impaired by the effects of catnip. Each cat reacted a bit differently than the others, but a great deal of them were just happy to lay back and enjoy the high. Catnip! Cats roll in it, rub their faces...

London artist and filmmaker Guy Larsen of the Penny4 production company created a fascinating video where he uses the shadow from a crumpled up piece of paper to draw a series of strange faces. By simply turning the wad of paper or moving the light source, Guy can quickly illustrate an all new portrait. via...

Talented Korean musician Luna Lee, known for playing popular songs on her Gayageum instrument, has returned to perform a beautiful version of the Game of Thrones theme song. Here is the original song. Game of Goats, A Yelling Goats Version of the ‘Game of Thrones’ Theme SongA Haunting Cover of the David Bowie Song ‘The...

On a life and limb episode of the PBS presented series Deep Look, created by KQED, they explain how daddy longlegs have a defense mechanism where they purposely release their limbs to help them escape from predator attacks. Daddy longlegs’ appendages don’t need to be pulled off because these arachnids, related to spiders, drop them...

A post shared by Damon Belanger (@dmn.belanger) on May 21, 2016 at 11:19pm PDT Graphic designer and street artist Damon Belanger traveled to Redwood City, California and painted fake shadows under random objects that confused and surprised people as they walked by them. He turned the shadows of a bike racks into flowers, a mailbox...

While on location in the Salish Sea for an fascinating episode of “Beyond the Tide“, the inquisitive Coyote Peterson peered under rocks in the tide pools along the coast of Doe Island in Washington to see what kind of intertidal marine life he could find. Along the way he found all sorts of fascinatingly creepy...

A post shared by Emma Ward (@emma_the_ward) on May 1, 2017 at 11:20am PDT Character designer and illustrator Emma Ward posted a very funny tweet in which she noted the hilarious willingness of Olive, her beautiful Jackson’s horned chameleon to wield any kind of weapon handed to her. Knowing she likes to grasp anything that...

Super Deluxe series For The Gram visits Los Angeles artist Brandon Bird to check out a custom memorial art car that he had made as a tribute to the late Law & Order star Jerry Orbach. Brandon was able to bring the memorial car to fruition thanks to supporters of his successful Kickstarter campaign from...

The hi-tech Ukrainian neon and LED dance group, Light Balance, returned to the America’s Got Talent stage during the quarter finals to perform a spooky and exciting glowing dance number to the songs “Swalla” and “If It Ain’t Love” by Jason Derulo. Show host Tyra Banks awarded the dance crew with a golden buzzer back...

Engineer Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day traveled to Crowheart, Wyoming with photographer Trevor Mahlmann and Matt Whitman of The Ten Minute Bible Hour to film and capture photos of the International Space Station passing in front of the sun during the 2017 total solar eclipse. A post shared by Trevor Mahlmann (@tmahlmann) on Aug...

In Pennzoil synthetics‘ “Terrakhana,” rally driver Ken Block of Hoonigan Racing hops into his 600 horsepower Ford Fiesta ST RX43 and races through a dirt playground in Swing Arm City, Utah. The terrain was extreme. The goal was pure domination. With Pennzoil synthetics under the hood, Ken Block was free to bring his vision of...

Eclectic Method has created an adventurous remix using only sound effects from Indiana Jones films. I made a house music video remix using only sound effects clips from the Indiana Jones movies. The sound design is made by Ben Burtt who also made the iconic sounds for Star Wars. So some of the sounds are...

via reddit, Boing Boing Filmmaker Creates a Time-Lapse Documenting Each Mile of His 2,600-Mile Hike Along the Pacific Crest TrailA Google Maps View of Frodo Baggins’ Journey Across Middle-Earth to MordorThe Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack Available in Hardcover

In a rather clever episode of Simon’s Cat, the mischievous feline very capably demonstrated the unique yoga poses that come naturally to most cats. These moves included “Downward Cat”, the “Lazy Butterfly”, the “Flying Pidgeon”, the “Half Lord of Fishes” and the “Full Lord of Fishes” Watch Simon’s Cat unlock all of his chakras in...

In a wonderful interview with Big Think for his new book “A Life in Parts“, actor Bryan Cranston, who is known for playing very distinct characters, including that of Walter White in the groundbreaking series Breaking Bad for five sublime seasons. Cranston graciously shared the story of an event in his life that helped him...

In a truly touching video from Hope for Paws, rescuers Eldad Hagar and Lisa Arturo gently coaxed a scared, seemingly abandoned eight year old German shepherd out from under a parked minivan with yummy pieces of a cheeseburger. The hungry dog followed Arturo all the way in to a fenced in area where the rescuers...

In 1949, legendary animator Chuck Jones created “So Much for So Little“, an Oscar-winning government produced animated short that makes the case for public healthcare. This care consisted of doctors, nurses and sanitation personnel who would work together to ensure that infant mortality rates were lowered, ensure proper vaccinations were received and every child had...

A sweet little baby flamingo named Squish, who was abandoned as an egg, hatched and nurtured at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore, is learning how to walk. Because he can’t go into the flamingo pond quite yet, the kind human attendants take Squish for his necessary daily exercise but before he goes, Squish dons...

On an interesting episode of Technique Critique by Wired, dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes the work of actors who played real people in movies and television shows. He takes a look at Jamie Foxx‘s on screen performance as Ray Charles in Ray, Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan (Jude Quinn) in I’m Not There, and Alec...

Filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay created another one of his fascinating video essays. This particular essay looks at the non-linear timeline that director Christopher Nolan employed throughout his 2000 film Memento, which interspersed both chronological (black and white) and reverse-chronological (color) scenes throughout the film and propelled the plot forward with questions...

A post shared by Planet Prudence (@planetprudence) on Jul 3, 2017 at 12:37pm PDT Belgian artist Prudence Geerts has created “Planet Prudence”, a wonderful, slightly self-deprecating and extremely relatable webcomic that features an illustrated version of herself quite frequently comparing herself to other women. At other times, however, Prudence is happy with herself and her...

DaveHax shows how to spiral cut a pineapple using the Pineapple Slicer & Wedger by Tomorrow’s Kitchen. Testing out a Pineapple spiralizer cutter kitchen gadget to see how well it works and make a cool display. How to slice and serve a pineapple. Perfect for a summer party next to a fruit salad. Expert Woodworker...

A post shared by Roberto Benavidez (@roberto_benavidez) on Jul 31, 2017 at 11:06am PDT Roberto Benavidez a multimedia artist who lives in Los Angeles creates gorgeous handmade piñatas. One of his amazing series translated the wondrously eccentric creatures found in the iconic Hieronymus Bosch triptych masterpiece “Garden of Earthly Delights” into highly detailed piñata form....

Adam Savage of Tested received a new set of a Thracian warrior armor that he received in the mail from Prop Store, a memorabilia company that collects and also sells costumes and props from popular movies. A massive box filled with packing peanuts and voluminous zip-lock bags just arrived at the cave! That can only...

A post shared by b.george (@great78project) on Aug 14, 2017 at 3:17pm PDT The Great 78 Project is a collaborative project between the Internet Archive, George Blood LP, and the Archive of Contemporary Music that seeks to work with the community in order to locate and preserve as many 78rpm records as possible. The current...

An adorable cockatoo named Onni took his daily position in front of the window to watch his beloved human Daddy come home. As soon the man walked through the door, the excited bird gleefully jumped upon his shoulder and began yammering about his day in the man’s accommodating ear. Onni cockatoo is ecstatic that his...

A post shared by Lee Hurley (@hurleyfx) on Jul 13, 2017 at 9:52am PDT Artist Lee Hurley has created Grootpool, an awesome 3D printed sculptural mashup of the tree-like comic book superhero Baby Groot and loud mouth antihero Deadpool. Lee posted more photos of his cute mashup on Instagram and Facebook. A post shared by...

“Pixey” is an animated short film created by Callison Slater, starring Brizzy Voices and Matthew Curtis, that is inspired by cartoons from the 1990s. It follows an obsessed man who gets sucked into his television set and meets his cartoon crush. His meeting turns into a classic story of having to save the princess from...

London animation studio Animade has created “Robot & The Robots,” a delightful animated short about a band of talented robots who perform their hit song, “Robot_Song_03.mp3.” Animade shared a behind-the-scenes look at how they created this fun animation on their website. This studio project is a celebration of music, experimentation and of course, robots! We...

A post shared by Johnny (@sgtbananas) on Apr 11, 2016 at 8:24pm PDT Photographer Johnny Wu (a.k.a. “sgtbananas”) has taken an incredible collection of dramatic photos featuring Star Wars action figures. Johnny’s entire series of toy photographs are available to view on Instagram. A post shared by Johnny (@sgtbananas) on Oct 17, 2016 at 8:26pm...

In 2011, young girl Wang Zhuoxin of the Zhuang Central Primary School in Beijing, China set the Guinness World Record for jumping over 110 individual skipping ropes with the help of 55 of her classmates. Standing either side of Wang in two large semi-circles, 55 of her school mates swung the ropes – making sure...

Licensed architect and teacher Doug Patt of How to Architect has created a tutorial on how to hand letter like an architect from A to Z. Hand lettering is a dying art but I still enjoy it and this is how I do it. This video is a quick tutorial on how architects (used to)...

In a rhythmic episode of “Vox Pop“, host Estelle Caswell explained the concept of gated reverb, its incredible soaring popularity in the 1980s, its recent comeback and how it all came about as an accident. During a recording session for Peter Gabriel‘s (“Melting Face”) third album, engineer Hugh Padgham used a new console and found...

bowzer087 made a wonderful timelapse of the 2017 total solar eclipse as seen from Broken Bow, NE. via reddit Stunning Timelapse of a Total Solar Eclipse in 2012Explaining What Happens During a Total Solar Eclipse and the Precautions to Take Viewing OneThe PROBA2 Satellite Captures Extreme Ultraviolet Images of a Total Solar Eclipse