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The Great Big Story series Human Condition traveled to The Strong (a.k.a. “Museum of Play“) in Rochester, New York to take a look at their astonishing collection of over 500,000 toys, dolls, and games from throughout history in the United States. Ready your senses for nostalgia overdrive: the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York, has...

While at the Speelklok Museum, musician Martin Molin of the band Wintergatan and creator of the Ingenious Marble Music Machine presented the amazing Philipps & Son’s Paginini. The Paginini is an incredible orchestrion that was built in 1921 and able to replicate the sound of 17 different instruments. It is the flagship model of Philipps...

Oltedal, Norway musician Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios created a heavy metal cover of the 1999 song “Smooth” by Santana and Matchbox Twenty vocalist Rob Thomas. Here is the original song. A Banjo Cover of the Heavy Metal Song ‘Psychosocial’ by SlipknotMusician Rob Scallon Creates a Heavy Metal Song Using Only One Fret on...

Katana Ice is a delicious Japanese ice cream that is shaped like a deadly samurai sword.

A post shared by @piaseavres on Sep 4, 2017 at 4:42am PDT A team of 10 designers from around the world met in Duisburg, Germany to build a giant sandcastle measuring almost 55 feet tall. The amazing work of art, which included “architectural and cultural elements from across the globe,” took the Guinness World Record...

From behind the wheel of his car, the incredibly talented Jack Black performed a fabulously absurd a capella version of the Nirvana song “Polly“. Black’s version was a combination of singing, scatting along with employing various sounds and nonsensical words that oddly made perfect sense. Commenter generously Bill Vapes took a stab at translating. Lyrics...

In a delightful new video essay, filmmaker Karsten Runquist explored how new characters are cleverly introduced on the Duffer Brothers‘ popular Netflix series, Stranger Things. An Exploration of Robin WIlliams’ Craft in Films and How He Expressed Character Through MovementA Video Essay Exploring the Evolution of Zombie Films and Television ShowsSuperfruit Comedy Group Reenacts the...

The visuals team at Vox analyzed the color pallets used in all 67 episodes (7 seasons) of Game of Thrones and found that the show slowly shifted from using lots of warm and vibrant hues to much colder and darker hues. Their interesting data solidifies the fact that winter has arrived in Westeros. image via...

SmokyMountains.com has released their interactive map for 2017 that helps predict the best time for seeing the beautiful fall foliage colors throughout the United States. It allows users to change the details of the map by week, via a slider at the bottom, to see when the foliage in their area is expected to change....

Mother creative agency in London created a hilarious television commercial for MoneySuperMarket that features He-Man and Skeletor. The hero and villain channel their inner Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey while doing a little Dirty Dancing to the 1987 film’s theme song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life“. Skeletor Sings a Sinister Remix of Mariah...

Teenager Patrick Ponce set a world record solving a Cubicle Valk M (Rubik’s Cube) in 4.69 seconds. Rubik’s Cube Champion Sets New World Record Solving a Rubik’s Cube in Just 4.737 SecondsRecord Breaker Kevin Hays Solves Six Increasingly Larger Rubik’s Cubes in Six and a Half Minutes14-Year-Old Breaks the World Record for Solving a 3×3...

The late, great neighbor Fred Rogers, creator of the PBS show Mister Rogers Neighborhood, had told his viewers that the best way to deal with hard times is to always look for the helpers in life, because when things get really bad or tragedy strikes, there will always be someone who will reach out and...

From rescue to motherhood, get to know the new mums of #dswt & watch rare footage of their their calves here: https://t.co/kftL3yZLts pic.twitter.com/BNzoSRbnbE — Sheldrick Wildlife (@DSWT) August 29, 2017 Over the years, the amazing people of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust have rescued a number of orphaned, injured and/or abandoned baby elephants. Since that...

Great Big Story visited with Mark Lord of the Burlington Beadles, the very traditionally dressed, waist-coated 200 year old private police force that patrols Burlington Arcade in London to ensure that all shoppers mind their manners. Roth opened up about the history of the Beadles, their regular costume and their daily politeness duties. The original...

In 2015, Dr. Jace King, DVM of the Washington Family Veterinary Clinic in St. George, Utah, offered some very helpful advice in regard to recognizing the signs and symptoms of feline depression. Assisting him was a sweet tabby cat named Austin, who was feeling a bit frisky, but not particularly depressed. generally when a cat...

In a covert episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually provide examples of smaller English words cloaked within larger English words and how those placements came to be. Some words have smaller words inside them but they’ll tell you something about...

Tbilisi, Georgia video editor David Garuchava of The Garo Studios has created “The Targaryen Wolf,” a breathtaking tribute to Jon Snow‘s (Kit Harington) epic journey on Game of Thrones The Kingslayer, A Supercut Tribute to Jaime Lannister’s Difficult Journey on Game of ThronesA Man of Honor, A Supercut Tribute to the Virtuous Life of Ned...

The team at Cooperative of Photography (COOPH) has created a wonderful video where they reveal their seven tips for editing photos, with your favorite image editing software, from S.C.R.A.T.C.H. Want to learn how we edit our photos? In this video, the COOPH team reveals our 7 golden tips that we always consider during post-production. With...

The very wise and adorable feline duo of Cole and Marmalade took it upon themselves explain why cats really like heights. It’s not because they like feeling superior to other beings, but rather positioning themselves up high offers them a sense of comfort and safety. It also makes a perfect place to hunt and play...

Mike Boyd, a very determined Scottish man who has spent the last couple of years documenting his process for learning different skills as quickly as possible, is back with a new video where he shares his knowledge on how to learn anything quickly. Man Locks Himself in His Garage and Destroys the Key to Learn...

A post shared by Celebrities In Ramen (@celebrities_in_ramen) on Dec 13, 2015 at 4:53pm PST Celebrities In Ramen is a hilarious Instagram account that lives up to its name. It features digitally manipulated images of celebrities chilling in a delicious looking bowl of ramen. A post shared by Celebrities In Ramen (@celebrities_in_ramen) on Sep 24,...

The wonderful documentary A Continuous Shape by Eyes and Ears goes inside the London workshop of talented sculptor and stone carver Anna Rubicam to learn more about the process by which she creates her highly detailed works of art. Directors Jack Webber and Tommaso Di Paola also learned alot more about Rubicam as an artist...

Coder and designer Abhishek Singh has created the InstaGif Camera, a Polaroid style camera that captures a few moments of activity and then instantly releases a handheld cartridge containing an animated GIF image. We previously wrote about Abhishek ‘s augmented reality project where he recreated “World 1-1” from Super Mario Bros. and tested out in...

Stock footage company Dissolve has created “This Is a Generic Millennial Ad“, a rather hilarious, if not cynical video compilation that shows how the advertising industry views the Millennial generation and the assumptions made around that stereotype. Like their other videos, this was made entirely with footage from their own library. This Is a Generic...

A post shared by Pin-Up by Andrew Tarusov (@askandy) on Aug 10, 2017 at 9:23am PDT Los Angeles artist Andrew Tarusov has drawn a series of popular Game of Thrones characters in the dark style of Tim Burton. Andrew’s entire collection is available to view on Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr. A post shared by Pin-Up...

A post shared by Kristofer Hivju (@khivju) on Aug 31, 2017 at 12:40pm PDT In another behind-the-scenes trailer performance on the set of Game of Thrones, actors Iain Glen on guitar (Jorah Mormont) and Richard Dormer (Beric Dondarrion) on ukulele, performed a really respectable version of the Tom Waits song “Hope That I Don’t Fall...

ThinkGeek is featuring a Star Wars Galactic Necklace that comes equipped with some of the more popular planets, spaceships, and an asteroid belt from a galaxy far, far away. Looking at the necklace straight on, at the farthest left we start with a few Core Worlds (Coruscant and Alderaan) and then we move off into...

A post shared by Not Afraid Of Opinion (@eag2n) on Aug 23, 2017 at 12:00pm PDT 17 year old aspiring photographer Eagan Tilghman dressed his adorable three year old brother Louie up as Pennywise the child eating clown from the upcoming film, It, and took a series of cute and creepy photos. Eagan posted more...

Using a classic Steven Write joke as inspiration, Siri-whisperer and writer Nick Douglas of Lifehacker hilariously pit a MistAire Ultrasonic Cool Mist Humidifier against a Pro Breeze PB-02-US Electric Mini Dehumidifier, both similarly priced, and let the competitors duke it out in the confines of a small room. The humidifier had a head start so...

LEGO has unveiled their largest and most detailed set yet, an incredible 7,541-piece Star Wars Millenium Falcon set from a galaxy far, far away. The LEGO Millennium Falcon set will become available to purchase from their shop on October 1st, 2017. With 7,500 elements, Han Solo’s super-fast Corellian ship is crammed with the coolest details...

Artist Lisa Ericson has created a beautiful painted series entitled “Mobile Habitats” that depict lifelike tortoises and turtles who carry miniature eco-systems of both flora and fauna around on their shells.

A post shared by Miss Emma Lou (@emmalouthemalamute) on Mar 12, 2017 at 8:56pm PDT A beautiful and rather vocal malamute in Vancouver, British Columbia named Emma repeatedly told her human “I don’t wanna” when it came time to take a bath. Her human was very encouraging and graciously praised Emma for coming close, but...

The very talented musician Mark Landes conducted an interesting experiment at Peter Prier and Sons Violins in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he musically sampled several different violins at three vastly different prices points. The first violin cost $62 while the other violins started at much higher price points. The first, a 1794 Vincenzo Panormo...

Today, parts of the wall still stand as a reminder that any barriers we put up to impede freedom, we can also break down. In a fascinating Ted Ed lesson animated by Remus and Kiki, educator and historian Konrad H. Jarausch explains the history of the now defunct Berlin Wall, how the separation of the...

A kangaroo mother-to-be named Indi who lives at the amazing Kangaroo Sanctuary (home of the muscled Roger) in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, got a welcome surprise when her little boy poked his nose out of her pouch for the very first time.

In a fascinating essay about the hauntingly dystopian series The Handmaid’s Tale, video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter looks at the systematic ways in which director Reed Morano employed the use of shallow focus in order to drive the narrative forward. By keeping the focus on actress Elisabeth Moss‘ face under...

While traveling on a small road outside of the Kokadjo Camps near Greenville, Maine, driver Sarah Verney encountered the rather rare sight of two angry lynx facing off. Verney came to a stop, opened the car door and heard the two big cats loudly arguing with one another until one walked away, although still protesting...

In August 2016, Lithuanian world traveler Jacob Laukaitis went on a seven day guided trip to North Korea, where he found that he didn’t have free reign over his movements within the very restricted country nor did he have any idea whether the sights he was seeing were staged. One year later in 2017, Laukaitis...

In 2016, a wonderfully playful umbrella cockatoo named Layla enjoyed an absolutely adorable game of peek-a-boo with Dawn Graham, Layla’s rescuer and beloved human. This is my rescue girl Layla. She is such an amazing companion. Earlier in 2015, Graham posted a heartfelt video that shared Layla’s story. This is my 12 yr old umbrella...

Tested editor Norman Chan and fabrication specialist Sean Charlesworth worked together to make a large laser-cut dymaxion globe. They followed an amazing Make: tutorial, complete with project files, created by robotics engineer Gavin Smith. After making our own small scale 20-sided globe, we tweak the files to scale up the build on our Universal Laser...

New Mexican artist Collin Lynch of Essarai Ceramics creates truly unique ceramic coffee mugs, tea sets, vases and trays that are colorfully adorned with sculpted aura crystal points.

Last year, Rebecca Beach of Pins and Things posted a magical tutorial video where she shared her step by step process for making the scary creature, known as a Dementor, from the Harry Potter films and books. It functions well as a Wraith Halloween decoration as well! We are using our Dementor as part of...

Men’s Health traveled to Iceland back in April to visit with Strongman competitor and Game of Thrones actor Hafthor “Thor” Bjornsson (The Mountain). They spent 24 hours exploring the home life of the incredible six-foot-nine man and how he eats, trains, and relaxes while training for the next Arnold Strongman Classic. The hardest thing about...

CBC Arts has released a fascinating video that follows the design process of 12-year-old artist Callum Donovan Grujicich. The talented young artist creates a creepy, yet amazing collection of figurative sculptures from materials that he found during a foraging trip with his brother. Callum has shared more of his sculptures on Instagram and his portfolio...

Dust Buddies is an adorable animated short film, created by Ringling College of Art & Design students Beth Tomashek and Sam Wade earlier this year, about the solid friendship between two dust bunnies as they try to escape the clutches of a ruthless cleaning maid. A story about the friendship between two dust bunnies, Fuzz...

Artist Leonardo Pereznieto of Fine Art-Tips created a tutorial video where he shares three techniques to draw a perfect circle freehand. A Simple Technique for Drawing Perfect Freehand CirclesPianoArc, A Circular 294-Key Electronic Keyboard Developed by Lady Gaga’s Keyboard PlayerSandscript, A Device That Uses Magnets to Let You Control Steel Balls and Draw Patterns in...

Ben Cusick (a.k.a. “NightHawkInLight“) demonstrates how to build a camp stove out of a recycled soup can. The stove in this video is an excellent little wood stove that burns fuel cleanly, and unlike DIY alcohol stoves can burn for long periods of time without needing to be extinguished to refuel. I also prefer wood...

Netflix released a trailer for Jerry Before Seinfeld, their upcoming special where Jerry Seinfeld takes the stage and explores the roots of his epic comedy career. Jerry Before Seinfeld will become available to stream September 19th, 2017 on Netflix. Jerry Seinfeld takes you back to before you called him a king, or a legend, or...

Netflix released an awesome refresher course for season one of the Duffer Brothers‘ hit television series, Stranger Things, in the form of a nostalgic 1980s video game. The Netflix Original Series Stranger Things Imagined as a 1980s Computer GameInteresting Analysis of Stranger Things Season OneA Handy Recap of Game of Thrones Seasons One Through Six...

Warner Bros. has released a prequel short, titled “2036: Nexus Dawn,” that connects events between the original 1982 Blade Runner film and the upcoming movie, Blade Runner 2049.