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After tasting the raw honey that was made by his bees, Gothamist food editor Nell Casey got in touch with urban beekeeper Tom Wilk of Wilk Apiary to find out more about his craft. Wilk spoke with videographer Jessica Leibowitz about his passion for his hives, the nature of bees, why he uses smoke and […]

1500 Words by writer Jim Memzies and directed by filmmaker Andrew Chaplin is a wonderfully bizarre short film that tells the story of Stanley Franks, who is told by his dispassionate doctor that he only has a terminal illness that allows him only 1500 words to live. After using over a thousand to express his […]

“I hear them bells when they’re off, I hear them in my sleep, I hear them when I lay down” In the summer of 2015, Gothamist videographer Jessica Liebowitz spent a day with a Brooklyn ice cream vendor named Victor, who spoke about his daily life, the advantages and disadvantages of his job and how […]

Ballers star Rob Corddry tears up and taps out while eating increasingly hot chicken wings during an interview with Sean Evans on Hot Ones. Comedian and Ballers star Rob Corddry would like to add another honorific to his resume: “wing-enjoyer.” At least that’s what he thought going into First We Feast’s Hot Ones, in which […]

Everything Wrong With Star Trek III: The Search For Spock by Cinema Sins Oh sh*t! We left dead-Spock on that planet that generates life! We’d better go back and get him, no? Here are all the sins we found in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock.

In the second season of the Netflix runaway hit Narcos continues the incredible story of Pablo Escobar and the tireless multi-national law enforcement agents who once again search for him after his daring escape from La Catedral Prison. In the second season, notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar is on the run, with the Colombian authorities […]

New York City digital media artist Sam Cannon has created a surreal and mesmerizing collection of animated GIF images. The full series of GIFs are available to view on Instagram, her Tumblr blog, and website. A video posted by Sam Cannon (@samcannon) on Jul 14, 2016 at 8:54am PDT A video posted by Sam Cannon […]

Simon Whistler, host of the wonderfully informative video series “Today I Found Out” explains the the two types of strokes that can occur, the physiological causes of each type and the remedies avaialable for each. There are two types of strokes: Ischemic and Hemorrhagic. Ischemic strokes are the most common type, accounting for nearly 80% […]

Michelle Obama and James Corden (codenames “Renaissance” and “Tiramisu”) did some Carpool Karaoke and sang songs by Stevie Wonder, Beyoncé, and the track commissioned by the first lady “This Is For My Girls” joined by Missy Elliott. James Corden’s White House tour takes an unthinkable turn when First Lady Michelle Obama joins him for a drive […]

Fred & Friends have created Munchtime, a colorful pair of Tyrannosaurus rex chopsticks that have teeth chomping action. Take a bite out of your lunch with Munchtime! Colorful T-Rex opens and closes its mouth as you squeeze the easy-to-use, animated chopsticks. They make every meal jawesome! Made of food-safe ABS. via That’s Nerdalicious, Geekologie

While on location at the Wilson factory, commercial filmmaker Benedict Redgrove created surprisingly beautiful film that captured the highly intricate, mechanized process that goes into crafting the yellow tennis balls for which the company is so well known. I was commissioned to make a film and shoot a set of images by ESPN for Wilson, […]

Illustrator Simon Toland and animal behaviorist Nicky Trevorrow explain, through the adorably animated advice series “Simons Cat Logic“, how and why cats feel the need to keep themselves so clean. Cats will actually groom in a particular order. If you have you ever watched your cat grooming, you may notice they always start with the […]

In two recent videos the University of Nottingham series Computerphile explains how passwords are cracked and how users can choose and manage more secure passwords. The videos feature Dr. Mike Pound demonstrating how a high-end computer called Beast can easily crack passwords from an encrypted database. Pound also uses the xkcd comic “Password Strength” as an […]

ThinkGeek has created an out of this world Star Trek glassware set featuring 4 planet glasses (Earth, Vulcan, Romulus, and Qo’noS) as well as a Borg cube shot glass. We previously wrote about their Star Wars and solar system glassware collections. This Star Trek Planetary Glassware Set lets you gaze upon otherworldly beauty while drinking […]

On July 16, 2016, the adorable dachshunds of the Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals Championship ran race after race at the Los Alamitos Race Course until an adorably scrappy pup named Darcy was named the winner. Video featuring trial wins by defending champion Finn making the field Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals Championship and the 2016 championship final won […]

Tested editor Norman Chan recently attended the Replica Prop Forum‘s annual meetup, where members share their costumes, props, and impressive builds that are still being worked on. Norman met up with prop builder Dave Goldberg to check out his amazing X-Wing Fighter model that “has ties to the original production” and his ongoing open-source Y-Wing […]

While on location at the beach, the very informative Mary Norris aka “The Comma Queen” explains the etymology of the English word “none”, whether the word should be described as plural or singular and how common usage has relaxed the word over the years. We’re here to talk about whether it not is singular or […]

Back in April, Hank Azaria gave Stephen Colbert a taste of his incredible voice talent on The Late Show by doing impressions of his mom and grandma. Azaria also went on to introduce Colbert to his new character, Jim Brockmire.

NASA shared a beautiful time lapse that showed a year on Earth from one million miles away. The video was created using images taken by the EPIC camera on the DSCOVR satellite locked between the Earth and Sun. The camera takes a series of images across 10 different wavelengths at least once every two hours. […]

Skateboarder Christian Flores spent 2 years and more than 2,000 attempts trying to land his triple-set laser flip down a flight of stairs. Flores gave it all that he had, mastered the art of falling, and vomited before finally sticking his difficult trick. via Digg

A series of birds demonstrate how to properly dance to various styles of Electronic Dance Music. via reddit

Alex Luthor recently created a fantastic fake movie trailer for the upcoming film, Star Wars: Episode VIII, that helps build hype for the next chapter in the ongoing Star Wars story. Episode VIII is currently scheduled to release on December 15th, 2017. via MightyMega

Pokémon Go Beginner’s Guide Online Course – 44% off in the Laughing Squid Store If you didn’t pick Pikachu at the start of Pokemon Go, you’re already in need of help. If you did? Good for you, you still need help because the game is massive and full of players who are already way better […]

PES has released a remastered HD version of “Gave Over”, his 2008 stop-motion animation featuring classic arcade death sequences recreated using everyday objects.

Casey Neistat dressed up as a Pokémon Go trainer and chased a life-sized Pikachu through New York City. Shonduras, who was in the Pikachu costume, posted a behind-the-scenes video of their adventure. A random phonecall from Casey Neistat turns into the BEST 38 HOURS EVER!! We fly to NYC to ride Boosted Boards and play […]

In “Gotta Groove Records“, filmmaker Nick Cavalier took a really insightful look into the history and daily life at the long lasting eponymous vinyl pressing plant, a one-stop shop for all things vinyl based out of Cleveland, Ohio that truly believes in the medium they produce. We believe that the vinyl record format is the […]

Musician Andy McKee performed the Skyrim song “Streets of Whiterun” by Jeremy Soule on a gorgeous and unique harp guitar that was crafted by Greenfield Guitars in Montreal, Canada. Proprietor Michael Greenfield explained the composition of this beautiful instrument. My harp guitar has its own, proprietary body shape and many unique features. While inspired by […]

The Renegade is a very clever 3D printing pen that uses recyclable plastic from bags and bottles to create inexpensive, readily available filament for creative projects. Developed by British 3D engineer Daniel Edwards, the pen mades it very to recycle and create at the same time. At present, Edwards is currently raising funds through Kickstarter […]

ElectroBOOM host Mehdi Sadaghdar repeatedly set himself on fire while he demonstrated graphite and its more exciting properties. Graphite is one of the many interesting forms of carbon. And carbon I love! It morphs into coal, diamond, graphite, graphene, fullerenes, nanotubes, buckyballs and more, all with their own set of fantastic properties. Except for CO2, that […]

Adam Savage delivered a love letter to cosplay in the form of a TED Talk. Savage has often been celebrated for his elaborate cosplay builds like Hellboy, Admiral Ackbar, and his many spacesuits. Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. […]

Code:deck is a stylish deck of playing cards with code snippets describing each card in different programming languages like JavaScript, C++, and even Brainfuck. via The Awesomer

Mike Olbinski, a Phoenix-based photographer and stormchaser created Vorticity, a stunning time lapse of several springtime tornadoes developing across the American heartland. Not only did I get one, but I got six more. On April 15th, the very first day out, I saw two tornadoes in the Texas Panhandle. May 9th was Wynnewood and Sulphur […]

In response to a user submitted question, occasional SciShow host Olivia Gordon of the Missoula Insectorium explained why cats love cat nip so very much. The catnip stimulates three main areas of the cat’s brain; the olfactory bulb which processes scent, the amygdala which is involved in emotions and decisions, and the hypothalamus which is in charge […]

Animation designer has created “Porter Des Choses” (“Wearing Things”), a brilliantly surreal short film in which pairs of shapely legs strut across the screen with a variety of playfully eccentric items, such as furniture, patterned balloons, a ball of human hands holding red and green apples and a giant brown nautilus costume, jauntily piled on […]

French artist David Bayo has created a time lapse that that shows him crafting a beautiful portrait of a woman with the use of over one-million precise dots made from a razor-sharpened pencil. More than a million dots, about 90 hours of work and a couple headaches to complete this piece. Hope you guys will […]

Jayna Grassel, a talented speed crocheter, demonstrated for the cameras of Wired/Condé-Nast her ability to craft a perfect yarn flower in a remarkable 90-seconds, although the filming did need a couple of takes due to positioning. I went up, saw the studio, met a bunch of people and they told me to stand behind a […]

The Backyard Scientist built a giant vortex cannon in a video for GoPro. Not satisfied to simply blow smoke rings, Kohler filled his creation with propane and launched the gas at a lit blowtorch to create a burning ring of fire.

In the spirit of the upcoming Presidential election, National Geographic has created a short video primer that explains why Republicans are represented by elephants and Democrats by donkeys. The Republican elephant was popularized in the political cartoons of Thomas Nast …The Democrat donkey was introduced decades before to insult Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Jackson. Jackson […]

Improv Everywhere and their Magical Porta Potty returned to the Governor’s Ball Music Festival in New York City to surprise people trying to use the bathroom with unexpected weddings, jailbreaks, and more. The Magical Porta Potty premiered last year at the festival and featured surprises like a gospel choir and mariachi band. For our latest mission, […]

On a recent episode of the AWE Me show DIY Prop Shop, host Vinny Logozio demonstrated how to build your own version of Green Lantern‘s epic power battery from the DC Universe.

A photo posted by Sofia Vergara (@sofiavergara) on Jul 19, 2016 at 10:53pm PDT Garry Marshall, the beloved award-winnig actor, comedian, writer, director and creator of such iconic shows and films as The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries, sadly passed away on July 19, 2016 from pneumonia […]

The PBS Digital Studios channel Shanks FX recently showed us how to recreate the iconic teleporter effect seen in Star Trek: The Original Series using household items. They used glitter, Alka-Seltzer tablets, various reflective objects, and more. The Star Trek teleport / energize effect has been featured in every iteration of the franchise, dating back […]

Real Engineering gave a primer on the engineering and business SpaceX will use to send humans to Mars. The science is important, but so is the company’s focus on lowering the costs associated with space travel to make crewed missions to Mars a reality.

On a recent episode of Super-Fan Builds, a web series created by Andy Signore for Break Media‘s AWE me channel, creative director Shane Hammond and his team at the Set Masters design and fabrication company built a DeLorean Hot Tub Time Machine for a Back to the Future fan named Brandon. What do you get […]

Travis Greenwood recently teamed up with Robert Jones and Brett Roberts to create part 2 of their original supercut tribute to some of the best t-shirts worn in movies. From airbrushed novelties and tacky tourist tees to raglan ringers and stupid slogans, film’s most amazing — and ridiculous — prop t-shirts take center stage in […]

MinutePhysics explains the reasons why it is more difficult to crash something into the Sun than it is to propel it out of the solar system altogether, and why trying to launch all our nuclear waste into space is a bad idea. This video is about the orbital mechanics of why it’s so hard to […]

The Star Wars Lightsaber Wall Hooks by ThinkGeek feature Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader style hilts that are both designed to hang your Jedi and Sith attire on. The galaxy has been largely safe from attack. Oh, and last we checked, the armed services weren’t accepting recruits trained solely in lightsaber usage. Yeah, we checked. […]

In a new video from New York Magazine, Canadian vocal talent Steve Love does great impressions of numerous popular characters from Game of Thrones.

In the continuing What If? series, xkcd artist Randall Munroe answers the reader-submitted question, “How many fireflies would it take to match the brightness of the Sun?” The explanation includes how fireflies create their light and the best way to logically match the Sun’s brightness with fireflies. image via xkcd

Matt Damon (Jason Bourne) recently teamed up with GQ Magazine to share some of the clever methods that he uses to win a movie fight. Prep your left hook. Matt Damon is truly our inside man to all of Hollywood’s most well-cloaked secrets. For example, all those ripped muscly on-screen fighters? Actually they’re just muscly […]