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YouTube creator Motoki Maxted danced wildly while lip-syncing in the car with his mother. The pair made a somewhat less frenetic video together earlier this month. Car rides with Motoki is back with a special edition of the hottest bangers right now.

In a new episode of the wonderfully animated lost interview series Blank on Blank, the late great Marlene Dietrich spoke about getting older, being a sex symbol, her love for Texans and the difference between American and Europe in terms of lifestyle and success in a 1969 interview with Houston radio host Jay Kent Hackleman. […]

Tag Clouds is an art project by Mathieu Tremblin where he cleans up graffiti making it legible. Tremblin paints over existing graffiti tags and replaces them with easy to read words and symbols. The principle of Tag Clouds is to replace the all-over of graffiti calligraphy by readable translations like the clouds of keywords which […]

German artist collect Raubdruckerin uses the often overlooked unique beauty of manhole drain covers, sewer grids and other embedded street designs as their vast medium that directly connect imprint their wonderful shirts and bags with a thin sheet of ink. All printing is done on-the-spot, so the act of casting the design becomes a separate […]

James McAvoy stars as a dangerous man with multiple personalities who abducts three young women in the new M. Night Shyamalan film Split, which will be released on January 20, 2016. Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley), there remains one still submerged who is set to […]

Alex Wassabi of Wassabi Productions has created “How Pokémon Eat Food,” a geeky parody inspired by the popular video “How Animals Eat Their Food” by Mister Epic Mann. They hilariously act out how different Pokémon might go about getting a bite to eat in the real world. A video posted by Alex Wassabi (@alexwassabi) on […]

While stuck at an airport, traveller Ziya Tong, host and producer for Discovery Canada, was entertained by a happy little bird who was having lots of fun just riding along the handrail of a moving walkway over and over again. Little bird having fun on a moving walkway…#stuckatheairport pic.twitter.com/hFrd87sb4y — Ziya Tong (@ziyatong) July 23, […]

Music, choirs, food & drink from 5pm #Lostwithiel @TheManEngine All the info you need here https://t.co/mFLeEKQCAs pic.twitter.com/nN36FpY92a — GoldenTreeProduction (@GoldenTreeUK) July 27, 2016 The Man Engine, an incredible mechanical puppet dressed as a miner has started its 130-mile journey across south west England on July 25, 2016, making its way from Tavistock, Devon to Cornwall […]

Special effects artist Frank Ippolito teamed up with Tested to create a “CreepyFig” lifelike LEGO minifig mask and hands. Ippolito wore the set to interact with people on the floor of San Diego Comic-Con. In the video Norman Chan says Tested will be releasing a series of videos that detail the elaborate and mildly unsettling build.

Burger Fiction takes a look a the evolution of Matt Damon in film and television.

Mike Seymour of FX Guide and Wired examines the amazing special effects used in director Justin Lin‘s newly released film, Star Trek Beyond. From the digital construction of the Starship Enterprise all the way down to the extraterrestrials themselves, Mike Seymour takes us into warp drive as he breaks this successful franchise down to its […]

French journalist and director Ulysse Thevenon has created a supercut video featuring numerous references to movies from the 1970s and 1980s in the Netflix original series, Stranger Things. He features scenes from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Alien, The Goonies, Stand by Me, and other films.

Professional golfer Bubba Watson debuted a new jetpack golf cart built by Martin Jetpack and Oakley that gives golfers a bird’s-eye view of the course and help speed up play. The cart features a 210 horsepower engine that lets riders reach up to 3,000 feet at a top speed of 46 mph as well as […]

As a refresher for the upcoming Jason Bourne movie battling its way into theaters this Friday, Universal Pictures released a helpful featurette where Matt Damon gives us an action-packed recap of the Bourne film series in 90 seconds.

The single-actuator wave-like (SAW) robot developed by David Zarrouk at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev mimics the movement of a snake to push itself forward with an action similar to “the worm.” The 3D-printed design lets the robot move in a variety of difficult terrains, over obstacles, and a waterproof version of the SAW robot can swim 57 cm/s. SAW […]

Pawel Zadrozniak (a.k.a. “Silent“) recently created an fantastic rendition of the Pokémon animated television show theme song using 64 floppy drives, 8 hard drives, and 2 scanners. Here is the original theme song for comparison:

Loot Crate Productions has created a wonderful parody trailer that reimagines the upcoming DC Comics superhero movie, Suicide Squad, as a gritty Quentin Tarantino film. Suicide Squad is scheduled to infiltrate theaters on August 5th, 2016. This summer… The Bride, Django, Jules, Gogo and Aldo slice through the bad guys as Quentin Tarantino brings you […]

Screen Junkies and Smosh have teamed up to create an honest game trailer for Pokémon Go. We previously wrote about their ongoing series of honest game trailers.

Comedian Jeff Wysaski of Obvious Plant recently pulled another one his classic pranks by leaving funny fake coupons at a local grocery store. A photo posted by Obvious Plant (@obviousplant) on Jul 26, 2016 at 10:29am PDT images via Obvious Plant

After getting a demanding phone call from CEO Rick Riffson, talented guitarist Rob Scallon expertly demonstrated his multi-instrumental talent by shredding heavy metal licks on a 22-string Roosebeck Heather Harp. When music industry elite and Super Metal Records CEO Rick Riffson called me today I was of course nervous. But with a 22 string and […]

Kate Middle-Toe The British company Chatty Feet makes fun illustrated socks with witty names that combines the name of the character with a pun pertaining to feet, such as, “Kate Middle-Toe“, “Vincent Van Toe“, “Feetasso“, “Andy Sock-Hole“, just to name a few. The pairs also come with a card explaining who the character is and […]

Lovin Dublin created a brilliantly hilarious video featuring Sir David Attenborough narrating Pokémon Go.

A photo posted by Dorota Drzewiecka (@pracowniador) on Mar 8, 2016 at 10:53am PST Polish seamstress and designer Dorota Drzewiecka of Pracownia DOR has created a gorgeous line of colorful hand-painted silk butterfly wings that look as if they could fly away on their own. While Drzewiecka’s designs were originally made for belly dancing, they […]

Redditor OyVeyzMeir shared a photo of his 40 year-old best friend’s birthday cake which included toy fire trucks ready to assist with putting out the candles. via reddit

A news blooper from KARK in Little Rock, Arkansas features the quite possibly the shortest weather forecast ever recorded. via reddit

Upon his human‘s request, a very sweetly accommodating German Shepherd named Luke obediently went to go find his big brother Jack and efficiently retrieved him with a gentle hold upon his collar. The younger German Shepherd will fetch his brother if you tell him to …It’s not uncommon to hear some growling when Luke runs […]

Family Guy brilliantly makes fun of how salad is made at every single pizza restaurant. via reddit

Ted-Ed Educators Anthony Hazard and Alex Gendler explain through somber animation by Uncle Ginger, the array of circumstances that allowed Hitler to rise to such power in a democratic, culturally assimilated country like Germany. For Hitler…his bigotry and paranoid delusions led him to pin the blame on Jews. His words found resonance in a society […]

In episode 18 of his series for IMDb, host Brandon Hardesty of No Small Parts and his friend Kenny Johnson travelled to Louisiana to meet Josh “The Ponceman” Perry, an actor who has a mild form of Down’s Syndrome and his incredibly supportive family. Perry first gained popularity on the YouTube channel he shares with […]

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Dan and Lincoln from the What’s Inside? channel recently visited Iceland to find out what’s inside a levitating light. Due to some equipment problems, the pair was forced to use some rudimentary methods to open the device including a knife, their bare hands, and throwing part of it off the roof of a building. We […]

A high-flying hawk in Lincoln, Nebraska decided to take a break atop the 10/11 weather tower where the curious bird looked right into the camera as if he was saying hello to all the viewers out there. Meteorologists Rusty Dawkins and Sean Viale both welcomed the return of their feathered friend. Look who's back! #MrHawk […]

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert visited the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia as his Hunger Games-inspired character of Julius Flickerman to celebrate the Hungry for Power Games. Perhaps because of his antics at the Republican National Convention last week in Cleveland, Colbert had a much harder time trying to get up to the podium […]

Vox writer German Lopez investigated how the use of psychedelic drugs such as LSD and psilocybin, is currently being studied in its effectiveness to treat such issues as depression, OCD, anxiety, addiction. While He found that the studies had great success, he also found that the studies a few and far between due to the […]

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Everything Wrong With The Bourne Supremacy by Cinema Sins There’s a new Jason Bourne movie! In the spirit of celebration, we went looking for sins in the 2nd one: The Bourne Supremacy. Found a few.

Meet Graham. Graham is an anthropomorphic interactive sculpture with a severely deformed appearance that highlights human vulnerability and demonstrates how humans would need to physically evolve in order to comfortably survive the worst traffic crashes. Graham was collaborative project between the Transportation Accident Commission of Victoria, Australia (TACVictoria), trauma surgeon Dr. Christian Kenfield, crash expert […]

On a recent episode of Conan, John Bradley (Samwell Tarly) talked about the epic on-set prank that producers from HBO‘s Game of Thrones pulled on him. The trusting actor walked right into their trickery when they dressed him up in a “ridiculously ugly costume.” When his bosses asked him to wear a ridiculously ugly costume, […]

Designer Danielle Baskin has created a backup battery pack shaped like a Pokeball for Pokémon Go players who need to charge their phone after playing the notoriously battery-draining game for a few hours. The Pokeball houses a 5300mAh battery that Baskin claims will recharge a phone two to three times. The interior of the plastic shell is […]

Jo Luijten of Squirrel-Monkey has created an awesome new animated video where he imagines what the Netflix original series, Stranger Things, would look like as a computer game from the 1980s.

In a fantastic Game of Thrones parody from a recent episode of Conan, host Conan O’Brien got settled into his hotel room at San Diego Comic-Con 2016 and removed Melisandre’s necklace to reveal his true “ancient, withered” self. A photo posted by CONAN (@teamcoco) on Jul 25, 2016 at 5:23pm PDT A photo posted by […]

FX Networks has released the first trailer for Legion, an original television series directed by Noah Hawley that is based on the powerful Marvel mutant of the same name. The series will follow a disturbed young man named David Haller (Dan Stevens) who hears voices and sees visions in his head that may actually be […]

Puddles Pity Party performed a few classic Frank Sinatra tunes on Facebook Live backstage at his July 25, 2016 show at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.

Smarter Every Day host Destin Sandlin deprived his own brain of oxygen to demonstrate why flight passengers are told to put their own oxygen mask on first in the event of cabin depressurization. Sandlin performed the experiment in a controlled environment under the supervision of a team at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab, but the results are […]

D-Piddy is a charismatic cosplayer based out of Los Angeles who enjoys dressing up as Deadpool, Skeletor, Luigi, and more to create music videos and comedy shorts for his YouTube channel. He recently ventured to San Diego Comic-Con 2016 to team up with other cosplayers, battle Pokémon, dinosaurs, make out with Star-Lord, and have his […]

Pills beautifully dissolve in water while being filmed with a macro lens by the Macro Room channel. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

On a recent episode of Conan, host Conan O’Brien shared footage of celebrities like Bill Hader, Melissa McCarthy, Jeff Goldblum, Adam Sandler, and more auditioning to play the part of young Han Solo in the upcoming origin film. Before Alden Ehrenreich nabbed the part, every actor worth their salt tried out to play the “Star […]

Sunscreenr is a compact UV camera used to detect where sunscreen has been applied to the skin. Properly protected skin shows up as dark, and spots not protected by sunscreen appear lighter. Users can get a live view through the camera’s viewfinder to check someone else’s skin, or use the Sunscreenr to create a 30-second recording […]

How to Dad creator Jordan Watson of Auckland, New Zealand recently sent out a message to “baby clothes makers” asking if they could use more velcro in their clothing to #HelpTheDadHands. The little buttons truly are a struggle. We previously wrote about How to Dad and his great DIY parenting advice.