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A photo posted by nychos (@nychos) on May 5, 2016 at 4:51pm PDT IKON is the upcoming solo art show by Austrian urban art and graffiti illustrator Nychos of Rabbit Eye Movement at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City featuring some of his new signature dissections of pop culture characters like Darth Vader, […]

“Internet: Then Vs. Now” is a clever comic by artist Andy Kluthe and Tristan Cooper of Dorkly that compares how the world of the internet worked back in the 1990s compared to now. image via Dorkly

AsapSCIENCE explained the ways smartphones change the bodies and brains of users in their latest video. The video’s companion piece on the AsapTHOUGHT channel suggests six reasons that one could benefit from taking a break from smartphone use.

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George Gaspar of Toy Break set a RecordSetter world record on February 4, 2009 by fitting 2,222 toothpicks in his beard.

Vox looks back at the history of GIFs from the early days of the internet to present day with a focus on how companies like Giphy have tried to profit from them. The GIF was invented in 1989. And since its beginning, the GIF has been used to make money. At first, GIFs were sold as […]

Kuma Films recently captured footage of diabolo wizard ChihHan Chao, the Red Bull PAO 2015 champion, performing all sorts of incredible Chinese yo-yo tricks. A video posted by Kuma Films (@kumafilms) on Jun 1, 2016 at 3:56pm PDT music by SevnthWonder – “1995“

In the BowserVids sketch “New Accounts,” a beleaguered man played by Andrew Bowser must deal with his two coworkers (also played by Bowser) to start a new account.

“Youtuber Simulator” is a video created by Jason Gastrow (a.k.a. “VideoGameDunkey“) where he plays a real life PC video game, titled Youtubers Life, and humorously outlines his “actual YouTube career.” Jason’s spoof features plenty of clickbait titles, copyright infringements, advertisement proposals, and more.

Tripp Crosby and Tyler Stanton of Tripp and Tyler share a few helpful tips for how to make work funner. The tips include fun office games and pranks to play on coworkers, but Crosby and Stanton can’t quite agree on what a “sniff tally” is.

In a 360° video for The New York Times Magazine, photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin climbed the spire of One World Trade Center to photograph a breathtaking view 1,776 feet above New York City. Chin’s photographs appeared in The New York Times Magazine’s recent “New York Issue.”

Prankster and magician Rahat Hussein recently performed an amusing prank where he surprised unsuspecting people on the highway by cruising down the road in a Tesla sedan that had an invisible driver. The Tesla’s autopilot feature really helped Rahat pull off his hilarious stunt.

Jon Stamm and Joey Graves of Vat19 recently made a gummy bear piñata, filled it to the brim with cereal marshmallows, strapped the piñata to a drone, and then attempted to smash it wide open with a baseball bat while blindfolded.

Caleb Kraft of Make: has created an edible version of Google Cardboard made from graham crackers and icing. The finished product is both fully functional and fully edible (except for the lenses) as demonstrated by Kraft who devoured the entire cracker assembly in the video.

Taras Kulakov the “Crazy Russian Hacker” performed an experiment where he dipped an exposed lightbulb filament into a beaker of liquid nitrogen to see what would happen. The nitrogen glowed brilliantly and prevented the filament from burning out as it would if it were exposed to oxygen.

Theoretical physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander explores the connection between physics and jazz in his book The Jazz of Physics. Alexander discussed the relationship and demonstrated his skills on the saxophone in a video for Wired.

Jonathan Burdett of Films&Stuff has created “Spider-Man 2: Marvel At Its Best,” a video where he explores how director Sam Raimi blended comedy, action, and drama into the 2004 superhero film Spider-Man 2. While we indulge ourselves with the recent superhero summer blockbusters, I think it would be good to explore the best film of […]

The Moto Roster car club has released a series of “connected badges” that can be attached to a vehicle for others to gather information about the car and its owner from their smartphone. They are available to purchase from the Moto Roster store. Badges on car grills have always been a subtle mode of communication […]

Life Noggin asked and answered the question, “Could you survive 2.5 million years ago?” That would put a modern human in the Pleistocene epoch when the world was colder, diseases were different, and early hominids roamed the Earth. Although there’s no definitive way of knowing how a modern person would fare, the challenges of the […]

Today I Found Out host Simon Whistler answered the question, “What is the hottest temperature possible?” in his latest video. Whistler gives a simple explanation for the complicated answer, but he has to go all the way back to the Big Bang to do it.

Dilara Mundy recently animated a sketch from 2012 for Team Coco where Aziz Ansari teaches old man Conan O’Brien about the world of computerized online dating. Aziz’s friend used one of them high-tech computer gizmos employing a highly-specialized search algorithm to find his future wife. Here is the original sketch:

Madrid filmmaker and video editor Albert Gómez has created a supercut video featuring side by side comparisons of character’s first and last appearances in Quentin Tarantino films. He gives us a look characters in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Volume 1, and more. via DesignTAXI

SciShow host Hank Green addresses the often cited internet claim that humans replace all their cells every seven years. While many cells do die off and replace themselves over time, some don’t, and the lifespan of cells varies greatly by type.

In a recent Saturday Night Live sketch, J.J. Abrams shared bonus footage of celebrities failing their auditions for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. SNL cast members, Daisy Ridley (Rey), and John Boyega (Finn) get in on the fun as Matthew McConaughey, Emma Stone, and Jon Hamm try to nail their Force Awakens performances. Here is […]

In the pilot for the new Motherboard video series Greatest Moments in Hacking History, Samy Kamkar recounted the time he took down Myspace in 2005 when he discovered a vulnerability that allowed him add code to his profile that quickly replicated itself across the site. The pilot is one of five that Motherboard is considering […]

New York City video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak (a.k.a. “The Nerdwriter“) recently explained how the dragons in Game of Thrones may have stopped progress in Westeros. Fans of The Nerdwriter can help support his future videos on Patreon.

Genki Sudo and his group World Order were joined by more than 100 performers to sing their song “Have a Nice Day” and do their signature robotic dance moves in Tokyo’s Shibuya scramble crossing, considered to be the busiest pedestrian crossing in the world. An earlier video featured the group singing the song and doing their robot move around in […]

In episode nine of his series for IMDb, host Brandon Hardesty of No Small Parts takes a look at the career of talented actor Paul Bettany, the actor who voiced JARVIS and played Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Brandon dives in and looks at his past his roles as Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight’s […]

New York Magazine associate producer Christine Nguyen has created a video for Vulture that explains the story behind “A113,” the mysterious code that appears in numerous animated television shows and films. It’s hidden in movies and TV shows everywhere. In The Simpsons, The Hunger Games, Avengers, American Dad, Mission: Impossible, Doctor Who. And in every […]

The awesome RocketJump crew recently created “Pool Fart,” a special effects video featuring a group of friends who are enjoying a fun-filled day in the pool. That all changes when Jimmy Wong farts in the pool for a laugh. The fart quickly becomes a massive gas bubble that Clinton Jones accidentally pops with his cannonball […]

When supplied with a brand new Nikon D810, filmmakers Wriggles & Robins created “Nightlife” a stark and stunning experimental low-light, stop-motion film that features animals running through a park. The effect was achieved through a “sequence of looped unedited photographs” captured at different speeds and exposures. Nikon gave us a D810 and asked us to […]

Eclectic Method, in collaboration with 16-year old Genranon, has created a very danceable remix of the jazz-heavy, highly acclaimed film Whiplash In true respect to jazz this is one of those rare electronic tunes that goes through multiple keys in a 2-5-1 chord progression in 5/8 time signature…… Only joking it’s a 4 to the […]

Students from the Academy of Music for the Blind performed an absolutely beautiful original song to accompany the equally stunning “Please Touch the Art”, a poignant film about the beauty of tactile art to those with limited vision. Filmmaker Cantor Fine Art spoke the remarkable talent of these students. he Academy of Music for the […]

The Flying Robot International Film Festival (FRIFF), the world’s first open international competition dedicated to video shot by drones, is in its second year and recently put out call for entries for original “aerial cinema created from the perspective of flying cameras”. As reported in the past, FRIFF is the brainchild of Eddie Codel, an […]

Vox reporter Brian Resnick and narrator Elizabeth Scheltons explain, via clever animation, how a certain genetic component called a chronotype causes a small part of the population to chronically sleep in late, an internal behavior that’s often seen in a negative light. There are night owls among us — whose whole circadian schedules are shifted […]

Wendover Productions has created a follow-up to their video “What Makes Flying So Expensive?” with a detailed explanation of how budget airlines save money to stay competitive and cheaper, particularly in Europe. Flying is an expensive endeavor, but somehow certain budget airline are able to sell tickets for less than 10 euros. This is how […]

Galway, Ireland musician Banjo Guy Ollie recently performed a multitrack cover of Metal Man‘s theme song from the 1988 video game Mega Man 2 using a five string tenor banjo, a mandolin, a bouzouki, and a u-bass. Fans of Ollie’s work can help support his future covers on Patreon. Here is the original Metal Man […]

In an effort to make their cruises more popular, VODOHOD River Cruises decided to bring fluffy cats on board the Nikolay Chernyshevsky, dress them up in maritime uniforms and let them roam freely about the cabins in a floating cat cafe of sorts. The feline ferry experiment was incredibly successful and cruises from Moscow to […]

Beakman (Paul Zaloom) from the 1990s children’s science television show Beakman’s World returned to help YouTube science host Captain Disillusion debunk perpetual motion machines and online free energy claims in “BEAKMALLUSION: Free Energy Devices.” Captain Disillusion points out ways the devices could have been faked while Beakman explains the scientific reasons why the machines are […]

In celebration of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows roundhouse kicking its way into theaters on June 3rd, Los Angeles baker and author Rosanna Pansino of Nerdy Nummies demonstrated how to make an adorable collection of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themed cupcakes. A video posted by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on May 31, 2016 […]

Shaquille O’Neal donned different costumes and went undercover as a Lyft driver in Atlanta. O’Neal chatted with his passengers about basketball, his favorite movie Kaazam, and encouraged them to sing before his big reveal that he was really a famous 7′ 1″ basketball giant. Many of his passengers admitted that they had their suspicions early on. […]

In September 2015, we wrote about Art of the Prank, a full-length documentary about legendary prankster Joey Skaggs and his hilariously glorious history of manipulating the media. Since that time, the film has played internationally to great acclaim. Art of the Prank is currently slated for the SF DocFest at the Roxie Theater in San […]

Guinness World Records has shared footage of soccer freestyler John Farnworth setting the world record for the highest soccer ball dropped and controlled. Farnworth had BATCAM design a special drone that took his soccer ball up into the air and dropped it from 105 feet before he successfully trapped it with his feet and then […]

Disney and Lucasfilm have released videos showing how the talented team at the Propshop of Pinewood Studios crafted Darth Vader’s melted helmet and many of the other props from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. They have also opened up a new Star Wars Collectibles store that is stocked with a limited supply of studio edition […]

In a new episode of the informative trivia series Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains how the expression “red tape” came to describe the frustratingly slow and cluttered process of bureaucracy and how the term has been consistently employed throughout history. Sometime during the early 16th century, in order to distinguish the most […]

A pair of adorably vocal French bulldogs named Ganon and Loki were barely able to contain their squealing excitement when their human informed them that they were on their way to the dog park. I have to be careful not to say “dog park” around my French bulldogs because they get a little too excited […]

Project Soli is a small sensor device developed by Google ATAP that uses radar to control electronics with hand gestures. The radar and antenna for the device fit on a small 8mm x 10mm chip, but it is still sensitive and powerful enough to pick up small and precise movements. The sensor has a wide […]

Computer graphics student Léo Brunel of the MOPA college in France has created “Voltige,” a clever animated short film about a pair of fumbling mechanics who get tangled up in all sorts of high-flying car trouble in their garage. According to Brunel, he was inspired by the comedic duo Laurel and Hardy. via Vimeo Staff […]

IEEE Spectrum explores how researchers program robots to make moral decisions and the challenge that presents. There is no clear guide that humans agree on for morality, and research shows that people expect robots to behave differently than other humans when making potentially life-or-death decisions. Whether it’s in our cars, our hospitals or our homes, […]

LG recently hired professional rock climber Sierra Blair-Coyle to pull off a crazy stunt while demonstrating the suction power of their CordZero vacuum cleaners by having her scale the side of a 460-foot skyscraper in South Korea. Sierra, who was equipped with safety lines, strapped two of the cordless vacuums to her back and used […]