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In his beautifully shot short film “Hong Kong Strong“, filmmaker and world traveler Brandon Li captured the richness and density of the very many layers that make up the rich cultural landscape of Hong Kong in the busy days before Chinese New Year. A deep dive into the many layers of Hong Kong. A film […]

Expert woodworker and engineer Matthias Wandel, about whom we’ve previously written, excitedly marveled at the ingenuity and versatility of “tilt and turn” windows that can be easily found in many European homes. I love how windows in Europe work. Both sides open, and they open all the way. Quite the opposite of windows in North […]

Caleb Kraft recently interviewed Tim Fredoluco at Maker Faire Austin 2016 and took a close look at the awesome half-sized steampunk themed R2-D2 unit he built that “was rolling around, beeping and booping” on the show floor. R2 kind of happened as an accident. As Tim explained, he was just doing a simple sculpture that […]

Filmmakers Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski of Corridor Digital recently teamed up with the talented drone racing pilots of Rotor Riot to create “Drone Star Wars,” an incredible Star Wars themed short film that follows R2-D2 as he sneaks into an X-wing starfighter and engages in an aerial battle with Imperial TIE fighters. Here are […]

Casey Anderson, a National Geographic television host, filmmaker, naturalist and founder of the Montana Grizzly Encounter introduced an orphaned rescued grizzly bear cub named Bella, with whom he’s spending a great deal of time and who likes to have her feet tickled. Tickling a Grizzly bear cub's feet!https://t.co/IeCuiiLqY2 https://t.co/3IqaW0smET — Casey Anderson (@Grizanderson) May 21, […]

In an absolutely hilarious parody of the excessive MTV rich kid show My Super Sweet 16 on Jimmy Kimmel Live, actor Bryan Cranston turned into a petulant brat as he planned his “Super Sweet 60” party, taking out his childish frustrations on everyone including his parents, the party planner Jimby (Jimmy Kimmel), his bestie (Bob […]

“Finest Girl (Bin Laden Song)” is a song by Conner4Real (Andy Samberg) from the upcoming movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. The song focuses on Conner4Real’s romance with a girl with a very specific request, and the music video aired during the May 21, 2016 episode of Saturday Night Live. The movie will be released […]

The Sweepovac is a very clever in-wall kitchen vacuum that acts as an automatic repository for sweeping. With just a kick of the foot switch, the Sweepovac quickly inhales the dust and dirt into a hidden vacuum unit that is completely stand-alone, space saving and easily installed with just a few tools. Sweepovac is a […]

An Australian man added humor to his Chinese wife’s cooking videos with english narration. He laid in english tracks over the videos of his wife demonstrating how to cook a variety of foods. The last few videos in the series have been posted both with and without the english narration. via reddit

Mashable Watercooler has created a great mashup movie trailer that combines footage from The Little Rascals with audio from the original Furious 7 trailer for their ongoing Trailer Mix series.

Polish artist Michal Socha recently created an amusing couch gag for The Simpsons that was done in the style of an IKEA instruction manual. He showed exactly what you need to “build your own couch gag.” It appeared in the finale episode, “Orange Is the New Yellow,” that aired on FOX Sunday, May 22nd, 2016. […]

A incredibly patient Dutch woman named Marie Verbouw has taught her chicken Milca and her two goats Roosje and Kato how to perform remarkable tricks such as weaving in and out of her legs as she walks, sit, play dead, turn circles and leap through hoops. All this was achieved through the positive feedback process […]

A sweet tortoise named Freddy barely survived a terrible forest fire in Brazil that burned her legs and melted most of her shell. The burns were so bad rescuers called her Freddy, named after the scarred main character from A Nightmare on Elm Street. Luckily, a few really wonderful humans stepped in to create brand […]

On a recent episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon and Billy Crystal do all sorts of hilarious celebrity impressions by putting their mouths through cut-outs in various magazine covers. The two comedians converse back and forth while in character as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Seth Rogen, Bernie Sanders, and more. Billy often did impressions using […]

John Oliver called out the confusing and convoluted processes behind presidential primaries and caucuses on the May 22, 2016 episode of Last Week Tonight. Although the system is rife with problems as Oliver points out, “The middle of the game is the worst possible time to change the rules,” so he is calling on people […]

Competitive eater Matt “Megatoad” Stonie managed to consume 2 giant boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch in a little over 17 minutes for his latest eating challenge. I think, I could eat cereal all day..

20th Century Fox has released a retro TV commercial for the upcoming Marvel film, X-Men: Apocalypse, that promotes enrollment for Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. The amazing 1980s style ad stars Jubilee (Lana Condor) as well as the voice of Stan Lee. X-Men: Apocalypse is currently scheduled to blast its way into theaters on May […]

Disney has released the first teaser trailer for the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast. The 90-second trailer focuses primarily on the deterioration of Beast’s castle, but also gives a brief glimpse of Belle (Emma Watson). The film will be released on March 17, 2017 and also stars Dan Stevens as Beast, Luke Evans as […]

Transcend Rules has created “Game of Molds,” a fantastic recreation of the Game of Thrones intro using time lapse footage of mold and fungi growth. The magnified mold footage was originally filmed by photographer Nick Lariontsev. The original Game of Thrones intro for comparison: via reddit

A photo posted by Lara wirth (@armageddonpainted) on May 8, 2016 at 3:58am PDT Melbourne, Australia 16-year-old self-taught body artist Lara Wirth of Armageddon Painted used her stunning set of skills to create a wonderfully bizarre collection of body paintings depicting all sorts of both creepy and gorgeous creatures. Lara’s entire series of incredible painting […]

Insane Cherry has taken the classic Queen anthem “We Will Rock You” and recut it to dub in the vocalizations from various animal videos for an oddly schreechy rendition of the song. Among the videos tapped were Goats Yelling Like Humans, The Scream of a Fox, Crazy Funny Dog, Blah Blah dog and others. The […]

The makers of the interactive SHRU cat toy are currently raising funds through Kickstarter for their newest creation, the LICKI Brush. A novel silicon brush made in the shape of an oversized cat tongue, the LICKI Brush requires the participating human to grab onto the bite plate with their teeth and make licking motions with […]

Hey @JeepWorld, I think I found the perfect shirt! pic.twitter.com/M1GVW8ZNJe — Zach Mack (@zmack) May 22, 2016 Zach Mack came across a hilarious t-shirt that showing how “Jeep” can transform into “Beer” (probably after having a few beers). The t-shirt is available in various colors on Amazon.

Mechateuthis by Elko, Nevada sculptor Barry Crawford, is an absolutely magnificent hand crafted giant steel squid whose fully articulating tentacles flex when any or all of its eight hand cranks are turned. Taking its name from the pre-historic Megateuthis gigantea, the mechanical cephalopod was successfully funded through GoFundMe and made its debut at Burning Man […]

Cartoonist Damp Martin created a series of ridiculous and absurd new Pokémon for his daily comic Death Bulge. via Waxy Links

Paramount Pictures has released the second trailer for Star Trek Beyond, the third film in the reboot series, which is directed by Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious) and scheduled for release on July 22, 2016. “Star Trek Beyond,” the highly anticipated next installment in the globally popular Star Trek franchise, created by Gene […]

In his latest video, Davie504 visually answered a couple of tweets challenging him to play a bass with inverted strings (GDAE) and to play that bass left-handed, both of which he handled brilliantly. Playing slap style, he effortlessly switched between left and right without ever stopping. Well played.

In the first of the “Getting Started” videos from Cocktail Chemistry, a skilled mixologist offers his experience and advice about the right equipment to have on hand when making cocktails at home. Cocktail set (includes Boston shaker, bar spoon, hawthorne strainer, and muddler) Fine mesh strainer Angled measuring jigger Fancy mixing glass Julep strainer Citrus […]

In a new episode of the informative trivia series Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler talks about sushi, its origins and its former iterations throughout history. Whistler also explains the difference between sushi and sashimi. …sushi is not raw fish, that’s sashimi.Sashimi is just sliced raw fish, sometimes dipped in sauces and sometimes served […]

The voice cast of Bob’s Burgers assembled to shoot “Bob’s Burgers Live: The Movie” during their recent live tour. The video was directed by Kristen Schaal (Louise Belcher) and also stars H. Jon Benjamin (Bob Belcher), Dan Mintz (Tina Belcher), and Eugene Mirman (Gene Belcher).

In 2013, College National Poetry Slam champion Neil Hilborn performed OCD, a really raw and emotional piece that offered insight into what goes on in the mind of a person with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and a first person view of the devastating effects it can have on a relationship. When we moved in together, She said […]

A group of friends head to the wilderness in the IFHT sketch “My First Time Camping.” The gang acts out common first-timer experiences like trouble with camping equipment, cliché photos, and basic discomfort in nature. Your first time camping was likely full of fire-building fails, thirsty mosquitos and cliché Instagrams. via Coudal

Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE explain the history of makeup, the chemistry behind the ingredients of makeup and what keeps these chemicals from being deadly in makeup form. Historically ancient Egyptians would grind up a mineral substance containing primarily lead(ii) sulfide by to rim around their eyesm creating the sultry Cleopatra look. Little […]

Universal Studios Hollywood has released behind the scenes footage where special effects genius and executive producer Greg Nicotero explains how he is helping to bring the post-apocalyptic world of The Walking Dead to life as an immersive attraction at the Los Angeles theme park. Universal Studios Hollywood‘s thrilling new attraction is set to rise from […]

With an interest in connecting industrial automation with historical geology, Czech artist Prokop Bartonícek and German artist Benjamin Maus collaborated to create the Jller, an incredible kinetic machine that easily sorts random stones from a specific river by their geological age using pre-defined data ranges to guide the process. The machine also emits a very […]

Comedology discovered a hotel lobby’s automatic door sounds just like R2-D2 screaming when it opens. via reddit

The talented April Jennifer Choi played “Whip Jenga” by using a whip to knock out the tower’s stacked wooden pieces. Choi captured the game in slow motion, and also posted a video of her first attempt at playing the game. via Nerdist

ToyVault has released a pair of plush ‘Ello Worm slippers inspired by the adorable character voiced by Timothy Bateson and operated by Karen Prell in the Jim Henson film Labyrinth. The slippers are one size that will fit most adults up to size 12. via Robot 6

The Creator’s Project recently spoke with artist and pigeon fancier Duke Riley about his newest and biggest project to date. Entitled “Fly by Night“, Riley is collaborating with Creative Time to present an ongoing aerial show that features 2,000 flight pigeons tagged with tiny LED leg band lights to illuminate the sky over the Brooklyn […]

In the latest episode of their continually fascinating and informative etymological whiteboard series for Mental Floss, linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually explain why the English language almost always requires that the letter “Q” be always followed with a “U”. We can blame it on our alphabetic ancestors. Like the French. […]

A photo posted by Scotch Trooper (@scotch_trooper) on Apr 10, 2016 at 8:40am PDT Atlanta photographer and whisky connoisseur Brett of the Scotch Trooper Instagram page and blog has done a brilliant job of bringing together the worlds of Star Wars and various brands of whisky. Before giving his short review of a whisky, Brett […]

A photo posted by Instagram | NYC | Paolo (@paolopettigiani) on May 18, 2016 at 2:26pm PDT Paolo Pettigiani, a talented Italian photographer and graphic designer who recently moved to New York City, sought to find a different perspective of his newly adopted home. So he created “INFRARED NYC“, an absolutely stunning series that views […]

Preset Chess is a beautifully crafted wood chess set that is ready to play in a matter of seconds. Pieces are stored upside down in their proper places, so when players are ready for a game they simply turn over the set, lift the base, and the game is ready to go. The creators of […]

Peleg Design Studio, the maker of a many fun novelty items, has created the Crocomark, a plastic bookmark cleverly formed into the shape of a furtive open-mouthed alligator that becomes half submerged into the pages when the book is closed. Look out! Deep between the pages lays Crocomark. This crocodile shaped bookmark will silently wait […]

Conan O’Brien recently found out that a group of his employees were on a secret “Foodies” email list so that they could alert each other when free food arrived at the office. Conan addressed this injustice by placing a cake in the 2nd floor conference room and sending out an email to the group, notifying […]

A photo posted by Kevin (@theadventuresofkev) on May 10, 2016 at 5:40pm PDT Kevin is sweet chubby-cheeked, slightly crossed-eye Russian Blue who defied the odds and overcame the effects of congenital hydrocephalus (“water on the brain”) to live a really wonderful life alongside his animal siblings, provided by his loving human, Tailah, who told Love […]

Boosted recently announced that have designed and engineered a 2nd generation of their powerful, lightweight electric skateboards. This time around, the Boosted team “focused on opening up longer distances and more riding conditions while improving safety, reliability, and durability.” The 2nd generation boards are currently available to pre-order and will begin shipping in late July […]

A bizarre world of augmented reality takes over a person’s life in the short film “Hyper-Reality” by Keiichi Matsuda. Our physical and virtual realities are becoming increasingly intertwined. Technologies such as VR, augmented reality, wearables, and the internet of things are pointing to a world where technology will envelop every aspect of our lives. It […]

On May 5th, 2016 competitive gamer Wes Copeland reclaimed the Donkey Kong video game throne by acquiring a new world record score of 1,218,000. Copeland managed to not lose a single Mario throughout the game, which allowed him to cash in all of the extra lives at the end. Shortly after obliterating the competition, Copeland […]

Comedian Scott Rogowsky returned to the New York City subway system with another group of fake book covers. This time he was joined by Akilah Hughes with some books of her own. The titles included Book by Author McFakename, The Joy of Cooking Meth by Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, 1984 2: 1985 by George […]