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The Dutch architecture team of MVRDV created the Stairs to Kriterion, a grand temporary scaffold staircase that goes from the base of the city’s Central Station to the rooftop of the Groothandelsgebouw, offering incredible views all around. The stairs opened opened during the Rotterdam Celebrates the City festival, which celebrated the 75th anniversary of the […]

In a recent episode of the informative series Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains why Harley Davidson motorcycles are so famously loud, how customers modify their bikes to be even louder and how new laws are looking to dampen the noise. Straight off the line today, Harley exhaust systems can emit noise as […]

On May 23, 2016, 18-year old Ryan Wilcox, a devoted Avengers fan who’s currently being treated for cancer, got the surprise of his life when he answered the door to find Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America) and Gwyneth Paltrow (Pepper Potts) showed up at his door. The excited fan told Fox […]

In “Study for Fifteen Points“, the engineers of Random International creatively experimented with tiny robots equipped with LED lights to learn the threshold of information that the human brain needs to recognize the human form. The initial sculpture from Random’s new body of work in progress, Study for Fifteen Points experiments with the minimal amount […]

In 2011 we wrote about Dutch artist Theo Jansen and his Strandbeests, incredible wind-powered walking sculptures that harness the power of the wind to move forward. Recently, Jansen brought his magnificent kinetic skeletal structures to San Francisco for the very first time and walked them along Crissy Field Beach. Both KQED Arts and the San […]

Missouri Horror photographer Joshua Hoffine has teamed up with Dark Regions Press to release a book showcasing Joshua’s creepy work from the past 13 years that is appropriately titled, Joshua Hoffine: Horror Photography. Hoffine is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help with the production and shipping costs of his upcoming hardcover book. Designed as […]

Engineer Jay Hyun Kim has created the COSMOS, a very cleverly conceived combination clock and speaker that features the full map of the Northern Hemisphere Constellation on its face, simulating a clear starry night sky. Kim called the COSMOS the perfect combination. I believe that these three forms are the perfect combination, because the movement […]

Beat Down Boogie recently visited Japan and captured 4K resolution footage of the Robot Restaurant, an underground robot themed bar in Tokyo that is a wonderful sensory overload. They watched as a magical show unfolded featuring “flashing lights, remote controlled set pieces, and crazy costumes.” More photos from their Robot Restaurant adventure are available to […]

In her latest visual essay “Frames Within Frames“, talented French filmmaker Candice Drouet explores how works of art are strategically employed within films to complement and even drive the story. Paintings are rarely included in a movie without having a purpose. Sometimes they point out the social status of a family or the historic period […]

A photo posted by thisiswallysemail@gmail.com (@wally_and_molly) on May 22, 2016 at 9:35am PDT A sweet little 2-year old Angora bunny named Wally sports an adorable lion cut while gleefully romps around his grassy Natick, Massachusetts yard, always stopping to smell the roses, investigating corners, pretending to be a garden gnome at times and sharing wonderful […]

A photo posted by Baby Bites (@babybites_) on Mar 15, 2016 at 7:30am PDT Spanish children accessory company Baby Bites has created a very clever line of playful shark and whale sleeping bags whose adorably toothy jaws are able to swallow small children whole. According to the founders, each piece is completely handmade and unique […]

Canadian artist Dave Delisle of Dave’s Geeky Ideas recently created an incredible two-person tent design based on a Federation shuttlecraft from Star Trek. This is a two-man tent design that features an entrance at the back (just like the actual shuttlecraft). The tent stores in a carrying case that splits apart to become the thrusters. […]

For his final photography class project, photographer and artist Adriano Rodrigues collaborated with makeup artist Breeanna Nichols to create “Neon Dream“, a fantastic photo series in which a model was painted black with an airbrush and then dotted with luminous makeup that lit up under a black light like a bright celestial constellation across a […]

PBS Idea Channel recently explored the vague horror of face swap and why humans can find things like digital glitches unsettling. Host Mike Rugnetta compares the phenomenon to the work of director David Cronenberg and the genre of body horror. Face Swapping isn’t new, but it sure is popular these days with things like the […]

Dreamworks animator and father Daniel Hashimoto has created “Get in the Boat!,” a new special effects video for his ongoing Action Movie Kid series that shows his son, James Hashimoto, manning a boat at the Munson Park in Monroe, Michigan that ends up in very turbulent waters. When my kid says get in the boat, […]

On a recent episode of Late Night, Game of Thrones‘ very own Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) told host Seth Meyers that Dothraki is a real language that was made by David J. Peterson for HBO‘s television series. Emilia then went on to try and sing “MMMBop” in Dothraki.

Chinese engineers debuted a model of an elevated bus that rides over other vehicles to avoid traffic. The model was on display at the 19th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo, and it provides a glimpse at a possible future with less traffic on the road where mass transportation glides over small cars.

Mondo has collaborated with artists Trevor Grove and Michael Norman to release a 1/6 scale collectible figure depicting famous filmmaker, Alfred Hitchcock. They also teamed up with artists Adam Simpson, We Buy Your Kids, and Thomas Danthony to create a collection of stylized movie posters that celebrate his thriller films The Birds and Vertigo. The […]

Matt Radach posted timelapse footage of the growth of his giant 1,223 lb pumpkin from seed to scale. The pumpkin was grown from a seed taken from the 2009 record-setting pumpkin grown by Ron Wallace, and the video reveals many of the techniques Radach used to grow the massive pumpkin. via reddit

Cleveland Police officer James Grotenrath recently went above and beyond the call of duty to help 9-year-old Bryce, whose Pokémon card collection was stolen. Grotenrath knew how the kid felt, since he was once a Pokémon fan himself, so he gave Bryce his personal collection of Pokémon cards to right the wrong.

Pranksters @TJCruda and @k_vinnnn put a pair of glasses on the floor of a museum to trick patrons. The museum attendees took the bait and stopped to observe and even photograph the “art” installation. LMAO WE PUT GLASSES ON THE FLOOR AT AN ART GALLERY AND… pic.twitter.com/7TYoHPtjP8 — teejay (@TJCruda) May 24, 2016 @TJCruda the embarrassing […]

Ardrey Kell High School senior Michael Senatore of Charlotte, North Carolina recently blew the minds of his classmates and people on the internet during an annual talent show by creeping up to a table on the auditorium stage, effortlessly flipping a partially filled water bottle into the air, making it land upright on the table, […]

There’s a certain type of person who may be a human pup: anyone… Channel 4 in the U.K. recently ran a fascinating piece looking into the subculture of people, mostly men, who prefer to live as a dogs – in terms of costume, feeding and bathroom habits – during their downtime. A remarkable behind-the-scenes look […]

Designer Martin Panchaud has created a single enormous infographic that tells the entirety of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and can be viewed simply by scrolling. The graphic includes beautiful designs of the ships and settings from the film as well as dialogue and simply rendered circular characters. images via SWANH Making Of […]

The amazing Steve Onotera aka samuraiguitarist filmed himself in real time performing an acoustic version of the classic Beatles song “Here Comes the Sun” and then took that footage and sped it up 20 times its original speed giving him an odd, animatronic look and a mechanical sound to the music. Turns out if you […]

The Hydraulic Press Channel crushed a GoPro Hero3 camera while it was streaming its own destruction in their latest video. The team also crushed some other action cameras, but not all of their subjects fared as well as the GoPro, which nearly escaped.

In the TED-Ed lesson “The otherworldly creatures in the ocean’s deepest depths” educator and biologist Lidia Lins Pereira explains through clever animation by Viviane Leezer, how a vast variety of sea life is able to exist so far below the water’s surface and so near the ocean floor. About 60 percent of the ocean is […]

Benjamin Lloyd, a really talented airbrush artist whose motto is “You say it i’ll spray it”, has been tatting up the kids in his Tauranga, New Zealand hometown with gorgeous temporary designs made with skin-safe ink for the past two years, since the tragic death of his stepson Lincoln. It wasn’t until Lloyd put out […]

Mike Boyd accepted a challenge from Smarter Every Day‘s Destin Sandlin to learn to ride the “Backwards Brain Bike” 50 meters. The bike is welded with a special gear to reverse its steering. It took Sandlin eight months to accomplish that goal, but Boyd has a penchant for quickly picking up new skills and managed […]

In the latest of their incredibly insightful videos, the School of Life explains, through animation by Jesse Collett, the three primary internal factors that affect a person’s sense of self-worth, self-confidence and self-esteem. What your same-sex parent did. The single greatest determinant of how much you will esteem yourself is how you compare with your […]

Alex Luthor has recently created a new epic movie trailer mashup where live-action Avengers and X-Men characters battle each other without a single shred of mercy. via Robot 6

The Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand posted absolutely beautiful, peaceful and mesmerizing footage of a resident elephant going for a slow afternoon swim in a nearby river. The magnificent animal took her time, blowing bubbles with her trunk, before she submerged herself fully in the cool water.

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the joyful “Chewbacca Mom” Candace Payne‘s Wookiee mask video received over 141 million views and became the most watched Facebook Live video ever. To celebrate, Zuckerberg invited Candace out to the Facebook HQ to have some fun with the legendary Star Wars character, Chewbacca.

A new video from The Atlantic provides animation for an interesting interview with David Kessler, the former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and author of Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering, who explains his theory that all mental illness, including addiction is connected through those outside stimuli which captures our attention, hijacks […]

On a recent episode of the American Chemical Society series Reactions, they explore “the mechanics and chemistry of digestion” to find out if swallowed chewing gum really stays in your stomach for 7 years. It’s a legendary piece of playground lore: If you swallow a piece of gum, it stays stuck in your stomach forever. […]

New Submarine by Glennz Tees When construction is complete and the vessel is ready for delivery, it’s scooped into a bag and delivered to port.

A photo posted by JR (@jr) on May 25, 2016 at 4:55am PDT For his new show “JR au Louvre“, the remarkable Ted Prize-winning French street artist and photographer, JR used his talent for large scale photos to create a fantastic illusion in Paris. Using his trademark technique, JR made the iconic glass and metal […]

Rob van Heijst and Luke Burrage went head-to-head in the intense sport of combat juggling in the semifinal round of the Netherlands Juggling Festival 2016 Fight Night event. The object of the game is for a player to knock the other juggler’s pins to the ground while maintaining control over three pins. via reddit, Digg

Molekule is a new air purifier that approaches the issue of environmental pollution on the molecular level through unique technology developed by Doctor Yogi Goswami, a dedicated father trying to find relief for his severely asthmatic son. Two decades later, his son, Dilip Goswami, used father’s technology and research to develop an accessible, portable, quiet […]

A sweet high-content wolfdog named Lakomi, who was found by the Larkwood Animal Rescue Center at 8 months old wearing an undersized harness that nearly killed her, gleefully rolled over for some yummy belly rubs from her favorite human Sarah and eagerly asked for more when she felt she hadn’t had enough. According to Sarah, […]

The San Francisco Bay Area band DUM (David Unger Music) has created “Game of Stewie ,” a fantastic parody of Game of Thrones and Family Guy where Stewie Griffin becomes Tyrion Lannister. A Griffin always pays his debts! We’ve always thought that Stewie Griffin and Tyrion Lannister have a similar style of speaking. Being big […]

Video shows the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia‘s iCub robot tracking a ball with its “eyes” in three dimensions using human-like head, eye, and face movements. The robot’s glowing red “eyebrows” seem to indicate that it does not like the ball or being pushed around by its operate to test its head stabilization system. via Boing Boing

Pors & Rao have created The Uncle Phone, an elongated and fully functional red rotary dial phone. Their vintage phone sculpture takes two people to operate it due to the fact that the phone dial is located in the front and the receiver is positioned six and a half feet behind it. photos by Jorge […]

Marsbot is a new app by Foursquare that texts restaurant and bar recommendations to users. The app uses Foursquare data and preferences it learns over time to proactively send users recommendations when they are near something they might enjoy. The service is being tested in New York and San Francisco for the iPhone with a […]

On a recent episode of Shanks FX, a web series by Joey Shanks and produced by PBS Digital Studios, Shanks captured a mesmerizing video of giant bubble reflections in stunning 4K slow motion. Originally this episode was just going to be a 4K sequel to our popular “Giant Bubble Explosions” episode. I was capturing good […]

Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) enlists the help of some friends to find her family in the latest trailer for Pixar‘s Finding Dory. Dory reunites with Nemo (Hayden Rolence) and his father Marlin (Albert Brooks) to find her lost parents and escape a marine life research institute. Finding Dory will be released on June 17, 2016.

Guitarist Eric Calderone (a.k.a. “331Erock“) recently performed a heavy metal cover of the theme song to Adult Swim‘s animated television series Rick and Morty. Fans of Eric’s covers can help support his future work on Patreon. Here is the original Rick and Morty theme song for comparison.

Mashable video producer Armand Valdes broke down and thoroughly explained the X-Men movie series timeline in a recent episode of Mashable Explains. Whereas Marvel has created a linear and cohesive timeline with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Fox’s X-Men universe is a little trickier to keep track of. With its many contradictions and inconsistencies over the […]

A video appears to show a Tesla Model S driver asleep at the wheel with the car in Autopilot mode on the highway. The Autopilot system has visual and audio alerts to ensure drivers stay alert, and if the vehicle detects an unresponsive driver it safely pulls to the side of the road.

In a recent sound profile, SoundWorks Collection interviewed composer John Ottman and found out about the work that he did on the upcoming Marvel film, X-Men: Apocalypse. The movie is currently scheduled to hit theaters on May 27th, 2016.