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Director Alex Winter (who played Bill in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) is currently raising funds through Kickstarter in order to preserve the very precious memory of the incredible Frank Zappa. If enough money is raised, Winter plans to make a definitive documentary about Zappa’s life, share the unreleased materials Zappa kept inside his famous […]

Walton Goggins, the brilliant actor who’s played such characters as the ill-fated Shane Vandrell on the sublime series The Shield, the menacing bible-thumper Boyd Crowder on Justified and the wild Billy Crash in Django Unchained, spoke with Conan about the role he played on Sons of Anarchy, a sultry transgender woman named Venus Van Dam. […]

The first official trailer for the new Lonely Island movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping features the behind-the-scenes life of singer and rapper Conner4Real (Andy Samberg) and his entourage. The film was written by Samberg and his Lonely Island partners Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. Schaffer and Taccone directed the film and Judd Apatow produced. Universal Pictures’ Popstar: […]

While solemnly reporting on a tornado that hit in the East Texas town of Malakoff, KYTX reporter Andrea Martinez was completely caught off guard by the sight of an intense yellow lab perched on top of a riding lawn mower with his paws on the wheel looking like he was ready to go to work. […]

AsapSCIENCE gives a scientific answer to the question “Can You Actually Eat a Bus?” The video focuses on how human digestion works and the unique diet of Michel “Mr. Eat Eveything” Lotito, a French performer who ate unusual things including bicycles, chandeliers, and even an airplane.

Kubo (Art Parkinson) joins forces with Monkey (Charlize Theron) and Beetle (Matthew McConaughey) to save his family in the latest trailer for the Laika stop motion feature Kubo and the Two Strings. The film is about a boy who uses his magical instrument to tell stories, but learns his powers can do so much more. Kubo […]

The mysterious Food Surgeon once again donned a pair of latex gloves and went back into the operating theater in order skillfully harvest the tiny legumes from the pod of a sugar snap pea. The patient was a bit resistant at first, but eventually gave up the goods. Surgeon’s notes: 1:24 – C’mon pea! Let […]

In 2015, the Wall Street Journal posted a wonderfully heartwarming video about a retired bricklayer named Joao Pereira de Souza who lives off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the unusual friend who visits him every year from colder Patagonian climes. The visitor is a fiercely loyal Magellanic penguin named Jinjin whom de […]

Professor Paolo Pedercini asked his students at the Carnegie Melon University School of Art animation program to rotoscope footage of a galloping horse taken from an Eadward Muybridge plate from the 1870s. The class then created a series of unique interpretations of the horse’s motions. I Told My Students To Rotoscope The Muybridge Horse… You Won’t […]

Kuma Films captured footage of the professional Taiwan-based KARAT Fingerboarding team performing awesome tricks on top of a rotating table in a fancy restaurant. A video posted by Kuma Films (@kumafilms) on Mar 9, 2016 at 12:49am PST music by AudioTreats – “Solitaire“

CinemaSins presents everything wrong with Watchmen, the 2009 film directed by Zack Snyder based on the DC Comics limited series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. With a new Snyder superhero film coming up, we take a look at one of his earlier superhero films: Watchmen. For the hell of it, we went with the […]

Craig Benzine aka Wheezy Waiter of the Mental Floss series “Big Questions“ very quickly and concisely explained the genetic and biological reasons explaining why some people have curly hair and while others have straight hair in answer to a viewer’s question. What makes hair appear a certain way? When they’re actually affected at the follicle […]

A photo posted by Kerby Rosanes (@kerbyrosanes) on Mar 8, 2016 at 2:42am PST Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes used his black pens to create Geometric Beasts, a series of intricate drawings that beautifully fuse together animals and geometric shapes. Kerby’s entire collection of illustrations are available to view on Instagram, Facebook, and DeviantArt. “Each piece […]

Marvel released a new trailer for Captain America: Civil War, the next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. The action-packed trailer gives us a glimpse of the tension and conflict escalating between members of the Avengers. Captain America: Civil War is currently scheduled to hit theaters on May 6th, […]

xkcd creator Randall Munroe rearranged the shapes of the 48 contiguous states to create a new map of the United States of America. image via xkcd

Mark Rober created a scale model of the solar system using a soccer ball on a football field as the Sun to show the scale of the solar system and to help give an idea of the true distance of the recently proposed ninth planet. Rober placed planets on the field at their relative distances from […]

The latest animated video from The School of Life gently postulates that the technology of the future will be able to read moods, detect emotional states and help humans communicate the nebulous world of feelings through the ever-advancing strides being made in artificial intelligence. One such emotional technology tool could be the yet-to-be-invented Socrates Mood […]

Sacha Baron Cohen appeared on The Howard Stern Show to promote his new movie The Brothers Grimsby. During the full interview Cohen told host Howard Stern how he managed to sneak his Ali G character into the 2016 Academy Awards against the organizers’ wishes. Cohen also explained how his Freddie Mercury biopic project fell apart over a […]

Orkestra Obsolete – Blue Monday In honor of the 33rd anniversary of the release of the New Order song “Blue Monday“, the talented Orkestra Obsolete played an old-timey version of the song for BBC Arts as if it were released 50 years earlier using only instruments available in 1933. Among the instruments played in the […]

The Royal Tenenbaums Manchester, England artist Jordan Bolton has created a wonderful series of movie posters that feature stunning flat lay photos of original objects he recreated from each film. Prints of his posters are available to purchase on Etsy. Amélie Breakfast at Tiffany’s images via Jordan Bolton via archatlas, The Khooll, DesignTAXI

St. Cloud, Minnesota-based gamer Comrade, also known as Merfish, has created a new video where the intro for the Pokémon cartoon series is recreated in Grand Theft Auto V. We previously wrote about Comrade’s GTA V remake of the intro to Full House and Arthur. Merfish also shared side-by-side footage with the original intro for […]

In a new animated short by Dorkly, based on a funny comic created by Julia Lepetit and Andrew Bridgman in 2013, that imagines what it’s like for fans and non-fans to see Marvel movies. image via Dorkly

Dos Equis is retiring The Most Interesting Man in the World, an advertising campaign for the famed beer brand, by sending the bearded gentleman to Mars. They have plans to bring in a new face to play the part of The Most Interesting Man in the World in 2016. Andrew Katz, the vice president of […]

Bill Gates recently gave a reddit AMA, and for his identity verification he recreated a photo of himself from his 1973 high school year book. The new photo matches the original in surprising details, including Gates’ clothes, his pose, and objects in the room itself. I’m hard at work on my latest @reddit_AMA. Join me […]

RealmPictures, the group who created live action first-person zombie and alien shooters controlled by Chatroulette users, is back with a real life version of the video game Hitman. They gathered up a few groups of YouTubers and had them control an actual Agent 47 as he infiltrated a mansion and took down the enemies.

On a recent episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, Reggie Watts brought the cute Star Wars droid BB-8 on stage and serenaded his little friend with a song.

In 2014, Vietnam 1Cycle posted a wonderful video of a talented woman performing a lively tune on the lithophone, an ancient Vietnamese percussion instrument made from stones. Lithophone is the Vietnam oldest percussion instrument’s and one of the most ancient musical instruments of mankind. This is made of stones with different sizes of long, short, […]

Improv actor Planet Antonio logged on to the video chat site Blab and posed as a time travel from 1943 connecting to the Internet on an early ENIAC computer. Antonio stayed in character for more than an hour, gathering information about the future and answering questions about the past. via reddit

Yesterday KTVU San Francisco Bay Area reporter Alex Savidge and his cameraman Chip Vaughan were almost hit hit by a car during a live TV report they were shooting. Vaughan saw the car coming a yelled at Savidge allowing him get out of the way just in time. Savidge followed up with an emotional live […]

Editor and director Joey Scoma of Rocket Jump Film School explains the basics of film cuts and transitions available to filmmakers, using scenes from a number of different movies to demonstrate his point. In this video essay, Joey lists and defines the different cuts and transitions available to you as an editor, with examples from […]

Last month Mike Doughty performed a really great solo version of the classic Soul Coughing song “Super Bon Bon” on The Howard Stern Show. Mike is currently on tour with Big Head Todd & The Monsters. When Howard loves a song, he loves it for life. Whether from his formative years (Neil Young’s “Old Man”) […]

Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor of SORTEDFood offered an amusing demonstration that showed how to build a burrito-sized sushi roll. They also generously provided a step-by-step pictorial recipe on their website. Sushi are gorgeous dainty morsels and burritos are crammed full of filling making them dense and heavy. Both fantastically satisfying in their own right… […]

SciShow explains how Precision Medicine Initiative will try to help fight disease, and why Boston Dynamics researchers pushed around their new Atlas humanoid robot in a recent episode. Today on SciShow News we talk about a new research effort that is aiming to revolutionize how we treat disease. We also discuss the video where Boston Dynamics shows off […]

Paramedic Shaun Cunningham used his quick reflexes to save his son Landon from being hit in the face by a flying baseball bat during a spring training game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves. Landon was texting a photos of the game to his mother and didn’t see the bat headed his way. […]

Aaron Rollins demonstrates a handy hack on how to efficiently remove unsightly popcorn ceilings using putty knife duct taped to the end of a Shop Vac hose. via reddit

Conan O’Brien fell in love with a brown bear cub during a recent Conan segment with animal expert David Mizejewski. Mizejewski also had a black bear cub and was happy to report that the populations of both species in North America are doing well. Despite how cute Conan’s new friend is now, Mizejewski assured Conan that […]

On the latest episode of PBS Game/Show, host Jamin Warren explains why the mega popular video game, Minecraft, has such a blocky design. He then explores the pixelated world of voxels. Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time. And yet, the graphics are a bit… blocky. It seem like a strange […]

Conan O’Brien encounters a case of extreme manspreading in the audience while taping one of his shows. Conan just learned about the nasty habit of men who sit with their legs splayed open, and sure enough, there’s a manspreader right up front.

The Nerdwriter Evan Puschak recently re-watched the 1990s Nickelodeon series The Ren & Stimpy Show to understand what made the cartoon so unique. The show’s creator John Kricfalusi pushed back against the commercialism and morality he saw in the work of his peers, and the result was a children’s show that was bizarre, peculiar, and hilarious.

On their latest episode of Trailer Mix, Mashable Watercooler created a interesting new trailer for the Rocky film series sequel, Creed, that imagines what the movie would have looked like if it were produced as a VHS home video release in the 1990s.

In his first video since his cancer diagnosis, the indestructible Jake Roper of VSauce3, spoke about the incredibly existential questions that arose when he started thinking about logical paradoxes. To clarify his point, Roper described four different paradoxes – the Ship of Theseus paradox, the Sorites paradox, the Grelling–Nelson paradox and the teleportation paradox. If […]

Adult Swim has released an amusing mid-season trailer for their hilarious stop-motion animated show, Robot Chicken. The trailer is filled with pop culture mashups and gives us a glimpse at some of the new, tasty shorts that poke fun as popular movies, television series, and more. Season eight returns on Sunday, March 13th, 2016 at […]

A photo posted by Tal Peleg (@tal_peleg) on Nov 22, 2015 at 10:20am PST Artist Tal Peleg has shared her ongoing series of beautiful eyelid makeup art that features scenes from popular movies, musicals, and books. Tal’s entire collection eyelid art is available to view on her Instagram and Facebook pages. We previously wrote about […]

A bicyclist captured hilarious, albeit probably terrifying, footage with of a tenacious ostrich sprinting along the road after his two friends as they rode around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. According to National Geographic, “the cyclists were going 31 miles per hour but the ostrich kept up with them”.

A video clip taken from the Exploratorium Science Center‘s broadcast of the March 8, 2016 total solar eclipse shows the four-minute totality when the Sun was completely blocked by the Moon’s shadow. The total eclipse was visible Indonesia and parts of the Pacific Ocean. Another video taken from the European Space Agency‘s Proba2 mini-satellite in sun-synchronous […]

Tested editor Norman Chan and movie effect artist Sean Charlesworth recently worked together to create a fantastic, functioning ghost trap from Ghostbusters that features lights, sounds, and smoke. This prop pulls the best features from the traps that appear in the films, using as many original found parts as possible and the rest 3D printed. […]

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The Backyard Scientist melted kosher salt and poured the molten substance into a tank of water to cause a series of explosions with the goal of figuring out the cause of the violent reaction. The experiment was inspired by a similar video done by What We Made, but the Backyard Scientist version captured the explosions with […]

Ivan Owens, a designer of “oddities overtly orchestrated for ocular observation” in Bellingham, Washington taught his 10-year old daughter how to design and cast a pewter ring for herself. My 10 year old daughter wanted to learn how to make her own metal ring by melting down the metal herself. …The video shows her learning […]

Bethesda Softworks has released a trailer for the multiplayer version of the highly anticipated reboot of DOOM, which is scheduled for release on May 13, 2016 and is currently available for pre-order. DOOM’s multiplayer is not for the faint of heart. It’s bloody. It’s brutal. And it’s VERY FAST. Prepare yourself with a glimpse into […]