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by Justin Page on (#14SDK)
Director J.J. Abrams has brought back the Star Trek movies and then breathed life into Star Wars with The Force Awakens. Above Average recently poked a little fun at Abrams in “Star Wars: The Force of Abrams,†a parody movie trailer about J.J. Abrams and his revitalization of Hollywood films, TV shows, and more. There […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#14SDN)
In a clip from The Simpsons titled “The Debateful Eight,†Marge Simpson is woken up by a political nightmare that turns into a song and dance number before escalating into a massive brawl between the top 2016 presidential candidates.
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by Lori Dorn on (#14SDQ)
Two musical dogs named Shadow and Boo, played a little song upon their human’s request. Shadow obligingly pounded on the keys and sang lead, while Boo sang background at the top of his little lungs.
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by Lori Dorn on (#14SA2)
A one string shovel guitar. Can ya dig it? Rob Scallon, an incredibly creative musician, played amongst the tall trees of his backyard on a fully functional electric guitar skillfully crafted from a shovel by Bob Clagett of I Like to Make Stuff. The video itself was filmed in the style of 1990s grunge, many […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#14SA4)
Juggler Olga Kay gave a daring performance by juggling three iPads, including one she borrowed from someone without telling them what she planned to do with it. The video is part of Kay’s series Will It Juggle? where she juggles different objects suggested by her viewers.
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by Glen Tickle on (#14S6X)
“CRASH: The Year Video Games Died†is a short animated documentary by Ahoy about the 1983 crash of the American video game industry. The documentary explored the causes of the industry’s sudden decline, and the state of video games today.
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by Lori Dorn on (#14S6Z)
While sitting atop a bed, an adorable domesticated red fox named Juniper attempted to dive into the white sheet thinking that it it was a cool, crisp blanket of snow under which he could find a yummy treat. When not mistakenly diving in to bed sheets, Juniper goes looking for treats wherever he can find […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#14S3T)
ClickHole removed the verbs from clips of classic 1990s sitcoms like Friends, Frasier, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but left behind the nouns, adjectives, and pronouns.
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by Justin Page on (#14S0G)
On a recent episode of Hot Ones from First We Feast, host Sean Evans sat down with actor and comedian T.J. Miller to talk about his part as Weasel in the new Deadpool film, his first kiss, and hecklers in show business while eating progressivly hotter spicy chicken wings. T.J. Miller is not your average […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#14S0J)
Bryce Dallas Howard finds a young boy (Oakes Fegley) who was lost in the woods for six years in Disney’s live action version of Pete’s Dragon. The boy explained that he survived his time in the forest with the help of his friend, a dragon named Elliott. The film is a remake of the 1977 film of […]
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by Justin Page on (#14RX8)
On a recent episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon played a game of “Wheel of Musical Impressions†with singer and actress Demi Lovato. Demi rocked her impression of Cher singing the classic children’s song “Bingo Was His Name-O†and Fallon stepped up to the plate as well when he sang the Mister Rogers’ […]
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by Justin Page on (#14RXA)
Netflix has released the sword fight-filled second trailer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, a sequel to the 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film is scheduled for release on February 26th, 2016 and will be the first feature film to premier simultaneously on both Netflix and in IMAX theaters. Renowned warrior […]
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by Justin Page on (#14RSZ)
Undercover Lyft is a new series that follows celebrities as they go undercover as a Lyft driver and escort strangers to their destinations. On the latest episode, professional NASCAR driver Danica Patrick went undercover and took passengers on a speedy ride while challenging other vehicles on the street to race her. Former NFL player Jerry […]
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by Justin Page on (#14RPC)
Inventor Colin Furze recently built a remote-controlled garbage bin that makes taking out the trash a smelly breeze. He then took his RC “wheelie bin†out on the town to prank random people on the streets.
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by Justin Page on (#14RPE)
The Verge has created a detailed timeline and short video that explores the past 30 years of the popular Legend of Zelda video game series. They cover everything from The Legend of Zelda being released for the NES console in 1986 to the next game in the series coming out for the Wii U sometime […]
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by Justin Page on (#14RKB)
Tal Prints has edited a hilarious video that features Chewbacca screaming like a terrified lady in a horror movie after seeing Darth Vader on Cloud City. via reddit
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by Scott Beale on (#14PJV)
A symphony of robots assembling a Tesla Model X at the Tesla Factory.
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by Scott Beale on (#14P04)
Mr Sunday Movies takes a look at scenes that were deleted, characters that were missing and jokes that were removed from the immensely popular R rated Marvel film Deadpool. The amount of people who have given Deadpool a watch has proven that there is massive success to be had in an R rated comic book […]
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by Scott Beale on (#14KVW)
Top ranked competitive eater Matt Stonie consumed 50 egg rolls (10,000 calories) in 21 minutes. A lot of people have asked me over the years to do Egg Rolls, so consider that request fulfilled!! I didn’t go cheap with soggy supermarket frozen ones either, these were freshly fried, still hot and crispy Egg Rolls from […]
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by Scott Beale on (#14KE0)
Ryan Reynolds shared a recorded message from Deadpool (spoofing Kanye West’s backstage rant at SNL) explaining why he won’t be hosting Saturday Night Live. It was in response to a recent Change.org petition created by fans suggesting that Deadpool should be an SNL host. Actually DEADPOOL was going to host back in the 90s, but […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#14HPZ)
A little dog watched and listened intently to his determined human as she was teaching him how to meow like a cat. After a couple false starts, the pup finally connected with his inner feline and let out out a couple of adorable little mews that were rewarded with treats and a click. via YouTube […]
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by Scott Beale on (#14HQ1)
Blendtec founder Tom Dickson destroys a selfie stick in a blender on the latest episode of Will it Blend?
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by Lori Dorn on (#14HKB)
Scientists have been studying the genial walking stick insect in order to learn more about which of their six legs provide most of the force to propel them forward. Dr. Chris J. Dallmann of Bielefeld University in Germany conducted a study of these insects in order to understand how his department’s six-legged robot named Hector […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#14HG6)
Korean musician Luna Lee is an incredibly talented performer who skillfully covers such rock songs as “Space Oddity“, “Love Me Tender“, “Back in Black“, “Stairway to Heaven“, “Layla†and a great many more on a modified Gayageum, a traditional multi-stringed instrument with deep historical roots. …the gayageum that I play is an ancient, traditional Korean […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#14HAK)
In the short award-winning 2006 film “Modern Daydreams 1 – Deere John“, an earnest man dances longingly with a gigantic 22 ton John Deere excavator. The machine moves gracefully alongside the man, but the solemn sense of sorrow is overwhelming. The video was conceived and created by filmmaker Mitchell Rose, a former choreographer and performance […]
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by Scott Beale on (#14HAN)
The Witness is an intriguing new video game developed by Jonathan Blow (creator of the acclaimed 2008 game Braid) that features 3D puzzles that need to be solved in order to explore a mysterious abandoned island. The game’s setting is beautiful and eerie, and some of the puzzles can be quite challenging.
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by Scott Beale on (#14H7T)
Firewatch, the highly anticipated first person mystery game created by Campo Santo and distributed by Panic, was recently released on Steam and PlayStation 4. In the game you play Henry, a man working as a fire lookout in the Wyoming wilderness, whose only contact with the outside world is with his supervisor Delilah through a […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#14H5Y)
Photographer Dawn LaPointe of Radiant Spirit Gallery captured incredible video showing the absolutely stunning natural phenomenon of ice stacking along the shores of Lake Superior in Brighton Beach, Minnesota. During this process, sheets of ice covering the lake were pushed to the side as warmer water passed through. Once ashore, the ice began to melt, […]
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by Justin Page on (#14GWM)
James Corden eagerly auditioned to be Ryan Reynolds‘ official Deadpool sidekick on a recent episode of The Late Late Show. Through all of James’ failed attempts at becoming a spectacular sidekick, they finally decided on forming a butt-kicking “Double Deadpool†team. A photo posted by The Late Late Show (@latelateshow) on Feb 19, 2016 at […]
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by Justin Page on (#14GSS)
In a new POV video from Red Bull, we can watch as Austrian climber David Lama and his American climbing partner Conrad Anker take on the massive Lunag Ri mountain that is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet. They became the first ever to reach the upper section of the 4-mile high mountain […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#14GPR)
photo by Rob Carr/Associated Press Nelle Harper Lee, the legendary award-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in in 2007 and made news with the unexpected publication of Go Set a Watchmen in 2015, passed away on Friday, February 19, 2016. She was 89 years old. Michael Morrison, […]
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by Justin Page on (#14GM9)
The Wizards of Aus is a comedy series, created by LateNite Films, about a Jack the Wizard who travels to Melbourne, Australia to escape his war-filled fantasy world. The six-episode series is available to watch on the timtimfed YouTube channel, including six episodes of behind the scenes content.
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by Lori Dorn on (#14GMB)
In a hilarious skit on Late Night with Seth Meyer, the provocative Game of Thrones character Melisandre the Red Priestess of the Lord of Light (Carice van Houten), found herself at a loss while awkwardly attending a baby shower for Seth and his wife. Whether it was her thoughts on motherhood, her choice of present, […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#14GGV)
In 2013, Cincinnati, Ohio music prodigy Ben Lapps created an amusing video in which he showed off his great sense of rhythm, timing and coordination by continually playing a short riff on his guitar while shooting hoops. He then later extended the riff into a song because he liked it so much. About my songs […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#14GGX)
When imagination meets real life. Pejac, a Spanish artist who creates wonderful street art, sculptures, and paintings that combine elements of minimalist fantasy with realism, has created the heartbreakingly startling short film “Heavy Sea“, which heavily features a single orange life preserver ring atop seemingly endless pile of discarded automobile tires. Born from his earlier […]
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by Justin Page on (#14GDJ)
Lovely actress Felicia Day recently modeled a beautiful full set of intricately 3D printed Dreamer Regalia armor that was created by New York artist Melissa Ng of Lumecluster and printed by Shapeways. The entire series of photos, taken by Eric Anderson, are available to view on Geek and Sundry. The project was challenging not just […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#14G9H)
The Explanimator video “Why space and time have a cryptic connection†by New Scientist explains how time and space behave for different things in the universe like humans, photons, and quantum particles. It also raises the question of where time and space come from. Space and time seem like the simplest, most fundamental, concepts there […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#14G9K)
Sir David Attenborough examines a fossilized titanosaur egg in a clip from the PBS Nature documentary Raising the Giant Dinosaur. The clip also shows a CGI reconstruction of what a baby titanosaur would have looked like as it tried to break free of its egg. In the documentary, Attenborough explains the discovery of the titanosaur […]
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by Justin Page on (#14G59)
Mike Seymour of Wired goes behind the scenes to explore the visual effects of Marvel‘s new Deadpool movie and discovers that it took five actors to bring the mighty Colossus to life. And one was nearly 7 feet tall.
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by Glen Tickle on (#14G5B)
Acme Streaming shared a 1985 news report by WDIV in Detroit that heralded the debut of the compact disc format. The video includes an interview with an avid music collector discussing the new format’s advantages over vinyl, and a look at how compact discs are made and operate. via reddit
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by Justin Page on (#14G5D)
Lucasfilm and director J.J. Abrams have announced today that the official 2016 Star Wars Fan Film Awards, an annual event that welcomes fans to make their own creative Star Wars themed short films, is now open for submissions on StarWars.com. In the Star Wars Fan Film Awards, fans create their own short films based on […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#14G5F)
Wired takes a closer look at some of the tools NASA astronauts could use on the other planets in the recent video “The Gear of Exoplanet Exploration.†The video highlights the NASA RASSOR digging robot and the Z2 prototype spacesuit.
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by Scott Beale on (#14G1C)
Netflix has just released a fashion themed teaser for season two of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which will be availble to binge on April 15, 2016. Ellie Kemper stars as Kimmy Schmidt, a woman who escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York. After living in a cult for fifteen years, Kimmy […]
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by Justin Page on (#14G1E)
Marvel has released a new motion poster, titled “Character Artwork,†for the upcoming second season of Daredevil that features Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) chained to the side of a chimney. Season two of Daredevil will be released March 18th, 2016 on Netflix. image via Marvel’s Daredevil
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by Glen Tickle on (#14G1G)
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a 4K resolution timelapse video of the Sun’s activity in 2015 taken from the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO). The video covers the sixth year of the SDO mission during the period from January 1, 2015 to January 28, 2016 with a frame taken every two hours. The sun is always […]
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by Lori Dorn on (#14G1J)
Brian Schreck MA, MT-BC, an incredibly thoughtful and talented music therapist at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Ohio, takes the individual heartbeat rhythms of the terminally ill juvenile patients in his care and incorporates them into original songs written specifically for the child and his/her family. In an interview with People, a very modest Schreck […]
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by Justin Page on (#14FXC)
The tall and friendly actor Peter Mayhew, best known for playing Chewbacca, is currently sharing a few pages per day from the original Star Wars script as he leads up to a “big announcement.†#chewscript 002 Lol, "a flurry of electronic swearing"… Can't you just see Kenny doing it? Love it. @starwars pic.twitter.com/U9bzmXS3tV — Peter […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#14FXE)
Prankster Luke Donohue surprised some unsuspecting students by escorting them to class on a rainy day using a giant patio umbrella he “borrowed†from a nearby Starbucks. It started raining really hard while we were filming a video for LAHWF so we took refuge under this giant green umbrella outside of Starbucks. I decided I wanted […]
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by Scott Beale on (#14FT3)
Burger Fiction celebrates the all the movies that have won an Academy Award for “Best Visual Effects†at The Oscars. Previously they took a look at all the movies that won “Best Pictureâ€. For the 1927/28 Academy awards, the award was for engineering effects. There was no award again until 1938 where it was called […]
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by Glen Tickle on (#14FT5)
Taras Kulakov the “Crazy Russian Hacker†combined 100 ping-pong balls and some aluminum foil to create a simple but impressive smoke bomb. As usual, Kulakov warned his viewers not to attempt to recreate his easy to follow step-by-step instructions.
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