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Artist Alison Moritsugu, who was raised in Hawaii and now resides in Beacon, New York, has created a gorgeously detailed series of landscapes painted directly onto wooden logs, stumps and sticks, each with their bark still intact. Using peaceful images of forests, water and mountains onto her canvas of raw pieces of wood, Moritsugu makes […]

“Daylight Saving Time 101” is a quick primer by National Geographic that explains the benefits and disadvantages of setting clocks back and forth by an hour for Daylight Saving Time.

“Peanuts 65” is a new extended trailer for The Peanuts Movie that looks at 65 years of Peanuts history. The trailer highlights some of the moments in the new film that mimic famous Peanuts moments like Snoopy’s battle with the Red Baron and also incorporates clips from earlier Peanuts animations.

Ellen DeGeneres recently sent her Ellen executive producer Andy Lassner through two haunted houses at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights accompanied by actor Eric Stonestreet from Modern Family. The first haunted house had a Walking Dead theme, and the second house was modeled after the John Carpenter horror classic Halloween. Neither man seems to enjoy the experience very much.

RealmPictures, the creative folks who made a live action first-person zombie shooter controlled by Chatroulette users, is back with level two of their game that pits unsuspecting people against infected aliens in space. The individuals on Chatroulette were able to control a gun turret, dawn an ass kicking exosuit, and help a survivor escape the […]

A series of videos by Funny & Amazing Planet capture the massive 580-ton SLJ900/32 bridge girder erector placing a large segment of road connecting city of Chongqing and the Wanzhou district in China. The SLJ900/32 was designed by the Shijiazhuang Railway Design Institute. Parts one, two, and three of the series each give different views of the machine […]

“The Wah Wah Machine” is an online tool for converting test to the garbled nonsense speech of an adult Peanuts character. The site was launched as a promotion for The Peanuts Movie, which will be released in theaters on November 6, 2015. Translate any message into #PeanutsMovie adult-speak using the new Wah Wah Machine at https://t.co/Jh2myEOfOC! pic.twitter.com/Yj5Y6FJk1G […]

“Godzilla vs. Jason Voorhees” is a stop-motion animated short by Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim show Robot Chicken where the unkillable Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th is shown taking on the classic movie monster known as Godzilla. Like you wouldn’t shell out FILTHY money to see this.

LEGO has released official images, on Facebook and Twitter, of their upcoming Ghostbusters-themed Firehouse Headquarters set. The 4,634 piece set features two floors with a laboratory, living quarters, the ghost containment unit, and nine Minifigs (Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston, Janine, Dana, Louis, a zombie driver, and the library ghost). LEGO’s new set is currently scheduled […]

Dutch artist Frans Hofmeester has been creating beautiful time-lapse videos of his children Lotte and Vince as they grow up from infancy. Since birth, Hofmeester has filmed a video portrait of them for 15 seconds each week. He recently posted “Portrait of Lotte 0 to 16 years in 4 ½ minutes,” and last year posted […]

Luke Skywalker seemed to be absent in the third trailer and new official poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The talented folks at Gritty Reboots took care of this problem by digitally adding Luke into every scene of the new trailer. Luke Skywalker is in EVERY shot of the new Star Wars trailer. Not […]

The Kicker is a new sport comedy website from Lorne Michaels‘ production company, Broadway Video. In their most recent episode, the great Weird Al Yankovic gets into character as a grizzled coach and hilariously sums up every sports press conference ever. Whether your team wins or loses, this is what the press conference sounds like […]

Bad Lip Reading provides alternate dialogue to the first Democratic presidential debate held in Las Vegas on October 13, 2015. In the video, candidates give nonsensical answers, play games, and share crayon drawings they made with moderator Anderson Cooper. They also recently gave the same treatment to the August 6, 2015 Republican debate.

On a recent episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert showed off a little bit of his geeky side by trying to guess what the entire plot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be. In Colbert’s version of the movie, moisture farmers and nerf herders will unite as one and bring peace to […]

In celebration of National Cat Day on Thursday, October 29, Uber is once again offering kitten delivery to (preferably) offices throughout the United States. Users can request kittens from 11AM to 3PM tomorrow through the Uber app (a a reminder notice is available) and for $30 the lucky recipients will get 15 minutes of warm […]

FOX’s Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD) has created “Mark Werewahlfberg,” a new animated video following the hilarious adventures of Mark Wahlberg as a werewolf. Mark Werewahlfberg’s friend the Gorgon turns men into Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, he borrows money from his Mummy, and more.

Fadi Saleh of Baracksdubs created a special Halloween edit that makes it look like President Barack Obama is singing the song ‘Thriller’ by Michael Jackson using various video clips of Obama speaking.

Squatty Potty, the stool designed to help improve toilet posture, has dropped a behind-the-scenes look at the making of its delightful ice cream pooping unicorn commercial. The video squeezes out details about the pooping unicorn puppet itself, the writing process that went into the script, and casting the commercial’s prince.

Pablo Fernández Eyre created an incredible video of movie posters that appear to come to life using the film footage that matches the image featured in the poster.

Stereokroma captured some beautiful close-up macro footage of a stick of burning incense in incredible detail. The close view of the smoldering material gives it a surprising level of life and motion. via Twisted Sifter

(larger) The Myriad Monikers Of Metropolis Menaces is an art print by Pop Chart Lab that categorizes most of Superman and Metropolis‘ villainous foes. Signed and numbered prints are available to purchase online. Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…a taxonomy of Superman’s villains! A veritable bottle city of the […]

Controversial French prankster Rémi Gaillard has been pissing people off 15 years and is still going strong. Rémi Gaillard is world famous for his dangerously funny videos. Unafraid of controversy, he has challenged the norms and expectations of online video with his creativity! From bringing Pacman and Mario Kart to life and playing pranks in […]

The MyKee titanium multi-tool key by Koygani is a lightweight multipurpose tool that easily fits on a key chain. The tool boasts more than 18 uses including a screwdriver, different sizes for bit drivers, a bottle opener, and more. MyKee is made from grade five titanium, which makes it incredibly light and strong. It’s simple key design makes […]

Dave Hax demonstrates how to make glow in the dark spider slime for Halloween out of household ingredients in his most recent video tutorial. Fantastic spooky Halloween DIY decoration. Elmers glue works really well, but I also found some other child friendly PVA glues work too. If you haven’t got borax you could try using […]

A student at Rosmini College in Auckland, New Zealand knocked a DJI Phantom 3 drone out of the sky with a perfect kick of a soccer ball. The drone was being used by media production company KOR Creative to shoot a promotional video for the college. via TVNZ

In a new video by Screen Rant, host Rob Flis shares six of the darkest stories about DC Comics and Marvel superheroes. With superheroes dominating the box office around the world, the average movie fan can probably tell you the biggest points in any superhero’s origin story. But the origin stories and classic comic arcs […]

Small objects are being moved and manipulated by sound wave levitation controlled by holograms that act as a tractor beam in a video as part of a study by published in Nature. The study was done by Asier Marzo, Bruce Drinkwater and Sriram Subramanian who used an array of speakers to project sound waves around a tiny […]

James Ware recently used some James Bond techniques to crash the Spectre world premiere at Royal Albert Hall in London on October 26, 2015 and filmed himself doing so. Here’s how I managed to crash the Spectre Royal World Premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London on the 26th October and then the after […]

Netflix has released the first trailer for The Ridiculous 6, an upcoming star-studded comedy western film directed by Frank Coraci and written by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler. The western satire will star Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Taylor Lautner, Terry Crews, Norm MacDonald, and many more. It is set to premiere on Netflix on December 11th, […]

?????( '?' )? pic.twitter.com/XJ5vUNgJoM — ???? (@kairi1402) October 22, 2015 The adorable guinea pigs of the Ueno Children’s Zoo in Tokyo, Japan know that it’s time to rush home when they hear the dinner bell ringing. Each fuzzy rodent takes his/her place in an orderly line and enters one-by-one onto a short wooden boardwalk that […]

A silly yellow Lab named Stella kept up her yearly tradition of repeatedly chasing her beloved ball right into a pile of crisp, freshly raked autumn leaves. Stella’s human Jody Hartman humorously stated “It’s that time of year again. Leaves are on the ground, and Stella is… in them.” via Daily Picks and Flicks

“Why Wine Snobs Are Faking It” is a clip from the TruTV series Adam Ruins Everything in which host Adam Conover breaks down the myth of fancy wines and encourages people to just drink what they like. The clip features actor John Michael Higgins as a snooty sommelier who finds himself subjected to a series of “wine […]

A beautiful rescued black cat in Bucharest, Romania named Luna sang a lovely duet about herself with Razvan Alexandru, her talented human, who accompanied them both on guitar. via Tastefully Offensive

CineFix has released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema that retells the story of Sam Raimi‘s 1992 horror comedy film, Army of Darkness, as an old-school 8-bit animated video game. This animated episode was created by David Dutton of Dutton Films with music by Henry Dutton.

Artist and engineer Bob Partington recently partnered with the YouTube channel Field Day to build the world’s slowest Rube Goldberg machine. The contraption sends a golf ball from one place to another using things like a molasses river, melting popsicles, and even growing grass over the course of six weeks from start to finish. Partington […]

“The Wild West of Drone Racing” is a short documentary by The Atlantic that explores the sport of first-person-view (FPV) drone racing. The main subject of the documentary is Dale “Hiway” Settle, a drone hobbyist and FPVracer who demonstrates his drone and talks about the sport. The video also features John Franklin who co-founded DroneShield, a company […]

Disney•Pixar has created a fantastic new video where the emotions (Joy, Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Sadness) from their 2015 animated film, Inside Out, watch and react to the third official trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Here’s the original Force Awakens trailer for reference:

A super-fit daredevil bulldog named Harley really likes going out on her skateboard for a ride around the neighborhood, so much that she gets incredibly possessive when her human tries to take her board away from her, even if it’s just for a moment. Harley filmed sideways. via reddit

Patrick Lee, a manager at the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco explains how they keep their highly intelligent and inquisitive octopi engaged, entertained and busy so that they don’t get bored and destructive, much like children on a long road trip. We try to think creatively on a daily […]

In honor of National Black Cat Day in the UK, feline advocate Chris Poole, human to the amazing Cole & Marmalade, narrates a whiteboard illustrated video that explains the dark history of black cats, specifically how they were worshipped as gods until the Middle Ages associated the dark felines with witchcraft. It was during the […]

Filmmaker Rishi Kaneria has created “Why Props Matter“, an impressive supercut of a great many films that celebrate the incredible power that props lend to the identity of a film, whether big or small, shiny or dull, overt or subtle. Great props can transcend the boundaries of the films they are in and become legendary […]

Artist Keren Rosen of Dings & Doodles has created an ongoing collection of cute illustrations that portray the literal meanings of all sorts of well-known idioms. Prints of Keren’s literal idioms are available to purchase online from her Etsy store. images via Dings & Doodles – Keren Rosen via Bored Panda

A group of 61 skydivers in wingsuits set a new world record for the largest aerial formation over the Skydive Perris facility in Perris, California. A sensational video shared by Michael Watanabe captures the divers as they assemble into their formation before breaking apart to land. via The Big Story

“Open-Hearted Doorman” is a touching animation based on a New York Times article by Julie Margaret Hogben that tells the story of the love between a kindhearted doorman named Guzim and the young woman after whom he looked for years, supporting her through bad dates and an unexpected pregnancy with love and dignity, despite the […]

In a new animated short by Andrew Bridgman of Dorkly, author George R.R. Martin sets the record straight for people who think that he throughly enjoys killing off main characters in his books. George RR Martin is basically the modern equivalent of Jack the Ripper, except he keeps his homicidal tendencies limited to literature (AS […]

“Huge Basketball Shorts” is an absurd music video by Eric Fensler about a young man’s love of oversized athletic wear. via The World’s Best Ever

Medley Weaver has created a wonderful, modern Star Wars: The Force Awaken-style trailer for the original Star Wars trilogy. He used footage and audio from the original trilogy and music from the new Force Awakens trailer to really bring it to life. via io9

A compassionate photographer named Darius Sa rescued a young fawn who had been abandoned by her mother in his backyard due to a broken leg and an inability to keep up. Sa nursed the little deer back to health and made her part of the family – one of Sa’s dogs particularly loved her. When […]

Fred Birchal has created a series of stylized illustrations that depict iconic buildings from popular movies and television shows. The firehouse from Ghostbusters and the White’s family home from Breaking Bad are a couple of the memorable buildings drawn by Birchal. The entire collection is available to view (part 1 and 2) on his portfolio […]

“Biisuke Ball’s Big Adventure” is a thrilling musical about a red ball named Biisuke that has to rescue his two brothers Biita and Biigoro from an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine enemy camp. via reddit