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While out on his boat one sunny day, a bearded man was was amusingly caught off guard when an affectionate sea lion jumped aboard and proceeded to cuddle against him for quite a while. Needless to say, the two became instant friends. Here’s my new friend. He jumped aboard back at the bridge. Just hanging […]

A dog named Stryker enthusiastically watches a scene from his favorite movie, Disney’s 2008 Bolt, in a video uploaded to Styker’s YouTube channel in 2009. via reddit

Bellevue, Washington-based artist Bryn Anderson has again turned Nixe, her black 2-year old German Shepherd, into a calavera (sugar skull) for Dia de Los Muertos with non-toxic, vegetable-based face paint. Nixe the original sugar skulleton dog! This is my take on the dia de los Muertos sugar skull!! (Nontoxic organic mineral and vegetable based hypoallergenic […]

Josh Sundquist, a Paralympian and author who lost one of his legs to cancer when he was young, is known for his sense of humor and his fabulous Halloween costumes that specifically address his missing limb. Sundquist once again hit it out of the park with his “anthropomorphic IHOP sign“, the gag being a “classic […]

A baby great horned owl named Oakley sings and dances along with its favorite toy, an owl that plays “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett. The videos of Oakley were shared in 2012 by Raptor Rehabber, who cared for the young owl after it was found in the aftermath of a tornado. via Tastefully Offensive

Animal photographer Carli Davidson has again expanded her wonderful “Shake” photo series to include those of the feline species, a project that took over four years to complete. Davidson utilized high-speed photography to capture, frame-by-frame, the unguarded reactions of different cats, including Lil Bub, as they shook off water and groomed themselves against black velvet […]

Inventive parents Cory and Jeremy Newton-Smith created a Mad Max: Fury Road “war rig” for their children Cooper (four) and Ziggy’s (11 months) Halloween costumes. The vehicle seats two and compliments the children’s Max and Furiosa costumes perfectly. The family is currently raising money for the 2016 Boston Marathon CYCLE Kids team to encourage kids to lead active […]

Mashup artist Robert Jones featured a new video by fellow video editor AnimalRobot on his YouTube channel. The video features a somber Kermit the Frog crooning the new Bryan Adams song “You Belong to Me” during a wonderful mashup that combines footage documenting his ill-fated relationship with longtime love Miss Piggy. This week I’m privileged […]

Artist Stefan Pabst and his son teamed up to create an eerie double eye effect with makeup for a Halloween prank. The pair filmed the process as well as the reactions of a number of people to the finished look. Pabst says on his YouTube channel that a follow-up video where they take to the […]

Starry Night In their very first Agar Art Challenge, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) recently put a culture challenge to microbiologists around the world. The object of the contest was to create art from different strains of colorful bacteria onto a background agar. Among the submissions received was a recreation of Vincent Van Gogh‘s […]

“Tea with Jean-Luc, episode 1: Ménage à Tea” is a creatively edited short about Star Trek: The Next Generation captain Jean-Luc Picard‘s noted love for, “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” It is the latest video in the TNG Edit series by Jan Van Den Hemel which uses footage from Star Trek: The Next Generation to create interesting new videos.

Artist Aleksander Milov converted a statue of communist leader Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine into one of Darth Vader that also serves as a Wi-Fi hotspot. The change was done to make the statue compliant with a new law in Ukraine banning the display of communist symbols. photo via Volokin Yevgeny/Reuters via Dumskaya, NBC News

A video from 2012 captures a unique RV/boat hybrid vehicle known as a “BoaterHome” launching at a boat ramp in front of some amazed onlookers. via reddit

The five Denmark-based members of The Bottle Boys recently teamed up with talented beatboxer Thor Mikkelsen to perform the fantastic Disney songs “Let It Go” from Frozen, “The Silly Song” from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas. For each of the songs we’re playing we’ve chosen a different […]

A backwards running competition is already a bit odd, but if you take a video of it and then play it in reverse, things get really weird (and awkward). via reddit

Mike Schreurs demonstrates how to quickly sweep a patio using a DJI Phantom 3 drone when his broom snaps. The drone makes fast work of clearing leaves and even the broken broom handle off of the patio in a matter of seconds. via reddit

During the “One Special Night” concert at the Beverly Theater in August of 1983, “godfather of soul” James Brown, who was accompanied by the legendary bluesman B.B. King, lovingly invited a somewhat reticent Michael Jackson onto the stage.. Once onstage, the young Thriller star wowed the audience with an impromptu song and dance routine, during […]

The Creation of Adam Photographer Freddy Fabris has created “The Renaissance Series“, a wonderful interpretation of several classic master paintings of the eponymous time recreated in “an old Midwest car shop” with striking male models posing in mechanic’s uniforms. Fabris explained how he came up with the idea on Huffington Post. For many years I […]

Blackwell’s Rare Books recently very rare find – a map of Middle Earth with annotations made in the hand of author J.R.R. Tolkien. The Oxford bookshop found the map inside a copy of of Lord of the Rings that had once belonged to illustrator Pauline Baynes, who worked with Tolkien and even went on to […]

In the extended trailer for the upcoming Sherlock special “The Abominable Bride“, the deductive detective in his trademark hat and his loyal friend find themselves on the case in the 19th Century during the Victorian era. Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit) return as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the […]

A cleverly enterprising tabby cat who wanted a bit of companionship furtively carried a a borrowed plush tiger in his mouth to a very particular spot in the grass behind some trees. Once comfortable, the industrious kitty began to play with his new-found friend. According to his human, this was the second of two tries […]

With Halloween almost upon us, the folks at Creative Lighting Displays have reprised their incredible light show for 2015. This year’s show features anthropomorphic LED lights that move in perfect synchronization with the vocals from the holiday classic “Monster Mash” and the theme from the”Ghostbusters” respectively. 4 singing pumpkin faces, tombstones, hand carved pumpkins, strobes, […]

In a very topical episode of Minute Earth, narrator Henry Reich, explains with the help a vivid animation ,the real reason the leaves of deciduous trees change color in autumn before falling completely off their branches in winter. It starts when the cells of the leafs halts the photosynthesis process. As the disassembly starts, the […]

In honor of “Back to the Future Day” last week on October 21st, 2015, io9 created a 90 second summary of the entire Back to the Future trilogy.

“View From the Overlook” by veteran filmmaker Gary Leva of Leva FilmWorks is a masterfully crafted thirty-minute documentary that provides a fascinating look behind the scenes of Stanley Kubrick‘s chilling 1980 film The Shining. The short film was originally developed as a companion to the movie’s Special Edition DVD release and includes interviews from the […]

A beautiful Highland lynx (domestic cat) named Gus puts himself through an interesting ritual of repeatedly digging at the counter upon which his water fountain is sitting, before he allows himself to take a refreshing, well-deserved drink. According to his human, this is how Gus “prepares his water for consumption” Gus also likes to squeeze […]

Joe Penna, also known as Mystery Guitar Man, created an amusing video that features minidrones from Parrot that interacted with a variety other objects and instruments to create a symphony of sorts. Penna also generously shared behind-the-scenes footage showing how the video was made.

In the first official U.S. trailer for the upcoming “Pride And Prejudice And Zombies“, a horror/comedy film that’s been adapted from a novel of the same name, a very stubborn Miss Elizabeth Bennett refuses to ‘relinquish her sword for a ring’, being that the dead had awoken with the onset of the Black Plague with […]

A group of friends must agree on what to watch on Netflix or die in the horror trailer parody “Stream” by Razmig. Razmig also posted some outtakes and extras from the shoot.

Kittify by San Francisco entrepreneur Daniel Landy is an amusing online tool that makes communicating like a cat as simple as typing on a computer. Just enter a phrase and the Kittify tool translates into kitty-speak – perfect for social media, email, texts and anything else that needs to be communicated in writing. Here are […]

In the Onion Film Standard episode “The Onion Looks Back At Back To The Future,” The Onion film critic Peter K. Rosenthal examines the role Reagan era economics played in motivating the characters of Back to the Future.

An unsuspecting grey cat who was just enjoying a nice cool drink by dipping his paw into a glass of water and licking it off, was deceived twice by his silly prankster humans who just wanted to get a good laugh at their kitty’s expense. The first time, they replaced the bewildered feline’s full glass […]

The first episode of the new Motherboard series Voyager takes a look inside the Henn na Hotel in Japan which is staffed entirely by robots. Host Ben Ferguson checked in with the hotel’s robotic velociraptor desk clerk and stayed the night without interacting with a single human hotel employee.

In a new video by Screen Rant, host Rob Flis talks about footage from 10 famous actors’ big screen debuts that you may have never seen. They feature Bryan Cranston‘s role as Dr. Shephard in the 1987 TV movie The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, Robert De Niro‘s small uncredited part […]

In the wake of the debut of singer Adele‘s brand new single “Hello” from her brand new album “25“, the folks at BlendTV decided to mash together her accompanying video with that of the similarly titled classic Lionel Richie song, making it hilariously appear that Lionel was just calling to say hello and Adele was […]

photo by Antonio Verlado “Elephant Rock” is an amazing natural rock formation that, when viewed from a certain angle, looks like a sleepy-eyed elephant calmly drinking water, her trunk half submerged. The enormous pachyderm, which sits on Heimaey, an island just four nautical miles off the southern coast of Iceland, was formed through basaltic lava, […]

Comedian Joe Bereta provides a handy guide on how to both prepare for and survive the zombie apocalypse on a recent episode of the AWE me web series Epic How To. It just takes a little brains, planning, and exercise. How long would you last in a zombie apocalypse?

Master of None is a new Netflix original comedy series starring Aziz Ansari and Noël Wells. The trailer for the series focuses on Ansari’s character Dev and his inability to make decisions in life. All episodes of the first season will premiere November 6, 2015 on Netflix.

Star Wars enthusiast Nick Skywalker has created an incredible flashback edit of the third official trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens that features Han Solo‘s memories from the original trilogy as he tells Rey that stories about the dark side and Jedi are real. Very well done. Here’s the original version of the trailer […]

British inventor Colin Furze recently built a full functional version of the hidden blade and rope launcher from the stealhty Assassin’s Creed video game series. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, the next game in the ongoing series, is currently available to pre-order online and due out for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 23, 2015. […]

We start with a vision in our heart, and we put it on canvas. The Bob Ross YouTube channel has uploaded full episodes of the entire first season of The Joy of Painting, including the very first episode in which Ross explains the basic tools and materials used throughout the series. The channel features more than […]

Netflix has released a dark first full-length trailer for Jessica Jones, their upcoming live-action series developed by Melissa Rosenberg that is based on the Marvel character of the same name. The trailer gives us a look at Jessica’s true powers and David Tennant as the evil Zebadiah Killgrave. All episodes of the new series, which […]

Water spirals off a spinning foam ball in 16,000fps slow motion in the latest video by Dan Gruchy and Gavin Free of The Slow Mo Guys. Gruchy and Free also add food coloring to the water to create an even more beautiful display before ultimately Gruchy takes a soaking wet foam ball to the face.

“Weird Al” Yankovic created a compilation video of him performing the parody song “Tacky” while making his way to the stage at almost every show during his “Mandatory World Tour” across North America, Europe, and Australia. Yankovic and his talented band performed 112 concerts during the fun-filled tour that took place between May 12th, 2015 […]

Sideshow Bob is on a mission to kill and then reanimated Bart in the upcoming Halloween episode of The Simpsons titled, “Treehouse of Horror XXVI.” The opening couch gag for the episode was made by Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi. The spooky 579th episode of the series is set to air on FOX this […]

“Beyond the Horizon” is a new song by John D. Boswell (aka “Melodysheep“) about space exploration created using autotuned clips of Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Emily Lakdawalla, and Carl Sagan. The song is the latest in Boswell’s Symphony of Science series and was produced in collaboration with The Planetary Society to celebrate the group’s 35th anniversary.

Ducks are feisty. During a recent reddit AMA, Bill Murray answered the age-old question, “Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?” The ridiculous question is common in AMAs, but Murray still took the time to answer thoughtfully, weighing the pros and cons of each battle scenario before ultimately deciding the terms […]

On a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, host Jimmy Kimmel shared a great new version of the third official Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer that was revoiced by a group of Brooklynites. The trailer has an entirely different feel when it’s filled with fun Brooklyn accents and attitude. Kimmel is currently taping a […]

When motorcyclist E511 came upon the terrifying sight of a tiny orange kitten frantically trying to navigate traffic on a very busy roadway with oncoming cars going at full speed, she bravely parked her 2013 Honda CBR250R partially across the opposing lane to stop traffic, grabbed the kitten and safely handed him off to a […]

Among the tremendous amount of things that the brilliant beat artist Harry Everett Smith accomplished in his lifetime, one of them was his offbeat and wonderful collection of paper airplanes that he gathered over the course of a 20-year period, cataloguing the ever-changing New York City through the scraps of paper that he used to […]