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The Huffington Post has created a new supercut video of every time that the word “future” is said in all three of the iconic Back to the Future films. They created the great compilation video in celebration of “Back to the Future Day” (October 21st, 2015), the exact day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown […]

The Moscow International Festival Circle of Light has set a new Guinness World Record for the “Largest Projected Image.” The festival displayed a 50-minute video with an area of 205,582.33 square feet on the side of the Russian Ministry of Defense building using 140 projectors for the assembled crowd. photos via Guinness World Records

Fall is awesome, but as Dan Meth points out, it’s way too short of a season, especially here in NYC.

Kramer by Bruce White Gallery1988 (East) in Los Angeles is hosting An Art Show About Nothing, an art show tribute to the great sitcom Seinfeld that aired on NBC from 1989 to 1998. The art exhibit went on display on October 17th, 2015. Prints of the featured work, created by numerous talented artists, are available […]

MARTY is an autonomous drifting DeLorean built by researchers at Stanford University and named after the character of Marty McFly from Back to the Future. The vehicle is meant to study how cars perform in extreme situations like drifts and skids, but if a university is going to build a self-driving vehicle to study how cars perform, […]

Miguel Marquez Outside is a Tumblr blog featuring the typographical street art of artist Michael Pederson. Pederson’s work places text on ordinary or discarded objects to give them new context in the world. photos via Miguel Marquez Outside via Monde Mosaic, Junk Culture, Lustik, Colossal

The latest animated episode of How It Should Have Started showcases an alternate beginning for the 1989 film, Back to the Future Part II. The animated short, produced by Tina Alexander, features character art and animation work by Daniel Baxter. In the film, Back to the Future, the first time Doc tests the time machine […]

Mike Olbinski, a Phoenix-based stormchasing photographer created Monsoon II and with it, documented his summertime journey to find North American Monsoon, a creature that first proved itself elusive to the experienced chaser. I’ve been chasing the monsoon in Arizona for about 6-7 years now. This summer was different though..I was free to roam and had […]

Actor Brian Huskey returns as a personification of the Google search engine in “If Google Was a Guy (Part 4)” by CollegeHumor. Huskey as Google sits at his desk while he is barraged with inane question by customers including Colton Dunn, Emily Axford, and Alison Rich. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Katris by Papercut Lab is a very clever set of thick modular cardboard scratching blocks that can be arranged in a number of different ways to create various forms of fun and functional furniture for cats, such as cat trees, cat beds and scratching posts, and for humans such as shelves, benches, tables. Multi-functional, Katris […]

Beat Down Boogie has created two new cosplay music videos (part one and part two) from New York Comic Con 2015. The videos feature lots of creative people wearing their awesome costumes based on comic books, video games, movies, television shows, and more. Fans of the Beat Down Boogie crew can help support their future […]

Charlie the green-cheeked conure parrot who enjoys bathing in the kitchen sink, went chasing after a different liquid when he desperately tried to get a sip of a near-empty beer, without any luck. According to Charlie’s human, the bird “will stop at nothing” to get ahold of his craft beer.

The Lady and the Tramp Magician, balloon twister, entertainer and photographer Rob Driscoll, who’s also known as Bowtie balloon guy, creates different forms of balloon art on a daily basis. Among these projects is “Twisted Cinema” a fantastic weekly series in which he recreates iconic film scenes and posters entirely with balloons. Back in 2013, […]

io9 share some strange facts you may not know about the making of Back to the Future. With the future date of October 21st 2015 from Back to the Future Part II fast approaching, it’s good to look back and marvel and just how unlikely those movies were. Here are 11 Incredible secrets about the […]

Alexander Howard, the former Technology Historian for the Museum of Scotland, offers a fascinating look into how the curators of each department go about creating the miniature replicas for the exhibits that entertain, delight and teach hundreds of museum visitors every day. How do you get more than 3,000 objects ready for display in ten […]

Artist and designer Cléon Daniel has created two very different and uniquely creative pool tables that take on the fun shapes of a banana and a doughnut with pink icing. While platyful, the doughnut took on strong symbolism for the artist. Doughnuts are symbolic of temptation in today’s world, and mass produced in endless variety […]

“George Clooney Doesn’t Need Words” is a supercut by Burger Fiction of clips taken from actor George Clooney‘s career where he does not speak. The video includes more than two dozen appearances over the last 28 years.

Instructables user Randy Sarafan gives a step-by-step guide to making creepy candy in the shape of human teeth using a mold created from denture teeth and silicon. The lesson explains how to make the candy as well as the mold itself. Teeth Candy is basically white crunchy teeth-shaped hard candy. Have you ever had that […]

If you really love social media, you can now dress up as a hashtag for Halloween. Please note that hashtag inventor Chris Messina does not endorse this misuse of the hashtag. To set the record straight: I DO NOT ENDORSE THIS. /via @pbodenheimer @illologist @chriseppstein @chipnicodemus pic.twitter.com/HPO1SALass — ? Chris Messina ? (@chrismessina) October 20, […]

Professional bamboo flute player Yoshimi Tsujimoto is joined by two traditional Japanese koto players to perform a unique cover the Michael Jackson classic “Smooth Criminal.” For comparison, here is the original music video for “Smooth Criminal.” via Japaaan, RocketNews24

Freelance editor and reviewer Mr. Sunday Movies has created a new video where he points out hidden Easter eggs and references from the newly released third official trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens that people may have missed. The original trailer for reference:

In the latest trailer for the 6-episode reboot of The X-Files, FBI Agent Fox Mulder voices his concern about the motives of the people around him, suspicious that all of the projects upon which he and Agent Dana Scully worked, were all based on a lie. It could be that he’s on to something. Episode […]

Koko the famous gorilla who became well known for her ability to learn American Sign Language, was given the opportunity to adopt two kittens from a litter of six on the fourth of July, her 44th birthday. Koko picked a silver tabby that she named Ms. Gray from of the litter, but an insistent Ms. […]

Parker Kane gives a remarkable dubstep performance using only his mouth and a McDonald’s cup. via reddit

Magician Rahat Hussein recently freaked out one of his sleeping friends, who was staying over at his house, with a freaky animatronic possessed girl hanging from the wall. Rahat hung the evil-looking girl on the wall behind his pal, set up some cameras, and flipped the switch. The guy being pranked quickly did a barrel […]

Los Angeles-based artist, photographer, and baker Christine McConnell did an incredible job of decorating her parent’s house for Halloween by turning into a spooky monster. Christine painted foam-core insulation board to make the eviil-looking eyes and deadly teeth. At night, the green glow of outside lamps bring the beastly house to life. The entire collection […]

Disney and Lucasfilm have released the third official trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens which features Finn (John Boyega) wielding a blue lightsaber and facing off against the strong dark warrior known as Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). The thrilling new trailer is also packed full of new faces, as well as familiar […]

A TED-Ed lesson by educator Catharine Young and animator Patrick Smith explains how memories form in the brain and why people can lose them over time. The lesson also gives some recommendations for maintaining memory through healthy habits.

Disney•Pixar has released a new promo for their upcoming animated film, The Good Dinosaur, that lovingly celebrates 20 years of friendship in their touching movies. The compilation video starts off with the strong friendship between Buzz and Woody in Toy Story (1995) and ends with the prehistoric pals Arlo and Spot in The Good Dinosaur, […]

When a stray kitten, now named Komari, came into the lives of five ferret brothers, they readily brought her into their close-knit family, accepting her as one of their own. Komari was equally accepting of the ferrets and the happy six of them have lived as a complete family ever since. ??????… ??? ( ???) […]

Comedian Adam Conover reveals the truth that lie detectors don’t detect lies in a recent clip from his wonderful truTV show Adam Ruins Everything. The clip also features Alison Becker as a hard-nosed detective interrogating Conover.

Diane Bullock and Mike Schuster used footage from classic Batman and Superman serials to create a new Vulture Remix imagining what the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice film would have looked like if it had been made in 1949. The 1940s were, in many ways, a better time for superhero filmmaking. The old […]

Artist, animator and animal lover Lili Chin has created Cat Language, an adorable illustrated guide to what felines are saying with body language. This is a companion to her 2011 piece “Doggie Language“, which featured her own dog, Boogie the Boston Terrier. Chin has generously made posters of these and other illustrations available for free […]

Stephen Colbert runs through his nightly pre-show ritual on The Late Show. The routine includes many elaborate steps and an appearance by Colbert’s old boss Jon Stewart.

Swiss artist Michael Flückiger modified his bicycle with “a speedometer, a projector, a car battery, an iPad mini and Openframeworks” in order to create “The Elephant Walk“, an incredible shadow of an elephant in motion alongside him, the speed of which varies, depending on how fast he’s riding. via The Creator’s Project

Comedians Bob Odenkirk and David Cross return to sketch comedy in the official trailer for their Netflix series W/ Bob & David. All episodes of the spiritual successor to Odenkirk and Cross’ series Mr. Show will be released on Netflix on November 13, 2015.

During an online chat with readers of The Guardian, Monty Python member and director Terry Gilliam mentioned that a television series based on his 1981 film Time Bandits is a “possibility.” The question came from reader Stephen Smith who asked, With all the difficulties surrounding the film industry – tax brakes, remakes, super hero monopolies […]

A skittish long-haired tortoiseshell cat in Tolyatti, Russia nearly hit the roof when her little brother suddenly broke the silence of the room with a very big sneeze. via Tastefully Offensive

With Halloween just a little over a week away, Timo the Ragdoll cat took some time away from his usual antics to test out his spooky floating ghost costume by eerily haunting the living room sofa.

In a recent video by Screen Rant, host Rob Flis points out some of the mistakes left in the original Star Wars trilogy movies that you may have missed. George Lucas could never have known that his space opera would turn into one of the most well-known and profitable movie franchises in history. If he […]

In their short film “Cats of the Urban Wild“, reporter Sky Dylan-Robbins of The New Yorker takes a closer look at the ever-growing feral cat population in New York City and the incredible humans who take humane action to try to quell the flow. Cat expert Anitra Frazier emphasizes the important differences between feral and […]

Disney Movies Anywhere has released new outtakes of the great Robin Williams as Genie in Disney‘s 1992 animated film, Aladdin. We previously wrote about ABC News‘never-before-seen Genie outtakes that they shared last week.

The Watercooler‘s adorable little Welsh corgi named Wally models the full array of signature costumes worn by all 13 incarnations of Doctor Who, replete with a celery stalk (the 5th Doctor), a multi-colored scarf (the 4th Doctor), sonic screwdrivers and the beloved current Gallifreyan’s electric guitar (the 12th Doctor). HDoctor Who is the longest running […]

Comedian Cole Escola plays a mother with a dark past selling orange juice in a brilliant new comedy sketch. via MetaFilter, Neatorama

A couple of stuffed bunnies sitting on the couch reveal themselves to be none other than Maymo the Lemon Beagle and his little sister Penny. It only took the dangle of a bright orange carrot in front of their respective noses for each of them to break character, although Penny need a bit of help […]

Japanese apparel company Fellisimo, in partnership with the novelty company YOU + MORE!, created a set of very clever gloves made from conductive material and imprinted with images of really cute cats whose tails align perfectly with the wearer’s index finger, making it look like the cat’s tail is wagging while performing such smartphone activities […]

The Unipiper dresses as Link from The Legend of Zelda series and rides a unicycle while playing the series’ iconic “Overworld Theme” on his flaming bagpipes. The display took place in front of the Oregon Convention Center during the 2015 Portland Retro Gaming Expo.

Last year we wrote about John Bitmead of Attitude Autos and his awesome adult-sized, street-legal version of the iconic red and yellow Little Tikes Cozy Coupe. Bitmead has now made the custom vehicle available to purchase online via eBay. The donor car was a Daewoo Matiz which is now under the guise of Chevrolet, from […]

The beloved tiny hamster got into the Halloween spirit by dressing up as the infamous “Subway Pizza Rat” before going into a pumpkin-shaped haunted house with some of his best friends, including a robot-bedecked guinea pig and a fuzzy bunny clad in a blonde wig, all of whom enjoyed yummy treats as they went about […]

“Democratic Debate Debateless” by The Woodcreek Faction removes all the actual debating from the October 13, 2015 Democratic Presidential debate. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips