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Host Andy Samberg opened the 67th Emmy Awards with a cameo-filled musical number about catching up on a year’s worth of television in a single sitting. The video features appearances by Billy Eichner, John Hamm, Kerry Washington, and many more television stars as Samberg’s friends accost him for missing their favorite shows, and then have […]

The talented PES recently worked together with a team of animators and illustrators to create “Paper,” a beautiful stop-motion animated ad for Honda that takes viewers through an artistic recap of the automobile and motorcycle manufacturer’s history. The ad, which took four months to complete, was made using thousands of hand-drawn illustrations and shot entirely […]

Melanie the adorably talented domestic raccoon did her best to try and sweep the floor of her human‘s cottage with a large broom that was too big for her little paws. Despite her lack of success, however, Melanie had no problem reaching out for her reward. via Boing Boing

Jumpy and Dash, two incredibly intelligent and talented dogs performed together a near-perfect obedience routine in accordance with the clear commands coming from their wonderful trainer Omar von Muller. Jumpy and Dash have also been known to go skateboarding together. via Tastefully Offensive

The OpenROV Trident is a fast and fun underwater drone currently being funded on Kickstarter. The Trident is the latest underwater drone model from OpenROV, which has released several other open source and open hardware underwater drone designs in the past that make use of the BeagleBone Black platform. The Trident design features an HD […]

Episode 21 of Medical Tails Retold by Nick Seluk of The Awkward Yeti is a really thoughtful comic that illustrates and personifies contributor Sarah Flanigan’s depression and anxiety disorder. I have depression and anxiety disorders and even with the medication, I still have to force myself out of bed and I can’t rally the energy […]

In “The Making of the EMMY Statuette“, Fox takes a detailed look at how each EMMY statuette is handmade by R. S. Owens & Company for the awards ceremony. Fox will air the 67th EMMY Awards on Sunday September 20, 2015 at 8:00 pm.

The latest face painting by Israeli makeup artist Ilana Kolihanov is a wonderfully scary piranha. photo via Ilana Kolihanov

Designer Oki Sato of nendo has created the “Nest Shelf“, a very cleverly designed bookshelf that can easily expand up to four times its original size with a gentle horizontal pull on either side. This shelf is nendo’s official submission to the London Design Festival. A shelf that from within a second shelf of the […]

26 adventurous relaxers setup a chain of 17 rainbow hammocks hundreds of feet in the air at Highline Meeting Monte Piana 2015 in Monte Piana, Italy. The event was meant as a tribute to peace and friendship above the site that was an active battleground in World War I where 18,000 young soldiers died. The “Rainbow […]

While living in San Francisco, Dan Vanderkam and Raven Keller created OldSF, a collection of photos from the San Francisco Public Library plotted onto Google Maps. Each clickable black dot on the map offers a vast amount of information about the architecture, the public transite and works-in-progress. The project came about from a mislabeled photo […]

The creatives at MorphCostumes are back with a new illustrated guide that maps out the weaknesses of some of the most well known comic book superheroes and villains. We’ve previously written about MorphCostumes and their interesting series of infographics. Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive – Superman is almost indestructible. However, […]

Brooklyn-based artist and mother Nina Levy, who is known for drawing pop culture characters on her kid’s lunch napkins, has recently created an out of this world series of napkin drawings that feature Star Wars characters riding on dinosaurs. Levy’s entire collection of Star Wars napkins are available to view on her Daily Napkins blog. […]

“Grocery Trip” by Pouff takes ordinary footage from a grocery store and processes it through the DeepDream artificial neural network to create a beautiful and strange music video. The people and items in the store are transformed into dogs, birds, and strange patterns as the computer tries to recognize what it is seeing. via Prosthetic […]

Photographer Sam Kaplan has created “Pits & Pyramids” an incredible series of geometric towers and dizzying abysses built from strategically-placed cookies, candies and sandwiches. photos by Sam Kaplan via Things Organized Neatly, Junk Culture

Russian pixel artist Evgeniy Yudin of Mazok Pixels and animator Misha Petrick worked together to create impressive 8-bit animated versions of the iconic vehicles seen in George Miller‘s film Mad Max: Fury Road. The full collection of 8-bit vehicles are available to view on Behance. images via Behance via Geeks Are Sexy

Pacific Shaving Company has created an all-natural shaving cream and after shave that puts a nice little kick of caffeine into drowsy morning routines. Studies have shown that caffeine offers a number of health benefits as it can be absorbed through the skin, constrict puffiness and reduce inflammation. This outstanding shaving cream utilizes the many […]

Rapper Lil Dicky produced an epic music video for his song “$ave Dat Money” for as little as possibly by relentlessly asking people and businesses to let him use things like their houses, boats, cars, or clubs for free. He even got a number of celebrity cameos from comedians Sarah Silverman, Hannibal Buress, Ilana Glazer, […]

Egg Addiction, a fun company based in San Francisco, has created a cat-shaped egg mold that allows you to make purrfect sunny side up eggs. Egg Addiction is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help with manufacturing, production, and fulfillment costs. Cooking isn’t just about eating. It’s about expression, creativity, love and most of all […]

NeatMike has created a video where he acts out a normal day in the life of a airline pilot in the video game Grand Theft Auto V. NeatMikes tribute to the awesomeness that is our worlds pilots! Captured on a PS4 completely unmodded, I tried to capture the greatness as best I could. Also, a […]

French filmmaker Mathieu Stern has created “Paris Lifelapse“, a hauntingly beautiful time lapse video that floats through the lanes and among the statutes of Père Lachaise, the oldest and largest cemetery in Paris proper. Over 1 million people are interred at the cemetery, including such luminaries as composer Frédéric Chopin, Jim Morrison of The Doors, […]

Thai artist Chompoo Baritone has created a wonderfully satirical photo series tagged #slowlife.The photos depict Baritone physically juxtaposing an Instagram post against the entirety of the scene in which it was shot, cleverly proving that while every picture tells a story, it just may not be telling the entire story. photos by Chompoo Baritone via […]

Walt Disney Animation Studios has created a great practical guide to their powerful path trace rendering software, Hyperion. They explain how the software can be used to “take all of the virtual models, animations, textures as well as lights and other scene objects and produces the final image that make up an animated movie by […]

Just yesterday, Doritos and PepsiCo announced that they had partnered with the incredibly supportive It Gets Better Project to create a Doritos Rainbows, a bag of which to be sent to anyone who made a contribution of $10 or more. The venture was so successful that every single bag was claimed within 24-hours. Due to […]

A Comprehensive Curtain Call of Broadway Costumes is an art print by Pop Chart Lab that features a visual history of Broadway costumes. Signed and numbered prints are available to purchase online. Light up your wall with this vivid, visual history of Broadway costumes! Stretching all the way from Show Boat (1927) right up to […]

The latest episode of How to Adult offers 9 handy college hacks for study tips, motivation and money. College, the transition into adulthood for many people, can be overwhelming. So in this video, we discuss little-known life hacks for memorization, procrastination, saving money, and more!

Norwegian rocker Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios created a multitrack heavy metal cover of “Hey Jude” by The Beatles. You can help him make more awesome covers by joining his Patreon.

Juggler Joseph Viatte is joined by a bassist and accordion player on the street for an impressive contact juggling performance. via Twisted Sifter

Thrillist shows us the proper way to roll a burrito in case you decide to roll your own.

They Might Be Giants has released “Trouble Awful Devil Evil”, the new music video directed by Paul Sahre and animated by Zak Tebbal, that was created for week 37 of their year-long Dial-A-Song Direct series.

Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created “Wes Anderson – Mirror Effect,” a great video that gives us a mirrored look at the beautiful symmetry found in films by Wes Anderson. We’ve previously written about Pablo and his wonderful videos.

The Bindle Bros. is a Williamsburg, Brooklyn company that makes and sells locally-grown naturally-fallen artisanal bindles, the iconic symbol of American hobo culture. The Bindle Bros. were the subject of a recent “Business Company” profile, and were also featured in the New York Times style section. photos via The Bindle Bros. via Vimeo Staff Picks

Tensions build in late Apple founder Steve Jobs‘ personal and professional lives in the latest trailer for Steve Jobs. The movie was written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Danny Boyle, and stars Michael Fassbender as Jobs. The film will be released in theaters on October 9, 2015.

New York City-based filmmaker Dominick Nero of Magnalux Pictures has created an awesome supercut video of almost every Wes Anderson-themed supercut found on the internet. He included artist Rishi Kaneria‘s “Red & Yellow: A Wes Anderson Supercut,” a Star Wars: Episode VII audition tape in the style of Wes Anderson by the Conan show, and […]

The wonderful 10 Cats, who have patiently allowed themselves to be put into all sorts of situations, were given a chance to play inside an inflatable shark-mouth kiddie pool that was filled with colorful balls. At first the cats were unsure of this opportunity, but eventually came around and started started having a bit of […]

With the October 7th premiere looming close, the actors of American Horror Story: Hotel, including Kathy Bates, Lady Gaga, Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett, Wes Bentley, Matt Bomer, Chloë Sevigny, Denis O’Hare, Cheyenne Jackson, Evan Peters and Finn Wittrock, each offer a glimpse inside the Hotel Cortez, the spooky locale for the next chapter of the […]

A recent downlink from the New Horizons mission revealed a stunning backlit panorama of the dwarf planet Pluto. The image was taken just 15 minutes after the probe’s historic flyby of the Pluto system. The image gives a beautiful and detailed view of Pluto’s features. Another image gives a closer view of Pluto’s icy Sputnik Planum, […]

A very clever mama raccoon nicknamed “Rocksy” is a frequent visitor to the house of YouTuber ZOOSIELOVESCONCERTS (“Zoosie”), where she knocks against the sliding glass door with a rock that she rolls between her paws. Usually Rocksy knocks like that to let everyone know that the cat food bowl is empty and needs to be […]

Philip Bitar, a professional slackliner at Gibbon Slacklines, captured really great footage of the Globetrotter World Slackline Masters 2015 finals that took place in May at the Königsplatz in Munich, Germany. Competing for the championship were teams from Estonia and from the United States. Despite some amazing performances by the Americans, the Estonia team was […]

Climber Nick Courtney and his companion Chad Brenner are lucky to be alive after narrowly avoiding a fall while taking a jump at 14,000-foot jump across the “Leap of Faith” at Maroon Bells Traverse in Colorado. Several large rocks slid out from underneath the first man as he made the jump. He landed safely on the other […]

In a video posted by GoPro World, cyclist Primož Ravnik rode down the incredibly steep wall of a dam in Žirovnica, Slovenia and filmed the incredible ride with a helmet-mounted GoPro. The video was submitted as part of the GoPro of the World Best Line Contest, which is offering $20,000 to one winner who submits the most […]

Three years ago, filmmakers Jesse O’Brien and Samuel Baulch released a low budget short film titled Arrowhead: Signal. The full-length feature adaptation, simply called Arrowhead, is now finished and ready to be released by Odin’s Eye Entertainment sometime in 2015. An interstellar Jekyll and Hyde, Arrowhead tells the tale of survival set amongst the distant […]

Door-to-door salespeople are surprised by a living human door knocker in a commercial for Energy Online. The unsuspecting victims are shocked when the door knocker comes to live and loudly orders them to remove themselves from his veranda. via reddit

Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created a great new video that explores the visual symmetry between John Carpenter’s classic science fiction action films Escape From L.A. and Escape From New York. We previously wrote about Pablo and his fantastic comparison between the original and prequel Star Wars trilogies.

The popular web series Everything Is a Remix by filmmaker Kirby Ferguson is celebrating its five-year anniversary with a remastered release and new merchandise. The new release features unified styling throughout all four parts of the series, remastered audio, and for the first time all four parts of the series are available in a single […]

Judy and Gavin Holt, creative husband and wife wedding photographer team, recently came up the clever idea of making a creepy horror movie trailer to announce that they are having a baby. Baby Holt will join the world in March of 2016. Thanks to my loving wife Judy and our new family that we will […]

The Backyard Scientist, an audacious experimenter who often tests out ideas submitted by viewers, poured molten aluminum into the cores of a cantaloupe and a honeydew melon just to see what would happen. As it turns out, the cooled metal came out looking like hand grenades. Pouring molten aluminum in a watermelon turned out to […]

In “To Scale: The Solar System” filmmakers Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet spent 36 hours meticulously creating a seven-mile-wide scale model of the Sun and eight planets of the Solar System in the Nevada desert. The model, which Gorosh and Overstreet say is the first of its kind, uses a model of the Earth the size […]

Filmmaker Casey Neistat and his friend Oscar Boyson recently paid a trip to the “fancy McDonalds” on 3rd Avenue near 58th Street to test out the “Create Your Own Burger” kiosk. Oscar built a burger that had 3X the bacon, 3X cheese, 3X the onions and a boatload of other condiments that wound up costing […]

British stunt driver Terry Grant recently set a world’s record by completing the largest loop-the-loop ever in a car at the Niederrad racecourse in Germany. Grant successfully completed the 63 feet tall, 360 degree circle in Jaguar‘s F-PACE performance SUV a short time prior to its official unveiling at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. […]