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The Los Angeles-based “introspective video game documentarian” GoldVision has created GTA Pacifist, an online web series where he narrates his life in the dangerous video game world of Grand Theft Auto V while trying to play as a virtuous pacifist named Francisco. With the constant barrage of drug and violence-related obstacles that stand in Francisco’s […]

Filmmaker Martin Heck of Timestorm Films has compiled together the beautiful footage he took of southern Chile and Argentina to create Patagonia 8K, a gorgeous time lapse film that captures the changing terrain of the two countries. Spanning over 7,500 kilometers from Chile’s capital city of Santiago to its southernmost region of Punta Arenas and […]

SciShow host Hank Green explains how quicksand works and the physics to use to escape if you happen to find yourself sinking in it.

Bigrig driver OnTheGo KindaDude explains how he passes other trucks on the road. The video was posted on reddit where he answered a bunch of questions about what it is like being a long-haul truck driver. via reddit

NASA has released an “epic” view of the Moon transiting the Earth taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera. The DSCOVR orbits the Earth from one million miles away, which allowed it to capture this unique view of the far side of the Moon as it passed […]

Where Pride Began A trailer has been released for the highly anticipated Stonewall, a film written and directed by Roland Emmerich about the homophobic chain of events that led up to the historic Stonewall Riots of 1969 that took place in New York City’s Greenwich Village and gave birth to the modern gay rights movement. […]

Chesterton, Indiana-based musician Jarad Moloney (a.k.a. “NPC“) has created a rocking mashup of Smash Mouth‘s hit song “All Star” from 1999 and the very popular song from 2000, “In the End,” by Linkin Park. Even Moloney could not believe how well the songs went together, thus the title of his track “THIS SHOULDN’T WORK, WHY […]

Last night on the Tonight Show, the legendary comedy magic duo Penn and Teller showed Jimmy Fallon the classic magician’s trick of how to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

In the music video for his song “Avalanche“, Canadian musician Kalle Mattson and director Philip Sportel cleverly recreated 35 classic album covers, including his own. The list of albums, provided by commenter Efrain Gutiérrez, encompasses a great many familiar names. Here’s the full list for anyone that’s interested: 1 Wilco – Foxtrot 2 Neil Young […]

French artist Baptiste Debombourg has created “Stellar“, an amazing rollercoaster sculpture that features giant steel ellipses lined with 1200 patio chairs in six different colors. The sculpture stands as part of the “Le Voyage Nantes” exhibition taking place at La Place du Bouffay, the public square in Nantes, France. images via Baptiste Debombourg via Contemporist

San Francisco software QA engineer Max Woolf has created a fascinating map of New York City using all of the yellow taxi pickup locations from January through June 2015 based on NYC TLC Trip Record Data. via Max Woolf

In the second episode of the Huffington Post comedy series Agitators, comedian Paul Gale explains why the DMV always takes terrible drivers license photos. It turns out it’s the same reason why Starbucks employees frequently write the wrong name on cups. That reason, as Gale explains, is that, “I’m fucking with you.”

The creatives at Donkey Products have made a cute stuffed horse head that straps onto your leg so you can give a child a fun equestrian knee ride. It is available to purchase online. Imagine you ‘re a child. Look at a computer game then look at your parent’s leg. What’s the difference? Fun. Bring […]

AsapSCIENCE explains what happens to your body when you deprive yourself of food.

A vocal Australian Shepherd quickly responded to his human‘s request that the word “Mama” be said in order to be rewarded with a yummy treat. Unfortunately, the request was actually for the toddler sitting next to him, who couldn’t get a word in edgewise. It turns out, however, that the clever canine was rewarded with […]

In the latest visual essay by RocketJump Film School, entitled “Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn’t)“, filmmaker Freddie Wong does a great job of explaining the difference between good and bad CG visual effects in films, television shows, and more. We believe that the reason we think all CG looks bad, is because we only […]

Makerbase is a new online directory of digital creators and the things they make, or as co-creator Gina Trapani calls it, “a directory of people who make things out of bits & bytes.” Trapani co-created Makerbase with Anil Dash. Creators can list their digital creations, like Laughing Squid for example, on the site, and Makerbase […]

Barnsley, England-based technology teacher Alex Dodson of Burned by Design has created a wonderful metal Xenomorph wood burner, based on the deadly creatures in the Alien film series, from old gas cylinders may reignite your extraterrestrial nightmares. Dodson has shared his step-by-step guide on how to build the custom wood burner at Instructables. Alien burner…this […]

San Bernardino County Fire Department posted an intense first person video of their firefighters responding to a single-story house that was on fire in Victorville, California on July 29, 2015. Firefighters from the City of Victorville responded to a reported Structure fire in the 15800 Block of La Paz Drive, in Victorville. Upon arrival, SBCoFD […]

“I Haven’t Seen You In Forever “ by They Might Be Giants, the new music video directed by Todd Goldstein for week 31 of their Dial-A-Song Direct series.

In episode six of Vulture’s Secret History of Television, host Margaret Lyons discusses the television tradition of the “very special episode,” episodes of comedies that focused on teaching a lesson rather than getting laughs. Many shows like Diff’rent Strokes, Saved by the Bell, Family Ties, and Blossom all had “very special episodes,” but the device eventually fell out of favor […]

CineFix has released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema that retells the story of director Neill Blomkamp‘s 2009 sci-fi action thriller film, District 9, 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.

20th Century Fox has released the fantastic new trailer for the upcoming Deadpool film adaptation. The wisecracking “Merc with a Mouth” brings plenty of action, witty jokes, and love in the vibrant teaser. The man behind the red antihero mask, Ryan Reynolds, even manages to find time to give Conan O’Brien a soothing back massage, […]

Here is the official statement from @RealMissPiggy and myself regarding our relationship: pic.twitter.com/uHCSsokqWR — Kermit the Frog (@KermitTheFrog) August 4, 2015 Sad news, today on both their Facebook and Twitter accounts, beloved Muppets Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy each posted statements that they are terminating their almost 40 year romantic relationship, which started on […]

Luxury car company Lexus has just released a series of new videos for SLIDE, a Hoverboard they have developed and have been promoting the last few weeks that uses magnetic levitation and nitrogen-cooled superconductors to float above the ground. Creating SLIDE required re-engineering core technologies and uncovering true technical innovations. From assembling maglev technology into […]

The Casebook of Nips & Porkington by Melody Wang is a delightful animated whodunnit that takes place through the pages of a yellowed newspaper, which feline Constable Nips and the porcine Chief Inspector Porkington successfully solve in due time. images by Melody Wang via Vimeo Staff Picks

The world’s tallest and longest tunnel slide will be installed in the ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. The slide will start 80 meters up the 114 meter sculptured, and will loop around in a spiral five times before a final straight shot of 50 meters. […]

Japanese artist and sculptor Jiro Miura has created a line of brightly colored lifelike animal cling rings that use the animal’s paws or tails to just curl around one’s finger. Jiro hand-crafts each of these and his other figurine jewelry out of clay, so each ring of the same animal can slightly different from another. […]

Pooping Is Logical is a potty training book by Gary Whitta (Star Wars: Rogue One) and his wife Leah Whitta based on Vulcan principles established in Star Trek. The book was inspired by the couple using Vulcan wisdom to potty train their own three-year-old daughter. In a post to his Tumblr, Whitta writes about the problems he’s […]

The Thinkmodo advetising agency and 20th Century Fox teamed up and built a flying drone that resembles the Human Torch (Johnny Storm) to promote the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot film. With the Nassau County Fire Service Academy on standby, the lightweight dummy attached to a drone was lit on fire and launched safely into the […]

Digg has put together a pretty thorough compilation of celebrities whose careers were launched by being a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and what they are doing now As “The Daily Show” winds to a close, lets look back at some of its most distinguished alumni, from their first appearance on the […]

Warner Bros. has resumed development of a new Dungeons & Dragons feature film after a years-long lawsuit over the rights to the franchise came to an undisclosed settlement. The screenplay for the film was written by David Leslie Johnson (The Conjuring 2). A Dungeons & Dragons film was released in the year 2000 produced by Sweatpea Entertainment, but […]

In a remarkable food series that he shot for Men’s Health magazine, photographer Piotr Gregorczyk literally tossed combined recipe ingredients and then captured them in mid-air photo, just before the whole mess landed. This unique method used the perceived buoyancy of the images to express the lightness of healthy eating. Gregorczyk explained a bit about […]

San Francisco-based artist Kaycie Dunlap of KcD Studios has taken it upon herself to illustrate Elements of the periodic table as fantastic, original comic book characters. She took her project a step further by turning each character into a flashcard for educational purposes. The entire series of characters are available to view on Tumblr. DIY […]

A wonderfully compassionate woman reads the tale of Biscuit and the Pup to a rescue dog named Jade at the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society in Pittsburgh. According to redditor puglife123, the person who posted this heartwarming photo, the dogs at this shelter are cared for by dedicated volunteers. I volunteer there doing dog walking! …I […]

The Toothbrush Machine is a motorized helmet with an Arduino-controlled robotic toothbrush arm created by Simone Giertz of Punch Through Design. Giertz said she built the helmet for the pilot of a kids show about electronics, and posted a guide for building the device to Instructables. images via Instructables via Neatorama

redditor studercinema posted a photo of a human hamster wheel that was created out of the empty iMac boxes from their school’s new computers. photo via studercinema via reddit

Sir Patrick Stewart, the wonderful actor most known for his noble portrayals of Captain Jean Luc Picard on Stark Trek: The Next Generation and Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, changes direction with his newest role of Walter Blunt, the eponymous character in the Starz series Blunt Talk. The aptly named Blunt is an eccentric […]

20th Century Fox has released an four-minute extended trailer for Fantastic Four, the upcoming reboot film directed by Josh Trank and based on Marvel’s renowned group of superheroes. The action-packed trailer ends with an interesting special offer from Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) in regards to his future film. Fantastic Four is scheduled to release in theaters […]

Soylent 2.0 is a new ready-to-drink version of the food replacement product that features all the essential nutrition a person needs to survive. The new version of the product uses entirely vegan ingredients and focuses on sourcing them in an environmentally sustainable way. Previous versions of Soylent were only available as a powder that had to […]

image via PR Newswire Ty Warner, the CEO and founder of the Beanie Baby company Ty Inc., has announced that a “Cecil the Lion” Beanie Baby has been created in memory of the beloved lion who was killed in July by an American trophy hunter. 100% of the proceeds from the sales will be donated […]

Improv Everywhere gave visitors at Washington Square Park in New York City a surprise ballet performance. The dancers told the audience they would be breakdancing, but when the “wrong” music starts they go into a ballet routine and pull some planted “audience members” into the dance as well. photos by Arin Sang-urai

A teeny tiny 3-week old kitten named Ben of Spot the Kitty figured out an interesting way to get a nice cool drink of water from the shiny bowl that was put out in front of him. His method was to tentatively stick his face in the bowl and lick the wet stuff off of […]

Musician Andrew Huang created “Apple Music,” a catchy original song made from sounds heard while he is eating a healthy red apple. Fans of Huang can help support his future videos and songs on Patreon. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

Thingiverse member Scratchhax has created an amazing 3d printed “Bubble Bucket” that can blow out 14,000 bubbles per minute. 3DPrint.com made a video of the machine in action and interviewed Scratchhax, who talks about why he created it: “The idea [for the Bubble Bucket] had two origins; the first one being that my kids and […]

Mike Seymour of Wired takes a look at the special effects used in season 5 of Game of Thrones. Find out how the visual effects came together for the end of season five on Game of Thrones, including Daenerys’ elaborate and cinematic escape with her dragon.

Italian artists Rosalia Galeano, Francesca Padoyan, and Paola Papetti have created the Febo, an easy to use wooden engraving tool that lets you draw and paint with a lens and the power of the sun. The Febo lens comes encased in a sturdy wooden body and focuses the sun rays onto a canvas of choice […]

In a recent episode of Domics entitled “ReTales: Closing,” Toronto-based illustrator Dominic Panganiban talks about the types of people who rudely walk into retail stores right at closing time. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at how Dominic creates his clever comics: music by The Green Orbs – “Mr. Turtle“

Imgur user raggedrabbit has shared a collection of classic Star Wars trading cards signed by Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker). Hamill let his great sense of humor shine with each autograph as he made widecracks about how Vader is a loser and shouldn’t have kids, Uncle Owen having a smoking problem on Tatooine, and more. The […]

A herd of elephants who were grazing in a grassy field with their little babies in tow, came upon a hidden GoPro camera. The curious pachyderms checked out the camera with their inquisitive trunks and knocked it over, but not before it captured wonderful closeup views of their beautiful sniffers.