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Awesome parent Amy Allison recently dressed her two cute daughters (Echo and Yoko) up in amusing costumes portraying Princess Bubblegum Furiosa and Flame Princess Capable, two characters from a series of Adventure Time and Mad Max:Fury Road mashup illustrations by artist Ryan May of City of Pyramids. Little Echo is ready to take on the […]

In “Chuck Jones – The Evolution of an Artist”, filmmaker Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting profiles the legendary Chuck Jones, director and animator of countless Looney Toons and Merry Melodies cartoons. Zhou successful captured the creative sensibilities and the working philosophies of the artist and learned how the smallest things made the largest […]

A recent video by CollegeHumor demonstrates what life would be like if people said “happy birthday” in the real world the way they do on Facebook, and just how stressful that could be.

Jorunna parva is a species of sea slug whose fluffy appearance and well-placed ear-like appendages make the creatures bear a striking resemblance to bunny rabbits. However, the cute little critters don’t hop, but rather slide around across whatever surface they find themselves on. photo via RocketNews24 via RocketNews24

Sneaky Zebra has created a new music video featuring a number of the amazing cosplays at San Diego Comic-Con 2015. They showcase costumes based on popular television shows, movies, video games, and more. The catchy song in Sneaky Zebra‘s music video is “Mug Shot” by MAX. Comic Con 2015 was filled with amazing people, fantastic […]

“The Wikisinger” is a video by Touché Videoproduktion that features Joachim Müllner from the band In the Canopy singing the same song in 15 locations with different acoustics. The videos were then synced and edited together seamlessly to create a uniquely interesting music video. via Vimeo Staff Picks

Dave Hax demonstrates how to make a model of the iconic DeLorean time machine from the Back to the Future films out of steel Pepsi cans and various household items. Templates for cutting out the Pepsi cans are available to download in the description of his YouTube video. Great Scott! Celebrating 30 years since the […]

Vsauce3 host Jake Roper and Paul Rudd recently joined forces to explore the science behind Rudd’s newly released Marvel film, Ant-Man, and explain what would happen if we were shrunk down to the size of a tiny insect. Unfortunately for Roper, he spends most of the video miniaturized while normal sized Paul struggles to see […]

The Cubrick is an elaborate cabinet designed by The Yard Sale Project in London that opens a series of small cupboards in graceful unison. The cabinet comes in a variety of sizes, colors, and finishes all built around the same unique opening design. The Yard Sale Project has released a video that demonstrates the interesting […]

ESCAPE!, a set of color changing silicone lid lifters made in the shape of a crab claw and an octopus tentacle that’s trying to escape the pot and is a novel way to prevent boil-overs when cooking. The lid is available for purchase at Fred & Friends or via Amazon Slip Fred’s color-changing silicone octopus […]

Oenophile Matt Baldassano and the Village Winery Club have made his tiny Alphabet City apartment into a functioning winery. Membership to the club is available during the “…time or season based with Spring and Fall Vintages harvested each year taking 10-18 months to mature.” The VWC is an Urban Winery located in the heart of […]

Artist Andy Thomas has created a series of beautifully rendered visuals from digital recordings of bird sounds and using them to control computer-generated particle effects. via The Presurfer

Magic: The Gathering of the Juggalos is set of three custom Magic: The Gathering cards by Big Cartel user SawFan666 inspired by fans of the group Insane Clown Posse known as juggalos. The name is a portmanteau that combines the popular card game with the annual festival hosted by Insane Clown Posse known as the Gathering of the Juggalos. […]

In a recent Ted-Ed lesson, educator and linguist Claire Bowern explains the origins of the English language and how it has evolved throughout the centuries in a clever animation from Patrick Smith. When we talk about ‘English’, we often think of it as a single language. But what do the dialects spoken in dozens of […]

A new trailer released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows off the action in the upcoming Peter Pan film Pan starring Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, and Rooney Mara. The trailer highlights new clips from the film feature sword fights, floating ship battles, and the story’s famous crocodile. An earlier trailer for the film introduced the characters and […]

C. Orexis Artist Caitlin McCormack has created intricately crocheted the skeletal remains of different animals that are pinned to black backgrounds or encased in glass specimen jars. Many of these skeletal sculptures are available for purchase. McCormack is also showing these and other pieces during the “OPUS HYPNAGOGIA: Sacred Spaces of the Visionary and Vernacular” […]

Internet puppets Fafa the Groundhog, Mario, and Johnny T team up to explain the five stages of a relationship in their most recent episode of Glove and Boots. Mario puts on a wig and helps Johnny T awkwardly try to act out each challenging stage as a “happy” couple.

(larger) The Architecture of American Houses is an art print by Pop Chart Lab that features 121 different house styles from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Signed and numbered prints are available to purchase online. Home in on the history of American housing architecture with this groundbreaking survey of US house styles! From 17th […]

In a recent video by Funny or Die, humorist Nick Offerman gives a tour of a farm that grows pizza, taquitos, and sloppy joes for school lunches. The video was produced in collaboration with the American Heart Association who are currently running a campaign to encourage lawmakers to reauthorize the 2010 Hunger-Free Kids Act. The video is […]

Lay’s announced yesterday the flavor finalists in their Do Us A Flavor contest. Thousands of people submitted their ideas for a new potato chip but only these four were selected to move onto the next level – Southern Biscuits & Gravy, New York Reuben, Wavy West Coast Truffle Fries and Kettle Cooked Greektown Gyro. Television […]

On a recent episode of Conan, the show’s prop master Bill Tull shared his amusing series of budget cosplay tips for Comic-Con. The tips include supergluing a spoon to your hand to become Magneto, growing your nails out for a few years to turn into Wolverine, and more. Even though it didn’t air during #ConanCon, […]

Filmmaker Ezequiel López has cut together bits of the soundtrack from Mad Max: Fury Road with scenes from the classic comedy film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World to create “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road” an interesting mashup of the two that works out pretty well. via Boing Boing

In the 10th episode of the funny culinary series You Suck At Cooking, the host prepares a simple recipe of pan fried kale while occasionally salting the instructions with a bit of banjo music and a few wonderfully bad jokes. The taste of leafy greens is highly altered by the sound of vibrating strings. Even […]

Puskar Nepal recently kicked himself in the head 134 times to break the Guinness World Record for “Most Kicks to the Head in One Minute (Self).” The attempt was the focus of a recent episode of the Guinness World Record series Spotlight. photos via Guinness World Records

On a recent episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon sat down with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to play a hilarious game of True Confessions. The three took turns confessing to a random fact and then interrogated each other to determine who was telling the truth. They relived and made up stories about […]

Drip is a new service for connecting fans directly with musicians and other artists. Fans can subscribe to a “Drip” directly from creators to get exclusive access to content and support the artists they love. The service already features drips from artists like They Might Be Giants and labels like Sub Pop. Artists can also sign […]

Tested recently enlisted movie effects artist Frank Ippolito to create a fearsome real-life version of the Rancor beast from Star Wars for this year’s Comic-Con. Tested editor Norman Chan went over the impressive build process that Ippolito and his team went through to make the Rancor. Frank, who previously created realistic costumes portraying Admiral Ackbar […]

Sedgley, West Midlands-based Paul Harborne spent three years and approximately $156,000 renovating a classic 1960 Cadillac Miller-Meteor and turning it into the iconic Ecto-1 car from the Ghostbusters films. According to Caters News Agency, Harborne is “getting even more attention than ever, with the upcoming release of Ghostbusters reboot film scheduled for next year ramping […]

Ethan Zachery Scott, a colorblind man, is overwhelmed when he sees purple first time after someone gives him a pair of special EnChroma glasses with corrective lenses. The lenses work by blocking a narrow spectrum of color that can be misinterpreted by a colorblind person. Blocking that spectrum can allow the colorblind person to properly distinguish […]

20th Century Fox has released the second trailer for Fantastic Four, the upcoming reboot film directed by Josh Trank and based on Marvel’s renowned group of superheroes. The exciting new trailer has the young superheroes facing off against the powerful supervillain, Doctor Doom, and realizing their true potentials when working together. Fantastic Four, a contemporary […]

Visual effects artist Bill Parker has created a thrilling POV special effects video of a fearless GoPro-wearing Jedi using his lightsaber to battle an army of Stormtroopers, an AT-AT Walker, and using the force to tear apart a TIE Fighter mid-flight. The tough Jedi gets some help from the good guys near the end of […]

“Edge of Stability” is an incredible series of time-lapse videos by photographer Jeff Boyce featuring natural phenomea including tornados, storms, the Milky Way over desert landscapes and Aurora Borealis over Canada. The video was created from 70,000 high resolution photos taken over 20,000 miles of driving. via Daily Picks and Flicks

Tatiana Maslany, the wonderful actress who plays at least seven different roles to near-perfection in the clone series Orphan Black, trimmed it down a bit in the official music video for “You Don’t Know Me” by Son Lux. Multi-layered electronic band Son Lux presents “You Don’t Know Me” directed by Nathan Johnson and created by […]

Researchers at the NYU Applied Mathematics Lab wanted to understand the fluid dynamics of solvation and in order to make it “less boring”, they decided to use candy immersed in water as their medium with interesting results, including the determination that it would take 1,000 licks to get to the “Tootsie Roll center of a […]

NARCOS is a new original series by Netflix that tells the serialized story of Pablo Escobar, the Medellin cartel and the multi-national law enforcement agents who pursued them during the 1980s in the bloody “War on Drugs“. NARCOS is the true story of the U.S. and Colombian efforts to battle the Medellin cartel during the […]

The Pizza Boss 3000 by Fred & Friends is a tough little pizza cutter that looks like a circular saw and features a laser-etched stainless steel blade to easily move through even the thickest of pizza crusts. The Pizza Boss 3000 is available for purchase at Amazon. Show that pizza you mean business with our […]

The MusicMachine 3 by Maximilian Büsser and Friends is an elaborate music box beautifully crafted to resemble a TIE fighter from the Star Wars universe. The machine features two musical cylinders standing in for the ship’s engines. Each cylinder plays three songs, making the music box capable of playing the themes from Star Wars, James Bond, The Godfather, Mission […]

Sisters is a new comedy starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as adult sisters throwing one last wild party in their childhood home before their parents sell the house. The trailer for the film was just released, and the movie will be in theaters for Christmas 2015. image via Sisters

Cairo musician Medhat Mamdouh shows off some impressive skills beatboxing while playing a recorder. via reddit

Tattoo Artist Houston Patton and Creative Director Dagny Fox, collectively known as Thieves of Tower, have developed a wonderfully unique style with original and amazing black ink tattoos that are meant to take clients back to “a time of darkened beauty seen within his lines”. Particularly striking are the tattoo that tell the story over […]

Rachel Soudakoff produced and edited a compelling video showing what daily life is like for Ren who is deaf. Here’s Ren reciting her poem “Eleven Things You Should Know About Deaf People” at the Summer Slam Poetry Camp at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. via reddit

Compound Interest takes on the yummy subject of ice cream with an informative graphic that explains how all its ingredients come together through emulsion to create the beloved frozen treat. Initially, it might be hard to believe that ice cream could be all that complicated. After all, it’s essentially composed of three basic ingredients: milk, […]

Daredevil Nick Macomber was the first man to pilot a jetpack in China by flying his hydrogen peroxide-powered jetpack by Go Fast at a recent event held in Beijing. Macomber’s flight only lasted 27 seconds, but he hopes to one day fly over the Great Wall of China. In 2014, the Go Fast jetpack was flown […]

Alien Macaron Mi Tulip of Lou Lou P’s Delights in Leeds, West Yorkshire UK crafts wonderful baked goods and sweet edibles that reflect a wickedly clever sense of humor and a general sense of fun. Such examples include an alien bloodily emerging from a macaron, a sumptuous catloaf made from bread, a naked mole rate […]

BennuBird imagines this is how Pluto must have felt as the New Horizons space probe made its flyby. Kind of makes you feel sad for the little guy. via reddit, Nerd Approved

Comedian Jeff Wysaski of Obvious Plant recently placed a series of funny but ultimately not very helpful shopping tips around a grocery store. The tips give shoppers advice on things like having more fun while shopping, making breakfast more “metal”, and even how to burn some extra calories at checkout. photos via Obvious Plant

F/X Networks has released “Right From Wrong” the first full trailer for the second season of Fargo, which promises violence, duplicity, secrecy, courtesy, humor and lots and lots of snow. Fargo is set to premiere in September 2015. image via

On the latest episode of “Man at Arms: Reforged”, Matt and Kerry Stagmer of Baltimore Knife and Sword build the Hattori Hanzo katana samurai sword used by Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) in the Quentin Tarantino films Kill Bill: Volume 1 & 2.

The Siva Cycle Atom is a USB charger and backup battery powered by pedaling a bicycle. The device can be quickly installed onto the rear wheel of a bicycle to provide a single USB port under the bicycle seat. The Atom also has a detachable battery pack for mobile charging away from the bicycle. For a […]

Episode 3 of “Vulture’s Secret History of Television” takes a look at television crossover episodes, where two or more shows exist in the same fictional universe. Are two shows (or three, or four, or five) better than one? Since at least the 1960s, TV studios have experimented with crossovers between series. In this week’s episode […]