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Developer Roelof Pieters fantastically processed a short scene from the 1998 film adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas through Google’s artificial neural network. Pieters applied a similar process that Google recently used to create a gallery of “inceptionist” images by having the artificial brain process and try to interpret the scene. The […]

io9 has released a new video that goes over every Terminator machine model featured in the films, the television series, and numerous video games. Editing and voice-over was done by Chris Person with animation by Emily Edwards. WARNING: Some spoilers for Terminator Genisys that appeared in the second trailer for the movie are in this […]

Paul Feig, the director of Sony‘s upcoming Ghostbusters reboot film, recently shared photos of the new Ecto-1 vehicle and proton pack that will be worn by the team of awesome female ghost exterminators (Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones). The new film is currently scheduled to release in theaters on July 22, […]

A cat innocently eating its food is suddenly surprised by a cucumber that is sneaking up from behind. via Nothing To Do With Arbroath, Tastefully Offensive

After being inspired by a viral video from April, Instructables member UpgradeTech created a record out of a laser-etched tortilla that plays “Jarabe Tapatío”–perhaps better known as “The Mexican Hat Dance”–as it spins. The full details behind making the record are available at Instructables, and UpgradeTech has gone on to make a series of playable […]

British Pathé has uploaded a glamorous marionette fashion show from 1960 that took place at The Cypress Club in London.

MI6 superspy James Bond could be making his way to Broadway in James Bond: The Musical, which is expected to premiere in late 2017 or early 2018. The project is being produced by Merry Saltzman, the daughter of Bond film producer Harry Saltzman, who says her company Placeholder Productions has obtained the rights to the franchise for a […]

YouTube user daveachuk took over 400,000 high-resolution images captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope and combined them into an impressive simulation of the Milky Way Galaxy from the telescope’s point of view. They explained in detail how the simulation–which took five months to create–came together over on reddit. There were two techniques — one was […]

A talented engineer and bicycle fabricator in Portland, Oregon has created a giant rideable Tyrannosaurus rex-shaped dinosaur bike, which he has named Sue. The wonderful 8.5-foot tall and 12-foot long bike is currently available to purchase from the creator’s listing on Portland’s Craiglist. Specs: – Head is a marionette that turns side to side and […]

Pat Stay and Rone square off in an epic rap battle where they exchange compliments with each other in this 2014 video by King Of The Dot Entertainment shot at last year’s Hopscotch Celebration in Halifax, Nova Scotia. via reddit

A new commercial for Pampers by advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi London captures the “pooface” of infants in detailed slow motion. The action is set to “Sunrise” from Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. via Fast Company

IJ Review has created a two minute video showing the evolution of United States Army uniforms over the last 240 years, from the Revolutionary War to modern day.

In the second episode of the new series Secret History of Television, Vulture looks at television “bottle episodes,” which are episodes that make use of limited sets and cast to bring a show in under budget. The term originated with Star Trek, when cast and crew began referring to episodes set mainly on the Enterprise as “ship-in-a-bottle episodes.” […]

Eleven year-old Alexis Davidson of Aurora, Colorado used a slingbow to extract a tooth that was ready to come out in a slow-motion video shot by her father Jason Mcdonald. via The Daily What, Neatorama

AMC has released a new featurette that gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at the Los Angeles set of Fear the Walking Dead, an upcoming six-episode companion series to The Walking Dead. Fear the Walking Dead is scheduled to premiere in August 2015, with a second season airing in 2016. What did the world look like […]

Voice actor Harry Shearer, who provides the voices of Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, and Reverend Lovejoy among others, will be returning to The Simpsons after all. It was announced in May 2015 that Shearer would be leaving the show over a dispute with show producers over what he called, “the freedom to do other work.” Showrunner Al Jean said […]

USAopoly has teamed up with Hasbro and HBO to create Risk: Game of Thrones, a special edition of the classic Risk board game based on the HBO’s popular television series Game of Thrones. The board game is available to pre-order online from Entertainment Earth and Amazon and is scheduled to release in August 2015. ‘RISK: […]

photo via Wookieepedia According to StarWars.com, the next standalone film in the upcoming Star Wars Anthology Series is going to be about the origin story of the smuggler-turned-hero, Han Solo. They also announced that the movie will be directed by Chris Miller and Phil Lord, the duo known for their work on The LEGO Movie, […]

“The Velvet Ape” by They Might Be Giants, the week 27 video for their ongoing Dial-A-Song Direct series.

Artist Paul Jackson, who describes himself as a full-time daydreamer and his work as “the weirder, the better”, has created intensely detailed and startling ink illustrations that feature the skeletons of various different animals attempting to escape from their own bodies, leaving skin and a fur behind. These prints and other merchandise are currently available […]

Tien Nguyen explains how pregnancy tests work in the latest TED-Ed video animated by Andrew Foerster. Over-the-counter pregnancy tests give potentially life-changing results with a pretty high rate of accuracy. But how do they work? Tien Nguyen explains how each test performs a scientifically rigorous, multi-stage experiment that goes from start to finish in the […]

As an expression of love for Jim Carrey and his physical humor, Shawn Kohne created a supercut tribute to him falling down throughout his career. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

Cyriak Harris has re-uploaded his classic 2007 surreal cows vs aliens animation “MOO” to YouTube in glorious 720p HD. When I first uploaded it in 2007, youtube had a maximum video quality of 240p, and the compression looked like someone had chewed up the video and spat it out. That has always bothered me with […]

Hank Green provides an explanation why pepper makes you sneeze on the latest episode of SciShow.

The first animated episode of the new New York Magazine series The Science of Us–animated by Fly Machine Picture Co.–explains how feet help us sleep.

Vintage Marilyn Monroe California artist and teacher Russell Powell has created a series of gorgeously detailed portraits that he’s drawn onto his hand and can be transferred onto paper while the ink is still wet, thus creating a mirror image of the stunning artwork. Vintage Marilyn Monroe Print Bob Marley Bob Marley Print Sinead O’Connor […]

Calvin and Markov is a project by Josh Millard that uses a Markov chain process to remix classic Calvin and Hobbes comic strips into something even more surreal. Millard details the process behind the project in a lengthy blog post on his site. So far I’ve marked up the 1985 and 1986 strips, or about […]

Jordan Peele plays a telemarketer using an unusual sales tactic to close a deal with Keegan-Michael Key in a new sketch from their Comedy Central series Key & Peele. The new season of Key & Peele is scheduled to begin on July 8, 2015 at 10:00PM.

In their most recent comedy sketch, comedians Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal of Rhett & Link compete to see who can come up with the most overly complicated coffee order at a coffee shop. The two get pretty carried away with their orders before finally revealing their true plan. The sketch features actress and writer […]

“The Art of the Opening Shot”, the latest video by Filmnørdens Hjørne, is a beautiful compilation of opening shots in films. via GeekTyrant

Hamburg, Germany-based copywriter and photographer Stefan Kuhnigk has created The Coffeemonsters, wonderful illustrations of adorable little monsters created from random coffee spills. The full collection of images are available to view on Instagram and Facebook. Kuhnigk also released a video showing how he turns the stains into cute monsters using his imagination and drawing skills. […]

“Art of the Storm” is a gorgeous time-lapse video by photographer Nicolaus Wegner of a stationary supercell near Rapid City, South Dakota. An amazing stationary supercell was produced over the Black Hills of South Dakota near Rapid City on June 1, 2015. I was fortunate enough to have the entire event unfold right in front […]

Chicago linguist Arika Okrent explores the real origin of the word “OK” in a new video for Mental Floss. via Nate Bolt

A new video by Quartz, narrated by musicologist Patrick Savage of Tokyo University of the Arts, takes a look at a project that compared 304 different songs from around the world and did a statistical analysis to determine what universal elements almost all music has in common.

Showtime has launched a new standalone streaming service–similar to the recently launched HBO NOW–that allows viewers to access all the channel’s content without a cable or satellite subscription. Content will be available to stream at the same time it airs on the channel, and the launch is timed to coincide with the premieres of two […]

WWF Australia created wonderful turtle’s eye-view of the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia using a GoPro camera. Here’s how you can help preserve the Great Barrier Reef and the 6000 species that live there. via Coudal Partners

Comedian Hannibal Buress released his “secret” audition to host The Daily Show in a promo for his new show Why? which premieres Wednesday July 8, 2015 at 10:30pm before The Daily Show on Comedy Central.

“Gradually let the horseshit of the external world fade from your awareness.” Let Jason Headley help you forget the realities of the world and relax with “F*ck That: A Guided Meditation”. via Tastefully Offensive

Lugs are a line of specially designed stickers and charms to decorate children’s hearing aids or cochlear implants. The goal is to encourage children to wear their devices with pride rather than feeling self-conscious about them. The company’s founder, Sarah Ivermee, told The Mighty, “Knowing children are not just happy to wear their hearing aids and […]

JZSlenker was challenged with destroying a pile of defective compact discs, so he created a CD gun using a Harbor Freight angle grinder to properly dispose of them. via Gadgetify, Technabob

Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski of Corridor Digital have created “Batman Surprise,” a live-action short where Batman defeats his enemies with an arsenal of silly kicks and backhand punches. Robin even lends a hand when the caped crusader is in trouble. Corridor Digital also released behind-the-scenes footage that shows how the short came together:

Burkard Polster, aka Mathologer, shows how to assemble an entire Rubik’s cube inside of a glass bottle. via Digg

Season Two Opening Title Sequence When Season Two of the popular HBO series True Detective premiered on June 21, many viewers were able to immediately tell from the opening title sequence, which features bright colors and a crisp defiant song by the great Leonard Cohen, that the second season would be nothing like the first. […]

An adorably talented raccoon named Melanie gleefully rides across the living room on her red bicycle, her purple skateboard and her pink scooter. According to her human, Melanie is the “world’s smartest raccoon“. image via Melanie Racoon via Tastefully Offensive

On a recent episode of Conan, host Conan O’Brien crashed his staff’s “girls night out” to see the new movie Magic Mike XXL. O’Brien met the women at his assistant’s apartment for drinks, and then they went out in a limo for dinner before the movie.

Animator Devin Clark, video editor Nicholas Stango, and editor-in-chief Max Read of Gawker worked together to create a great video summary of the power struggles that have taken place between competing families (noble houses) in the first five seasons of HBO‘s popular television series Game of Thrones. We previously wrote about their animated map explaining […]

The ever irascible Mr. Forthright offers sage advice regarding the habit of nail biting with his own version of a simple life hack.

VFX supervisor Joe Bauer talks about the evolution of visual effects throughout the entire series of Game of Thrones in this fascinating video produced by io9.

Andy Baio discusses introducing his kid to 25 years of video game history at the Gel 2015 customer experience conference in New York City. As it turns out, his son, Eliot, is quite good at the video games. via Waxy.org