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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

“Um, what are you planning on doing with that booger?” “Poo Poo Parents Say” is a video by Tripp Crosby and Tyler Stanton of Tripp and Tyler about many of the weird things parents say that non-parents don’t. The video is a family-friendly parental version of the popular “Shit People Say” video trend from around 2012. Those videos […]

Italian artist Giula Bernadelli takes playing with one’s food to a whole new level when she creates beautifully detailed and delicate illustrations using spilled coffee, wine, and chocolate. Bernadelli recently spoke with Huffington Post France about how she gets her inspiration. I never plan my work in advance, I’m just my instinct based on what […]

After three years of intense preparation, professional base jumper and wingsuit pilot Uli Emanuele successfully completed an insane wingsuit flight through a tiny two-meter wide opening between rock formations in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. The breathtaking flight was recorded using a GoPro camera.

A series of photographs by Maurice Mikkers titled Imaginarium of Tears takes a microscopic look at crystallized tears harvested from Mikkers’ friends. The project started out with the intention of seeing if the composition of tears would be visually different whether the tears were basal, reflex, or emotional, but Mikkers admits the results are more likely caused by […]

In “What It’s Like To Have Insomnia” by CollegeHumor, comedian Mike Trapp portrays an incredibly annoying and very persistent personified version of insomnia who won’t stop talking to a stressed out man who looks like him and who wants, more than anything, just to fall asleep. In the morning you have a meeting then you’ve […]

Nikon has released their new COOLPIX P900 digital camera which features an incredible 83x optical zoom. The zoom is so good that you can actually see the Moon ‘move’ across the sky as the earth rotates as well as picking amazing detail on the surface of the Moon itself as seen in this footage shot […]

R/C builder Otto Dieffenbach of Flyguy Promotions recently built a custom remote-controlled quadcopter that looks like Snoopy, Charlie Brown‘s pet dog for the Peanuts comic strips, flying around on his doghouse for the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International. Dieffenbach was inspired to make his “World War I Flying Ace” version of Snoopy by the trailer […]

Wired has created a short and sweet look at NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. The spacecraft–launched on January 19, 2006–is scheduled to fly by the former planet and current dwarf planet on July 14, 2015.

When left to care for the child, an uncle turned his young nephew into Superman by making the boy fly around the room on a towel. The action was set to the iconic “Superman Theme” by John Williams, which really added to the illusion of flight. via reddit, Daily Picks and Flicks

Freelance editor and reviewer Mr. Sunday Movies recently teamed up with Bandit Incorporated to create a new video where they point out nearly every Easter egg and reference hidden in the newly released film Terminator Genisys. Mr. Sunday Movies also released a review of the new film and a video featuring some of his least […]

Japanese robot manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industries has responded to a recent challenge for a giant robot battle presented by American robotics company MegaBots Inc. founders Gui Cavalcanti and Matt Oehrlein. Suidobashi CEO Kogoro Kurata responded in a video on the company’s YouTube page where he made comments about the MegaBots Mark II robot saying, “Just building something huge […]

Las Vegas-based video editor Robert Jones has created a powerful supercut video of 82 fight scenes from popular films synced to the song “Smack My Bitch Up” by The Prodigy. In June 2013, Jones released part one of his movie fight scene supercut set to Mötley Crüe‘s 1989 hit song “Kickstart My Heart“. submitted via […]

Toronto, Canada-based film enthusiast Louis “The Sleepy Skunk” Plamondon recently worked with Vulture to reimagine the upcoming Marvel superhero film Ant-Man as a 1950s horror movie. The remix features spine-tingling narration by the late and great Vincent Price. Ant-Man is scheduled to release in theaters on July 17, 2015. Footage sources: ‘The Fly‘ (1958) ‘House […]

Household Hacker demonstrates a few quick and simple life hacks you can do using ordinary sugar. 1. Make flowers last longer 2. Garden Booster 3. Preserve Baked Goods 4. Get rid of Grass Stains 5. Remove Grease and Oil from Skin 6. Get rid of Wasps

Eastern Philosophers (Sun Tzu, Confucius and Laozi) and Western Philosophers (Friedrich Nietzsche, Socrates and Voltaire) have a battle of the minds in the latest episode of the 4th season of Epic Rap Battles of History. Here’s their behind-the-scenes video showing how it all came together.

Artist Julie Seabrook Ream, who describes herself as “a mommy who could never pick a favorite color”, has created “100 Days of Rainbows“, a vivid photo series in which she arranges familiar objects such as scissors, thread, stamps, jewels and other items using the bright colors of the rainbow in ROY G. BIV order. images […]

Nelson Carvajal of Bridgework Pictures created a wonderful mashup trailer of ‘Inside Out’ and ‘Inception’. via The A.V. Club