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Ryan Fudger recently captured great footage of professional BMX rider Tyler Fernengel riding around and performing impressive stunts inside of the abandoned Silverdome stadium in Detroit for Fernengel’s new Red Bull video. Up-and-coming professional BMX rider and Michigan native Tyler Fernengel is the last professional athlete to perform inside the famed Silverdome — former home […]

CineFix has released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema that retells the 1993 sci-fi adventure film Jurassic Park as an 8-bit animated video game. It was written and animated by David Dutton of Dutton Films with music by Henry Dutton. We’re guessing the excitement for ‘Jurassic World‘ has gotten you nostalgic for the original ‘Jurassic […]

Vocalist Todrick Hall sings his way through a history of songs in Disney films in the medley “The Evolution of Disney.” His collection starts with “Whistle While You Work” from Disney’s first feature-length animated 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and ends with the mega-popular song “Let It Go” from the 2013 film […]

A recent animation by Wired describes how the ingredients of sriracha hot sauce work to make such a delicious combination. The compounds in garlic and red jalapeño stimulate the trigeminal nerve to create a sensation of heat while sugar, salt, and vinegar provide a rounded-out flavor profile

Artist Pat Vale spent a cold day on top of Rockefeller Center in New York City last year and was inspired by the view. He spent four long weeks capturing the dense crowd of buildings in his view in the large-scale illustration Colossus. A time-lapse video of the same name shows his creative process. This […]

A new television spot for the upcoming James Bond film SPECTRE hones in on a secret Bond seems to have. What exactly this secret is remains a mystery. SPECTRE is currently scheduled to release in theaters on November 6, 2015. poster via James Bond

“Motor Mania” is a short 1950 Disney cartoon starring Goofy as a road rage-fueled Jekyll & Hyde character who is the model citizen except when he gets behind the wheel of his car. Despite the large span of time between now and when the cartoon was originally released, many of the points about road rage […]

Koala joey Phantom snuggles with his mom while she receives treatment for her injuries. A koala now named Lizzy was hit by a car near Brisbane, Australia while carrying her six-month-old joey. Workers at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital took Lizzy and her joey—who they named Phantom—in for treatment. Hospital staff captured a photo of […]

Grand Illusions has posted a video that takes a look at Dawson the Dog, a mechanical wind-up truck that turns into a dog and back into a truck repeatedly. Similar toys are available to purchase via Amazon, and Dawson the Dog himself is available to purchase at Grand Illusions. via Boing Boing

A video posted by Jack Heyman features a curious baby crawling to and attempting to eat a GoPro Hero3+ camera. via Digg

In honor of “Hug Your Cat Day” on June 4th, kitties Cole & Marmalade demonstrated with their human Chris, how different cats enjoy/tolerate human hugs in different ways, if they can be hugged at all. images via Cole & Marmalade

Designer Bin Li recently demonstrated his prowess with a MakerBot Replicator Z18 when he created an incredibly detailed sculpture of a giant squid attacking a submarine from an archived pattern on Thingiverse. Li explained his love for 3D printing in an interview with Bold Machines, a company founded by Bre Pettis that seeks to foster […]

“Hearing Jurassic Park” is a compilation edited by Jacob T. Swinney of the wonderful dinosaur sounds created by sound designer Gary Rydstrom for the original Jurassic Park. Rydstrom also recently did an interview with Vulture where he explains how each individual dinosaur sound was created from organic sources like the sounds of different animals mating. It’s a mating […]

A benevolent golden retriever used his great big adorable nose to break the stalemate between two other dogs who were silently arguing over the bright yellow tennis ball that they each had between their teeth at the same time. image via Vine Hub via reddit

Professional stuntman James Armstrong describes to host Laura Ling what it’s like to deal with the pressure and responsibility of performing dangerous stunts as well as how he prepares for being set on fire in a short video by Seeker Stories about rituals. To help combat the incredible stress of his career, James began performing […]

The TTR-SB Seawolf by Thunder Tiger is an underwater remote-control housing for GoPro cameras that lets users capture underwater footage while staying dry. The device works similarly to an airborne camera drone, but in an aquatic setting. Users can control the craft to a depth of eight meters for an estimated 50 minutes of battery life. Thunder Tiger […]

In the most recent episode of the animated video series Blank on Blank, the renowned and controversial author Ayn Rand shares her philosophy of love in a 1959 interview with television journalist Mike Wallace. I say that man is entitled to his own happiness. And that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot […]

In a recent TED-Ed animated lesson, gastroenterologist Dr. William Chey explains what gluten is, where gluten can be found, and which conditions (wheat allergy and celiac disease) warrant a gluten-free diet. While non-celiac gluten sensitivity is a very real condition, it is a bit more complicated to diagnose. Gluten sensitivity’s occurrence in the general population […]

MiGFlug operates flights that take off from the Sokol plant airbase in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia using Mikoyan MiG-29 aircraft to take tourists on flights near the edge of space at 75,500 feet. A video from 2012 shows off the experience well. Probably the most amazing experience in the world – the Edge of Space flight […]

“Just Do It” is a version of Shia LaBeouf‘s now famous motivational green screen speech that was songified by the Gregory Brothers (previously). The new version makes use of the original’s green screen background to put LaBeouf in a number of different locations and situations to really maximize the inspirational power of the speech and song.

(high-resolution image) Heroic Hollywood‘s head designer Mark Alvarado has created an informative graphic calendar that allows fans to easily determine when each of the 41 upcoming superhero films are coming out over the next five years. As I said earlier this morning in my opening piece, there are forty one superhero movies in the works […]

A lab culture grown from the handprint of an eight-year-old after he came in from playing outside shows some pretty dramatic results as a number of different types of microbes growing rampantly in a TSA plate. photo via Microbe World via Ziya Tong, Colossal

Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has recreated a critical chase scene in tribute to the extremely popular film Mad Max: Fury Road, making it appear as a softer watercolor animation. Eyre achieved this effect by using the Grut Oil Dense Weather brush in Photoshop. image via The Creators Project via The Creators Project

Apple has announced its new Apple Music service, iOS 9, OS X El Capitan, and more during a keynote presentation at its Worldwide Developer Conference 2015 (WWDC15) being held between June 8 and June 12, 2015. Apple Music is a multi-use system that combines music streaming, live Internet radio, and direct digital interaction between artists and fans. […]

Texas Armoring Corporation (TAC) CEO Trent Kimball sits behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz SUV equipped with bullet-resistant glass as one of his employees fires an AK-47 several times into the windshield in a video from 2014. This isn’t the first time Kimball has performed a stunt of this kind. via b3ta, The Awesomer

Keow Wee Long, a Bangkok-based photographer without a fear of heights, has transformed humans into swirling, glowing light art and subway rails into underground light trails that he created with six- to seven-minute exposures on his Huawei P8 mobile phone in two separate series respectively called Rooted and Time Vortex. Long explained the motivation behind […]

Composer JIMEK orchestrated and conducted a symphonic history of hip-hop music with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra performing the medley of 30 songs from artists like Missy Elliott, Dr. Dre, Wu-Tang Clan, and more. via The Awesomer

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti demonstrates how to cook a delicious meal of “mackerel, quinoa and leek cream tortilla” in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The meal is one of Cristoforetti’s “bonus foods” as the video description explains. It also turns out that trying to create a multi-step meal is a complicated procress. ESA […]

Illinois-based Matt Bray performs one dance routine 100 times in 100 different places in “100 Places of Dance.” Last year he performed a similar project in which he danced every day for 100 days—though he admits it was closer to 120 days. via Digg

Southern Illinois University science student Drake Anthony (aka “DIY Laser Guy“) recently created a great 40-watt laser shotgun. His futuristic shotgun shoots eight parallel five-watt laser beams, totalling 40 watts, that are all manipulated with lenses to make a more direct beam. Anthony uses his laser weapon to set paper on fire, blast through a […]

Dr. Teeth, leader of the Muppet band The Electric Mayhem, performs the Ol’ Dirty Bastard song “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” in a recent video edited by Mylo the Cat. Mylo used footage from various appearances by Dr. Teeth on The Muppet Show and in The Muppet Movie. For comparison, here is the original version of “Shimmy Shimmy Ya.”

World record-holding Japanese sword master Isao Machii tested his remarkable skills against a Yaskawa Motoman-MH24 industrial robot in an incredible demonstration put together by Yaskawa. Machii worked with Yaskawa to help translate his considerable skill into a form the robot could understand and replicate using 3D motion capture and other technology. For safety during the video shoot, the […]

Mad Max: Fury Road Ponies Taneytown, Maryland-based artist Kelsey Wailes (a.k.a. “EatToast“) used polymer clay, acrylic paints, leather, and fake fur to create custom My Little Pony toys that look like characters from Mad Max: Fury Road. The entire series of custom Mad Max ponies are available to view on her DeviantArt page and Tumblr […]

SpaceX has uploaded some beautiful GoPro footage of a spinning Falcon 9 rocket fairing falling back to Earth after a flight. The footage is set to the rather dramatic The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II.

Redditor Loocylooo, a government employee somewhere southern New Mexico recently posted that her office has a “cat library” where workers can “check out” adoptable cats for an hour at a time. The project in order to get a little bit of kitty snuggle time during the workday. The system works both ways as stressed out […]

We train rats to save lives. The Belgian non-governmental (NGO), non-profit organization APOPO has made it their incredibly admirable mission to train the highly intelligent African giant pouched rats aka HeroRATS to use their noses for such humanitarian purposes as expediently detecting bombs in post-conflict countries and detecting tuberculosis in developing countries, thus potentially saving […]

A comedy sketch by the group Rooster Teeth demonstrates what a self-driving car by Google‘s competitor Bing could look like. It seems like the car still has some bugs to work out, but as the video makes clear, they’re years ahead of the AOL self-driving car. via Geeks Are Sexy

A product video for the Sony Action Cam sends the 4K camera on a colorful ride through a world of 200,000 sticky notes. Sony also hosts a site called Never Before Seen that highlights a number of projects shot with the camera. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

“Jammin’ with Jellies” is a new exhibition at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington that combines the mesmerizing movement of various types of jellyfish with ambient instrumental music. The exhibition also includes workshops and recycled object art. Jellyfish have no bones, no brains, no blood. They catch prey with stinging tentacles, but […]

“NSA Song” is a FOX Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD) animation about the National Security Agency‘s true intentions with its surveillance program. The song proposes that rather than use surveillance techniques to fight terrorism, NSA agents use them to spy on people during intimate online moments. The song was written by Heather Anne Campbell.

ThinkGeek has released an officially licensed Star Wars fridge that looks like Han Solo frozen in carbonite. The amazing fridge, which can hold up to 18 cans of soda, is available to purchase online. The Han Solo Fridge really is big: it can hold up to 18 cans of soda. It’s also one of those […]

Experimenter Dave Hax (previously) demonstrates the science of liquids with a clever demonstration during which he turns water into wine and wine into water with the help of a small plastic square. Turn water into wine! This simple science experiment demonstrates how fluids with different density can switch places. Fun to use as a magic […]

Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner appeared on last night’s episode of Conan to offer a “sneak peek” into the series finale. Before the video ran, however, host Conan O’Brien asked Weiner to discuss his thoughts about finale theories that he’s heard, including the excellent 2013 essay by Lindsey Green that predicts that Don Draper is […]

photo via Flash Tattoos Metallic flash tattoos by Lulu DK and Flash Tattoos are vibrant, summery temporary tattoos with a metallic sheen. Each lasts a little under a week and come in sets with different themes. A portion of sales of Flash Tattoos’ line of jewelry-style tattoos goes to one of three different charitable organizations. […]

In his 2012 project E-Book backup, artist Jesse England (previously) used a photocopier to create a physical copy of an Amazon Kindle e-book. England created each page of the “backup” by simply placing the Kindle on the photocopier’s scanner. The reader thus has the experience of reading a photocopied image of each digital page from […]

More than 50,000 keys are suspended from a ceiling in the immersive art installation The Key in the Hand by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. The keys, each suspended by red thread, were provided by donors from all over the world. The Key in the Hand is on display through November 22, 2015 at the Japan […]

The Hydaway is a reusable and collapsible alternative to disposable water bottles that can easily fit in a pocket when collapsed. The bottle is made from food-grade silicone and BPA-free plastics, and comes in a 600ml large size and 350ml small size. The Hydaway was created by designer Niki Singlaub, who is currently raising funds […]

The Ikawa Home Roaster is a countertop coffee roaster that lets home users roast their own coffee. The roaster’s digital interface allows users choose predefined roast recipes or program their own. Green coffee beans can be roasted in three to ten minutes. The Ikawa Home Roaster is available for pre-order on Kickstarter and is expected […]

“Covered With Kittens” is a fun video series that features the talented singer/songwriter Sarah Donner (previously) singing to her resident felines who don’t really seem to care about the music one way or the other, or as Donner puts it, “Sarah Donner sings to kittens who just don’t give a shit.” via Carolyn McCarthy

For Mother’s Day, the real voice of Apple’s Siri digital assistant, Susan Bennett, stars in a comedy sketch by The Daily Dot about what life would be like with Siri for a mother. The sketch also stars Daily Dot staff writer Marisa Kabas as Siri’s daughter. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips