A Brooklyn Warehouse That Rents Out Unique Recycled Vintage Electronics As Film and TV Props

The LES Ecology Center in New York City has always been a leader in urban sustainability but in opening their E-Waste Warehouse in Gowanus, Brooklyn, they | Continue reading


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An In-Depth Analysis of Every Marvel Film Movie Poster

James Verdesoto of Indika Entertainment Advertising who very insightfully explained how movie posters communicate through its color schemes to Vanity | Continue reading


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Stunning Sashimi Art Created Out of Raw Fish

While teaching his son the basics of sushi preparation, Japanese culinary artist mikyoui00 discovered that he had a talent for creating images out of the | Continue reading


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How the Predictable Precision of Small Flexible Devices Helps to Ensure the Safety of Products of Any Size

Derek Muller of Veritasium (previously) visited with Professor Larry Howell of the Compliant Mechanism Research group at Brigham Young University to learn | Continue reading


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Baby Girl’s Very First Word Is ‘Google’

Welps, my baby’s first word is Google. @google @nest pic.twitter.com/3YpPSkgWLl— Clio Chiang ?? (@cliobablio) March 13, 2019 Story artist and | Continue reading


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Entertainment Advertising Expert Explains What Movie Posters Say Through Their Color Schemes

James Verdesoto of Indika Entertainment Advertising quite insightfully explained to Vanity Fair how movie posters communicate to the desired audience | Continue reading


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A Modular Pneumatic Bionic Hand and Arm That Learns Movement Through Artificial Intelligence

German automation company Festo has developed an anthropomorphic, modular bionic SoftArm and bionic SoftHand that are both flexible for natural movement. | Continue reading


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Why Cephalopods Lost Their Protective Shells

In a dibranchiate episode of PBS Eons, host Hank Green explains the long evolutionary process in which ancestral cephalopods eventually lost their | Continue reading


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84-Year-Old Piano Player Reflects on 56 Year Career of Performing With Mermaids at a Montana Tiki Bar

"Piano Pat" Spoonheim, who has performed four nights a week for the last 56 years at the Sip 'n Dip Tiki Lounge in Great Falls, Montana, reflects on her | Continue reading


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A Clever Animation of the ‘Angel of the North’ Using Stenciled Breath Imprints From a Helpful Passersby

On a particularly cold day in Northern England, the members of Gateshead Council Arts Team created stencils of the "Angel of the North" sculpture in | Continue reading


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Startled Razorfish Dives For Cover Into the Seafloor

While in Cannes, France, a sharp-eyed snorkeler captured the incredible sight of a startled pearly razorfish as it dove for cover into the sand of the | Continue reading


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A Hypnotic Video Showing How to Draw an Anamorphic 3D Skyline Using Simple Lines and Squares

As part of his wonderful ongoing series of art tutorials, artist Tom McPherson of Circle Line Art School shows how to draw anamorphic 3D skyline with the | Continue reading


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Cats Cole, Marmalade, Jugg and Zig Zag Helpfully Provide Amusing Examples of Cat Anatomy in Real Life

The adorable feline duo of Cole and Marmalade along with little sisters Jugg and Zig Zag help out their human Chris with some really amusing, real-life | Continue reading


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Natasha Lyonne Uses the Hands of Her ‘Dali’ Clock to Describe What She Does During a Typical Day

In a timely episode of the New York Magazine series The Cut spoke to the wonderful Natasha Lyonne in her Manhattan home to find out what a typical day | Continue reading


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Throw Throw Burrito, A Hilarious Dodgeball Card Game From the Guys Who Created ‘Exploding Kittens’

Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal and game designer Elan Lee, the genius minds behind Exploding Kittens and Bears vs. Babies, have joined forces again to | Continue reading


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An Animated Map Showing Urban Growth in the Five Boroughs of New York City From 1609 to Present Day

Newark native and Columbia University student Myles Zhang has created "Here Grows New York City", a really informative animated map showing the vast urban | Continue reading


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The Hard Work That Goes Into Making the Prosthetics for ‘Game of Thrones’ Characters So Believable

With the premiere of the first episode of Game of Thrones's eighth and final season just weeks away, the award-winning makeup effects master Barry Gower | Continue reading


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Tiny Hamster Rides Her Own Personal Subway Train

In 2009, Brooklyn photographer Victoria Belanger took Edie, her tiny hamster for a ride on her own personal subway train. Little Edie wandered throughout | Continue reading


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Determined Dog Figures Out How to Get His Favorite Toy Within Reach Without Any Help From His Human

An adorable silver Lab named Dax saw that his favorite red toy was perched upon the counter, but completely out of his reach. He tried to retrieve it | Continue reading


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A Masterful Mashup of Depeche Mode With The Turtles, Britney Spears, Gunhild Carling and Wrestling Stars

DJ Cummerbund has quite seamlessly stitched together a masterful mashup combining the Depeche Mode song "Personal Jesus" with "Happy Together" by The | Continue reading


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Michigan Woman Sets Up a Bird Feeder Photo Booth to Capture Spontaneous Shots of Her Feathered Friends

Ostdrossel, a native German who lives in Michigan, set up a tiny bird feeder photo booth in her backyard as a way to capture wonderful, spontaneous photos | Continue reading


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An Amazing Timelapse of a Completely Dehydrated Desert Plant Being Resurrected With Water

The Selaginella lepidophylla, which is also known as the false rose of Jericho or resurrection plant, has an amazing capacity for dehydration. This | Continue reading


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Danish Freediver Opens Up About Facing His Fears

In the inspiring short documentary entitled "Screw the Box" by photographer Daan Verhoeven, champion Danish freediver Stig Pryds talks about being put in | Continue reading


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An Amusing Twitter Feed That Tests Out Whether the Dogs In Various Video Games Can Be Petted or Not

Can You Pet the Dog? is an amusing and insightful Twitter feed that researches whether or not the dogs featured in a variety of video games can be | Continue reading


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When You Are the Last Cat Built For the Day

When you are the last cat built for the day...and there are no matching parts. via Miss Cellania | Continue reading


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A Live Performance of Kavinsky’s ‘NightCall’ by Barnaby Dixon’s Creepy Face Puppet (and Ryan Gosling)

In October 2018, Barnaby Dixon premiered his "Creepy Face Puppet" -- a full-body finger puppet with LED eyes and Dixon's digitally projected mouth. Creepy | Continue reading


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An Animated Montage of Over 2,000 International Flags

Filmmaker Daniel McKee spent quite a bit of time sourcing images of international flags (and their variations) to create "A Film of Flags", an incredibly | Continue reading


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Driving Over a Frozen Finnish Lake in a Subaru Hatchback With Giant Table Saw Blades as Wheels

Finnish couple Lauri Vuohensilta and Anni Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel and Beyond the Press replaced all four tires on their Subaru | Continue reading


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A Unique Performance of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16

terribletan posted an absolutely astonishing, lightning-fast performance of the Wolfgang Amadeaus Mozart piece Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545, | Continue reading


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Director of Restored Archival Film ‘Apollo 11’ Explains His Use of Split Screen in the Moon Landing Scene

Director Todd Douglas Miller of the documentary Apollo 11 explains how he threaded together restored archival footage to craft a stunning narrative of the | Continue reading


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Danish Actor Mads Mikkelsen and Swedish Director Jonas Åkerlund Play a Game of ‘How Nordic Are You?’

While promoting their Netflix film Polar, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund took part in an amusing game that tested their | Continue reading


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How Ghost Vocals Appear in Music Recordings

In a haunting episode of the aptly named video series You Can't Unhear This, the knowledgable host explains the concept of ghost vocals on music | Continue reading


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Kevin Smith Revisits Some of His Most Notable Films While Talking About His Distinctive Film Techniques

A lively Kevin Smith sat down with the IMDb series "Director's Trademarks" to talk about some of his distinctive filmmaking techniques. In order to | Continue reading


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A Pair of Curious Dogs Ignore Their Human While Attempting to Play With a Couple of Mischievous Otters

A pair of curious Labrador retrievers named Sugar and Spice in Kodiak, Alaska, actively disobeyed the calls of their human Robert Higgs in order to try to | Continue reading


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Mike D of the Beastie Boys Gives a Personal Tour of His Beautiful Custom Designed Malibu Beachside Home

In 2013, we wrote about the profile that The New York Times did on Beastie Boys founding member Mike Diamond (Mike D) and his gorgeously renovated | Continue reading


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Common European Birds Recreated With Balloons

British artist Terry Cook translated his deep love for birds into highly realistic balloon art that he situated in natural surroundings. These | Continue reading


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Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ Told as a Two Minute Musical

Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner of Famous Last Nerds hilariously compressed the classic William Shakespeare play Hamlet from its traditional five | Continue reading


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A Pair of Surprisingly Adorable Nerite Snail Sisters Take Turns Playing With Their Yummy Baby Carrots

A pair of surprisingly adorable nerite snail sisters named Randolph and Mortimer, named after the Duke characters in the 1983 film Trading Places, seemed | Continue reading


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Inanimate Objects Take on Distinct Personalities in Trailer for ‘Así Son Las Cosas’ (The Way Things Are)

The trailer for the 52-episode award-winning Argentinian stop-motion animated series "Así Son Las Cosas" (The Way Things Are) by animator and director | Continue reading


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A Great Big Owl Kicks a Sleeping Cat Off the Couch

A great big owl who was seemingly in no mood for any company appeared rather upset to find the family cat sleeping on the couch. The owl poked, prodded, | Continue reading


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‘Eye of the Beholder’, A Film About the Talented Artists Behind the Imaginative Art of Dungeons & Dragons

Cavegirl Productions and X-Ray Films have joined forces to create highly anticipated film Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons and Dragons. The film | Continue reading


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An Instrumental Cover of 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons) by Nena Played on Four Different Horns

Gifted multi-instrumentalist Seb Skelly performed a wordless brass cover of the classic Nena song "99 Luftballons", which is known in the United States as | Continue reading


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How Vincent Van Gogh Created Optical Anxiety With His Deliberate Use of Conflicting Color in ‘Night Café’

Vlogger Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter takes a look at the Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece "Night Café" ("Le Café de nuit"), the painting that the artist | Continue reading


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How South American Male Hummingbirds Use Their Evolved Beaks as Swords to Attack Their Rivals

In a surprising episode of The New York Times series Science Take, host James Gorman talks about the dangerous side of hummingbirds. While this species | Continue reading


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An Interactive Light Installation That Shows Where the Future Sea Level Will Reach in a Scottish Coastal Town

Finnish artists Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho have created "Lines (57° 59' N, 7° 16' W)", an prescient, site-specific interactive installation that uses | Continue reading


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A Fascinating Map Showing What Current International Borders Might Look Like in 250 Million Years

Vivid Maps has posted a fascinating map that plots what international borders will look like as Pangaea Ultima (Neopangea), a supercontinent that is | Continue reading


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A Retrospective Look at Electric Lady Studios Nearly Half a Century After Jimi Hendrix’s Tragic Death

In February 2019, CBS took a retrospective look at Electric Lady Studios, the legendary New York City recording studio built specifically for rock royalty | Continue reading


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An Elegantly Melodic Introduction to the Peculiar Looking Baroque Woodwind Instrument Oboe da Caccia

Musician Katharina Spreckelsen of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment offers a wonderfully melodic demonstration of the incredibly elegantly | Continue reading


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