In a vivid episode of the Bon Apétit series Gourmet Makes, Senior Food Editor and pastry chef Claire Saffitz attempted to recreate a healthier version of | Continue reading
Warner Bros. released a thrilling trailer for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, the upcoming animated action sci-fi comedy film and sequel to The Lego Movie from 2014. The trailer follows Emmet Brickowski (Chris Pratt), Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), and the gang as they come face … | Continue reading
Filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay took critical look at two films from his "favorite franchise of all time", Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens and Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi. As with the Rogue One comparison, Tucker again specifically noted … | Continue reading
In the fascinating Vox video essay, editor Phil Edwards posits the question as "Why so many sitcoms look the same". In response, he explains the history of three camera light which was developed by German filmmaker Karl Freund, who came to the United States from Germany after wor … | Continue reading
YouTube musician BearKeys performed a really great cover of the Dave Brubeck jazz classic "Take Five", simultaneously playing the background rhythm on keyboard and the lead melody on his melodica. This was his first time playing the song, but it seems like he got it right on the … | Continue reading
Like so many dogs who have come before her, an adorably big eared French bulldog puppy named Maggie took a turn around the tile while riding on her photographer human's new Roomba vacuum cleaner, which was employed to clean up the mess she made. The silly little pup had a bit of … | Continue reading
A post shared by ???? YUNI YOSHIDA (@yuni_yoshida) on May 14, 2018 at 7:45am PDT Japanese artist Yuni Yoshida has created a fantastic manipulated graphic art series in which small spots on various food items are pixelated, leaving the impression as if there were something indecen … | Continue reading
Darrel is an animated 3D short film, created by Marc Briones and Alan Carabantes, about two chameleons waiting for the subway train who exchange glances and let the opportunity for love slip away. Exchange of glances in the subway. How many opportunities have you let slip? Darrel … | Continue reading
Actor Liev Schreiber of the Showtime series Ray Donovan graciously invited Architectural Digest to come in and tour his newly remodeled NoHo apartment in New York City. During the tour, Schreiber introduced the cameras to the treasures of his home, including his two young sons an … | Continue reading
A driver heading down interstate 93 in Massachusetts was confused while passing by a modified Chevy pickup truck with two front ends. The truck, which was appropriately decorated with a license plate reading "WHT THE," also had two people in the drivers seats facing the correct | Continue reading
In 2016, we wrote about Johnny Matheny, a man who lost a significant portion of his left arm to cancer, but through a Johns Hopkins University program, Matheny was given an advanced prosthetic arm that he can control with his mind through the aid of wireless arm sensors. Since th … | Continue reading
While walking her dog one morning, a woman came across a litter of ten tiny kittens who were left abandoned and completely defenseless by the side of a road in Dalby, Queensland, Australia. Without hesitation, the compassionate woman stopped to collect the kittens, but couldn't c … | Continue reading
West Coast Firepits released an out of this world wood burning Death Star fire pit made out of 1/4" thick carbon steel. The silver, black, and raw steel Star Wars-themed fire pits come in various sizes and are available to purchase from West Coast Firepits and Touch of Modern web … | Continue reading
When THX Ltd released the sheet music for "Deep Note", the three octave sound experience that's been playing in in high fidelity movie theaters since 1983, YouTuber Mach Kobayashi set out to recreate all 30 voices that create the familiar theme. Using multi-track technology, Koba … | Continue reading
Adam Levine traveled to the Porsche Experience Center in Los Angeles to test drive their clean-looking all-electric Mission E concept car. Levine loved the ride so much, that he mentioned wanting to purchase two Mission E prototypes. A post shared by Porsche (@porsche) on May 26, … | Continue reading
Scott Wadsworth of Essential Craftsman talks about and demonstrates the usefulness of five essential knots that everyone should know how to tie and master. If you master these knots, you will be a true hero next time you have a rope in hand. | Continue reading
Walt Disney Animation Studios has released a new trailer for Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, their upcoming animated comedy-adventure film and sequel to the 2012 Wreck-It Ralph movie. The trailer follows Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope von Schweetz (Sar … | Continue reading
Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of Screenprism take a deep dive into the zeitgeist of Rick and Morty, specifically citing how the the characters of the series constantly oscillate between the sincere sentimentality of modernism and the cynical nihilism of post-modernism. Thi … | Continue reading
The wonderfully compassionate people at National Mill Rescue shared a simultaneously heartbreaking/heartwarming video of a teeny tiny nine year old chihuahua with an oversized tongue named Freddie. Despite having been rescued from the horrible conditions of a puppy mill, Freddie … | Continue reading
We previously wrote about Lek Chailert, a caretaker at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand who is able to sing her beloved pachyderms to sleep. While Chailert was entertaining visitors, a now grown Faa Mai quickly gathered Chailert away from other humans and urged he … | Continue reading
StatusSilver teamed up with Finger Circus crew member John Hunt (a.k.a. "P-Nut") to act out the evolution of party dances with his hands only finger tutting skills. They cover dances from everything from the DJ Casper's song "ChaChaSlide" to "Smeeze" by | Continue reading
While promoting his new book Outside the Jukebox, the very talented and rather prodigious musician Scott Bradlee shared how his early days of transposing songs from video games into ragtime jazz on YouTube opened a much bigger world for him both professionally and personally. One … | Continue reading
On an educational episode of Vanity Fair's Slang School series, former NBA star Baron Davis sat down to give a quick lesson on slang words and phrases used on the basketball | Continue reading
LEGO DC Super-Villains is an upcoming action-adventure video game, developed by Traveller's Tales, centered around the villains of the DC Comics universe. "Players will have the ability to create and play as an all-new supervillain" and acquire new abilities while playing through … | Continue reading
A wordless clip from the Monterey Bay Aquarium showcases the surprising beauty of a mantis shrimp, whose purple eyes boast an elaborate compound visual system allowing each eye to move independently from one another. While mantis shrimp have been known to be a bit psycho and punc … | Continue reading
Dan Harmon, the wonderfully irreverant creator of Community and co-creator of Rick and Morty sat down with GQ while dressed as Whistler's Mother, to talk about some of the most hilariously absurd storylines, fan theories and memes along with the unstoppable genius of Justin Roila … | Continue reading
Musician Nathan Mills of Beyond The Guitar performed performed a beautifully lush classical acoustic cover of the John Williams musical theme from the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story. The energy and sense of adventure conveyed in John Williams’ main theme from Solo: A #StarWars … | Continue reading
A fascinating clip from the 2017 BBC Documentary Wild Thailand shows how Macaque monkeys who live by the sea have adapted to their environment by cleverly employing tools, specifically rocks to break open the tough shells of the seafood that becomes accessible to them during low … | Continue reading
While walking through the streets of Melbourne, Victoria Australia, resident Steve Powell captured the unlikely but not unexpected sight of Darth Vader shredding the intro bass licks of the Rage Against the Machine song "Killing In the Name". Only in Melbourne This local dark lor … | Continue reading
Filmmaker Ryan Higa comes clean about not being a great dancer. That all changed with a spectacular live action stop-motion video filled with fancy footwork, graceful skipping over water, and a beautiful ice skating routine with banana peel shoes. Higa spent one week and took ove … | Continue reading
The freeParasol, being designed by Asahi Power Service, is an amazing umbrella that can hover above a person's head to protect them from the outside elements. With the use of an attached DJI Mavic Pro drone and artificial intelligence to track your movement, they hope to keep ind … | Continue reading
Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys captured super slow motion footage of an experiment where they spun a vinyl record so fast that it shattered into approximately 50,000 pieces. The slow motion segments were filmed at 12,500 fps with a Phantom v2640 | Continue reading
A post shared by Scott Beale (@scottbeale) on Jun 1, 2018 at 2:39pm PDT Impossible Foods just sent us a few sample patties of their amazing plant-based meat. We've had the Impossible Burger many times before, including in the form of a White Castle Slider, but this is the first t … | Continue reading
YouTuber YouYouYou who does five minute Hip Hop album reviews from his car, was convinced by his viewers to take a listen to Rage Against the Machine's amazing 1992 self-titled album for the first time. YouYouYou was absolutely gobsmacked upon hearing the first few lyrics and bec … | Continue reading
Canadian musician and songwriter James Hill, who previously channeled Jimi Hendrix in a brilliant cover of "Voodoo Child", used a different tact with his uke on a cover of the classic ballad "When You're Smiling". Instead of playing his ukulele like a guitar, he put it flat on hi … | Continue reading
YouTuber Alex Bostwick aka Bostwiki, who moved to New York City in November 2017, offers up a very clever way to determine your location should you find yourself lost in Central Park using the seemingly random numbers attached to the vintage city lampposts from the 1800s. When th … | Continue reading
DoodleChaos has created amazing budget versions of Dude Perfect style basketball trick shots using marbles, wood, string, and all sorts of other small | Continue reading
Kylo Ren gives his honest, spoiler-filled review of the newly released film, Solo: A Star Wars Story, in the Auralnauts' amusing new video. Han Solo's son previously reviewed The Last Jedi and Rogue | Continue reading
During the 1970s in the United States, the Levi Strauss Company wanted to create really memorable commercials about their new line of products in addition to their legendary jeans. With the help of narrators such incredible voice actors as Ken Nordine and Ernie Anderson, Levi's w … | Continue reading
Movie characters show off their fancy footwork in a wonderful compilation video, created by Brazilian film critic and editor Diego Carrera, that celebrates dancing in movies. Carrera's upbeat video, which features everything from The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895) to Call … | Continue reading
Ollie Bye has created a fascinating, color coded animated map that marks the timeline of every notable event that occurred during each stage of the rise and fall of the British Empire. The animation starts with the Heptarchy in the year 549 to Empire beginning in the 16th century … | Continue reading
“She was struggling so I decided to help her" When a wonderfully thoughtful eight year boy in Milledgeville, Georgia named Maurice Adams Jr. saw from the car window that an elderly woman with a walker was struggling to climb the concrete steps into a local park, he asked his mom … | Continue reading
In a mercurial episode of Half as Interesting, Sam from Wendover called attention to a pair of islands that sit between the United States and Russia within the Bering Strait. The smaller of the two islands, Little Diomede is a sparsely populated Alaskan (U.S.) Island, while Big D … | Continue reading
GQ traveled deep into the wilderness with Silicon Valley star Zach Woods to hear some of his hilariously bad tips on how to live in the woods. We took Silicon Valley’s awkward mother hen into the wild, dressed him in the splurgiest tech wear, and learned how to be men. (read | Continue reading
British inventor Colin Furze took the frame of an old bicycle, tore it apart, and rebuilt it with heavy duty springs. He demonstrated how it handled with a bouncy ride around town. You know when you have an idea, buy some stuff, start putting it all together then stand back and t … | Continue reading
In remastered 720p footage from the film "Live at the Paramount", shows the members of Nirvana (with Dave Grohl on drums) performing a really raw and honest set of songs from their now-seminal album Nevermind during a 1991 Halloween Night show at the Paramount Theatre in their ho … | Continue reading
British designers Keivor John and Richard Harvey of Harvey & John collaborated with Last Drop Distillers to create Pours, a beautifully designed decanter that detects a glass underneath, sends liquid up the stem, which then bows to perfectly pour the chosen spirit within. a playf … | Continue reading
In 2009, the Australian digital animation studio Zero One created "A Day in Pompeii", an incredibly intense visualization that recreated what may have occurred during the last 48 hours before the complete destruction of Pompeii. The video used historical data to surmise the timin … | Continue reading