Musician and artist Craig Colorusso who previously built a set of interactive musical sun boxes, has created Moon Phases, a singular, continuous piece of music that waxes and wanes with the phases of the moon. The piece mimics the phases of the moon by begining in silence with th … | Continue reading
A post shared by Anna (@awesome_oso) on Apr 3, 2018 at 12:55pm PDT Moscow artist Anna (Oso Polar) has handmade a super cute and creepy collection of dolls based on all sorts of real and mythological creatures. Anna's imaginative dolls are available to purchase from her Etsy shop. … | Continue reading
Voice actor and father Joe Gaudet used Face Swap filter to turn his baby daughter into John C. Reilly and then proceeded to do an impression of the actor. Gaudet also turned her into Arnold Schwarzenegger. A post shared by Joe Gaudet (@iamjoegaudet) on May 25, 2018 at 8:20am PDT … | Continue reading
The South African minimalist furniture company Shift Perspective has created a beautiful, limited edition 100% wool rug that maps out a detailed grid view of New York City, its outer boroughs and even parts of New Jersey. Different piles texturally indicate streets, sidewalks, pa … | Continue reading
NYC filmmaker Tyler Fairbank has captured the absolute beauty of the landscape and the incredible sights of a Safari in Botswana in a gorgeous flow motion hyperlapse. This particular technique allows the photographer to capture specific motion in real time while the rest of the i … | Continue reading
Long Beach designer Ben Huynh released his fifth edition of the 36 Days of Type project that "invites designers, illustrators, and visual artists to share their view on the letters and numbers from our alphabet." Huynh's colorfully mesmerizing video features 3D animated type in t … | Continue reading
A post shared by Animals Got Problems (@animalsgotproblems) on Apr 6, 2018 at 8:16am PDT "Animals Got Problems" is a retro-style web comic, by artistic couple Jory John and Alyssa Machle John, featuring cute little animals saying depressing things. John and Alyssa's entire series … | Continue reading
Steve Gould, a television, stage and video presenter of science, very succinctly explained the concept of the Flashed Face Distortion Effect aka the Alien Faces Illusion, a facial distortion illusion created with the fast-paced presentation of faces looking straight into the came … | Continue reading
Edwin Olding and the team at Grind Hard Plumbing Co modified a Barbie Power Wheels Ford Mustang by setting the chassis over a go-cart frame and installing a Honda CRF 230 dirt bike engine. Olding was able to get the tiny pink car up to 70 MPH. A post shared by Edwin Olding (@edwi … | Continue reading
Julie Nolke and Sam Larson of Feeling Peckish challenged Scottish YouTuber Mike Boyd to learn how to do a double footed hockey stop. Boyd accepted the challenge and, after 6 hours and 15 minutes of practice, was able to perform a proper hockey stop. A post shared by Mike Boyd (@m … | Continue reading
In "a clever Ted Ed Riddle" animated by Artrake Studio and narrated by Addison Anderson, math teacher and TED-Ed educator Daniel Finkel posed the question "Can you Solve the Wizard Standoff Riddle?", which involves choosing the right wand to ensure victory for your magic school. … | Continue reading
In a drenching episode of the PBS Digital Studios series Eons, host Blake de Pastino explained why it rained for the two million years during the late Triassic Period, the first period of the Mesozoic Era. These rains, known as the Carnian Pluvial Event, happened as Pangea began … | Continue reading
A post shared by Coddies (@coddiesofficial) on Apr 30, 2018 at 8:30am PDT After a trip to a small island off Thailand, Jack Bennet decided that he wanted to disrupt the British summer footwear industry with a splash. With this in mind, Bennet founded Coddies, a company that makes … | Continue reading
In the 2018 remake of the 1973 film Papillon, which was based on a autobiography of the same name, actors Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) and Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) recreate the roles of Henri Charrière and Louis Dega. These roles were originally played by Steve McQueen and Dust … | Continue reading
Grant O'Brien of College Humor offered five handy tips on cooking for a single solitary person. The first two tips, (ordering takeout and cereal with alcohol), didn't involve cooking at all, while the next two tips really brought home how lonely he really was. The final tip was s … | Continue reading
The really wonderful human at Camels and Friends who has rescued wolves, minks, baladi dogs and Patagonian Maras and rams, shared an amazing if not, slightly uncomfortable video of her Dromedary camels Baby and Nessie, as they were eating a prickly pear cactus that had 6 inch nee … | Continue reading
Boy Band is a comedy film, written and directed by Stephen and Joel Levinson, that premiered at the Cleveland International Film Festival on April 14, 2018. The film follows members of a successful 1990s boy band, known as The Heartthrob Boyz, who all got old and fat without even … | Continue reading
Dr. Uri Burstyn, aka the Helpful Vancouver Vet, who demonstrated how to properly pick up a cat and how to safely approach a dog, very affably offered step-by-step instructions for properly brushing a cat's teeth. Using his own cat Clawdia as an example, Dr. Burstyn shared how to … | Continue reading
The Atlantic animator and producer Atthar Mirza created a fascinating two-minute video that explores the visual history of light. It covers everything from wood fires by early man to modern day hydrogen fusion. 400,000 years ago, humans and Neanderthals discovered fire. This igni … | Continue reading
Viva Dirt League, a gaming comedy troupe in Aukland, New Zealand created a rather amusing parody of the distinctive Planet Earth documentary style. This parody was made complete with a Sir David Attenborough sound-alike narrator who commented on the mating rituals of humans in th … | Continue reading
Solo: A Star Wars Story and Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke showed off her amusing wide range of facial expressions by recreating business stock photos for Vanity | Continue reading
Three adorable Transformers Kids showed off their functional homemade Optimus Prime, Starscream, Bumblebee costume in awesome footage posted by Robby Eccleshall on Facebook. Here’s another look pic.twitter.com/sd2yXtwwSd— Transformers Kids (@kidtransformers) May 23, 2018 Backstag … | Continue reading
In a wonderful species specific enrichment exercise, a whoop of chimpanzees at the Project Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Blue Ridge, Georgia, gleefully played in and around a colorful ball pit, but only after their human caretaker showed them how. These playful chimps were rescued from … | Continue reading
Comedians Zack Bornstein, Jamie Brew, Rob Dubbin of Botnik Studies along with animator Felipe Dipoi, musician Kyle Rodriguez and and narrator Jonathan Roumie created a hilariously absurd video that explains the concept of Bitcoin through artificial intelligence. The data for the … | Continue reading
Solo: A Star Wars Story star Emilia Clarke sat down with Jimmy Fallon on an episode of The Tonight Show and unleashed her hilariously embarrassing Wookiee impression. She then chatted about how she sneaked away, during a screening of Solo, to watch the royal | Continue reading
MetaBallStudios made a great new visualization that compares the sizes of well-known video game monsters like Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet, a deathclaw from Fallout, and the god Gongen Wyzen from Asura's | Continue reading
The talented pianist Lord Vinheteiro stared straight into the camera and performed an interpretive piano arrangement evolution of meme music beginning with "Greensleeves" at around 1500 AD and concluding in present day with the Luis Fonsi song "Despacito". This range covered a lo … | Continue reading
In a welcoming episode of the Condé Nast Traveler series Many People from Many Countries Say Things, 70 different people from 70 different countries all over the world show how they say hello and say goodbye per their native tradition. In this episode of Many People from Many Cou … | Continue reading
Never one to miss an event, Bad Lip Reading delivered funny spin on the very, very proper Royal Wedding. Amongst the more notable moments were Prince Harry and Meghan were at the altar naming their favorite Harry Potter character, the chorus learning how to "glide and glint" and … | Continue reading
For the film The King, award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki travelled across the United States in a 1963 Rolls Royce once owned by Elvis Presley in order to learn more about the legendary singer's life and how his meteoric rise and downfall is analogous to the current political … | Continue reading
A post shared by Photographer / Filmmaker (@xavierportela) on May 8, 2018 at 1:56am PDT For his vivid photo series "New York Glow", Belgo-Portugese photographer Xavier Portelo hopped aboard a helicopter, climbed into the sky and captured stunning overhead shots of Times Square , … | Continue reading
When proud Tesla Model 3 owner Andre Mercier returned to his car at the Upper Pines Campground in Yosemite National Park, he immediately noticed the presence of a gorgeous pileated woodpecker, who appeared to be very interested in something about the car (perhaps the faux wood da … | Continue reading
Michael Rice of Elite Reef in Denver, Colorado, has created a number of really beautiful timelapse videos that captures the lush growth of handmade coral reefs of original designs. One such video features a rather gorgeous variety of corals springing to life Coral time lapses cap … | Continue reading
On Monday's episode of Ellen, host Ellen DeGeneres made some of the biggest summer movies from 2018 even better by adding a whole lot of dancing. She featured movie characters grooving in Solo: A Star Wars Story, Avengers: Infinity War, and Jurassic World: Fallen | Continue reading
For a limited time, the Laughing Squid Store is featuring a great deal on the Fondoodler, a unique product that we first wrote about back in November 2016. The Fondoodler is a super simple, food-safe reloadable hot gun that melts most types of string, shredded, block or sheet-sty … | Continue reading
The Heart of Sky is a short animated sci-fi film, brought to life in 2016 by the creative visual storytellers at Mirari & Co., about how life might have been created on earth. They drew their inspiration for the film from ancient Mayan mythology and references from the cultural n … | Continue reading
Comedian Brian David Gilbert, about whom we've previously written, wrote and performed a clever little jingle about the most unusual of subjects - the cause, treatment and the absurd side effects of a painful case of shingles. ♪ Hi my name is Brian I have shingles I'm told that t … | Continue reading
Ben Uyeda of HomeMade Modern demonstrated how to make a concrete fire pit using silicone molds of 3D printed blocks. Uyeda's small, medium, and large 3D files are available to download from Autodesk. A post shared by Ben Uyeda (@benjaminuyeda) on Apr 22, 2018 at 7:43pm PDT via Th … | Continue reading
A post shared by Nacho Diaz Arjona (@naolito) on May 8, 2018 at 5:15am PDT Barcelona artist Nacho Diaz (Naolito) has created a relatable collection of illustrations featuring super cute characters in hilarious before and after situations. Prints of Diaz's drawings are available t … | Continue reading
The Science Channel went behind the scenes at Chapman's factory in Canada to find out exactly how they go about making their delicious looking ice cream sandwiches and ice cream cones. via The | Continue reading
On the latest episode of School of Dad by The Dad, a young man got excited about a new actor finally stepping in to play Han Solo in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story film. His baffled father interrupted to teach his son about the importance of legendary actor Harrison Ford's … | Continue reading
Ears never blink, we're always listening. New York City sound designer Matt McCorkle, co-founder of cdza and a member of New Museum incubator NEW INC, has created Sound Voyage. Like his other projects, Sound Voyage is an immersive audio experience, but this one gives the user acc … | Continue reading
A colorful video by the PBS series Reactions explains how chameleons uniquely change color with the use of nano crystals called iridophores, which produce iridescent light. This extra light means the chameleon has extra colors to use as means of communication with others and in o … | Continue reading
A sanguine animation by the insightful School of Life addresses the problem with over-achievement, specifically the depression that hits once a goal is reached. For the over-achiever, it's the action of getting things done rather than the result and upon completion, a sense of un … | Continue reading
Filmmaker Jessica Kingdon has created "Commodity City", a documentary that takes a revealing look at the infamous five district, 4 million square meter Yiwu International Trade City in Yiwu, Zhejiang, China. Known as the largest market in the world, Kingdon showcases the human si … | Continue reading
Alexandr Misko, the incredibly talented guitarist who performs beautiful fingerstyle covers of modern songs, nervously addressed a Mannheim, Germany TEDx audience to discuss and demonstrate how he makes his guitar, a single instrument, sound like an entire band. When I write musi … | Continue reading
A post shared by Vivera (@vivavivera) on May 15, 2018 at 8:01am PDT In 2016, we wrote about the Impossible Burger (and more so since then), specifically how the company was able to recreate not only the taste and smell of a beef burger, but also the juicy texture and the unique m … | Continue reading
The Japanese toy maker Bandai announced on April 1st that they were manfacturing Neko Busou (Armed Cats in English), a line of cute feline figurines that armed to the teeth with deadly weapons. Bandai's figures started off as an April Fools joke, but due to the popularity of thei … | Continue reading