Jason Beale, Director of Live Animal Care at Shaver's Creek Environmental Center in Petersburg, Pennsylvania demonstrated an example of species specific enrichment with a wonderfully responsive, eager and very friendly black vulture named Mathilda. In order to keep her skills sha … | Continue reading
Talented musician Davide Biale (Davie504) has a little fun while performing 30 music memes on his signature Retrovibe EVO bass guitar in 2 minutes. The Thomas & Friends theme song, "Hotline Bling" by Drake, and "All Star" by Smash Mouth are among a few of the songs | Continue reading
A post shared by travishetman (@travishetman) on Aug 4, 2015 at 12:59pm PDT Denver artist Travis Hetman has created a wonderful Tuesday tradition during which he releases a new detailed graphite sketch of Tom Waits in a unique iterations and/or form. Calling the series "Tom Waits … | Continue reading
In a sympathetic and somewhat self-deprecating episode of his travel series Amazing Places, host Tom Scott explained why the town of Asbestos, Quebec wants to keep their name, despite the negative connotations associated with the mineral that kept the town running for many years. … | Continue reading
While traveling on a small road outside of the Avery Lake near Atlanta, Ontarians Nicole Lewis and Ed Trist encountered the rather rare sight of two angry lynx facing off by the side of the road. They came to a stop and watched through the front windshield as the two big cats lou … | Continue reading
In celebration of the brand's 50th anniversary, Donut Media and Race Service released a great video that takes us on a high-speed journey through the evolution of Hot Wheels cars. via | Continue reading
A post shared by Karoline Hinz/Prop Shop Berlin (@karolinehinz) on May 17, 2018 at 10:19am PDT Berlin freelance prop maker, costume designer, and sculptor Karoline Hinz has built an incredibly realistic looking three-toed sloth costume. Hinz's full collection of costume photos ar … | Continue reading
Leigh Lahav created a new animated short for How It Should Have Ended (HISHE) that humorously illustrates the five stages of watching a Star Wars | Continue reading
Warner Bros. released the first official trailer for Mowgli, an upcoming live-action adventure fantasy film directed by Andy Serkis and darker take on The Jungle Book stories by Rudyard Kipling. The trailer follows Mowgli (Rohan Chand) as he faces dangers lurking in the jungle an … | Continue reading
Filmmaker Neil Cicierega of Guaranteed Video created a fascinating video in which he absurdly posits the official nightmares for all 50 states within United States, unofficially attaching these bizarre dreams to hilarious state maps, as if they were the a bird, flower, song or fl … | Continue reading
New York developer Patrick Weaver has created "Record Player" a really amazing interface that can read photos of album covers using the Google Cloud Vision API, which will then search Spotify to find the appropriate match and give the user and option to play the album. After logg … | Continue reading
We Spoke Out is a brilliant and powerful compilation of classic superhero comic books from a range of popular publishers that specifically address the atrocities of the Holocaust. This moving book is a collaboration between legendary illustrator Neal Adams, Wyman Institute direct … | Continue reading
Deland, Florida skydiving instructor and base jumper Carlos Pedro Briceño went all in back in 2015 as he fearlessly leaped from the Angel Falls in Venezuela, the world's highest | Continue reading
Artistic 14-year-old pool player, Jaden Dupree, has been practicing and fine turning his trick shot skills for the past two years. He demonstrates his skills by curving a difficult jump shot and making insane bank shots. Dupree has an impressive collection of how to videos availa … | Continue reading
Writer, performer, and video maker Dylan Marron stood before a Vancouver TED audience to talk about some of his socially-themed YouTube projects, his inspiration for these projects and the hateful comments that inevitably followed. While Marron is quite able to take this kind of … | Continue reading
A daredevil from Sweden, who goes by the name "Freesolo," climbed a 460-foot mast in Karlskrona and captured breathtaking POV footage of both his ascension and the surrounding area | Continue reading
A daredevil from Sweden, who goes by the name "Freesolo," climbed a 460-foot mast in Karlskrona and captured breathtaking POV footage of both his ascension and the surrounding area | Continue reading
A mother duck who found herself on a busy city street at Lancaster University in Lancashire, England, very sensibly led her tiny ducklings across the zebra striped crosswalk in order to safely get to the other side. Perhaps she was also trying to teach her brood a very important … | Continue reading
Lake Forest, California violinist Danielle Robbins performed an absolutely beautiful cover of John Williams' "The Force Theme" from Star Wars in a tunnel. The footage was captured by Fallon Ferguson. A post shared by Danielle (@daniavocato) on May 18, 2018 at 11:39am PDT via | Continue reading
Mary Sedgwick, a former physician in Asheville, North Carolina who is legally blind, was remarkably able to see her beloved guide dog Lucy for the very first time since Lucy arrived in her life in 2010. Sedgwick had been diagnosed with bilateral optic neuritis, a "demyelinating i … | Continue reading
Primitive Technology demonstrates how to make a blower and some charcoal from clay and poor quality wood. He built the blower, which features an impeller made from palm leaves, to help create higher temperatures and advance his material technology. I took Fan palm leaves and fash … | Continue reading
A post shared by peeta_ead (@peeta_ead) on Apr 24, 2018 at 9:52am PDT Italian artist Peeta aka Manuel Di Rita, creates absolutely gorgeous, colorful anamorphic oil paintings and giant building murals with such depth that each piece looks like it's reaching out from its respective … | Continue reading
Jo Luijten of Squirrel-Monkey imagines what Amazon would have been like in the 1980s in a new animated episode of his Wonders of the World Wide Web | Continue reading
Lucas the Spider, the animated arachnid by Joshua Slice who's led quite an full and interesting life thus far, finally found out what it's like to be the biggest being in the room when he came upon a tiny village of tiny wooden people with a tiny wooden windmill. In an effort to … | Continue reading
The really amiable and talented Steve Onotera aka SamuraiGuitarist demonstrated some of the more unusual guitar techniques and devices to a soundtrack of a minor blues jam. These techniques ranged from relatively inoffensive (playing the lick) to forgivable (beer bottle slide) to … | Continue reading
Canadian musician and songwriter James Hill, who has been called a ukulele virtuoso, channeled Jimi Hendrix in a incredible live cover of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". Hill impressively shredded the lead without a single mistake and skillfully employed clever strumming techniqu … | Continue reading
The YouTube channel Magnetic Games has posted a wonderfully mesmerizing slow motion video that shows how small magnets completely engulf a larger magnet when the two are placed near each other. One such interaction even has a particular resemblance to a beloved character from the … | Continue reading
No Sesame. All Street. In the highly irreverent trailer for the rather raunchy Brian Henson directed movie "The Happytime Murders", a straight-laced detective (Melissa McCarthy) is forced to partner with a puppet in order to solve a string of muppet killings. Maya Rudolph, Joel M … | Continue reading
YouTuber Polyphonic, who creates incredibly informative video essays about music took a look at the endearingly eccentric Canadian prog-rock band Rush. Specifically, he notes how the band held onto their distinctive philosophy of individualism, as reflected in their songs, despit … | Continue reading
Eclectic Method has created a superpowered remix of Black Panther that features vocals and sound effects from the epic Marvel | Continue reading
With the release of Deadpool 2 upon us,Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of Screenprism took a look at the first film of the series Deadpool. In doing so, they make a number of astute observations about the film and the romantic element embedded within, deeming it to be, in it … | Continue reading
Lewis Hilsenteger of Unbox Therapy shows off his mind-blowing gaming PC workstation that costs approximately $30,000. It features a zero gravity reclining workstation game chair by Imperatorworks, a 43-inch UHD 4K monitor by LG, a beefed up Xidax desktop gaming PC, and much more. … | Continue reading
WIRED senior writer Robbie Gonzalez went on a mission to explain why it's almost impossible to juggle 15 balls at once. He met with world record holders Alex Barron and Zak McAllister, as well as engineer and juggler Jack Kalvan, to learn | Continue reading
Aerial cinematographer Phil Holland in partnership with Gotham Film Works has captured the overhead beauty of New York City as it faded from daylight into night through a gorgeous long form, large format process that captures images in extremely high resolution. For the first sho … | Continue reading
The absolutely wonderful short film "I ♥ NY " by Dress Code features Milton Glaser, the graphic designer behind the iconic I ♥ NY campaign, sharing his story first hane. The extremely knowledgable and amiable Glaser recounted his family's flight to the United States ("the land of … | Continue reading
In a eusocial episode from his hilarious flora and fauna-focused video series True Facts, narrator Ze Frank hilariously chronicles footage that exhibits the highly collaborative nature of treecutter ants. In his distinctive style, Frank names the ants, admonishes and then proceed … | Continue reading
Richard Wiseman of Quirkology is back with 10 life hacks to help boost your memory so you can remember almost | Continue reading
A post shared by Arthropoda Iconicus (@arthropoda_iconicus) on May 3, 2018 at 10:55am PDT Brighton, England freelance artist Richard Wilkinson released a fantastic collection of illustrations that imagines insects as memorable Star Wars characters and vehicles. Prints of Wilkinso … | Continue reading
For his daughter Emma's school science fair project in 2017, Gabe McCubbins helped her place a GoPro Hero4 camera inside of a bowling ball and captured footage of it being shot out of a cannon. via | Continue reading
Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) sat down to celebrate the past ten years of the Deadpool franchise in a hilarious promo for Deadpool 2 that pokes fun at the Marvel Cinematic | Continue reading
In the absolutely adorable short film "The Pits" written and directed by David Bizzaro and featuring wonderful puppetry by Evening Squire Productions, a lonely, forlorn Avo searches the streets of New York City for its mate Cado and their shared pit. Feeling incomplete, Avo tries … | Continue reading
The Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York who created the Ammonoid Cephalopod Plushie, has come up with a new plushie of the mysterious, fossil-based, extinct Tully Monster to add to their ongoing Paleozoic Pals collection. This year, we're returning to the Kic … | Continue reading
"Squared Away" by St. Louis creative house Bruton Stroube Studios is a brilliant short film that brings the absurdist, situational single panel comic "The Far Side" by Gary Larson to life. The film is broken up into two vignettes based upon specific comics. The first is Einstein' … | Continue reading
In a seemingly gainsaying animated essay, the very insightful School of Life explains the concept of "Sane Insanity". This term describes those parts of ourselves and traits in others that recognize the insanity of expecting sanity in this very troubled and confusing world. In th … | Continue reading
In an taciturn episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss, linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O'Neill verbally and visually explain how the seemingly unrelated silent letters in English language words actually reveal their etymological orig … | Continue reading
Johannes Grenzfurthner, artist, filmmaker and self-described "Lumpennerd", has released the trailer for his rather prescient film entitled "Glossary of Broken Dreams". The film, which was paved with good intentions, addresses the current world political climate, particularly the … | Continue reading
With the premiere date of the Star Wars story Solo coming up very soon, Great Big Story paid a visit to Dave Barclay, the "puppeteer behind Star Wars". Barclay, who adored puppetry since childhood, studied under the legendary Frank Oz and assisted with the Yoda character. When Oz … | Continue reading
WIRED met with Daryl Sawchuk, an animation supervisor at Method Studios, to go behind the scenes and look at how the incredible visual effects in Black Panther brought the superhero film to life. Making the characters fully digital gave the filmmakers the opportunity to tweak and … | Continue reading