On the day before Mother's Day in 2015, Adriana Aviles, the four year old daughter of Major League Baseball player Mike Aviles, was diagnosed with leukemia. After intense treatment, which included a bone marrow transplant, little Addy is now considered to be cancer-free. Three ye … | Continue reading
While driving along the very busy Long Island Expressway on May 18, 2018, New York City Councilman Francisco Moya, who represents District 21 in Queens, came across the sight of a frightened cat who was stranded on the median. The compassionate Moya pulled over to the shoulder of … | Continue reading
Merchoid is featuring officially licensed Star Wars Millennium Falcon and TIE Fighter picnic blankets for families and friends to enjoy at a park or a galaxy far, far away. via | Continue reading
Toronto, Ontario art director Scott Park has created Eighty², awesome illustrations of 80 characters from 57 popular 1980s movies. Prints are available to purchase from the Hero Complex Gallery. images via Scott Park Illustration submitted via Laughing Squid | Continue reading
"Solo in Carbonite" is a clever handcrafted Star Wars parody, created by Toronto conceptual photographer Justin Poulsen, where a Red SOLO Cup (Han Solo) is shown being lifted out of a carbon-freezing chamber. photos via Justin Poulsen submitted via Laughing Squid | Continue reading
Portland, Oregon stop-motion animator Kevin Parry of LAIKA (The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings) demonstrates 50 different ways to enter a room. Parry previously showed off 50 different ways to sit in a chair and 100 different types of walks on a | Continue reading
How to DAD creator Jordan Watson of Auckland, New Zealand has returned to point out some of the funny differences between England and New | Continue reading
While drowsing outside atop a fence on a beautiful spring day, Simon's Cat was rudely interrupted by a pesky crow who landed on the same spot. The very vocal bird took delight in trying to torment the feline by tripping him, tickling him and even trying to fly away with him, but … | Continue reading
Scary Pockets, a Los Angeles/San Francisco band that features Patreon co-founder Jack Conte on keyboards, performed a wonderfully funked up cover of the the 1988 Guns N'Roses hit song | Continue reading
A post shared by FabbricaPelletterieMilano (@fpm_milano) on May 25, 2018 at 9:18am PDT Designer Marc Sadler has created a really clever suitcase that quickly transforms into a fully functioning stovetop cook station. This well-designed piece is part of his greater "Bank collectio … | Continue reading
Ripley, a domesticated and really affectionate toucan who purrs when she's happy, tapped out a respectably solid beat as she fastidiously cleaned her enormous beak in a metal bowl. How a Toucan Cleans it's MASSIVE Beak!! (Dunk-scratch-dunk-scratch Basically Toucan Beat Boxing)... … | Continue reading
Jun Yoshizuki of Jun's Kitchen, whom we know to be a fabulous cook, prepared special handmade birthday presents of floral infused oils and homemade lip balm for his wife Rachel. Under the discerning eyes of his two beloved longhaired orange and white cats Haku and Nagi, Jun expla … | Continue reading
A post shared by disenchantment (@disenchantment) on May 23, 2018 at 8:06am PDT After countless seasons of The Simpsons on Fox, legendary cartoonist Matt Groening has created a new animated series for Netflix. The series, entitled Disenchantment features a cynical princess with a … | Continue reading
Four year old Austin Perine is a truly impressive and unstoppable force of nature. Not only is he a champion wrestler and a Presidential hopeful, but once a week Austin (aka President Austin) puts on a cape and turns into a superhero in order give back to his Birmingham, Alabama … | Continue reading
Giovanni DeGarimore, the proprietor of Giovanni's Fish Market in Morro Bay, California purchased a 70 pound octopus, whom he named Fred, with the sole purpose of releasing the beautiful cephalopod back into the wild. DeGarimore, who is also an avid diver, had made the decision no … | Continue reading
While making a point to a fellow feline, a black cat casually employed a back paw to deflect an innocently incoming Roomba to keep it from interrupting the heated discussion taking place at the time. via | Continue reading
A post shared by StreetMarkings (@streetmarkings) on Apr 5, 2018 at 1:00pm PDT StreetMarkings is an Instagram account featuring photos of wonderfully strange street markings found all over London, UK. A post shared by StreetMarkings (@streetmarkings) on Apr 24, 2018 at 6:14am PDT … | Continue reading
Looking for Something is an animated short film, created by London animation director César Pelizer and produced by weareseventeen, about a curious man searching high and low for the meaning of life. A surreal journey of a man wondering about the meaning of life and looking for a … | Continue reading
A post shared by ManiPhotography (@maniphotography91) on Apr 15, 2018 at 5:16pm PDT Toronto photographer and videographer Mani used his digital manipulation skills to create a collection of surreal photos where giant animals roam the Earth with tiny humans. His entire series of p … | Continue reading
Stu Maschwitz of Red Giant has created Tank, a short film inspired by video games from the 1980s with wireframe vector graphics, just like Battlezone. The short follows a team of pilots who try to save their world from a weapon of mass destruction. Putting aside current 3D modeli … | Continue reading
How to DAD creator Jordan Watson of Auckland, New Zealand is back to help everyone better understand New Zealand (kiwi) slang words and | Continue reading
Disney released the official trailer for Christopher Robin, an upcoming live action adventure film directed by Marc Forster. The trailer features Winnie the Pooh and the gang traveling to the city to save an adult Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) by helping him rediscover the jo … | Continue reading
A beautiful bull terrier named Frankie discovered that she had a tiny visitor who wandered into her human's backyard. Frankie affably greeted the newborn fawn and quickly the two became friends, chasing each other around the yard and even snuggling a bit. Unfortunately for Franki … | Continue reading
In a very amusing BETC advertisement directed by Matthijs Van Heijningen for the French streaming channel Canal+, a young man named Lucas G. spun a fantastic yarn about a shootout, a chase through the woods, a ride down a waterfall on a log, which was then in line to be mechanica … | Continue reading
In 2011, guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel performed an absolutely brilliant fingerstyle cover of the Mason Williams 1968 instrumental hit "Classical Gas". Emmanuel had previously played this piece for an episode of the 2005 Seth MacFarlane cartoon American Dad. via | Continue reading
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