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
When a particularly scary block of thunderstorms hit the New York City metropolitan area on May 15, 2018, a two year old boy in the eastern Long Island town of Aquebogue sat under the table with the family's nervously panting bulldog and comforted the frightened animal. The boy c … | Continue reading
Colorado wildlife and underwater photographer William Drumm captured exquisite footage of enormous "mythical" manta rays in the waters of Isla Socorro. As he swam alongside the magnificent creatures, Drumm also captured sight of various fish as they got on and off the mantas, hit … | Continue reading
Bethesda released carnage-filled gameplay footage for Rage 2, an upcoming post-apocalyptic open world first-person shooter developed by id Software and Avalanche Studios that is a sequel to the 2011 video game Rage. The game, which looks like a thrilling mix of Mad Max and Grand … | Continue reading
Avengers: Infinity War star Josh Brolin sat down with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show to try out some different voices for his character Thanos and being mistaken for Josh Groban while in | Continue reading
The Dad is back with ALonGAphukenbrakE, an amusing new fake drug commercial for adults who are still suffering from PAR•ENT•ING. Having friends or family to watch the kids is key. This is a clever follow up to their original made up drug for stressed parents, AphukenbrakE. Every … | Continue reading
German slingshot armorer Jörg Sprave, owner of The Slingshot Channel, created a functioning slingshot version of Rey's NN-14 blaster pistol that shoots glow | Continue reading
Cartoonist Lauren Lorenzo of the monthly series eLL cartoons, who previously animated a hilarious conversation between herself, her father, her grandmother and Amazon Alexa, invited her viewers to a beautiful family dinner, which also included Lorenzo's siblings and their mother. … | Continue reading
To celebrate Deadpool 2 crashing into theaters this week, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) came out on The Late Show stage to interrupt Stephen Colbert's opening monologue. The Merc with a Mouth made sure to poke fun at Ryan Reynolds, Donald Trump, and the Marvel Universe. "You're absolu … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, in honor of Neil Diamond's 77th birthday and retirement, the very talented multi-instrumentalist AcousticTrench performed a sunny fingerstyle cover of the Diamond's hit song "Sweet Caroline". As always, Trench's beautiful dog Maple rested adorably at his feet. … | Continue reading
Rob Scallon, a talented musician who is always looking for new ways to do things, attempted to recreate ten different sound effects without the use of modern technology. Instead, he created effects using reel-to-reel tape, with the help of Rob Ruccia at Uptown Recording. While so … | Continue reading
In a soporific Ted Ed lesson written by science teacher John Murnan and animated by Dogzilla Studios, narrator Addison Anderson explains the purpose of the perspiration process that takes place in the body during exercise. Also known as evaporative cooling, sweating is controlled … | Continue reading
A teeny tiny newborn Javan gibbon named Billy Princess was snugly wrapped up against the elements and clung tightly to a colorful pillow that featured a cartoon blue rabbit that had a carrot in its mouth. Billy Princess was born at the Javan Gibbon Centre in Bogor, Indonesia in e … | Continue reading
Natalie and Dave Sideserf of Sideserf Cakes in Austin, Texas shared an an amusing and helpful timelapse showing how to make a small cake that looks just like a cheesy slice of Detroit-style pizza that they get from their favorite local place - 313 Pizza. As the video was rolling, … | Continue reading
For a limited time, the Laughing Squid Store is featuring a fantastic deal on the luxurious BioBidet BB-270 Duo Self-Cleaning Warm Water Bidet Attachment. While the product itself is self-explanatory, there are some very attractive features including easy installation, operates b … | Continue reading
Ariana Grande sat down with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to perform her song "No Tears Left to Cry" with Nintendo Labo instruments on The Tonight Show. Here is the original | Continue reading
YouTuber Mitch Sterling very cleverly remixed footage of an agile cat deftly leaping off a wall in order avoid the other felines in an alley with the AWOLNATION song "Run". While the song sounds rather rather ominous, the timing hilariously matches the action taking place in that … | Continue reading
Screen Junkies had trouble finding very many faults in the epic Marvel film, Black Panther, for their latest amusing "Honest Trailer." After 17 movies the MCU brings us a superhero movie we've never seen before, one where the hero does not constantly quip - It's Black | Continue reading
YouTuber penguinz0 decided to go out to his neighborhood Toys R Us in order to see what kind of deal he could get at their going out of business sale. As it turns out, he was able to purchase colorful pit balls at a really cheap price, so he bought 5,400 of them and transformed h … | Continue reading
In 1972 Ron Stallworth became the first black police officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department. During his tenure, Stallworth very cleverly infiltrated a fledgling branch of the KKK by calling a number in a newspaper ad. He also recruited and convinced a reluctant Flip Zi … | Continue reading
Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) and the brilliant marketing team behind Deadpool 2 will stop at nothing to promote their upcoming superhero flick in the most creative ways possible. Earlier this week, Reynolds dressed as a magical unicorn and sang the song "Tomorrow" from Annie on the K … | Continue reading
Comedy duo Tripp Crosby and Tyler Stanton of Tripp and Tyler have returned with a sequel to their comedy sketch, "Almost Every Type of Laughing," where they demonstrate common styles of crying. The hilarious waterworks began flowing after Stanton finished the last of the Slim | Continue reading
Deadpool 2 stars Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) and Josh Brolin (Cable) sat down to exchange superpowered insults during a game of Playground Insults on the Scott Mills radio show on BBC Radio | Continue reading
To celebrate Solo: A Star Wars Story landing in theaters next week, San Francisco graphic designer and amateur filmmaker Nick Acosta digitally inserted Harrison Ford into the latest trailer for the upcoming Star Wars origin movie. ‘True Solo’ utilizes clips of Harrison Ford befor … | Continue reading