How ‘Iron Man’ Became the Template For ‘Avengers’ Films Due to Stark’s Ability to Question Himself

As part of their ongoing commentary of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of Screenprism explained how Iron Man is really the backbone of all the Avengers films. The Tony Stark character had it all good looks, wealth and and a quirky sense o … | Continue reading


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Relaxing POV Footage of a Ride on Board a Tiny Model Train

Abbie Archer sat her GoPro camera on board a tiny model train at the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway in West Lothian, Scotland and captured relaxing POV footage of its ride across the tracks. via | Continue reading


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Beautiful Black and White Photos of Industrious Cats Who Accompany Their Humans to Work

Italian photographer Marian Zampieri, who refers to herself as a "catographer", has captured for her series "C-AT Work", absolutely stunning black and white photos of the industrious cats who happily accompany their beloved humans to work every day. Zampieri stated that the focus … | Continue reading


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Blind and Partially Deaf British Man Has Traveled to 125 Countries in all Seven Continents Since 2001

Tony Giles is a remarkable man from Teignmouth, Devon, England, who has traveled to an amazing 125 countries on all seven continents over the course of 17 years, despite the fact that he's completely blind and 80% deaf. In an interview with Great Big Story, Giles opened up about … | Continue reading


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3D Illustrations of Pop Culture Characters and Objects Deserted in a Post-Apocalyptic World

A post shared by Filip Hodas (@hoodass) on Apr 6, 2018 at 6:03pm PDT Prague artist Filip Hodas is back with part two of his Pop Culture Dystopia series featuring 3D illustrations of pop culture characters and objects deserted in a post-apocalyptic world. Filip's entire collection … | Continue reading


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Luke Cage Comes Face to Face With an Enemy Who Can Make Him Bleed in the Second Season Trailer

Luke Cage, the untouchable man with unbreakable skin, who became the hero of Harlem in the first season of the eponymous series, encounters in the second season, a unique adversary who can make him bleed. This particular enemy also threatens to undo all of the hard won good he's … | Continue reading


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An Incredible Feature Length Compilation of Star Wars Fandom From the Past 40 Years

Tom Fitzgerald and Marcus Herring of EXP TV created "Star Wars Nothing But Star Wars," an incredible feature length compilation of found footage exploring Star Wars fandom from the past 40 years. via | Continue reading


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An Adorable Little Dog Freezes in Place During His Annual Trip to the Veterinarian’s Office

An adorable little dog named Ceelo froze in place out of fear of being at the veterinarian, despite the fact that he was safe in the company of his human Joshua Snelling. Snelling wasn't too concerned about Ceelo's behavior and even made gentle fun of it, calling it a "dog manneq … | Continue reading


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Rainbow Paints Bouncing on a Speaker in Super Slow Motion

Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys captured super slow motion footage of rainbow paints bouncing around on a speaker. The slow motion segments were filmed at 12,500 fps with the Hasselblad H6D-100c and Phantom v2640 | Continue reading


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Clever Crow Steals a Credit Card in Attempt to Buy a Train Ticket From a Self-Service Machine in Tokyo

While waiting to buy a ticket at the Kinshich? Station in Tokyo, Yuzu resident Kinoshita Shoji captured very amusing footage of a clever crow hopping from one self-service machine to another, trying to figure out how to purchase a ticket. After watching the humans for a while, th … | Continue reading


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Beat Saber, A Musical VR Rhythm Game Where You Have to Slash Incoming Cubed Beats

Beat Saber is a musical virtual reality rhythm game, developed by Hyperbolic Magnetism, where you use two light sabers to slash incoming beats shaped like cubes. It is available to purchase for PC on Steam. A post shared by Beat Saber (@beatsaber) on Apr 6, 2018 at 2:00am PDT A p … | Continue reading


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A Big Furry Dog Casually Strolls Across a Surprised Meteorologist’s Map During a Live Weather Report

While delivering a live weekend weather report, New Hampshire meteorologist Josh Judge of WMUR was momentarily caught off guard by a rather furry dog named Bella, who adorably made her way across his set. Once recovered, however, Judge easily incorporated Bella's presence into hi … | Continue reading


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What SoundCloud Would Have Been Like in 1994

Jo Luijten of Squirrel-Monkey imagines what the music and audio distribution platform, SoundCloud, would have been like in 1994 in a great episode of his Wonders of the World Wide Web | Continue reading


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How Gus Fring of Breaking Bad Became a Cold Calculated Capitalist With a Profit Driven Agenda

As part of their ongoing series of deconstructing the rich symbolism and character development within the sublime AMC series Breaking Bad, film and television analysis platform ScreenPrism carefully waded into the deep end with the incredibly complex personality of Gustavo Fring. … | Continue reading


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Former Aeronautical Engineer Fills Handmade Notebooks With Detailed Sketches of His Travels

A post shared by Notebookmaker and more | ????? (@jose_naranja) on Mar 30, 2018 at 10:52am PDT José Naranja is a former aeronautical engineer who decided that he wanted to see the world. So he quit his job and with notebook in hand, set out to do just that. During his travels, Na … | Continue reading


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Bobby McFerrin Jumps Along the Stage to Create a Song With the Audience Using the Pentatonic Scale

During the talk "Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus" at the World Science Festival in 2009, the very talented Bobby McFerrin stood up from his chair and proceeded to instruct the audience to sing with him. Using the stage as a keyboard of sorts, McFerrin sang one not … | Continue reading


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A Musical Parody That Stands Up Against Avengers: Infinity War Spoilers

To celebrate Avengers: Infinity War successfully slamming down into theaters, video editor and musician Jeff Dutton (a.k.a. "Bonecage") created a catchy musical parody that stands up against spoiling the awesome Marvel film. Hell, even Thanos wouldn't unleash spoilers. My wife an … | Continue reading


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Truck Surf Hotel, A Mobile Truck That Transforms Into a Two-Story Hotel on Wheels for Surfers

Portugal trip guide Daniela Carneiro and surf instructor Eduardo Ribeiro are the two behind the Truck Surf Hotel, a truck that transforms into a double-decker "hotel on wheels." The mobile hotel travels along the southwest coast of Portugal and Morocco giving travelers a place to … | Continue reading


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A Woman Protects Her Ungrateful Partner From a Hovering Storm Cloud in Animated Short ‘Le Nuage’

In the short cleverly animated short "Le Nuage" ("The Cloud") by Iulia Voitova, a young woman does her best to protect her partner from a dark, stormy cloud that constantly hovers over his head. Employing an umbrella, the woman follows the man around the house and out the door in … | Continue reading


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The Astronomical Reason Why No Human Will Ever Find Out What Is At the End of the Universe

In an unconfined episode of Life Noggin, narrator Pat Graziosi who voices the animated Blocko explained the general tenets of the Big Bang theory (not the television series) and how it all lead to the formation of many galaxies including our own. Blocko also explained that due to … | Continue reading


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Chicago Pastry Chef Transforms One Dimensional Sketches Into Beautiful Three Dimensional Desserts

Anna Posey, a talented pastry chef, artist and restauranteur, transforms her quick but detailed, one dimensional sketches into beautiful three dimensional desserts that are served at Elske, the highly rated restaurant she co-owns with husband David. On such dessert is black and w … | Continue reading


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How the Unique Physiology of Hibernating Animals Can Help Researchers Find Solutions for Humans

In a soporific Ted Ed lesson written by science journalist Sheena Faherty and animated by Dabid Pascual and Davy Dumartheray, narrator Julianna Zarzycki explains the difference between sleeping and hibernating, the different types of hibernation employed by different animals and … | Continue reading


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An Insightful Short Film About a Man in Queens Who Embraces the Historical Value of Discarded Items

"A Garbage Story" is a short, insightful film by Olivier Bernier of Rota6 Films that tells the story of Nick DiMola, a unique individual who has the unique ability to see the value that once lived inside discarded items. Fully embodying the Grateful Dead lyric "one man gathers wh … | Continue reading


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Stunning Drone Footage of Lava Flowing Through Newly Formed Ground Cracks on Big Island Hawai’i

During the eruption of the Kilauea volcano, big island Hawai'i resident Jeremiah Osuna heard that there was steam rising from the ground in his former neighborhood of Leilani Estates. When he arrived, he fired up his drone and captured an incredible overhead view of newly formed … | Continue reading


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An Incredible Microscope That Captures 3D Images of Sub-Cellular Movement in Multi-Celled Organisms

Group leader Eric Betzig and his team of researchers at HHMI Howard Hughes Medical Institute have created up an amazing microscope that can view deep, sub-cellular movement within multi-cellular organisms and captures high resolution, dynamic 3D images and footage of said movemen … | Continue reading


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A LEGO Breakfast Machine Capable of Frying, Seasoning, and Serving Bacon and Eggs

The LEGO Breakfast Machine is an amazing LEGO-built contraption, created by The Brick Wall, that is capable of frying up, seasoning, and serving bacon and eggs. We previously wrote about The Brick Wall's LEGO Roomba vacuum cleaner and LEGO harvesting | Continue reading


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Conan O’Brien Plays ‘God of War’ With Bill Hader

On a ground pounding episode of his Clueless Gamer series, talk show host Conan O'Brien sat down with the hilarious Bill Hader to pulverize people and creatures in Sony Interactive Entertainment's newly released video game, God of War. The game is available to purchase for the Pl … | Continue reading


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The Westworld Theme Song With Lyrics

To celebrate the second season of Westworld premiering on HBO last month, The Warp Zone added hilarious lyrics to the popular television series' instrumental theme song. Here is the original opening for season | Continue reading


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Buzz Lightyear is the New Thanos in a Parody Mashup of Avengers: Infinity War and Toy Story

Buzz Lightyear arrives on Earth to bring balance to the universe in a parody mashup of Avengers: Infinity War and Toy Story by How It Should Have Ended and James | Continue reading


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Iconic City Skylines Reimagined Perched Atop the Proper Glass Filled With the City’s Signature Drink

British design house Neomam Studios (previously) has created for their client Budget Direct a wonderful re-imagination of nine iconic city skylines perched atop a proper glass filled with the city's signature drink. Some of the skylines represented are New York City perched atop … | Continue reading


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Free Diver Performs an Expressive Six Minute Dance on One Breath at Bottom of the World’s Deepest Pool

Free diver Julie Gautier, who is married fellow diver Guillaume Néry, performed an absolutely gorgeous, beautifully choreographed dance at the bottom of the Y40, the deepest swimming pool in the world. Gautier's dance conveyed incredible grace and meaning, yet was performed for s … | Continue reading


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The Importance of Values Imbued by Those Who Offered Unconditional Love to a Growing Child

In a poignantly thoughtful animation by the insightful School of Life, the importance of the values and lessons imbued by those who offered unconditional love, such as parents, to a child as the were growing up is given great gravity. While not all of these lessons were necessari … | Continue reading


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Chilling Footage of Thousands of Deadly Moon Jellies Descending Upon Alaskan Waterways

In a chilling clip from the National Geographic show Alaska's Deadliest, thousands of moon jellyfish descend upon a small waterway in search of food. Once prey is located, the deadly jelly secretes toxins into the victim for an easy kill. Our biggest state harbors some America's … | Continue reading


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An Insightful Photo Series That Matches Six Very Different Dogs With Items From Their Daily Lives

A post shared by Alicia Rius (@aliciariusphoto) on Apr 11, 2018 at 11:39am PDT Photographer Alicia Rius who captured the eerily anthropomorphic nature and the distinctive personalities of hairless cats, has created "A Dog's Life", a insightful photo series in which she paired six … | Continue reading


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A Cheery Robert Irwin Returns to The Tonight Show to Show Jimmy Fallon How to Feed Pygmy Goats

Robert Irwin, the incredibly amiable son of the late Steve Irwin returned to the Tonight Show for a fourth time and brought along animals that both delighted and terrified host Jimmy Fallon. Included in this visit were an adorable litter of very hungry baby pygmy goats whom Irwin … | Continue reading


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A Fascinating History of How the Word ‘Byte’ First Originated Then Was Adapted to Its Current Use

Professor David Brailsford of the Nottingham University series Computerphile, explained how the word "byte" came into existence. Providing a great deal of information upon which to chew, Brailsford shared how the word first originated at Bell Labs, how early computers were word-b … | Continue reading


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Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx Steal From the Rich in a Gritty Trailer For ‘Robin Hood’

Lionsgate released a gritty new trailer for Robin Hood, an upcoming action-adventure film directed by Otto Bathurst based on the story of Robin Hood. The trailer follows Robin Hood (Taron Egerton) as he and his Moorish commander (Jamie Foxx) as they work together to rebel against … | Continue reading


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A Beautiful German Shepherd Patiently Waits to Be Watered With a Spray Bottle Alongside the Plants

A beautiful long haired German shepherd in Adelaide, South Australia named Archer patiently waited his turn to be watered with the spray bottle his human was using for her plants. While Archer showed off his polite side, he's not always that accommodating when that spray bottle c … | Continue reading


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Incredible Deep Sea Sound Recordings Streamed Live From the Waters of the Monterey Aquarium

Using a waterproof microphone (hydrophone) connected to the MARS undersea cabled observatory and placed 900 meters (3,000 feet) below the surface of Monterey Bay onto the ocean floor, researchers have been able to not only capture sounds of the deep sea, but have made the sounds … | Continue reading


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Colin Furze and James Bruton Build a Life-Sized Set of Hulkbuster Armor

British inventor Colin Furze and electronics genius James Bruton joined forces once again to build a life-sized set of Hulkbuster armor from the Marvel Cinematic Universe out of parts purchased on eBay. A post shared by colin furze (@realcolinfurze) on May 2, 2018 at 11:31am | Continue reading


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Why We Never See ‘B’ Cell Batteries in Stores

In an amped up episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains why we never see "B" cell batteries in stores. There actually are B batteries, but they aren’t something you’ll usually see stocked at most stores any longer. Since the invention of the battery, there have … | Continue reading


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Google Doodle Premieres a 360° Animation Honoring Pioneering Filmmaker Georges Méliès

The very first ever 360° Google Doodle celebrates the legendary French filmmaker and illusionist Georges Méliès, a pioneer of special effects and film techniques such as timelapse photography, dissolve shots, stop-action splicing and storyboards, all of which are still used in pr … | Continue reading


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Donald Glover Gives a Tour of Lando Calrissian’s Millennium Falcon in a New ‘Solo’ Featurette

In a new Solo: A Star Wars Story featurette, Donald Glover (Lando Calrissian) gives a tour of Lando's Millennium Falcon from the upcoming | Continue reading


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Avengers: Infinity War Directors Break Down a Scene Where Thor Meets the Guardians of the Galaxy

On an intergalactic episode of the Vanity Fair series Notes on a Scene, Avengers: Infinity War directors Anthony and Joe Russo broke down a scene from the amazing film where Thor meets the Guardians of the Galaxy for the first | Continue reading


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Ron Howard Narrates Star Wars: A New Hope in the Style of Arrested Development

On an episode of The Star Wars Show, Solo: A Star Wars Story director Ron Howard sat down to narrate the story of A New Hope in the style of Arrested | Continue reading


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How Game of Thrones Combines Visual Effects With Organic Elements to Create a Sense of Realism

In another chapter of their ongoing analysis of the blockbuster HBO series Game of Thrones, the insightful folks at ScreenPrism took a look at how the series combined fantastic visual effects with organic elements in order to provide a sense of a familiar historical realism to th … | Continue reading


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A Poignantly Lush Acoustic Fingerstyle Cover of the Iconic Radiohead Song ‘High and Dry’

The incredibly talented musician Jon Gomm played a truly poignantly lush acoustic fingerstyle cover of the iconic Radiohead song "High and Dry", providing both the vocals and percussion in perfect precision with the graceful flow of the strings. Gomm stated that with this perform … | Continue reading


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How Bob Dylan’s Distinct Style Became Legendary Fodder for Parody by Other Well Known Musicians

In a surprising video essay, the very knowledgable YouTuber Polyphonic delves into how the very distinct vocal, lyrical and musical style of Bob Dylan became legendary fodder for parody. To demonstrate this trend, Polyphonic cited such songs as "A Simple Desultory Phillipic" by S … | Continue reading


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