In an adorable clip from the Smithsonian Channel series Monkey Island, a troop of tufted gray langurs follow the alpha male to a tall fig tree bursting | Continue reading
Filmmaker Sean Reynard has created and embodied a rather interesting bespectacled, short-banged character he named Quentin Smirhes. As it turns out, | Continue reading
Great Big Story visited with master piano builder David Klavins at his studio in Vác, Hungary. Klavins, who has worked as a technician, concert tuner and | Continue reading
A researcher from the Civil Engineering Department at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany visually demonstrates scenarios in which different wheels | Continue reading
Woodworker Nick Zammeti cleverly built a giant colored pencil made out of many, many boxes of colored pencils. This very meta idea came to Zammeti while | Continue reading
While attending a friend's party at the Hotel d’Angleterre in Copenhagen, Denmark, champagne enthusiast Nikolaj Makar quite elegantly removed the cork | Continue reading
Music essayist Noah LeFevre of Polyphonic (previously) took a look at the classic Andrew Lloyd Weber/Tim Rice collaboration Jesus Christ Superstar. | Continue reading
Ghost Box by artist/musician Steve Parker, is a remarkable interactive sound sculpture modeled after a World War II-era shortwave radio and allows | Continue reading
photo by John Beherens Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland is presenting Signman, a three month long retrospective spaning 42 years of work by legendary San | Continue reading
Musician Dave Rucci took a wire cutter and snipped off all but one string (G) on his guitar. He then proceeded to play ten different and iconic intro | Continue reading
In 2000 Danish sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard created "The Genetically Modified Paradise", a surreal series of oddly misshapen beings, including "The Genetically | Continue reading
In 2004, the Polish architecture firm Szotynski & Zaleski built a wonderfully illusory building in Sopot, Poland that doesn't quite look real. The design | Continue reading
In a trailer for the five-part BBC Earth series entitled The Planets, renowned physicist Brian Cox narrates a beautiful visual reimagination the Big Bang, | Continue reading
Technology vlogger Michael Reeves quite grudgingly responded to viewer requests to build a Roomba that screams and curses when it bumps into walls and | Continue reading
The very talented musician Acoustic Trench (previously) recorded a jaunty acoustic version of the Figrin D'an and The Modal Node song that was iconically | Continue reading
In 1984, the great James Taylor paid a visit to Sesame Street, where he and the curmudgeonly trash dweller Oscar the Grouch performed a duet that told | Continue reading
Postmodern Jukebox invited the velvet-voiced crooner Spencer Day into the studio to perform the Panic! At The Disco song "High Hopes" in authentic Frank | Continue reading
The cooperative team of outdoor cats who defended their human's yard from an incoming real dog, were a little less brave when it came to a plush puppy | Continue reading
The very talented Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (previously) of Pies Are Awesome has created an amazingly detailed mince pie in the distinctive shape and | Continue reading
In a rather amusing supercut of scenes from Game of Thrones series, a lovestruck Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju) lustfully flirts with Brienne of | Continue reading
During the filming of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, actor Peter Mayhew, in costume as Chewbacca, spoke aloud in English (rather than | Continue reading
To promote their limited edition Game of Thrones themed cookie packs, the folks at Oreo created a flawless recreation of the animated title sequence from | Continue reading
The ever prescient nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot (previously) quite succinctly shares his feelings about the world wide web in the song "Internet Sucks". | Continue reading
In celebration Star Wars Day, Jedi meteorologist Grace Legge from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology provided a forceful weather forecast for the region | Continue reading
In 2015, the owner of the Japanese company that made Hagoromo chalk decided to shutter his business due to health and other reasons. Once the news was | Continue reading
Photographer Ulric Collette who lives and works in Quebec City, Canada, has created "Genetic Portraits" an absolutely fascinating photo series in which | Continue reading
In 1991, a dedicated group of 8-track tape fans gathered at Delilah's in Chicago to swap and trade in their favorite medium and an acquired taste. One | Continue reading
In 2015, the very affable Kristofer Hivju (previously), who plays Tormund Giantsbane on Game of Thrones, humorously engaged with fans following him as he | Continue reading
In or around 2009, UC Irvine Computer Science Professor Charless F. Fowlkes decided that he really wanted to make a memorable, tech-forward dessert for | Continue reading
In 2018, we wrote about Food Labels Revealed, a fascinating podcast produced by chemistry educator and analytical chemist Mel Weinstein, who talks about | Continue reading
Czech vlogger Mr. Michal set up an amusing set of experiments in which he uses coiled copper wire and circular neodymium magnets to make AA batteries | Continue reading
In 2015, filmmaker Joshua Z. Weinstein created a heartwarming documentary about two elder musicians named Saul Dreier and Reuwen (“Ruby”) Sosnowicz. The | Continue reading
Video editor and cinematographer Gilles Augustijnen seamlessly combined the title sequences of Game of Thrones with that of Westworld, resulting in a | Continue reading
In the trailer for the third season of The Handmaid's Tale, the eerily prescient yet dystopian series about the subjugation of women in a male-dominated | Continue reading
New York City has renamed 63rd Street at Broadway as Sesame Street in honor of the show's 50th Anniversary providing an actual physical address for | Continue reading
Musician Davidlap, who continuously makes very amusing use of his amazing string skills, made his various guitars sound like different instruments with a | Continue reading
On April 24, 2019, the LEGO Group, in partnership with The LEGO Foundation and various sight advocacy groups, announced that they will be introducing | Continue reading
Can someone please help this parent identify the mysterious pink Z3d pill they found in their son's room? via Miss Cellania | Continue reading
Let The Man Die - Let The Bird Fly In the short film "Albatross Soup" by Winnie Cheung, which features psychedelic animation by Fiona Smyth, 50 different | Continue reading
On an amusing 2017 episode of The Graham Norton Show, actress Gemma Whelan, who plays the fiercely confident Yara Greyjoy on Game of Thrones, talked about | Continue reading
The artisans of Plane Industries who craft incredible chairs made out of cowling from such retired planes as the Boeing 737 and the British Airways e146, | Continue reading
In 2012, photographer Marjorie Coulin captured brilliant footage of Edvard Hansson, the incredible light operator who works with the Swedish groove metal | Continue reading
In 2017, critically acclaimed author and cartoonist Julia Wertz (previously) released Tenements, Towers & Trash, a hilariously observant and amusingly | Continue reading
In 2016 we wrote about the Foldimate Family, a handy home robot that automatically folds, steams, and scents laundry. Since that time, the company has | Continue reading
Craftsman Volker Rieck of Creative Holz in Blieskastel, Germany has created a beautiful chess board coat rack that's positioned in the classic Caro–Kann | Continue reading
In the gorgeous short film "Space to Roam" by photographer Andrew Studer, an astronaut in an orange space suit wanders through and around the otherworldly | Continue reading
Artist Serene Teh created a brilliantly illustrated flipbook that compactly enacts the story of the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien, in celebration of the | Continue reading
In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the classic rock parody film This Is Spinal Tap, the original members of the band, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher | Continue reading