In an enigmatic video essay for the Vox series Overrated, host Phil Edwards takes a look at how the mythology of the mysterious Japanese ninja so pervaded | Continue reading
In 2015, Dutch moth and butterfly breeder Bart Coppens showcased the surprising beauty of the giant moths he's raised. Like their butterfly cousins, these | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by ??????? (@skeletonics) on Jul 9, 2018 at 3:25am PDT The Japanese company Skeletonics has created a line of | Continue reading
Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of ScreenPrism take a look at the Hogwarts House of Hufflepuff. Specifically they look at the fixed moral code of | Continue reading
In 2008, we wrote about the very playful Octo-Pied building by FilthyLuker and Pedro Estrellas (Luke Egan and Pete Hamilton), which featured inflatable | Continue reading
An absolutely adorable French bulldog puppy who had been gleefully playing with a big soap bubble, suddenly stopped and sadly began searching for his | Continue reading
In an amusing behind the scenes interview, the writers behind the sublime Vince Gilligan series Better Call Saul shared exactly how they crafted the con | Continue reading
In a 2011 episode of 60 Minutes Australia, host Michael Usher traveled to Rochester, Minnesota to meet with 29 year old Igor Vovkovinskiy - the tallest | Continue reading
The very forthright Allee Willis, award-winning and nominated songwriter, artist, director, collector, art director, social artist and party thrower | Continue reading
Seeing the beautiful fall leaves blanketing a forest floor in Southern France, a pair of avid adventurers decided that they really didn't want to wait the | Continue reading
In the wonderfully surreal video for the Little Big song "SKIBIDI", a man (Ilya Prusikin) starts dancing a contagious dance that seems to spread to | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Johnnie Walker (@johnniewalker) on Oct 4, 2018 at 4:24am PDT In high anticipation of HBO show Game of Thrones | Continue reading
The creators of the Showtime series Kidding shared via a vertical split-screen, the quick moving, efficient single-shot process of introducing a new | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram Going, going, gone... A post shared by Banksy (@banksy) on Oct 5, 2018 at 6:45pm PDT Sotheby's in London held an auction for | Continue reading
An absolutely adorable little seal crawled across the sand to say hello to some beachgoers. At first the visitors were happy to greet the curious pinniped | Continue reading
In honor of the Debussy Centenary, slapstick dancer and comedian Yoann Bourgeois performed a brilliant, deliberately clumsy acrobatic routine to a piano | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Adrien Miller (@adrienmillerart) on Nov 9, 2017 at 1:53pm PST Seattle clay artist Adrien Miller creates | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by @thealternativelimbproject on Nov 3, 2017 at 6:48am PDT In 2013, we wrote about prosthesis designer Sophie de | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ronit Baranga (@ronitbaranga) on Aug 17, 2018 at 9:36am PDT Israeli artist Ronit Baranga has created "Tea | Continue reading
In July 2017 we wrote about the BBC announcement that the 13th iteration of Doctor Who would be played by Jodie Whittaker, the first woman to play the | Continue reading
Upon hearing the sound of some fellow canines on the other side of a concrete barrier, a rather determined dog in Araucária, Paraná, Brazil made several | Continue reading
Coin jewelry maker Skyler Jenkins of The Mint - Change You Can Wear shows step-by-step how to make a miniature bell out of two 1964 Kennedy half dollars - | Continue reading
In the sixth episode of the Motherboard series The Most Unknown, geobiologist Victoria Orphan and astrophysicist Rachel Smith explain how microorganism | Continue reading
A consortium of French researchers, Marc Teyssier (Sorbonne HCI Group, Gilles Bailly (ISIR -Sorbonne Université), Catherine Pelachaud (ISIR -Sorbonne | Continue reading
Russian musician Andrey Vinogradov, about whom we've written previously, performed a heartbreakingly beautiful solo on his hurdy-gurdy, which sounded very | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alex Schweder (@schweder1) on Jun 12, 2016 at 5:35am PDT Performance architect Alex Schweder has designed a | Continue reading
British doctor and experience diver Ben Burville, whose main interest is in the well-being of wild grey seals in the Farnes Islands, has established a | Continue reading
In 2015 Stanley Sakai, a stenographer by trade, visually and verbally offered a "quick and dirty" explanation about what stenography is, what | Continue reading
Filmmaker Kristian Williams, who's also known as "kaptainkristian", took an illustrative look at the distinctly Disney style of animation. To do this, | Continue reading
In honor of World Animal Day, BBCEarth announced that Sir David Attenborough, the velvet voiced narrator of so many iconic wildlife documentaries would be | Continue reading
Australian filmmaker Josh Ballico of Elevator5 Productions captured the hilarious sight of a deer heading straight for a children's backyard castle slide | Continue reading
The Dutch media corporation NTR has put together "The Metamorphosis of Escher", an amazing narrated visual tour about the legendary artist, which includes | Continue reading
In the trailer for the third season of Daredevil, a downtrodden Matt Murdock discards his bulletproof suit, burns away the remnants of his civilian life | Continue reading
In a fortifying episode of the Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains exactly how Grape Nuts, a cereal with a Hollywood past, got its name | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Crochetverse (@crochetverse) on Sep 26, 2018 at 2:04pm PDT Yarn artist Stephanie Pokorny of Crochetverse | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sarah Curry (@winston_the_tegu) on May 24, 2018 at 10:11am PDT A really handsome, sweet and intelligent | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hi-Fructose Magazine (@hifructosemag) on Sep 13, 2018 at 11:12am PDT Volume 49 of Hi-Fructose: The New | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Myzoo??? (@myzoostudio) on Feb 8, 2018 at 6:42pm PST The Japanese pet supply company MYZOO Studio has created | Continue reading
The Rover is an autonomous golf caddie that acts more like an obedient dog than a robot. The Rover is completely hands-free and simply requires a clip-on | Continue reading
Will Schoder, a filmmaker who creates thought provoking cinematic video essays, took a humorous look at how celebrity cameos, when not done well, are | Continue reading
The HoverGlide is an ingenious backpack that constantly balances the interior load, making it seem lighter than it is. This balance is achieved with a | Continue reading
Actor, writer and comedian Sam Fletcher posted a rather humorous video of an anthropomorphic bottle opener aptly named Mr. Bottle-Opener going for a | Continue reading
The fast talking doodling music theorist and musician 12tone visually and verbally challenged himself to create a truly unique working scale from random | Continue reading
Over the years, we've posted a number of the wonderfully complex and humorous Rube Goldberg machines created by inventor Joseph Herscher of Joseph's | Continue reading
Davie504, the incredible bassist who is constantly performing in new and creative ways, showed how to take a simple chromatic scale and edit it to look | Continue reading
Just one month after their birth, five tiny little baby meerkats at the Symbio Wildlife Park in Helensburgh New South Wales, Australia, took their first | Continue reading
In the very clever animation "Number Who", Brooklyn illustrator Gung-Kai Koo vividly shows through bright pastel colors, how numbers can be seen in the | Continue reading