If you’ve ever lived in a big city, you’ve probably spent a meaningful amount of time wandering underground tunnels on your way to or from subway trains. In Return’s engrossing short film takes us on a hypnotic ride through the public walkways of the London Underground.
Man At Arms: Reforged made a huge lemonade out of an even bigger lemon. Made of over 500 pieces, their scale model of Optimus Prime’s sword from Transformers: The Last Knight is their largest and most complicated build yet.
Daredevil and adventure seeker Joseph Innes shares video footage of several death-defying paraglider runs as he skims precariously close to rocks, trees, and the ground as he heads down the side of a mountain at insane speeds.
Instagrammer Sara Jorden was recording her two cats playing around, when one of them decided to pull out all the stops as it stalks the other one. We’re thinking it’s less ninja and more of a Kung Fu Panda kind of move.
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Hong Kong startup PlaySomeToys is working on a line of figures inspired by product designs from the ’80s and ’90s. Their first toy is this anthropomorphic computer that looks like the original Apple Macintosh. The 3.9″ tall plastic figure comes with a font suitcase and a mouse.
(PG-13: Language) YouTuber Anastasia Vasilieva combined the Jemaine Clement song Goodbye Moonmen from Rick and Morty with the trippiest sequence from Doctor Strange, and it works just perfectly. It works surprisingly well with Star Trek: The Motion Picture too.
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Designed to handle water, dirt, dust, sand, and more, this rugged Bluetooth speaker is ready to take on anything you can throw at it. It’s small enough to put in your pocket, or hang from the included carabiner on your bag or belt loop. Save 42% in The Awesomer Shop.
Remix master DJ Cummerbund latest effort brillantly combines another group of unlikely tunes, seamlessly melding the music of Dave Matthews, DeBarge, Spin Doctors into a single juicy track which will have you shaking your butt and shaking the ants out of your picnic blanket.
Cardboard and rubber band weapon maker Blackfish shows off an amazing build which looks just like a Glock 19 handgun, with working slide and firing mechanism, and an ammo clip filled with bullets made from crayons. After the action, he shows off how to build your own.
Keyboardist Seth Everman decided to test out a bunch of the different sound modes on his Yamaha synth again, this time using Toto’s 1982 hit Africa as his test music. The pizzicato one sounded too much like Enya to us, and nearly put us into a sleep trance.
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We’re not soldiers, and there’s no reason for war. As part of its 2017 fall/winter collection, avant garde leather shoe maker Hender Scheme started with the combat boot and stripped away much of its functionality.
Casually Explained drops a knowledge bomb and quantifies the chances that you’ll meet the person with whom you’ll want to spend the rest of your life. It’s all in the easy to understand HOPE equation, but it also has a couple of variations.
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Emil Ferris’ critically-acclaimed graphic novel is drawn and written as the diary and sketchbook of Karen Reyes, a monster-obsessed 10-year old living in 1960’s Chicago who tries to solve the murder of her upstairs neighbor.
During a recent appearance at The Kennedy Center, musician Ben Folds showed off his ability to rapidly improvise, as he composed an entire song live in less than 10 minutes, including all the parts for the National Symphony Orchestra so they could play along.
Glitchcatcher. Artist Leonardo Ulian’s Technological Mandalas are large mandalas made of electronic components such as computer chips, capacitors and solder. You can see more of his work on his website and Instagram account.
Veritasium takes a look at a neat physical property – the ability to levitate a lightweight ball or disc atop a jet of water. The trick involves getting the water to flow along one side, runs up and over the object, creating a state of equilibrium which allows it to spin.
