Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

Lightning struck Rio’s Jesus Christ statue and broke off his fingers

Rio de Janeiro, which has been getting lit up with lightning storms this week, just got hit with another one—and this one struck the city’s famous 125-foot tall Christ the Redeemer statue on top of the Corcovado mountain. A lightning bolt broke off a few fingers on his right hand. According to the National Institute…

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How ILM created Hong Kong with special effects just to destroy it

Probably the most insane fight sequence of Pacific Rim was when a Jaeger fought a Kaiju in the streets of Hong Kong. The entire city was destroyed, glass shards flew everywhere, neon lights were exploding, streets were being crushed, shipping containers somehow were involved and the whole battle was just beyond epic. Here’s how ILM…

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Bird steals camera hidden in an egg and films entire penguin colony

From BBC’s Penguin – Sky in the Huddle, comes this adorable footage taken by John Dowder of a bird of prey, the Striated Caracara, stealing a hidden camera inside a Penguin egg and taking it for a fly to film an entire Penguin colony. The bird made sure to get the camera angle just right…

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A simple chart shows how the dogs we love today evolved from a wolf

How did we get from wolves to dogs of all sizes? How do pugs and chihuahuas and pit bulls and English bulldogs and German shepherds and so forth all come from the big Grey Wolf? Evolution! We domesticated wolves by adopting cubs and feeding them and slowly changing their habits. Over generations, the wolves changed…

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I can’t figure out which way the girl in these photographs is standing

So her hair makes it look like she’s turned away from the camera but her clothes are set up to make it look like she’s facing the camera. What way is she really facing? Honestly, I can’t tell. Malin Bergman loves to play little games with her Instagram pictures to make you question and wonder…

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Dancing all over China might be the best way to travel through China

100 days. 1 foreign country. 1 outfit. 1 guy dancing all across China. It’s just a bloody good time to see someone have so much fun making a fool of himself as he travels all across a foreign country. We should all lighten up and remember to dance more. The video above shows Jake Gaba,…

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This upside down house is actually right side up

Your eyes aren’t deceiving you, this house was actually built upside down. The roof is on the floor, the Mini Cooper is parked in the sky and every fixture in the house is flipped around. But when the house is upside down it’s actually right side up, if that makes any sense, because the interior…

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The sum of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + … until infinity is somehow -1/12

Here’s a fun little brain wrinkle pinch for all you non-math people out there (that should be everyone in the world*): the sum of all natural numbers, from one to infinity, is not a ridiculously big number like you would expect but actually just -1/12. Yes, the sum of every number from one to infinity…

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An adorable lion cub waves hi to a GoPro camera

Well, it looks like a hi and then it winds into a gentle smack. But still, the lion cub who stumbled upon this GoPro camera is just so adorable that I wouldn’t mind getting pawed around by the little prince of the jungle. The footage was captured by photographer Chris Bray on a photo safari…

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Awesome guy built a colorful ice fortress because winter was coming

Winter is no fun, especially when it comes too soon or overstays its welcome. How can you make it more enjoyable? By being awesome like Chris Marchand who decided to turn snow into snowlemonade (snowade? water?) by making a beautiful and colorful ice wall fortress in his yard. Look at it. It glows. Marchand, who…

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The untouched natural beauty of New Zealand is like a magical world

I’m one of those horrible humans who take nature for granted and recharge myself through indoor fluorescent lighting. I like walking city streets, I like going into city bars and I like eating city food. Feeling tires screech, hearing sirens wail, coming across unexplainable damp spots, that’s all what I’m used to. But then I…

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How the heck can this picture be a real photo without any Photoshop?

You’re not looking at a digital painting or a photo that’s been manipulated with Photoshop or some sort of hyper real painting here, you’re looking at a real photograph taken with a real camera. No Photoshopping at all. Hard to believe, right? How did the photographer, Patrick on Flickr, pull off this delirium-inducing image? Quite…

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Beatboxing in slow motion looks disgustingly explicit

Almost everything looks cooler when it’s filmed in slow motion, right? Explosions, athletic feats of achievement, glass breaking, water pouring, fireworks shooting, highlights happening, fighting and pretty much everything else in the world. Except one thing. Beatboxing. It looks positively explicit in slow motion. YouTube star Flula showed himself beatboxing in slow motion and well,…

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This pile of cash is actually just carved wood

We’re rich! You would scream if you stumbled upon these cash wads in a cardboard box but your calculations would be a little off. Not because you counted wrong but because there actually isn’t money in the box. What you think is a box of 100s is actually just an excellent wood carving. The money…

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Even computer simulations have trouble with walking sometimes

We were once toddlers before. We’ve gotten drunk as recent as a few days ago. We maybe got too sore from working out. And we’re not always perfectly balanced. We know how awkward it can be sometimes to just… walk. It’s okay! It’s not always as easy as it looks! Look, even computer simulations tasked…

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What computers see when they watch movies

When we watch movies, we pay attention to specific parts of the scene and focus on different actors and look at certain things on the screen. Most of what we see is influenced by what the directors want us to see, our attentions are easy to grab after all. So what if you showed the…

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Here’s what famous Disney characters would look like in real life

We all know what famous Disney princesses and villains look like in the cartoons and movies but what about in real life? How do their beautifully exaggerated features translate into real humans? Pretty good! Artist Avalonis attempted to make real life Disney characters by piecing together real life famous features as reference points. I think…

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This Vine compilation video of magic tricks and sorcery is so much fun

Here is a tummy tickling compilation video of Vines from Zach King, the magic wizard of Vine. He’ll snatch cats out of computer screens, turn Rubik’s Cubes into candy, fly through beds and doors, jump out of his clothes, magically change colors of any object and more. It’s the most entertaining use of the 6…

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This clever painting combines two paintings without Photoshop

When you first look at this painting, you imagine it as two women set against one scene. But then you notice the frames in the picture are a little off and wonder if there’s some Photoshopping or digital manipulation going on but nope, there’s none of that either. It’s just clever use of double exposure…

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What are these 20 things that happened on the Internet in 2013?

Your two week long hangover may have prevented you from realizing this but… it’s 2014 now. That means 2013 is over and done with and like any other year, needs to be wrapped up nicely in one lovely drawing. This drawing, commissioned by Syzygy and created by Brosmind, sums up all that has happened on…

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Lightning struck Rio’s Jesus Christ statue and broke off his fingers

How ILM created Hong Kong with special effects just to destroy it

Bird steals camera hidden in an egg and films entire penguin colony

A simple chart shows how the dogs we love today evolved from a wolf

I can’t figure out which way the girl in these photographs is standing

Dancing all over China might be the best way to travel through China

This upside down house is actually right side up

The sum of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + … until infinity is somehow -1/12

An adorable lion cub waves hi to a GoPro camera

Awesome guy built a colorful ice fortress because winter was coming

The untouched natural beauty of New Zealand is like a magical world

How the heck can this picture be a real photo without any Photoshop?

Beatboxing in slow motion looks disgustingly explicit

This pile of cash is actually just carved wood

Even computer simulations have trouble with walking sometimes

What computers see when they watch movies

Here’s what famous Disney characters would look like in real life

This Vine compilation video of magic tricks and sorcery is so much fun

This clever painting combines two paintings without Photoshop

What are these 20 things that happened on the Internet in 2013?

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