Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

The Evolution of Wolverine in Movies and TV Shows

Wait, there was a Wolverine on screen before Hugh Jackman? No one is really sure. Hugh Jackman’s dominance of the character in the movies makes this evolution of Wolverine video from Burger Fiction seem like a look into how well he’s aged and how buff he’s gotten. But we also get to see the cartoon…

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Watch These DJs Troll the Heck Out of a Crowd By Screwing with the Drop

DJ duo Mashd N Kutcher (get it?) are known pranksters, so it’s no surprise that they always have fun playing around with their fans. Here’s a good one in which they set the crowd up with the perfect beat drop—only to cut right into Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” instead. What they do next—disappearing from…

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Fun Animation Perfectly Captures the Wild World of Eating Chinese Food at a Chinese Restaurant

Chinese restaurants can be really fun and lively places, where family and friends gather around giant banquet tables to talk, drink, and laugh together—all while eating food that’s constantly being spun around a Lazy Susan. Anatola Howard’s short animation Giraffe Soup captures the essence of eating Chinese food at a Chinese restaurant perfectly. It’s also…

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The Weird Methods Used to Make Brand New Jeans Look Old

This fun peek inside a factory that makes jeans from Carson Nicely shows the creative methods a manufacturer uses to create a pair of distressed denim. They spray paint color on them, mark up some fake whiskers on the front of the pants, tumble the jeans with a bunch of rocks, and basically mutilate the…

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Short Documentary Reveals What Happens to a Small Town During the California Drought

If you live in a big city like Los Angeles or San Francisco, you do your part for the drought in California by watering your plants less and maybe by showering a song or two faster. But if you live in a small town like Stratford in California’s Central Valley during the drought? You’re trying…

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Bouncing On a Trampoline With Water Balloons Is the Best Way to Feel Like a Kid Again

Here’s how you spend a good summer day: find a giant trampoline, fill up 1,500 water balloons, and then bounce around trying to break as many as you can. It’s essentially a McDonald’s playpen crossed with a bounce house…with a lot of water. For an added bonus, you can be like Mark Rober and get…

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Wonderfully Weird Short Film Mixes Together Alfred Hitchcock and Star Wars

Fabrice Mathieu turned Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest into a film that includes Star Wars characters and it’s totally bizarre and so weird that … I kind of like it? I mean, it’s just stupid fun to see Cary Grant run away from a TIE fighter, and stare at R2-D2, and wonder where in the…

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Making the Perfect Ice Cube Requires So Much More Than Just Freezing Water

Ice is very important to me. Outside of beer and orange juice, I believe that every drink can be improved with ice. But even I know my love for ice has its limits. It’s just frozen water, after all. But to Ross Simon from Bitter & Twisted Cocktail Parlour in Phoenix, Arizona, ice is so…

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Frenetic Video Reveals the Different Layers of Chaos of Living in a City Like Hong Kong

Big cities around the world all have an unmistakable energy—which happens when you stack people on top of more people—that makes them unique and yet similar all at once. There’s a constant buzz around the city and there are different layers to the life there. Here’s what it’s like in Hong Kong. Brandon Li’s Hong…

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What It’s Like to Walk Against 100 MPH Winds

Going up against winds over 100 mph? You’re going to lose. Watch as weather observers Mike Dorfman and Tom Padham from the Mount Washington Observatory goof off on the observation deck off the mountain in New Hampshire to show us what it’s like to stand, walk, and jump against 109 mph winds. The wind is…

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Hand Drawing Sheet Music Is Such an Impressive Skill

Making music is art. And so is making a blank piece of paper sing. Watch as sheet music is hand drawn using charcoal, graphite, a ruler, and a triangle. The amount of work is ridiculous—I mean, drawing the straight lines for the template is already hard enough—but it’s pretty damn satisfying to see the notes…

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This Amazingly Cool Model Bridge Was Made By a Third Grader

Okay, so he had a lot of help from his dad, but this third grader’s school project—a wooden model of the Steel Bridge in Portland—is totally awesome. It has all the moving parts of the real bridge; both the lower and upper decks can be lifted to make way for boats on the river. The…

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Watch an Airbus A380 Abort a Landing When It’s Incredibly Close to the Ground

Here’s a British Airways Airbus A380 attempting to land at the Vancouver airport. You can see the world’s largest passenger airplane make its final approach and come so, so close to the ground—but then decide to abort and make a go-around instead. It’s crazy impressive to see such a big plane make a maneuver like…

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See the World From a Container Ship in This Surprisingly Lovely Video

Climbing aboard a container ship isn’t exactly the most glamorous way to travel, but when the footage is condensed into a time lapse—oh my, is it stunning. It’s especially neat to see the different layers of the sky dance overhead, but the coolest part is just being around all that blue. It really makes you…

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Trippy Short Film Uses Totally Random Objects to Make Music

I’m not exactly sure what I’m watching, but I’m into it. Musician Broke For Free created music by re-imagining sounds made by the world around us. Rocks can become a drum set; a palm tree is suddenly a synth organ. Mix in a little partying by the pool and jumping back and forth in time,…

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How Extreme Is the Weather on Other Planets in the Universe?

Storms that go on for 400 years. Falling molten glass rain. Temperatures jumping from 500 degrees Celsius to 1200 degrees Celsius in just 6 hours. The weather in our universe is crazy. So the next time it’s a little muggy outside or a bit of rain has ruined your commute, remember that Earth has it…

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This Elevator Moves Both Horizontally and Vertically

Willy Wonka’s glass elevator is real! Well, sort of. In Italy, there’s an elevator that can switch directions and move both horizontally and vertically. Plus, there’s a glass lookout so you can see where you’re going. Tom Scott visited the Ascensore Castello d’Albertis-Montegalletto in Genoa to figure out how the elevator works, and how it…

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This Woodworking Wizard Turns a Single Block of Wood Into a Chain

This is a really neat woodworking project from Matthias Wandel: turning a single piece of wood into a chain just by using power tools. It takes very careful planning and specific carving to transform the block of wood into links on a chain, but Wandel shows us his entire process in detail. The end result…

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Hilarious Short Animation Shows the Random Ways You Can Die in Space

This short animation Death in Space by Thomas Lucas is a collection of two-second scenes that show people dying in space in the most random ways. It’s totally silly, but it’s funny because it pokes fun of the careless curiosity of human nature. Yes, we’re going to jab that creature that might swallow us alive.…

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The Mathematical Explanation for Why You Can’t Catch a Falling Dollar Bill with Your Fingers

Here’s a really interesting mathematical explanation on how the “catch a dollar” trick works. You know the trick: a person holds a bill vertically and says you can keep the bill if you can catch the dollar with your fingers when it drops. You never catch it. It’s really hard! Why? As Numberphile explains, the…

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The Evolution of Wolverine in Movies and TV Shows

Watch These DJs Troll the Heck Out of a Crowd By Screwing with the Drop

Fun Animation Perfectly Captures the Wild World of Eating Chinese Food at a Chinese Restaurant

The Weird Methods Used to Make Brand New Jeans Look Old

Short Documentary Reveals What Happens to a Small Town During the California Drought

Bouncing On a Trampoline With Water Balloons Is the Best Way to Feel Like a Kid Again

Wonderfully Weird Short Film Mixes Together Alfred Hitchcock and Star Wars

Making the Perfect Ice Cube Requires So Much More Than Just Freezing Water

Frenetic Video Reveals the Different Layers of Chaos of Living in a City Like Hong Kong

What It’s Like to Walk Against 100 MPH Winds

Hand Drawing Sheet Music Is Such an Impressive Skill

This Amazingly Cool Model Bridge Was Made By a Third Grader

Watch an Airbus A380 Abort a Landing When It’s Incredibly Close to the Ground

See the World From a Container Ship in This Surprisingly Lovely Video

Trippy Short Film Uses Totally Random Objects to Make Music

How Extreme Is the Weather on Other Planets in the Universe?

This Elevator Moves Both Horizontally and Vertically

This Woodworking Wizard Turns a Single Block of Wood Into a Chain

Hilarious Short Animation Shows the Random Ways You Can Die in Space

The Mathematical Explanation for Why You Can’t Catch a Falling Dollar Bill with Your Fingers

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