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Why people use Facebook to avoid facing real life

Doug Hindson’s short Disconnect gives a powerful answer to an important question:Why do we keep sharing our edited lives and avidly connecting to others through Facebook, Twitter, or Whatsapp all the time? His answer is simple, one that I’m sure you have all thought about before. Deep down we are afraid of the moments when…

Next year, Twitter will let you record, edit, and share videos within the service. This native video feature will give Twitter users a different way to record video alognside its looping-video app Vine, and position Twitter as a rival to older video uploading services like YouTube. I guess it’s only appropriate that Twitter try to…

Vine Now Lets You Upload Old Videos from Your Camera Roll

In typical Twitter fashion, Vine success has largely been attributed to its simplicity and spontaneity. And in typical Twitter fashion, Vine is also evolving in exciting ways. Namely, Vine now lets you turn old videos from your camera roll into six-second snippets of goodness. This is great news! The update will be available for iOS…

The Premier League Is Banning Goals Being Posted to Vine and Twitter

If there’s one thing better than a wonderful goal in soccer, it’s reliving it over, and over, and over, and over. Preferably in slow-mo. Ideally as a looped GIF. And almost certainly sourced from social media. But sadly, the UK’s Premier League is stamping out all such behavior. Speaking to BBC’s Newsbeat, the Premier League’s…

Here Is What A Lightning Storm Looks Like From The Space Station

When the International Space Station passed over Houston on a stormy night last week, astronaut Reid Wiseman captured a video of the lighting flashing beneath the clouds. [via Neatorama]

Vine Loop Counts Are Almost As Fun to Watch As Actual Vines

We’ve all see those best of Vine compilations, but until today, there hasn’t been a way to actually tell which Vines are the most-watched Vines of all. “Loop count” takes care of that. When you’re on the Vine website, the little number in the bottom right corner of a given video will actually update in…

Here’s What a Lighting Storm Looks Like From Space

Astronaut and Vine aficionado Reid Wiseman just posted this video of a thunderstorm over Texas as viewed from the International Space Station in space. Just try and take your eyes off it. I dare you. https://gizmodo.com/iss-astronauts-make-the-best-vines-everyone-else-just-1594343005

ISS Astronauts Make the Best Vines, Everyone Else Just Give Up

Astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this Vine a few days ago from the International Space Station. It’s so beautiful, it makes me want to delete my Vine app. Because I know I’ll never even come close to this beauty. Wiseman’s an excellent tweeter to follow. He’s been on a real photography kick lately, tweeting out absolutely…

The First Vine From Outer Space Packs One Earth Orbit Into Six Seconds

Astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this Vine shot from an observation window on the International Space Station this week. It shows one full orbit of the ISS around planet earth. It’s the first Vine recorded from outer space, and it’s literally out of this world. Reid is following in a great tradition of outer-space social media…

Vine’s Website Turned Into a Massive Searchable Library of Tiny Vids

Vine, Twitter’s six-second looping video app, just pushed another big update to its website, and it looks strangely familiar. It’s got playlists, channels, trending tags, and a “popular now” curated feed. And you no longer have to be a Vine user to use it. In short, it looks a hell of a lot like YouTube,…

Neat cover of Happy made using Vine and multiple iPhones

This guy discovered that one measure of Happy is six seconds, exactly like a Vine clip. He then used Vine to record himself and his friends playing different instruments and singing, creating this perfect symphony using multiple iPhones. I’m getting near my point of saturation with Pharrell William’s Happy, but I still have a few…

Watch the Five Very Best Vines of the Year

Not even a year-and-a-half old, Vines are enjoying their very own category in the Tribeca Film Festival for the second year in a row. And even though last year’s winners were pretty incredible in their own right, this year’s take it to a whole other level. Apparently, an extra year of six-second shooting practice does…

Vine Gets Direct Messaging (Read: Sexting)

Almost six months after Instagram led the march in direct messages, Vine is just now catching up with its own private video messaging service—the biggest update the app has seen yet. At long last, kids can have sex with hot pockets on the internet in private. Like Instagram, you can send Video Messages (or VMs)…

Porn Has Been Banished From Vine

Well folks, the wild west days of Vine are over. The people behind the six-second video app have announced in a blog post their decision to ban “explicit sexual content” from its offerings. No more click-through warning—it’ll all be gone. It’s not that Vine doesn’t like porn! They just don’t want it going on in…

You’ve Got to Watch the Most Popular Vine Compilation of All Time

Today might be the birthday of some computer, but it’s also the first birthday of everyone’s favorite 6-second stupid, funny, stupid-funny video sharing service, Vine. To celebrate, we found the most ridiculously popular Vine compilation ever to supplement Vine’s own official roundup: this 45 million view behemoth. You just can’t not watch the whole thing.…

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…

You Can Officially Browse Your Vine Feed on the Web

Up until now, you’ve been stuck scrolling through your Vine timelinewhile hunched over a tiny smartphone screen. Today, though, Twitter’s video service has officially unveiled a fully functional browser version along with a brand new, spiffy, full-screen TV Mode. Users have been able to register their future Vine URLs for a few months now, but…

I Never Want This Best Vines of 2013 Compilation To End

Picking a favorite Vine is like picking a favorite hilarious, non sequitur grain of sand from an endless beach of weirdness. Fortunately, some blessed soul has stitched together hundreds of six-second masterpieces for your near-endless amusement. Watch it, enjoy it, laugh and cringe at it. And if after sitting though all 23 minutes of madness…

You can reserve your own custom Vine URL now by going here. This probably means web profiles for the six-second video app are coming soon.

Modular Jazz

The musician who goes by mudlogger, aka Ubon Ratchathani of Thailand, has been uploading modular synthesizer experiments. Among them is this piece, “OrLo,” which he describes as “modular jazz.” No doubt it gets that description because the white noise percussion suggests a robotic trap set, and the intransigent pneumatic piping sounds like a European free…