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I was going to say my New Year’s resolution (and everyone who’s able) should be to see the Northern Lights in person but I’m not sure seeing them with my own eyes can actually top the electric timelapses and stunning low light photography of them. This one by AD Photography shows the Aurora Borealis from…
Sure, maybe slow motion doesn’t suit every movie, but if you want to be a fun movie, you better throw a couple slow motion shots in. They’re just cool as hell to watch (and make you wish that you could slow motion real life). So here are a few of the best ones, from movies…
8booth is a daredevil whose feats have made him a staple on YouTube and Instagram. He jumps off of tall things. He usually lands in wet things. Here he is almost breaking every bone in his body after leaping off a sharp outcropping above the Pacific. And here he is again jumping into a swimming…
Have you ever wondered why the world’s largest cities sprout up where they sprout up? It has a lot to do with water, natural resources, history, and being in the northern hemisphere. Wendover Productions took a really hard look at why cities are whey they are in the video below and it’s completely fascinating. Some…
In apparent preparation for moving to an Atlantean utopia after nuclear fallout, Matthew Villegas recently went free diving underneath the frozen lake of Morrison Quarry in Quebec and captured the scary adventure on camera. The results are a terrifyingly surreal blue-green adventure. Here he is floating on an underwater ice bed while the silhouette of…
Practically any halfway decent Rube Goldberg machine is worth taking a few moments to watch. Sex toys would’ve been enough to make this one a fairly solid addition to the canon. But the excellent sound effects bring it to life and the moment that the ball-gagged sub is roused from slumber to play his part…
There’s no better way to forget a bad year than a bit of amnesia but since you can’t just order that up these days, the next best thing is to probably dance your butt off to memories of better times. And since there’s no time that people these days like to pretend were the best…
Instead of watching the ball drop this New Year’s Eve, might I suggest an alternative plan that’ll probably be much more fun (if you’re in the right mind space): watch this turning machine shape a metal rod into a funky wave. Just watch it for the rest of 2016. Maybe watch it for all of…
If you want to make a skateboard on the cheap, all you need is 20 rolls of toilet paper and a hydraulic press. A word of warning though, it probably won’t be very good. Simply bundle all the toilet paper together, crush it into board like shape using heavy machinery, and voilá! Skateboard achieved. [H/T…
Tsunamis are very probably the scariest natural disaster out there because they ravage everything in their path. But learning about how big they can get makes tsunamis even scarier. It’s just ridiculous. It’s like skyscraper big, man. You see, the tsunami disasters we know like the 2011 Japan tsunami are classified as just “regular” tsunamis.…
Adding to the near-infinite list of things you saw on the internet that you really shouldn’t try at home, YouTube’s the Hacksmith strapped a couple of jet turbine engines to the back of a snowboard and hit his Canadian snow-covered streets because when you’ve got a jet-powered snowboard, you don’t need a mountain. The Hacksmith,…
Do you want to take a look back at 2016? Yeah, me neither. I’ve blocked out so much of what happened this year that I’m not even sure if it was a memorable year for movies and TV shows. If I squeeze my brain really hard to remember: Spider-Man was fun in Captain America: Civil…
If you’re going to be flying in the air with a jetpack attached to your back, you might as well do it with folks who have strapped themselves standing to the wings of an airplane. Why not, right? One, because they’re probably the only people crazy enough to fly with you like that. And two,…
This year has been pretty fucking horrifying. Dozens of our favorite celebrities died; a gorilla was shot dead in front of children at the zoo; and a former professional wrestling star was elected president. If all of this sounds like the worst nightmare ever, you’re completely right. That’s why it makes perfect sense that 2016…
Why does everyone want to kill Bruce Willis? Because Pierre-Alexandre Chauvat hilariously edited together 53 different movies to make it seem like various characters from movies like The Bourne Ultimatum, Pulp Fiction, Hot Fuzz, Mad Max: Fury Road and more are after one our favorite action heroes. Hell, even Iron Man from The Avengers is…
Usually around the end of the year, I re-watch a few old movies I haven’t seen in a while to remind myself of how awesome they are. I’m not sure why I do this (probably because most new movies aren’t that great, and I get reflective as the year ends, and I get tired of…
Making rope is hard. Making rope the way the Vikings did it over a thousand years ago is even harder. First, you have to find the right tree. Then, you have to strip the bark of the tree when the sap is rising. And then, you soak the bark you just harvested in the sea…
The technicians at Apple’s Genius Bars have been known to turn a blind eye to an iPhone with a cracked screen, or a little bit of water damage. But you’re probably not going to have much luck getting a replacement device after dropping your iPhone in molten aluminum. After taking the initial plunge, this iPhone…
There’s another reason to be thankful for the internet as a viral clip of a man constantly fainting and waking back up while riding a roller coaster is made infinitely more entertaining with the addition of the Microsoft Windows startup and shutdown sound effects. The video also serves as an important reminder for today’s generation…
A group of Australian bricklayers found a clever to way to work smarter, not harder, by turning the top layer of a brick wall into a run of over-sized falling dominoes. You’ll want to watch the video all the way through, because something completely unexpected happens when the last brick topples over. As the bricks…
