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I’m totally safe and sitting in front of a computer screen, and yet I’m sweating because watching this guy pull his crazy jumps from buildings is just not okay. This one is especially brutal because I really didn’t expect him to end up where he landed. He starts on the roof of the building 129…
Sure, people build lots of different things with Lego, but those are just toys or fun models. To make an actual working skateboard that will be outfitted with trucks and wheels to support the weight of an adult human? To hold up against the punishment of skaters? You need a wildly creative woodworker like Peter…
Don’t smoke. It might look a teensy bit cool, but it’s a dumb thing to start, a filthy habit to quit, and terrible for you and everything around you. You know what’s way cooler to do with cigarettes than smoking? Lighting them up and seeing them burn on their own in macro. Check out these…
There’s not much fame that comes with being a championship ping pong player. You don’t get shoe deals, ticker tape parades, or cameos in movies. You do, however, get to post awesome trick shot compilation videos to YouTube, leaving the internet completely jealous of your skills with a paddle. These seemingly impossible shots were all…
The hefty, eight-armed Freefly Alta drone is capable of carrying a lot of weight. So in addition to a camera, the folks at YouTube’s rctestflight channel put 1,000-watts of LEDs on board, and a smoke machine, unintentionally creating the perfect way to fake an alien encounter, or a UFO abduction. [YouTube via Likecool]
Who needs a set of fully-tunable miniature drums? A guy who does most of his drumming with a bearded, bandana-wearing puppet. Ricky Syers may not be a household name, but you might recognize the video of his puppet Chops expertly bashing his way through Rush’s “Tom Sawyer.” Back then Chops’ kit was repurposed aluminum cans,…
The only thing better than finding a short Starbucks line while navigating an airport is finding a moving sidewalk that can quickly whisk you closer to your gate. But imagine if all the floors in an airport were replaced with Intralox’s amazing omnidirectional conveyor belts? They could deliver you straight from the check-in kiosk to…
What’s it gonna be press? Can you do it? And the press said, “fuck yeah!” Technically, the press blasts a hole through the pack of cards and smooshes a circular section into a brittle little hockey puck. We’ll give the press a win for that. But that’s not all this latest batch of pressing stuff…
Claudio Caluori is a hilarious mountain biker who’s scared of heights. So it’s pretty perfect to force him ride a wild course filled with narrow ridges, scary slopes, and insane jumps. It’s even better because you get to hear Caluori narrate the entire ride and basically freak the hell out while he’s going at it.…
Pixar animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj made this short film Borrowed Time over the past 5 years, and it’s fantastic. The story is set up as a classic Western but then makes a pretty heavy turn and becomes a story about forgiveness. Basically, it’s a story made for adults. Hamou-Lhadj worked as a character…
When it first came out, Teddy Ruxpin was an expensive toy. And yet, kids lucky enough to have one but curious how he worked wouldn’t dare incur the wrath of their parents by tearing Teddy open. The folks at YouTube’s What’s Inside?, however, happily sliced the toy open to see what makes Ruxpin tick. There…
Do you have zero skills in the kitchen? There’s nothing to be ashamed of, but it doesn’t hurt to have at least one dish you know how to make. But don’t waste your time with grilled cheese, pasta, or soups when a beer can koozie made from pizza is useful on so many levels. YouTube’s…
Harrowing new video shows a large great white shark lunging for a chunk of tuna—and then wriggling its way inside a shark-proof cage with a diver inside. Thankfully no one was hurt, but the video is as horrifying as it sounds. The incident happened near Guadalupe Island off the west coast of Mexico. Shark watchers…
Between climate change, elections and the persistent threat of another Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, modern life can be full of stress. Throughout it all, however, gentle natural processes soldier obliviously on, including the lifecycle of the humble puffball. Once mature, the spherical fungi will puff at the slightest impact, emitting a cloud of dust-like spores.…
When elements combust, they create wild and different-looking compounds. After watching this video, you’re going to want to torch the entire periodic table. Sodium, which starts out as a silver-white metal, first turns into sodium oxide, which is like a white powder, then turns into molten sodium, which is hot metal goo, and then turns…
For years toilet paper has assumed it’s seen the worst that a bathroom user could possibly throw at it. But that all changes today now that an entire roll of has been doused in sulfuric acid which first turns the paper to a disgusting molten yellow ooze, before seemingly burning it to a crisp. The…
I always assumed that inspecting film would be a thankless job done out of sight in a back room and, well, it kind of is, but Michael Rousselet makes it look way more fun than it should be. K. William McMillan showed Rousselet doing his inspection thing on film reels at the Norris Cinema Theater…
When you’re caught in a downpour, you never stop to think about the scale of the storm that’s soaking you, you’re just trying to stay dry. But through Mike Olbinski’s timelapse camera, we get a rare glimpse of raging storms from a safe distance, revealing their massive scale, but also their limited reach as they…
I think it’s safe to assume that if you lose something while flying in the air on a parachute, you probably shouldn’t expect to ever get it back. Especially while you’re still in the freaking air. But watch as this canopy pilot loses his shoe on a jump and somehow retrieves it in mid-air. It’s…
It’s not a secret that Stanley Kubrick first developed A.I. Artificial Intelligence and was once slated to direct the film before he passed away. Or that Kubrick put Steven Spielberg on the project, and that Kubrick and Spielberg were good friends. So it really shouldn’t be a surprise that Kubrick’s imprint is all over the…
