The Auralnauts, who are very funny and quite prodigious video makers, got into the Halloween spirit with ongoing, play-by-play commentary for a fictional fight taking place between A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Freddy Krueger and Friday the 13th‘s Jason Voorhees. Needless to say, it doesn’t end pretty. Does a mindless immortal killing machine have bad…
A Whimsical LEGO Vortex Halloween Candy Launcher
The very talented LEGO designer Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks built a Vortex LEGO Candy Launcher. This brilliant machine, like his previous Halloween machines, was created to assist him with tossing out sweets to kids. Allemann built this whirling, whimsical machine out of the LEGO 17101 BOOST Creative Toolbox. This candy machine spins up little…
Incredibly Intricate Portraits Carved Into Pumpkins
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Maniac Pumpkin Carvers ??? (@maniacpumpkins) on Oct 9, 2018 at 12:23pm PDT The very aptly named Maniac Pumpkin Carvers in Brooklyn, New York create incredibly intricate and highly realistic portraits into orange gourds all year round. The company also offers custom carving, branding, live carving events…
Photographer Creates a Unique Temporary Camera Lens Out of Glacial Ice From Iceland’s Diamond Beach
French filmmaker Mathieu Stern, whose incredible work we’ve previously posted, shares how he created a unique but very temporary camera lens out of 10,000 year old glacial ice found upon the black sands of Diamond Beach in the South Region of Iceland. Stern prepared for this project with a 3D printed lens case and a…
The Incredible Technology Behind the Apollo 11 Lunar Mission That Took the First Astronauts to the Moon
In a nostalgic video essay, Vox producer Coleman Lowndes revisits the awesome technology of the Saturn V rocket and Apollo 11 spacecraft, which took the very first astronauts to the moon. Lowndes particularly notes how the enormous rocket separated into segments, each detaching itself after accomplishing the specific task for which the section was made….
Why the Symmetry of Beauty Makes Humans So Happy
In a equipoised animation, Munich design house Kurzgesagt explains, in their consistently highly informative manner, the concept of beauty and what makes humans perceive something as beautiful, even if they can’t necessarily define it upon sight. The perception of beauty is often associated with the recognition of symmetrical shapes, patterns and features. Once the human…
An Extremely Elaborate Home Halloween Light Show Synchronized to a Medley of Michael Jackson Songs
Tracy, California music teacher Tom BetGeorge and the team at Magical Light Shows decorated BetGeorg’s house with tens of thousands LED lights to put on his annual spooktacular Halloween show. The theme for Halloween 2018 is the “Best of Michael Jackson” and features a keyboard that plays real notes. Still some of the best music…
A Beautiful Waterfall Flows Upwards in Reverse Due to High Winds in the Amboli Valley of Maharashtra, India
Photographer and waterfall enthusiast Abhinandan Kavale captured intense footage of a gorgeous cascade at the geothermal Kavalshet Point in Amboli, Maharashtra. The fall was wasn’t falling as much as it was blowing upwards due to the intense winds that often blow through the valley. Just as a waterfalls can fail to fall during high winds,…