CarLens is a very clever app that connects with a smartphone camera that uses AI machine learning and augmented reality to instantly identify the different cars. This is particularly handy for those who enjoy figuring out the make and model of autos they see on the street. As Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover points out,…
The Unassuming Alabama Artist Who Hand Forges Authentic Swords and Props For Film and Television
Great Big Story visited with the very talented yet unassuming Kenneth Spivey of Fire and Brimstone Forge in Vestavia Hills, Alabama who learned how to forge swords and all of the closely related crafts associated with blacksmithing so that he could realize his dream of being a propmaster for film and television. The idea dawned…
Backwards Crawling CG Man Disintegrates In the Wind
CG artist fx_mania created an absolutely amazing animation depicting a supine man crawling back from a strong incoming gust of wind. As he makes his way backward, pieces of his body break off and disintegrate into the wind until there’s nothing left of him at all. Street wind experiment vol 2.0 Here’s volume 1.0. While…
How the Wikitongues Project Actively Seeks to Save Endangered Languages From Complete Extinction
Mariano Carranza of Great Big Story accompanied Wikitongues founder Daniel Bögre Udell around different New York City neighborhoods to record speakers of various languages that need rescue complete extinction. While Urdell is based in New York, the project itself stretches around the world with hundreds of volunteers who are helping to revive the languages of…
Jason Alexander Recalls the Very Moment He Realized That George Costanza Was Actually Larry David
In a 2013 interview with the Television Academy Foundation, actor/director Jason Alexander talks about how he interpreted the character of George Costanza when Seinfeld first started. After getting more familiar with the role, with the show and with the show’s creator, Alexander happened upon a conclusion that took him by surprise. Remembering how he felt…
Game of Thrones Creators Talk About How They Adapted George R. R. Martin’s Books for Television
Game of Thrones writer Bryan Cogman and creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss talk about how the series came about, what they envisioned for the series and how they went about adapting George R. R. Martin‘s series of books into the enormously popular, culturally significant show it has become. Game of Thrones is an American…
Gorgeous Animation on the Mystical Journey of Jimmy Page’s 1959 Telecaster Narrated by Page Himself
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin, guitar legend Jimmy Page narrates a gorgeous animation by Nexus Studios that shares the mystical journey of his iconic 1959 Fender Telecaster. In 1966, Page’s bandmate, friend and guitar legend Jeff Beck of The Yardbirds gave the guitar to Page as a thank you gift for…
Dancers on Treadmills Gracefully Perform Synchronized En Pointe Ballet Routine While Working Out at the Gym
While working out at the gym, a pair of talented dancers on side-by-side treadmills performed a really graceful en pointe ballet routine in perfect synchronization with one another. My friend and I were at the gym and we thought it would be fun to do a treadmill synchronized pointe shoe video dance. A fun spin…