In January of 1969, the late, great Jimi Hendrix performed at the Konserthuset in Stockholm, Sweden. For a long time, this amazing show was considered to be lost, but was luckily located in 2004 at the Swedish television station SVT just before heading for erasure. Since that time, the footage has been remastered with remarkably…
Clever Packaging That Sorts Bananas According to Ripeness So They Can Be Properly Enjoyed Each Day
The Korean grocery store E-Mart has created a brilliant campaign that encourages people to eat one banana per day (Hana Hanana Banana). In order to make this task easier for the consumer, the grocery cleverly arranged six bananas in various stages of ripeness and packed them in order of that ripeness, so each day the…
An Overjoyed Rescued Pet Duck Gleefully Greets Her Human at the Door When She Gets Home From Work
A really sweet rescued pet muscovy duck named Petunia who lives indoors, excitedly greeted her human Chantel Grant at the door when she came home from work. Upon the sight of Grant, Petunia gleefully began quacking and wagging her tail feathers, seemingly in anticipation of the affection (and food) she’d be receiving in short order….
The Creative Strategies Used to Make Music for Super Nintendo Despite Severe Space Limitations
The very insightful video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter took a nostalgic look at Super Nintendo games of the past, how theme music was written for the games and the very creative strategies employed by composers to work within the restrictive space limitations of just 64kb of RAM. the Super Nintendo…
A Silly Husky Hilariously Pretends to Be a Revving Dirt Bike for His Motorcycle Riding Human
While visiting his parents, welder and motocross rider Greg Vannorden straddled his legs over a silly husky named Brodie and pretended to rev him up like a dirt bike. As if on cue, Brodie hilariously went along with the gag and provided the very accurate soundtrack as a motorcycle the moment Vannorden lovingly grabbed his…
Stunning Photo Series That Captures the Exquisitely Stark Sterile Symmetry of Synchronized Swimming
A post shared by Mária Švarbová (@maria.svarbova) on Jun 30, 2018 at 2:35am PDT For her beautiful ongoing photo series, which began with the book Swimming Pool, photographer Mária Švarbová captured the exquisite symmetry of synchronized swimmers paired with their likenesses as reflected in the stark, still, sterile waters of different pools built in Slovakia…
Imaginative Man Builds a Video Game Inspired Folding Shed Door That Opens Geometrically
Warwick Turvey, a very handy logistics professional who lives in Mackay, Queensland, Australia built a really wonderful shed door that folds open and close in a precise geometric manner. In an interview with Caters, Turvey stated that the inspiration for this unique door was “inspired by a combination of video game doors and unique artwork”….
How the English Language Would Sound If Each Vowel Had a Single Consistent Phonetic Voicing
American composer, writer, director, and filmmaker Aaron Alon explains the difficulty of learning the English language, specifically in regard to the vastly different ways vowels are pronounced. To show what it would be like if each vowel had a single phonetic voicing, Alon recited the various sounds of a vowel, then chose the first pronunciation…