Ryan Hunnewell, a broadcast designer for FX Networks, put together a compilation of amusing animated shorts that will serve as intros and commercial break bumpers for the fourth season of the series Cake on FXX and FX on Hulu. Each story portrays both the perils and the pleasures of living…
Three Original MTV VJs Look Back at Some of the Biggest Music Videos From the 1980s
In honor of the 40th anniversary of MTV, the folks at AARP (previously) caught up with three of the channel’s original VJs Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, and Alan Hunter, and asked them to look back at some of the most popular videos during their tenure. First up was “Video Killed…
Remarkable Side by Side Comparison of Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ With ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s ‘Eat It’
Cleveland Rock created a remarkable side-by-side comparison of the respective music videos for the Michael Jackson song “Beat It” and the “Weird Al” Yankovic direct parody “Eat It” in order to see the similarities between the two. It turns out that “Weird Al” remained incredibly faithful to the original choreography…
A Football Crowd Chanting ‘This Is Embarrassing’ Gives the Audio Illusion of Other Possible Phrases
Moneybags73, a vlogger who studies The Mandela Effect (false memory), posted the video of the now infamous audio of a Derby County Football Club fans shouting “That is embarrassing” that Kegan Stiles previously analyzed. Like Stiles, Moneybags73 found that the audio created an illusion of other possible phrases being heard….
Oreo Releases Camouflaged Cookie Packages With Other Known Brand Names to Hide Them in Plain Sight
View this post on Instagram A post shared by OREO (@oreo) Oreo is releasing a limited run of camouflaged packages for their line of Oreo Thins so that the cookies can be hidden in plain sight. This clever campaign replaces the Oreo name on the side of the package with…
Beck Deepfaked As a Young Paul McCartney in Remix of McCartney’s Song ‘Find My Way’
In the music video for the remix of the 2020 Paul McCartney song “Find My Way” from the album McCartney III, a younger version of McCartney joyfully dances through the brightly colored halls of a hotel, delighting everyone in his path. Step back in time and onto the dancefloor While…
The Cercle, An Inventive Concept Bicycle With a Multifunctional Circular Frame for Convenient Camping
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nomadic Cycling Movement (@cercle_the_world) Inventor Bernhard Sobotta created the Cercle, an inventive concept bicycle with a multifunctional circular frame that provides space for personal camping activities. This includes sitting, cooking, working, resting, and sleeping after a day of cycling. The circle…
An Intense Animated Short Imagining a Post-Human World Occupied by Robots Without Any Purpose
“The Desert” is an intense animated short by Australian filmmaker Michael Dockery that imagines a post-human world in which robots without any purpose are left to make do without any specific purpose or task at hand. Some turn to violence, while others bury themselves in endlessly scanning books. It’s only…