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Complaining Dog Sounds Like a Chatty Chewbacca
An adorable dog named Ginsburg really wanted to sit on his human‘s lap but was unable to do so. In response, Ginsburg let out a long vocal complaint that made him sound more like a chatty Chewbacca than the frustrated pooch that he is. This is my dog Ginsburg throwing a temper tantrum because I…
How Four Simple Notes Can Sound So Very Ominous
Vox producer Bridgett Henwood takes a look at the “Deus Irae” (God’s Wrath), four simple notes within the Dorian minor scale that are arranged in such a way to signal death or danger in films. The meter of this phrase also causes an odd discomfort upon hearing, lending it to be interpreted as ominous. As…
A Wonderfully Mesmerizing Behind the Scenes Look at How Faber-Castell Makes Their Iconic Colored Pencils
Faber-Castell produced a wonderful video that offers a behind the scenes look at how their iconic colored pencils are created. The camera captures each step of the process, showing the combination of hand tasks with machine work. This footage, along with the quiet soundtrack, creates a lovely mesmerizing ASMR flow. Producing 2.3 billion pencils a…
A Brilliantly Bizarre Mashup of the Complex Rush Instrumental ‘YYZ’ With the Song ‘Milkshake’ by Kelis
DJ Cummerbund has quite seamlessly stitched together a bizarre but brilliant mashup that combines the musically complex, iconic Rush instrumental “YYZ” with the Kelis R&B pop single “My Milkshake”. While these two songs have nothing whatsoever in common with each other, DJ Cummerbund somehow found a way to make them fit, though he doesn’t seem…
Students Perform Marvel-ous Avengers Themed 2019 Homecoming Dance Routine at an Arizona High School
Talented students on the award-winning PAC dance team at Walden Grove High School in Sahuarita, Arizona, who in 2018 performed a brilliant Harry Potter-themed halftime homecoming show, returned in 2019 showcasing an absolutely heroic Marvel Avengers theme. The routine ingeniously interpreted the storylines of both Avengers:Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame through dance. The PAC Dance…
A Trash Pile Rises Up to Scare People Out of Littering
Mac cleaning software CleanMyMac X created an amusing anti-littering campaign to bring awareness of the problem with people littering in Kiev, Ukraine. It features “Junkman”, a guy dressed up as a pile of trash and who realistically crouches in different places around the city. Whenever passersby would discard their own refuse onto his unseen back,…
Exploring What Lives at the Deepest Depths of the Sea
In a gorgeously animated essay, Munich design house Kurzgesagt (previously) takes a deep dive into what lives at the bottom of the sea. During the long descent, narrator Steve Taylor explains what nautical species can survive at different levels of the ocean, how light impacts survival and what can be found at the very deepest…