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Merge Records Celebrates Their 25th Year With Four-Day Music Festival in North Carolina
Formed in 1989 by musicians Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan in Durham, North Carolina to distribute records by their band Superchunk, Merge has become one…
‘Vienna Waits For You’, A Horror-Comedy Short About an Apartment That Feeds on the Youth of Its Tenants
Produced by Glaciar Films in Chile, Dominik Hartl directed “Vienna Waits For You” as his thesis for the Film Academy Vienna in 2012. The horror-comedy…
‘Budapest Cityscape’, Time-lapse and Hyperlapse Video of The Hungarian Capital Shot in 4K
Shot by Austin-based filmmaker Joe Simon, “Budapest Cityscape” offers some truly gorgeous shots of the historic Hungarian city, captured on a Panasonic GH4. Using the…
Audio From the 2014 ‘Godzilla’ Reboot Trailer Mashed Up With Footage From the Original 1954 ‘Godzilla’ Film
Fanfilm producer Broad Strokes has mashed up the audio track from the new "Godzilla" trailer with footage from the original 1954 version.
‘Anya’, An Animated Short Created to Benefit Russian Orphanages
Irish production company Brown Bag Films created the computer animated short “Anya” to help benefit the charity To Russia With Love, an organization in Dublin…
A Pictorial History of the Pocket Knife, From 600 BC to Present
Cool Material has a quick and informative graphic history of the pocket knife, beginning with a jackknife discovered in Australia that dates back to around…
Rock Being Thrown at a Television Set in Super Slow Motion
Slow Mo Lab by CrazyRussianHacker created a super slow motion video highlighting what happens when a rock is thrown at a pair of television sets.…
Mapping the Largest Hip-Hop Vocabularies of Rappers
New York-based designer Matt Daniels crunched the numbers on a list of 85 rappers to find which emcee has the largest vocabulary in hip-hop. The…
‘Birds’, A Bizarre CGI Short Film Where Bird Parts Are Replaced With Various Objects
Produced by art studio Zeitguised in Berlin, “Birds” is a strange CGI short film that explores what birds look like with parts replaced by various…
Swingling, A Portable Playground Swing That You Can Take Anywhere
Invented by San Francisco-based designer Kevin Shay, Swingling (formerly UpSwing) is a portable swing you can hang from just about anywhere — anywhere that can…