Actor Bryan Cranston (previously) quite amusingly reenacted a couple of key scenes from the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film The Shining in a very clever ad campaign for Mountain Dew Zero Sugar. There’s nothing scary about quenching your thirst forever and ever. Mountain Dew Zero Sugar is as good as the original, maybe even better? In…
The Romantic Fallacy of the ‘Nice Guy’ Trope Explained
The Take (previously) takes a historical look at the romantic fallacy of the “nice guy character and how audience bias has flipped against this particular trope. Hosts Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough examine the physical, psychological and sociological aspects of these romantic but insecure characters who tend to erase the woman of their desire from…
Man Falls to Pieces After Doing a Backflip In High Heels
VFX video editor Shutter Authority quite hilariously remixed footage of Australian gymnast Jiemba Sands doing an incredible backflip in high heels on concrete, giving the trick a rather different ending than the original. High-heels and backflips never end well. Here’s how the effect was made. Here’s Sands’ original flip without effects.
The ‘Friends’ Theme Performed Through the Decades in Distinct Musical Styles From 1920s Through 1990s
With word of a Friends reunion now confirmed with the launch of HBO Max in May 2020, the very talented members of Postmodern Jukebox (previously) invited some of their greatest friends to perform the iconic series theme song “I’ll Be There For You” over the years in the very distinct musical styles from each decade…
An Interactive AI Lyric Generator That Writes Songs
Programmer Peter Ranieri created These Lyrics Do Not Exist, an automatic lyric generator that uses artificial intelligence to write a complete song just by clicking on any of the available topics, genres, and moods. This website generates completely original lyrics for various topics, uses state of the art AI to generate an original chorus and…
Muddy Malamute Hides in Plain Sight at Bath Time
After a day of running around at the beach and jumping into the water, a muddy Malamute named Phil attempted to hide in plain sight when his humans insisted upon a bath. The incredibly strong and stubborn dog became an immovable object as they tried to get him into the tub. Once that task was…
Ohio School Janitor Finds Purse That Was Lost in 1957
In early 2019, North Canton Middle School custodian Chas Pyle discovered a purse that had been lost by a student in 1957 when a piece of metal trim between the student lockers and the wall detached and clattered to the floor. Pyle took his discovery to the administrative offices, where they discovered that it belonged…
The Size of Asteroids Compared to New York City
3D animator Alvaro Gracia Montoya of Metaball Studios created a fascinating, if not slightly terrifying, animation that visually compares the size of exceptional asteroids within our solar system to the tall buildings and soaring skyscrapers of New York City. If any of these hit the Earth it would be devistating. These are the sizes of…