Musician Davidlap, who makes very creative use of his amazing string skills, recreated a number of city sounds with his electric guitar. These sounds include a bell tower, car horn, police sirens, trains, rail crossings, car alarm, helicopter, motorcycle, and an ambulance. Guitar imitation of some sounds you can hear while walking through a city….
What a Plate of Cooked Spaghetti Looks Like When Exposed to a Frigid -12° Fahrenheit Minnesota Winter
As part of his ongoing Minnesota Cold series, native son Nathan Ziegler shows exactly what happens to a plate of prepared spaghetti when it’s subjected to the frigid winter temperature of -12° Fahrenheit. Minnesota, it’s so cold that…a fork full of spaghetti freezes mid-air. Ziegler had previously demonstrated what happens to an egg upon cracking…
Fascinating Timelapses of Decomposing Food
Stock footage company Temponaut Time-Lapse has created a fascinating, but somewhat stomach-churning series of compressed films that show various fruits, vegetables and random items of food as they decompose over a great many days. Included in this series are a Halloween pumpkin, a ripe bunch of tomatoes a bright yellow lemon, a sliced carrot a…
A Seamless Mashup of ‘I Ran (So Far Away)’ by A Flock of Seagulls With an Original Heavy Metal Guitar Riff
Andy Rehfeldt, an incredibly talented musician and producer in Los Angeles, created “A Flock of Metal”, a seamless mashup of the A Flock of Seagulls 1982 song “I Ran (So Far Away)” with an accompanying heavy metal guitar riff of his own composition. Simply brilliant. Music created by me. Vocals found on YouTube. Mixed by…
A Handy Pull-String Fire Starter That Doesn’t Need Matches, Tinder or Kindling to Get a Fire Started
Pull Start Fire is a wonderfully appropriate name for a product that declares exactly what it is, a handy fire starter that is ignited with a simple pull on a red string. The device sparks and after a very short bout of smoke, a reasonable flame arises and easily lights the surrounding logs without the…
A Brooklyn Warehouse That Rents Out Unique Recycled Vintage Electronics As Film and TV Props
The LES Ecology Center in New York City has always been a leader in urban sustainability but in opening their E-Waste Warehouse in Gowanus, Brooklyn, they hit upon genius. The warehouse is stocked with vintage televisions, computers, video games, cameras, clocks, telephones, and radios, all of which has been donated for recycling purposes. Those pieces…
An In-Depth Analysis of Every Marvel Film Movie Poster
James Verdesoto of Indika Entertainment Advertising who very insightfully explained how movie posters communicate through its color schemes to Vanity Fair, offered the same treatment to every one of the wonderful films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Among the themes that Verdesoto tackled are perspective, brand power, use of black space and a modern sense…
Raw Fish Turned Into Stunning Sashimi Art
While teaching his son the basics of sushi preparation, Japanese culinary artist mikyoui00 discovered that he had a talent for creating images out of the raw fish he was using as a teaching aid. Since that time, he has created stunningly ethereal portraits of big-skirted women, Disney characters, dancers, fluffed-feathered birds, dragons, fireworks, angels and…