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Jason Momoa Promotes Using Cans Over Plastic While Shaving Off His Iconic Khal Drogo/Aquaman Beard
Actor Jason Momoa has played a number of very well known bearded men. This list includes Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones, Declan Harp in…
Ubisoft is Giving Away ‘Assassin’s Creed Unity’ So Gamers Can Experience the Beauty of Notre Dame
We wrote about the devastating fire at Notre Dame de Paris and the number of ways in which modern technology has led to a number…
How Human Consciousness Can Exist While a Body Is Unconscious Explained in a Beautiful Animation
Animator Diana Gradinaru of the Royal Institution quite elegantly illustrated a lecture on consciousness by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. du Sautoy explains a dream he…
Musical Horse Plays a Mean Piano With His Mouth
In January 2016, a beautiful rescued horse named Murphy gave into his musical urges, sidled up to the electric piano and plunked out a few…
Why a Butt Trumpet Playing Man and Other Unusual Images Appeared in Margins of Medieval Manuscripts
In an enlightening TED-Ed lesson written by Michelle Brown and animated by Wow-How Studios, narrator Adrian Dannatt explains how unusual illustrations, such as a man…
A Bright Red Fiat Coupe Cut Horizontally in Half Is Transformed Into a Working Mobile Chip Shop
Artist Benedetto Bufalino, who is known for his incredible transformative installations, took a bright red Fiat Coupe and cut it horizontally into two pieces. The…
CarLens, A Smartphone App That Uses AI Machine Learning to Instantly Identify Different Cars on the Street
CarLens is a very clever app that connects with a smartphone camera that uses AI machine learning and augmented reality to instantly identify the different…
The Unassuming Alabama Artist Who Hand Forges Authentic Swords and Props For Film and Television
Great Big Story visited with the very talented yet unassuming Kenneth Spivey of Fire and Brimstone Forge in Vestavia Hills, Alabama who learned how to…
Backwards Crawling CG Man Disintegrates In the Wind
CG artist fx_mania created an amazing animation depicting a supine man crawling back from a strong gust of wind as he disintegrates.
How the Wikitongues Project Actively Seeks to Save Endangered Languages From Complete Extinction
Mariano Carranza of Great Big Story accompanied Wikitongues founder Daniel Bögre Udell around different New York City neighborhoods to record speakers of various languages that…