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An Acoustic Guitar Cover of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Plucked One Note at a Time With a Pair of Chopsticks
With the release of the Freddie Mercury biopic in 2018, performers everywhere have been finding unique ways to cover the titular song. Musician Ralph Jay…
A Clever First Person Stop-Motion Clay Animation About the Consequences of Learning to Sculpt
The visual effects artists of Buttered Side Down have created “Learning to Sculpt”, a very clever stop-motion clay animation that’s told in first person narrative.…
Shoeless Shirtless Florida Man Pursues the Pernicious Porch Pirates Who Stole Packages From His Doorstep
When Thomas Penafiel of Sarasota, Florida was notified by his Nest security camera that someone was on his porch, he took off out of his…
Shiba Inu Politely Waits for Baby to Ring Bell for Treat
Haru, the rather vociferous and adventurous Shiba Inu dog, engaged in an adorable contest in which she and her human counterpart baby Abram would “Ring…
Finn Wolfhard of ‘Stranger Things’ Is a Teenage Rivers Cuomo in Weezer’s Video for Their ‘Take On Me’ Cover
At the end of January 2019, the band Weezer dropped the Teal Album, a surprise compilation album consisting of popular cover songs. One such cover…
Musician Finds Himself in Times of Trouble When The Beatles Vanish From Memory in the Film ‘Yesterday’
In the humorously surreal Danny Boyle film Yesterday, a musician named Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) returns from Paris to his rural English town after an…
Tolkien, A Film About the Author’s Origins and the Fellowship of Friends Who Highly Influenced His Work
The full-length, feature film Tolkien explores the origins of legendary author J.R.R. Tolkien. The author, who lost both his parents by the tender age of…
A Pair of Psychiatrists Try to Out Analyze Each Other in a Hilarious 1990 Clip From ‘A Bit of Fry and Laurie’
In a clip from a "A Bit of Fry & Laurie", a couple of men in a medical exam room (Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie) try to out-analyze each other.
A 3D Printed Yarn Zoetrope With Crocheted Characters That Fill Coffee Cups With Love for Valentine’s Day
Filmmaker Sam Tilson of Super Silly Films built a wonderfully charming, giant 3D printed yarn zoetrope for Valentine’s Day that features a heart spewing volcano…
A Straight Line Transcends the Rigid Borders of Its Geometric Grid in the Surreal Animation ‘Extrapolate’
In the wonderfully surreal animation “Extrapolate” by Dutch artist Johan Rijpma (previously), a hand drawn straight line transcends the rigid boundaries of its geometric grid.…