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George R. R. Martin’s Guide to New York City Pizza
While promoting his long-awaited new book of the Song of Ice and Fire series entitled Fire and Blood, author George R. R. Martin offered up…
The Incredible Rise of Smooth Jazz in the 1990s
In the third video of her informative mini-series about American Jazz, video producer Estelle Caswell of the Vox series “Earworm” traces the history of smooth…
Watchmaker Takes Apart Two Timepieces to Show the Difference Between Swiss and Japanese Movements
In a timely episode of the Wired series [De]Constructed, New York City watchmaker Ryan Jewell deliberately takes apart two beautiful Carpenter timepieces – one with…
Celebrities Who Appeared on ‘Seinfeld’ as Minor Characters Before They Became Really Famous
While Seinfeld has been off the air now for over 20 years, it’s still fun to look back at which celebrities appeared on the show…
How Hannah-Barbera Utilized Simple Animation to Emphasize the Dialogue, Music and Sound Effects
In an auricular video essay, filmmaker Patrick Sullivan explores how the Hanna-Barbera animation studio historically kept their animation very simple and instead emphasized aural components…
Timelapse Showing the Intricate Process of Turning Plywood Boards Into Beautiful Geodesic Spheres
Woodworker Keith Williams shared a remarkable timelapse showing how he transforms flat plywood boards into beautiful geodesic spheres of different sizes. The large sphere is…
The Keeper of the Last Plant on Earth Braves a Brutal Desert Wasteland Storm to Rescue His Leafy Charge
In the brilliant 3D CGI animated short entitled “Grow”, the elderly keeper of the last plant on earth braves a brutal storm rolling through the…
An Official Alexa Enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass Singing Fish That Was Inspired by a Clever 2016 Hack
Previously we wrote about Brian Kane who cleverly hacked a Big Mouth Billy Bass robotic singing fish with an Amazon Echo so that it answered…
Amazing Adrenaline Fueled FPV Footage From Chase Drones Filming Rally Cars Drifting Around Race Tracks
Expert drone operator Steele Davis and his team at Ethix Ltd. capture amazing, adrenaline fueled FPV (First Person View) footage of high speed rally cars…
Nine Conjoined Remote Controlled Planes Fly as One
Remote control hobbyist Ran D. St. Clair quite ingeniously created the Flex-Plane X-9, a line of nine RC planes attached wingtip-to-wingtip, and successfully set it…