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20th Century Fox Recuts the ‘Die Hard’ Trailer Turning the Film Into a Heartwarming Christmas Movie
There’s been a lot of debate about whether or not the classic Bruce Willis action film Die Hard from 1988 is actually considered a Christmas…
Dog Covered in Snow Refuses to Come Inside
A big, furry white dog named Enzo who was sitting on the back porch completely covered in snow, became an immovable object when his human…
A Wonderful Felt Stop Motion Animation Based on the Classic Serbian Children’s Story ‘Hedgehog’s Home’
Filmmaker Eva Cvijanovic has created “Hedgehog’s Home”, a wonderful stop motion animation featuring animals and their surroundings all made out of felt. Cvijanovic wrote and…
Legless Amphibious Robot With Wavy Fins That Skates on Ice, Swims in Water and Walks on Sand and Snow
Pliant Energy Systems in Brooklyn, New York has created the Velox, a legless, amphibious, serpentine robot that propulses itself upon wavy, flexible, ray-like fins that…
Lonely Woman Gets to Be a Mother Again When a Dumpling Comes to Life in the Pixar Short ‘Bao’
In the sweet Pixar animated short “Bao” by filmmaker Domee Shi, a lonely Chinese woman, who suffers from empty-nest syndrome, gets a second chance at…
A Generative Adversarial Network AI That Creates Portraits of Human Faces That Don’t Exist in Real Life
Researchers Terro Karras, Samuli Laine and Timo Aila of NVIDIA have developed a generative adversarial network (GAN) AI that creates realistic human face portraits that…
How To Spot a Dragon Who Is Using an Illusion Spell
How to spot a Dragon using an illusion spell. #dnd #rpg #tabletop pic.twitter.com/cw33WhcAKq — Grand DM (@Grand_DM) January 31, 2018 Dungeon Master Grand DM of…
Small Inverted Fire Tornado Built Inside a Soap Bubble
Dustin Skye, an artist who specializes in bubbles, has quite remarkably built a small inverted fire tornado inside a 66mm soap bubble that somehow doesn’t…
Restored Vintage Footage Showing Different Locations Within Paris From 1896-1900 During La Belle Époque
Filmmaker Guy Jones, who skillfully restores vintage film footage to video quality, has taken separate reels of footage taken by the Lumiére company and put…
A Touching SNL Sketch Showing Two Parents Happily Recalling Christmas Day Despite All the Family Drama
The Saturday Night Live sketch, “Best Christmas Ever”, captures the true spirit of the holiday season with a happy couple (Matt Damon and Cecily Strong)…