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Sale!
Chris Cultrera shot footage of a flailing inflatable tube man with the word “Sale” vertically printed on it and seamlessly matched it up with the…
A Star Wars Fan in Columbus, Ohio Builds a 17 Foot AT-AT Imperial Walker in His Front Yard For Halloween
In 2017, William Plessinger, an enthusiastic Star Wars fan, constructed a 17 foot All-Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT) Imperial Walker that he placed the front yard…
A Wonderful Collection of Dungeons and Dragons Art That Provides a Visual History of the Iconic Game
Writers Michael Witwer and Kyle Newman have authored Dungeons and Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History, a wonderful collection of the art associated with…
German Shepherd Gently Watches Over Baby Quails
A noble German Shepherd named Thorin very gently sniffed out a bevy of baby quails who were chirping away while crawling around on a comfy…
Artist Creates Wonderfully Elaborate Imaginative Scenes Using a Giant Library of Colorful Books
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Elizardbirth (@elizabeth_sagan) on Aug 31, 2018 at 9:19am PDT Artist Elizabeth Sagan has found a unique…
Chorale Members Create a Thunderstorm With Their Fingertips As Prelude to a Beautiful Cover of ‘Africa’
During a 2013 performance, members of the very talented Angel City Chorale amazingly created the sound of a thunderstorm with their fingertips as prelude to…
A Psychedelic Video That Reacts to the Changing Beat of the Music From Max Cooper’s Song ‘Platonic’
Filmmaker Páraic McGloughlin has created a psychedelic music video using for the Max Cooper song “Platonic” in which a timelapse of a freeway runs freely…
Vector, A Friendly Little Robot That’s Specifically Coded to Use Its Wonderfully Helpful Powers For Good Not Evil
Vector by Anki Home Robotics is a friendly little robot that can do a great many things. Vector can give a fist bump, act as…
An Old Irish Script Based Upon Carved Stone Notches and Spaces That Presented a Big Unicode Problem
In a lexemic episode of “Things You Might Not Know” taken on location at the British Museum, host Tom Scott explains how the medieval Irish…
Researchers for NASA’s ‘Operation IceBridge’ Discover Rare Rectangular Shaped Icebergs in Antarctica
The researchers of the NASA program “Operation IceBridge“, the longest running aerial surveyor of polar ice, captured absolutely stunning photos of two different icebergs with…