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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…
Taking the 6 Line Into the Secret NYC City Hall Loop Subway Station That Was Closed in December 1945
In a subterranean episode of the Fast Company series You Have to See This, host Mark Wilson rides the number 6 subway line several times…
Hilarious Play-by-Play Commentary On a Fictional Fight Between Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees
The Auralnauts, who are very funny and quite prodigious video makers, got into the Halloween spirit with ongoing, play-by-play commentary for a fictional fight taking…
A Whimsical LEGO Vortex Halloween Candy Launcher
The very talented LEGO designer Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks (previously) built a Vortex LEGO Candy Launcher. This brilliant machine, like his previous Halloween machines,…
Incredibly Intricate Portraits Carved Into Pumpkins
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Maniac Pumpkin Carvers ??? (@maniacpumpkins) on Oct 9, 2018 at 12:23pm PDT The very aptly named…
Photographer Creates a Unique Temporary Camera Lens Out of Glacial Ice From Iceland’s Diamond Beach
French filmmaker Mathieu Stern, whose incredible work we’ve previously posted, shares how he created a unique but very temporary camera lens out of 10,000 year…