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An Elaborate Rube Goldberg Maze That Connects the Fluid Motion of Fidget Spinners With Marbles
The very mechanically talented YouTuber Kaplamino has created “Spinners”, a Rube Goldberg inspired, handmade analog table top pinball maze. The maze creates a number of…
Literal Translation of Every Country Name In the World
The Literal Translation of Country Names is a map created by NeoMam Studios which plots the origins of every country name in the world.
Bill Murray Performs a Dramatic Reading of the Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem ‘Dogs’ at SXSW
#BillMurray reading a poem about a dog is something you never knew you needed…until now. @isleofdogsmovie #SXSW pic.twitter.com/z7GkTsy4rG — Entertainment Weekly (@EW) March 18, 2018…
What Streaming Netflix Movies Would Have Been Like in 1995
Jo Luijten of Squirrel-Monkey has created a great VHS style video that imagines what streaming movies on Netflix would have been like in 1995.
Popular 1990s Actors Audition for Jurassic Park in Hilarious Saturday Night Live Sketch
On Saturday Night Live, hosted by Bill Hader, cast members got into character as popular 1990s actors and threw down some hilarious fake auditions for…
A Slick Rick and Morty Go on an Interdimensional Crime Spree in the Run The Jewels Video ‘Oh Mama’
In the video for the Run The Jewels song “Oh, Mama“, a rather slick Pulp Fiction styled Rick and Morty go on an interdimensional crime…
A Clever Collage Shredding Trick That Uses a Hand Cranked Pasta Machine to Duplicate a Photo
Kensuke Koike demonstrated a very clever collage trick with a hand-cranked pasta machine and a photo of a dog. After sending the photo through the…
A Gorgeous Timelapse Captures the Muddy Beauty of the Colorado River Within the Grand Canyon
Filmmakers Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan of Sun Chaser Pictures, who are collaborating in the ongoing Skyglow project, captured the muddy beauty of the Colorado…
A Hypnotic Visual Recipe for Handmade Crispy Fried Noodles Prepared Outdoors During a Snowfall
Vlogger Li Ziqi who very gracefully demonstrated the traditional Chinese art of making paper from scratch and shared her step-by-step process for truly homemade kimchi,…
A Slow Motion Look at How the Combustion Process Works Inside of a Wankel Rotary Engine
Chicago engineer Matt Mikka of Warped Perception released the first episode of his new series, See Through Rotary Engines, where he gives viewers a super…