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Ad Campaign Touts the Beauty of Handcrafted Japanese Furniture With Pieces Made Just for Cats
In an adorable ad campaign promoting the beauty and quality of handcrafted Japanese furniture, the city of Okawa in the Fukuoka Prefecture commissioned two local…
A Look at the History of Scary Clowns
Vulture took a look at the history of scary clowns. They spoke with writer and clown expert Benjamin Radford to find out exactly what happened…
A Stunning Digital Alphabet Featuring Electronics as Letters That Each Represent a Popular Brand
Rio de Janeiro motion and graphic designer Vinicius Araújo (a.k.a. “VA Designer“) has created 36days Electronics, a stunning digital alphabet featuring electronics as letters that…
The Incredibly Creative Canine Costumes of the 27th Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade
A post shared by Sprout (@brussels.sprout) on Oct 21, 2017 at 3:19pm PDT On Saturday, October 21, 2017, the canines of New York City donned…
The Cast of Bob’s Burgers Improvises a Hilarious Mini-Episode About How Babies Are Made
The cast of Bob’s Burgers sat down with Vulture to improvise a special little mini-episode where Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda Belcher (John Roberts)…
Footage of Unconventional Domino Tricks Edited Together to Make One Continuous Chain Reaction
Domino artist Lily Hevesh (a.k.a. “Hevesh5“) teamed up with the brilliant Kaplamino to create a domino “screenlink” video where they capture footage of all sorts…
Competitive Eater Matt Stonie Devours 100 Slices of White Bread in 39 Minutes
Competitive eater Matt “Megatoad” Stonie managed to stomach a new challenge where he devoured 100 slices of white bread in 39 minutes. A post shared…
A Spooky Carousel Piescraper Inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas
In her latest tutorial video, the awesome Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome demonstrated how to make a spooky one-of-a-kind carousel “piescraper” based on…
Determined Man Quickly Learns How to Throw Axe
Determined Scottish YouTuber Mike Boyd of the Learn Quick series challenged himself to quickly learn how to throw an axe. He didn’t stop until he…
Project Cloak, Adobe’s Content Aware Technology Allowing Users to Easily Remove Objects From Video
Geoff Oxholm, a research engineer in the Creative Intelligence Lab at Adobe Research in San Francisco, took the stage at Adobe MAX 2017 to give…