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A Friendly Ostrich in Arizona Copies His Beloved Caretaker’s Dance From the Other Side of the Gate
A very friendly ostrich named Cascabel at the Out of Africa Park in Cottonwood, Arizona, very happily greeted his caretaker Courtney Palmer and copied every…
20,000 Dominoes Topple Over in a Display Designed to Look Like Popular Mobile Games
The Austrian Domino Art group built part two of their gaming app series where they topple over 20,000 dominoes in a display designed to look…
An Intelligently Designed Measuring Cup That Uses Math to Apportion Small Amounts More Precisely
Joshua Redstone, an engineer who worked for both Google and Facebook and enjoys baking, has created the Euclid, an intelligently redesigned measuring cup that precisely…
An Amazing Animation That Portrays the Life of Queen Elizabeth II in Over 80 Years of Banknotes
Queen Elizabeth’s life in banknotes Rocto posted a really clever animation that captures over 80 years of Queen Elizabeth II‘s image during various stages of…
Octopod, A Beautiful Eight-Legged Robotic Clock Inspired by Cephalopods
A post shared by MB&F (@mbandf) on Sep 19, 2017 at 4:57am PDT The creatives at MB&F collaborated with the clock makers at L’Epée 1839…
Delicious CMYK Cake Print Ad Showcases Why ‘CMY Is the New Black’
Arnold Bakshayev and Alona Massasa, students from Israel’s Habetzefer Advertising School, created a delicious looking CMYK cake print ad that showcases why “CMY Is the…
Tiny Baby Goats Wearing Tiny Cowboy Hats Romp Around in the Yard of an Austin, Texas Yoga Studio
An adorable herd of tiny two week old baby Nigerian dwarf goats clad in tiny cowboy hats hilariously romped around the yard of NAAAH-Maste Goat…
Will Byers Is the Key to Saving Hawkins in the Final Season 2 Trailer for Stranger Things
Netflix released the final trailer for their upcoming second season of Stranger Things that is packed full of action, panic, and supremely strange happenings. The…
Why French Copyright Law Allows the Eiffel Tower to Be Photographed During the Day But Not at Night
The animated series Half as Interesting explains why it’s okay to take pictures of the Eiffel Tower during the day, but definitely not at night.…
Barnaby Dixon Uses a GoPro Camera to Put His Face Onto His Bug Puppet and Sings a Sweet Serenade
The very talented British puppeteer Barnaby Dixon cleverly employed a smartphone and GoPro camera to put his own face onto his Bug puppet and performed…