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An Album of Electronic Music That Creates Animated Music Videos on an Oscilloscope
Jerobeam Fenderson created the album Oscilloscope Music, which uses electronic music to animate music videos on a Tektronix 5103N oscilloscope. Using different types of software,…
Creative Cuban Business Women Sell Flying Pizzas That Are Lowered From the Roof of a Restaurant
Creative Cuban business women Marta Castaeda and Marta del Barrio operate A Mi Manera (My Way), a pizzeria that lowers their food to their customers…
Musician Performs a Hilarious Multi-Track Cover of ‘Yakety’ on Kazoo
Eric of EricsWurld performed a hilarious version of the classic Boots Randolph song “Yakety” (also the theme from Benny Hill) on kazoo with and amazing…
An Amazing Underground Pipeline That Carries Beer From a Bruges, Belgian Brewery to Its Bottling Plant
In May 2016 we wrote about an underground pipeline in Bruges, Belgium that would efficiently transfer beer from the historic Brouwerij De Halve Maan (Half…
An Origami-Inspired Ballistic Shield Designed to Stop Bullets and Protect Law Enforcement
Mechanical engineering professors Larry Howell and Terri Bateman and their colleagues at Brigham Young University have developed an origami-inspired ballistic shield that can be easily…
Traditional Hand Crafted Wooden Puzzle Sculptures With a Brilliantly Modern Pixelated Twist
Taiwanese artist Hsu Tung Han crafts absolutely beautiful wooden sculptures that first appear as traditional but give way to incredible pixelation, as if each piece…
A Snowbound Orange Cat Repeatedly Scrapes at the Window to Get at a Squirrel On the Other Side
In an amusing scene captured by Dianne Mitchell of Rumford, Maine, a rather persistent snowbound orange tabby named Milo who repeatedly scraped at the window…
The Untold Truths of Game of Thrones
Looper has released a video where they unearth some of the untold truths about HBO‘s hit television series, Game of Thrones. They reveal that the…
Jacques Cousteau Talks About the Importance of Protecting the Environment in Lost 1978 Interview
In a fascinating episode of the Blank on Blank animated series The Experimenters, the legendary Jacques Cousteau spoke about his ever-changing search for Atlantis, how…
Amateur Divers Talk Themselves Into or Out of Jumping Off a Ten Meter Diving Tower
Amateur divers who answered an online advertisement talk themselves into or out of jumping off a high dive platform in the short documentary “Ten Meter…