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Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag (previously), who creates breathtaking art that combines nostalgic imagery from the artist’s childhood in 1980s Sweden with hovercraft, dinosaurs, robots, and other sci-fi elements, has inspired a new Amazon Prime series Tales From the Loop. The series takes its title from a pair of books written…

Egress Methods is a Twitter bot programmed by aparrish that, every few hours, randomly generates a new way to leave a lover based on the 1975 song “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” by Paul Simon. The algorithm attempts to stay as true to the rhythm and meter of the…

In the music video for his song “Avalanche“, Canadian musician Kalle Mattson and director Philip Sportel cleverly recreated 35 classic album covers, including his own. The list of albums, provided by commenter Efrain Gutiérrez, encompasses a great many familiar names. Here’s the full list for anyone that’s interested: 1 Wilco…

In “Quantum Is Calling” Steven Hawking and Zoe Saldana use quantum physics to rescue Simon Pegg‘s cat Schrödinger from a puzzle that spans space and time. In the new video, Saldana works desperately to solve the puzzle and retrieve Pegg’s cat, revealing a fascinating, newly discovered property of quantum entanglement,…

In a fascinating episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler tells of how the iconic Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody” gained a such huge following in both the United Kingdom and the United States before the record label ever approved its release. Using information written by Karl Smallwood, Whistler…

Pete Simon (a.k.a. “Petey Boy“) has created “Fabled Whiskers,” a stop-motion video where his friend Tom Offer-Westort‘s magnificent beard and hair wildly begins to grow as he reads a magical book full of adventure and wonder. In 2013 we wrote about Simon’s stop-motion video “Ballpoint Barber.” Fans of Pete can…

Comedian Steve Martin recently tweeted a photo of himself with Saturday Night Live (SNL) producer Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd and SNL five time alum Martin Short, Tom Hanks, Chevy Chase, and Paul Simon. With Alec Baldwin and Candice Bergen, the group reunited to ‘induct’ Justin Timberlake into the “Five-Timers Club,”…

The new music video for the Ingrid Michaelson song “Time Machine” features the singer dealing with the ostentatious antics of Rainn Wilson, Donald Faison, Rob Delaney, and more while they try to take over by lip syncing to her vocals. Wilson’s company SoulPancake produced the music video. The video is vaguely reminiscent…