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Fan Edits ‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ Clips to Create Music Video for William Shatner’s Cover of ‘Common People’
Star Trek fan LordRicco666 has edited clips from Star Trek: The Original Series together to create a music video for William Shatner‘s cover version of the song…
Adorable Handmade Food-Themed Corner Bookmarks Made From Felt and Thread
An Italian designer who goes by the name Inspirational Gecko has created an adorable line of corner bookmarks that were made to look like sections…
Don Joyce (1944-2015), Negativland Member and 34 Year Host of ‘Over the Edge’ Radio Show on KPFA Berkeley
Sad news, Don Joyce of the experimental music group Negativland passed away on July 22nd in Oakland, CA of heart failure at age 71. Here’s…
Ingenious Shower Liner With Inflatable Spikes That Force a Person Out of the Shower After 4 Minutes
Concerned about the amount of water being wasted by long showers, British designer Elisabeth Buecher created “Spiky”, a shower liner with inflatable spikes that ingeniously…
Katniss Gets the Resistance to March Together in the Official Trailer for ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2’
In the official trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) gets the resistance to march together against the capital. The conclusion…
tiii.me, An Interactive Site That Instantly Calculates How Much Time Was Spent Watching a Specific Television Show
Designer Alex Cican has created tiii.me, an wonderfully interactive site that instantly calculates how much time a person has spent watching specific television shows. The…
An Animated History of Housing Through the Centuries
“Home Is Where The Heart Is”, the latest animated history video by The Atlantic, takes a look at housing through the centuries, from a painted…
The NASA Kepler Mission Discovers Exoplanet Kepler-452b, An ‘Older Cousin to Earth’
NASA‘s Kepler mission has discovered a new exoplanet named Kepler-452b that a mission analyst has called, “an older, bigger cousin to Earth.” The new exoplanet…
Italian Sculptor Masterfully Carves a Detailed Dragon Head Out of a Watermelon
Italian sculptor Valeriano Fatica demonstrates via a time-lapse video how to masterfully carve a detailed dragon head out of a plain old watermelon. Fatica has…
‘MOMENTUM’, A Concept Movie Trailer About a Hover Car Racer Who Has to Choose Between Family Life and a Shot at Fame
Robert Simons and Peggy Chung of the Los Angeles-based Gadget-bot production company and artist Mark Yang have teamed up to create MOMENTUM, a concept movie…