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Seasons Three and Four of AMC’s Television Series ‘The Walking Dead’ Retold as an 8-Bit Animated Video Game
CineFix has released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema that retells seasons three and four of AMC‘s hit television series The Walking Dead as an…
Enthusiastic Children Caught Singing the National Anthem Into Spinning Fans at a Walmart
A recent video by Mark Ammann catches some enthusiastic children singing the United States national anthem into spinning fans at a Walmart. When one of…
Beautiful Timelapse Video of Dozens of Brightly Colored Cactus Flowers Blooming and Wilting
Self-proclaimed “one-trick pony” filmmaker EchinopsisFreak has created a compilation of dozens of his stunning echinopsis cactus timelapses, which chart the blooming of beautifully colored flowers…
Broken Lizard Comedy Group Raising Funds to Create ‘Super Troopers 2’, A Sequel to Their 2001 Crime-Comedy Film
The group of comedians and filmmakers from Broken Lizard is back and working towards creating Super Troopers 2, a shenanigan-filled sequel to the original 2001…
An Engaging Retail Exhibit Featuring Illustrations That Animate When Customers Interact With Them
London-based ad agency Dalziel + Pow created an interesting and engaging exhibit for the first Retail Design Expo in the UK that features screen-printed illustrations…
A Series of Examples of Ways Technology Has Improved the Lives of Humans
Host John Green gives a series of examples of ways that technology has improved the lives of human in a recent episode of the Mental…
A Dedicated Delivery Person Gets Pizza to Workers Atop a Cell Tower Using a Rope Pulley System
Britton McClung shot some video of a dedicated food delivery person getting pizza to hungry workers atop a cell tower by using a rope pulley…
Periscope, A Twitter-Owned Live Streaming Video App With Real-Time Commenting
Periscope is a new app that live streams video to Twitter, while integrating real-time notifications and comments from the microblogging service. The app features video…
‘Intention Machines,’ An Upcoming San Francisco Exhibition of Praying Robots Created by Kal Spelletich
Artist Kal Spelletich (previously) has created a series of life-size “praying robots” that mimic various forms of prayer for his upcoming exhibition Intention Machines. The…
Scientists Discover Three Confirmed Reasons Why Some Spiders Don’t Stick to Their Own Webs
In a recent episode of Science Friday, host Flora Lichtman spoke with scientist William Eberhard of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute to try to find…