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‘Ted 2’, The Sequel to the 2012 Film ‘Ted’ Featuring a Magical Teddy Bear Caught in a Legal Battle for Personhood
Ted 2, the sequel to the 2012 film Ted, features a magical teddy bear voiced by Seth MacFarlane fighting a legal battle to be recognized as…
A Visualization That Charts Pop Culture Billionaire Characters Based on Wealth and Wickedness
Dorkly has created this handy dandy visualization that compares pop culture billionaire characters on the basis of wealth and wickedness. As the chart illustrates, the…
The Pole House, A Breathtaking Vacation Home Perched on a Column High Above a Beach in Australia
photo by Matt Lord The Pole House is a remarkable vacation home perched on a single column some 130 feet above Fairhaven Beach near Melbourne,…
A Video Tour of WesterosCraft, The ‘Minecraft’ World Where ‘Game of Thrones’ Fans Remake the Continent of Westeros
A video tour has been released for WesterosCraft, an incredible Minecraft video game server started by artist Jacob Granberry where a large community of Game…
‘PBS Idea Channel’ Uses the Podcast ‘Serial’ to Explore Objectivity in Journalism
PBS Idea Channel host Mike Rugnetta returns to the popular podcast Serial to explore objectivity in journalism. Specifically, Rugnetta raises the idea that maybe journalism…
‘Issues to Readers’, A Real-Time Feed of Book Titles Borrowed, Returned, & Requested in the British Library
“Issues to Readers” is a film showing ten minutes of a real-time activity feed of the British Library system as patrons borrow, return, and request…
Ittyblox, Miniature 3D-Printed Buildings That Can Be Arranged Into Tiny City Dioramas
Ittyblox is a modular collection of 3D-printed miniature buildings that can be arranged, SimCity-like, into little urban dioramas. The 1:1000 scale buildings fit into base…
‘Stop Telling People About Portland,’ A Film Asking Portlanders to Keep Their Mouths Shut About Oregon’s Hippest City
“Stop Telling People About Portland” is a short film written by Adam Mack that warns residents of Portland, Oregon against sharing how great their city…
‘New Moon’, A Giant Interactive Illuminated Moon Made of 5,500 Light Bulbs
In the interactive sculpture NEW MOON, a giant illuminated globe made of about 5,500 burnt-out light bulbs is suspended in mid-air. Viewers can alter the…
Incredible Footage of Oranges Being Exploded by Fireworks Filmed at 62,000 Frames Per Second
In the latest video by Slow Mo Lab (previously), Taras Kulakov, also known as the “Crazy Russian Hacker”, uses fireworks to explode oranges while filming it at 62,000 frames…