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Extreme Yoga Guru Performs A Serious of Complex Poses While Riding a Speeding Motorcycle
Gugulotu Lachiram, a 40-year farmer from the Khammam District in the Telangana state of India has mastered the incredible art of performing complex yoga poses…
Quotes From the Film ‘Love Actually’ Paired With ‘Peanuts’ Comic Strips Go Together Surprisingly Well
Jen Lewis from BuzzFeed has paired quotes from the film Love Actually with a collection of Peanuts comic strips, and the results go together surprisingly well. The full…
Japanese Man Proposes Marriage With the World’s Largest GPS Drawing
In 2010, Yasushi “Yassan” Takahashi set out on a six-month journey that became the world’s largest GPS drawing, according to Guinness World Records. The artist…
A Collection of Infinitely Looping Animated Videos That Reimagine the Yule Log Holiday Tradition
Yule Log 2.014 is a collection of 70 infinitely looping animated shorts curated by design studio Oddfellows that attempt to reimagine the traditional holiday yule…
Incessantly Barking Chihuahua Terrifies an Apprehensive Great Dane Upon First Meeting
A tiny, incessantly barking chihuahua terrifies an apprehensive Great Dane named Duke so much that he backs up on to the chairs where his humans…
An Honest Movie Trailer for the Film ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’
“Rise of the Dawn of the Start of the Planet of the Apes Origins the Beginning.” Screen Junkies has created an honest movie trailer (previously)…
Designer Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Pizza-Inspired Bedding Set
Designer Claire Manganiello created the Pizza Bed design concept, and has now turned to a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to make the set a reality. Manganiello…
A Musical Mashup of 20 Iconic Television Show Theme Songs Performed in Two Minutes
Brooklyn-based Daniel Koren (previously) recently performed a musical mashup of 20 iconic television show theme songs in two minutes. He did an amazing job of…
A Look at the Robotic Work Force That Helps Fuel Amazon’s Holiday Shipping Fulfillment Warehouses
Amazon is marking the busiest shipping season of the year with a video highlighting its new robot-centric shipping fulfillment centers. The are currently 10 centers…
‘Notes on a Case of Melancholia’, A Whimsical Edward Gorey-Inspired Picture Book About the Grim Reaper
Notes on a Case of Melancholia, Or: A Little Death is a forthcoming picture book by Perry Bible Fellowship cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch in which a…