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The Preparation of Breakfast Items Made Out of Wool Captured in a Brilliant Stop-Motion Animation
Animator and felt artist Andrea Love created a brilliant stop-motion animation that showed her preparing a full breakfast of eggs, coffee, and toast – all made out of wool. Love showed the eggs being cooked on a coil-burner stove that turned red when on and back to black when it was turned off, the coffee…
A Digital Remastering of Todd Graham’s Brilliant 1987 Winnie the Pooh Mashup With ‘Apocalypse Now’
In 1987 filmmaker Todd Graham overlaid the soundtrack from the iconic 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film Apocalypse Now with scenes from Winnie the Pooh cartoons to make the brilliant short film “Apocalypse Pooh”. In doing so, he created one of the earliest mashups ever. This odd combination shows how the playful mood of the innocent…
Why Cell Phone Towers Turned Into Fake Trees
In a report for Cheddar, video producer Mika Chance explains the concept of visual pollution, the age-old argument that takes place when new technology (electric lines, trolley cables, wind farms) requires a physical presence within the actual landscape, the history of blocking such technology on the local level and why some believe that visual pollution…
Crowdsourced Dictionary With Very Clever Definitions
HipDict is a brilliant crowdsourced dictionary that invites users to submit their own words and/or phrases with their own definitions. Once the submission is accepted, the word and/or phrase definition becomes part of the dictionary and is elegantly posted to Instagram. The crowdsourced dictionary. Submit your definitions now! The responses range from the very clever…
LEGO Model of a Classic MTA R42 M Subway Train
While riding a New York City nostalgia train that was celebrating 115 years of the subway system, photographer Sandi Bachom met two teenagers who were fascinated with the routes of the buses and trains of the subways throughout the city. One of these boys who goes by the name LEGO MTA Subways had actually recreated…
Incredibly Detailed Miniature Models That Document the Grittier Side of Transitional Philadelphia Neighborhoods
Philadelphia artist Drew Leshko crafts incredibly detailed miniature models and facades that show the grittier side of transitional neighborhoods due to gentrification in his beloved city. Not only does Leshko recreate nostalgic storefronts, but also those items that adorn such businesses such as ice machines, wooden pallets, and garbage dumpsters. Each of these items is…
A Magnificent Smoke Breathing Godzilla Christmas Tree
Australian filmmaker Steven Newland created a magnificent smoke-breathing Godzilla Christmas tree. This “Treezilla” was complete with blinking red eyes, a fantastic roar, and a big mouth with pointy teeth. Newland accomplished this arboreal feat with several trees and fairly common household-ish items. The Godzilla Christmas Tree! Made out of 4x Christmas trees, 10m chicken wire,…