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Legendary Skateboarder Tony Hawk Jumps Over a Moving MINI Cooper S Hardtop
As part of his recent partnership with MINI USA, skateboarding legend Tony Hawk jumped over a moving MINI Cooper S Hardtop as it drove directly…
‘Living Moments’, A Short Film Featuring Revolving Photographs of New York City Streets
“Living Moments” is a short film by filmmaker Paul Trillo, made in conjunction with Nokia and Microsoft, featuring 50 Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphones aligned along…
CineFix Explains How Samurai Films Inspired ‘Star Wars’ in Their New Web Series, ‘Film School’d’
Film School’d is a great new web series created by CineFix that explains interesting and information about films that we love. For their first episode,…
World’s Best Cat Trophy By Archie McPhee
Archie McPhee has created the “World’s Best Cat Trophy”, a wonderful gift for those humans who most assuredly know that their kitty is indeed the…
A Beautiful Time-Lapse Video of the Past Seven Years of Meteor Showers
Thomas O'Brien compiled footage of seven years worth of meteor showers filmed near Aspen, Colorado into a single, beautiful timelapse video.
‘Food’, A Short Stop-Motion Animated Documentary About What People Eat
For “Food,” Southern Californian animator Siqi Song interviewed a number of people about their eating habits, animating their responses with stop-motion food stuff, in a…
Ten Bulldogs on Ten Treadmills
In this delightful video, dan Berber shows how ten of his bulldogs get their exercise on ten treadmills. His other dogs get their exercise the…
Ex-Men: Magneto, Professor X Tries to Humiliate & Fire Magneto (Rob Huebel) During an X-Men Comedy Sketch
“You look like a teenage girl’s tube of lip balm.” – Professor X In a new episode of Ex-Men by comedian Pete Holmes, X-Men leader…
Freestyle Motocross Rider Tom Pages Flips Bike in Air While Remaining Upright
French freestyle motocross (FMX) rider Tom Pages flips his bike 360 degrees off of a quarter pipe while his body remains upright, gets back on…
Little Maddie, A Cthulhu-Themed My Little Pony Designer Figure
Little Maddie (see previous post) is a Cthulhu-themed My Little Pony designed by Bigshot Toyworks as part of a larger 2012 project of animation shorts…