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Sound Engineer Who Wasn’t Paid by Band Remixes Their Hardcore Song Into an Electronic Dance Music Tune
When you are a musician, your highest priority, beyond making music, is to make sure that your engineer is paid up and on time. Just…
Incredibly Intricate Cut Paper ‘Lace Newspapers’ by Myriam Dion
In a remarkable feat of X-Acto knife wizardry, Canadian artist Myriam Dion painstakingly cut intricate lace-like designs into newspapers for her series “Lace Newspapers.” Check…
Dupé Store Offers Bottled Air to Shoppers as Part of Australian Campaign to Promote Tap Water
As part of Choose Tap, a campaign to promote tap water over bottled water, Melbourne water corporation Yarra Valley Water created Dupé, a fake company…
Pee-wee Herman Visits ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ & Shares Special Weird Western-y Halloween Treats
“Why don’t you marry it!?” On a special Halloween episode of IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang!, Pee-wee Herman (in a fantastic cowboy getup, no less) visits…
Casey Neistat’s Mad Dash From Paris to New York for a Wedding
The short video “From Paris to New York” by filmmaker Casey Neistat documents his daylong mad dash from Paris to upstate New York to attend…
V-Tex Rapid Cooling Technology Chills a Drink in Less Than a Minute
UK-based Enviro-Cool has developed a rapid cooling technology that chills a drink from room temperature to ice cold in 45 seconds. The technology, called V-Tex,…
Multitrack A Cappella & Instrumental Cover of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing’
London musician Jacob Collier has created a wonderful multitrack a cappella and instrumental cover of the Stevie Wonder song, “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing.”…
Fixing Breaking Bad, A Parody Series That Tries to Improve ‘Breaking Bad’ With Special Effects
Edmond Hawkins, animator and graphic designer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live, has created Fixing Breaking Bad. It’s a parody series…
One Woman’s Year of Breast Cancer Treatment Documented in Fascinating One Minute Time Lapse Video
In 2012, Emily Helck, a writer and artist living in New Jersey, was diagnosed with breast cancer. While she was undergoing treatment, Emily took a…
The Married Kama Sutra: The World’s Least Erotic Sex Manual
Billed as a sequel to the ancient Kama Sutra, The Married Kama Sutra: The World’s Least Erotic Sex Manual is a hilarious and/or depressing illustrated…