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Apartments Serve as Giant Camera Obscuras in the Stenop.es Project
Paris-based filmmakers Romain Alary and Antoine Levi turn apartments into giant camera obscuras (pinhole cameras) and create films of the images projected within the rooms…
The Rarest Scientific Elements, Celebrity Signatures, Video Games, Comic Books, and Dogs
Kevin Lieber, also known as Vsauce2, shares facts about the rarest scientific elements, celebrity signatures, video games, comic books, and dogs in this countdown video.
‘Alien’ Facehugger Sculptural Wall Clock
Rockstar Games designer and artist Chris Edwards, also known as Eddie Escher, has created a sculptural wall clock that looks like a Facehugger from Alien.…
How to Make LED Sneakers That Light Up as You Walk
In this video, Becky Stern of Adafruit Industries and artist Phillip Burgess demonstrate how to make colorful LED sneakers that light up as you walk…
Classical Piano Cover of ‘The Imperial March’ From ‘Star Wars’
In 2009, during a faculty recital at the Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Sonta Monica, composer and music professor Richard Grayson performed a…
Cookie Monster Learns About Delayed Gratification From Loki Actor Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston — the actor who played the villain Loki in The Avengers — teaches Cookie Monster of Sesame Street an important lesson about…
Topsy Twitter Search Archives Every Tweet Ever Published
Twitter search service Topsy has archived every tweet ever published, reaching back to the first tweet made by Jack Dorsey in March 2006. According to…
How to Tap A Beer Keg with Detonating Cord
Richard Ryan of RatedRR shows us what happens when you tap a beer keg with the help of some detonating cord. He recorded the resulting…
Street Fighter’s Chun-Li Inserted Into Fail Compilation Videos to Unleash Her Jealous Rage
Chun-Li is Jealous by Parodie de Pub is a funny new web series that inserts Chun-Li, a well-known female character from the Street Fighter…
Star Wars: The Throne Wars, Crossover Illustrations of ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Star Wars’
Philippines-based artist JB Casacop has begun creating “Star Wars: The Throne Wars,” a series of crossover illustrations of Game of Thrones and Star Wars characters.…