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Smooth Bass Cover of Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’
Musician Jim Bennett plays a smooth bass cover of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” in this video, and a cleaner version of the track is posted…
Huge Coffee, The Sounds of Coffee Turned into Music
Composer and sound designer Diego Stocco turns the sounds of making coffee into music in the short video, “Huge Coffee.” Stocco specializes in making music…
Slow Motion Bullet Time Footage of Fireworks Exploding Using a GoPro
Dallas-based creative Jeremiah Warren used a ceiling fan and a GoPro 3 high-speed camera to capture amazing slow motion bullet time footage of fireworks as…
Can Video Games Become the Next Great Spectator Sport? by PBS Idea Channel
In this episode of PBS Idea Channel, host Mike Rugnetta contemplates the future of competitive gaming as a popular spectator sport in the United States.…
Minimalist Screen Printed Posters of Classic Cocktails
Classic cocktails like the Moscow Mule and the Old Fashioned are rendered as minimalist screen printed graphics in this cocktail poster series by design duo…
Easily Startled French Cook Gets Scared Over and Over Again
The cameraman repeatedly scares, startles, and alarms a French cook in this video uploaded by Nicolas Husard. Previously, we wrote about another easily startled man…
Disney Princesses Redesigned With More Historically Accurate Clothing
Illustrator Claire Hummel is working on a collection of more historically accurate Disney Princesses wearing actual garb from the culture and time period in which…
Google Maps Street View of the Diagon Alley Set From ‘Harry Potter’
Google has released Street View imagery for the set of Diagon Alley from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in…
Doctor Who the $#@! Drank the Last Beer?!, An Amusing ‘Doctor Who’ Drinking Game
As part of its ongoing Drinking Games For Nerds series, The Warp Zone has created a Doctor Who drinking game called “Doctor Who the $#@!…
Disney Princesses Wielding Knives and Guns in Stockholm Street Art
Street artist Herr Nilsson has created “Dark Princesses,” a collection of traditionally innocent Disney princesses wielding knives and guns in dark alleys and under bridges…