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Just a Second, One Man’s Year in 1 Second Daily Increments
Photographer Kent Frost has created Just a Second, an entire year (2012), one day at a time, in one-second increments.
Red Hot Ball of Nickel Reacts Most Curiously To Water
A red hot ball of nickel is dropped in a cup of water, resulting in a most unexpected reaction, in this demonstration of the Leidenfrost…
53 Terrible Jokes Told in 4 Minutes by Hank Green
Hank Green of the VlogBrothers and EcoGeek compiled a funny four minute video where he quickly tells 53 Terrible Jokes. The list of jokes used…
Life-Size Replica of HAL 9000 Interface From 2001: A Space Odyssey
The HAL 9000 Life-Size Replica by ThinkGeek is an impressively accurate, voice-activated recreation of HAL 9000, the AI computer villain from the 1968 sci-fi film…
New Year’s Resolution
New Year’s Resolution on Bizarro
Giant Fully-Operational LEGO NES Video Game Controller
New York designer and custom LEGO builder Julius von Brunk (aka “Baron von Brunk“) has created an impressive fully-operational 5 foot replication of an original…
Wonderful View of Trombone Playing As Seen From the Perspective of a GoPro Camera Mounted on the Slide
David Finlayson, second trombonist for the New York Philharmonic, recorded a great up close view video of him playing music on his trombone by attaching…
A Dollhouse Built Inside of an Acoustic Guitar
Lorraine Robinson of Fairy Meadow Miniatures in Australia created this beautiful dollhouse inside of an acoustic guitar as a thoughtful birthday gift for daughter Cathryn…
BBC Cameraman Has a Very Close Encounter with a Polar Bear
While filming The Polar Bear Family & Me in Svalbard, Norway, BBC cameraman Gordon Buchanan had a close encounter with a female polar bear .
CLOUDS Interactive Documentary on Digital Art
The CLOUDS project is a documentary by James George and Jonathan Minard about current hacker-art practices. It features interviews with thirty artists, curators, designers, &…