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Realistic Names for Snack Foods

Smosh has humorously reimagined some names for familiar snack foods and candies, giving each of the packages a much more realistic description of what’s inside.…

GDAO

The Grateful Dead Archive Online

University of California Santa Cruz has announced that the public can now access the Grateful Dead Archive Online (GDAO), a website that holds the massive…

History of the Hashtag

Our friend Chris Messina, who created the hashtag in 2007, gets a nice shoutout in the History of the Hashtag by Paul The Trombonist. how…

Quadrotor Light Show

Sixteen quadrotors performed in an impressive live light show at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase during this year’s Cannes Lions advertising festival.…

Pencil vs Camera by Ben Heine

Pencil vs Camera by Ben Heine

Belgian artist Ben Heine creates delightful combination photo-illustrations he calls Pencil Vs Camera. He recently made an animation based on 18 images from the series.…

Combat Garden Gnomes

More Combat Garden Gnomes

In 2011, we posted about Combat Garden Gnomes, those awesome gun-toting garden gnome statues hand-sculpted by prop replica artist Shawn Thorsson. Now he’s created even…

Stop Motion of a Vintage Auto Engine Rebuild

YouTuber nothinghereok spent 11 months dissassembling, cleaning, and rebuilding a Triumph Spitfire engine, creating this wonderful stop motion animation along the way. via Colossal