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Money Design Concepts for Modern Times
by Stephen Barnwell by Paul Mason by Posy Simmonds by Alasdair Gray by Audrey Niffenegger by Will Self and Martin Rowson The Guardian invited writers…
How It’s Made: Candy Canes Show Goes Inside a Candy Cane Factory
In 2008, Discovery’s Science Channel created the fascinating segment How It’s Made: Candy Canes for its How It’s Made television show. The segment not…
African Bullfrog Playing Ant Smasher Touchscreen Game
YouTuber KoreanFrogMania challenged a pet African Bullfrog to a game of Ant Smasher on their smartphone, but got a nasty surprise instead…who knew frogs could…
The Modern Woman, A Day in the Life of a 3-Year-Old “Woman”
In The Modern Woman, 3-year-old Lua McDowell doesn’t play any ordinary girl, she plays a “modern woman”, one that puts on makeup, drives her VW…
Building a Gingerbread House on My Drunk Kitchen
Hannah Hart shows you how to build a Gingerbread House on a special holiday episode of My Drunk Kitchen.
Choose Your Own Animated Singing Christmas Hedgehogs
Ant Blades of Birdbox Studio has created a cute interactive series of animated videos called Singing Christmas Hedgehogs. To play, you choose your own Christmas…
Kim Jong-il Dear Leader Centaur Oil Painting
The Dear Leader Centaur Oil Painting is what happens when the image of (recently deceased) “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il is combined with the hindquarters of…
Brilliant Interactive Dance-Along Music Video for Arcade Fire’s Sprawl II
This wonderful music video for Arcade Fire’s “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” is available as a traditional video, or as an interactive video. The interactive…
Mother’s Brewing Company Spoofs Laverne & Shirley TV Show Opening
In Mother’s Brewing – Doing It Our Way, Mother’s Brewing Company founder Jeff Schrag and “marketing guy” Jeremy Wicks perform a brilliant spoof of the…
MetroChange, A Kiosk for Donating Leftover MetroCard Funds to Charity
MetroChange is a proposal for a kiosk that would allow New York MTA riders to donate leftover funds on their MetroCards to charity (video). MetroChange…