Business Insider producer Abby Narishkin visited with Customs and Border Patrol agents who are tasked with locating and destroying illicit items that are brought into the United States through John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, New York. While drugs are always a priority, these officers actually see far more contraband in the form of agricultural…
A Surprisingly Cheerful Jazz Ukulele and Dobro Cover of The Beatles’ Song ‘Eleanor Rigby’
Musicians Jake Shimabukuro (ukulele) and Jerry Douglas (slide guitar) performed a surprisingly cheerful and jazzy cover of the fairly somber song “Eleanor Rigby” by The Beatles. This track is featured on Shimabukuro’s latest album entitled The Greatest Day. Following this performance, Shimabukuro showed how to play the song on ukulele in a video for Reverb….
How Pixar Updated the Animation of Their ‘Toy Story 4’ Characters to Appear So Detailed and Realistic
Insider producer Meredith Geaghan-Breiner took a gigantic deep dive into the process employed by Pixar that led to the latest updated iterations of Toy Story characters being more detailed and realistic than ever before. Geaghan-Breiner explored and explained the entire production process behind Toy Story 4, which includes how the characters were designed, modeled and…
Japanese Railway Hosts World’s First Cat Café on a Moving Train With Adoptable Kittens Riding on Board
In an effort to raise awareness about stray cats in the area, the Yoro Railway LTD partnered with the Kitten Cafe Sanctuary in Gifu, Japan to create the world’s first rolling cat café on a train. The event took place on September 12, 2017, and passengers traveling between the Ogaki and Ikeno Stations were able…
Animated Conan O’Brien Enters the Comic-Con Stage With a ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Cold Open
While hosting a live show at Comic-Con International 2019, the very funny Conan O’Brien, with help from the talented animation of State Design, created an absolutely brilliant animated Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse themed cold open for his stage entrance. The animation quite closely follows the origin story, but instead of getting bitten by a spider,…
Photographer Captures the Prismatic Colors of the Sun Filtering Through a Hummingbird’s Wings
Photographer Christian Spencer captured a stunning series of photos featuring a black and white Jacobin hummingbird with outstretched wings crossing in front of the sun. The bird’s delicate feathers filtered and separated out the spectral colors, making the wings themselves appear beautifully prismatic. Luckily, the effect can be seen through a camera lens as it…
Stunning Visual Poem to Yemeni-Born Brooklyn-Raised Muslim Hotel Worker Who Saved Many Lives on 9/11
“Abdu – A 9/11 Story” is a stunning visual poem by filmmaker Paul Stone (previously) about Abdu Malahi, a Yemeni-born, Brooklyn-raised Muslim who worked as an audio/visual technician at the Marriot Hotel World Trade Center who died on 9/11. Malahi started out the day in a good mood, as he was applying for visas to…
Incredibly Realistic Cat and Dog Sculptures Meticulously Carved Out of Tree Trunks
Gerard Mas, the talented Spanish artist who created a humorous series of Renaissance-style sculpted busts reimagined with a modern twist, has also sculpted very lifelike replications of cats and dogs. This series includes a blue-eyed Siamese cat, a dignified German Shepherd, a worried little French bulldog, and an adorable mini-pinscher, each meticulously carved out of…