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Steve Martin Performs His Rousing Original Banjo Song ‘Office Supplies’ With The Philadelphia Orchestra
The great Steve Martin along with the talented musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra played a truly rousing version of Martin’s original banjo song “Office Supplies”.…
A Simple Yet Ingenious Cardboard Sculpture That Provides the Illusion of Floating Structural Compression
Things Made of Cardboard, who previously built a harmonograph with a robotic arm that draws Lissajous curves with an attached pen, created a simple, but…
A Tiny Orphaned Baby Wombat Adorably Falls Asleep While Her Human Caretaker Rubs Her Pudgy Belly
A tiny orphaned baby wombat named Elsie adorably fell asleep as her adopted human Lindy gave her a nice little rub on her pudgy belly.…
Three Nigerian Boys Meticulously Recreate Big Budget Film Scenes Using Household Items
The Ikorudu Bois, a group of three “future filmmakers” in Lagos, Nigeria quite hilariously and meticulously recreate incredibly big budget scenes from films and music…
A Robotic Spy Sea Turtle Crawls Up Costa Rican Beach to Lay Camera Eggs For Vultures to Steal
A robotic spy sea turtle climbs the beach of Ostional, Costa Rica in order to lay camera eggs for vultures to steal.
Original Episodes of ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ on Disney+
Schoolhouse Rock! was an incredible series of educational animated shorts that were shown during television breaks between 1973 and 1984 and then from 1993 to…
The Stunning Natural Beauty of Iceland Captured in a Short High Definition Documentary Film
Filmmaker Devin Graham (previously) captured the stunning natural beauty of Iceland in a super high-definition documentary film. Graham and crew traveled to different geographical areas…
Exquisitely Detailed Miniature Origami Masks
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Fynn Jackson (@jacksonsorigami) Swedish artist Fynn Jackson makes absolutely gorgeous miniature origami masks using free-folding techniques…
Tiny Insects Freely Express Themselves Within a World of Dangerous Predators in the Animated Short ‘Bugged’
“Bugged” by filmmaker Doug Alberts is a wonderful clay stop-motion animated short about tiny insects that are free to express themselves however they wish. Unfortunately,…
Special Effects Makeup Artist Draws Unique Monsters Onto His Own Hand ‘That Eat the Gloom of Quarantine’
When special effects makeup artist JIRO was temporarily made unemployed due to the countrywide quarantine, he found that he, like others, still needed to be…