Awesome Stop-Motion Animation Shows Clothes Fighting Each Other Like an Action Movie
This is just so much damn fun. Daniel Cloud Campos’ Shiny uses clothes and stop-motion animation to stitch together an action movie of sorts with a fight scene that rivals any fight scene from The Matrix. It’s wacky and wild and clever and totally stylish in all the right ways.
There Are No Losers When a Drone Races a McLaren Supercar
To help promote the upcoming World Drone Prix in Dubai next week, the organizers enlisted the help of the local police, who have a McLaren 650s in their garage, to go head-to-head against a high-speed racing drone. It doesn’t matter who won the race, though, because the Tron-like footage is just wonderful.
The Far Cry: Primal Soundtrack Was Made With Skin, Bones, and Dirt
The experience of playing Far Cry: Primal is immersive and visceral, an achievement that can be attributed at least in part to its phenomenal score, which fuses modern recording techniques with ancient instruments.
A Supercut of PG Cursing Shows Insults Don't Have to be Vulgar
Swearing has an important place in our language, but it’s not always the most elegant form of speech. So for producers of family-friendly movies, it’s always difficult to fill the gaps where an adult-size f-bomb would go. This supercut showcases some of the more creative fillers from over the years.
A Side-By-Side Comparison of the Original Movie and the Movie's Remake
It’s really hard to make a good remake of a good movie. And yet Hollywood keeps on trying. Here is a lovely side-by-side comparison of famous movies and their not always so successful remakes. Jaume R. Lloret stitched similar scenes next to each other to show how movies can give off a totally different feel even if…
What Happens When You Put Marshmallows in a Vacuum
Play with your food. That’s the moral of the story from Crazy Russian Hacker. He put marshmallows in one of those vacuum food containers, pumped out the air, and watched the squishy little white puffs balloon into ginormous monsters. It’s all silly fun.
You’re a Genius If You Can Figure Out This Complex In-Browser Cycloid Machine
The other day I saw a video of a guy who was pumped as hell to own a cycloid drawing machine. “What a cool thing!” I thought, “too bad it costs almost a thousands bucks!” This browser replica is free and almost identical, and that’s the bad news.
Racing Down a Stunning Alpine Coaster Reminds Me to Never Grow Up
Life already has too many serious moments, so when the opportunity to enjoy a simple pleasure like a slide presents itself, you just have to take it. It also doesn’t hurt when that slide is a giant mountain coaster in Switzerlandsurrounded by some of the most breathtaking scenery you’ll ever see.
Making a Wooden Switchblade
Don’t ask why anyone would ever make a wooden switchblade just appreciate that we live in a world where a wooden switchblade could be made. John Heisz put together a wooden knife that pops out like any old switchblade and it’s pretty neat. He sands the wooden blade down and grinds it like you would any other knife and…
10 of the Best Plot Twists in Movie History
Spoiler alert. Spoiler freaking alert. If you somehow managed to exist on this very Earth without knowing that there are twist endings in films such as Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back and Fight Club and Planet of the Apes, um, now you know. Here is what CineFix considers 10 of the best twists in movie history. They do…
A Seamlessly Edited Club Scene Featuring Almost Every Movie Character You Can Think Of
Welcome back to Hell’s Club, a place “where all fictional characters meet... outside of all logic.” Which explains why there’s three copies of Jean-Claude Van Damme looking for each other.
Bone Church Is the Actual Most Metal Place on Earth
Get your best leather on, blast some Electric Wizard, and say a quick prayer to Satan, because we’re going to bone church.
How a Weather Satellite Gets Ready to Go to Space
Luckily for Sentinel-3a, there’s no bags to pack, no TSA, and expensive satellites only fly first class.
Watch a Tunnel Boring Machine Shred Open a Giant Hole
All the satisfaction in the world exists through a tunnel boring machine that finally cracks the surface and shreds open the crap that was in its way. Here is the tunnel boring machine Alice digging through a 1.5-mile giant tunnel in New Zealand.
Goodyear's Spherical Concept Tires Are Like Cheat Codes for Driving
In this version of driving in the future, cars use magnetic levitation and roll around on big spheres. Please put me in cryostasis until this actually exists.
It's Impossible to Fall Off the Optimus Prime of Wheelchairs
The iBOT mobility system was a stair-climbing wheelchair that could also turn into a Segway. And sadly, it no longer exists.
All the F1 Constructors' Champions in History
Formula One racing mixes man with machine so much that both are essentially responsible for victory. That’s why F1 gives out awards to both drivers (F1 World Drivers’ Champions) and the constructors of the cars (F1 World Constructors’ Champions). The constructor is basically the automobile maker of the vehicle (think…
Blossoming Flower Is Actually a Gross Turtle Esophagus
Those aren’t the pedals of a particularly exotic flower, they’re the papillae inside a Loggerhead turtle’s throat.
Up-Close Aerial Footage of a B-2 Stealth Bomber Is So Serene
In this rare aerial footage, the coolest aircraft ever created looks even cooler.
10 Old Movies with Special Effects That Have Actually Aged Well and Still Look Good
Movies heavy in visual effects don’t usually age well because they’re often trapped in their own time capsule. Special effects that were supposed to be impressive become cheesy and intimidating effects that were supposed to add to the plot become laughable. Nothing kills the suspension of disbelief faster than bad…
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please leave a comment-- or suggestions, particularly of topics and places you'd like to see covered