This is a video of the young knight quested with running the dragon swing attraction at a renaissance faire demonstrating his fearlessness by performing death-defying tricks with the dragon. Namely, not getting beat in the head by a claw and dragged through the mud. Such bravery. Who knows, with skills like these he may even find himself running the axe-throwing booth next year. Me? I was recently fired from the turkey leg stall for trying to brew my own magic potions in the smoker. The king wanted me beheaded! Although I suspect catching me skinny-dipping with the queen in the castle moat (technically the retention pond of a nearby subdivision) may have had something to do with that.

This is some home security camera footage of a man pretreating his new deck supports for termites when he steps on one of the loose boards he’s using for footing and it smacks him in the face cartoon style, sending him into the railing and falling between the beams. That is unfortunate. At least for him, for me it was just what I needed. Haha, sucker, at least I’ve never done that before.

This is a video of Balu and human Wolfgang Lauenburger setting the Guinness World Record for “most skips by a dog on hind legs in 30 seconds,” with a respectable quicker-than-one-a-second 32 jumps. Not too shabby. Wolfgang says he and Balu trained hard for the record, which I believe, because dogs, by nature, are not jump ropers. Trust me, I have three of them, and they closest they’ve gotten is chewing the handles off my jump rope. And don’t even get me started on the yoga mats.

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This is an appropriately trippy AI generated music video for the entirety of Pink Floyd’s 1973 The Dark Side Of The Moon, created by 12 different artists, each in charge of visualizing a different song using their own art as input. It’s, uh, it’s definitely a trip. Maybe not as wild a trip as watching the individual noodles in your macaroni salad trying to climb off your plate and leap into the grass at a cookout while do your best to play it cool because your girlfriend doesn’t know you’re tripping, but for a music video it’s up there. Plus way easier to explain on the ride home than a pocketful of rogue macaroni salad.

Artists and Timecode:

itspoidaman – 0:00 (Speak to Me)
johannezz – 1:15 (Breathe)
Ryunuck & Shellworld – 3:59 (On the Run)
ronnykhalil- 7:33 (Time Part 1)
Hueman Instrument – 10:03 (Time Part 2)
PixelsAndSynths – 14:38 (The Great Gig in the Sky)
Artificial_Invader – 19:23 (Money Part 1)
AI Manifest – 23:11 (Money P)
Visual Frisson – 25:26 (Us and Them Part 1)
SynthGarden – 30:07 (Us and Them Part 2)
Hueman Instrument – 33:36 (Any Colour You Like)
Kitchen – 37:01 (Brain Damage)
Medjed – 40:52 (Eclipse)

Floppy disks: they’re a thing of the past. And space: it’s the future. And, okay, my past, but I did grow up there. But enough about how stars are born, these are a couple enhanced videos of astronaut William Shepard ejecting floppy disks in space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery way back in 1990. Man, floppy disks — those bring back memories. Not very clear ones though. Honestly, even the beginning of this week is a little hazy. One thing is for certain though: death, and taxes. I guess that’s actually two things, and I have plans to avoid both.

Nature: it’s all around us. And that’s a good thing, unless you live in Australia where nature is hellbent on killing you. This is a video of building maintenance man on the roof the building he maintains investigating a great horned owl that’s been spotted on the premises. He gets really excited about it. What a beautiful creature. “It looks like it has googly eyes.” The man or the owl? “Both.” THEY’RE MAGNIFICENT.