Artist Wearing Paper Mask Sets It On Fire In Bathtub

Artist Wearing Paper Mask Sets It On Fire In Bathtub

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this horror movie and it gave me nightmares. This is a clip of artist and metalworker Ulysses (Oolie) Secrest sitting in the shower wearing a mask he made and setting it on fire. He says the metal frame of the mask took about 10 hours to construct, and another two hours to add the tissue paper. It all burns in a matter of seconds. What performance art! I only wish I’d had a front row seat on the toilet.

Camping Themed Marshmallow Roasting Rube Goldberg Machine

Camping Themed Marshmallow Roasting Rube Goldberg Machine

Because roasting marshmallows is a science best left to overly complicated machines, this is a video of Steve Price demonstrating his camping themed Rube Goldberg machine, which culminates in the roasting of a marshmallow atop a heat gun. I appreciate Steve’s effort to carry the camping theme throughout the entire machine, that shows dedication. Remember those microwaveable s’mores Nabisco used to make — Suddenly S’mores? Commercial HERE. Those were my after school snack jam. I wonder whatever happened to those. They should bring them back, I miss burning my mouth on those molten marshmallows before my parents got home from work.

Skier And Snowboarder Both Land First 2340° Spins (6.5 Rotations)

Skier And Snowboarder Both Land First 2340° Spins (6.5 Rotations)

This is a video from the recent X-Games on Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado of Italian skier Miro Tabanelli and Japanese snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara landing the first 2340° spins. Just like the title says, that’s 6.5 rotations, or TRUE STORY: 5.5 more rotations than I completed before breaking my arm. I still have a metal plate in there. It gets hot and glows if I stand too close to the microwave.

Man Installs Flashlight In Prosthetic Eye

Man Installs Flashlight In Prosthetic Eye

After losing his left eye to cancer, machinist Brian Stanley decided to make lemonade and created a titanium prosthetic with an embedded adjustable color LED flashlight (controlled by waving an RFID ring in front of it) so he can illuminate the darkness wherever he goes (or look like a Terminator). That’s smart, because if there’s one thing I’m afraid of, it’s the dark. Brian, hold my hand. “It’s noon.” Shhhhh, now let’s swing our arms and skip in unison.

Timelapse From INSIDE A Watermelon As It Rots Over 128 Days

Timelapse From INSIDE A Watermelon As It Rots Over 128 Days

WARNING: Possibly triggering if you have trypophobia or a general aversion to nastiness.

Seen here looking like a dentist’s worst nightmare, this is a video from Photo Owl Time Lapse of a look inside a watermelon as it rots over the course of 128 days. Well, technically the watermelon collapses after 34 days, so everything after that was shot from outside as it slowly dissolves into a pool of disgustingness. That said, you pour a bottle of vodka in that mess and I guarantee my buddy Porterhouse Pete would still drink it. “You ever peed a watermelon seed before?” Boy have I — cracked a urinal! The guy I was sharing with ducked for cover!

2.5 Billion Pixel Composite Image Of The Andromeda Galaxy Taken By Hubble Space Telescope

2.5 Billion Pixel Composite Image Of The Andromeda Galaxy Taken By Hubble Space Telescope

To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in service, this is a video detailing a 2.5-billion pixel composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy, stitched together from 600 individual photos take by the telescope over ten years. Absolutely stunning (like you, or if you’re a dude: total stud). The Andromeda Galaxy is the Milky Way galaxy’s nearest galactic neighbor at 2.537 million light years away, and there’s no question one of my idiot friends is going to have a destination wedding there and expect me to pay for my own cryogenic freezing and spacefare.

Zoomable and downloadable versions (along with more info) at the Hubble site HERE, including a 1/4 res printable 992MB version.