Guy Makes PVC Instrument That Sounds Like Popping Your Finger Out The Top Of A Bottle

Guy Makes PVC Instrument That Sounds Like Popping Your Finger Out The Top Of A Bottle

Music: it’s all around us. Except in an airport bathroom, those are just farts. This is a video of musician Nicolas Bras building a four and a half octave PVC percussion instrument to recreate the sound of popping a finger out of your cheek or the top of a bottle, so he can play Hot Butter’s recording of ‘Popcorn’ the way it was clearly intended to be. Unfortunately, it takes so long to stick a finger in a pipe and pop it to produce a note that the song has to be edited together from pieces instead of doing it live, although there’s no doubt in my mind Bill O’Reilly could have gotten pissed and done it.

Keep going for the video (song begins at 4:23), followed by the original for reference.

Guy Extinguishes Candle With Throwing Knife From 7 Meters

Guy Extinguishes Candle With Throwing Knife From 7 Meters

Because trying hard and believing in yourself is the name of the game, this is a video of a knife-thrower/vaper exhaling a big cloud, then extinguishing a candle from seven meters with a blade. On his first try too. Well, on his first try of this particular take anyways. You think the vape gave him the mojo? You think his neighbors have ever called the cops on him with all the targets and knife throwing going on in the back yard? Because I’m not even a neighbor and I just did.

Geologist Halves Rock To Reveal Near Perfect Cookie Monster Faces

Geologist Halves Rock To Reveal Near Perfect Cookie Monster Faces

This is a shot of the dual Cookie Monster faces that were revealed after California geologist Mike Bowers split a volcanic agate rock in half that he found in the Rio Grande dol sul region of Brazil. I mean, there’s no question — that’s the monster of cookies. After posting photos and a video online Mike says he’s received at least five offers from collectors of $10,000 or more for the rocks. Unfortunately, I’m not convinced Mike was ever legally allowed to leave Brazil with that rock in the first place (likely stuffing it in his underwear to pass through airport security) and I’m afraid I have no choice but to confiscate those rocks and sell them on eBay to the highest bidder. Come on — hand them over, Mike. “But they’ve been in my underwear.” And now they’re about to be in mine.

Keep going for a video of the cookie rock monster, complete with the ‘C Is For Cookie’ song as musical accompaniment.

AI Replaces Rick’s Voice With Homer Simpson’s For Pickle Rick Scene

AI Replaces Rick's Voice With Homer Simpson's For Pickle Rick Scene

This is a video of Rick’s voice from the infamous Pickle Rick episode of Rick and Morty replaced with Homer Simpson’s by an AI system that was trained on Homer’s voice. The result is uncanny, and there’s no doubt in my mind that in the future AI will be able to develop all our entertainment for us and humans won’t even be involved in the development of television or movies anymore, you’ll just tell your computer something like ‘Star Wars but with the cast of Gilligan’s Island and as a highly erotic thriller, and I really mean highly this time’ and it will already be streaming before you even have time to take your pants off.

Thanks to Jody, who agrees the possibilities are endless. And terrifying.

Free Bird!: Room Full Of Birds Play Electric Guitars As They Perch On The Strings

Free Bird!: Room Full Of Birds Play Electric Guitars As They Perch On The Strings

These are several videos of French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s traveling museum exhibition ‘From Here To Ear’, which consists of a large room full of 70 zebra finches flying around and playing electric guitars as they perch and peck at the instruments’ strings and visitors walk around enjoying the impromptu jam session. That’s cool. I actually had a very similar exhibit once but instead of zebra finches it was raccoons playing the guitars and it turns out a couple of them were rabid and bit visitors and it turned into a whole big thing. I mean is that really MY fault? Because the court ruled yes.

Keep going for several videos, including an inteview with the artist, and a timelapse of how the exhibit is installed in a museum space.

Thanks to my dad, for taking me and my brother to a Jimi Hendrix cover band concert when we were in middle school.

Wingsuit BASE Jumping From The Top Of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa At Night

Wingsuit BASE Jumping From The Top Of Dubai's Burj Khalifa At Night

Because some people’s adrenal glands are faulty and will only produce adrenaline if they’re doing something that could only be described by my mom as “that’s too much,” this is a video of XDubai athletes Matt Munting and Nicholas Scalabrino BASE jumping from the 828-meter (2,717-foot) pinnacle of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa at night. I’m pretty sure the jump was actually legally permitted since it was done in collaboration with Sony to celebrate the release of the PS5. Me being able to think of a million better ways to celebrate the release of the PS5 aside, it was an enjoyable video to watch, although now my palms are all sweaty. “Knees weak, arms heavy, vomit on your sweater already, mom’s spaghetti?” Haha, no — meatloaf.