Because when it rains it pours, this is a video of life in a 10-second nutshell featuring a man leaving for work and dropping his coffee mug. That wouldn’t be the worst thing ever since it has a lid, but then he kicks it, knocking the plastic lid off and
This is a video demonstration of a clever stunt rig used to simulate lower gravity on a person in space. The rig uses a counterweighted rocking arm attached to a stuntperson via a 360-degree rotating belt so they can do flips and all kind of spacey maneuvers. That’s cool. Even
This is a clip of Carl Sagan’s final speech from the 1980 Emmy award winning PBS television series Cosmos, which has been broadcast in more than 60 countries and viewed by over 500-million people. Are you one of those people? If not, better late than never. Sagan’s farewell discusses science,
Because the records you don’t need any special equipment for are the most economical to beat, this is a video of 20-year old Iowa clap master Dalton Meyer setting a new Guinness World Record for most claps in one minute, with a staggering 1,140, beating the previous record of 1,080.
These are two videos of a father and recent divorcee celebrating his freedom by launching his considerable mass off water slide jumps, first with a leaping dive down one slide, then jumping off the roof onto another slide. Damn, that looks like fun. Do I need to get married and
Because how are you supposed to get any work done when you can be loving on your pets (anybody hiring?), this is a video of Shadow the white-bellied parrot going nuts jumping around on his owner’s keyboard, demanding the attention he so rightfully deserves. Or, who knows, maybe he’s just
This is a video highlighting the work of foley artists and the incredible difficulty in making just the right footstep sound effects (considered one of the hardest to duplicate) for television and movies. There is a surprising amount of thought, technique, footwear, and materials to step on that go into
This is a video of Chinese musician Zhang Qihui dressed as a beautiful lotus flower and performing on progressively larger flutes, starting with a diminutive six-incher, and ending with this behemoth, which is so large it requires two more helpers to cover its holes. Now that’s a big flute! It
