This is ‘Synthetic Summer’ a beer commercial that was allegedly created entirely with artificial intelligence by creative firm Private Island using text-prompts via AI programs like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and ControlNet. Um, did those text prompts include “fire tornado” and “backyard human barbecue”? Or is this just a perfect example

This is a video of Youtuber Mattias Krantz building and playing what is allegedly the world’s first gas-powered guitar. Move over, electricity, this guitar runs on hydrocarbons! The result is actually a lot cooler looking than it sounds, which is like the lovechild of an electric guitar and leaf blower.

This is a video from a robotic R/C car that a guy outfitted to run errands for him, in this case speeding into the pet store with a note explaining he needs GloFish shark food, and having the money to pay for it. That’s cool, at least until somebody is

Do you spin your pen? I spin my pen. Usually while I’m watching myself on camera during online meetings I’m tuned out of. But enough about me being the model employee, this is a video from Wired of champion pen spinner Peter Davis breaking down the sport’s skills into 21

This is a video created by Eightminutesupsidedown, who identified all the samples used on the Beastie Boys 1994 banger of an album Ill Communication, and plays them in their original form, followed by the Beastie Boys’ usage on the album. It was a fun listen. Man, 1994 — that was

This is a drone video from Vancouver, British Columbia, where Youtuber mactac was trying to capture some scenic footage of a mountain range when he inadvertently captured an avalanche flowing down the mountain like water. Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Or, if you were

This is a video of a tenrec at the Cincinnati Zoo taking a dust bath in a tiny bathtub. How precious! And it’s so deliberate and thorough with it’s cleaning too! If I were even half as thorough maybe my pits wouldn’t smell like chili cheese dogs with extra onions.

Sponsored by the video game Warframe, this is a video of inventor Colin Furze testing a giant gimbal he built that allows a user to perform wild jumps like in a low-gravity environment. The gimbal uses counterweights and hydraulics to achieve the feat, allowing Colin to jump from one stack

Because the fourth is strong today, here’s a video from Red Side comparing the sizes of various starships and planets in the Star Wars universe. The video begins with small ships, before progressing to giant city-sized ones, then on to the planets as compared to the size of earth. I

These are a couple videos of a raven named Odin (of course) at the Tropical Butterfly House in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, producing abstract paintings, using her beak to pick up and use a brush. Admittedly, I wouldn’t mind having an Odin original hanging in my home. “That was painted