Carefully crafted by artist Nanako Kume, ‘Sharpener’ is a series of lampshades made from the shavings of massive colored pencils cut with a giant pencil sharpener. The colored pencils aren’t actually functional colored pencils (there’s no colored pigment in the middle), just hexagonal logs with a painted exterior. Per Nanako,

Flash mobs: apparently they’re still a thing. I’ve never actually witnessed one in real life, but based on all the videos I’ve seen, I’m fine with that. This one is cool though, featuring a well orchestrated performance of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ in a Parisian square. All the singers and musicians

This is a video of musician Ronobir Lahiri performing Dr. Dre’s 1999 (my God, where has the time gone?) banger “Still D.R.E.’ on a traditional Indian sitar. If you had asked me when ‘Still D.R.E.’ came out I probably would have honestly guessed ten years ago. Definitely not 26. I

This is a 3D visualization created by Youtube channel RED SIDE featuring the evolution of the fastest wheeled vehicles from 1898 to present. It’s pretty wild to think there was an electric car that could do 39MPH in 1898, and one that could go 65MPH by 1899. Then electric vehicles

No, probably not. I can’t remember the last time any jellybean was finger lickin’ good, and I love jellybeans. Even the licorice ones. “You have a sweet tooth?” I have sweet TEETH — all of them. What’s left of them anyways. KFC and Frankford Candy LLC have teamed up to

This is a video of the four guitarists of 40 Fingers (let me join and we can be 48.5 Fingers) performing a lovely acoustic fingerstyle cover of David Bowie’s ‘Life On Mars’ in a desert that’s very reminiscent of Mars. I should know, because I’ve been there. “Mars?” Did you

Previously seen folding laundry, this is a video of a humanoid robot demonstrating its dexterity by autonomously loading a dishwasher. That’s cool, but I don’t really mind loading and unloading the dishwasher. The dishwasher really does all the heavy lifting as far as washing dishes is concerned. What I really

This is a video (complete with trick list) of Japanese yo-yo master Hajime Miura securing his 8th 3A World Yo-Yo World Championship with an incredible dual yo-yo performance that’s hard to wrap my head around. Wrapping a yo-yo string around my legs and tripping myself? Easy. Wrapping my head around

This is a video of “Slinky Josh” Jacobs at a pool hall in Guangdong, China demonstrating his Slinky skills with a friend. Not to brag or anything, but I almost had a Slinky go all the way down the stairs once. “Only almost?” Just five stairs shy. This though, this

This is a video of a custom car that looks like a truck towing a trailer that’s driving in reverse. It’s not really though, the trailer is actually the car and the truck is being towed behind it. It took me three views to comprehend what I was watching, but