TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
Paper Folding Artist’s Absolutely Incredible Work
This is a VICE video highlighting the work of Wales-based paper sculptor Polly Verity, who creases and folds paper with the very best of them. Per Polly: “The actual act of putting a crease into a piece of paper, committing to that crease, and just running along that line —
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BMX Rider Rides Around Skate Park While Standing Balanced On Handlebars
This is a video of well-balanced (like a healthy breakfast) BMX rider Mike “Hucker” Clark (great nickname, mine’s Puker) riding around a skate park while standing balanced on his bike’s handlebars. That looks intense. For reference, if I’d tried this I would have had a lot less teeth (and blood
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Kittens Versus Hexapod Battle Robot
This is a video (including some onboard bot footage) of a litter of kittens interacting with a terrifying hexapod battle robot. If I were one of those kittens I would have torn that damn thing’s legs off after it fired that air hockey puck, but that’s just me and I’m
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Bear Closes Front Door After Woman Tells It To
This is a video of a black bear loitering around a woman’s front door, who then closes the door after the woman insists that it does. Apparently this was not this woman’s first bear rodeo. Good bear! For reference, a bad bear would have torn that door off its hinges
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How Highlighters Are Made
This is a video from the Faber-Castell pen manufacturing plant in Engelhartszell, Austria detailing how the “superfluorescent” Textliner 48 highlighter is made. The factory in Engelhartszell produces some 35-million pens and markers every year, and I suspect at least half of those eventually spend some time in a person’s butt.
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Guy Blowdarts Boba Tea Balls All Over Friend’s Sweatshirt
Because doing battle is a way of life, this is a video of a guy using his straw to blowdart sticky boba tea balls onto the sweatshirt of a friend walking in front of him. The sound it makes is great. Sucks to be that guy! I mean unless he
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Woman Gives Rescue Foxes Raw Egg Treats
This is an absolutely delightful video of the founder of Save A Fox Sanctuary (a rescue organization that takes in fur farm foxes and surrendered pets and provides a loving home for them) giving all the different colored foxes at the rescue raw egg treats. What does the fox say?
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When Stars Align: Optimus Prime
This is a shot of a an Optimus telecommunications box truck parked behind an Amazon Prime delivery van, combining their powers Voltron-style to form the baddest ass truck of all time — OPTIMUS PRIME. You like how I made that Voltron-Transformers crossover right there? Total pro style. That’s why I
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NES Tetris Playing AI Makes It To Level 237, Crashes game
This is a video of software engineer Greg Cannon demonstrating the capabilities of StackedRabbit, a NES Tetris playing artificial intelligence system he developed that plays the game with no human reaction time limitations and at 60Hz, making movements as fast as the game allows. In this particular scenario, it also
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World Record For Longest Melody Performed By A Model Train Tapping Wine Glasses
This is a video of a model train at Hamburg, Germany’s Miniatur Wunderland setting the Guinness World Record for the longest melody played by a model train, by tapping wine glasses set up along its 211-meter (692-feet) track. The train performs a melody of twenty different classical songs on over
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