TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
I Want Out: Unevenly Stitched ‘High-Fashion’ Jeans
Because fashion knows no bounds (or decency), these are the unevenly stitched jeans created by Paris-based fashion house Leje. The Slash Jean ($417 – $441) has a single off-centered stitching diagonally across the knees, as if the jeans were slashed and sewn back together unevenly. The L Jean ($528) has
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Classic: Woman Tricks Mother Into Thinking She’s Drinking A Bottle Of Hot Sauce
Note: Language, mother may be a sailor. This is a video of a woman having McDonald’s breakfast in the car with her mom and tricking her into thinking she’s drinking a bottle of Frank’s Red Hot Buffalo sauce (she replaced it with tomato juice). Per her appropriately reacting mother: “Chris!
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Guy Documents Himself Learning To Ride A Penny-Farthing Bicycle
Because they sure don’t make them like they used to, this is a video of habitual learner of things Mike Boyd documenting the process in which he learned how to ride a penny-farthing bicycle. Surprisingly, the process didn’t just involve patiently waiting for his handlebar mustache to grow in and
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What Could Go Wrong?: Firing A Cannon In Backyard
Note: Check your volume, cannon. This is a short video from the Netherlands of what don’t appear to be the old timey war reenactors I expected firing a cannon while Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring Of Fire’ appropriately plays in the background and the shock wave breaks every window on the house
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Up, Up And Away!: Kitesurfer Jumps Across Peninsula
This is short clip of kitesurfer Reno Romeu launching over a peninsula on the coast of Arubinha, Brazil. One second he’s on one side, and a very brief time later, he’s on the other. Obviously, I plan on doing the same thing, except ALL THE WAY OVER THE WIDTH OF
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Google’s New 3D Video Chat Booth: Feel Like The Other Person Is Right There With You
This is a video just released by Google demonstrating its Project Starline, a fancy 3D video chat booth that’s supposed to make you feel like the person you’re talking to is actually sitting across from you through a window, jail visitation style. Some more info about the project while I
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The Future Nears: Photorealistic Rendering Of Grand Theft Auto
This is a video discussing and demonstrating a method for rendering a much more photorealistic version of Grand Theft Auto V using an artificial intelligence powered convolution network that produces images frame-by-frame at speeds fast enough to be run at interactive (read: playable) rates. Some more info that’s so far
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Video Of People Fleeing Skyscraper That Started Swaying For No Reason
This is a video from the streets of Shenzhen, China of people evacuating and fleeing the 71-story SEG Plaza skyscraper after it began swaying for no apparent reason. The building is the world’s 72nd tallest (21st tallest in China), and measures 256-meters (~840-feet) including its antennae. Officials reported calm winds
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Kitchen Island Stools Disguised As Part Of The Island Itself
Stools: they’re disgusting to look out. “You do realize we’re talking about seats and not turds, right?” Oh — what’s the matter with those? Well apparently something, because Icelandic minimalist designers Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir and Tryggvi Thorsteinsson of Minarc have created the HiDDenSit, a kitchen island with stools that appear
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To Oz!: 70-Pound Dog Picked Up And Spun Around By Dust Devil
Because the Yellow Brick Road isn’t going to follow itself, this is a clip from a home’s security cam footage that captured the moment the neighbor’s 70-pound Labrador Retriever Duke was lifted up and spun around by a dust devil (watch in front of the orange car). Man…how do you
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