This is a video of percussionist El Estepario Siberiano (aka The Groovefather) discussing his homemade tubulum PVC pipe drum kit, and performing AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ on it, just 24 hours after constructing it and playing it for the first time. I assume that’s where his percussion background comes in handy. You

Chef Amaury Guichon (previously) is back at it, this time crafting a giant spider entirely out of edible chocolate, just in time for Halloween. Yum! I don’t know about you, but I’d tear off one of those legs and gnaw on it like a knight with a turkey leg at

This is a video of Youtuber How To Make Everything constructing the sawmill detailed in Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebook in 1478, using only tools and methods that existed back then (read: no power tools, makes his own nails). He does use a water pump to replicate a river though to

This is a video of chocolatier Amaury Guichon (previously) constructing a life-size leopard entirely out of chocolate. I’ve heard of snow leopards, but chocolate leopards? Do you think the master chocolatiers from those Lindt chocolate commercials could make equally impressive leopards? I doubt it. Besides, the ones in the commercials

I know I said unexpectedly in the title, but I saw that coming from a mile away. Also: a man in steel tube coffin tumbling down a mountain. Don’t worry though, apparently the man sustained a few injuries but is fine, and hopefully learned his lesson. One about not riding

Piggybacking on the build of his bike with treaded square tires, this is a video of engineer The Q reducing the design to its bare minimum, producing a tireless bike that runs on thin treads that only make contact with the pavement at two points. That’s…something. Something I wish I’d

Cast some 3,000 years ago (~1450 BC) in the Middle Bronze Age likely near what’s now Nördlingen, Germany, this bronze sword was recently unearthed in exceptional quality. Shoot, I’d still quest with it. Its preservation is due in part to the naturally antimicrobial copper salts in the sword, and the

This is a video of Theo Jansen’s latest Strandbeest: a caterpillar that’s pulled behind another wind-powered mechanical sculpture, inch-worming its way across the sand. Could you imagine if you were enjoying a pleasant beach day and a Strandbeest walked by? That would be wild. Even wilder if it tried to