This is a video from Youtuber NASS, who took some vintage footage of Los Angeles from the 1930’s and remastered it in high definition, boosting the frame rate to 60FPS, improving the sharpness, blur, and noise, stabilizing the images, adding color (not historically accurate), and ambient noise. The result, like
This is a video of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster in Manchester Township, New Jersey that’s been colorized and upscaled to 4K for maximum humanity. Unfortunately, my monitor’s max resolution is only 640 x 480 so I couldn’t appreciate the ultra-high-definition, plus the video was taking forever to load on my
Because nothing says Happy Holidays like a t-rex in a Christmas sweater, the Natural History Museum in London had holiday sweater maker British Christmas Jumpers create this giant sweater for its resident animatronic t-rex. Some more info about the jumper while I request a similar one to show off my
This is a commercial for the Yomega Brain yo-yo (Amazon ad link) aired during Saturday morning cartoons in the 90’s. It perfectly encapsulates the nineties in a now painful to watch 30-second ad. God, I was one of those kids. Toss in a kid with terrible hand-foot coordination playing hacky
This is a video of the Babyn Yar Synagogue opening up like a pop-up book. The synagogue, located in a wooded ravine in the west of Kyiv in Ukraine, was designed and constructed by Swiss-based Manuel Herz Architects (link to their website with a lot more detail) to commemorate the
This is a video of South Korean acapella quintet MayTree (previously) performing a brief history of Windows startup sounds, including such bangers as Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 10, and Windows 11. Which was your favorite? Mine has been and always will be Windows XP. As
LEGO has announced the release of it’s largest traditional building set to date — the 9,090 piece Titanic (previously: its 9,036-piece Roman Colosseum). The 1:200 scale ship measures a respectable 54″ long, 7″ wide, 18″ tall and breaks into three cross sections so you can see the various and inner
The bucket: we’re all going to kick it eventually. Well, you are, I’m– “You’re not an undead warlock.” I SAW ROME BUILT. But enough about it actually taking two days, this is a video from Overwords, a segment from PBS’s Storied featuring Dr. Erica Brozovsky taking us on a tour