Because soon the day will come when everything that shouldn’t exist, does, this is the FINGERring from artist Nadja Buttendorf: a ring that looks like a realistic finger. The bonus finger is made from silicone, and was designed to be cast in a color that matches its wearer’s skintone for
This is a video of the Slow-Mo guys attempting to skip bullets across the water in an aquarium like stones across a pond. That’s cool. Maybe not as cool as my stone-skipping skills, but with the perfect rock I can get three or four bounces sometimes. Without the perfect rock
This is a video of the Epic Cello Quartet (part of Epic Symphonic Rock) performing a medley of Nirvana songs, Iron Maiden’s ‘The Trooper’, and System Of A Down’s ‘Chop Suey!’ during a concert in Lima, Peru. They do an excellent job — I always enjoy hearing songs performed on
Captured by drone flier Joshua Turner, this is some first person POV footage of summiting the Matterhorn in the Alps, flying along the Hörnli Ridge (the standard human route up the mountain) all the way to the very top. That’s cool, I guess I can go ahead and cross ‘Summit
This is a video from a 10km (~6.2 mile) toboggan trail in the Swiss Alps. That looks like a good time, complete with some relatively high speed straightaways and hairy turns. For reference, the longest sled ride I’ve ever taken was from the top of the hill at the local
Because who needs wind, this is a video of kite-flier Spence “Watty” Watson flying a custom kite he built for the indoor audience at the recent 2023 South Padre Island Kite Fest in Texas. How do you fly a kite indoors with no wind? You run around, because you are
This is a video tour of the permanent Duché de Bicolline LARPing village built in Quebec, Canada. The area includes “hundreds of wooden structures, tent villages, a fort, and a battlefield.” This is a tour taken during setup for The Grand Battle 2022, at which time cars and cell phones
These are a couple videos from the PGA’s Waste[d] Management Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona (where spectators start drinking at 9AM and go all day) of a mulleted streaker running across the course and bellyflopping into the water hazard on the 18th hole. He then swims across the pond before