Visual effects designer Clinton Jones challenged 3D artists to create a scene rendering from their imagination, all using the same base animation of a human figure struggling to move forward. 2,400 different artists submitted animations, and the top five and top 100 were selected. The first video below is the

Not to be outdone by this high-jumping unicyclist (although now that I think about it they may be the same person), this is a video of a man who tries so hard and believes in himself with such conviction that he’s able to launch himself to the top of a

This is a timelapse video created by Chris Fastie using a 3D printed ‘digital’ sundial invented by Julien Coyne, which displays the time (from 10AM to 4PM) dot-matrix style with rays of light, changing every 20 minutes as the sun moves through the fine matrix of holes inside. Some more

This is a short video of a thrill/deathseeker BASE jumping from the 50-meter top of what appears to be a very old model wind turbine. Good lord, did they build that thing in the 1800’s? Does it rotate to burn coal and produce steam? The whole jump from launch to

This is a video of a New Zealander with a native praying mantis on his fingertip taking it around the house so it can catch a fly. It bobbles its first effort, but manages to catch the fly on the second go-around. Some more info while I wish I had

This is a video captured by a woman at her first southern pig race, which has all the gravitas of the Kentucky Derby, but without the silly hats. A couple of the pigs don’t even venture past the first turn, and even the winner (who stands at the finish line

Because gauging your own intelligence is difficult, this is a recent video of a guy on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? bragging about how he embraced his intelligence after watching the show in his youth, mentions how he just graduated from medical school, then proceeds to crash and burn

Because getting hacked makes your computer screen look like you clicked on the wrong boner pill ad and you’ve died and gone to pop-up heaven, this is a scene from appropriately titled ‘The Bone Yard’, a 2004 episode of NCIS in which Abby and McGee attempt to thwart a hacking