This is a short video created by viral marketing firm Vertex CGI of Lady Liberty donning a ghost costume for Halloween. Is it supposed to provide social commentary about how the advancement of freedom, hope, and opportunity are dead? I don’t think so, I think it’s just supposed to be
This is a video from AI Warehouse of the process of training five different bodied AI models to run a 100m dash using Deep Reinforcement Learning. The models are rewarded for moving forward, and punished for falling over. How do you reward or punish an AI model? No clue, but
This is a video of unorthodox entertainer Michael Rayner (aka brokenjuggler, previously seen here) rolling a hamburger around a Japanese style parasol until it sheds its burger wrapper and eventually launches its pickles into the parking lot. What a showman! Just don’t tell my girlfriend, she’d fight you for wasting
This is a video of a playful orange cat performing an interpretive shadow dance on the bed in the sunshine. It reminds me of Peter Pan fighting his shadow. Man, Peter Pan — that kid had it right. Stay young, be imaginative, eat a booger every now and then, and
In what I originally just assumed was a late April Fool’s joke, this is a video from Werther’s Original hyping their Werther’s Original Pocket Denim, jeans with a total of 30 riveted pockets up the legs for carrying their hard caramel candy. There are only 200 pairs of the limited
This a video of an 11-year old who chose Hooters for his celebratory birthday dinner. For the finale, the waitresses sing him the restaurant’s version of the happy birthday song while he stands on a chair, wearing a face mask like a beak and flapping two menus like wings. Good
This is a hype reel for Limx Dynamics’ TRON 1 bipedal robot. The bot is multi-modal thanks to its three sets of interchangeable feet: flat feet, nubbins, and wheels. The wheeling up the stairs then jumping from the top was admittedly impressive. But can it use one foot and one
This is a video from Slow Mo Guys Gav and Dan, who teamed up with funlovers Aussies Brett and Scott of How Ridiculous (when Youtube worlds collide!) to fire a bowling ball out of a cannon at 400MPH and directly into a realistic ballistics head, complete with skull. After watching