Truck Sinks Behind News Reporter At Lake
This is a video of ABC News 20 reporter Jakob Emerson reporting from Lake Springfield in Illinois when a truck at the boat ramp behind him starts sinking, presumably because its owner forgot it was a truck and not a boat. Hey, it happens. If I had a nickel for
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Skateboarder Ollies Board Through Tire While He Goes Over
This is a video of a skateboarder ollieing his board through a tire while he goes over the whole thing, reconnecting with his board like two old friends on the other side. Pretty impressive. For reference, at the pinnacle of my greatest skateboarding skills I tried to ollie over a
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Harmonica Cover Of The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s Jazz Classic ‘Take Five’
This is a video of the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s jazz standard ‘Take Five’ performed by fellow quartet Perfect Fourth, entirely on harmonicas. Just like the stuff I get from old Mrs. Whitworth at the farmer’s market every Saturday morning, it’s a tasty jam. Would I eat it atop a slice
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Smooth As Silk: Man Crosses Wide Canal On Skimboard
This is a video of skimboarder Adrien Raza blazing across a wide canal on his board with the ease of a knife through warm butter. Me? I would have fallen immediately and cut my knees up in the sand just like every other time I’ve tried skimboarding. “But there’s no
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Visualizing The Speed Of Things In The Universe From Slowest To Fastest
This is another visual comparison video created by MetaBallStudio (previously), this time comparing the average distance traveled in one minute by various objects in the universe, including animals, machines, planets, etc. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that I’m slower than a tree sloth or Galapagos tortoise. I
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Kevin Hart And Snoop Dogg Provide Olympic Commentary
Because NBC wants to remind you it’s spent a lot of time and money developing its Peacock streaming app and you should totally use it, this is a clip from Peacock’s Olympic Highlights With Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg of the duo providing commentary for clips chosen by their producers
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Real Life SpongeBob And Patrick Spotted Hanging Out On Sea Floor
Proving that life imitates art (or life imitates art imitating life), this is shot of a real-life SpongeBob and Patrick hanging out on the seafloor at a depth of around 6,500-feet, as spotted by an unmanned rover exploring the Retriever Seamount off the coast of New England. How about that!
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Man Shoots And Develops 32-Year Old Film
This is a video from Mike of Youtube channel Filmboy24, who shot and developed some old 35mm motion picture film from 1989 using his Nikon F3 still camera. Mike says the 32-year old film consisted of short ends (the unused ‘end’ portion of a length of film left after a
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