This is Bataille de boules de neige (Snowball Fight) by Louis Lumière, a short silent film shot in Lyon, France in 1896 that’s been upscaled and colorized using DeOldify, an open-source AI tool that does just that. The result is impressive. Also, I really liked the plot: everybody nail the
- October 7, 2020
This is a Nest doorbell cam video from the Maryland home of Betsy Mahaffey See, who received a phone notification in the night that somebody was detected at the door. I like how the mantis nibbles on its foot a little bit before providing a closeup of its abdomen, that
- October 7, 2020
These are the officially licensed ‘Star Wars The Mandalorian The Child Plush Slippers’ *catches breath* available from Hot Topic for $27 (possibly among other places). They’re cute. Unfortunately, with as perpetually dirty as the floors are in my apartment it would only take two days of wearing them before it
- October 6, 2020
In sweet jeans news, this is a video of Yotuber Mad Russian Scientist demonstrating the fastest way to empty a narrow-necked liquid filled container without cutting in half with a ninja sword or smashing it with a hammer — by swirling the bottle first to create a vortex inside. This
- October 6, 2020
This is a ‘best of’ hornet flight video compiled by nature videographer Luthar Lenz using footage he’s shot in the past. It looks so wild it’s almost hard to believe it’s real and not just a modern remake of Honey I Shrunk The Kids. At 2:00 some other species of
- October 6, 2020
This is a video of German world champion artistic cyclist Viola Brand performing a beautiful bicycle ballet routine inside the room of a castle. *looking around* You know, it kinda reminds me of my own bedroom. I mean, besides– “There’s a girl in it.” Hoho, nice one! I was actually
- October 6, 2020
This is a video of Youtuber The Q building a chair based on tensegrity (aka floating structural compression, links to Wikipedia) that’s large and strong enough to support the weight of a relatively lightweight adult human and a Coca-Cola can. Now I read the Wikipedia article I linked to above
- October 6, 2020
This is a clip from an MSNBC news segment about the coronavirus featuring an at-home interview with Dr. Irwin Redlener when his grandson storms the room and hijacks the interview with his antics. Were his actions politically motivated? I have no clue. Also, you do realize there’s an easy way
- October 6, 2020













