This is a video of amateur radio operator KB8M making contact with the International Space Station, and getting a response from astronaut Woody Hoburg. And all with what appears to be the television antennae broken off a neighbor’s roof! What an exciting experience that must have been. Just to think

These are a couple videos of mountain lover Madison Elrick on Lake Louise in Canada’s Banff National Park as she rows through some candle ice (aka needle ice). What’s candle ice? I’m glad you asked, because I’m just the man to Wikipedia copy/paste that for you: Candle ice is a

This is a video of a skull created by Swiss artist Simon Berger by carefully cracking individual panes of glass, then stacking them all together horizontally to form a 3D skull. That’s wild! Skulls: everybody has one. And some people’s are are thicker than others. My girlfriend jokes they could

Hot on the heels of that 1920’s footage of the Big Easy comes this footage of the roaring 20’s in New York City. Now I know what you’re all thinking — The Great Gatsby! And yes, this was the era of Art Deco, jazz, and flappers. But look at that

Because soon our backpacks won’t carry anything but video messages, this is a clip from Yihong Technology demonstrating their persistence of vision backpack, that uses a spinning 4-rotor fan with 510 rapidly blinking LEDs to display video. In this case, everyone’s favorite plumber, Mario. WHY he’s everyone’s favorite plumber is

This is some historical black and white footage from The Big Easy captured in the 1920’s that’s been upscaled to 60FPS, stabilized, remastered, and colorized, with some sound design added for good measure. The result isn’t fantastic, although I imagine the source material was pretty rough around the edges. I

Constructed and operated by street theater company Royal De Luxe, this is a video of two gigantic puppet dogs (a bulldog and a Xoloitzcuintli, aka Mexican Hairless) chasing a bone through the streets of Antwerp, Belgium, during the 2023 Zomer van Antwerpen Festival. I especially like how the bulldog drools

This is a video of a paraglider enjoying a stunning early morning flight over the very scenic Bohinj Lake in Slovenia. Damn, that’s beautiful — it looks like he’s flying right through a painting. And maybe he is, I don’t know where we’re at with today’s teleportation technology. Bob Ross,