This is a video created by Eightminutesupsidedown, who identified all the samples used on the Beastie Boys 1994 banger of an album Ill Communication, and plays them in their original form, followed by the Beastie Boys’ usage on the album. It was a fun listen. Man, 1994 — that was
Sponsored by the video game Warframe, this is a video of inventor Colin Furze testing a giant gimbal he built that allows a user to perform wild jumps like in a low-gravity environment. The gimbal uses counterweights and hydraulics to achieve the feat, allowing Colin to jump from one stack
These are a couple videos of a raven named Odin (of course) at the Tropical Butterfly House in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, producing abstract paintings, using her beak to pick up and use a brush. Admittedly, I wouldn’t mind having an Odin original hanging in my home. “That was painted
Because this is why the internet was invented (“It’s true.” — Al Gore), here’s a video of pet otters Kotaro and Hana (previously) reacting to a machine that makes water drops appear to drip backwards. I think it’s safe to say their little minds were blown. Honestly, my big mind
This is a video of Red Bull skydiver Maja Kuczynska’s 2023 Indoor Skydiving Championship performance. The moves she makes in that tube — they’re unreal. It’s almost like the zero-gravity dance scene in Ready Player One. That is some serious mind and body control. For reference, nine times out of
Note: Lower your volume, jet taking off. Captured on the last day of the Boeing Seafair Air Show, this is a video of an F-35 Lightning II taking off from the Boeing Field runway. Such power — I wish I could have been there. I wish I could have felt
This is a video produced by WIRED of DJ Shorkut discussing and demonstrating fifteen different levels of turntablism of increasing difficulty, explaining how to perform each one as he goes along. It was pretty interesting, and from what I could gather watching, all my friends who are DJs who I’ve
This is a video of Theo Jansen’s latest Strandbeest: a caterpillar that’s pulled behind another wind-powered mechanical sculpture, inch-worming its way across the sand. Could you imagine if you were enjoying a pleasant beach day and a Strandbeest walked by? That would be wild. Even wilder if it tried to