This is a video of 37-year old Japanese Zen Buddhist monk Yogetsu Akasaka layering sounds and chants all created with his own voice into this ‘Heart Sutra x beatbox live-looping remix’. Apparently prior to becoming a monk Yogetsu was a beatboxer, busker, and theater actor. Now he’s a beatboxer and
This is a short video of a woman performing with a trippy to watch rainbow hula hoop ‘Slinky’. I doubt it’s actually Slinky brand though, it just looks like a giant Slinky. Kind of like how I look like a fu– “cking moron.” Well I was going to future leader
This is a short video of a little girl playing the analog Tetris game her dad built for her to help develop her cognitive skills. That looks like fun, doesn’t it? Who needs digital video games when you can build and play perfectly good analog ones? “What about Animal Crossing?”
Because upscaling to 4K, 60FPS is clearly the new CSI zoom and enhance, this is a video from the Apollo 16 moon mission of a ridealong in the lunar rover to Station 4, Stone Mountain (the Cinco Crater) that’s been given the treatment. For reference, the original footage was 16mm
This is a video made from film footage taken around Tokyo, Japan from 1913-1915 that has been upscaled to 4K resolution and 60 frames/second, with deflickering, colorization, and facial restoration. It’s amazing to say the least. I feel like I just stepped out of my time machine, which was shocking
This is a video from Route 66 east of Albuquerque in New Mexico of a stretch of the road (aka The Singing Road) with a rumble strip that plays ‘America The Beautiful’ if you drive over it at 45MPH (the speed limit). If you drive over at 70MPH? America The
This is a short video of a juggler demonstrating his skills with a rather unorthodox six-ball routine. He’s dancing, he’s spinning, he’s kicking — he’s throwing and catching multiple balls at once. Now I know the Youtube video description says it’s a five ball routine, but I also know counting
This is a video of fifth generation tatami (traditional Japanese woven straw mat) craftsman Kenji Yamada producing a giant dragon design for a room. How awesome is that? If you take martial arts lessons in a dojo with a floor that looks like this, there’s no way your sensei doesn’t