This is a clip of a student from Datong University in northern China’s Shanxi province who volunteered to act as cameraman during a 100-meter dash, and does a damn fine job keeping pace with the athletes. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to learn
Because the internet, like an old fashioned butter churn filled with who-knows-what, never stops producing something to melt into the pockets of your Eggo, this is a video of a man recreating the intro to Michael Jackson’s ‘Smooth Criminal’ by bouncing a ping pong ball off the strings of a
Because they sure don’t make them like they used to, this is a video of habitual learner of things Mike Boyd documenting the process in which he learned how to ride a penny-farthing bicycle. Surprisingly, the process didn’t just involve patiently waiting for his handlebar mustache to grow in and
This is a video of street performer Windyman (aka Wayne Scott) performing his pièce de résistance at Plaça de Catalunya (‘Catalonia Square’) in Barcelona. How he remains so still is beyond me, but I suspect it may involve a handful of tranquilizers. Now being able to stand after downing a
This is a video of scientific experimenter and Youtuber NightHawkinLight levitating a hotdog by suspending it in a stream of compressed air (an example of the Coandă effect) and cooking the dog via a heating coil in what is arguable the coolest fashion ever, followed distantly by those hotdog carousels
This is a video of a cute little cat from Finland named Nipa performing her ‘walk up the stairs on her human’s feet’ trick, aka the ‘cop cop’, according to her owner. So, the next time you’re convinced cats can’t do anything but eat, sleep, and poop, just rewatch this
This is a one minute timelapse video (played at 120X) of Hong Kong Jenga stacker Mengaman allegedly stacking 1,512 Jenga blocks (a world record) on a single vertical piece over the course of an hour and twenty minutes, before it collapses while he’s taking pictures and video of it. Impressive.
Because you don’t know until you try, these are two videos of the experimental, fun-loving Russian mechanics of Garage 54 welding two identical Lada Rivas together to create an ultra-widebody version, then putting it through its paces. Obviously *cautiously looking around to make sure I’m alone* this is not the