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

This is a video of Youtuber and magician musician Johan Carlsberg performing a medieval bardcore cover of AC/DC’s ‘Thuderstruck’, with some accordion thrown in for good measure despite the accordion not being invented until the early 1800’s. Dammit *kicking over medieval armor display* this bardcore isn’t even canon! Now, where’s

This is a video of Instagrammer yorkshire.fossils (I prefer the pudding myself) smacking a rock open with a hammer to reveal the perfect ammonite fossil inside. What are the odds?! “Well based on all the other ammonite fossils just lying around, I’m guessing pretty good.” You ruin everything, you know

This is a breathtaking drone fly-through of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, France. Stunning, isn’t it? It almost doesn’t even seem real, it feels like part of a video game or televised fantasy series. And maybe that’s really what it is. Oh — no, I’m being told that it actually is

This is Canadian musician Leah Barley’s ‘Mountains’, a song she wrote and produced and used her grandparents’ 78-year old honeymoon video as the music video for. The video features digitized Super 8mm footage of her grandparents Alan and Marion on their honeymoon from Toronto to Tofino (on Vancouver Island, off

This is a video of Louis Le Prince’s ‘Roundhay Garden Scene’ footage — the oldest known video — shot in October of 1888 in England, upscaled to 60 frames/second using an ensemble of neural networks, with some stabilization, deflickering, denoise and coloration added for good measure. Overall it looks like

This is Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ covered in classical Latin (75 BC to 3rd Century AD) as arranged by Youtuber the_miracle_aligner with instrumentals by Sir Stantough and translation by AB. It’s not bad. Although I didn’t take Latin in high school so I’m not sure how the translation holds

Because everything, including musical taste, is cyclical, this is a cover of Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ by Hildegard von Blingin’ (previously: Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’) in the style of a medieval banger being performed for the king at a feast where everyone is eating giant turkey drumsticks and