These are two videos highlighting the work of Swiss artist Simon Berger, who creates portraits in broken safety glass using nothing but a hammer and hand-eye-coordination. For reference, I tried making a similar portrait once but it didn’t turn out that great and my parents made me apologize and pay
This is a worthwhile video from the International Jugglers’ Association (IJA) 2019 championships of juggler Zak McAllister’s winning individual performance, with a routine choreographed to ‘Love Like You’ from Steven Universe. He also took home the gold in the team competition with partner Delaney, which I included below as well
This is a video of Brazilian artist Luis Henrique producing very impressive string art portraits of Michael Jackson and Elvis by looping a single length of string around the nails surrounding a bicycle rim. He estimates each portrait took about 2,300 lines. How about that! It’s just a bunch of
This is a shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger smoking out of the Terminator head pipe hand carved by Redditor RadonLab. Apparently RadonLab carved the pipe to celebrate Arnold’s birthday and posted the pictures to Reddit, where it was eventually spotted by Arnold, who offered to buy it. RadonLab insisted on gifting
This is a video of archer and Youtuber James Jean (cool name) demonstrating how to curve arrows around an object to hit something behind it. Pretty cool. Of course if you really need to learn now to curve an arrow around an object to hit something behind it what you
Note: Above pic doesn’t do it justice, see below. This is a beautiful tribute to Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli characters in the form of a stunning stained glass window crafted by Russian artists Eugene Koksharov and Anna Dobrunova of Art Brothers Glass. This particular piece, measuring 90cm x 70cm
This is a video of Rasul Hasan providing a tutorial for how to use the AnimeGAN2 neural network to render real-life photos into anime-like scenes. In this case, Rasul trained the neural network with data sets from the movies of directors Hayao Miyazaki, Makoto Shinkai, and Satoshi Kon. Like working
This is a video of a skateboarder wiping out after a jump and making the smoothest tumbling backflip-like recovery I’ve ever seen in my 800+ years on this planet. “Dammit, not with the undead warlock shit again.” I’ll have you know the skateboard was invented two days after I turned