Closeups: they’re not always a good idea. I used a closeup for my original MySpace profile pic and even Tom unfriended me. I re-requested but he never accepted before the site went under 🙁 That was forever ago, but I still have dreams about it. This is a macro video

Mother Nature: she never ceases to shock and amaze (but mostly terrify). This is a video from British photographer Jake Baggaley and his assistant Nick on the side of a rock cliff in the French Alps of Chamonix when some ibexes come to say hello and lick the salt off

This is a stunning timelapse from Ilulissat, Greenland of an absolutely massive iceberg hitting the coast, and dislodging and losing so much ice that its center of gravity shifts, causing it to roll over. The whole process took about an hour, condensed to 10 minutes in the video. Would I

This is some drone footage from filmmaker Devon Massyn of the underwater volcano Kavachi in the Solomon Islands erupting. It’s pretty wild. And the sound! The volcanic activity heats and expands nearby water so quickly it’s the equivalent of a hot tub full of water instantly expanding to the size

This is a video of paleontologist Danielle Dufault of Animalogic discussing the unique physiology of the red-lipped batfish. Not to be confused with a batman, this multi-species named mutant has a beard, bioluminescent horn, and little front leg-fins it uses to walk along the bottom of the seafloor. See? Nothing

This is a short video from a vacationer in Playa del Carmen of a monkey doing its best human impression to walk into a hotel and steal a cookie from the buffet. Now that is some good posture. If I had posture like that maybe I wouldn’t have all this

This is a delightful video from Epic Aussie Encounters featuring a variety of Australian wildlife seeing themselves in a mirror for the first time. There are birds, possums, kangaroos, more birds, wallabies, and more birds. I love birds, so this worked out well for me. Mirrors do not work out

This is a video captured by Douglas Barillas of a dust devil blowing a bunch of tumbleweeds around in the sky of Lake Los Angeles, California. I guess they’re not tumbleweeds anymore, they’re *putting on cool guy shades* flyweeds. Damn, I haven’t put on those cool guy shades on in