This is a tour detailing the process in which zinc-carbon AA batteries are manufactured at a Chinese factory, which can produce up to 500,000 batteries a day. That’s a lot of batteries! And what percentage of those do you think end up in a person’s butt? My guess is the
This is a phenakistiscope drawn by artist and musician Yohei Kisanuki featuring a bunch of stick figures climbing up a large set of steps. Or, when played counterclockwise, climbing down the same steps. Are you a climbing up or climbing down kind of person? I’m a sit and take a
This is a VERY rough timelapse of the lifecycle of a giant owl butterfly as captured in a human hand. The video begins with a tiny egg, proceeds to several stages of caterpillar growth before a chrysalis, and, finally, a butterfly. Man, I can’t wait for my own metamorphosis. It
These are two videos of Paris circa the 1920’s that have been restored, stabilized, colorized, and remastered at 60FPS. The first predominately features famous buildings and monuments, and the second one more human activity. They were a trip to watch. To think that this was captured over 100 years ago.
Because Mother Nature never ceases to amaze (I once saw her ride a mechanical bull upside down waving her legs like arms), this is a timelapse video of a stick insect molting its old skin. It’s so crazy to think this is the process that evolution developed over tens of
Darude’s ‘Sandstorm’, best known for being THE TRACK to listen to in my buddy’s Saab in college way back in the 2000’s, is a trance classic. Probably THE trance classic. And this is is a video of musician Alexander Uhl performing the track on a church’s massive pipe organ. It
Part of the Mundo Pixar exhibit in São Paulo, Brazil, this giant recreation of Andy’s bedroom from Toy Story allows visitors to experience the room as if they’re toy-sized themselves. That’s fun! Or, like most things in life, at least it would be with less people hanging around. “Still mad
Spotted by Australian kayaker Brodie Moss, this is a clip (including some drone footage) of a humpback whale “tail sailing” in order to comfortably feed its calf. Some more info about the phenomenon while I totally don’t Google whale tails and go down a thongy rabbit hole: When a whale