This is a cross-section of a chainsaw doing its thing filmed at 20,000 frames per second. It’s so mesmerizing to watch it’s almost easy to forget that thing will take my leg off. Won’t you, chainsaw? WON’T YOU?! It really wants to, I can tell. I made the mistake of

This is the video of the Slow Mo Guys banging a drum covered in a rainbow of paint powder to capture the movement of the pigment in ultra slow motion as the shockwaves blast it all over the place. I can’t imagine this being a rainbow anybody would want to

This is a video of the Great Ball Contraption (GBC) of Japan Brickfest 2025, constructed using 49 different ball-moving LEGO modules from eight master LEGO builders. The machine spans a very respectable 31 meters (102 feet). Damn, that is a lot of ball moving! Me? When I’m uncomfortable at the

This is a video following LEGO builder Grant Davis’s quest to construct a working mechanical version of the bouncing DVD logo screensaver using LEGO. And what a quest it is! If somebody asked me if you could make a working DVD logo screensaver out of LEGO I would have told

Carefully crafted by artist Nanako Kume, ‘Sharpener’ is a series of lampshades made from the shavings of massive colored pencils cut with a giant pencil sharpener. The colored pencils aren’t actually functional colored pencils (there’s no colored pigment in the middle), just hexagonal logs with a painted exterior. Per Nanako,

This is a video of “Slinky Josh” Jacobs at a pool hall in Guangdong, China demonstrating his Slinky skills with a friend. Not to brag or anything, but I almost had a Slinky go all the way down the stairs once. “Only almost?” Just five stairs shy. This though, this

In surprisingly captivating news, this is a drone video from Argentina of a tire being rolled down one of the steepest dunes in the world. It rolls for three minutes! The soundtrack is also Enya’s ‘Only Time’, which adds to the beauty of the video. Honestly, it might just be

This is a video of Jack Mack of appropriately named Jack Mack Woodturning producing a walnut bowl that appears to spin clockwise AND counterclockwise simultaneously. The illusion is made possible by adjusting the lathe’s RPM so it matches the frame rate of the camera. That’s cool, but with all those