This is a video of incredibly skilled Japanese circus juggler Takehiro Nagaoka demonstrating his ball skills with some very stylized juggling. It’s pretty wild, and I particularly liked those long arm catches (far right in the pic above). I tried learning how to juggle when I was younger but quickly
This is a short video of some intrepid spelunkers who discovered a bunch of crystals growing in a cave that, when stroked, sound like a harp. That’s something. Something you probably shouldn’t be touching because you just summoned a balrog. Hope you brought a wizard! @cave.chronicles Magical Crystal Sounds ♬
Because Mother Nature is totally nuts (she tried showing her b00bs once but I declined BECAUSE I WAS AT DINNER WITH MY PARENTS), this is a video featuring the sound of 500,000 king penguins doing their thing on South Georgia Island, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The sound was captured
This is Animals on Glass, a short compilation shot by the Wakaleo Animal Channel of a number of different animals filmed from underneath through a glass table. A change in perspective, that’s cool. A lot of those animals looked wild from below. Were the mealworms really necessary though? They look
Always one to push personal transportation to the limit, this is a video of engineer James Bruton (seen previously constructing a personal AT-AT walker) building an omni-directional bike that sits on two giant balls. It works beautifully. And speaking of giant balls– “Elephants?” NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALES. Up to 2,200-pounds!
This is a video demonstration of Cree Ossner’s Swish Machine, a massive outdoor Rube Goldberg machine that takes almost 3 minutes to run and starts and ends with the shooting of a basketball (plus has another in the middle!). Although the end shot is more of a roll into the
This is a video of luthier Burls Art making two electric guitars with thin layers of translucent slate, complete with backlit tops so light filters through the stone from behind. That’s beautiful. Too beautiful to smash on stage at the end of a concert? Considering all the time and energy
Rarely captured on camera (and even more rarely heard — this is possibly the first), this is a home security camera clip of a meteorite crashing into a home’s stone walkway on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Is the sound as cool as I’d hoped it would be? EVEN COOLER.