This is a video of Sith cosplayer Kurt Mannebach, who has a nifty trick to make his lightsaber hover around him when thrown for EXTRA dark lord flair. And that trick, obviously, is actually being able to harness the Force. And my mom said it wasn’t real! View this post
This is a video of two ovesized Beyblade style battle tops (launched with an angle grinder!) pitted against each other in an arena that’s set on fire. That’s…something. Something I could watch all day! More of this please, I just searched Youtube and only found one other example, I NEED
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
Proof that there is a fountain of youth and some people have drank from it, this is a video of an elderly gentleman joining a break dance battle in Las Vegas while Nirvana’s ‘Lithium’ plays. He’s certainly got the moves — he reminds me of Christopher Walken dancing in Fatboy
This is a video of a roller skater releasing a skate from his foot, letting it arc around the concessions area, then regrouping with his skate further down the rink. That’s incredible. And I should know, I’m quite the accomplished roller skater myself. When I was a kid I won
This is a video from a thermal imaging drone that was used to help locate Chibs, a golden retriever that had gone missing from his family’s home in Coventry, Rhode Island for 16 days. The drone camera was volunteered by Andre Rocke, owner of Four K Videos. Some more info,
This is an 8-hour Youtube video just released by NASA in the form of a traditional yule log video, except it’s an untraditional rocket engine instead. I’m already warming my hands against my computer screen! Just what you need for the holidays… the coziness of a crackling and roaring rocket
This is a clip of Sanrio characters interacting across two 3D billboards outside of Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. Is this the best use of 3D display technology? There’s no question, and I don’t expect to see anything more impressive until 4D billboards, which, let’s not kid ourselves, Japan probably already