This is a video from a 10km (~6.2 mile) toboggan trail in the Swiss Alps. That looks like a good time, complete with some relatively high speed straightaways and hairy turns. For reference, the longest sled ride I’ve ever taken was from the top of the hill at the local

Because who needs wind, this is a video of kite-flier Spence “Watty” Watson flying a custom kite he built for the indoor audience at the recent 2023 South Padre Island Kite Fest in Texas. How do you fly a kite indoors with no wind? You run around, because you are

This is a video tour of the permanent Duché de Bicolline LARPing village built in Quebec, Canada. The area includes “hundreds of wooden structures, tent villages, a fort, and a battlefield.” This is a tour taken during setup for The Grand Battle 2022, at which time cars and cell phones

This is a video of a cosplayer dressed as 16-bit pixelated Samus in a Metroid Dread skin of her Super Metroid armor created by Dan of Dan Cartell Art, with the addition of the spinning morph ball made by @ccamp88.rupk. Man, I still remember at the end of the original

Because sometimes you just have to get medieval on a stump, this is a video of modern Hobbit Jacob of Youtube channel Cabinland chopping wood using a chain flail axe he made. Per Jason: “The advantages of the flail axe are numerous. The build up of kinetic energy achieved through

Captured by wildlife photographer Steve Biro, this shot of Bruce the Bald Eagle flying over the water directly at the camera is almost too perfect to believe it’s real. Such symmetry! And they way his wingtips are just brushing the water’s surface…so majestic. I mean except for that derpy look

This is a video of 8th grader Aidan Brown performing Korsakov’s ‘Flight Of The Bumblebee’ on saxophone, and absolutely killing it. Wicked sax skills, bro. For reference, the only sax skills I had in middle and high school were hacky sax skills. I could consistently keep it in the air

This is a video of chocolatier Amaury Guichon (previously) attempting his most ambitious chocolate sculpture to date: a massive 8-foot, 550 pound velociraptor made entirely from chocolate (no armature or anything). Damn! Amaury says the whole process took about 10 days, and he’s very pleased with the result. I am