This is a video of what Marvin Gaye’s rendition of ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’ sounds like with his vocals isolated. SPOILER: Amazing. Man….what a voice. For reference, my voice kinda sounds like– “A cross between a garbage disposal full of gravel and a fart in an airport bathroom.”
This is Bataille de boules de neige (Snowball Fight) by Louis Lumière, a short silent film shot in Lyon, France in 1896 that’s been upscaled and colorized using DeOldify, an open-source AI tool that does just that. The result is impressive. Also, I really liked the plot: everybody nail the
This is a video of very talented violinist Rob Landes performing the Super Mario World theme with increasing difficulty, from noob to epic. By the end he’s playing the theme AND all the sound effects in the game as they happen. That is impressive. Maybe not as impressive as when
This is a video of hardware hacker and Twitter user @r1ckp (sweet Penfold profile pic, btw) demonstrating the new interactive LEGO Super Mario toy that he modded to function as a controller to play the original Super Mario Bros., including the ability to shoot fireballs and go down warp pipes
This is Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ covered in classical Latin (75 BC to 3rd Century AD) as arranged by Youtuber the_miracle_aligner with instrumentals by Sir Stantough and translation by AB. It’s not bad. Although I didn’t take Latin in high school so I’m not sure how the translation holds
This is a video of fifth generation tatami (traditional Japanese woven straw mat) craftsman Kenji Yamada producing a giant dragon design for a room. How awesome is that? If you take martial arts lessons in a dojo with a floor that looks like this, there’s no way your sensei doesn’t