Inspired by the old paper shredder his mom was throwing out, artist Japhy Riddle added wheels to it and transformed it into a piece of kinetic art, pulling itself along and endlessly shredding provided it has a piece of paper long enough, and its power cord reaches. The machine gives

Seen here showing off the rolls made especially for giants, this is a video tour of the Marutomi Paper Co. factory in Japan, which produces millions of rolls of toilet paper every month. Me? Personally I use about four rolls a month, plus several emergency magazine pages and a sock

This is a video of Basha High School students participating in the school’s annual paper toss down a stairwell to celebrate the end of the school year and graduation. That’s a lot of trees. When is this tradition going to be updated to an iPad drop? Because that’s something I’d

This is a VICE video highlighting the work of Wales-based paper sculptor Polly Verity, who creases and folds paper with the very best of them. Per Polly: “The actual act of putting a crease into a piece of paper, committing to that crease, and just running along that line —

This is a video of physicist and origami artist Robert J. Lang explaining and teaching origami based on five different levels of difficulty, starting with child, then moving to teen, college student, graduate student, and expert. Are those actually logical skill levels to define? I mean I have a master’s

Because dream it and you can achieve it, this is a video of Finnish artist Juho Könkkölä folding a single square piece of 68cm (~27-inch) “wafer-thin Wenzhou paper” into a 20cm (~8-inch) samurai warrior over the course of 50 hours (thankfully, the video is condensed to five minutes) with no

From musician Jeremy Messersmith’s Mixtape For The Milky Way, this is the music video for ‘Video Games’, a song about growing up playing video games, and still playing video games, and what they meant to him then, and mean now. The music video created by Eric Power is fantastic, featuring

Because I was just going to doodle a bunch of nudie stick figures all over those pages anyways, this is a video from the Hydraulic Press Channel of several different stacks of paper exploding under a 150 ton hydraulic press’s incredible pressure. Me? I crumble under even the slightest pressure.