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.
These are several videos highlighting Norway’s Preikestolen (aka Pulpit Rock), a naturally formed granite overhang with a sheer drop of 604-meters (1,982 feet). The rock attracts some 300,000 visitors each year, and was formed 10,000 years ago in the most recent Ice Age. And, unlike US tourist attractions, the overhang
The River Rock Doormat is a very real $90 product that exists for sale on Amazon (affiliate link, because I know you’re all going to buy one) and isn’t just a one-off made by a neighbor who considers themselves crafty and has access to a free Saturday afternoon and hot
This is a video of angler Andy Moore retelling the story of how he unknowingly discovered a 90-million year old fish fossil in the Missouri River during a fishing tournament. He’s very animated in his storytelling. Those waving arms (especially at 1:25) speak volumes. One about either being overexcited he’s
This is a short video of the weight of a gravel filled dump truck causing a sidewalk to collapse, and the truck to evacuate its load into the canal below. Um, hopefully that’s where they wanted all that gravel, although I’d definitely try to save some for filling the hole
Captured by drone pilot Ísak Finnbogason in his Icelandic homeland, this is some aerial footage of a newly active Litli-Hrútur volcano fissure spewing molten lava. Liquid rock, that’s nuts. Some details from Isak: Some things cant be put in words, mind blown at the first day of the new volcano
This is a video of a group of adventurers who are neither claustrophobic nor afraid of the dark pushing a large rock over the side of a 600-foot pit in a cave to hear the sound it makes. And what a sound it does make! I thought for sure they’d