This is a video of 37-year old Japanese Zen Buddhist monk Yogetsu Akasaka layering sounds and chants all created with his own voice into this ‘Heart Sutra x beatbox live-looping remix’. Apparently prior to becoming a monk Yogetsu was a beatboxer, busker, and theater actor. Now he’s a beatboxer and
This is a 3D visualization created by the folks at MetaBallStudios comparing the sizes of various fictional flying machines. It was fun enough to watch, but I’m more than a little upset they forgot to include my favorite fictional flyer of all time. “Rose from Titanic.” Ahahahahhaha, I showed this
Because everything, including musical taste, is cyclical, this is a cover of Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ by Hildegard von Blingin’ (previously: Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’) in the style of a medieval banger being performed for the king at a feast where everyone is eating giant turkey drumsticks and
This is a video of a man showing off his homemade Jack Daniels bottle water fountain. I like how the water is brown, that’s a nice touch. Or is it actually whiskey? *puts cup in fountain, sips, smacks lips* Tastes like– “DISAPPOINTED.” Haha, thanks, Kevin Sorbo. “In the video, I
This is a video of Pixar director (Monsters, Inc., Up, Inside Out, and the coming-this-fall Soul) Pete Docter discussing and demonstrating how to make flip books from the comfort of his closet (what is all that stuff blowing around? You need to invest in a HEPA filter, bro. Also, who
Seen here being modeled by a man pretending to change his own gears, this is the Giant Convertible Car Inflatable Pool Float created by Hoovy and available on Amazon. The $100 float is over eight feet long, almost five feet wide, has a suggested weight limit of 300-pounds, and is
This is the Star Trek uniform inspired bedding created by Character World. Available only in twin size for an extra challenge while making all the love you’re definitely about to while wearing prosthetic Vulcan ears, there’s a blue Star Trek: Discovery command set available on Amazon (~$35), as well as
This is a video of chemical engineer James Orgill of The Action Lab producing what he’s dubbed dry slime — slime that has been mixed with fumed silica (available on Amazon — often used as a thickener and anticaking agent) so it forms strings that don’t want to stick to