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 video of the dream-livers from Youtube channel How Ridiculous attempting to cut a car in half by dropping it from 45-meters (~148 Feet) onto a massive axe blade. They also drop some other stuff onto the blade including a jet-ski, fire extinguisher, and a bunch of unopened
In the opposite of yesterday’s video news, this is a video of a Polaris ATV performing a steep hill climb in Kentucky. Or at least it looks steep from this angle, but it’s probably just an optical illusion because SPOILER: the earth is flat. Just kidding, it’s round like a
To celebrate his 76th birthday, this is a video of Rubik’s Cube artist BigWendy creating a portrait of Erno Rubik while blindfolded, using those tactile Rubik’s Cubes. That’s nice, I bought him cupcakes. Well, I bought me cupcakes. Some more info: As a Happy Birthday, I dedicated my first blindfolded
Seen here doing his best Wolverine, this is a video of Youtuber the Hacksmith building a pneumatic exoskeletal suit to cheat his way to the bicep curl world record, with a 255-pound curl (the all-human record is currently 249.12 pounds, as set by arm wrestler Denis Cyplenkov). I mean the
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
This is a short video of a man demonstrating how to hide in plain sight using a length of flexible ducting. One second he’s here, and the next he’s part of some giant HVAC system or something. Obviously, this probably wouldn’t fool a Predator, and– “I’d hit it.” apparently Optimus
This a video from the Windows to the Deep expedition off the coast of South Carolina starring a team of researchers commenting on the shark-on-swordfish-carcass feeding frenzy when a large grouper casually grabs a shark up in a single bite. Apparently the grouper used the unmanned submersible as cover to