This is a video from Youtuber Half-Asleep Chris (just imagine what he could accomplish with a pot of coffee), who built an amusement park river ride in his backyard for a LEGO boat. In his own words: “It goes through caves, crystal grottos, temples, and more, inspired by the likes
These are several videos of Swiss shepherd Odin running around holding a 360-degree video camera in his mouth and unknowingly producing some of the best non-erotic videos the internet has ever known. They’re magnificent. I tried to get any one of my three dogs to run around holding a camera
This is a video of singing bassist Wild Bill joining Postmodern Jukebox to perform a rockabilly ragtime cover of the Bee Gee’s 1977 classic disco banger ‘Stayin’ Alive’. They do a fantastic job, and I closed my eyes and imagined I was in a Wild West saloon listening to it
This is a video from a GoPro attached beneath the board of pro skater Dean-Paul Denniston as he makes his way around a skatepark performing a bunch of flippy tricks and slides. It was pretty neat to watch. Have I told you that I broke my arm skateboarding? Well, I
This is a video of guitarist Andrea Boma Boccarusso providing a history of rock from 1965 – 2022, playing one popular song riff for each year. Man, there were a LOT of tasty jams in there. So many if you could preserve and jar them you could make a fortune
Created by photographer Brett Foxwell of bfophoto using 12,000 leaves he collected and pressed, this is a stop motion animation of a leaf morphing shape and color over the course of two and a half minutes. Organizing all those leaf photos into a fluid animation must have been quite the
In honor of the playoffs (which unfortunately the Cubs aren’t participating in this year), this is a beautiful drone fly-through of Wrigley Field. It starts outside in the neighborhood surround the park, flying through bars, then into the stadium, then back outside, then through the clubhouse and locker room, then
Art: it’s everywhere. Except at my friend’s recent gallery show. I’m not sure what that was, but it wasn’t art. This is a video of musician and artist Yohei Kisanuki creating some trippy zoetropic art using a whiteboard and marker atop a spinning potter’s wheel. It was fun to watch.