This is ‘Synthetic Summer’ a beer commercial that was allegedly created entirely with artificial intelligence by creative firm Private Island using text-prompts via AI programs like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and ControlNet. Um, did those text prompts include “fire tornado” and “backyard human barbecue”? Or is this just a perfect example

I’m pretty sure I posted this on Geekologie many moons ago, but it’s resurfaced like a mermaid trying to lure me into the water and my death by its hungry shark friends, so I’m tempting fate and posting it again. It’s a video of a red octopus battling a swimmer

This is a video of self proclaimed science enthusiast and race car driver Chris Rollins constructing and testing the world’s fastest garbage can, a 12HP trike in a green plastic bin that manages to hit a blistering 63MPH. Now, I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but that is

A feet of modern engineering, this motorized electric skateboard built by Youtuber Vagabond Works (vagabonds typically don’t work is the thing) moves on 24 legs inspired by the Strandbeest kinetic sculptures of Theo Jansen. It’s totally rideable and steerable too, featuring two motors powering its legs, and a 661 pound

Proving that everything is, in fact, bigger in Texas, this is a video captured by Kiki Consuelo on a San Antonio highway of a man driving his custom Lowes shopping cart car. That thing…wow. Everybody’s dream is different, remember that. @kikiconsuelo #lowes #sanantonio #ridindirty #cars #funny #shopping #shoppingcart #engineer @lowes

This is a highlight reel from Florence based fashion house AVAVAV’s ‘Disaster’ themed Fall/Winter 2023 fashion show during Milan Fashion Week, in which all the clothes rip, break, or otherwise fall off the models wearing them. Ha, this happens to me all the time! And my girlfriend accuses me of

This is some security cam footage from a laundromat of a dryer spectacularly exploding in a fireball, narrowly missing a customer who just left the business with his clean whites. People are speculating what caused the explosion, suggesting everything from lint to a lighter in someone’s pocket to fart-soaked underwear.

This is a local news report featuring security cam footage of 57-year old Michael Mastin of Baton Rouge, Louisiana relieving himself into one of the water treatment tanks at the Donaldsonville water plant, where he worked. Unfortunately for him, the act proved detrimental to his career, and he was fired