This is a video of woodworker Oleksandr Hrytsai carving a life-size xenomorph skull out of dozens of cross-sections of oak he glued together. I would have gone with a solid piece of oak myself, but that’s just me and I know nothing about wood, woodworking, or anything worth knowing in

This is a video of artist Bobby Duke carving a smaller pencil INSIDE A PENCIL, and a smaller pencil INSIDE THAT SMALLER PENCIL. And with empty space between each pencil too, they’re only attached at the tips and erasers. That’s wild. Perhaps TOO wild. I tried calling the wild police

This is a clip from BBC Studios of a beaver in Yellowstone National Park felling a cottonwood tree and building a dam with it. Apparently beavers can take down a tree like this in a few hours, and a single beaver can fell several hundred trees a year. It’s amazing

Because taste is half presentation, this is a cheese board that was designed to look like a record turntable, complete with spinnable slate platter, cheese knife tone arm, and some moveable dials. That’s fun. Of course if I see this at a party I’ll have no choice but to spin

These are a couple videos of Wyrmwood Furniture making a beautiful inlaid wood desk featuring a scene from the original Super Mario Bros. game using over 2,000 pieces of precision cut wood. Now that — that’s a quality desk. Way better than mine. Of course mine could actually be made

This is a video of Jack Mack of appropriately named Jack Mack Woodturning producing a walnut bowl that appears to spin clockwise AND counterclockwise simultaneously. The illusion is made possible by adjusting the lathe’s RPM so it matches the frame rate of the camera. That’s cool, but with all those

This is a video of woodworker Cory Rusch of Fortress Fine Woodworks building a beautiful flame cherry wooden table with a fire vortex in the middle (created via a fan and spiral of 3D printed tubes below). His woodworking is top-notch, but his fire vortex construction leaves something to be

These are several videos of the work of João Paulo Gonçalves, who uses carefully placed wooden blocks illuminated by a mirrored bulb in the center to produce precisely shaped shadows. How about that! Me and my shadow? We’re not talking. We got into a huge fight after he said he’s