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You Can't Unhear This looked at "Here Comes the Sun", George Harrison's seminal song that was so perfect and unusual in so many ways. Tablets and Temples explained the ancient origins behind the shoulder angels trope, an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other.
Here’s a demonstration of what happens when you try to wash a brick inside of a washing machine that is bouncing on a trampoline. Here’s another version of the video with music added.
A rescued beaver named Tulip loves fruit so much that she threw an adorable tantrum when the banana she was eating was all gone. Musician AHEE noticed that whales sound like birds when sped up by three octaves and birds sound like whales when slowed down by the same.
Approximately 15 years ago, Australian artist Peter Pound contributed over 950 amazing storyboards and concept art for George Miller‘s hit film Mad Max: Fury Road. It’s interesting to see how little things changed from the time that Pound created the artwork and when the movie actually released this year. More illustrations from the collection are available to view on Pound’s portfolio website. im
An image of the wonderful Japanese cross-dressing TV personality Matsuko Deluxe was subjected to a Photoshop makeover in which the rotund entertainer was made to be thin and petite in just a matter of minutes by the digital artist realretouch. realretouch has also used Photoshop to give Justin Bieber a virtual sex change and transform Angelina Jolie into an Asian woman. via PetaPixel
Will Smith and Norman Chan of Tested made giant papercraft heads for the recent Maker Faire Bay Area with the help of photogrammetry expert Brandon Blizard. The process involved using PhotoScan, Maya, and Pepakura to obtain the final outcome. Instructions on how to make a giant papercraft head are available on Tested’s website. The heads took about about two weeks to build from start to finish, in
Veritasium host Derek Muller gets a good look at the Pyro Board created by YouTube channel Fysikshow. Pyro Board is essentially a 2D version of a Rubens’ tube, a physics demonstration of standing waves using flammable gas. The pressure variations due to the sound waves affect the flow rate of flammable gas from the holes in the Pyro Board and therefore affect the height and colour of flames. This
Ninjas is an upcoming indoor throwing star range and will be the first of its kind in Kentucky. Deadly ninja initiates everywhere will be able to take lessons at the new facility, throw at one of their many lanes, buy over 500 different types of shurikens, and enjoy a beverage at their sake bar. The indoor throwing star range is scheduled to open in spring 2014. video and images via Ninjas submitt
Artist and researcher Nickolay Lamm has created a series of photos that illustrate how cats see the world compared to how people do. The top photo of each pair shows what humans see, the bottom is an estimate of what cats see. Lamm consulted with eye specialists at the University of Pennsylvania veterinary school and learned that cats have a wider field of view, can’t see well at a distance, have
In this fascinating video, Destin of Smarter Every Day takes an in-depth look at the curious phenomena of Prince Rupert’s Drop, a tadpole-shaped glass object that is created when molten glass is dripped into water. The drops have unusual characteristics—the head is extremely resilient and can resist a hammer blow. However, if the tail is even slightly damaged, the whole drop will disintegrate expl
Cats who wake their humans up in the middle of the night or in the very early mornings are not hungry but concerned about safety.
An experimental bird-like robot lands on a human hand in this impressive demonstration. The robot is being developed by researchers Aditya Paranjape, Joseph Kim, and Soon-Jo Chung, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aerospace Robotics and Control Lab. via CNET News
The OPMOD Battle Mug is a tactical coffee mug with mounting points for night vision scopes, lasers, and other rifle accessories (video). It is produced by OPMOD, a manufacturer of outdoor and tactical gear. Thanks to Graeme Wagoner-Lynch for the tip.
Scroll Kit is a website development app with an intuitive interface that is reminiscent of a drawing program. It requires no coding knowledge to use. Scroll Kit is being developed in New York City by Cody Brown and Kate Ray.
Inspired by the Total Eclipse Of The Heart flow chart, love all this created the Hey Jude Flow Chart to help you unravel one of The Beatles’ most complicated songs. A print of the chart is available through Society6. via Merlin Mann
Indian scientist Dr. Mohamed Babu created technicolor ants by feeding colored sugar water to ants with translucent abdomens. Dr. Babu conducted the experiment in his backyard after his wife noticed the ants turning white as they drank spilled milk. via Colossal photos by Dr. Mohamed Babu
Sao Paulo ad agency Moma Propaganda created a wondeful series of retro future ads for Facebook, YouTube and Skype as part of the “Everything Ages Fast” ad campaign for Maximidia Seminars. Moma Propaganda has added a new Twitter ad to the series. UPDATE: High resolution downloadable posters of the vintage ads are now available through Maximidia. via This Isn’t Happiness
My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment. As you can see, after geeking out on my Sutro Tower homescreen, she took right to it — including figuring out how to enlarge some of her favorite iPhone-legacy apps to 2x to display full-size on the iPad screen. If you’re good at understanding kid
Flickr has just launched their long anticipated video feature. I’ve been testing it out for the last couple of weeks and it seems to work pretty well and the embedded player is really nice, but one thing to keep in mind is that the videos are limited to 90 seconds with a max upload size of 150MB. Here’s a video that I’ve uploaded to Flickr of last weekend at the Saint Stupid’s Day Parade. I shot t
Michel Gondry re-creates his own trailer for “Be Kind Rewind”, through a process know as Sweding, which is a key element of the film. It’s a comedy about a junkyard worker (Jack Black) who becomes magnetized and accidentally erases all the tapes in a video store where his friend (Mos Def) works, so they then try to re-create (Swede) all of the movies in the store. This is the original version of t
Musician Jamie Dupuis played a beautifully poignant fingerstyle cover of the classic Pearl Jam song "Black" on his harp guitar.
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