Apr 21
Thomas Kadlec has recreated the USS Voyager’s bridge for Oculus Rift—the ultra-realistic and totally immersive virtual reality headset recently bought by Facebook. Watch it in action in this video.
Apr 19
And now one freakin’ huge explosion
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One freakin’ goddamn huge explosion at some open-pit mine or a road construction or who knows what. Don’t know, don’t care: It’s a freakin’ huge explosion. That’s all, people. Enjoy.
Apr 14
When a semi-trailer truck carrying a rig filled with toilet paper crashes into a bridge, what happens? A giant mess. A giant mess that someone has to clean up. This timelapse shows a city clean up crew picking up all the crap, repackaging it for another truck and getting the streets clean so that no one would know what’s going on. This is six and a half hours of work shrunken down to two minutes. It’s kind of like seeing SimCity characters go to work, only they’re real people.
Apr 14
After seeing this video of strong magnets destroying glass in slow motion, I really wish I had a few to play with now. Magneto was always my favorite supervillain.
Apr 14
The Blood Moon is happening tonight. Our only natural satellite will turn red when the Earth blocks the Sun but, why doesn’t it just disappear from the sky? Why does it glow red and orange instead? The reason is simple, as this simulation made by NASA Goddard Visualization Studio shows.
Apr 11
Here’s a fun little easter egg in Captain America: The Winter Soldier: In the beginning of the movie, we get a peek of Captain America’s list of things he missed out on while he was asleep. Things like I Love Lucy and the Moon landing and Steve Jobs fill up his cute "things to catch up on to do list" but the funny thing is that the list is different depending on which country the movie is shown in.
Apr 11
Andre Maat had the brilliant idea to play with the shape and consistency of wood in his stop-motion video Woodoo and it warps the naturally stiff material into a living, breathing (and smoking object). The execution is pretty fantastic, each shape fluidly transforms into another. I love it when things do things they’re not supposed to.
Apr 10
French juggler Lindzee Poi is a wizard who basically turns a set of juggling rings into a mind warping finger dance. Poi is so fluid that your mind really thinks the rings are moving on their own. I love it when my brain can’t process what’s in front of it.
Apr 09
Imagine Venice with all its channels frozen solid. That’s what art director Robert Jahns did, using Photoshop with pretty neat results. I’d like to explore the city skating.
Apr 09
Professional photographer Blair Bunting takes some really awesome photos. He’s also an aviation freak. So much that he has flown in a F-16 twice—and he’s the honorary commander of the USAF 425th FS (Singaporean Air Force). He captured the incredible shot above in his latest flight with the Thunderbirds. Here are some of his photos:
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