These Model Flying Ships Are Whimsical But Also Really Real

You can spend a lot of time on model-building or paper airplane folding, but Italian architect Luigi Prina does both. His flying models hang from the ceiling of his small studio as a reminder of his 20+ year design hobby.

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This Documentary Will Inspire You to Explore Your City With a Camera

This Documentary Will Inspire You to Explore Your City With a Camera

There’s no better playground for a photographer than a bustling, loud, dynamic city. In the documentary Everybody Street, which just dropped on Vimeo, some of New York’s most iconic photogs talk about the challenge and excitement of shooting everyday urban life.

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Glass Blowing Set to Jazz Is Absolutely Mesmerizing

Glass Blowing Set to Jazz Is Absolutely Mesmerizing

Videos of glass blowing may be a dime a dozen, but there’s something different about the 1959 Academy Award-winning documentary, Glas. The entire 10-minute short is set to an occasionally eerie mixture of jazz, bebop, and the metallic punctuations of industry at work.

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You Wouldn’t Think To Set Up Such Clever Domino Destruction

At 20,000 to 25,000 dominoes total, what you’re seeing in this video doesn’t come close to the world record. But that doesn’t matter, because these domino setups are incredibly involved and creative.

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Amazing video reveals what it’s like to be able to see The Matrix

Amazing video reveals what it's like to be able to see The Matrix

Math, it’s so boring. Said everyone anytime anyone ever asked them to do basic arithmetic. But it doesn’t have to be! Yann Pineill & Nicolas Lefaucheux of Parachutes.tv has dispelled the notion that math is boring by making it look beautiful. Yes, beautiful. And a little bit like seeing The Matrix.

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Important Reminder of How Dumb You Look Posing for Photos

It’s a timeless gag by now, but one that never seems to get old. Tell your friends you’re taking their picture, and have them hold some contrived pose for seconds on end while you sneakily record video. Especially if they are at a club, and have dumb glowy stuff on their faes.

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Behind the Scenes of Blood Manor, One of NYC’s Scariest Haunted Houses

Walk through New York City’s Blood Manor in the dark, and you might have a heart attack. Explore it with the lights up and you’ll see a series of simple tech tricks designed to scare the pants off you.

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Don’t Forget How Beautiful the World Is

Living in cities, driving on freeways, going to work, sitting in cubicles, shopping at supermarkets, surrounding yourself in urban density and all around stepping away from nature makes it easy to forget how beautiful she can be. We should never forget.

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7 Things You Do On the Internet That’d Be Creepy to Do in Real Life

You’re a different person online compared to your real life. It’s okay. You don’t have to irrationally like cats just because you’re obsessed with cat videos. You don’t have to literally poke the people you poked on Facebook. You don’t have to like or follow or tag or comment or stalk celebrities like you do on the Internet. Because if you did that in real life, you’d be a total creep. BuzzFeed Video imagined 7 things that’d be super creepy to do in real life, even though you do them on the Internet. [BuzzFeed Video]

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Blowing Up Pumpkins with C4 and Detonating Cords Seems Way More Fun

What do you call the Halloween equivalent of being a Christmas Grinch? Because whatever it is, that’s what I am now. Gone are the happy days of trick or treating and dressing up in clever costumes and getting the brain blitzed to an unrecognizable shade of matter and carving intricate pumpkins and so on, instead all I want to do is blow up pumpkins like our friends at Rated RR. He used C4 and det cord to create explosions better than any Halloween party. [Rated RR]

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