Our obsession with hacking life to become more efficient beings of human knows no end. We bookmark links that promise to make picnicking more enjoyable, we scour the internet for kitchen tricks and watch endless videos that promise anywhere from 7 to 101 life changing tips. But how often do these life hacks actually stick? 1 out of every 100? Every thousand? It’s like sifting for gold.
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Want to watch an expensive, dangerous, and mesmerizing fireworks display in your living room? It’s easy. Just buy a plasma TV and then hook it up to 2000 volts.
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YouTube: you know it as a land where even the most adorable video of a puppy can devolve into a thread of racist, sexist, homophobic gobbledygook in an instant. But would it help if the site’s notoriously awful comments were sung by an angelic choir?
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If you don’t care about the Mileys and the Biebers like most sane humans of this world, one of the most iconic music videos to you is probably Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Or maybe Billie Jean. Or is it Smooth Criminal? Beat It? Actually, it can be five more MJ creations. But Thriller is somethin’. And it’s even more somethin’ when masterfully recreated with Lego. This isn’t your usual pop culture rendition cutely done with Lego minifigures, it’s recreating an epic scene of a short musical with Lego bricks as pieces of art. Magnificent. [Talking Animals via BoingBoing]
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Here’s a fantastic short for you sci-fi fans: Record/Play, directed by Jesse Atlas, is a short film that covers time travel, love, changing fate, war, memories and cassette tapes. It’s slow building yet tense, you’re itching to see what new wrinkles each play of the tape will bring.
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The dancing orange wisps of fire looks like choreographed chaos when seen in slow motion. It dances, it burns, it shines and it’s easy to get lost in it. But seeing burning fire is a lot different than actually holding it. The guys from Beyond Slow Motion used a nice little trick that never gets old to sprout fire from their bare hands. In slow motion.
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Paris is the city of love. It’s a city of style. A city of taste. It’s a city where life ballets itself around you. Now imagine that dreamy Paris without any people. Without any life. Without any love. Scary! Claire and Maxime of Menilmonde filmed Paris and deleted people, cars and life from the footage and came with this deeply unsettling short.
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Hashtag users of the world who saw the Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon skit that poked fun of our overuse of hashtags
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It’s official. Living in the world of GTA is way better than living in real life. Hell, the only thing real life had on being a criminal in Los Santos was gaspingly beautiful time lapse videos that would pop up every and now again to capture your attention and make you wonder why you can’t see the world like that every day. No more. Here’s a time lapse video created in the world of GTA V. It’s perfect.
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Okay, I have a confession. I didn’t watch Star Trek Into Darkness. Not because I don’t like lens flares or Trekkies or plot holes but because I’m generally just a terrible person at catching movies while they’re in theaters. It’s okay though. From the looks of this latest hilarious video on how movies should have ended by HISHE, I get the general gist now. [HISHE]
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