It’s very likely that if you’re reading this, you may be afflicted with Hyper Involuntary Panic Stress Tension Elevation also known as HIPSTER. Or maybe if you’re not, you know someone who is. Here’s the most hilarious way to cure them: Unpretentiousil. This spoof ad drops the science of being a hipster and how it can be broken down with the miracle cure. Brooklyn, Portland, Silver Lake… we’re here to help. [YouTube via TDW] More »
I don’t care about Vine. Everything I’ve seen so far is soporific or sophomoric, boring beyond redemption or a big steamy pile of jerky blurriness. And then—then this happened: these LEGO VINES by Mark Weaver. They are simple, well thought out and visually enjoyable. More »
This is the first song composed and recorded in space, the result of the collaboration of ISS Commander Chris Hadfield and Ed Robertson, the singer of the Barenaked Ladies. Together with the band and the Wexford Gleeks choir, they recorded I.S.S (Is Somebody Singing) using a live connection between the International Space Station and CBC Music’s studio in Toronto, Canada. More »
Fittingly, The Pirate Bay documentary TPB AFK (which stands for The Pirate Bay—Away From Keyboard) is available to watch online for free. It’s not piracy though! The filmmakers put it on YouTube, made it available on The Pirate Bay for torrenters and has offered it as a digital download too. Makes total sense, right? You can watch the entire thing right here. More »
You might be able to watch Nor’Easter Nemo hammer the East Coast right outside your window, but if you’re looking to get a few other angles on the action, there’s a whole bunch of live webcams for your perusal. Check ’em out below. You don’t even have to take off your slanket. More »
Take three minutes of your life to listen to Dr. Jeff Norris, one of the science rock stars at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He talks about how NASA is working to democratize space exploration by using robots, holodecks and 3D technologies so we can all see space with our own eyes using space probes that will travel to other planets and stars. More »
This animation, called The Future by Alex Goddard, is pretty much perfect. Everything is going to hover. In fact, I won’t believe we’re in the future until more things start hovering. My favorite part of the clever animation was when hoverboards are still only ‘coming soon’. [Alex Goddard Vimeo] More »
Here’s something that should have an obvious answer for most people (some crusty folks like me who avoid large crowds and loud sounds would beg to differ), is listening to MP3s and vinyls better than listening to live music? LIVE MUSIC DUH! If you don’t listen to live music, you don’t love music. If you don’t go see a show, you have no soul. Stop being a slave to the mainstream, man. Whatever. But what if it’s… not better? More »
Back to the Future is a classic, a mastery of the zany-time-travel form, and we’d all like to watch it every day if we had the time, I’m sure. But we don’t. Lucky for you, the guys at 1A4 Studio worked a little time-related magic of their own and boiled the whole 116 minute film down into a cool, 60 seconds of animation. It’s a classic in its own right. [Laughing Squid] More »
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