To celebrate the Nordland Railway’s 50th anniversary this year, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (or the NRK to the locals) has created an epic ten hour documentary capturing the country’s northernmost railway route that connects the cities of Trondheim and Bodø. But going above and beyond the call of duty, the filmmakers actually recorded the route four different times at the peak of every season. More »
My favorite movies in the world are those that involve time travel. I can’t help it, it’s my weakness. I also love any move with Joseph Gordon Levitt. And Bruce Willis. And hell let’s just add Piper Perabo because she’s just as cute as her name. But I didn’t watch Looper. Man I need to get out more. Okay, I’ll watch it right after I see everything that’s wrong with it in under 3 minutes. [Cinema Sins] More »
Sometimes Google translate doesn’t get it quite right. To illustrate that point in the most outlandish way possible, CDZA took the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme, crunched it through Google Translate for all 64 supported languages, then took it back to English. More »
The Burton snowboard Shaun White expertly uses to make a McTwist look like a cakewalk? Oh, that old thing? It started its life as a tree. Check out how it came to be strapped to the Olympic champion’s feet in this GoPro-shot video. More »
Frosty the Snowman thinks he’s the king of winter with that dapper top hat and hipster corncob pipe. But if like us you’re getting tired of his whole ‘snowier than thou’ attitude, here are ten fantastic ways to take him down a notch—captured in gloriously hypnotizing slow motion. If Frosty still believes an early spring is his biggest enemy, he’s sadly mistaken. [YouTube] More »
Convicted killer Luke Miller has spent the last 10 years in a Scottish prison for the 2003 murder of his 14-year-old girlfriend Jodi Jones, a crime he insists he didn’t commit. So his supporters have been lobbying that a polygraph test indicating his innocence be made public to draw attention to his case, in hopes that the courts might reconsider his sentence—or even set him free. More »
The breaking of the Enigma Code is one of the most interesting stories in the history of computing—but it’s not necessarily easy to get your head around. Fortunately, this video provides an amazingly straightforward explanation of how the code was cracked. More »
ILM or Industrial Light & Magic or the wonderful CGI wizards who create visual effects that are better than real life just gave a look behind the curtain of its fantasy shop to show us how they created the Hulk in The Avengers. More »
This guy was watching an LAPD car chase on TV when the cars involved in the police hunt materialized right on his backyard. Obviously, he couldn’t believe his own eyes. This is the ultimate 3D TV, people. More »
Here’s a look at videographer James Bernal’s 2012 in 365 seconds. Bernal captured one-second of video a day using a Canon 5D MKII, a GoPro, and an iPhone, and assembled the clips into a stirring montage. It’s funny how epic real life can seem when you slice it into particles. Here’s to a 2013 full of tiny hugeness. [Laughing Squid] More »
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