Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Friday, January 23rd, 2015

Early ‘The Facebook’ Commercial From Back in 1995

The Facebook! Such a normal (and possibly infuriating) part of our lives now, but this wasn’t always the case, not back in the mid-90s it wasn’t. Back then it was about as alien as, well, an alien, which is why The Facebook used to have TV commercials to spread its word to the masses.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

Kevin Hart Plays a Gentrified Corner Boy in This Hilarious SNL Sketch

Three corner boys are hanging out, but something’s not right—and that something seems to be their topics of conversation. As Kenan Thompson, Kevin Hart, and Jay Pharoah’s characters discuss their lives, you realise they’re talking like a bunch of middle-class hipsters. Artisan mayonnaise? Paint parties?

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

Raunchy Deleted Scene From ‘You’ve Got Mail’

You’ve Got Mail was a 1990s movie starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan that was pretty much just a remake of Sleepless in Seattle, but with email. It wasn’t really known for being sexy, raunchy or in any way interesting or entertaining, but all that changes when you look at this hot-under-the-collar “deleted scene” of [...]

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

This Insane POV Footage of Freestyle Skier Candide Thovex Will Make Your Head Spin

Candide Thovex is one of the world’s best skiers and a master when it comes to freestyling down the slopes—in this incredible video shot with a GoPro we get a first person’s perspective of Thovex taking to the snow in the resort of Val Blanc in his native France, as he performs stunts and somersault [...]

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

Turning the Nintendo Power Glove into a Stop Motion Animation Tool

Dillon Markey is an animator for Robot Chicken and PES, and so spends a lot of his time preparing and recording stop motion footage. He’s also a longtime fan of the failed Nintendo Power Glove. And so he decided to resurrect this 1980s relic and, with the help of an engineer, turn it into a [...]

Tuesday, January 20th, 2015

Taken 4 Trailer Parody Starring Liam Neeson and Jimmy Kimmel

With the instant success of ‘Taken 3′ after it was recently released in cinemas, they’ve already made another one to cash in on the hype—well, Jimmy Kimmel’s released a parody trailer anyway. But it’s still pretty good, if not quite the length of a full feature film.

Monday, January 19th, 2015

Take a Nostalgic Trip Back to the 90s With ‘Remember 1998′

Ah the end of the 90s! Things were simpler back then, the internet was nothing but fields and you could buy a bottle of beer for a thruppence halfpenny and still have change to feed your tamagotchi. Oh the memories! But don’t trouble yourself straining your brain to actually try and remember 1998, that’s why [...]

Monday, January 19th, 2015

Robot Chicken: A Critical Component

When you look at The Avengers lineup, you do have to question why the heck they have Black Widow and Hawkeye as part of the team. The others possess superhuman powers that can take down gods, but those two are just puny humans. Well it turns out they are, in fact, critical components of the [...]

Sunday, January 18th, 2015

Glitch Music

Glitch music and suitably twitchy, glitchy visuals to accompany the sounds are the order of the day in this video. This is SyncBody, a music visualization tool which responds to music in the form of a human body, a female human body, that looks like some kind of post-human cyborgian cross-breed — a freak of [...]

Saturday, January 17th, 2015

Bill Hicks – Positive Drug Story

Bill may be long gone, but it shows you how much society hasn’t evolved when it comes to recreational drugs that this sketch from his live show Revelations still rings as true today as it did back then. In fact the day we do hear a positive drugs story on the news, is the day [...]

Friday, January 16th, 2015

3D Printed Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures Will Make You Go ‘Wow’

Artist John Edmark created these sculptures which are designed to be spun around under strobe lights—or in this case filmed at a very short shutter speed (1/4000 sec)—which means the sculptures appear animated and warp and change before your eyes. Edmarks notes that “The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method [...]