Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Thursday, January 8th, 2015

Amazing Real-time Face-Hacking Produces Futuristic Digital Makeup

Prepare to have your mind blown by Nobumichi Asai and his team of designers and makeup artists as they morph two guys’ faces into a range of different digital masks in real-time using face-tracking technology and 3D projection mapping. The results are totally convincing, completely changing the men’s appearance.

Monday, January 5th, 2015

Everything Wrong With Guardians Of The Galaxy

You might think: how can anyone pick fault with the best movie of the year? Well, the guys from Cinema Sins can and they take 15 minutes to point out some of its sins and some of the plot holes you may have missed because you were too busy admiring how awesome the movie and [...]

Monday, January 5th, 2015

Selfies Anonymous Is A Support Group For Photo Obsessives

OK, this isn’t an intervention or anything, just some concerned friends who are worried about you. The fact is, you’re taking too many #selfies and you need help. But you don’t need to do it alone, not when there are support groups like Selfies Anonymous.

Sunday, January 4th, 2015

The Mars Underground

In this documentary pioneering Marsphile Dr. Robert Zubrin shows his dream of wanting to put humans on the red planet in the next ten years. He just has to convince NASA that his plan will work — using animation the documentary shows how the journey might play out and how a terraformed Mars might look.

Friday, January 2nd, 2015

A Nerd Fights off Bullies With The Help of Some Magical Hulk Hands

In this comedy short by Ari Fararooy a bullied “turd nugget” of a nerd gets his own back on the jocks who give him an epic wedgie, after he stumbles upon some toy Hulk hands. But these Hulk hands aren’t just any old toy, they possess supernatural powers that give him superhuman strength to beat [...]

Friday, January 2nd, 2015

The Best Fails of the Year are Collected in the Ultimate Fails Compilation 2014

If any compilation video of the year deserves 25 minutes of your hungover time, it’s this fail compilation which gathers together all the fails you probably saw and lots you probably missed too and lines them up like a bumper episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos, expect this is worth actually watching.

Wednesday, December 31st, 2014

Guy Gets Lifted 8,000 ft in the Air By Balloons

What does it take to lift a lawn chair into the air? Erik Roner finds out by tying 90 balloons to one and then filling them with 50 tanks of helium to take himself on a special and no doubt nerve-racking journey into the sky as he travels 8,000 feet into the air.

Wednesday, December 31st, 2014

Is Math a Feature of the Universe or a Feature of Human Creation?

OK, enough cat videos and people falling over in kids’ playgrounds, it’s time to contemplate math and whether or not it exists or whether humanity dreamt it up and has been wrapped up in our own creation ever since. It’s like a math class but if the cast of Inception were your teachers. We need [...]

Tuesday, December 30th, 2014

Eminem Admits He’s Gay… in a Scene from The Interview

There’s a lot of damning material in The Interview for North Korea’s leader, but there’s also some surprises in there for one of rap’s greatest stars. Like this scene with James Franco interviewing Eminem, where the rapper reveals the reason behind some of his lyrics appearing as homophobic: it’s because he’s gay.

Tuesday, December 30th, 2014

Watch Speedy Ortiz’s Strange Music Video For Track “Tiger Tank”

In this weird music video directed by Matthew Caron the band Speedy Ortiz are seen playing in a basement filled with shredded paper which is juxtaposed with a girl getting dressed up for a night out—but this is no ordinary night out, this girl’s going for a night of underground amateur wrestling.

Monday, December 29th, 2014

‘Metachaos’—A Short, Mind-warping Film About Chaos And Stasis

Prepare to get freaked out by Alessandro Bavari’s short film ‘Metachaos’, which takes as its inspiration some pretty weighty material, namely the hidden eternally-formless state of the universe, where things are without identity and conscience, spaceless and timeless.