Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Tuesday, April 8th, 2014

Enjoy This 360° Spherical Panorama Timelapse Bike Ride Made Using 6 GoPro Cameras

German photographer Jonas Ginter spent two years perfecting his “little planet” effect for this timelapse video, which sees Ginter creating a 360° world using panoramic photographs by taking numerous shots and then stitching them all together to create a spherical panorama. But to make it look extra special (and extra weird) he used 6 [...]

Monday, April 7th, 2014

Mario Destroys This Guy’s House While He’s Out

Next time you make one of your rare excursions out of your home to go stock up on more snacks and alcohol, just be sure that Mario isn’t watching and waiting to come and destroy your abode when you walk out the door. Because that’s what happened to this guy, as the little plumber jumped [...]

Monday, April 7th, 2014

Tarantino’s Camera Angel: How to Slate Film the RIGHT Way

Known as Tarantino’s Camera Angel this is Geraldine Brezca, who’s worked with the director over several films, and these are her Inglorious Basterds film clapper outtakes where she brings a certain individuality and charm to closing shut the clapperboard for different scenes. Her own unique style sees her doing seemingly random scene calls before clapping [...]

Sunday, April 6th, 2014

The Flaming Side of the Rainbow—Pink Floyd, Wizard of Oz and Flaming Lips Synced Together

We’re all familar with the old myth of Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon syncing with The Wizard of Oz if you play both of them at the same time, one appearing to correspond with the other. Well, now The Flaming Lips have released a companion piece to Floyd’s classic album, Flaming [...]

Saturday, April 5th, 2014

Bizarre Reversed Footage of a Man Walking Backwards in Tokyo

What’s a relatively simple idea, filming a guy, Ludovic Zuili, walking backwards and then reversing the footage, results in something strange and mesmerizing to watch. The above clip, as it states, is actually an extract from the entire film which is nine hours long and was broadcasted in its entirety on a network in France.

Saturday, April 5th, 2014

How To Tell if You’re a Basic Bitch

It might not be something you’re willing to admit, but are you or someone you know a basic bitch? For instance, in college did you own a pair of sweat pants that said “sexy” on the butt? If so then you may want to seek professional help right away, because you might have a serious [...]

Friday, April 4th, 2014

9 Year Old Girl Covers Johnny Cash—And Other Kids Who Rock

These young ‘uns prove that rock and roll (and country and metal) don’t just have to be for the grown ups (apart from the drugs and sex of course), because the kids are pretty alright too when it comes to rocking a jam. Take the little people featured here, not content to just listen to [...]

Thursday, April 3rd, 2014

Star Wars Featurette: The Birth of the Lightsaber

If you’ve seen series like Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix or, god forbid, you read a book or something crazy like that you’ll probably be aware that George Lucas soaked up and spat out a whole bunch of different influences for the original Star Wars trilogy. In this 15 minute short he, along with [...]

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014

Automated Selfies Are Here! SelfieBot by Orbotix

Could there be anything greater in this world than automating those constant selfies you take? Meet SelfieBot who is here to improve your 21st century life by hovering by your side and recording your special snowflake of a life in high def—so humankind can remember it for evermore and it can enrich the culture of [...]

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014

House of Thrones: When Game of Thrones meets House of Cards

Frank Underwood is as ruthless and ambitious as politicians come, so he’d fit in very well over in Westeros, where murder and corruption are pretty much the default actions of those in power. But it seems that not even the Seven Kingdoms can contain Underwood, who sets about wreaking havoc amongst the families.

Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

Oculus Facebook Rift Gameplay Footage

If you were wondering what the Oculus Facebook hook up might result in, these guys have totally nailed it in this video—sure Facebook might say they’re not going to interfere with Oculus but you just know that when the hardware finally gets released to us norms, Facebook will make sure their product is intimately entwined [...]