Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018

An Instructional Video on How to Fly With a Baby

As anyone who has attempted it will know, flying with a baby can be a fraught and traumatic experience for the parent. Any advice is greatly received, so if you’re a parent who’s due to fly check out the latest ‘How to Dad’ tutorial from New Zealander dad, Jordan Watson, and his adorable daughter.

Saturday, January 13th, 2018

100 People Show What It Looks Like When They Cry

Cut video have previously shown what 10 strangers’ O faces look like and what people look like when they’re kissing. Now they’ve filmed 100 people crying in the latest iteration of their “100 People” series, so we get to see what old and young look like when they’re bawling their eyes out.

Friday, January 12th, 2018

The Best End Credits in Movie History

Thanks to the Marvel movies and the like, audiences are used to staying in their seats to watch a post credit scene. And it’s because we can’t get enough of the movies when they end that we want more. Filmmakers have always known this though, whether they’re linking us to a new movie, giving us [...]

Thursday, January 11th, 2018

A Video Tribute to the Coen Brothers

If you’re a fan of their work, the films of Joel and Ethan Coen are some of the finest that modern Hollywood has produced. Not only are they prolific filmmakers but their movies have won over audiences, won awards, and enjoyed both critical and commercial success.

Wednesday, January 10th, 2018

‘The Squibbening’—Staging a Bloody (But Fake) Explosive Death Scene

Comedian Matt Gourley has, since being a pre-teen, been making movies with his friends and experimenting with special effects and pyrotechnics. Then he figured out how to fabricate a squib, which is a miniature explosive device used in the film industry, which, combined with a bag of fake blood, simulates a bullet hit.

Tuesday, January 9th, 2018

Woman Becomes First Person To Run A Marathon Without Talking About It

It’s quite an achievement to run a marathon, it’s something else though to train and run one without talking about it incessantly. This brave and courageous woman did just that. She didn’t once take to social media to update statuses with how many miles she ran that morning, or how painful her legs feel.

Friday, January 5th, 2018

The Best Cinema Dialogue of All Time

In movies, good dialogue is right up there with the best of entertaining filmmaking, whether it be arguing, bickering, threatening or subtext-filled bantering. In this video from Cinefix they look over what they consider to be the best dialogue of all time. Naturally there had to be a Quentin Tarantino in there, and they pick [...]

Thursday, January 4th, 2018

Lunch Atop A Skyscraper: The Story Behind The 1932 Photo

As far as images of construction workers goes, the famous black and white photo taking during construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, New York City is probably the most well known. It’s insane to think here was a bunch of workers taking a lunch break on a steel beam 800ft in the air. The [...]

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018

How Cars Went from Boxy to Curvy

It’s something most people, even those who don’t drive, have noticed—cars in the 1970s had square, boxy designs while those made in the 1990s are much curvier. Basically something happened to cars in the 1980s where the angled edges gave way to smooth curves, but why did that happen? What prompted it?

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018

Terminator 2 as a Toy Commercial

Terminator 2 is pretty much one of the greatest action movies ever, full of iconic scenes and quotable lines of dialogue—but imagine, if you will, that instead of being an action movie for the ages James Cameron’s 1991 movie was instead a toy commercial. And the toy it was for was an actual, and hopefully [...]

Sunday, December 31st, 2017

Guy Photoshops Himself Singing into Stock Photos

Stock photos have really come into their own in the age of photo and video editing software, as it means the straight-laced poses of the models can be used very creatively. And that’s what’s happening in this video by MysteryGuitarMan who has placed himself singing in stock photos, making for very amusing results.