Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Saturday, March 1st, 2014

Stunning Microscopic Time-lapse of Snowflakes Forming

Chances are you’ve never witnessed a snowflake forming, not unless you have microscopes for eyes—but in the video above from Vyacheslav Ivanov, you can witness the wonder of nature at the microscopic scale in this beautiful timelapse set to Aphex Twin’s track “Avril 14th”. The ice crystals take on hexagonal forms growing in size until [...]

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Want To Know The Secret Identity Of Andy’s Mom In Toy Story?

Online magazine Slate have an article up which reveals exactly who Andy’s mom is in the Toy Story trilogy and what her relationship is to the toys in the films—specifically one toy in particular: Jessie. According to the article, Jon Negroni has a theory that Andy’s mom is in fact Jessie’s previous owner, Emily.

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

Academy Awards PSA with Celebrity Impressions by Piotr Michael

Piotr Michael is an impressionist and voice actor whose spot on impersonations of celebrities like Charlie Sheen, Maggie Smith, Jeff Bridges, Liam Neeson, Steve Buscemi, Ian McKellen, Steve Martin, and John Malkovich will have you making with the lolz as you watch this parody PSA about the Oscars. It’s the best celebrity impression reel featuring [...]

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

These Navy Seal Dogs Are The Ultimate Canine Warrior. Their Skill And Bravery Will Amaze You.

We all know that dogs and man are the greatest human-animal team going, but just how badass this pairing can get is realised to its full potential in the military canines of the Navy Seal. When the SEAL DevGru (Team 6) took down Osama Bin Laden they counted Cairo, a Belgian Malinois war dog, as [...]

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

Hennessey Venom GT Sets New Speed World Record

It’s the fastest production model car on the planet and it goes by the name of the US-made Hennessey Venom GT—this beast of a supercar recently took to Kennedy Space Center’s shuttle runway in Florida where it went from 0 to 200mph in less than 15 seconds and hit a max speed of 270.49mph powered [...]

Wednesday, February 26th, 2014

Everything Wrong With Taken In 9 Minutes Or Less

These guys are brave doing this video, because if Liam Neeson finds out he’ll lose shiz and start giving it the old “I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you!”—so kudos to them for doing it, and if you’re any kind of movie geek then you’ll like nothing more [...]

Wednesday, February 26th, 2014

Spike Jonze’s Impressive RC Heli Shot Intro from Pritty Sweet

Get ready to witness the full awesomeness of Jonze’s intro for 2012’s “Pritty Sweet, A Skateboarding Video”, directed by Jonze and Ty Evan. We start off staring at a skater’s face and then off the helicopter goes with camera attached, flying high above and capturing the skaters below as they rail slide, jump from rooftops, [...]

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

SpongeMen SquareWatch

Imagine if the cast of SpongeBob met Alan Moore’s Watchmen and they morphed together to become one! That’s what animator El Cid has done with his take on these two disparate universes that have come together because he probably got really stoned one day and thought what a brilliant mashup idea it would be. And [...]

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

Hey Kids, It Doesn’t Get Better! – A High School PSA of Hard Truths

High school is usually a pretty crappy time for most people, struggling to fit in or get through the day without getting your pants pulled down and laughed at by your peers—but for a small minority of kids, the really popular ones, the bullies, the cool kids, it’s the best time of their lives, because [...]

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

Must Watch: “Eye of the Tiger” Played on a Dot Matrix Printer

It’s a 1980s rock power classic that could inspire the dead to rise up and go jog a couple of laps before doing 20mins on the rowing machine—and now, somehow, it’s been reworked on a modified dot matrix printer. Yep, it might sound like insanity but it works, and it works good, so listen up [...]

Monday, February 24th, 2014

What Stephen Hawking Really Said About Black Holes

OK, prepare your brain for science! It was reported recently that Stephen Hawking made the claim that black holes don’t exist—naturally the internet let out a collective “Whaaa?” before everyone jumped on it to denounce the scientist before really understanding what he meant. So, Hank from SciShow is here to clarify some things, namely Hawking [...]