Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Monday, October 1st, 2018

Stranger Aliens—Why When We Find Aliens Do They Always Act like Us?

In fiction, both novels, films, comics, and other forms humans have for a long time imagined alien beings from other worlds and other planets, but often their emotions and physiologies closely mirror our own. Most science fiction looks at alien life as human-esque, and it’s not something just found in fiction, but modern scientists also [...]

Thursday, June 21st, 2018

7 Ways a Trip to Mars Could Kill You

Even though humans probably won’t be going to Mars for at least another 15 to 20 years or more, it seems everybody is obsessed with what conditions on the planet will be like. This latest video comes from Vox who take a look at ways a trip to the hostile red planet might end you. [...]

Monday, June 18th, 2018

Mike Love’s Reggare Song ‘Permanent Holiday’ Features Some Epic Pedal Skills

You might start watching this video and think why is this musician sitting bare foot—but then you’ll soon see why because he’s just as musically skilled with his feet as he is with his hands. He’s basically Mr. Multitask, a skilled musician with a damn good voice too.

Friday, June 15th, 2018

Musician’s Amazing Cover of Daft Punk’s ‘Harder Better Faster Stronger’

Musician Lorenz Rhode performs a full talkbox cover of Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster Stronger” and shows that to perform it accurately, you don’t need lots of fancy post-production. You can in fact do it live using a keyboard and talkbox-synthesizer and that’s exactly what he does.

Wednesday, June 13th, 2018

Woman Kills it With Longboard Dance Routine

Most people use longboards to race downhill at speeds that are extremely dangerous yet exhilirating, but this woman uses it for something else entirely. She uses it to perform an impressive dance routine which can’t be easy at all, bouncing around and keeping her balance while riding along on four wheels.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018

Animation Details the Mind-boggling Scale of the Universe

As the noted cosmologist Carl Sagan said there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth’s beaches. But equally, there are more molecules of H20 in only 10 drops of water than there are stars in the universe. But how can we imagine such concepts and [...]

Monday, June 11th, 2018

‘Saving Private Ryan’ Re-edited as a Tarantino Movie

Saving Private Ryan basically becomes Inglorious Basterds in this trailer edit by Mashable which boots Steven Spielberg out from the director’s chair and replaces him with Quentin Tarantino. So if you were ever kept awake at night pondering what the classic war movie might be like had it been directed by Hollywood’s enfant terrible, this [...]

Friday, June 8th, 2018

Watch Colorful Skateboarding Tricks in Super Slow Motion

Filmmaker Darren Dyk augments standard skateboarding fun with some colored powder and some super slow mo filming. Shooting with a high-speed camera at frame rates up to 6,900 frames per second the tricks become something far more mesmerizing—and a lot more messy.

Thursday, June 7th, 2018

Game Changer—Film Shot Entirely Using the Camera on Back of a Prius Car

The Toyota Prius features a safety camera on the back so drivers don’t reverse into anything. And now an innovative, pioneering filmmaker has used this backup camera to shoot an entire film. Take that Orson Welles! It’s the kind of experimental and daring filmmaking that pushes the medium to new unknowns that will probably change [...]

Wednesday, June 6th, 2018

Comedians Give Hilarious Lines To Adult Films Stars Filming a Raunchy Scene

While filming a sex scene two porn stars, Jake Jace and Luna Star, are fed hilarious lines by comedians Nikki Glaser and Kyle Kinane. Kinane was appearing on Glaser’s show ‘Not Safe with Nikki Glaser’ and the two sat behind the scenes feeding ridiculous ad hoc lines to the two porn actors filming their [...]

Tuesday, June 5th, 2018

Bill Hicks – Mandatory Marijuana

The wonderful Bill Hicks contemplates a world where marijuana use is compulsory, a place where the drug isn’t just legalised but where people have to wander around stoned for the benefit of everyone on the planet (Colorado, anyone?). A planet full of “quiet, mellow, hungry, high people” where Dominos pizza trucks dominate the landscape [...]