Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Tuesday, June 30th, 2015

Avengers Meet ‘Wizard of Oz’ in this Brilliant Fanmade Film

Ultron as the Tin-Man? Yes, that has happened because the internet can make anything possible. Darren Wallace has created a parody trailer for a film that doesn’t exist but you’ll wish it did—Avengers of Oz: Age of Tin Man where Wallace mashes up Avengers with the classic movie The Wizard of Oz.

Tuesday, June 30th, 2015

Epic Street Fighter Elevator Prank Terrifies These Poor People

Let’s say you suddenly chanced upon Ryu praciticing his Hadouken on you in the confines of an elevator, would you just shrug it off? Or would you scream for your life and pray for the doors to open? Most people in this video acted like the latter as they were suddenly faced with a guy [...]

Monday, June 29th, 2015

Is Technology Killing Your Creativity? 8-bit Philosophy Investigates

Using retro video games graphics and Star Wars, YouTube channel Wisecrack’s 8-Bit Philosophy series looks at the question of whether technology is destroying our creativity—and, because the shows about philosophy, it explores this question with reference to the work of German thinker and writer of Being and Time, Martin Heidegger.

Sunday, June 28th, 2015

Artist Creates Incredible Pencil Drawing of Jennifer Lawrence

You’re never going to get close to Jennifer Lawrence, it’s just never going to happen. But you can always draw her. At least, you could if you were any good at drawing and not so incapable you can barely muster a stick man. And just to make you feel even more artistically incompetent, here’s Heather [...]

Friday, June 26th, 2015

Eclectic Method’s Remix Tribute to Jean-Luc Picard

This video doesn’t just have Star Fleet’s finest captain dishing out some pearls of wisdom, it has all that set to the beats of Eclectic Method, meaning not only can you bask in the brilliance for Jean-Luc Picard but you can dance while you do it—what’s not to like about that?

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

‘Jaws in 3 Minutes’ is a Tribute to Steven Spielberg’s Classic

On the 40th anniversary of the movie Jaws, which scared countless kids (and probably some adults) from going into the sea, YouTuber Robert Jones has created this brilliant tribute. In the video he edits down the film, compressing it from its two hour running time into just three minutes, keeping all the key narrative points [...]

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

Chuck Palahniuk Reads an Excerpt from ‘Fight Club for Kids’

To introduce his book to a whole new generation Chuck Palahniuk reads from his kid’s book about “a boy who had no name” who created a “Horsing Around Club” where kids go to, well, to beat the crap out of each other. Even though he tries to remain kid-friendly, Palahniuk can’t help himself as his [...]

Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

Short Film Shot Entirely on a Phone Chronicles ‘The Life & Death of an iPhone’

Our phones are an integral part of most of our lives these days, so much so that we probably don’t ever take a step back and think about how we use them. Well filmmaker Paul Trillo has done that for us in a short film shot on his iPhone using the Cameo app. In the [...]

Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

The 100 Most Iconic Movie Lines of All Time

Cinema has had such an impact on popular culture that many of the phrases from some of Hollywood’s finest films have entered the common lexicon. Either that or you spend so much time quoting them among your friends that you develop a shorthand language where you can speak to each other just using quotes from [...]

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

‘Mad Max: Out of Gas’ is the Fury Road Spoof Sequel the World Needs

With the recent and very well received Mad Max reboot the next thing on everyone’s minds (well Hollywood producer’s anyway) is, what about the sequels? Well don’t worry Hollywood because The Warp Zone have got it covered with their spoof ‘Mad Max: Out of Gas’. The premise of the video is that, after using [...]

Monday, June 22nd, 2015

Hairdryers Become Kinetic Sculptures in Installation by French Magician

French magician and juggler Antoine Terrieux created a series of artworks using hairdryers arranged in various configurations so they’d blow various objects in intriguing ways. He positions them in certain places so they give flight to a paper airplane or keep a ball floating in midair, or motor along in a pool of water and [...]