Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Tuesday, August 29th, 2017

Captain America: Civil War Trailer Made on a Budget

There’s something about seeing ridiculously expensive Hollywod blockbusters redone on a extremely low budget that is just very satisfying. And it’s a genre that, with the ease of publishing videos online, isn’t going away any time soon. So behold this fun version of the Captain America: Civil War from YouTube channel Budget Videos.

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017

Aaron Numbers – A Tale of Baseball, Number Theory, and Serendipity

Brady Haran’s Numberphile YouTube series, with the help of Carl Pomerance from the Department of Mathematics at Dartmouth College, takes a look at Aaron Numbers or what’s known as Ruth–Aaron pairs. Which is when two consecutive numbers’, like 714 and 715, prime numbers add up to equal numbers.

Sunday, August 20th, 2017

Music Video Imagines a World Within a Penny Arcade

A new music video animated by director Uri Lotan for band Jane Bordeaux’s “Ma’agalim” follows a lonely doll in an old penny arcade, who is fated to walk the same old rotating path, peering at the same mechanized people all day long. But soon things change and the doll’s life becomes much more interesting.

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

ElectroBOOM Explains the Science Behind the Railgun—and then Makes One

A railgun like those being researched by the US Navy uses a form of electromagnetic energy to hurl projectiles at speeds exceeding Mach 7. As you can imagine they’re pretty dangerous so the perfect weapon for YouTube channel ElectroBOOM (aka Mehdi Sadaghdar) to make then. After explaining how they work, Sadaghdar sets about building one.

Wednesday, August 16th, 2017

When Your Pet Kangaroo Is Your Best Friend

In Australia everyone has a pet kangaroo, and Aussie comedian Jackson O’Doherty shows the sorts of enrichment they can bring to people’s lives in this video. Because not only does O’Doherty have a pet kangaroo but his roo, or joey as its a baby and is called Damien, is also his best friend and they [...]

Sunday, August 13th, 2017

Free Runner Jason Paul Parkours Through Airport to Catch a Flight

Chances are there’s been some time in your life where you’ve been late for a flight and had to make a mad dash through the airport to get to the departure gate. But you’ve never done it like Jason Paul before, because Paul is a professional free runner and you’ll be in awe as you [...]

Friday, August 11th, 2017

Introducing UniVRsity: The Virtual Reality College Experience

There’s no doubt that college can be a great time in a person’s life, but it can also be expensive and you have to move somewhere else and things don’t always work out exactly as planned when you get there. You know, you think you’re going to be partying every night but you end up [...]

Thursday, August 10th, 2017

Game of Thrones — How to Evoke Emotion

In this video from Lessons from the Screenplay the channel looks at how Game of Thrones manages to evoke such strong emotional reactions from its audience. In particular it looks at the episode Battle of the Bastards where bastard Jon Snow took on bastard Ramsay Bolton, showing how every scene has a compelling value transition.

Wednesday, August 9th, 2017

David Hasselhoff Stars in ‘Guardians of the Guardians Vol. 2′ Music Video

Take a hilariously cheesy trip back to the 1970s in this spoof video starring David Hasselhoff and many of the cast of Guardians of the Guardians Vol. 2 including Dave Batista, Pom Klementieff, Sean Gunn, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Michael Rooker, director James Gunn, and some more special cameos.

Sunday, August 6th, 2017

Will a Walmart Huffy Survive a Downhill Mountain Bike Trail?

Pro downhill mountain bike racer Phil Kmetz decides to take Walmart’s affordable Huffy Carnage Mountain Bike through its paces, by taking it for a spin on the Hawleywood Jump trail at the Thunder Mountain Bike Park in Charlemont, Massachusetts. Walmart mountain bikes are not made for downhill MTB trails, so will it survive the test? [...]

Friday, August 4th, 2017

Tiny Guns – New Short Film by Corridor Digital

In this amusing short film from VFX whizzes Corridor Digital, an all action shoot out happens but there’s just one big change. Well it’s a small change really, because the guns being used in the Tarantino-esque battle are really, really tiny. That’s not to say they can’t do just as much damage as big guns [...]