In Japan there is a dying art known as amezaiku which is candy sculpting. This short doc follows 27-year-old Shinri Tezuka, one of the youngest people practicing it. Tezuka is completely self-taught and in the video talks about how he sculpts and paints lollipops into elaborate edible sculptures of goldfish, frogs and octopus.

Parallel Studio, a Paris-based motion design team have created this very amusing but very unsatisfying animated short film that shows various annoying, frustrating, and disappointing situations that happen in everyday life. From the vending machine that doesn’t quite vend to a basketball that bounces around, but doesn’t fall down, the hoop.

When most couples announce that they’re going to have a baby, they pile on the cute and make it really cheesy—but not Gavin Holt and his wife who, with a bit of well-timed editing and John Carpenter-style music, announce the news in the creepiest way possible.

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 [...]

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. [...]

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.