The majesty and beauty of giant crashing waves and people riding those giant crashing waves on a fiberglass board is captured in this six minute video, which is filmed in ultra slow-mo so every little detail of the water funneling over and the surfers movements is there for you to scrutinise and be in awe of.
Sit down, get comfortable and re-live the summer of rave 1989—or, more likely, live vicariously because chances are you weren’t there but these people were, with their baggy fashion and John Lennon glasses and their heroic intake of narcotics, dancing like a mad Leprechaun who’s found a pot of gold.
The folks over at Fysikshow have upped the game when it comes to using fire to visualize music—taking the Rubens’ tube (google it) and turning it all the way up to 11, they’ve made the Pyro Board which features 2,500 holes to give fire-breathing life to whatever sound they want.
Hey, someone has to and it just so happens that Brit abroad Chris Broad has taken that challenge on himself. So he snapped up some copies of a Japanese book called “Tadashii fuck no tsukaikata” which translates as “The Correct Way to Use Fuck” and took to the streets to educate the masses.
This guy’s mom should be on hand to offer her incredible insight into every mind-bending sci-fi movie, because her take on Inception, while completely wrong, is also something close to brilliance, as she brings in the NSA and Matt Damon and a whole bunch of other crazy stuff.
Two giants from sci-fi and the comic world come face-to-face, mano-a-mano as Bruce Wayne takes a trip to the Death Star to help his on/off buddy Superman, only to be greeted by the Dark Lord of that galaxy far, far away—and an epic battle ensues, which even involves Bats getting out his lightsaber for an awesome duel.
The act of flying into space on a spaceship, while terrifying, must also be a magical and entirely humbling moment. In this clip former space station commander Chris Hadfield talks about the emotion and awe felt the day when you round the corner, see the ship that will take you into the cosmos and the sensations experienced on take-off.
Ken Block’s back with a new Gymkhana and this time he takes his car-driving insanity onto the streets of Los Angeles—fortunately for him and other drivers the streets are deserted thanks to the LAPD, so Ken gets to shoot about at ridiculous speeds doing stunts that teeter on the edge of madness.
If you wanted an indication of the excitement felt and enjoyed by the players of MMOG space battle epic EVE, then this trailer will give you not just an indication, but you’ll be able to hear it in the players’ voices. ‘This is EVE’ does away with an actor’s voiceover telling you what to expect and instead uses actual players’ fleet communications to show you what goes down in the game.
If standup comedy was big back in Abraham Lincoln’s time, maybe he would’ve been a great standup comedian. That’s what Louis CK imagines anyway in this Saturday Night Live sketch that takes things to absurd levels as Louis’ Lincoln becomes a full blown parody of his show “Louie.”
Cymatics is the science of visualizing sound through its audio vibrations—and New Zealand musician Nigel Stanford uses a variety of experiments to show how it works. For different components of the track Stanford uses different materials to visualise them, so we can a large variety of mesmerizing images.
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