OK, let’s journey back to 1994, it’s summertime and you’ve just got your hands on The Breeders track “Saints”, you’ve got your ripped jeans on, a scruffy hole-ridden t-shirt and your hair looks like it hasn’t been washed in months. But nothing matters because “summer is ready when you are” and you’ve got this cranked up as loud as it’ll go.
No doubt you’ve found yourself at a coffeeshop and ordered yourself a flat white with extra flat and you get it served up with a pretty little picture sat atop your steaming cup of joe. You’ve probably thought to yourself, I wish I could do that at home, then I’d really feel like I’ve achieved something in life.
In the latest video from College Humor they brilliantly and amusingly spoof how many of us end up using the home exercise machines we spend a small fortune on, then never actually workout on. The idea is that you’ll be having regular workouts and have some six pack abs in no time.
Not matter what your living arrangements are you’re probably doing better than these people in Japan who find themselves living permanently in cyber cafes. It amounts to a space that’s a four square meter box with a screen and a computer, which is on offer 24/7 for anyone who wants it.
As kids you no doubt had the odd game of ‘the floor is lava’ where, as the name suggests, you pretend the floor has given way to bubbling, cascading molten rock that you have to jump out of the way of. Well, YouTube channel RocketJump have created an in real life version of that, of sorts.
The title of this Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell video could be a little misleading, because it’s not about how the earth is like being trapped behind steel bars for committing a crime. Instead it’s about the the effects of gravity on Earth and the video explains why it’s so hard to escape it and travel to space.
It’s tough being a parent, and fatherhood, one half of that, is what’s explored in this funny video by Australian comedian Troy Kinne. Kinne and his friends amusingly act out vary instances of what fathers wish they would hear from their offspring, but never, ever do. From being considerate with the TV volume when dad’s have a lie-in to replacing borrowed money.
From the opening and harrowing scene depicting the Normandy landings, the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II, Steven Spielberg’s ‘Saving Private Ryan’ has been widely praised for its unflinching depiction of war. But, actually, how well and how accurate did it show the events of D-Day?
The universe is a vast and mysterious place, so vast and so mysterious that it can seem like we’re never going to understand all of it. While that may be the case, we no doubt will unlock many of its secrets and to do that humanity is going to need some seriously good technologies and space telescopes that can look deeper and more succinctly into space time than we currently have.
David Bayo is a French artist, a drawer, painter, and illustrator, and this speed drawing shows off his skill. It shows Bayo working on a picture that consists of over a million dots (not sure who did the counting) to create a stunning surreal portrait. It shows a woman and an Escherian building coming from her back.
There are some people you never cheat on, your spouse or partner is one and the other is your barber. The latter is what’s dealt with in this very funny sketch from Anwar Jibawi which looks at that special relationship that can develop between a person and the person who cuts their hair.
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