Nailbiter

"Fingers of Steel" chronicles the gnarly world of finger skateboarding with phenomenal filming to bring you all its flips and tricks.

And how much art can you fit on on Oreo? A lot, it seems.

"I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another." -- Al Oerter

Dark forces

Harness the power of static electricity to levitate objects, bend water, and other fun tricks that may get you burned at the stake.

And why spend all that dough on a pair of Nike HyperAdapt when you can make your own self-lacing shoes with -- you guessed it -- Legos.

"Science does not know its debt to imagination." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flipoholic

Unstoppable loony hamster does backflip after backflip for no apparent reason while his friends pay him no mind.

And whatever he's thinking might be explained in this video from The School of Life about the German knack for coming up with nifty-isms that condense a hard-to-pin-down feeling into a single word.

"I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." -- Jane Wagner

Winter wonder walk

Check out how you can trek across the crystal-clear transparent ice on Lake Silvaplana in Switzerland and see all the way through to the lakebed.

And this is quite a sight -- a man with small dogs in his pockets out for a walk with his duck, which by the way is wearing shoes. (The man is wearing flip-flops.)

Huh. Man with dogs in his pockets walking his duck, which has shoes on pic.twitter.com/DnMC01JNvX

— Santero (@djsantero) February 2, 2017

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Workaround

Guy rushes to open gate for firefighters as wind rises a forest fire in Chile

Frantic man battles valiantly to break through a padlocked gate, but firefighters somehow manage to find another way to get past it. Kind of reminiscent of this blocking measure...



And things that a bird, a plane and Superman have in common, combined into a handy chart courtesy of your friends at xkcd.

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun." -- Katharine Hepburn

Gifception

Slightly mindbending, this guy recursively made a flip book of a GIF of him flipping through a GIF that he printed into a flip book. Watch and it will make more sense. [Gizmodo]

And strange dreaming at the supermarket, courtesy of running a video through Deep Dream, Google's neural net that generates algorithmic pareidolia in the form of weird creatures. Soon to be a feature of the new version of Google Glass.

"Be obscure clearly." -- E. B. White

Duel purpose

Not a scene from @HarryPotterFilm: Two guys launch firework fight during the Spring Festival pic.twitter.com/mJqye2QoxV

— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) January 31, 2017

Mortars at midnight, just a couple of guys celebrating Chinese New Year with a Harry Potter-like fireworks fight in the middle of an empty street.

And the grand finale of man + sodium metal vs. toilet is likewise impressively explosive.

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction." -- Douglas MacArthur

Beyond their years

Have a gander at this impressive-looking rendition of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" performed by Rockin'1000, the thousand-person band claimed to be the largest in the world. Chalk it up as hipster hokum or very cool... your choice.

And this clever high school student converted an unused locker into a working soda vending machine.

Talent works, genius creates." -- Robert Schumann

Pest control

Insane man demonstrates how to take care of a wasp nest the old fashioned way -- with his bare hands.

And how's this for a more merciless mousetrap?

"I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it." -- Samuel Goldwyn

Shell shock

Looking like a possible case of mistaken identity, this ninja turtle vs. herd of cows "battle" is one for the ages.

And some less-scary animals, a street artist in Beijing turns blobs of molten sugar into some pretty sweet art. His kind is becoming rarer and rarer, says Atlas Obscura.

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees." -- Marcus Aurelius

Side splitters

Popcorn has something of an industrial look when it pops in super-slow-motion.

And an analysis of how Louis CK tells a joke and why it's funny.

"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them." -- Joseph Heller

Sharpie image

Neat bit of magic marker magic brings a stick figure to life inside a watery canvas.

And for a pleasant and entertaining surprise, New Yorker cartoons at random, on demand.

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -- Scott Adams

Mane event

A bold (to say the least) new hair styling technique that involves setting your mop aflame is taking Pakistan by storm.

And the patterns that form when bubbles freeze over look like fine crystal ware.

"I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out." -- Jay London

Scenes of the uninevitable

Maddening and frustrating animation of things that don't go quite how you think they will is maybe an apt metaphor for life.

But this display of mousetrap vs. hot dog is everything you expect.

"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity." -- Michel de Montaigne

The sliver screen

It wouldn't be the interwebs if you didn't have folks like Pasdidée posting videos of cats reenacting scenes from famous movies like "Star Wars" ("The Empire Scratches Back"), "Psycho" ("Psychat"), "The Lion King", and "Titanic".

And somewhat more primitive technology... did you know that TVs in the 1920s had bottle cap-sized screens with 30 lines of resolution? So says Grand Illusions.

"The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom." -- Jon Stewart

Feathery huevos

Amazing display by what has to be the world's bravest duck fearlessly messing with a tiger effortlessly outsmarting and out-swimming him.

And behold... the victory possum.

"Courage is knowing what not to fear." -- Plato

From tepid to intrepid

This mashup of cartoon character Arthur and lyrics from Eminem's "Not Afraid" works surprisingly well to bring the anthropomorphic animated aardvark a new level of intensity.

And no connection, the most vermin-infested cities in America.

"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment." -- Hunter S. Thompson

Time travel

Imagine you could ride a bike through a portal and jump to another part of the world... would that never-ending ride look something like this?

And keep an eye on this timepiece-as-modern-art called the Lash Clock that looks like a ring of eyelashes (instead of hands or numbers) that shows you the time.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust