Fire and ice

Guy worked for months gluing 42,000 matchsticks together and watches it all goes up in flames (on purpose).


Likewise satisfying, this kid jumping onto an ice-covered trampoline makes for a great video effect.

"It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment." -- Andrew Wyeth

Toys for bots

As if the world didn't have enough problems, now it has one more. Hacker-musician Sam Battle wired up 44 Furby toys, soldering and all, to create the first/last singing Furby keyboard.


And a surreal bit of colorful abstract animation that lets you "see" the sounds of rainforest birds, synesthesia style.

"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." -- Jean de La Fontaine

Flim-flammable

Deceptive leaking LPG tanker + car with hot exhaust = highway to hell. Some scary math.


And not nearly as bad, why menu translations go terribly wrong.

"A spark neglected makes a mighty fire." -- Robert Herrick

lookOut on life

Enjoy a dose of Alan Gogoll's "Stringscapes", a relaxing half hour of fingerstyle guitar with a beautiful sunset vista, filmed from inside the guitar.


And an impressive three-year timelapse of Seattle shot from uptop the Space Needle.

"The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth." -- Robert Anton Wilson

Take the rap

Sick of his wife and friends making fun of him, this 44-year-old from Austin bet them that he could put out a legit hip-hop song and make at least ten bucks off it. So without further ado, here's "Spinach Dippa" rapping about who knows what.


And a Nest video caught a dog starting a house fire when he stole leftover pancakes off the stove, reports Bay News 9. No charges were filed.

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself." -- Andre Gide

Diner's remorse

This mischievous Iowa cow ate a family's mail right out of the mailbox for no apparent reason.


And when the chips are down... the anchor on CBS Philly only had to eat one chip to complete the One Chip Challenge, but Paqui's Carolina Reaper Chip got the best of him. His co-host, though, is a chip-champ.

"The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat." -- John McNulty

Make-shiv cutlery

Katsuobushi (aka bonito) is dried, fermented and smoked tuna, and it's not only tasty (?) but it's possible to make a knife out of it.


And this is not a giant pair of jeans; it's a sleeping bag for two.




Finally, James McNabb is a talented designer who carves detailed mini-cities out of scrap wood.

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"I cry out for order and find it only in art." -- Helen Hayes

Nobody move

This videographer caught a helicopter with its rotors are in perfect sync with his camera, making for an unintentionally nifty effect.


And an artist who draws sad clown faces on discarded objects strewn about Los Angeles.

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"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art." -- Philip James Bailey

Circumspectrum

"Instravel - A Photogenic Mass Tourism Experience" entertainingly points out the cliched sameness in every tourist's Instagram travel photos.


And so-called latte art is generally a monochromatic palette of coffee and cream browns, except when art professor Kangbin Lee shows you how it's done.

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"Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage." -- Regina Nadelson

Accent marks

It's a Southern Thing created this funny video about a version of Alexa that understands how Southerners talk. "The future is here, y'all. And it's available in burlap and reclaimed barn wood."


And this guy had to write a letter to cancel his gym membership. It was something of a tough breakup.

Planet Fitness wouldn't let me cancel over the phone, and required a certified letter to cancel since I live in a different state now. I dropped this in the mail today. from r/funny

"What we really are matters more than what other people think of us." -- Jawaharlal Nehru

Free woolin' it

Drone footage captures the controlled chaotic-yet-synchronized fluidity of dogs herding sheep, which looks a lot like a giant flock of birds.


And weird colorful visual puns created by the creative Randy Lewis.

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." -- Dalai Lama

Route of bounds

When your friend makes you use Apple Maps instead of Google... "You Are On The Fastest Available Route" is an effective dashcam horror short from Local58, a news affiliate that thankfully does not exist.


In other bad directions, this notice of a public hearing in Hempstead, New York, is impossible to read. Fine example of malicious compliance. If you want to actually read the sign, here is a stretched version.

"We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided." -- Clarence Day

Iron cross

Brave man/maniac crosses a cheeks-clenched-terrifying Siberian bridge in nothing but a Ford Bronco.


And also remote, the sky in Antarctica looks like something from the world of science fiction.

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"Neither blame or praise yourself." -- Plutarch

Lead by example

Try to grok this guy carving a pencil on the end of a pencil on the end of a pencil.


And old style, a clever 3D optical illusion newspaper ad. (The ad was created for the supermarket HiperCentro Corona, and you might notice that the blocks of text in the illusion are in the shape of a kitchen.)

"Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers." -- T.S. Eliot

Bad breaks

Nifty side-scrolling condensed one-minute animated version of "Breaking Bad" is as capsule a summary as you can imagine.


And a healthy dose of instant karma goes to this woman who steals a package from someone's porch, and then promptly breaks her leg slipping/tripping on the lawn during her "getaway".

"Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein." -- Proverb

Impressive run

Must have been a lot a lot of work to synchronize this intricate chain-reaction marble-and-magnet run to Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers".


And another sync'd showing of some significance, New York Times Sunday Magazine articles from 100 years ago, posted weekly.

"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." -- Carl Sagan

Last call of the wild

In Minnesota there's a tavern called Hillbillies Ice Hole that is quite literally on a lake, open just 20 days a year when the weather's right, featuring ice fishing inside the bar and its signature drink, a Minnow Shot.


And artist Yuki Tatsumi created "Japanese Tip", an installation of the 8,000 origami "tips" left by customers at restaurants.

"Almost anything can be preserved in alcohol, except health, happiness, and money." -- Mary Wilson Little

Noir trek

Based on the new trailer, Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek looks like a winner. (No matter what, it's gotta be a million times better than the actual movies they made.)


And when something gets lost in the translation of American movie titles to Japanese, someone like @Bomb Arrow is there to document it on the interwebs.

Bad Japanese Movie Title #82: "Anger Management" is "New York Style Happy Therapy" #japanesemovietitles pic.twitter.com/nupD1vDrbH

— Bomb Arrow (@Bomb_Arrow) August 3, 2017

"It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around." -- Mary Pickford