For the last 25 years, Neo-Nazis have marched through the streets of a small town called Wunsiedel. Although the town cannot stop them they could make them walk for something meaningful. The community got together and turned the march into a charity walk and the ‘participants’ had no idea until they were already marching.…
British travel blogger Francesca recently spotted these amazing animated flipbooks at the Hyper Japan cultural event, which took place in London this past weekend. These little books are so neat!
PianoArc is a circular keyboard featuring 294 Keys with 3 contiguous eighty-eight note keyboards and 1 thirty note control section with a 3 pitch bend/mod per full keyboard section. The unique instrument is the brainchild of Brockett Parsons, who is currently on tour with Lady Gaga as her main keyboard player. To…
Ken Block is back with Gymkhana 7, tearing through the streets of Los Angeles in a custom Hoonigan 845 hp, all-wheel drive, 1965 Mustang. The budget for this video must have been massive to shut down entire areas of LA like that. Impressive driving as always and the production value just keeps rising with…
Some great close-up footage of a squirrel nabbing a GoPro and carrying it up a tree before ultimately dropping it. The video description said he was trying to get close-up footage by attaching a piece of bread to the GoPro, but he wasn’t expecting the little guy to take the camera up the tree…
“Only nails, always different”, explains artist John Bisbee to American Craft (pg 45). For the last 30 years the artist has been exclusively welding nails together and for the last decade he has only worked with 12-inch ‘bright common spikes’, which are the largest and most commercially available nails. As an art student Bisbee…
Robbie Maddison tears through the Olympic Park in Utah capping it off with an amazing stunt at the ski jumping facility. Maddison dropped in, launching with a speed of 71 mph (114 km/h) and achieving a distance of 374 ft (114 meters). He also set a world record with a vertical drop of 185…
Turning down the most successful band in history and rejecting the chance to buy one of the world’s most important inventions are just two of the 10 worst business decisions of all time.
For their parents’ wedding anniversary, Matthew Simon Houghton and his brother decided to recreate a series of childhood photos they found at their parents’ house. The brothers then spent a day recreating the images going to great lengths to try to match the scenery and items. They even used green food dye to temporarily…
Photograph by Stephen Ausmus/Agricultural Research Service Researchers at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have selectively bred carrots with pigments that reflect almost all colors of the rainbow. Carrots are root vegetables and most carrot cultivars are about 88% water, 7% sugar, 1% protein, 1% fibre, 1% ash, and 0.2% fat. [source] via Wikimedia…