Residents in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia witnessed a huge fiery flash in the sky on 14 November 2014 around 6:39 pm local time. Thankfully the prevalence of dash cams meant there was plenty of amateur footage to capture the event. I’ve included a second video below for another view of the fiery phenomenon.…
Photograph by Erard Swannet Seen here is one of the many wind farms located in the North Sea. The photo was taken by Erard Swannet who was flying from Edinburgh, Scotland to Brussels, Belgium. Judging from the 80+ turbines visible in this image and given the likely flight path from Edinburgh to Brussels, I…
Mike Wilson had a replica Spider-Man suit made so he could surprise his son Jayden on his 5th Birthday. Unfortunately Jayden has been diagnosed with a Grade 4 Brain Stem Tumor with an average of 1 year to live. Jayden has been incredibly brave and is still fighting each day. You can see his…
As of 2014, the Moscow Metro has 195 stations and its route length is 325.4 km (202.2 mi). Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. The system is mostly underground, with the deepest section 74 metres (243 ft)…
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…