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An hypnotic loop of 8 year old playing the tongue drum endlessly.
Musician Tyrone Douglas plays 'Water drops'.
And there are instructional Youtube vids of how to build and make them.
posted on Apr-28-19 at 7:24 PM

Here is Yehudi Menuhin playing Bruch Violin concerto no 1, 1961. SLYT
posted on Apr-27-19 at 10:20 AM

Two gorillas have been photographed posing for a relaxed selfie with the rangers who rescued them as babies... Because they've grown up with the rangers who rescued them, they are imitating the humans and standing on two legs is their way of "learning to be human beings".
posted on Apr-23-19 at 4:53 PM

I didn't know that there are so many kinds of daikon
posted on Apr-19-19 at 10:30 PM

Kulebyaka is a type of Russian pirog usually filled with salmon or sturgeon, rice or buckwheat, hard-boiled eggs, mushrooms, onions, and dill. The pie is baked in a pastry shell, usually of brioche or puff pastry.
posted on Apr-14-19 at 9:00 PM

"The work is $10. The lie is extra" (S05 E4)
"It's Toasted" (S01 E1)
The Jaguar pitch (S05E11)
In Greek, Nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound” (S01 E13)
"When I say I want the moon, I expect the moon" (S03 E9)
"who cares?" (S01 E12)
The seven defining pitches of Mad Men
posted on Apr-13-19 at 3:17 PM

The first scene from Werner Herzog's 2016 film about the internet’s history and future, “Lo and Behold“:
Prof. Leonard Kleinrock describes how the first message on ARPANET was sent from Boelter Hall 3420, on the UCLA campus, October 29, 1969 .
(Lo and Behold previously)
posted on Mar-31-19 at 5:21 PM

Ella Briggs, an 11-year-old Connecticut resident, became her state’s first openly gay “kid governor”. The fifth-grader was elected to the post by 6,400 of her peers from 87 schools across the state. During her campaign, she made LGBTQ youth safety her primary focus, noting that she was inspired by her own experience. She’s already so invested in public service, she said she would love to become America’s “first lesbian president.”
posted on Mar-22-19 at 3:56 PM

JS Bach was born exactly 334 years ago, so now you can create Bach-ified harmonies on today's Google Doodle using AI.
posted on Mar-20-19 at 10:57 PM

Do you feel that the world is full of hate and anger today?
Then watch 10 min. of animals hugging hoomans
posted on Mar-15-19 at 5:26 PM

In the months before my son was born last year, I worried having two kids would reduce my time for creativity even more than one had. To combat what I felt was a loss of creativity, I decided to write a haiku every night. In my mind, it was Minimum Viable Creativity. Before we went from a family of three to a family of four, the haiku were about TV or food or the like, but when my son was born, he was the subject the first night, and the second, and before I knew it, the nightly haiku was now a nightly parenting haiku – or a haidad. It turns out the nightly parenting haiku is not only Minimum Viable Creativity, but also an opportunity to journal milestones every night without having to figure out what to say. Journaling is easier when it’s 17 syllables a day. By Aaron Cohen.
posted on Mar-14-19 at 11:43 AM

6 year old Avett Ray is a near-blind musician and singer. Here he covers Bohemian Rhapsody
posted on Mar-12-19 at 9:08 PM

Alternative Math, a short film: A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America
posted on Mar-11-19 at 12:39 PM

A group of trackers on the flanks of Aconcagua in Argentina experienced a spectacular debris flow. It starts slowly, but hang in there!
posted on Mar-7-19 at 4:14 PM

How to make hay bales (SLYT)
posted on Mar-2-19 at 8:19 PM

I can't stop drinking about you
posted on Mar-1-19 at 6:59 PM

Japanese chef Takehiro Kishimoto carves fruits and vegetables. Here is an apple structure. A little bit of a background about him.
posted on Feb-26-19 at 12:34 PM

From an early 90s Australian documentary about Hungary, here's some women in typical Hungarian national costume singing Honky Tonk Women. (Via)
posted on Feb-25-19 at 8:35 AM

Arkansas couple drives homeless man 600 miles to reunite with long-lost family
posted on Feb-21-19 at 8:54 AM

The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume Eight is an album by Art Tatum and Ben Webster, with Red Callender on double bass and Bill Douglass on drums. The 1956 session was originally released in 1958 on a Verve Records album produced by Norman Granz. He reissued the material as one of a series of eight Group Masterpieces featuring Tatum in collaboration with other artists, also issuing it as part of a boxed set, The Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces.
posted on Feb-17-19 at 8:58 PM

A door in the sky: 2 wingsuit flyers BASE jump into a plane in mid-air
posted on Feb-16-19 at 7:27 PM

Anthony Hopkins listening to his own composition “The Plaza,” performed by The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
The Heavy Metal version.
As reported before, Hopkins has been composing classical music for over 50 years
posted on Feb-11-19 at 5:30 PM

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
posted on Feb-8-19 at 10:59 PM

Mixing Mercury and aluminium
Metal Spoon eaten by very strong acid
Who said salt doesn't grow on trees?
Ink vs Alcohol + Hydrocarbons
"Elephant Toothpaste"
What happens when you add hot water to liquid nitrogen?
Much more at twitter account @HoIdMyBeaker

posted on Jan-27-19 at 4:08 PM

It was the #bestnine2018 on instagram for piemakers & Pâtisseriers, so here are some random samples:
Cristina MJ of forty nine figs
Helen Nugent of Batterednbaked
Baker Joy Huang
Julie Jones
Best nine by acarriedaffairdesigns
Michelle Lopez
Thida Bevington
Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin is The Pieous
Heather's Pies
Sugar Artist Liz Joy
Bakers Blondie and rye and Brooklyn sourdough
And then there are professional pastry chefs, like David H Chow, or Pablo Gicquel
Arlene Lott
Previously: Karin Pfeiff Boschek
Or just pig out on #Patisserie or #PieArt
posted on Jan-11-19 at 4:37 PM

Hercules, the dog, was rescued from a certain death in Buenos Aires. When picked up, he was in truly bad shape (Warning!) but he recovered nicely.
posted on Dec-27-18 at 4:48 PM

20-year-old Bobby Fischer created a chess masterpiece in only 21 moves against Robert Eugene Byrne, an International Master, at the 1963/1964 United States Chess Championship. In this brilliancy, Fischer demonstrates how to inject multiple imbalances into a highly symmetrical position, how to properly highlight these differences to benefit oneself, and how to accurately assess the true value of the pieces as they rest on the board.
posted on Dec-25-18 at 1:56 PM

Rémy Métailler rides Mountain Bikes with a mounted GoPro.
Here he is taking the Medellín Challenge in Colombia.
Photos from the same race.
Here he is @ The RedBull Valparaiso Urban DH 2014
posted on Dec-9-18 at 5:49 PM

Because it's raining, and without further ado:
Bernard Herrmann's last film score, the Theme from Taxi driver
Jerry Goldsmith's Chinatown soundtrack
Miles Davis for Louis Malle's 1958 Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
Ennio Morricone's Cinema Paradiso
Hand Covers Bruise by Trent Reznor for The Social Network
Ryuichi Sakamoto's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Vangelis Blade Runner
Up by Michael Giacchino
Hans Zimmer's You're so cool from True Romance

posted on Dec-1-18 at 6:01 PM

Former Aardman animator Jim McKenzie is an artist, model maker, sculpturor, and "whatever" (his definition). Here's his Youtube Channel.
posted on Nov-28-18 at 8:54 AM

A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont's 'best' bagel maker, from Burlington Free Press. (Including a soothing 10 min. sound clip of the bakery before the morning rush)
posted on Nov-22-18 at 6:26 PM

After Soo Min Kim drinks from a paper cup, he draws on it
posted on Nov-19-18 at 1:17 PM

Eric Will Eat Anything on Ice Cream Reddit Tells Him to.
It started here.
Background
posted on Nov-17-18 at 8:51 PM

Aidan got a Star Destroyer.
How Andrew Guy built it.
Via Coudal.
posted on Nov-15-18 at 10:37 AM

What do you get when life gives you lemons? If you are Sprice Machines, Hevesh5, DrComplicated, DoodleChaos,TheInvention11, 5MadMovieMakers and SmileyPeaceFun, you get The Lemonade Machine
posted on Nov-8-18 at 6:11 PM

If you can't handle the stress right now, veg out by watching odd photos without any context. "The pics must succeed or fail on their own merit. No sob stories. No stories of any kind."
Frog train
Polizei
See through fish
A sea horse carrying a Qtip
Wall cleaner
$3.20
Lamborghini Ankonian
Country road
From photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy

posted on Nov-6-18 at 7:58 PM

The most disgusting food in the world. From The Museum of Disgusting Food, which has opened in Malmö, Sweden. More and more. WARNING: DISGUSTING FOOD INSIDE!
posted on Nov-5-18 at 10:00 AM

Yesterday on r/Astronomy, somebody posted a .gif of Supernova 1987A's shock wave exploding outward : it shows 25 years of observations tracking the expanding (and heating) cloud of gas and dust blown outward from the supernova explosion of a star some 30 years ago (as viewed from Earth). In reality, this explosion, which happened very close to Earth in cosmic terms, occurred about 170,000 years ago in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
Astronomer Yvette Cendes who co-wrote the paper from which the .gif came from, popped into the conversation, and did an informal AMA about the study
posted on Nov-3-18 at 5:18 PM

When I think of a childhood sandwich that creates the same enthusiasm that PB&J does for many Americans, it has to be a Hong Kong-style sweetened condensed milk sandwich.
Another recipe.
posted on Oct-30-18 at 8:20 AM

The Very Best of Jiminy Glick
The Jon Stewart interview (with the donut)
All Youtube videos
Wikipedia
posted on Oct-28-18 at 10:24 AM

Well I'll be damned
Here comes your ghost again
But that's not unusual
It's just that the moon is full
And you happened to call
And here I sit
Hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I'd known
A couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall

posted on Oct-27-18 at 7:08 AM

Geometry is neat:
Surface Area of a Sphere
Cake by Dinara Kasko
Morphing Cube
Slowly Filling a Maze
Pop-up cards
Milling Machine At Work
Church in Mogno, Switzerland
Two inverted magnetic bowls causing un-magnetized steel balls to organize into geometric patterns
posted on Oct-18-18 at 3:40 PM

A malaphor is a Blend of malapropism +‎ metaphor. Examples: "We'll burn that bridge when we get to it"... "Even a blind squirrel is right twice a day"... "If a bear shits in the woods, does it make a sound?"... "An apple a day leaves the whole world blind"
posted on Oct-17-18 at 2:51 PM

10 Best Uses of Color in Cinema of All Time by Youtuber Cinefix. Many other lists & geeky compilations from Cineflix below
posted on Oct-7-18 at 9:38 AM

Charles Aznavour sings La Boheme. Aznavour au cinéma. French singer Charles Aznavour dead at 94
posted on Oct-1-18 at 11:04 AM

"My son has parked his bike by this lamppost just about every day for the last year. This morning, this sticker had appeared. Absolutely made our day. People can be so brilliant. Thank you, whoever did it" (STL)
posted on Sep-25-18 at 12:53 PM

My Way is the sixty-eighth studio album by Willie Nelson. It was released on September 14, 2018, by Legacy Recordings. The album is a tribute to Frank Sinatra, who was a close friend of Nelson's
posted on Sep-20-18 at 9:05 AM

911 days of beard growth time lapse. My wife and I traveled around the world for 2.5 years. I didn't shave the whole time.
posted on Sep-4-18 at 10:19 AM

"The Importance of Reaching Out To Old Teachers" , from "People Watching", a Web Series created by Winston Rowntree. Here are the complete Season 1 and Season 2
posted on Sep-1-18 at 5:12 PM

A series of photos created by workers at Home Depot: The Sun God - The Mata Hari - Tree on a hill - Sunset - Groovy, man - This Pineapple - Supernova - Mushroom Cloud - Toxic Mitosis... Courtesy of the r/unstirredpaint subreddit
posted on Aug-31-18 at 3:54 PM

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