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Lifting Concrete with Foam

Lifting Concrete with Foam

If you’ve ever used that spray foam insulation, you know how insanely the stuff expands when exposed to air. Watch how Polylevel puts these properties to good use, as a similar foam manages to raise heavy slabs of concrete and sidewalks like nobody’s business.

Win: Herschel Travel Bundle

Win: Herschel Travel Bundle

Upgrade your travel gear and win this great collection of luggage from Herschel Supply Co. One lucky winner will receive over $600 in bags: an Anchor laptop sleeve, a Little America Backpack, a Novel Duffel, Trade carry-on, and a Chapter travel kit. (Contest ends 6/25/16)

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Entropy

Entropy

Director Tim Cahn’s animated short film merely shows us a rocketship as it leaves the burnt out remnants of Earth and heads towards a mysterious space station. Despite its lack exposition, it will draw you in, and make you wonder what led us here.

Tentsile T-mini Double Hammock

Tentsile T-mini Double Hammock
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Tentsile claims its T-mini is the smallest two-person hammock you can find. The best part about it is that its two halves are segmented, so you and your buddy don’t have to be lumped in the middle. It measures 8’x 10’x 10′ and holds up to 485 lb.

Modern Movie Trailer Tropes

Modern Movie Trailer Tropes

Cracked points out the go-to tricks of today’s movie trailers. There’s the overly long title presentation with imposing fonts for action movies, the folk guitar intro for indie movies, and our favorite, the “Transformer losing his boner” sound for epic scenes.

Batman Animated ARTFX+ Statue

Batman Animated ARTFX+ Statue
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A wonderfully accurate 3D representation of Bruce Timm’s iconic animated Batman, created by the master figure makers of Kotobukiya. This 1/10th scale figure measures 7.5″ tall and includes several interchangeable eyes, facial expressions, and hand poses.

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Teaser)

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Teaser)

“It’s sort of weird, being honored for the worst day of your life.” Billy Lynn and a handful of other American soldiers are honored as war heroes after serving in Iraq. In the midst of the celebration, Billy looks back at his experiences. Ang Lee adapts Ben Fountain’s satirical novel.

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Beat Breakdown: Through the Wire

Beat Breakdown: Through the Wire

YouTuber Sandurz deconstructs Kanye West’s breakout hit Through the Fire, which showcased his knack for pitch shifted sampling and his (now extinct) storytelling. It’s based on Chaka Khan’s Through the Wire and drum samples from a remix of OutKast’s Player’s Ball.

Electric Stacker Sunglasses

Electric Stacker Sunglasses

The Stacker is a pair of performance sunglasses that you can easily turn into casual shades, thanks to their removable one-piece plastic side shields. They also have non-slip grips on their nose and temples, vents to reduce fogging, and lenses that are oil-, dust- and waterproof.

The Many Chocolates of Forrest Gump

The Many Chocolates of Forrest Gump

(SPOILERS, Gore) The always refreshing YouTuber David Unger has achieved the impossible: he found out what chocolates Forrest Gump got. Check out the various sweets and the moments that Tom, er – Forrest associates with each one.

How Far Can We Go?

How Far Can We Go?

Our smarty pants friends at Kurzgesagt examines the idea of human exploration, and some of the currently known limitations of space travel, physics, and our own bodies which prevent us from traveling to an unfathomable portion of the great unknown.

Building Hollywood’s Monsters

Building Hollywood’s Monsters

Great Big Story introduces us to artists Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis of Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. to learn about their numerous contributions to moviemaking, in the form of amazing, handmade creatures, along with the performances that go with.

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James Blake: The Colour in Anything

James Blake: The Colour in Anything

“I hope I’m right when I’m speaking my mind. I hope my life is no sign of the times.” James Blake’s third album is his most dynamic and eclectic yet, thanks to the input of producers, co-writers and guest artists such as Rick Rubin, Justin Vernon and Frank Ocean.

New Era Natural Print NBA 9Fifty

New Era Natural Print NBA 9Fifty
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Rock your favorite NBA team’s classic logo with a different color in this exclusive variant of New Era’s stiff crowned snapback cap.  For some strange reason the Grizzlies and the Raptors are here (along with the Sonics), but not the Thunder, the Jazz or the Clippers.

The Science of Hallucinations

The Science of Hallucinations

Life Noggin explains how despite our brains’ best efforts to only believe inputs from our sensory organs like eyes, ears, nose and skin, that things can go wrong causing us to see and hear things that weren’t actually there. Also, we can now use “fusiform gyrus” in a sentence.

Queen of Katwe (Trailer)

Queen of Katwe (Trailer)

An adaptation of Tim Crothers’ eponymous book about chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, one of the first Ugandan Woman Candidate Masters. Born and raised in a poor neighborhood, Phiona learned chess from a sports outreach program and quickly rose up the competitive ladder.

Jeep Goes White Water Rafting

Jeep Goes White Water Rafting

To demonstrate the off-road and water fording capabilities of its Renegade Trailhawk compact SUV, Jeep UK sent Olympic snowboarder Aimee Fuller on a journey through an 820 foot-long white water rafting course. Now when can we see Aimee take it snowboarding?

Boom for iOS

Boom for iOS
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The iOS version of the awesome OS X audio enhancing app. Boom for iOS lets you boost your device’s volume and tweak its sound with equalizer and headphone presets. It also has a surround sound effect. It won’t work with Apple Music and other DRM-protected songs though.

How Editors Think and Feel

How Editors Think and Feel

Every Frame a Painting’s Tony Zhou talks about his own film editing process. Like other forms of art, editing has basic rules, but the process changes based on the material and the clues you want to leave to the audience.

Thunderstruck: Acoustic Cover

Thunderstruck: Acoustic Cover

Guitarist Luca Stricagnoli turns in an impeccable fingerstyle acoustic performance of AC/DC’s 1990 hit Thunderstruck. Be sure to check out his rendition of Dick Dale’s surf rock tune Misirlou, and his Guns N’ Roses ain’t too shabby either.

Pokémon Sun/Moon

Pokémon Sun/Moon

Pokémon Sun/Moon takes place in Alola, a tropical island inspired by Hawaii. The 3DS exclusive’s debut trailer also reveals the starter creatures Rowlet, Litten and Popplio. Its Japanese commercial, on the other hand, has epic music.

Tauba Auerbach: [2,3]

Tauba Auerbach: [2,3]

Nowness inspects artist Tauba Auerbach’s oversized pop-up book set [2,3]. It consists of six separate volumes, each with one large, complex and arresting pop-up that somehow still folds flat when its folio is closed.

Deal: DrinkMate Breathalyzer

Deal: DrinkMate Breathalyzer

Keep yourself safe and keep tabs on your drinking this compact breathalyzer. The DrinkMate fits neatly in your pocket, then plugs into your iOS or Android smartphone, letting you quickly and easily check your blood alcohol level. Save 20% in The Awesomer Shop.

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