Awesome Leisure

Etsy shop Dilnahammer makes ready-to-mount wooden homes for birds and other animals. One of the shop’s most popular products are honeycomb cell “hotels” for bees, ladybugs and other small insects. They come in different combinations and colors.

For those of us who don’t have the time (or the money) to build the 7500+ piece LEGO 75192 UCS Millennium Falcon set ourselves, Benjamin Große has condensed the process down to a 2-minute time-lapse. Check out BrickBuilder’s 52-minute video if you want more detail.

(PG-13) Hot on the heels of Atomic Blonde comes Red Sparrow. Based on Jason Matthews’ eponymous spy novel, the movie stars Jennifer Lawrence as one of the products of a Russian program that trains girls to become wily and seductive secret agents.

We suppose it’s not officially a Rickroll unless it catches you off guard, but whatever you call it, Gud Nuse’s emotionally-charged piano and electric guitar arrangement of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up is a legitimately awesome cover version.

An excerpt from Game of Thrones Conquest & Rebellion, a 45-minute animated history of the major events in Westeros leading up to the HBO series. It will come in a bonus disc bundled with the Game of Thrones Season 7 Blu-ray and DVD.

Mechanical LEGO builder Josh DaVid shows off one of his coolest creations. When you turn the crank on this little automata, a lawnmower floats above a pair of treadmills, which make it appear as if the mower is cutting the grass.

Today’s cotton candy is made by heating and spinning sugar using a motor. Eater host Clifford Endo is here to show you how to make it the old fashioned way, using a technique similar to noodles, hand-pulling inverted sugar to make thousands of hair-thin sugar strands.

Pay tribute to one of the greatest television series in history with this desktop incense burner that looks just like the RV used in the first 3 seasons of Breaking Bad. We’re not huge fans of the smell of incense, but it’s gotta be better than cooking meth.

Dave Bautista stars as Sapper, a replicant on the run in the second of a series of short films which take place between Blade Runner and Blade Runner: 2049. Again, it captures the texture of the original film well, though it drops more questions than answers. Original here.

Freerunner Jason Paul meets up with fellow parkour athletes Kenichi, Zen, Yakuwa, and Yuutarou in downtown Tokyo, then lands at Edo Wonderland – a picture-perfect theme park that replicates life in the 17th century Edo era, samurais, ninjas and all. BTS footage here.

As a result of losing a bet, jackofallspades98 ended up spending more than four months getting his two table contraption to work, a mesmerizing machine filled with balls making their way through a maze filled with teeter-totters, ramps, loops, and more.

Another fantastic LEGO kit, this 1686-piece CREATOR set lets you build a model of one of London’s iconic double-decker buses. It’s got detailed signage, plenty of interior seating on both levels, a removable roof, a spiral staircase, and little objects left behind by passengers.

Polaroid’s first instant camera in years combines the aesthetics of its 1970s classics with modern engineering. It’s super simple to use, has high quality optics, a bright flash, self-timer, and rechargeable battery. Instant film stock is available in color or black and white.

An office worker’s usual commute turns exciting and then sinister when a stranger offers him a large amount of money to spot a hidden passenger on the train. Crooks just won’t stop messing with Liam Neeson, and even he’s getting tired of it.

“Look, Mr. Bubbles, ADAM!” Threezero brings BioShock‘s tragic villains to your shelves as sixth scale action figures. The Big Daddy is 12.5″ tall and has a detachable drill and lights in his helmet. The Little Sister is 5.6″ tall and comes with an ADAM extractor.

Drift Boards borrow the narrow shape of skis and adds carbon fiber to create a pair of lightweight snowshoes. The built-in climbing skins make it so you can glide instead of trudging on snow, while the aluminum bindings work with any soft boots.

Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, and Kristen Wiig star in director Alexander Payne’s (Sideways, About Schmidt) sci-fi social satire about a world in which overpopulation is solved by shrinking people down to to about 3 inches tall, where they live in an idyllic, but teensy world.

A fun card game from Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal and Exploding Kittens. The objective is simple – 2 to 5 players collect cards to create the craziest monster possible in order to defeat an annoying army of babies. Comes packaged in a spiffy faux bearskin box.

(PG-13) “It’s not gonna happen for you. Not in a million years!” “…but after that?” Get a good look at James Franco’s comedy drama about what is widely considered the worst movie ever made. The line between ambition and delusion can sometimes be tricky to pin down.

(PG-13: Language) An appearance on Netflix’s Luke Cage is propelling Jidenna to the mainstream. Good thing the rapper and singer has more than enough charm and wit to sustain his success. Watch him perform songs from his album The Chief on NPR Music.

Wizards of the Coast recognizes Hearthstone‘s contributions to the collectible card game genre and is following suit with Magic: The Gathering Arena. It’s an upcoming free-to-play digital CCG that combines MTG’s Standard cards with flashy and viewer-friendly visuals. More here.

(PG-13: Language) Larry David is back, and despite the long absence, he’s just as much as a self-absorbed a-hole as ever. Though we admit we’ve wanted to do that thing with the perfume sample lady on at least one occasion. The new season hits HBO starting 10/1/17.

Most of us use our Swiss Army knives for emergencies and impromptu needs. But Chris Lubkemann’s book is packed with fun ways you can use your knife to start a new hobby – whittling wood. It’s packed with easy to make projects, from desktop sculptures to utensils.