Awesome Leisure

DJ Qbert teamed up with UK firm Novalia to create this awesome album, which incorporates an interactive set of turntables with printed electronics which work as MIDI triggers for an iOS app when touched. (Thanks Richard!)

Damp Design takes us on a tour of Norway like you’ve never seen it before, with all of the people, boats, cars and vacationers looking like tiny ants. Sure, tilt-shift photography is so 2012, but it’s really well executed here.

If you loved Monsieur Plant’s natural skateboard, check out Salvaged Skateboards. The shop makes decks and complete skateboards using reclaimed wood, such as ones used in whiskey barrels, pallets and floorboards.

Turns out spinach works even on toys. Headplay Toys made this badass realistic 12″ Popeye the Sailor Man. Well, if you could call a man with arms twice the size of his thighs “realistic.” Limited to 500 units.

Yeah, there’s a guy in there somewhere. Surftotal shares this video of boulder-balled pros riding monstrous waves off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal. It’s the same area that brought the record-breaking 90ft. wave.

James Franco and Jonah Hill star in this thriller based on a critically-acclaimed memoir. A disgraced journalist enters a bizarre relationship with a man accused of murdering his own family then stealing the journalist’s identity.

The latest Naruto Shippuden fighting game series takes on the manga’s final arc. If you’ve read those issues, then you know just how crazy things have gotten. And if you haven’t? Watch the trailer.

Did you know that you’re a fan of classical music? Jazz too. Those and lots of other instrumentals. YouTuber Carl Manhke compiled 79 tracks that you’ve heard numerous times but might not know the titles to. Part two here.

Telltale Games’ recent and upcoming point-and-click adventures in one bundle. It includes the entire The Walking Dead 1 & 2 and The Wolf Among Us 1, as well as Season Passes for Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands.

(NSFW) Seth Rogen and James Franco’s controversial movie The Interview is now available for streaming or digital download from its official site, YouTube, Google Play or Xbox Video (yep, not on Sony Unlimited Video!).

Exclusively bundled in the Xbox One Halo Master Chief Collection, the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta will feature 4-on-4 Arena battles. Try out the new weapons, abilities and maps from 12/29/14 to 1/18/15.

RJ Anderson and Holz Racing’s souped-up Polaris UTV is capable of chewing rocks and pulling off massive, record-setting jumps without flinching. It’s been fitted with a powerful engine, a virtually indestructible suspension, and a handbrake.

“”What purpose did this machine serve?”, people wondered.” A bittersweet interactive short story from Simogo, the developer behind Year Walk, Device 6 and Beat Sneak Bandits. Warning: the video spoils the entire thing.

At the Toy Soul 2014 convention, Hot Toys unveiled the prototype of its 1:6 Scale Avengers: AoU Hulkbuster.  The 24″ tall toy has large light up parts and a weathered finish. Hot Toys also had a life-size statue of the suit.

The hype is real. The latest trailer for Star Citizen goes for the jugular with an inspirational slant and a visual showcase that will hook even casual sci-fi fans. It’s as if it hasn’t already raised enough money.

A woman overcomes her, uhm, anemone infection and helps others through it as well in Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch’s artfully animated music video. Boys Latin is from the must-have album Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper.

We’ve seen plenty of basketball trick shot videos, some more plausible than others. But Corridor Digital makes no attempt to fool us into thinking their shots are physically possible – and that’s what makes this clip so much fun.

The new English trailer for Final Fantasy XV gives hints of the game’s plot, introduces new characters – including a foxy mechanic named Cidney – and ends with an elemental tease of the game’s summons. More on Kotaku.

“This that quantum jump and that fist pump and that bomb detonation.” Kendrick Lamar goes off in FlyLo’s single from his newest album You’re Dead! Director Hiro Murai matches the song with this beautiful music video.

Will Ferrell plays a rich fraudster who’s given a 10-year sentence. He enlists a car wash owner played by Kevin Hart for a “prison readiness program.” The problem? His mentor is actually an upstanding citizen and has never broken the law.

This short video might just be the most satisfying thing you watch all day – as a Ingun “Kick-Gun” Yoo pulls off a pair of crazy flying kicks, each aimed at a punching bag arcade game. Check out more of Kick-Gun’s impressive legwork here.

Cities: Skylines could be for SimCity fans what Endless Legend is for Civ fans, with welcome additions such as city policies and districts, taxation and modding tools. Drops Q1 2015 for Windows, Mac and Linux via Steam.

Skimming along the water in a super-fast H1 Unlimited Hydroplane is insane enough, but when something goes wrong, these turbine-powered speedboats can turn into unintended aircrafts, as demonstrated in this incredible POV video.