Awesome Leisure

Pay what you want for the latest EP of beatmaker Ryan Hemsworth. The songs are more lighthearted than his previous work, so much so that you can “kiss someone you have a crush on while it plays in the background.”

(NSFW: Language) We were quite enamored of Steven Van Zandt’s quirky Norwegian fish-out-of-water comedy Lillyhammer when it came out on Netflix, and have been dying to know when Season Two might emerge: December 13th.

We’ve seen cars, skateboards and other vehicles attempt 360-degree loops with varying degrees of success. Here, BMXer Mike “Hucker” Clark takes on a loop made from wood and dirt, and makes it look easy. POV footage here.

We can’t really recommend covering your skateboard with gasoline and kerosene. We suggest leaving such dangerous stunts to boarders Jonathan and Jason Bastian, and the watchful 2000fps eye of BeyondSlowMotion.

Looking for more games for your PlayStation Vita? Check out Ys: Memories of Celceta. The latest in the long-running JRPG series, Ys: MoC features a vast world to explore and varied hack-and-slash combat.

“I am the new world. And you are part of the old.” A scientist of the UK’s Ministry of Defence creates a highly intelligent android. Will it – she? – save us or doom us all? A sci-fi thriller in the vein of Blade Runner, RoboCop and Frankenstein.

Highlights of UFC 167 captured using a Phantom high-speed camera. Watching the fighters’ faces distort and ripple as they are pounded with punches made us flinch at the sheer brutality of these MMA matches.

The latest trailer for Laika’s upcoming feature The Boxtrolls, we get an inside look at the incredible precision and artistry that goes into the production of their beautifully handmade stop-motion animated films.

Collective Cadenza gives us a concise history of the bass guitar, with none other than the group’s co-founder Michael Thurber handling the instrument’s various incarnations. A lesson as entertaining as it is educational.

An updated look at upcoming Xbox One games, including heavy hitters Halo, Battlefield and Call of Duty, new franchises The Division, Watch_Dogs and Sunset Overdrive and crossovers FFXV, MGS V and Kingdom Hearts III.

(NSFW: Language) Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a hardcore team building coach who takes a group of office workers to a remote island, only for their retreat to devolve into a horrible retelling of Lord of the Flies.

A modern take on the classic desktop timewaster, these clacking balls have been loaded with LEDs and electronic sensors so they change colors when they smack into each other. “Stop playing with my balls” sign not included.

A new trailer for In Saturn’s Rings, a time-lapse movie made of over a million images taken by satellites, spacecraft, obervatories and more. Filmmaker Stephen van Vuuren is raising funds to get an orchestral score created for the movie.

A great gift for hoops fans, the Naismith-style lace-up ball is a replica of early basketballs. It has a leather shell, a rubber bladder and a rawhide lace. It’s a bit bigger and heavier than today’s balls, but it’s perfectly functional.

A gritty action flick in which women are held in an underground prison and forced to fight each other in hand-to-hand combat to the death to save their families above ground. It’s like grindhouse meets The Hunger Games.

Possibly the killer app PS Vita has been looking for. Use the touchscreen, rear touchpad and camera to interact directly with the lively and colorful papercraft world of Tearaway. Made by Media Molecule, the guys behind LittleBigPlanet.

These awesomely designed Breaking Bad playing cards are the start of Jeff Nichol’s project to create a full deck. He’s still got a ways to go but if the rest are as cool and appropriately illustrated as these we can’t wait to see the final result.

Based on Veronica Roth’s best-selling book Divergent follows the trials of Tris Prior, a girl who doesn’t fit into a dystopian future where people are assigned to separate factions based on their personalities. In theaters 3/21/14.

Take a tour of Middle-earth and learn more about The Hobbit movie trilogy in this new Google Chrome experiment. You can view it from any Chrome browser, but it works best on desktop computers and high-end Android devices.

Chopin bucks the trends with three farm-to-distillery single ingredient vodkas meant to be sipped, not just mixed. The potato is rich and creamy, while rye is light with a little spice, and the wheat is clean and slightly sweet.

Three of Edgar Wright’s movies – Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and this year’s The World’s End – in a three-disc set. All starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, all with Cornettos and all funny. Additional store links on Wright’s blog.

Performance artist Reggie Watts demos this nifty kit of electronic sound modules from littleBits and Korg, which lets you assemble your own analog synthesizers. The modules can be connected to other littleBits modules too.

Another amazing deck from Card Experiment, these playing cards feature imagery inspired by a utopian world that descents into dystopia. The neo-futurist styling of Tarin Yuangtrakul’s cards, box design, and backstory remind us of Bioshock.