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The Tennis Ball Standoff

The Tennis Ball Standoff

Vine Hub shares this video of two Golden Retrievers locked in a lazy battle for a tennis ball. Neither of them wants to give ground, but there is hope. A third Golden steps in to decide the winner: the Internet.

Real Life GTA V

Real Life GTA V

(Gore) Corridor Digital mimicked the camera angles, the casual chaos and the swaggy Terminator walking animation of Grand Theft Auto V to turn Los Angeles into Los Santos. Behind the scenes here.

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The Laser Shotgun

The Laser Shotgun

Styropyro built this insane laser weapon using eight 5-watt laser beams set up in parallel, then focused through a lens. It makes quick work of the usual targets: balloons, ping pong balls, and flash paper, but surely could do serious damage.

SpaceX: Falling Back to Earth

SpaceX: Falling Back to Earth

SpaceX shares this brief GoPro footage of the Falcon 9 rocket twirling in space as it descends back to Earth after a test flight, capturing the sun and our planet in the process, set to the Blue Danube waltz – a nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Breaking Sponge

Breaking Sponge

An amusing mashup of scenes from Breaking Bad, with animation from SpongeBob Squarepants by YouTuber RunningFlannel. Without benefit of the original imagery, we are yet again reminded just how brilliant Bryan Cranston was.

LWT: A Disgusting Promise Fulfilled

LWT: A Disgusting Promise Fulfilled

Shady FIFA President Sepp Blatter resigned on 6/2/15 – a day after John Oliver pledged to consume the products of US FIFA sponsors if they helped oust Blatter. Coincidence? John doesn’t know, but he’s a man of his word.

Leaping Leopard!

Leaping Leopard!

Kaba, a snow leopard in captivity at the Seneca Park Zoo shows off his instinctive desire to hunt for his prey as he takes a flying leap towards his lunch – a hunk of meat dangling from the ceiling. We would not want to be this cat’s zookeeper.

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Lazy Corgi

Lazy Corgi

We’ve seen a cat who figured out how to drink while lying down. YouTube chrwaa’s portly corgi on the other hand figured out how to play fetch while lying down. The secret? Imagination.

John Waters 2015 RISD Speech

John Waters 2015 RISD Speech

(PG-13 Language) “It’s time to cause trouble… and this time, from the inside.” Risqué artist John Waters told the 2015 RISD graduates to not just be creative, but to infiltrate established institutions and revolutionize them from within.

London Underground by Drone

London Underground by Drone

Truly mesmerizing time-lapse footage captured on foot and via a drone flying through London’s Crossrail project, in which a crew of over 10,000 excavated 26 miles of underground railway tunnels beneath London, England.

LWT: Bail

LWT: Bail

(PG-13 Language) John Oliver looks at the arguably unconstitutional U.S. bail system, where courts often set bail amounts that defendants can’t afford. This leads to harmless people going to jail or turning to sketchy bail bondsmen.

The Voices of Scooby Doo

The Voices of Scooby Doo

A great bit of footage from a 2001 documentary featuring interviews with the actors behind the voices of the Hannah-Barbera cartoon classic Scooby Doo and Dinomutt. Could you imagine Shaggy and Fred’s voices being reversed?

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Robots Falling Down

Robots Falling Down

While the DARPA Robotics Challenge is a showcase for cutting-edge tech, not everything always goes according to plan. Here’s a comical reel from IEEE Spectrum of some of this year’s entrants in their more humbling moments.

Fast Laser Etching

Fast Laser Etching

Watch an incredibly detailed work of art emerge from a sheet of metal at LasX Industries Inc. as it’s burned using an impressively quick computer-guided laser beam. The sound it makes is nearly as satisfying as the visuals.

The Enginemobile

The Enginemobile

We’re not entirely sure of the purpose of this thing, since it’s basically just a massive Rolls Royce V12 tank engine without a drivetrain, but the red-hot, flame-spitting exhaust pipes are eye and ear candy for any gearhead.

Pikachu Rave

Pikachu Rave

We’re equally perplexed and enthralled by this video of a plethora of Pikachu dancing at a rave in what amounts to the most satisfying costumed choreography we’ve seen since Left Shark appeared at the Super Bowl.

Construction Worker Whac-a-Mole

Construction Worker Whac-a-Mole

A trio of bored construction workers does their best Three Stooges impression as one of them tries to whack the other two on the head with a mallet. We’re surprised he didn’t get any prize redemption tickets at the end.

Pit Bull Wall Climb

Pit Bull Wall Climb

Pit bull trainers Rafael Caraveo Saldivar and Vaders Pits demonstrate the immense pulling power and strength of these impressive dogs as one of their pups lunges with such ferocity that it can run more than 12 feet straight up a wall.

Mussel Beach

Mussel Beach

Stop-motion master PES grills some mussels that he picked up from Muscle Beach. They’re really meaty, but we’re not sure if we’d want to eat them. A funny commercial for Lipton iced tea. What was the tea made of?!

Subaru: Making Memories

Subaru: Making Memories

While cleaning their old car, a father looks back at his daughter’s experiences growing up, in this commercial for the 2016 Subaru Forester. The song is Time Will Tell by Gregory Alan Isakov.

Space Tortilla

Space Tortilla

Astronauts are supplied a certain quantity of their food of choice to help keep their spirits up while at the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti shows us how she makes her bonus food, a quinoa tortilla.

Positronic

Positronic

A band of animated puppets play soothing music while a sock puppet discusses the formation of positrons and electrons in a thunderstorm in the music video for Positronic, by electronic artist Ryan Mauskopf aka Professor Soap.

Slippin’ Armadillo

Slippin’ Armadillo

An armadillo at a zoo in France encounters an insurmountable obstacle – a ramp which it just cannot ascend. Perhaps they shouldn’t spray down the habitat with WD-40 after all. And just how many legs does an armadillo have?

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