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Every Story Is the Same

Every Story Is the Same

Inspired by Dan Harmon’s simplified theory of story structure, video essayist Will Schoder explains how the vast majority of stories in books, movies, songs, and television shows share a few key elements which unify them all.

Adobe Stylit

Adobe Stylit

Adobe Principal Scientist Paul Asente shows off an early preview of a tool which can take any style you can roughly sketch onto a sphere, and apply it to another 3D model, allowing styles to be magically transferred from object to object. Windows users can download a demo here.

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SlowMo Fallout Kills

SlowMo Fallout Kills

(Gore) Corridor teamed up with The Slow-Mo Guys to create this Fallout fan film which combines slow-motion footage with gory special effects as Gav sets out in the wasteland on a bloody quest to quench his thirst with some Nuka Cola.

Deal: Striv Touch Smartwatch

Deal: Striv Touch Smartwatch

This minimal smartwatch offers activity and sleep tracking, as well as the ability to display alerts for texts, emails, incoming calls, and social media activity. Connects with iOS and Android smartphones and offers battery life up to 1 week. Save 70% in The Awesomer Shop.

White Rabbit Project (Trailer)

White Rabbit Project (Trailer)

Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara return with their own series, in which they’ll head “down the rabbit hole to investigate weird and wonderful events from pop culture, science and history.” So basically it’s Mythbusters 2.0. Coming to Netflix 12/9/16.

NFL Football Leather Coasters

NFL Football Leather Coasters
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You may not really care about getting stains on your coffee table, but you still might want to grab a set of coasters so you don’t get yelled at anyhow. These should do the trick, plus they’re cut from the same Horween leather used to make real NFL footballs.

Wacom Mobile Studio Pro

Wacom Mobile Studio Pro

13″ and 16″ tablets designed for creative professionals. They come with a highly accurate new pen with pressure and tilt sensing, and options including Core i5 or Core i7 CPUs, up to 512GB SSD, 3D object scanning camera, NVIDIA Quadro M1000M GPU, and up to 4K resolution.

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Insane Bike Balancing

Insane Bike Balancing

Rider Fabio Wibmer rode his bike along a railing not much wider than its tires. But that’s not the impressive part – it’s that he did it along the guard rail overlooking Austria’s Kölnbreinsperre – a dam that rises about to a height of about 200 meters (~656 feet).

Rachael Ray vs. Hot Sauces

Rachael Ray vs. Hot Sauces

Superstar chef Rachael Ray is particular about her wings and opted to gulp down spoonfuls of Hot Ones’ arsenal of deadly hot sauces instead. She talked about eating on camera, her catchphrases, newbie-friendly food recipes and more while feeling the burn.

Lupita Nyong’o Tries Stand Up

Lupita Nyong’o Tries Stand Up

(PG-13: Language) Actress Lupita Nyong’o may have won an Academy Award for 12 Years a Slave, but that doesn’t mean that she can’t do comedy. During a recent episode of Billy on the Street she tested out a bit of standup material on passers by.

Come Together

Come Together

Retailer H&M enlisted director Wes Anderson to apply his colorful, fastidious, and bittersweet style to their big holiday advert, which stars Adrien Brody as a train conductor who must break the news to his passengers they won’t make it home in time for Christmas.

Westworld: Metal Cover

Westworld: Metal Cover

Musician 331Erock cranks out an energetic electric guitar cover version of Ramin Djawadi’s hypnotic opening theme from the hit HBO series Westworld. We can’t get the image of a freshly-printed host being bathed in milky white liquid out of our minds now.

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Carbon Fiber Weave Bow Ties

Carbon Fiber Weave Bow Ties
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If you have to wear a tie to a formal event, it might as well be a really cool one. We like these dramatic designs from UK outfit Dapper Jack, which are crafted from carbon fiber woven with kevlar or polyester, then lined with satin for comfort and wearability.

A 7-Circle Roundabout

A 7-Circle Roundabout

Traffic circles (aka “roundabouts”) aren’t nearly as popular here in the U.S. as they are in the UK and other European cities. WIRED takes a look at the seemingly insane 7-circle Swindon roundabout, and how it manages to keep traffic flowing smoothly.

Game of Thrones 1-6 Rhyming Recap

Game of Thrones 1-6 Rhyming Recap

(PG-13: Language) “While the Watch men walk beyond The Wall, Qhorin falls to Jon to turn his cloak to the Free Folk. So while the Watch are fighting wights and things, Jon’s spooning ginger wilderlings.” Alt Shift X drops wildfire in his recap of HBO’s Game of Thrones.

Shadow Tactics

Shadow Tactics
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a real-time tactical game in the vein of Commandos. Set in 17th century Japan, you control up to five members to defend the Shogun. Drops 12/7/16 for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Windows demo here.

Whiplash & Black Swan

Whiplash & Black Swan

Lessons from the Screenplay looks at the similarities in the scripts of Whiplash and Black Swan to see how one can tell a story about the obsessed artist – specifically the obsessed performer. Then he points out how their endings diverge to emphasize different points.

The Day My Kid Went Punk

The Day My Kid Went Punk

Time warp back to 1987 with this corny ABC Afterschool Special. Like all of these, the story has a simple moral: you can’t judge a book by its cover. Stars Doc from The Love Boat, Bug from Uncle Buck, the Governor from Benson, and Mrs. Willis from The Jeffersons.

Eclectic Method: Cookie Monster

Eclectic Method: Cookie Monster

Sesame Street goes trap with its trippy remix of sounds from everyone’s favorite cookie-addicted muppet and Eclectic Method. If your computer can handle it, try opening this video in four windows, then hitting play on each one. MP3 available here.

New Era Korea x ISA Collection

New Era Korea x ISA Collection
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New Era Korea’s exclusive collaboration with the International Space Archives adopts designs, colors and patches from American and Russian space programs into down jackets, sweaters, fitted and snapback caps and t-shirts.

Superwog Airlines

Superwog Airlines

(PG-13: Language) Australian comedy duo Theo and Nathan Saidden aka Superwog are known for their bad attitudes and short fuses, so who better to staff a jumbo jet than these two guys with a unique perspective on “customer service?” They’re no better as doctors.

Redundant Clock

Redundant Clock

Graphic designer Ji Lee originally conceptualized this tongue-in-cheek clock for a school assignment. The concept became an online hit. Now Lee has figured out how to turn it into a mass produced product.

Magnets in Slow-Mo

Magnets in Slow-Mo

TaoFledermaus was playing around with some small magnets and decided to see what their movements would look like when captured at 4,000 fps with a prototype Chronos 1.4 camera. The resulting video reveals some of their strange and wonderful behaviors.

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