West of Loathing (Trailer)
West of Loathing is an upcoming Wild West tactical adventure RPG from Asymmetric, the team behind Internet hall of famer The Kingdom of Loathing. WoL promises slightly better drawings, rudimentary animation and more humorous writing.
Snow & Confetti Ruin Online Videos
YouTuber Tom Scott explains the basics of online video compression and why these techniques are ill-suited to depict videos with lots of tiny moving objects on them such as snow and confetti. It’s not the amount of objects that’s the problem, it’s their movement.
5.11 Operator Axe
A collaboration between 5.11 and Viking Tactics founder Kyle Lamb. The Operator Axe is made of stainless steel and has a bearded axe blade, a hammer point, a pry bar, inch and cm rulers, hex wrenches, 0.5″ and 0.25″ bit drivers and a sheet metal cutter.
Between the Legs Double Dunk
The highlight of the first season of TNT’s slam dunk competition The Dunk King is this crazy creation from known rim-wrecker Haneef Munir aka Young Hollywood. The man got so much air he found time to jam in two balls at once.
Man & Grizzly Bear: Rewriting History
GoPro celebrates Endangered Species Day with this documentary about naturalist Casey Anderson. About 13 years ago, Casey rescued a grizzly bear, who’s now one of his closest pals and inspired him to create a grizzly sanctuary. Quite a contrast from The Revenant.
Overwatch: Hero
Jack Morrison was a super soldier and the first commander of Overwatch, but he fell from grace shortly before the group was disbanded. Now he seeks vengeance against those who orchestrated the peacekeeping force’s collapse as the vigilante Soldier: 76.
Rapping, Deconstructed
(PG-13: Language) Vox points out a few verbal tricks that some of the most technical rappers invented and perfected. These go beyond rhyming words to matching the syllables, flows, and of course the beats behind them, all while telling a story.
Calvin & Hobbes: Art Before Commerce
Entertainment essayist Kaptain Kristian takes a look at the work of Bill Watterson and his amazing, enduring series which offered humor that never dumbed itself down, and offered just as much amusement when we were kids as they do now that we’re grown up.
Drone Wars
Corridor Digital created an awesome Star Wars fan film using on-board POV camera footage captured from drones, combined with exterior shots and VFX. The drone pilots from Rotor Riot deserve an award for maneuvering around that bridge. Behind the scenes footage here.
Bo Burnham: Make Happy (Trailer)
“So the market said, “Here – perform everything to each other, all the time, for no reason.”” The hyperactive musical comedian Bo Burnham indicts his own generation in his Netflix special. Drops 6/3/16.
Happy Chewbacca Songified
Candace Payne’s gleeful video of her testing out her new Chewbacca mask has been seen over a 137 million times on her Facebook page alone. So it’s no wonder that The Gregory Brothers hopped on the bandwagon, and turned her unending joy into an equally upbeat little song.
BMW 2002 Hommage
BMW celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 2 Series with this fu-manchu’d machine. Inspired by the 2002 Turbo and built on the M2, the 2002 Hommage has racing-inspired spoilers and a carbon fiber stripe, huge wheel arches and the classic mirrored Turbo script up front.
Liquid Metal Watch
This unique timepiece from Y. Kimura and Seahope Ltd. features a display which tells time using blobs of liquid metal. The metal moves freely, then magnets under its face pull them into place to display the current hours and minutes. Comes in silver, black, or gold.
Sofa Moog Bean Bag Chair
Woouf!’s beanbag sofa harkens back to the era of analog synthesizers, offering up tons of cryptic knobs and a seating surface covered with keys. The only thing better would be if it played when you sat on it. Officially-licensed by Moog. Measures appx. 53″ x 31″ x 24″.
Making a Wooden Torus
Artist Kyle Toth demonstrates the painstaking process of transforming boards of bocote and ash wood into an intricate donut-shaped sculpture. The finished work contains 2,340 individual pieces of wood, and took Kyle about 90 hours to complete.
Toyota Sienna R-Tuned
You’ll believe a van can fly, as this custom Toyota Sienna tears up the track to win its class in the 2016 One Lap of America. The minivan finished 21 out of 69 overall, beating out Vipers and Corvettes. We caught up with the team for a couple of laps at Autobahn Country Club.
NES Zapper Glock
Weapons expert Jerry Miculek shows off Black Sheep Arms‘ modded Glock 41 handgun which looks just like a classic Nintendo Zapper gun, and takes down ducks much more effectively than the original. Also, RIP Yoshi.
Wilson Custom Footballs
Get dad a fun and unique gift this Father’s Day with a custom printed football. Each handmade leather ball is embellished with a personalized design celebrating your pop and/or his favorite NFL or NCAA team. For something more subtle, consider the custom engraved Duke.
Pakayak Packable Kayak
Want a kayak, but don’t have the storage space for one? The Pakayak disassembles from a 14-foot boat into a 3.5 foot-long package thanks to pieces that nest inside one another. They’re small enough to fit multiples inside an SUV, or to even carry one on your back.
Bob’s Burgers Live: The Movie
The cast of Bob’s Burgers celebrates the 100th episode of their animated series with this quirky promo directed by Kristen Schaal about the studio’s desire for them to do another live tour. Hopefully they will go back on the road again, but we’d be happy with more Archer Live too.
Rock Age Sorting Machine
Artists Prokop Bartoníček & Benjamin Maus created Jller, a fascinating machine that is capable of automatically identifying the geologic age of individual stones, then sorting and organizing them according to their era. Its slow and methodical approach is hypnotic.