Artist Steve Spazuk lays out the dark areas of his images using the sooty residue from an open flame, then manipulates what’s left behind on the paper using feathers, brushes and other tools to bring out detail from the darkness.

All hail Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter. Michael Fassbender plays Macbeth – an accomplished warrior consumed by his ambition – in this appropriately gritty adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy.

Beatmaker Mickey Valen adds just the right amount of edge and bass to Here, the hit anti-party anthem by this summer’s breakout YouTube star, 18-year-old Alessia Cara. Get the original song, uhm, here.

After explaining the basics of the Fermi Paradox, Kurzgesagt concludes its discussion by expounding on a few possible reasons as to why, assuming they do exist, we haven’t encountered any aliens yet.

The Bilderbergers imagine a charity for rich folks who get lost in their mansions. But if they work hard enough and stop blaming other people for their predicament, they’ll be able to find their way around their own damn house.

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington and Andy Samberg play tennis pros who battled it out for 7 days in a row in HBO’s mockumentary. Guest starring John McEnroe, Serena Williams and more. Drops 7/11/15.

George Batchelor’s Hot Date is a dating simulator featuring a talking pug. You’re presented with a series of phrases that lead to different questions, many of them silly and ridiculous. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

While much of the world has moved on to video games, we still enjoy a good game of pinball every now and then. We’d definitely love to play Galactic Dimension, a huge machine built for the Phæno science center in Wolfsburg, Germany.

In his Sisyphus series, artist Bruce Shapiro creates hypnotic, non-permanent works of art using computer-controlled contraptions which make intricate patterns by rolling a magnetic ball through a tabletop covered with sand.

An improved version of the Kelvin .23. The .36 adds a bottle opener, a utility knife and a corkscrew, as well as 10 more screwdriver heads and a longer tape measure. Available in other colors from Kelvin.

YouTuber carsandwater’s red hot nickel ball has demolished pretty much anything that was offered to it. Until now. Its kryptonite? A hockey puck, which is made from a seemingly indestructible disc of vulcanized rubber.

Bluelounge’s Pixi is a reusable and multipurpose bungee tie. Thanks to its easy to use lock you won’t have to cut it loose like regular zip ties. Bundled as a pack of 8 small ties, 6 medium ties or 4 large ties.

Colin Furze’s latest invention was pitched by one of his YouTube viewers. The Furzo Toasto is a knife – well, a saw – with an electric heating element that makes the blade hot enough to toast bread as it slices.

A fun card game in which you must identify celebrities and famous figures using only a silhouette of their facial hair as your guide. Each clue will cost you points, so use them wisely. For some reason, they all look like Riker to us.

Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s latest installment of Mean Tweets with NBA players has a lot of corny entries, but the ones that sting hit hard. It’s okay Blake, it’s okay. Also MJ should ask Reggie Miller where the fountain of youth is.

The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor JIMEK recently turned in this medley of classic hip hop tunes. We can’t decide if it it was more fun to hear Sure Shot or Get Ur Freak On played this way. (Thanks Michael!)

A pair of Bluetooth earbuds and a mobile app that let you modify the sound from your surroundings. It can lower the overall volume or just certain frequencies, as well as equalize or even add effects like echo, all in real time.

Industrial robot maker Yaskawa shows off the incredible precision of its MOTOMAN-MH24 by having it learn blade skills from a samurai sword master. The part where it slices the pea pod in half is nuts. Fortunately, it can’t chase us – yet.

Texas Armoring Corporation stands by their anti-ballistic materials so much that their CEO subjected himself to the ultimate test – behind the wheel of one of their armored Mercedes while an AK-47 was fired at his face. Damn.

“America doesn’t bail out the losers.” Andrew Garfield plays a struggling breadwinner who gets evicted from his house. To survive, he ends up working for the corrupt broker that evicted him, played by Michael Shannon. Drops 9/25/15.

91-year-old Walter Thomas has some mischievous blood flowing through his veins. One of his bucket list items was to back his car through his garage door. When a relative planned to demolish their garage, his wish came true.

Valorisation Lab makes caps out of recycled plastic and vintage scarves bought from thrift shops in Ukraine, making each piece unique. You can pledge for a snapback or five panel cap with a random or specified main color.

Declan Feeney likes to play the saxophone. Except he doesn’t actually own one. Instead, he does some crazy stuff with his vocal chords to create an uncanny mock sax. Here, he plays a bit of The Pink Panther theme.