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Felt McDonald’s

Felt McDonald’s

UK artist Lucy Sparrow is known for her amazing felt replicas of everyday objects. Her latest creation is an recreation of an entire McDonald’s restaurant filled with plush, sewn Big Macs, french fries, Filet O’ Fish sandwiches, apple pies, Happy Meals and more. The installation appeared at the Scope Miami Beach art festival.

Painting an Abstract Cityscape

Painting an Abstract Cityscape

Artist Paul Kenton paints colorful modern cityscapes. His creative approach involves splattering paint onto a canvas to lay in the backgrounds, adding details with a palette knife, and letting the drips of paint become watery reflections at the bottom. Watch as he transforms an abstract mess of paint into an impressive rainy day scene of NYC.

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Toybox 3D Printer Deluxe Bundle

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This easy-to-use desktop 3D printer is designed for kids. The printer works with a mobile app filled with hundreds of toy designs and includes eight filament colors (aka “printer food”) for cranking out creations. Another great deal from The Awesomer Shop.

Why Boxers Used to Stand Like This

Why Boxers Used to Stand Like This

Vintage pictures of boxers often show fighters standing in this silly “fisticuffs” stance. But that position served a purpose, as Primo – Boxing explains in this short video. Basically, the lower arm protected the torso since gloveless fighters took way more body blows and aimed for the head less frequently to prevent broken hands.

Whack-It Brass Mini Hammer

Whack-It Brass Mini Hammer
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This brass mini hammer from Barnett Prototyping is designed for tapping in nails in tight places where an ordinary hammer and handle won’t fit. It’s especially useful for things like pushing in cable staples along a baseboard, and also works as a nutcracker. Comes in 1.5″ long x 3/4″ diameter and 2″ long x 1″ diameter sizes.

Uncharted: A Snowbike Film

Uncharted: A Snowbike Film

After gulping down a can of sponsor Monster Energy’s high-powered drink, snowbiker and X Games athlete Cody Matechuk headed into the snow-capped mountains of British Colombia for a thrilling ride on his motorized snowbike. Expect lots of daring jumps off of rocky cliffs into a thick cushion of fresh powder.

Gymkhana 2022

Gymkhana 2022

Things go completely off the rails in this epic Gymkhana video. Travis Pastrana goes wild on the streets of Florida as he takes on monster trucks, a fighter jet, a drag racer, jet skiers, and a helicopter all while he hoons about in a bonkers 1983 Subaru GL wagon that’s been upgraded with an 864-horsepower engine.

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Building a Patterned Wood Table

Building a Patterned Wood Table

Woodworker Ryan Hawkins shows us the time-consuming and laborious process that went into building a truly stunning piece of furniture. He built the 24″ x 48″ coffee table from maple, cherry, and walnut wood, incorporating a herringbone pattern into its top, inspired by a design from cutting board artist MTMWood.

Los Arango Tequila

Los Arango Tequila
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Los Arango tequila honors Jose Doroteo Arango (AKA Pancho Villa) for defending his people in the Mexican Revolution. Its locally harvested 100% Blue Weber Agave is fired onsite in clay ovens, fermented with a specialty yeast strain, double distilled, then bottled in blown glass and hand-finished with leather, metal, and wood accents.

How Florida Got So Weird

How Florida Got So Weird

Having lived in Orlando, we can confirm that Florida is, um… different. Wendover Productions looks at the history of the Sunshine State and how it got to be unlike any other place, with its manufactured communities, theme parks, and its population of runaways from other states, stoked by its beaches and low taxes.

These Songs Remind Me of You Notecards

These Songs Remind Me of You Notecards
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Making mixed tapes for paramours may have gone the way of the dodo, but record lovers can still wear their vinyl on their sleeves by sending These Songs Remind Me of You notecards. Shaped like 45 singles, 12 clever all-occasion card designs by illustrator Tuesday Bassen slide into envelopes resembling single sleeves.

Breaking Kitchen: Episode 1

Breaking Kitchen: Episode 1

Gordon Ramsay is the danger in this hilarious mashup of Breaking Bad and Hell’s Kitchen from Alternative Cuts. Walter White goes up against the always unhinged Tuco Salamanca and his cousin Lalo in a battle for cooking supremacy. But then a wildcard turns up with much more experience in the food service industry.

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REC SPX DeLorean Watch

REC SPX DeLorean Watch
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This limited-edition watch is the ultimate collectible for DeLorean fans. Each of the 456 stainless steel timepieces has an outer dial ring harvested from parts of John Z. DeLorean’s personal DMC-12 company car. The self-winding 39mm watch has a visible Swiss-made movement, a sapphire crystal, and an FKM rubber strap.

Refurb Deal: Amazon Echo Dot (2nd Gen)

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Add Amazon Alexa capabilities to more spots in your house with this bargain price on a refurbished Amazon Echo Dot. This compact speaker can play music and offers voice assistant features for smart home, news, weather, and more. It also has a 3.5 mm audio output for connecting a larger external speaker.

PenPad iPad Creative Controller for Procreate

PenPad iPad Creative Controller for Procreate

This wireless keypad is the perfect add-on for iPad artists who use Procreate. It provides quick access to 23 shortcuts so you can focus on drawing instead of fumbling through menus. It has buttons for switching brushes, changing pen tip sizes, sampling and selecting colors, changing layers, undo/redo, and more.

The World’s Brightest Laser Pointer

The World’s Brightest Laser Pointer

After explaining how cheap laser pointers can be dangerous, mad scientist styropyro said to hell with safety and built himself a super-sized green laser pointer that emits a beam that’s so intense you need welder’s goggles to be in the same room with it. At the core of the instrument is an insanely bright and hard-to-acquire laser diode.

The History of TV Dinners

The History of TV Dinners

Frozen TV dinners and the microwaveable meals we can buy today have long been a convenient way to easily fix a full, hot meal. But who came up with these compartmentalized dinners, and when was the first TV dinner served? Weird History Food explores the origin story of this popular mealtime shortcut.

Rock Covers

Rock Covers
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Celebrate your love for music and print art with Taschen’s compact (6.5″ x 8.8″) but densely-packed 512-page compendium of album art. The book features classic images from more than 750 albums, along with a fact sheet listing the key artists involved in its creation.

Maguey Melate Pechuga Tasting Box III

Maguey Melate Pechuga Tasting Box III
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Meaning “breast,” pechuga is a mezcal-based spirit that adds or hangs ingredients in the still to impart aroma, texture, and flavor from everything from strawberries to turkey. Rarely found in the US, pechuga is made in Mexico by mezcaleros for celebrations and provides an offering or spiritual connection to the dead.

Building a Fan-Powered Tandem Bike

Building a Fan-Powered Tandem Bike

Freestyle mountain bike rider Sam Pilgrim got his hands on a beat-up side-by-side tandem bicycle and thought it could use an upgrade. So he and his pal Louie outfitted it with a powerful 80cc paramotor fan. The resulting vehicle is insanely loud and squirrely as hell. We’re impressed they didn’t roll it.

Weezer: What Happens After You?

Weezer: What Happens After You?

Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo shows off his multitude of talents in this wild music video by director Peter Quinn. The tricky visual effects shots make it appear that Rivers has cloned himself and performed all of the instruments on the track What Happens After You? from the band’s 2022 seasonal release SZNZ: Autumn.

The Last of Us (Trailer)

The Last of Us (Trailer)

HBO and the creator of Chernobyl take on the brilliant, bleak, and nightmarish video game The Last of Us. Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) and Bella Ramsay (Game of Thrones) find themselves partnered up as they try and survive a post-apocalyptic world filled with terrifying mutants and even worse humans. Premieres 1.15.2023.

Turning a Spoon into a Dragon + Mini Sword

Turning a Spoon into a Dragon + Mini Sword

Ross the Random is back with another cool transformation video. This time, he took an ordinary steel spoon and turned it into a beautiful work of art. First, he carefully cut out a dragon pattern using a jeweler’s saw. Then, he used a grinder and file to turn its handle into a tiny sword. We love the blue finish he added with the torch.

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