Tape Measure Master!

I like how proud of him his friends/co-workers are.

Street Fighter

World Flag

Kottke had this up the other day:
What the world needs is a great flag, a flag of pure bliss. Here's one of the intermediate steps to the finished product; it's an average of all the world's countries' flags weighted by population.

Indoor Synchronized Bike Riding

This both mesmerized me and made me sick to my stomach.

Also, who are those guys setting up for an indoor soccer match at the end? What dicks.

Chris Ware Animates This American Life

Coat Hanger Gorilla

By Scottish artist David Mach.

Two Girls. Two Cups.

It's not gross. but is the one on the right wearing a towel?

from Lulu and the Lampshades “You're Gonna Miss Me.”

Keeping Ravers Occupied Often Doesn't Take Any Talent

...then again sometimes it does.

Stevie Wonder Drum Solo

From YesButNoYes:

Damn, He's freakin' talented.

Holy Vertical, Batman!

I caught these videos of Redskins rookie Keith Eloi while momentarily watching a Redskins pre-season game on TV yesterday. Holy shit. In both of them, you have to wait until :48 for the jump, but it's worth it.

Sand Art

Thanks to JR for posting this.

Russian Pilot Ejecting at Mach-2

Via Geekologie.

Movie producers paid two Sukhoi Su-35 pilots to fly without a canopy at Mach 2.0, and have one of them eject in what probably is one of the most dangerous stunts ever filmed.

Human Bodies Produce Visible Light

Via Geekologie:
Thats right folks, the human body actually produces visible light -- and not just if you live under power lines! Unfortunately, it's not visible to us because it's 1,000 times weaker than our eyes can detect.

The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. In fact, virtually all living creatures emit very weak light, which is thought to be a byproduct of biochemical reactions involving free radicals. The researchers found the body glow rose and fell over the day, with its lowest point at 10 a.m. and its peak at 4 p.m., dropping gradually after that. These findings suggest there is light emission linked to our body clocks, most likely due to how our metabolic rhythms fluctuate over the course of the day.

Knight Rider Light Show

World's Fastest

A Normal Day

We've come a long, long way.

Ho-lee shit. Could this 1964 VW ad be more sexist?

"Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things."

OH Snap!

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Rubiks Cube Art

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Pushing the Boundaries of the Music Video

http://soytuaire.labuat.com/

Wow. What a video. Click that link right now. Seriously. Immediately. This is the first thing to make me gasp in awhile.

From VSL.
A Spanish group called Labuat has created one of the most beautiful music videos we’ve ever seen. And the best thing is, it’s interactive.

As the song — “Soy Tu Aire” (“I’m Your Air”) — kicks off, a line of black ink moves across the screen: You can send it up, down, back, and forth, or swirl it into circles. The line grows thicker along the way and splatters into several shapes: butterflies, red lips, birds. The immersive experience will make you feel like a maestro.

This is one of two amazing videos I have seen lately that are pressing the art form in new directions. Here is the other:



http://www.mtvmusic.com/artist/coldwarkids.jhtml

Also from VSL:

A great new video by Fullerton, California’s Cold War Kids lets you play director, producer, roadie, and puppet master.

The three-minute clip begins with the band members’ walking on-screen. Each grabs an instrument and begins to play. And the rest is up to you: Click the overhead color bars to change their instruments, or click on musicians to silence them entirely. There are a number of permutations; for maximum pleasure, start with one isolated instrument and follow it through as you keep adding layers. No matter how you play it, every iteration sounds great.