The great Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto—whose work has spanned the electronic pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra and numerous film scores to experimental ambient and contemporary classical—has released this magnificent live… Read the rest of the article: Watch Ryuichi Sakamoto "Playing the Piano for the Isolated"
Every year around June 21, masses of people gather at Stonehenge to bask in the beautiful summer solstice sunrise above the iconic stones and hang with hundreds of modern day… Read the rest of the article: Summer solstice at Stonehenge will be streamed live
Graham Dunning replaced all of the Half-Life in-game sounds with clips of 90s EDM tracks and rave music sample CDs. He basically turned the entire game into a Launchpad so… Read the rest of the article: Half-Life with all sounds replaced with rave music samples
Spike Lee's new film Da 5 Bloods tells the story of African-American vets of the Vietnam war who return to the country in the present day to find the remains… Read the rest of the article: Watch the trailer for Spike Lee's new movie about black Vietnam vets
Digital media studio d'strict created "WAVE," a magnificent video art work for the humongous LED screen wrapped around the SM Town building the COEX (Convention & Exhibition Center) in Seoul,… Read the rest of the article: Massive video illusion: crashing waves appear to be inside a building
Der (Schw)Einsatz war kein Zufall: Wie dieses Observationsvideo zeigt, waren die borstigen Vierbeiner schon vorher ins Visier unserer Fahnder und Fahnderinnen geraten. pic.twitter.com/nS0jv3HhII — Polizei Berlin (@polizeiberlin) May 17, 2020… Read the rest of the article: Berlin police block a road to make way for a herd of wild boar
South Korean football club apologizes for filling stands with 'sex dolls.' By Jack Guy and me. #SouthKorea @cnnsport https://t.co/XMkLrxJZut — Sophie Jeong (@sophieyjeong) May 18, 2020 In South Korea, the… Read the rest of the article: Soccer team apologizes for filling out stadium stands with sex dolls
Two men wearing watermelons over their heads robbed a Sheetz convenience store in Louisa, Virginia. After asking for community help, police posted they arrested at least one of the melonheads.… Read the rest of the article: Melonhead men rob convenience store
Yesterday, we learned that Michelin-starred restaurant The Inn in Washington, DC had seated elegantly-dressed mannequins at their tables to fill the void left by half-capacity restrictions. Turns out, the Open… Read the rest of the article: Southern restaurant fills empty seats with blow-up dolls
Monday, May 18, is the 40th anniversary Joy Division singer Ian Curtis's death by suicide. Former Joy Division (and current New Order) members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris will pay… Read the rest of the article: Monday: New Order's Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris's streaming tribute to Joy Division's Ian Curtis
Last month, engineer Shane Wighton of Stuff Made Here impressed the Internet with his curiously engineered wooden basketball backboard that helps the ball into the hoop. (Video below.) His latest… Read the rest of the article: Ingenious robotic basketball hoop helps you not miss
Electric word, life. The Prince estate is streaming this killer Prince & The Revolution set recorded in Syracuse, NY during the legendary 1985 Purple Rain tour. While this footage has… Read the rest of the article: Watch this Prince & The Revolution smoking live concert from 1985
Astro Teller is the head of X, the "Moonshot Factory" that first launched as an R&D division of Google. iHeart Radio invited Astro to be part of a fantastic podcast… Read the rest of the article: Listen: Inspiring commencement speech from Astro Teller, X's captain of moonshots
This is easily done yourself, but it was smart of Coors Light (and their creative agency) to create a one-click "Clone Machine" that captures and loops 30 seconds of video… Read the rest of the article: "Clone Machine" to easily sneak away from a Zoom meeting
Scientists have published the highest resolution 3D atlas of an average mouse brain. The public resource from the Allen Institute enables researchers to reference a common map for the 100… Read the rest of the article: Fly through an average mouse brain
In the 1970s, a youth subculture of anti-establishment motorcycle clubs emerged in Japan called bōsōzoku that's still raging to this day, albeit in smaller numbers. Mitsuo Yanagimachi's short 16mm documentary… Read the rest of the article: Watch: "Godspeed You! Black Emperor," a short 1976 documentary about a Japanese motorcycle youth subculture
According to a 2019 YouGov survey, 45 percent of adult Americans believe in ghosts. What's it like for people who are convinced they are quarantining with a specter? The New… Read the rest of the article: Quarantining with ghosts
In the 1960s in a small Southern town, high school student Clay Jennings Desmond and his friend were "out frogging at the sandpits" when Clay decided to scare his pal.… Read the rest of the article: The Creature from the Sandpits, a teenage prank that's endured for 60 years
Apparently a high percentage of chefs at Chinese restaurants suffer shoulder plane from wok tossing. They must rapidly move the heavy pan to launch the food into the air so… Read the rest of the article: How to improve your fried rice using physics
The Hollywood Hills home that was the TV and real life abode of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson is now on the market for $6.5 million. Airing from 1952-1966, The Adventures… Read the rest of the article: For sale: Ozzie and Harriet's haunted home
