Rocket Sled Pioneers — critical condition, but 5 days later he was back to work.
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The scary days of human testing
WONDERFUL frycook
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Russian Winnie the Pooh or “Winnie Pooh”
WONDERFUL Rusalka
A interesting Russian take on Winnie the Pooh, not much whimsicalness, very straight to the point. Well worth a watch.
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Silent videos of Japanese trains and their bathrooms
POSTED WONDERFUL goldensloth
This is a large collection of unnarrated video of different trains in Japan and of the toilet of the train being flushed. Sometime the trains switch tracks. The poster has also transcribed the announcements from the train loudspeaker. It’s a sort of visual review of trains, and their toilets’ flushing mechanism and cleanliness.There is poetry in its simplicity. (Linked again in case I did it wrong in the other field.)
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HOWTO make Disneyland’s Matterhorn glisten like real snow
WONDERFUL Aaron
In another fabulous behind-the-scenes video, a Disneyland Imagineer shows how they made the Matterhorn’s new paint job glisten like real snow: glass beads embedded in the snow.
Also, 20 levels of scaffolding.
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Portal theme song on a Treadmill
POSTED WONDERFUL jennybean42
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Water in the Window
WONDERFUL pineapplecharm
Rainwater (I assume) trapped between the double glazing in this bus window sloshes back and forth as the bus accelerates and brakes. It’s curiously soothing to watch and kept me amused for the whole two hour journey from Helsinki to Turku. Disclaimer: I was on the wrong end of a stag party and not at my mental peak.
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Best 70s Booze, Babes and Burt Reynolds montage EVER.
WONDERFUL jammyjam2012
This video takes everything that was awesome about 70s beer commercials, Trans-Ams, girls, hot tubs, and white wine and rolls it all into one delicious video.
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Talking Heads cover on traditional Chinese instruments
WONDERFUL fairmariner
Our band has been invited to go to China for 6 weeks as musicians-in-residence at Sichuan University! We still can’t quite believe this is happening to us. We’re going to record an EP while we’re there, and we have a Kickstarter for that project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/768271187/china-meets-matteo
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1930s streamlined car
WONDERFUL frycook
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From Lunch to Landfill
POSTED WONDERFUL maeryan
Track your trash from start to finish as it moves through the sprawling streets of LA
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“Cat Attempts High Five Record”
WONDERFUL trainrider
This is a video my friend Kurt posted of his cat – Curt with a C – going for the high five record (as indicated in the video, “the record number of high fives between a cat and a man is 153″).
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Bubble Alarm Clock
WONDERFUL handsarmsfeettom
Is there any better way to wake up than the get coated in bubbles? I made this project to pass the time waiting to hear back about getting into the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.
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The Walmart Orchestra
WONDERFUL casshole
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BONE PUGZ
WONDERFUL awgrbr
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Excited Announcer is Excited
WONDERFUL frycook
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Flying 18 Wheelers in MASSIVE Texas Torandoes
WONDERFUL cl0zed
DALLAS — Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area on Tuesday, tearing roofs off real estates, tossing trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor trailers strewn along highways and parking lots. – April 2012
The National Weather Service confirmed at least two separate “large and extremely dangerous” tornadoes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Several other developing twisters were reported as a band of violent storms moved north through the metropolitan area. Officials had no immediate information about injuries.
Footage from highway video cameras showed a large, dark funnel cloud moving on the ground not far from a major interstate early Tuesday afternoon. Crumpled orange tractor trailers were later visible in a Dallas County parking lot, as well as flattened trailers along the sides of highways and access roads.
In Lancaster, south of Dallas, local television footage showed homes without roofs while other buildings were flattened. Plywood was strewn on the grass and on top of buildings. Residents could be seen walking down the street with firefighters and peering into homes, looking at the damage after the storm passed.
The storm pushed cars into fences and toppled trees. Branches and limbs were scattered across lawns and in the streets. A tow-behind RV was torn apart and crumpled in a driveway where part of a roof of the home was torn off.
“Obviously we’re going to have a lot of assessments to make when this is done,” Dallas County spokeswoman Maria Arita told The Associated Press.
Dallas law enforcement spokeswoman Sherri Jeffrey said an apparent twister also touched down and caused damage within the city’s southern limits, though the extent was not immediately known.
DFW Airport spokesman David Magana told WFAA-TV that airport employees pulled passengers away from glass windows and into inside areas of the airport as the storms and twisters moved through.
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“The Hunger Games” Parody “The Hipster Games”
WONDERFUL mindshawk
Hipsters from the five districts, Portland, Austin, Brooklyn, Oakland, and Silverlake must fight to the death… to save their district. But their are constant distractions at every turn.
Me and a bunch of my friends spent the entire weekend shooting a parody of “The Hunger Games”, “The Hipster Games”. Enjoy.
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Jonathan Coulton – “Today With Your Wife” unofficial music video
WONDERFUL Craig
This is a music video I’ve edited for the song “Today With Your Wife” by Jonathan Coulton (from his 2011 album, “Artificial Heart,” produced by John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants) using footage from old 8mm films found on Archive.org.
Decomposed Carnival (1960s):
http://www.archive.org/details/homemovie_decomposed_carnival
Merry-Go-Round (date unknown):
http://www.archive.org/details/mikeirwinmerrygoround
Stream or buy the album “Artificial Heart” at Jonathan Coulton’s website:
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/store/downloads/
More music videos I’ve edited for songs from Jonathan Coulton’s “Artificial Heart” album:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3DE83AC94C8C76DD
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Yamaha’s Singing Keyboard
WONDERFUL paulbamford
Yamaha have created a keyboard controller for its Vocaloid software that makes it possible to play a synthesized singing human voice in real time. The seeming simplicity of what is obviously an incredibly technologically advanced machine is making my mind boggle a bit.
From http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/video-yamaha-vocaloid-keyboard-535914
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President Obama is sexy and he knows it
WONDERFUL K2nReno
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Save the Public Radio Species
WONDERFUL maeryan
The most cerebral specimen of the modern journalist is in grave peril. The public radio journalist needs your support to continue its serene and bias-free existence.
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Music video created entirely from thrift store VHS tapes.
WONDERFUL Lonin
New music video for I Come To Shanghai (a band featuring Robert Ashley, the creator of A Life Well Wasted, a popular videogame culture podcast) was created from footage entirely found from VHS tapes bought at thrift stores.
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Man flies like a bird with flapping mechanical wings
WONDERFUL spike55151
Man builds a working human powered flying machine.
Fantastic! There’s more information about this project here. – Dean
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How To Peel a Spiral Cut Orange
POSTED WONDERFUL ClintonD
Bald chick teaches us the best way to cut an orange. Everything, from the girl, to the way she talks, to the distorted Mexican hat dance music, is hysterically creepy.
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Super slo-mo with 82yr old ping pong legend
WONDERFUL theadmiral777
Marty Reisman is an American champion table tennis player, author, and underground legend. A zeitgeist of classical table tennis, he was the 1958 and 1960 U.S. Men’s Singles Champion and the 1997 U.S. Hardbat Champion. Reisman developed his table tennis skills beginning at the age of 12 on the Lower East Side and then as a hustler in New York in the 1940′s.
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mamayama, 
Culturedropout and 2 others are discussing.
PMcGorrill 7:52 pm on 03/20/2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
this is so beautiful
LightningRose 9:07 am on 03/21/2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I was just just dropping in to submit this myself.
I call shenanigans. As a former hang glider pilot, I see nothing in this video to convince me it’s not a fake.
Show me the entire flight, from the ground, in a single take and I’ll say, “Maybe.”
Culturedropout 4:30 pm on 03/21/2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Yeah – I really hope it’s real, but… something to do with muscle to weight ratios, and stability and control issues really makes me wonder.
mamayama 5:59 am on 03/23/2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
A hoax, alas: http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/humanbirdwings.asp
efoghorjos 4:25 pm on 03/23/2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Man is really attempting all impossibilities and trying to apply technology and science to all spheres of life. Nothing seems to be impossible anymore, except seeing God face to face.