– The “Big Wall” project

Fulfilling my wife’s challenge to come up with something creative for what used to be a big blank wall in our house, using foam board, poster board, push pins, spray paint, tacky glue and tons of patience. Visit my homepage to see more of my artworks. - Taras Lesko

 

Bill Dance’s bloopers

Here is a collection of veteran fisherman Bill Dance’s classic bloopers:
 

Paper Cannon game

Addicting game, all designed as a paper-drawn game. Click to play: Paper Cannon game

Alma

Best. Short. Animation. 2009. PERIOD.

An invisible bottle

A great video explaining how to make a bottle invisible. Cool trick.

Music video shot backwards

Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy new year. Below is a funny Xmas e-card, featuring Santa with his… time machine

Fantastic Fantastic Contraption machines

If you are a fan of the Fantastic Contraption game, you will appreciate the next 8 minutes of video:

Car wash FAIL

The SnugWow

A mockery advertisement of those stupid ‘As seen on TV’ products:

What if Mario wasn’t a plumber

A funny collection of artworks, showing how life is easier if Mario chose another… career path than being a plumber. Works by H.Caldwell Tanner, click to see the full pic:

Ice skating chimp

Amazing, he is more skilled than the most of us:

Bait ball feast

The dinner seems is too easy to have… until…

The Burj Dubai

A view of the tallest building in the world:

Projection on buildings

Ultra realistic 3D projection on buildings by NuFormer Digital Media:
 

Tetris tune on 20 computers

Using the Console.Beep()
This is a long dream that me and my friend Max (in the video) had since we entered college.


The project is simple, using the internal speaker of each computer in the class to play a different channel (instrument) of the tetris theme.


All computers are linked with the upd protocol, so not all the computers are synchronised, but for now it will be good!

Imitation of the engine sounds

Well, the lyre bird, check this out:

The monster gummy bear

Claimed to be the biggest gummy bear in the world, this one is available for purchase from Vat19 for $29.95. LOL:

Half-Contra

A cool mod of Half-Life 2 to remake the original NES Contra game:

One very small chance

Almost impossible scenes compiled @ one place:
 

Prince of Persia rotoscopy

If you are fan of the game, you will apperciate this. Here is the original video, where all realistic movements in the game is based on:

Back to the Future Crysis Mod

A very cool mod for Crysis:

The Lighthouse Keeper

Cool work of Gaëlle Thierry, Jérémie Moreau, Rony Hotin, Baptiste Rogron, Maïlys Vallade, and David François:

Best ad clips of 2000s

A chart with the best advertisement video clips of the passing decade. Click here to see them all, below is the one for Philips and the making-of video:

Korg Kaossilator

One cool music gadget by Korg, below is video of a full performance with it:
 

Pigeon: Impossible

Produced & directed by Lucas Martell, how a pigeon could create a… war:

Guinness Beer slide

The people behind Guinness Beer know how to make a good commercial:

World domino record

A new world record for the number of dominoes toppled in one go was set in the Netherlands on Friday night, when according to event organisers, 4,345,027 dominoes fell during a two-hour TV show:

40 funny print ads

A collection of some very funny and creative print ads, compiled by Webdesigner Depot. Click to see all of them: 40 funny print ads

A suprised kitty

LOL:

Luke Randal – Reach

Produced and directed by Luke Randal, featuring a soundtrack by Philip Glass:
 

10 biggest videogame explosions

10 of most epic explosions, found in video and pc games. Click here: 10 biggest videogame explosions

A giant stingray

It is one of the rarest giants of the ocean, and it has been caught on film for the first time.
An underwater camera crew filming for the BBC recorded a smalleye stingray swimming off the coast of Mozambique.
The smalleye stingray is the largest of all 70 species of stingray, attaining widths of more than 2m.

Sony Bravia – The domino city

As always, as much colors as possible:

Moonwalk on air

Mario Basanov & Vidis feat Jazzu – I’ll be gone

Music title: MARIO BASANOV & VIDIS feat JAZZU – I’ll be gone
Director: Rimantas Lukavicius
CGI: Rimantas Lukavicius
Producers: Martynas Mickenas, Arunas Matacius
Production Company: RGB
Inspired by SOBIESKI
Year of completion: 2008.

Dramatic cat story

Now it comes to a fight:

Goalkeeper owned

That's what i call pretty POWNED:

Top 100 video game music

A compilation of top 100 video game soundtracks from the NES time until now. Here to the full playlist.
 

Junk – E.T.A.

Award winning animated short by Junk about a guy, bored alone in the space. You can download the HD version here at their website.

Clockwords game

Clockwords is a hectic word game set in Victorian London. You are a genius inventor who discovers plans for a mysterious machine that runs on the power of language. Then your lab is infiltrated by mechanical bugs that have come to steal your secrets! You must think and type quickly to fend off the invaders:
PLAY: Clockwords

An incredible beard

Hold on... until the champion of a beard competition in 1991 comes out:

Discovery Channel Time Wrap – Water drop

I am sure you haven’t seen such a drop before:

A high jump

This guy jumping from a 8 story building really has some quite… big balls. Or is just really crazy:

The largest black holes in the Universe

How big can they get? Where do they hide? And what havoc do these strange and powerful monsters wreak on the cosmic landscape?

Don’t Look Down!

After looking at the gallery below, you probably have a headache:
Don’t Look Down!

The Gun game

A physics-based game. All you have is a gun, and you really need to survive!
Click to play: The Gun game

How camera lenses are made

How precisely camera lensesare being made. By Discovery Channel:
 

How Stonehenge is made

A Michigan man moves massive blocks in his backyard using simple contraptions, showing how Stonehenge could actually be built with simple mechanisms.

Biggest pig

The game is called “biggest pig”, was published in the American magazine “Life”, release fall of 1939. Click on the image to see the final result:

Dungeons & Dragons in the future

A walk-through of the current build of our proof of concept for a Dungeons & Dragons experience on the Microsoft Surface. Created by the Surfacescapes team at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University:

Insane helicoptering skill

Breaking the Magicians Code – Coin from Coffee

Seems from the beginning it is impossible, but evertything can be explained.

A birds swarm ballet

Amazing that they don't collide:

Kid stuck in skate bowl

Over 100 people watching how this kid is stuck in the skate bowl... Maybe think for a second and build up some momentum?

How it’s made – Bacon

Watch how one of the English nation most beloved food is prepared!

 

A milk trick

With several paint drops and some basic soap, you can create this psychedelic milk bowl:

Retarted Dogs

We got a very small dog basket for the little one and a big one for the big white canadian shepherd. I don’t know how the hell he can fit in.
His head is almost as big as the basket itself.

RealtimeUK – Stormbirds concept cinematic

Client: THQ, Juice Games
Duration: 3 months
Team: 8 artists
Software: 3dsMax, Vray, Vue, Afterburn
Here for more pictures and infos from the project.

Demolition of a skyscraper

A bit of dust yes:

Walking like a human

Below is the PETMAN, a research by Boston Dynamics and funded by US Department of Defense: Click here for more info.

Half of a car

Seems fun, but not really handy:

Ship launching

Wow, did not realize that ship launchinsg can be so dramatic:

Tom Fun Orchestra – Bottom of the River

Superb music video for the Tom Fun Orchestra, directed by Alasdair Brotherson and Jock Mooney of Trunk Animation:

Eyeballing game

This game is to test your visual measurement ability: Eyeballing game

Parrot imitates baby

Is this the most annoying parrot in the world?

Tom & Jerry – Heavenly Puss

One of the best episodes of Tom & Jerry:

30 incredible 3D portraits

All by the artists from CGSociety, some are unbelievable real for a 3D rendered picture.
Click to see more:
30 incredible 3D portraits

Parkour fail

Don’t think parkour is just cool and… easy. Here is a compilation of many fails, some are quite... ouching moments:

What the..

A miracle or… fake? Just wow:
 

Megaman II – Dr.Wily Stage 1

Cool remix of the original soundtrack of Megaman II by Sasaki, here to download the mp3.

Phone guitar

And here to CNET’s roundup of top 5 iPhone guitar tools:

Taiwanese professional army recruitment

Ain’t this the best recruitment video for an army?

Find the song by… humming

The situation is quite familiar… you like the song, heard somewhere else. But you don’t know who is the artist, neither the song title? Just sing, whistle or even… hum the song, and Midomi might guess it right. I tried several popular songs, and it works quite well. Click to try it:

BBC Comedy – I Can’t Believe It’s Not Beatles

Inspired by the music of The Beatles, it’s the new game everyone is talking about. Created by Harry Partridge for BBC Comedy. Download the track here:

Melting steel with sunlight

James May from Top Gear showing here how to melt steel by the Sun:

The wheel spider

Talking about spiders, here is the one that can reach 44 turns per second once needed. It’s the wheel spider, a.k.a. dancing white lady spider:

Sketch2Photo project

Really cool research by students of Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China and National University of Singapore, where you sketch some scenery and the engine searches and composes the most accurate photo for you. Here to the project’s page, the online demo page is coming soon:

CollegeHumor – Pixar intro parody

Batmobile @ Stockholm, Sweden

"Was on my way to work and spotted this awesome batmobile replica on the street.


It’s built by Leif Garvin from Stockholm. It took him over 20 000 hours of work and $1 million to finish it. The engine is an 460 Ford big block V8, 700 hp and it’s built on a 1973 Lincoln Continental." - Really Amazing:

Baby scared of his own…

LOL OMG:

Cool trampoline skills

Cool show-off video by Oli Lemieux of Cirque du Soleil. One word; Awesome:

Animated graffiti

Produced by Studio Cromie. Music by Roberto Lange:

Burnout goes horribly wrong

Stupid ass:

Samsung flexible OLED display

Wow. When will this technology be available for the public?

Adobe Photoshop CS5 - Patchmatch

PatchMatch: A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing quickly finding approximate nearest neighbor matches between image patches. - Yeah right, just watch the video to see what Adobe Photoshop CS5 can do for you:

Michael Jackson impersonator fail

Bullet impacts in slow motion

White blood cell vs. Bacteria

Weird to see, but this happens in your body all the time:

Breaking glass with sound

NASCAR gliding

Cool viral video for Gillette:

Top 10 NES intros

A list of 10 Nintendo NES games that have great introductions/title screens. Below is the one for Ninja Gaiden, click here to see them all:
 

That Mitchell and Webb Look – Proof of no God

Funny UK show – Proof of no God apearing in food:

Playing guitar with a light bulb

In Gomel (Belarus), an elderly woman is playing guitar blues with an electric light bulb:
 

Remake of Monkey Island 2

A quick concept video, showing how it could look like the Monkey Island 2 game, rendered with the modern Cryengine. Here to it’s page for more info, videos & downloads.
 

Louis Armstrong vs Radiohead – What A Wonderful Surprise

A mashup mix by Overdub:
 

Virtual tour of Lechuguilla cave

Located in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, the deepest cave in the US, Lechuguilla is most famous for its unique geology and rare formations. It is limited to access but scientists and exploration teams. Now time, take a tour down into the cave for its beauty and fascinating features with the Planet Earth TV series.
Here for more info about Lechuguilla cave:

Inspector Gadget with beer bottles

This man with his performance of Inspector Gadget theme song on beer bottles is really a great musician:

The future of the laptop?

Meet the Rolltop, a possible candidate for the future laptop. Created by Orkin Design:

Adidas – All Day I Dream About Sneakers

Branding project “All Day I Dream About Sneakers” was created for Adidas Originals by Dimitri Kalagas and Chris Cork. The world’s most original range of sneakers were converted to unordinary sculpted models. Achieved models were used in extended compaign which included in-store posters, visual merchandising displays and a limited edition book. All sculptures as result are fully consistent with the creeds of the company – “Impossible Is Nothing” and “Celebrate Originality”.

- The amazingness here is they are real 100% and not photoshopped.

Click to see more: Adidas – All Day I Dream About Sneakers

Saturn – Spartak Moscow

A fan scores a goal! LOL:

Bizarre fish found in Brazil

A gelatinous fish found off Brazil’s Bahia coast has been touted as a previously unknown species. But the six-foot-long, toothed oddity may be a known member of a group of mysterious bottom-dwellers known as jellynose fish, another expert says:

Kangacat

Funny police pursuit

Haha, and the Benny Hill’s music is quite appropriate:

The Lonely Island – Cool guys don’t look at explosions

When there are explosions, don’t ever look back. If you are a cool guy. Music video by The Lonely Island. LOL:

Alone in the dark T-shirt

For the people who don't know; Alone in the Dark is a game...

And in this environment it's just...Ouch...

What If Nintendo made movies?

The title says it all. Click to see the rest of the gallery:

What If Nintendo made movies

Shady optical illusion

A simple, yet really cool illusion, playing with shadow and shade:

They hate Audi

Clever campaign by Audi, definitely can join our Carmakers’ war list:

Paper world of Scribe

A cool campaign, done by CRU DE LADIES for Scribe:
 
SCRIBE MUNDO DE PAPEL from ladies on Vimeo.

Spelunky platformer game

8-bit colors and sounds (or look like it is 8-bit) platformer game in 2009? Yes, why not, if the gameplay is cool, the levels are well constructed and you never get bored playing the game. Here to the more detailed review and here to the downloads.

One cool parkour guy

The Coolest Guy in the World - Watch the best video clips here

How a construction crane is… contructed

Cool animated video showing how a construction crane is erected. Really amazing piece of human technology:

What happens in the underground

Metro/subway/underground… the place where you find all this oddity.

Click to see more: What happens in the underground

Canabalt one-button game

Fast-paced action game, which requires only one button to play. With cool action-movie-like soundtrack.

Click to launch: Canabalt one-button game

Tree of Life

This six-minute Tree of Life video appeared on the BBC One programme ‘Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life’ narrated by David Attenborough:

100 Greatest hits of youtube

Nothing more to say... Just ROFLMAOBBQ:

Oh, Hi buddy

The live Mona Lisa

A complex technology of hologram, 3D CGI and sensory system is created by Alive Gallery in Seoul, South Korea to make classic masterpieces come to life:

Jeremy Gilley – The Day After Peace

The Day After Peace tells Jeremy Gilley’s determined 10 year long quest to have peace day – September 21 – established as an internationally observed, annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence with a fixed calendar date. It is interesting and thought-provoking, highlighting some of the problems that are involved in trying to achieve a world of peace. It also provides important lessons for anyone who has a worthwhile cause they want to campaign for.

Deep Green, the pool-playing robot

This robot (named Deep Green) will beat you big time when playing pool. Luckily this tool also developed ARPool, which will help you play pool by drawing lines on the table:

Chevrolet Crash safety test: 1959 vs 2009

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety conducted a unique crash test to demonstrate the advances in motor vehicle safety over the last 50 years. In this test, a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu and a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air are both going 40 mph and the vehicles collide offset, driver side to driver side. This is the same crash configuration represented by the Institute's 40 mph frontal offset barrier test, which is used to rate the frontal crash performance of new cars:
 

Vurup – Insert Coin

By animation collecive Vurup which comprises students from Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia:

A cheating story

Really creative story:

Drawtoy vs. Byokal

A cool toy by ZeFrank, click to launch: Drawtoy vs. Byokal:

Grand Theft Beatles

A funny mockup of the famous GTA game with the famous The Beatles:

Bubble & smoke

An old video, showing some cool tricks with smoke and soap bubbles:

Optical illusion - Beyond belief and back

A short video of a cool visual illusion. This is a re-created version of Roger Shepard’s “Turning the Tables” illusion. Weird:

Warsow – free fast-paced 3D FPS game

Warsow  is set in a futuristic cartoon-like world where rocketlauncher-wielding pigs and lasergun-carrying cyberpunks roam the streets. Warsow is a completely free fast-paced first-person shooter (FPS) for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

PLAY: Warsow!

MagnetiZR

You may think magnets are a great way to stick your to-do list on your monitor, or spruce up your tower with cute little butterflies and smilies. That way lies heartache and empty wallets. My friend, magnets and your computer share a love that can never be. A Romeo and Juliet that ends in the stink of burning circuitry rather than poison. Of course, one exception to the rule is Maghttp://jayisgames.com/games/magnetizr/netiZR, from Insane Angel Studios, a twisting, pulsing puzzle game where getting warped is a good thing:

PLAY MagnetiZR

Did You Know 4.0Did You Know 4.0

The completely new Fall 2009 version of Did You Know includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist. For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit http://mediaconvergence.economist.com and http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com.

Deer comes back to life

A clever trick by a deer:

Malcolm Sutherland – The Astronomer’s Dream

When a hungry astronomer falls asleep while working on a problem, he discovers a solution not in outer space, but in the surreal food-chain of his subconscious mind.
An animated film by Malcolm Sutherland, with sound by Leon Lo. Made in 2009:

The poo machine

WTF:

Liron Topaz – This Side Up

A funny short animation by Liron Topaz, here to the short’s homepage:

Catwalk girl

I feel sorry for her... But i love how the presenter of the show keeps laughing:

Arnold Schwarzenegger found dumbells

Unbelievable lol:

How Road Runner ends

From Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy:

Funny Scary bloopers compilation

High-speed robot hand

Ishikawa Komuro Lab’s high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation:
 

Baby chicks ground up alive

Warning: this video contains cruel images, which may not be suitable for viewers below 18 years old.

A Chicago-based animal rights group called Mercy for Animals shot the video above of baby chicks being ground up alive at an Iowa chicken processing factory. So are you becoming a vegetarian now ;) ?:
 

Missing bike

Best missing paper ever:

Make your own supercar

See how this supercar is made from… foam and cardboards. Click to see more:
Make your own supercar

Why mirror switches from left to right

Professor Richard Feynman amuses himself with an old puzzle – why do mirrors seem to switch left and right, but not top and bottom? From the BBC TV series ‘Fun To Imagine‘ (1983):
 

3D Short - Miam

What is going on above the shelves of a supermarket?

A great 3D adventure directed by Supinfocom Arles students: Laurent Harduin, Delphine Bourgois, Victor Phrakornkham, Pierre-Vincent Cabourg and Fanny Vergne. Music by Samy Cheboub:
 

The games factory

Finally a look into the factory where Mario, Tetris and Sonic are born! :P

The games factory

100 years of special effects

Well, some emblematic movies (like The Matrix) are not included here, but nonetheless it’s a good compilation with some historical scenes with special effects:

100 wonderful macro shots

Incredible macros photoset by LordV, click to see the slideshow:

100 wonderful macro shots

3D Short - Pandore

On the clouds of the mythic Mount Olympus, a young girl unleashes a dangerous monster from a mysterious box. Is he match for the little devil that set him free?

This animation is made in 2009 by Marion STINGHE, Meryl FRANCK, Benoît GUILLAUMOT, Nicolas CAFFAREL and Elen Le TANNOU at Gobelins school:

Hey Alan, Alan, Alan, Alan…

BBC show titled Walk on the Wildside:

16 girls on 1 bicycle

China is famous with one thing, their acrobatic numbers, and this one is just A MA ZING:

3D Short - Kudan

Director: Taku Kimura (Japan) – A man is accidentally transformed into the Japanese monster Kudan:

Little kid parallel parking

This kid shows us how to park like a real pro:

How DNA copies itself

DNA replication, the basis for biological inheritance, is a fundamental process occurring in all living organisms to copy their DNA. This process is “semiconservative” in that each strand of the original double-stranded DNA molecule serves as template for the reproduction of the complementary strand. Hence, following DNA replication, two identical DNA molecules have been produced from a single double-stranded DNA molecule:

20 hilarious plays in football

Cat in jacket sleeve

This kitty kat seems to like it to stay in a jacket sleeve:

Multitask game

A cool game to test your multitask ability. One of the most difficult games I ever played

Click to play:
Multitask game

Kevin Richardson – The lion man

Kevin Richardson, a South African lion tamer, can interact with his lions as one of their own:

Toyota Robot running

Developed by Toyota R&D, this humanoid robot can keep balance quite well and runs for 7 km/h:

Stop Playing Your Homework and Do Your Video Games

A live performance for Seattle’s Marrowstone in the City program. The music was arranged by the genius Lennart Jansson (Link) and Gen Kim (myself as Ash Ketchum):

How Differential Gear works

An excellent tutorial from the 1930’s on the principles and development of the Differential Gear. Fast Forward to 1:50: