Things that are weird and good
If this is what the alien invasion of Earth looks like, it’s too damn beautiful for us to put up much of a resistance. In fact, this robotic aerial ballet was advertising network Saatchi & Saatchi’s contribution to the New Directors’ Showcase at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity [...]
You probably don’t have to have a degree in advanced mechanical engineering to become a yo-yo expert, but Paul Dang does. In this video Dang uses his dexterous skills to display mind-boggling acrobatic yo-yo feats. The Cascade is a model from One Drop Yo-Yos, a company based in Oregon that [...]
Do you struggle with coordination? Well starlings don’t. Murmuration is a short film that captures breathtaking footage of a flock of starlings performing aerial ballet above the Shannon River in Ireland. A murmuration is… 1. An act or instance of murmuring. 2. A flock of starlings. 3. Completely Rad. The [...]
If you thought a gigantic floating Darth Vader head was only the stuff of your Star Wars marathon-induced nightmares, you don’t know the power of the dark side. Piloted by Benoit & Michel Lambert, this custom-built hot air balloon is 86 feet high and 69 feet wide and it took [...]
Silly me, I had no idea I had been using foil all wrong. As it turns out you can save those handy little pieces of foil you get from Chipotle, and wrap your sports car with them. Check out this 2012 chrome gold foil-wrapped Aventator Lamborghini. Although this 700 hp [...]
Surely the next trend in yuppie eco-tourism is the teardrop camper, a pint-sized aggregation of fuel-efficiency and modern mini-comfort all in one tiny package. Most teardrop campers are so small they often only fit one person, but the tradeoff is a portable living space that a Smart Car can lug [...]
If you, like us, have often looked at your yacht and thought to yourself, “Yawn. What a conventional hull shape,” then you may just be a prime candidate for a new Yacht Island. This business for billionaires has launched an innovative yacht-building company based on the idea that traditional luxury [...]
We knew this day would come. Ever since the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, we’ve all been waiting for the day when amphibious-aeronautical-terrestrial vehicles (or whatever you want to call them) became a reality. Well, we might not be quite there yet, but the Transition from Terrafugia is certainly [...]
My favorite superhero was spotted last week and it wasn’t anywhere you might suspect. Police pulled over a man dressed as Batman, driving around Silver Spring, Maryland in a black Lamborghini. The car had a Batman symbol in place of an actual license plate, and the encounter was caught on [...]