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• Backyard Golf Trick Shot Onto a Hot Dog-Dispensing Rube Goldberg-Style Machine
• Two Supercuts of Promo Interviews With Pro Wrestlers Where All Words Are Edited Out & Only Heavy Breathing Remains
• A Video of a Man Firing a Contraption Made From Five Roman Candles Taped Together
• An In-Depth Tour of MythBuster Adam Savage's San Francisco Workshop
• Art Prints of Arrangements of Peonies, Roses, Tulips, & Sunflowers Featuring 50 Types of Their Respective Flowers
• Mouth, An Online Retailer Featuring Indie Food Products
• A First-Person View of What Goes on in George R.R. Martin's Mind as He Writes Deadly Scenes for 'Game of Thrones'
• A Dad Makes His Six-Year-Old Son a LEGO 'Star Wars' Boba Fett Minifigure Costume
• A Comic Imagining What Marvel's Avengers Might Look Like in Real Life
• What If Google Search Were a Real Person, Part 3
• '11 Paper Place', A Computer-Animated Love Story About Two Anthropomorphic Pieces of Office Paper
• xkcd Figures Out How Many Snowflakes It Would Take to Cover the World in Six Feet of Snow
• Paleo Ultra, 'Barefoot' Running Shoes Made From Stainless Steel Chainmail
• The Calories of Common Foods Drawn Using the Corresponding Number of Pixels
• The 2014 Sci-Fi Action Film 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' Re-Enacted by Cute Little Baby Pugs
• 'Waves of Grain', A Stop-Motion Animation of Layers of Wood Being Stripped Away by a Planer
• You Are Carrying, A Twitter Bot That Provides a Fictional Adventure Game Inventory
• A Series of High-Speed Photos of Parkour Athletes in Mid-Air
• Arcus Motion Analyzer, A Ring-Sized Activity Tracker That Recognizes Gestures
• 'Time Travel Lover', A Short Film Featuring a Man That Continues to Interrupt His Own Hookup via Time Travel

Backyard Golf Trick Shot Onto a Hot Dog-Dispensing Rube Goldberg-Style Machine

For his latest trick shot, David Kalb picks up a golf club and hits the ball onto a Rube Goldberg-style machine, ending in a hollowed out watermelon that dispenses a hotdog into a bun. The video was shot completely on GoPro HD Hero3+ cameras.

Two Supercuts of Promo Interviews With Pro Wrestlers Where All Words Are Edited Out & Only Heavy Breathing Remains

YouTube member Carlos C. created a supercut video in 2011, and a great supercut sequel in 2013, of promotional interviews with professional wrestlers where all of their words are edited out and only the heavy breathing remains.

This video will affect you in a way your out of breath. We heard them yell, shout and scream. But, who ever pays attention when they take that deep breath before they shout it out? Nobody does except for me. Have fun.

via Nerdcore

A Video of a Man Firing a Contraption Made From Five Roman Candles Taped Together

YouTube user iZHarms has uploaded a video of himself firing a contraption made from five AK-180 fireworks — a kind of Roman candle — taped together for a total of 900 shots. iZHarms recorded a similar video last year with a contraption made from three AK-180 fireworks.

via Gizmodo Sploid

An In-Depth Tour of MythBuster Adam Savage's San Francisco Workshop

Tested has created a video providing an in-depth tour of MythBuster Adam Savage’s San Francisco workshop, a location affectionately referred to as “the Cave.” Savage’s workshop is also available to explore via Google Maps Street View.

Somewhere in San Francisco is a hidden workshop of wonder. A place where iconic characters, creatures, and props from cult favorite movies are pulled from the screen into reality. Adam Savage’s Cave is the Mythbusters host’s personal sanctum, the place he goes not only to build his painstaking creations but where he displays a lifetime’s collection of oddities, eclectic memorabilia, and film props. It’s the well that’s at once the source of Adam’s inspiration and a reflection of his obsessions.

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Art Prints of Arrangements of Peonies, Roses, Tulips, & Sunflowers Featuring 50 Types of Their Respective Flowers

Pop Chart Lab has created a new series of art prints that feature floral arrangements of peonies, roses, tulips, and sunflowers that each include 50 types of their respective flowers. All four signed and numbered prints are available to purchase online.

We've artfully illustrated 50 peonies, roses, tulips, and sunflowers of several shapes and shades and bundled them all into vibrant bouquets complete with empirical labeling of flower parts, from petal to penduncle to stigma. Poised to be a perennial favorite among budding botanists and full-fledged florists alike, this posy of prized pistil-packers will make any room a little rosier–and is guaranteed to always be in full bloom.

images via Pop Chart Lab

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Mouth, An Online Retailer Featuring Indie Food Products

The Great Guest

Mouth is an online retailer of indie food products. The retailer specifically features food products that are handmade over mass-produced goods. The available products include the likes of cheese, crackers, condiments, coffee, and more.

Our goal is to help you discover and get the best, most delicious and most interesting indie food products and to help indie makers grow their business.

The Greatest Guest

The Grill Scout

images via Mouth

A First-Person View of What Goes on in George R.R. Martin's Mind as He Writes Deadly Scenes for 'Game of Thrones'

Filmmaker Michael Tivikoff (a.k.a. “Mr.TVCow“) has created a video featuring a first-person view of what goes on in the mind of author George R.R. Martin as he writes deadly scenes for the Game of Thrones series.

There is only one god in «Game of Thrones»

music by IgorAvery – “Game Of Thrones First Person”

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A Dad Makes His Six-Year-Old Son a LEGO 'Star Wars' Boba Fett Minifigure Costume

The Dented Helmet member and father CGS1 recently made his six-year-old son an awesome LEGO Star Wars Boba Fett minifigure costume to wear at a local ToyCon. You can view more “making of” photos on the The Dented Helmet forums.

We took the costume for a trial run at a local toycon this past Sunday. I still have to finish building the arms and blaster, as well as tweaking a few things such as the cape fabric. I approached the components of this project as if they were actual Lego elements. In doing so, I created the jetpack to be removable as it appears in the actual minifigure as well as the range finder stalk. The entire costume is built from scratch using photo references and scans I took myself. The costume is built primarily out of sintra with pink insulation foam used to carve the helmet dome and a small amount of plastazote foam used on the tips and base of the jetpack rockets. Torso and leg graphics are printed on adhesive vinyl while a custom green was used to colour match the helmet and jetpack.

photos via The Dented Helmet\

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A Comic Imagining What Marvel's Avengers Might Look Like in Real Life

Artist Andy Kluthe of Nerd Rage and Andrew Bridgman of Dorkly have created an amusing comic that imagines what Marvel’s Avengers might look like in real life.

images via Dorkly

What If Google Search Were a Real Person, Part 3

CollegeHumor returns for another round of a theoretical world where Google's search engine is actually a person that everyone consults. In the latest video, Google takes a trip to the Deep Web, looks for pictures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and attempts to help someone determine if vaccines cause autism.

'11 Paper Place', A Computer-Animated Love Story About Two Anthropomorphic Pieces of Office Paper

“11 Paper Place” is a wordless computer-animated short directed by Vermont-based filmmaker Daniel Houghton about two 8.5″ x 11″ pieces of paper who magically come to life and fall in love upon entering a recycling bin, only to have tragedy befall them once the bin is emptied out. The short was created using the Blender open-source animation software and set to a Bach cello suite.

via The Presurfer

xkcd Figures Out How Many Snowflakes It Would Take to Cover the World in Six Feet of Snow

In the latest edition of "What If" by xkcd, Randall Munroe answers a reader whose seven-year-old son wondered how many snowflakes it would take to cover the Earth in six feet of snow. The answer, predictably, gets a bit complicated for a number of factors, including the fact that the snow on the bottom of a pile compresses as more weight is added, making it difficult to know when to measure the stack.

Believe it or not, the National Weather Service has written special guidelines for how often to clear away snow, so everyone can measure it the same way. They use a special snow-measuring board, which is probably just a regular piece of wood, but I like to imagine that they treat it like a precision instrument and store it in a special locked case until it’s needed.

image via xkcd

Paleo Ultra, 'Barefoot' Running Shoes Made From Stainless Steel Chainmail

Paleo Ultra is a line of shoes by German footwear maker Gost-Barefoots designed to embrace the natural running trend. The shoes are built from a thin layer of stainless steel chainmail. The "virtually indestructible" shoes are designed to embrace the movement that has led to the popularity of shoes like the Vibram FiveFingers while keeping harmful elements away from the bottom of the foot. The Paleo Ultras are built for natural surfaces like soil and grass, not asphalt and concrete.

images via Gost-Barefoots

via The Awesomer

The Calories of Common Foods Drawn Using the Corresponding Number of Pixels

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Severino Ribecca, a graphic designer based in London, has created an interesting way to view such common foods as beer, rice, cheese and meat by representing the calories contained in each item of food with the corresponding number of pixels used to visually depict the item.

The goal for the project here was to translate amounts of energy into some form of visual reference that people could understand and relate to…Each pixel represented 1 kcal (calorie), so the total amount of squares in each food or drink item represented the total amounts of calories with it. In other words, each illustration is build up over the amount of calories the food or drink item it represents contains in it.

image by Severino Ribecca

via Visual.ly, Food Beast

The 2014 Sci-Fi Action Film 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' Re-Enacted by Cute Little Baby Pugs

The Pet Collective has created an adorable version of the 2014 sci-fi action film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes that is re-enacted by a group of cute little baby pugs. We’ve previously written about The Pet Collective's ongoing collection of canine and feline movie remakes.

What could be better then a growing nation of genetically evolved Pugs led by Caesar?

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'Waves of Grain', A Stop-Motion Animation of Layers of Wood Being Stripped Away by a Planer

“Waves of Grain” is an experimental short animation by video designer Keith Skretch featuring a wood planer stripping away layers from a block of wood with photographs being taken after each pass. The resulting animation adds a surprising element of movement to the ever-changing wood grain. We recently posted about an animation by Laurin Döpfner that achieved a similar effect with a grinding machine.

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You Are Carrying, A Twitter Bot That Provides a Fictional Adventure Game Inventory

You Are Carrying is a Twitter bot by Andrew Vestal that provides a fictional adventure game inventory. Users need only tweet the bot with “i” or “inventory” for it to generate a list of items.

@GoforthAsAPun a sack, a green aluminum Medeco key, a large drill bit, a saddle, a letter, a sceptre, a pair of hypersonic pliers.

— YOU ARE CARRYING: (@YouAreCarrying) July 10, 2014

@ampiere a vellum scroll, food, a smoking gun, a knife, a keister, an anchor, an assignment, a crystal jar, a violet rod, a crucifix.

— YOU ARE CARRYING: (@YouAreCarrying) July 10, 2014

@tweets_amanda a snake, a scribbled note, a shield, a shimmering scroll, a Class Three Spacecraft Activation Form HB-56-V.

— YOU ARE CARRYING: (@YouAreCarrying) July 10, 2014

@TheBrumbleBee a broken oar, a paper bag, a Patrol uniform, a green cable, a Big Diamond Ring, an eclipse predicting cartridge, a vase.

— YOU ARE CARRYING: (@YouAreCarrying) July 10, 2014

image via You Are Carrying

A Series of High-Speed Photos of Parkour Athletes in Mid-Air

Parkour practitioners are captured in mid-air amid dramatic clouds of dust in this high-speed photo series by New York City-based photographer Ben Franke. Franke shot the series in partnership with BKLYN BEAST, a parkour training facility in New York City.

photos by Ben Franke

via Feature Shoot

Arcus Motion Analyzer, A Ring-Sized Activity Tracker That Recognizes Gestures

Arcus Motion Analyzer is a ring-sized activity tracker than also recognizes gestures. This means that the device can give real-time feedback on things like sports while also being able to connect to and control various devices via Bluetooth. Users can wear multiple Arcus devices to provide metrics on things like kayaking strokes, and the device is resistant to water and other liquids thanks to wireless charging.

The Arcus Motion Analyzer is currently raising funds for further development and mass production via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

images via Arcus

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'Time Travel Lover', A Short Film Featuring a Man That Continues to Interrupt His Own Hookup via Time Travel

“Time Travel Lover” is a short film by Partizan Films featuring a man that continues to interrupt his own hookup via time travel. As it turns out, time travel is invented two days after he hooks up with a particularly life-changing woman. The short film was directed by Bo Mirosseni and written by Elisha Yaffe.

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