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• Improv Everywhere Sets Up an Unauthorized Luxury Spa on a Sweltering New York City Subway Platform
• Researchers Recover Audio From a Video of a Vibrating Bag of Potato Chips
• Cute Kid Noah Ritter 'Apparently' Steals the Show During an Interview at the Wayne County Fair in Pennsylvania
• 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Star Chris Pratt Raps Eminem's 'Forgot About Dre' Word-For-Word During an Interview
• Malfoy the Cat Goes Searching for the Tail He Lost Somewhere Between the Bed and the Wall
• 'Drifters', An Animated Short About Strangers Who Wake Up on a Train After Undergoing Traumatic Events
• 'Streets', Super Slow Motion Video of Summertime in New York City
• SciShow Explains What Makes Hummingbirds So Unique
• Conan O'Brien Opens His Show In the Style of 'Orange Is the New Black'
• Video of a Rainstorm Causing Raging Mountain Flooding in the Swiss Alps
• Super Slow Motion Video of a Hairspray Can Igniting a Fire After Being Shot With a Pellet Gun
• Even More Television Sitcoms Stripped of All Their Jokes and Left With Only the Plot
• Legendary Entertainment Acquires Felicia Day's Geek & Sundry Video Network
• Farmer Attracts a Herd of Cattle by Playing a Trombone Cover of 'Royals' by Lorde
• Playful Young Seal Rides Waves on a Couple of Surfboards Off the Coast of England
• Cute Little Monkey Driving a Car Surprises Unsuspecting Fast Food Drive-Thru Employees
• Walter White and Hank Schrader's Intense Garage Scene From 'Breaking Bad' Now With More Garage Door Action
• Expert Gerry Tosh Offers A Wonderfully Informative Lesson In Conducting a Proper Whisky Tasting
• Clever Dog Figures Out How to Use a Slanted Water Ramp for A Really Efficient Solo Game of Fetch
• Discerning Poodle Mixes Hard Food in With His Soft Food Because He Prefers It That Way

Improv Everywhere Sets Up an Unauthorized Luxury Spa on a Sweltering New York City Subway Platform

In their latest mission, Improv Everywhere turned a sweltering New York City subway platform into an unauthorized luxury “subway spa.” Performers provided an array of services to commuters, including infused water, towels, hot stone massage, and a misting station. Improv Everywhere has posted behind the scenes photos and a video of the event.

photos by Arin Sang-urai

Researchers Recover Audio From a Video of a Vibrating Bag of Potato Chips

A group of researchers from Adobe, Microsoft, and MIT have recovered audio from a video of a vibrating bag of potato chips. The algorithm developed by the researchers was also able to recover audio from videos of a plant, a bag of candy, and a pair of earbuds. The reason this works is that sound waves cause nearly imperceptible vibrations in whatever they hit. Using high-speed photography, the researchers were able to capture these vibrations and translate them into actual sound despite having no recording of the original stimulus in the video.

The researchers presented their findings at the recent SIGGRAPH 2014 conference. More on the work and resulting paper is available at MIT.

via MetaFilter

Cute Kid Noah Ritter 'Apparently' Steals the Show During an Interview at the Wayne County Fair in Pennsylvania

Noah Ritter, a super cute kid from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, apparently stole the show from WNEP Newswatch 16 co-anchor Sofia Ojeda during an interview at the Wayne County Fair. The cool little dude loved using the word “apparently” as he chatted about being on live television for the first time and getting dizzy on a ride.

via WNEP-TV, UPROXX

'Guardians of the Galaxy' Star Chris Pratt Raps Eminem's 'Forgot About Dre' Word-For-Word During an Interview

During a recent episode of The Whoolywood Shuffle radio show on SiriusXM Shade 45, Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt sat down with host DJ Whoo Kid and brought up that he knew all of the lyrics to the 1999 album Chronic 2001 by hip hop artist Dr. Dre. After being called out to prove it, Chris let loose and rapped Eminem‘s verse from the song “Forgot About Dre” word-for-word.

Here is the original music video for “Forgot About Dre”:

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

Malfoy the Cat Goes Searching for the Tail He Lost Somewhere Between the Bed and the Wall

A beautiful orange tabby named Malfoy goes searching for his tail, which somehow keeps getting lost somewhere between the bed and the wall in this adorable video posted by Aubrey Sabala, Malfoy’s human and good friend of Laughing Squid.

Malfoy loses his tail, somewhere in the abyss between the bed & the wall. Catfusion ensues.

'Drifters', An Animated Short About Strangers Who Wake Up on a Train After Undergoing Traumatic Events

"Drifters" is a strange and unsettling animated short from 2012 directed by Brooklyn animator Ethan Clarke in which various strangers wake up on a train after experiencing extremely traumatic — and probably deadly — events. Clarke has also created a trailer for the short.

via Vimeo Staff Picks

'Streets', Super Slow Motion Video of Summertime in New York City

"Streets" is a short video by cinematographer Tim Sessler that features some beautiful super slow motion shots of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan in the summertime that were taken with a Phantom Miro camera attached to a Freefly Tero RC car. Sessler previously captured the New York City subway with his short video, “Sounds.”

via Vimeo Staff Picks

SciShow Explains What Makes Hummingbirds So Unique

In the latest episode of SciShow, host Hank Green explains the various biological elements that make hummingbirds such a unique family of birds, from their tiny size and large hearts to the physical limitations that help them hover.

Hummingbirds can't make or hop or do ant of the other things you see other land-based things you see most other birds doing. They can only perch and shuffle from side to side.

Conan O'Brien Opens His Show In the Style of 'Orange Is the New Black'

Host Conan O’Brien opened last night’s Conan in the style of the Neflix series Orange Is the New Black, complete with hair by an in-character Laverne Cox and a variation of the opening credits featuring the cast from both shows.

Video of a Rainstorm Causing Raging Mountain Flooding in the Swiss Alps

YouTube user PiperLambert captured the beginnings of a raging mudslide on the Illhorn mountain in the Swiss Pennine Alps. The mudslide was brought on by a torrential downpour.

via reddit, Daily Picks and Flicks

Super Slow Motion Video of a Hairspray Can Igniting a Fire After Being Shot With a Pellet Gun

“Dramatic Hair Spray Shooting,” the latest video by Slow Mo Lab, captures some super slow footage of a pellet gun being shot at hairspray can, creating a small fiery explosion with a nearby rag. The Slow Mo team ups the ante a second time by placing the can on top of a pole and tethering it with a cord, making a flaming whirlwind as it whips around.

Even More Television Sitcoms Stripped of All Their Jokes and Left With Only the Plot

YouTube user Tunglebrek has created a new collection of videos that takes episodes from famous television sitcoms (The Office, Community, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Curb Your Enthusiasm), strips them of all their jokes, and leaves only the plot. After removing the jokes, the length of each episode is drastically reduced to only a few minutes. We previously wrote about Tunglebrek’s ongoing series of joke-deprived television sitcoms.

Legendary Entertainment Acquires Felicia Day's Geek & Sundry Video Network

Legendary Entertainment has acquired Felicia Day‘s Geek & Sundry (see previous post) video network. Geek & Sundry joins Nerdist (see previous post) as part of the new Legendary Digital Network. Geek & Sundry launched in 2012 as a geek culture video channel on YouTube. Day shared the news as part of a video celebrating Geek & Sundry reaching 1 million subscribers. Nerdist has more on the acquisition.

In addition to all of this good news, Felicia Day will be developing new projects with Legendary Television for both TV and digital platforms outside of her role as Head Sundrist. Day will work on those projects as creator and star, which hopefully means we'll finally get that The Guild/Warcraft crossover we've been waiting for all these years.

Farmer Attracts a Herd of Cattle by Playing a Trombone Cover of 'Royals' by Lorde

Kansas-based farmer Derek Klingenberg sets up a folding chair and begins playing a solo trombone cover of the song "Royals" by Lorde until a herd of cattle appears over the horizon and inches in closer to see what all the commotion is about.

via MetaFilter

Playful Young Seal Rides Waves on a Couple of Surfboards Off the Coast of England

A young seal joins Matthew Stanley and Andrew Flounders in a recent video as they catch some waves off the coast of Northumberland, England, hopping on and off their boards. The video, which was shot on August 3rd 2014, was captured with a GoPro attached to the edge of the Stanley's board.

via BBC, Daily Picks and Flicks

Cute Little Monkey Driving a Car Surprises Unsuspecting Fast Food Drive-Thru Employees

“OMG it’s a monkey!”

For his latest prank, magician Rahat Hussein surprised unsuspecting fast food drive-thru employees by having a cute little monkey drive up to their window in a car. Even though the adorable monkey managed to melt everyone’s heart, he was unfortunately unable to pay for his orders. We’ve previously written about Rahat and his ongoing series of drive-thru pranks.

Walter White and Hank Schrader's Intense Garage Scene From 'Breaking Bad' Now With More Garage Door Action

Montclair, New Jersey editor Frank Fenimore used his skills to add a lot more garage door action to the intense garage scene from Breaking Bad between Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Hank Schrader (Dean Norris).

via reddit

Expert Gerry Tosh Offers A Wonderfully Informative Lesson In Conducting a Proper Whisky Tasting

Whisky expert Gerry Tosh of Highland Park offers a wonderfully informative lesson in conducting a proper tasting, including simple instructions for using the right glass, properly preparing the palate, nosing the whisky and the importance of not swirling the spirit the way one would do with a glass of wine.

What you never do in whisky tastings is this, you never swirl the whisky. You swirl wine. Wine is between 12 to 14 percent alcohol, you swirl the wine to agitate the liquid to get the alcohol to evaporate and that carries the flavours up the glass and up the nose. This is 40% alcohol, it does not need any help to evaporate at all…So what we then do to make your life easier is keep the spirit flat and then we sniff it 3 times. We go 1, 2, 3 The first time you smell the whisky you get a tingling sensation in your nose, this is your nose recognizing the alcohol. The second time the tingling sensation goes and you get a flavour and it is usually a sweet flavour. The third time you get another flavour and it is usually a fruit. How you describe the flavours in whisky, wine, chocolate, coffee and all the rest is entirely personal. Please don t get led down a garden path by somebody who says I can smell you know winter berries picked on a Wednesday by left handed people! it is not important, that is not how it works.

via Digg

Clever Dog Figures Out How to Use a Slanted Water Ramp for A Really Efficient Solo Game of Fetch

A very clever dog figures out how to use a slanted water ramp for a really efficient solo game of fetch with a yellow tennis ball in this adorable video posted by Guillermo Cortina.

via Tastefully Offensive

Discerning Poodle Mixes Hard Food in With His Soft Food Because He Prefers It That Way

Louie, an elegant black poodle with very discerning taste, manually mixes his hard food in with his soft food because that’s the way he prefers to eat it. According to Louie’s human Sonia Lee, this is the only way that that the wonderfully stubborn dog will eat.

…he won’t eat his food if we try to mix it for him. In fact, if we only give him wet food, he’ll scoop at the air as if the bowl of kibble is there.

via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

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