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Artwork with incredible zoom

Stepping foot illusion

The engineering of roman aqueducts explained

The tennis racket theorem demonstrated in space

Making Mario hard candies

A 3D-printed sword illusion

A tie-dye shirt created using bleach and UV reactive dyes

Google Earth captures the stunning transformation of our planet over 3 decades

A demonstration of the paper ripping magic trick

Texan reads his electric bill like he’s in a Faulkner novel

Tesla coil musical experiments

More 3D illusion street art

Another time-lapse of growing plants

Tourists and guides run for their lives when Mount Etna suddenly erupts

A duet where both people play two instruments

This is what live courtroom dictation looks like

“Haptic trailer” for the new F1 movie

Millennial professor addresses a high-school crowd in their Gen Alpha slang

Metallic color mixing

Folding up a baseball field tarp after a rain delay

The Banana Peel

A master thatcher at work

The first fault rupture ever filmed

RC car soccer

Dude does some fun street magic with cups and balls

These boxes are not moving

More card trick black magic by Jason Ladanye

How a cruise ship is evacuated

Pluto flyover from New Horizons

Artist freehands a Klein bottle

The biggest volcanic eruption ever seen from space, captured by two different satellites on January 15, 2022

Satisfying ending to a Breakout clone level

GoldenEye 007 N64 Pause Music

Contemplate the incredible vastness of space with this visualization of the size of our Milky Way galaxy

Mind reading trick

The BBC uses robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife up close

The doubly warped world of binary black holes

The knight’s tour

DIY audio visualizer

More fun spinboard art

The process of making gold chain

Finger street magic

Universal airport experience

Different Lego walkers vs various obstacles

One simple design. All 26 letters.

Observed collision between an asteroid and Jupiter

Plasma from the sun falling back to the surface

Punctuation marks hanging out

Imitating AI videos

The base’s point of view in acroyoga

Creating Saturday Night Live: Cue Cards

A double sunrise from a partial eclipse

Hydraulic press vs a Nokia 3310

Creating a practical effect in Mission Impossible

How to easily thread a needle

A knot that allows you to carry things using a rope

Combining chemicals in a drop of water

A mesmerizing timelapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light

How GTA girls be walking

itsbobbyfinn teaches English

Fascinating visualization of a black hole surrounded by an accretion disk

Starry Night swirling optical illusion

The speed of light visualized on a world map

The moon’s wobble

Visualization of the Morse Code alphabet

Fun little marker spinboard zoetrope climbing animation

The Fibrovisor

A fun little candy zoetrope

This is what an erupting volcano looks like from space

Warner Bros. Full Movies playlist on YouTube

Animation depicting what addiction feels like

It’s possible to get stuck floating in the space station if you can’t reach a wall

NASA monthly global temperature anomalies 1880-2024

Normal faces optical illusion

Model plane choreography in Switzerland

Making a scarf from scratch

Window quartz

Juggling as seen from above

High-speed video showing glutamate lighting up as it is released in synapses

How geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano

Heil Tesla

Uranium ore emitting radiation inside a cloud chamber

Rubik’s Cube pixel art

A whole vehicle laid bare

Time-lapse of a probe landing on Saturn’s moon Titan

Award winning tripping

Mercury crossing the face of the Sun

OK Go – A Stone Only Rolls Downhill

Guy spoils a bunch of magic tricks

Indoor skydiving champion 2024 Feith Mate

Another rocket launch as seen from the International Space Station

Time-lapse of airplane traffic patterns at Chicago’s ORD

How to get a cork out of a wine bottle

Guy explains the levitating napkin magic trick

Nirvana shovel

Washing your hair in space

Using Amazon’s AI tool for coding

Tokyo Train front view

Time-lapse of the first two years of a pine tree’s life

What a rocket launch looks like from space

Playing a game of Stick, Tac, Toe

NASA rocket engine fireplace

Disappearing painting

Time-lapse of the Sun circling the horizon at the South Pole during early March

A time-lapse of the Earth setting below the Moon’s horizon

Human players in older consoles

Light speed to scale in time and space

A visual representation of the relative speeds and rotations of the planets

Phases of the Moon

A surfing-themed stop-motion movie

Journey to the center of the galaxy

Man competes with Cyr wheel in 2024 German championship

O2 creates AI Granny to waste scammers’ time

How big is the atmosphere?

Insane electronics balancing

Spinning circles optical illusion

Jon Batiste hears a Green Day song for the first time

Instagram boyfriend

Bezos Income Rate vs Regular Worker Income Rate

Zooming in on the Andromeda Galaxy

Skier avoids avalanche by paragliding over it

Sand calligraphy

The sound of a singularity

More surreal facial makeup

Halloween 2024

First images from ESA’s Euclid space mission

How to make a ring hitch knot

Try phone panoramas to make sure everyone is in the group shot

Mountain bike juggling

Free puns

Songs on a mini Tesla coil

How couples met 1930-2024

Teqball

Beautiful tree quadrant thing artwork

Extreme Rock Paper Scissors

Workarounds for places where drones are banned

Drones returning to their cradles/cases after a show

Extreme Simon Says

Speed windsurfing

Last Top Model

A British museum docent showing off the collections using Gen Z lingo

How to get out of quicksand

Doing insane bike tricks on a moving train

Current progress of the guy who’s been taking pictures of himself every day for 22 years

Infinite loop

Tip to find the center of a board easily

Kayaking in a glacier and a waterfall drop in Svalbard, Norway

Transforming desert into grassland by digging holes

Red Bull Stalen Ros

Zooming into an iPhone chip

Terry Notary demonstrates how he channels different apes

Using a carpet instead of a wingsuit to BASE jump

A fire bubble

All Perseid meteors at once, seen from Fuji City, Japan

More cool needle felting stop-motion

Massive mountainside artwork

Another zoetrope-style whiteboard spin art animation

Visualization of the area of a dodecagon being 3(r²)

Levitating silver man trick revealed

The longest foosball table

Learn how to float on your back

View from Earth if planets from our Solar System were as close as the Moon

How to properly drink a whisky

More Penn & Teller behind-the-scenes magic tricks

Gaia: Here Comes the Sun

What Marty McFly’s guitar playing actually sounded like

Shooting precision

Time-lapse of airplane traffic after the 2024 Crowdstrike disaster

2024 hi-res image of Earth

The rise and fall of the most popular video games from 2004 to 2024

Footage from the 2024 US national jump rope competition

Inside the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro

Dude dresses up as different fonts

NASA depiction of entering a black hole

Blue Monday on vintage Casio instruments

FIFA video game moves in real life

Stereo 3D footage of Jupiter and some of its moons

These guys are not moving at all

“ALL STAR” Smash Mouth (in 10 styles)

Runnin’ with the Devil (Van Halen) – Just the non-words

Guy with no experience flying planes simulates having to do an emergency landing

Animation: Black Hole Star Shredder

Graphing a song melody

A 37-year time-lapse of Earth

Visualization of Rafael Nadal’s matches at the Roland Garros

STAR WARS Original Trailer

If Grey’s Anatomy was written by Gen Z comment section

How Roman emperor Nero powered his rotating dining room

David Letterman | Are Those Your Drums?

Cones are messed up

Conspiracy Theory Rock

Mallakhamb championships

The cost of the US Navy firing different weapons

Matching two Rubik’s cubes from memory

Dude nails it at competitive robot dancing

Knockoff brands in China

Adding windshield water droplets on a painting

Zoom into the Horsehead Nebula

Wes Anderson’s commercial for Montblanc

Simulation of the ISS flying by at low altitude

Interactive The floor is Lava game

Interesting video of a crab molting

Falling Into Jupiter

Above the Dust – Burning Man 2022

Drum line dude with skills and panache

Acrobatic performance of falling off a staircase

1922 Nosferatu upscaled and colorized

Drone footage of a Phish show at the Vegas Sphere

A visualization of the Korean War

Alpha Male Hunter

Weight loss time-lapse

Papyrus 2

Tilt-shift demolition derby

2024 solar eclipse totality by drone

Skyrim interactions in real life

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

South Korean beatboxing champ

Animated Café Terrace at Night by Vincent Van Gogh

Text-to-speech just getting owned by a huge number

Another stereogram movie

Moving Table Tennis

POV runs at Ice Cross Austria 2024

Lord of The Rings but it’s lofi beats

An assortment of old lighters

Zelensky’s phone call to Macron to inform him that the invasion started

More dry-erase wheel marker art

Another time-lapse video showing the rotation of the Earth against the Milky Way

Funny silent story competition winner

OK Go – Obsession

Endless steps in Chongqing

Gravity is just a habit

What makes the Spinning Rainbow Circles illusion work

Overwhelming roof animations in a Korean mall

Eagle POV flying over the Alps

Offshore oil rig evacuation system

Using iPhone’s panorama mode for creative photography

What is the bulbous bow for?

How to win the peg game

GLASYS – New World Unlocked

Breaking a ruler with the force of atmospheric pressure

Phone falling drone shot trick huge crowd DJ

Underwater view of an earthquake

Man mimics how English sounds to non-English speakers

More colorized footage of what the world looked like around 100 years ago in various cities

Crossing the street to avoid someone

Real-time MRI scan of a person talking

Criterion Collection’s Room Tone 2023

Guy draws complex portraits on his sweatpants

Time-lapse a spaceship’s view when leaving Earth

Tilt-shift farming

Carol of the Belmonts

Custom-built LEGO ski slope

Footage of what an Octopus looks like when it dreams

The voice actors behind The Simpsons in 1992

Tim Henson of Polyphia performing “Playing God” unplugged

Dragonfly liftoff captured at 5000 frames per second

Technology Connections Alec tries to get LED Christmas lights to look more like incandescent ones

A day passing on planet Earth seen from 36,000 kilometers by the satellite Himawari-8

What to do after falling into water with clothes on

Opening a can of mixed nuts in space

A dolphin reacts to Mariah Carey’s whistle note

A volumetric display using an acoustically trapped particle

A human white blood cell chasing a bacterium

Hard to know which floor you’re on in Chongqing, China

Matching up mixed Rubik’s cubes

A pendulum robot that can go 37mph and carry up to 220lb

Time-lapse of developing neurons inside a chick embryo

Light Goes On

Car-opractor

Tips for if you’ve fallen through thin ice

Man uses rocks to move megalithic blocks

NO CGI is really just INVISIBLE CGI

Macro views of various writing instruments

Visualisation of pi being irrational

Halloween 2023

Owls making vortices

Metal ball bearing bouncing on metal

Homer Simpson sings Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, with a little help from AI

Another look at the Solar System bodies to scale

Ventriloquist sings a solo

Doodling over action aerial drone footage

A satellite view of the 2023 North American annular eclipse

320 lasers at an EDM show

Closeup footage of the Las Vegas Sphere pixels

Closeup of a water droplet bouncing on water

Rendered vs actual footage of the Ocean Cleanup project completing its first successful trip

A meteor burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, filmed from the International Space Station

A 360-degree view of the Moon’s surface in high resolution captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith playing along to a 30 Seconds to Mars song for the first time, and without hearing the drums

Why can’t robots pass captcha tests?

A Day in London 1930s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added

Painting a modern art piece of the London skyline

Making a car with nothing but staples

Seinfeld’s Elaine Dance Contest 2023

AI-generated art based on a tiny plastic model

How a tractor tire is retreaded

Swiss Mountain Coaster POV in 4K

Human record player for Weezer’s latest album

The History of Adults Blaming The Younger Generation

A galaxy collision simualtion compared, at different stages, to different galaxy collision images from Hubble

Nostril singing

iPhone alarm as a piano ballad

Rick Astley and the Foo Fighters perform “Never Gonna Give You Up” in the style of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Al Franken’s SUPPLY SIDE JESUS… animated

How Disney changed Lilo & Stitch after 9/11

Kindness as a signifier of intelligence

Mapping internet fibre optic cables at the bottom of the world’s oceans

Yankee Stadium drone fly-through

Thriller without the music

How to cut a pepper with no seeds and no waste

Ancient method of making ink

Cat accidentally scores a suspenseful movie scene

Things you do growing up

How a cricket ball is made

A trippy video constructed from still photographs

Cooking for hundreds

YEAH! YOU WANT “THOSE GAMES,” RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET’S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM

A demonstration of the density of mercury vs. water

Whiteboard spin art

The world’s highest swing

Time-lapse of a bird building a nest in a birdhouse

Star Wars Death Star trench run with a drone

Glass water slide in China

Another polymer clay figurine sculpting

Plasma tornadoes on the sun bigger than the Earth

Coca-Cola beach seller remix

Leaving the solar system at the speed of light

A negative Yelp review reading

How many grooves can you get from a water drop?

Playing Pong on a rock wall with augmented climbing

Guy parkours all around his house

Strong Bad reads AI-generated emails

Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze

The art of being shot to death

Mashup of Lizzo and Linkin Park

Eagle catches fish and eats it mid-flight

Overhead view of a volcanic eruption

The effects of pressure on a water bottle

Audi’s Digital Matrix LED system

Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist

Chinese solar farm looks like a mountain covered in a blanket

Simulation: A Disk Galaxy Forms

Backlit artwork

Geological evolution of Colorado in the last 540 million years

Tiny watercolor reveal paintings

The process of making a train wheel

African languages’ click sounds explained

Ski parachuting

SING A NOTE

Body painting camouflage in different scenes

A smooth freerunning routine

Can we stop dueting videos?

Why replanted forrests don’t create the same ecosystem as old-growth, natural forrests

Hold on, ladies!

How photographs were transmitted by wire in the 1930s

Star Wars by Wes Anderson Fan Trailer: The Galactic Menagerie

An elevator in the One World Trade Center that shows the evolution of New York City

Dude makes a bike with square wheels

“We Are America” by John Cena

Overhead view of changing the lap lanes in an olympic-sized swimming pool

Pen plotter programmed to sync with Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”

Cool stop-motion city video

Killing In The Name performed by the North Korean Military Chorus

Drones make Super Mario Bros. animations

Massive port traffic in Amsterdam during an event

Trumpeter makes waveforms on a standing wave flame tube

A spirograph time-lapse

The world’s first 9 flips on a trampoline

Stabilised footage of the Patterson Bigfoot film from 1967

Experiment with sulfur hexaflouride

Futurama characters as 80s dark fantasy film characters

Harry Potter by Balenciaga

Japanese “Toy Story” shadow boxes exhibit brings the characters to life when no one is looking

2001: A Space Odyssey directed by George Lucas

Guy gets upset when discovering lifehacks

Wives staged a prank on their husbands and bought all the same sweaters

Eerie sounds from the Paiste 80″ symphonic gong

The James Webb Space Telescope explained in 9 minutes

Echinopsis Cacti in Bloom

The Preciousness of Time: A Stephen Hawking Tribute

Some needle-felted wool animations by Andrea Love

Powers of Ten™ (1977)

Making designs on dirty pennies with a laser

Song made entirely of yeahs and nos from various artists

Guy uses GPT4 to create a fully-working iOS app

Stereoscopic 3D video

Women’s fashion 1910s-2010

Browser-based AI music editor

I tried using AI. It scared me.

Demo video for the sliderland website, made with 64 HTML sliders

Guy makes and iterates on houses for a frog

Blurry vision tattoo

Different bullets firing

Some foley sounds

Logo manufacturing

An insane free-solo of a bridge

Real-time planetarium in your browser

Pendulum wave demonstration

Modeling a figure in plasticine clay

Infinite LEGO domino ring

Customer States Vehicle Sounds Like An Elephant

Ska version of the Tetris theme

Time-lapse images of Mount St. Helens dome growth 2004-2008

Unexpected interactions in this weird video

Hamster escapes the Super Mario maze

Making an emergency landing after a catastrophic airplane engine failure

Making movie characters look directly at camera

Using 3 colors to make a rainbow

A custom-made mechanical Bugatti watch

Safety device for when your tower is on fire

AI-generated video showing the evolution of visual expression

Dude’s impressive makeup skills

Number of deaths in the WW2 per country

Drawing the Sierpinski Triangle

Perspective trick with paper and pen

A sweet jam

Baby bird being confused when food doesn’t go into its mouths

Pearl Jam’s Even Flow (Smooth Jazz Version)

What Pearl Jam sounds like to people who don’t like Pearl Jam

A round of rock, paper, scissors

Christmas train

Nuclear scientist Marv Adams explains what happened in the successful fusion experiment

Time-lapse of every nuclear bomb test performed between 1945 and 1998

AI creates a bad photo

Zoom into the Southern Ring Nebula captured by NASA James Webb Space Telescope

Another song made from a cat’s meow

If cats sounded like Arnold Schwarzenegger

Reloading random objects like in first-person shooters

Mesmerizing balls create abstract sounds

The making of the Around The World video by Daft Punk

Guy plays hip hop and rap songs with interesting instruments

Tallest buildings by country

Building a LEGO-powered submarine

An entire universe built in Minecraft

Doodling an entire house

Tilts and spins of the planets of the solar system

Some sounds you probably haven’t heard in a while

Microsoft Windows 1995 launch party

Christmas decorations with invisible orbeez

First Follower

NASA’s robot Juno passing by Jupiter

How far Lake Mead’s water have levels gone down in 20 years

Switching pendulums

Fill your screen with Hollywood melodrama technobabble

Guy demonstrates some pretty sweet jump rope tricks

Harrison Ford really wants to know about his family

5G vs 4G vs 3G vs E

Tesla coils play the Super Mario Bros. theme

Four guys play Billie Jean on a single acoustic guitar

Hole in the earth leads to massive 220 foot drop

Nuclear War Simulation – NATO vs Russia

Coverage take for the Eat It video by Weird Al

The scale of the James Webb deep field image

Thunderstruck by AC/DC on a guzheng

Running down the Red Rocks steps backwards

A bunch of real-life 3D optical illusions

ROOMBO

Balls passing each other in perfect harmony

Gangam Style ft. Newton’s Pendulum

Wine expert opens and drinks a 159-year-old bottle of port

Drone flythrough of a Tesla factory

Getting shot out of a centrifuge at 1,000 MPH

Dirty dancing to the Muppets theme song

Painting a landscape with maths

VHS footage of a night club in the 80s

Marbles are born on a marble run

The Javelin shot selfie

Fat Bear Week

More AI painting prompts

DART: Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos

San Francisco 1906 AI-enhanced in color with sound design added

Sonic the Hedgehog – first-person view

Guy builds a laser-guided knife-throwing machine

Hurricane Ian – what a 15-foot storm surge looks like

Clapping synchronization

Pretty Woman starring Willem Dafoe

Every non-word in Smooth Criminal

Snowflake cogs

A drone tour of the National Museum of the U.S. Airforce

Playing a trombone in an empty swimming pool

Different ways people walk

Can someone Photoshop the Eiffel tower under my finger?

Real Time: Sweeper’s Clock

This insane show of skill operating an RC drone

365 days mushroom growth time-lapse

r/Place 2022 time-lapse

Jerobeam Fenderson – Planets

Taking a bunch of balloons filled with paint to the face

Comparing the force of gravity on different planets using a car and a pallet of wood

Guy repeatedly zooms out of frame

Ryan Williams’s insane BMX trick

Moon Phases 2022 – Northern Hemisphere – 4K

Avengers Endgame visual effects

Fictional land vehicles | 3d real scale

The biggest climate bill of your life – but what does it DO!?

Experience of nukes in real life by atomic veterans

600 songs from 1990-1999 remixed into 34 minutes

When your audience are competent musicians

Space debris: 1957 – 2015

Useless machine

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