Kid Klava wanted to sing a song he wrote, but realized his chops really weren’t up for the task. So why not get John Lennon sing it – with Paul on backing vocals? He claims it was surprisingly easy and it only took a few minutes to generate. If you’d like to have a go yourself, there are dozens of great YouTube tutorials.
Captain Disillusion shows you the various modern video techniques that create the popular videos of very busy and populated locations that appear utterly devoid of people.
The Mythbusters made a truck with square wheels, but it was an understandably jarring and less than optimal driving experience.
The Q has a much better approach to making square wheels that is much better. I would love to drive this down the streets and see some heads turn.
Snook on YouTube did a video that covers just about every major urban legend and famous conspiracy.
Here’s a list of subjects he covers in his 70 minute video:
| Gray aliens Loch Ness Monster Area 51 Bigfoot Boogeyman Men in black Bloody Mary Candyman Spider bite The hook The kidney thieves Glad you didn’t turn on the lights Killer in the back seat Humans can lick too Body in the bed Body in the water tank Man under the car Halloween hanging Cropsey Corpse in the chimney Toxic fumes lady The goat man Dog boy Mothman | Black eyed children Chupacabra Techiteki Lo Llorona Charlie no face Slitilated woman The Jersey devil Krampus Springhealed Jack The Monkey Man Paul is dead Red cloak The red room Walking Sam Seven midnight jogger The night marchers Stolens gateway to hell The well to hell Fatal flair Foreign dreams The rat king Water babies Pond monster Pinky pinky |
This guitarist is pretty good – then he starts dancing!
Hacksmith Industries builds a lot of interesting stuff. A plasma light saber, magnetically attracted Captain America shield, and many other cool creations. This one, however, was really interesting.
I found the gunplay in John Wick 4 to be pretty ridiculous – which was made more so by a paper-thin suit that was supposedly bullet proof enough to get hit hundreds of times and still work.
These guys decided to put this idea to the test. They try to make a suit that is actually bullet proof.
It took them well over a year and many failures and a full reset that involved material research, testing, etc. However, in the end, it turns out that it is reasonably possible – at least for a few rounds. Like most things, if you shoot the same spot a few times, it’s unlikely to stop bullets. It also is unlikely to keep you from broken ribs and massive contusions caused by the round impacts. Still, surprising results.
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Sirrandalot is not the first person to use a film-grain/film-like shader effect to give a certain feel. He is, however, the first to use Blender’s Cycles path-tracing engine to create a highly detailed physical modeling of a 3D camera body, simulate the various properties of a glass lens (then multiple lens system), the properties of chemical film, and then render scenes through this highly complex setup to generate real film-like images. Check out the final not-photos here or on Imgur.
You can download the camera and play with it yourself.
Henry Segerman is a mathematician who likes to help visualize mathematical principles using 3D printing. He has a book that pairs the ideas and topics with 3D objects you can print out.
His YouTube channel covers an amazing number of topics. Different kinds of irregular dice (slant, skew, dLX, wild d6’s, and others) that are fair but look very different than the standard regular polyhedral style dice. He makes interesting puzzles, visualizing 3D printed objects of higher dimensions, impossible geometry, interesting gearing, topology, and many other cool topics.
What’s great about his channel is that he’s a mathematician so you get a healthy dose of the theory that makes the objects possible.
It’s fall – my absolute favorite season. That means cooler weather, shorter days, and crisp brisk nights under starry skies. It also means it’s perfect time for a good classic ghost story next to a crackling fire at the end of the day. You can keep your modern low-budget gory, cheap jump scare movies. I prefer a good Victorian/Edwardian era ghost story on a cool fall evening.
Here’s some of my favorite places to get some great ghost stories read to you.
An interesting list of recommended Christmas Ghost stories