This dancer in a light suit is totally breaking reality

Damn. This video of a dancer in a light suit is like staring into a future that us humans chained to the present aren't supposed to see. The dancing is fun to watch, of course, but there's something about that black and white light up suit moving in those ways that is just jarring and completely warps my view of… » 3/18/15 6:06pm Yesterday 6:06pm

The perfection of jet takeoffs from aircraft carriers in one photo

Fighter jets and aircraft carriers and fighter jets taking off of aircraft carriers are some of our favorite things in the world for so many reasons. One of them is just how perfect each launch has to be. Just look at how the wheels of the jet reach the end of the aircraft carrier as the fighter jet achieves lift off. » 3/18/15 5:32pm Yesterday 5:32pm

The tallest buildings on each continent throughout history, visualized

I love these fantastic charts from Halcyon Maps that show which skyscrapers or churches or temples or mounds of dirt or other structures that have been the tallest buildings on each continent throughout history. You can see the ridiculous skyscraper arms race that develop in each area over the years and see what… » 3/18/15 3:59pm Yesterday 3:59pm

Map shows the location of popular animated movies across the world

Though most of the real world lives in China and India and other parts of Asia, the fake animated world is almost exclusively set in the USA and Europe. Obviously that's because many popular animation movies are made by Western shops for Western audiences but hey, can the rest of the world get some animated love? » 3/18/15 2:42pm Yesterday 2:42pm

Stunning footage of molten lava proves that volcanoes are hell monsters

This is the most terrifying thing I've seen in a long time. Like, monsters are real and the apocalypse is nigh terrifying. And yet I can't look away because the footage of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is so stunning that I can smell my fear burning as the molten lava rock starts taking over the Earth. » 3/18/15 1:22pm Yesterday 1:22pm

This celestial music video was made with household goods

Forgive me for being enchanted with this beautiful music video for Jack and the Giant's song A Love Like Pi. I feel like I'm following orbs with unique personalities traveling through space. Or like watching comets burn as they complete their journey to different planets. In reality though, I'm just watching soap… » 3/18/15 11:48am Yesterday 11:48am

Neat cutaway video shows how an iconic shotgun works on the inside 

If you watched The Godfather, Transformers, or Dirty Harry, you've already seen the iconic Winchester Model 12 in action—and probably imitated the pump-action gesture to reload it. Watch this guy make a cutaway version of the popular shotgun to expose its guts and show how the shooting mechanism actually works. » 3/18/15 9:56am Yesterday 9:56am

This video about space and life is so inspiring

Supersymmetry is a short film made by Trent Jaklitsch as an ode to his father. But really, it's an inspirational tale for all of us. Using personal footage from his childhood along with NASA archival footage and other publicly available clips, he stitches together a story about how the universe created us and how we… » 3/17/15 3:33pm Tuesday 3:33pm

Awesome liquid 3D printer oozes out things from goo

This new Carbon3D printer totally looks like the science fiction future but it's real. The liquid 3D printing method uses liquid resin, laser light and oxygen to print out things up to 25-100 times faster than traditional 3D printers. It's fascinating technology and it looks like things are just magically rising… » 3/17/15 1:02pm Tuesday 1:02pm

All those iconic space pictures are really black and white 

Most of the gorgeous images of distant galaxies we all keep in our minds were captured by the lens of The Hubble Space Telescope. But those lens can only take black and white images. The color is added afterwards according to "the wavelengths of light that different elements emit in space." This is how they do it. » 3/17/15 10:13am Tuesday 10:13am

9 simple photography tips that will make your pictures look better

Here are 9 rules about basic photography composition from famed photographer Steve McCurry that will instantly make your pictures look better. You know some of them already—rule of thirds, etc.—but it's nice to see them illustrated with great pictures and be reminded of the most important rule of all: that you can—and… » 3/17/15 10:07am Tuesday 10:07am