Professional stunt man Ethan Swanson does the GoPro thing in Chicago, Illinois.
If you haven’t seen this already, hold onto your guts.
(H/T: Gk)
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Once a year on august 1st, the people of Warsaw pay homage to the fallen heroes that fought for freedom in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising. The biggest rebellion against German Nazi occupation during WWII cost over 200 000 lives and destruction of the capital.
(H/T: Marcel Krueger)
http://vimeo.com/101138179
A scifi reworking of Bonnie And Clyde (part short/part pitch for a feature length movie) by director David Rosenbaum.
On the last day of his life, android Clyde Barrow has an encounter that might well change everything.
A mini documentary on Kevin Bradley, founder of Yee Haw Industries – one of America’s most prolific letterpress printmakers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHR1eNLZGo
A compilation of (occasionally NSFW) US and world reportage fails from last month by compiler News Be Funny.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-z40RqAu8
Currently causing all manner of speculation online, Mianyang kung fu master Liu Fei stuffs his mouth with sawdust then proceeds – seemingly without any ignition source – to exhale smoke and fire for three minutes.
Your theories?
(H/T: Andy Sheridan)
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A ghostly infrared timelapse of Mamane tree ‘bones’ on Kohala Mountain in Hawaii by Gary Yost.
Pre-European Chant: “Ku’u wahine i ka ua ‘Ulalena” by Charles Albert Manu’alkohanaiki’illili Boyd.
Hadean Earth
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A visualisation of Earth’s first geologic eon – four billion years ago – named after the Greek god Hades on account of the ‘hellish’ cratered, magma-strewn conditions that prevailed when the first pre-biotic compounds formed.
Lyonya Shilovsky performs the Galop Infernal from Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus In The Underworld with the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, then rounds it off with a nifty solo.
Soon he will learn to give the crowd the finger and leave the stage swigging on a bottle of Chivas Regal.