Charlie ‘The Pope of Foam’ Bamforth, head of Malting and Brewing Science at UC Davis, holds forth on the science and history of beer-making, how to pick the freshest pint in a pub, how beer saved the world and why he ‘teases those wine guys’.
Category Archives: Video
Dutch R/C pilot Nando Te Riele puts his plane through its paces at the British Model Federation’s Electric Indoor Masters last February.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ACAI8szdE
World Scott uses a Spyder III Krypton laser to ignite strips of flash paper embedded in bottles containing small amounts of alcohol for some tuneful slomo pyrotechnics.
Inspired by this WiseGeek post about the recommended daily adult calorific allowance.
We’d have the two and a half Danish pastries.
The Carma Project, sponsored by ad agency Leo Burnett Lisbon:
“built a bicycle out of the scrap of a retired Mercedes hoping that the heavy karma of the car could be rebalanced by riding the same number of kilometres in a greener way: just by cycling.”
Damn agency-sponsored enviro-hipsters.
The artist and former book editor explains how he makes his expanding paper artworks, inspired by Chinese paper gourd toys.
The second trailer for the Brad Pitt ‘swarmbie’ blockbuster based on the Max Brooks novel.
You’ll believe a zombie can fly.
Previously: ZOMG!
Six solid NSFW minutes of Al Pacino screaming his face off, chewing up all the scenery and providing:
…the most entertaining collection of over-the-top moments since Harry Hanrahan’s “Nicolas Cage Losing His Shit”
By Nelson Carvajal and Matt Zoller Seitz.
A rather excellent 19-track mashup by Ithaca Audio including Tetris, the Doctor Who theme and various video game titles, TV shows, films and music videos, performed live on a series of specially configured NES controllers. Ithaca sez:
2013 marks 35 years of video game music (Space Invaders, released in 1978 was the first game to feature a continuous soundtrack). So we took the opportunity to take a look back at some of our favourite examples of video game music and build a 19 track mashup, combining them with some other tracks we love.
Commentator Michael Schiavello’s various observations of fighter Danny Mianus during a recent bout at RFA7.
The real-life version of an earlier Jackass gag.