While traveling across the United States with his girlfriend, photographer Grant Mallory created “Hooping“, an amazingly shot photo series in which Mallory took advantage of the natural landscape, the setting sun and the brilliantly glowing colors of an LED hula hoop put into motion and combined them together with remarkable results.
photos by Grant Mallory
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The x2 Sport is an underwater jet pack controlled with two wrist-mounted propellers attached to a backpack that contains the system’s batteries. The creators of the x2 Sport asked Olympic swimmers Jack Burnell and Roberto Pavoni to demonstrate the device in a pool, and the two were able to do barrel rolls and swim 50 meters under water in just 20 seconds.
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In celebration of the 10 millionth subscriber to his YouTube channel, Markiplier created a ridiculous video featuring cats with human mouths attempting to say “Meow”.
Behold the result of 8 hours of wasted time in an effort to make the stupidest video I possibly could!
BEHOLD!! My Magnum Opus! And the result of an entire day's work dedicated to stupidity! I present; MEOW! https://t.co/7I6WYxNYYZ
— Markiplier (@markiplier) October 15, 2015
Ukrainian Designer Igor Sirotov is back with a new architectural paradise, the ID1 House. Made purely out of cargo containers, the house design brings stor-age to the new-age (wasn’t that just clever?)!
The house uses a U shaped layout, creating two floors with all the space in the world. The classy touch lies in the bathtub that’s on the terrace (Leonard Cohen fans will get how cool that is), allowing you to soak in your bath salts as well as the tremendous view of the forest beyond. Breathless, don’t you think?
What is a home, just a storage container for the living soul…
Designer: Igor Sirotov
Owenergy Studios, a YouTube channel dedicated entirely to Owen Wilson, has created a supercut of Owen Wilson whispering in movies.
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Filmmaker Devin Graham and a bunch of his friends set up an exciting Slip ‘N Slide that wrapped all of the way around a lawnmower and took turns being spun in circles across the slippery, soapy plastic. All of their footage was filmed using an LG V10 smartphone in 4K video resolution.
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Photographer MaxSiedentopf has no idea who the cars in his photos belong to. What hedid know the second he saw them, is that they were in dire need of an upgrade.
Armed with a fewpieces of cardboard and masking tape, he set out on the streets ofAmsterdam looking for the most average cars he could find. He often had to workquickly to stick on his custom-made fenders and wings before someone would spot himand ask what he was up to. After he customized all the Peugots, Lancias, andVolkswagens, he'd snap a picture and take off, leaving the pimped ride for the lucky ownersto find the next morning.
When we asked Max whyhe spent his nights pimping strangers' rides, he said: "Individuality, self-expression, and status aremore important than ever these days. But for some reason you see that things as ordinary as cars are getting personalized less and less, while it could be astrange but great form of self-expression. I thought I'd do people a favor bygiving them a custom-made supercar."
See more of Max's work here.
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For HUF‘s latest collaboration, the acclaimed skate brand links up with Patrick Nagel, the contemporary American artist known for his stylized take on the female form. His extensive client list includes IBM, Ballantine’s Scotch, Rolling Stone, and Harper’s Magazine, and ’80s new wave fans will recognize his work on the cover of Rio, Duran Duran’s top-selling album from 1982. As part of the label’s Fall 2015 collection, HUF partners with Patrick Nagel and his estate to release a collection that highlights the artist’s work and legacy. Adorned with Nagel’s designs, the pieces take the form of a reversible satin bomber jacket, pullover hoodies, assorted tees, skateboard decks and 6-panel hats. A blanket and pin set round out the range. Shop the collection now through HUF’s online store.
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A tough little tuxedo kitten named Cassidy who lost his back legs shortly after he was born, is a fighter who never let his disability get him down. Through the wonderful humans of Tiny Kittens who rescued him, Mountain View Veterinary Hospital who provided medical care and Handicapped Pets Canada who provided the wheels, Cassidy is now mobile and ready to go.
This tiny feral kitten lost both back legs when he was born, and somehow managed to survive for nine weeks in the forest. It is a medical miracle that he survived even a day with such severe injuries, let alone nine weeks. His little body had just about given out from starvation and infection by the time we rescued him, but he never gave up!
A playful Cassidy still raring to go, even without his wheels.
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Handskating is a unique sport created by Mirko Hanßen where athletes wear inline skates on their hands to perform tricks. Inline skates are traditionally worn only the feet, and the addition of skates to the hand allow the athlete to pull off some interesting feats.
The effect of wearing skates on both the feet and hands is not unlike the characters of the Wheelers from the 1985 film Return to Oz. For comparison, here is a scene from that film.
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A Lamborghini Aventador caught fire while in traffic in Dubai. The car was a rental being driven by Victoria Vikki. As Vikki revved the engine, flames from the exhaust pipe lit the rear end of the car on fire. Unaware of what was happening at first, Vikki continued revving the engine as the flames spread. She eventually realized the situation she was in, and escaped the vehicle, capturing a few photos herself.
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To help or to stay on the side and make video, as this “man” in a white car, the choice is always urs! A video posted by @victoria.vikki on
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By now, you’ve almost definitely seen the video of Luke Gatti, the underage, belligerently drunk UConn student who got arrested and reportedly expelled in his quest for “some fucking bacon jalapeño mac and cheese.” But what magical pasta preparation could possibly be worth all the trouble this asshole of a kid went to? We got the recipe from UConn to find out.
A selection of Lydia Sloan Cline's AOL disc collection. Photo courtesy of Lydia Sloan Cline
The discs came like a swarm of locusts, burrowing into post boxes and sliding through mail slots. They popped out of cereal boxes and appeared on meal trays during airline flights. They fell out of magazines and Happy Meals. They were stocked at the checkout counters of Best Buy, near the popcorn at Blockbuster, on bookshelves at Barnes & Noble. The ubiquity of AOL discsthose free marketing materials sent by American Online in the 90s to entice people to sign up for internet servicecould be likened to world domination.
But they were also annoying. If you didn't end up using your "50 Hours Free!," the discs would likely end up in the trash. A satirical newspaper in California, The Larely Beagle, once published a faux report about how there were so many unused AOL trials in landfills that it was contaminating the nation's drinking water.
It bothered Brian Larkin, then a 20-something in Los Angeles, to see his roommates repeatedly throwing the CDs into the garbage. So he started collecting them in a bin to recycle later. But he never got around to it, and when he moved, he found the bin, now piled high with the shiny discs, and had a revelation: They were beautiful.
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The Magic Johnson branded AOL disc. Photo courtesy of Lydia Sloan Cline
Larkin, who now has well over 2,000 AOL discs in his possession, thought he was the only one collecting these things. Soon, he realized there was a small, but tenacious, community of AOL disc collectors.
There was Lydia Sloan Cline, who Larkin found through her now-defunct Geocities site called Lydia's AOL Disk Collection. Then there was Sparky Haufle, who ran an Anglefire website and wrote the complete collector's guide, AOL CD Collecting: The New High-tech Version of Baseball Card Collecting. There was Jim McKenna and John Lieberman, who collected the discs for the express purpose of dumping them back at AOL's headquarters. And there was Bustam Halim, who according to Wired is nicknamed "the Leader."
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Of the bunch, Sloan Cline is arguably the most prolific collector. By her estimates, she has over 4,000 unique AOL discs stored in the basement of her home in Kansas. Every CD in her collection is different: There are discs in every color, ones in plastic cases or shrink-wrap packaging, ones promising various hours on the free trial. Versions one through three came on floppy disk, and some of the early ones came in metal tinsSloan Cline has those kinds, too. There were also branded AOL discs, like her prized Marvel Spider-Man disc, and foreign AOL discs, which she got from her friends in Canada and Argentina.
"I probably have one of the most extensive collectionswell, me and Bustam," she said.
A selection of discs from Bustam Halim's collection. Photo courtesy of Bustam Halim
Halim, whose collection runs at least 3,000 discs, started collecting in 1999 "because they were free," and he liked the idea of a hobby that didn't require spending any money. Unlike other collectors, who've been known to shell out upwards of $100 on an ultra-rare CD, Halim claims he's never paid more than a few bucks for a disc. Instead, he'd make frequent trips to the swap meet in Oakland, where there was a section devoted to "all kinds of computer-related junk." There, he'd sometimes find a really rare AOL disc for $1better than anything he could find on eBay, and for a fraction of the price.
Each morning, Halim says he'd spend about an hour admiring his collection, organizing the discs by their serial numbers, and updating his website, cdcult.com. Then he'd head into his job at a tech company, where all of his coworkers knew about his collecting obsession because he'd asked them to give him their AOL CDs. For the most part, they did, since he was basically "asking for this junk mail." His favorite CD is one that an employee snagged at a computer convention in Japan. It's a plain-looking disc, with very little art on the packaging, but it's rareno one who wasn't at the convention has a copy.
"I probably had, at one point, at least 20,000 CDs," Halim said, mainly from the donations from his coworkers. "I threw away a lot of them because there were copies."
An AOL disc from Canada. Photo courtesy of Lydia Sloan Cline
AOL disc collecting isn't about quantityit's about diversity. There were AOL discs in every color; discs in all kinds of designs; branded discs (Larkin's favorite CD is one from a Frisbee partnership); ones in weird packaging, like a one-time disc design that came in a plastic purse. Unique designs were determined by subtle differences in the color, design, and text. Two discs might look alike, except one promises "500 hours free!" and the other only offers "200 hours free!" Within one "substyle"the gold edition, for examplethere might be 15 variations in the text. Those all count as unique designs, which can also be catalogued by the serial numbers on the discs.
"There were hundreds of designs, and about 20 percent of them were rare ones," says Sloan Cline. "Those are what we fought over."
It's not that AOL collecting was competitive, per sejust that, when there are only a handful of people who care about your hobby, every small victory or failure is amplified. Halim and Sloan Cline both have tin-packaged AOL CDs in their collections, but Sloan Cline's is still in the original wrappingsomething that Halim resents. When, in 2002, AOL invited Sloan Cline and her family to a party in New York for the launch of AOL Version 8, Halim fumed with jealousy. "I hated her for that," he said. "I was so jealous."
(For her part, Sloan Cline said the party was a blast. "They were so thrilled that someone was collecting their discs instead of shooting bullet holes through them that they invited us.")
The Mad Magazine branded AOL disc. Photo courtesy of Lydia Sloan Cline
There's no record of how many different styles of AOL discs were distributed, but Jan Brant, AOL's former chief marketing officer, estimates that the number is in the thousands. On a Quora thread, Brant said the marketing campaign cost more than $300 million, but it was worth it: "We were logging in new subscribers at the rate of one every six seconds."
It's this ubiquity, the annoying success of their campaign, that makes AOL CDs important to remember, according to Jason Scott, a digital historian with the Internet Archive. "They were, at one time, half of all the CDs produced in the US," Scott explains. "So the story of AOL discs is part of the story of software, and it's important for me to get them."
There's already a small collection of discs catalogued at the Smithsonian's Museum of American History, but Scott wants his own. In May, he put out his own request to amass old AOL CDs on behalf of the Internet Archive. The discs are interesting, he says, because their evolution traces a history of the internet. The oldest discs promised access to a virgin internet, but the newer ones said things like "Come back!" As peoples' relationship to the internet changed, so did AOL discs.
Scott has amassed about 300 CDs so far, all via donation. "For a collector, there's often an issue where like, they only made 20 Beanie Babies with this one signature, so now each of those is worth a ridiculous amount. AOL collecting isn't like that," he explains, "There's no value in that market."
A selection of Canadian AOL discs. Image via Wikimedia Commons
Earlier this year, Verizon acquired AOL for $4.4 billion. It signals the official end of an era, when AOL wasn't just a gateway to the internetit was the internet. This kind of end to the AOL story make collectors all the more sentimental about their discs, like precious artifacts in a technologically-advanced world.
Collecting is based on nostalgia: People collect Pez dispensers and stamps and tin lunchboxes not because they're inherently valuable or interesting, but because they remind people of a time in their life. That's why Sloan Cline has kept her collection, which today sits filed away in wire CD racks in her basement, mostly in their original packaging.
"I really believe that maybe ten years, 15 years from now, people who remembered from fifth grade or had their first interent experience with it, they're gonna look back and say, 'I remember that!' and I really believe that these discs will be worth something," she said.
Larkin doesn't think the discs will ever be worth anything, and neither does Halim. But neither of them are ready to give up the collections. It's worth something to them.
Sometimes Halim will just sit and stare at the discs, with their geometric designs, and pass hours that way. "It's hard to explain," he said, "but they're just so beautiful to me."
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Luke Gatti, the 19-year-old University of Connecticut student who swaggered into a campus cafeteria with a beer Sunday night and drunkenly demanded some “fucking jalapeño bacon mac and cheese,” has reportedly been expelled from the university over the incident.
Back in July, dour British funeral singer (vegan funerals only) Morrissey alleged that an airport security officer at San Francisco International Airport had groped his genitals during a pat-down and said that he’d filed a claim for assault. Just a day later, the TSA denied any wrongdoing in a statement to Rolling Stone:
This video, uploaded to YouTube Monday, stars an entitled young UConn student who wants some “fucking bacon jalapeño mac and cheese,” but these “fucking idiot” cafeteria workers won’t give it to him. Instead, they keep telling him he’s going to get expelled for bringing beer into Union Street Market. Whatever! This is America, man, and he’s 19. Like some “faggy cafeteria manager cafeteria manager cafeteria manager” can tell him what to do?
Stephanie Arne, the first female host of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, was given an opportunity to swim (fully clothed) with the otter ambassadors of Nurtured by Nature sanctuary in Valley Center, California. Instead of swimming however, the gleeful host was adorably swarmed by the highly affectionate animals.
This is the most amazing thing. You guys have to come down here and swim with baby otters. I can personally guarantee that you will leave feeling more joyful than you’ve ever felt in your entire life.
Swims can be booked online. The non-profit organization also accepts donations towards their program to help ill, injured and traumatized children regain their confidence and attain joy through animal interaction.
Nurtured by Nature offers an incredible 2 – 2 1/2 hour experience where you will literally swim with Asian Small Clawed Otters and get up close and personal with up to seven of the center’s resident animals. You’ll also find out more about the amazing work that is carried out by this nonprofit animal facility dedicated to making dreams come true for sick and traumatized children. …Nurtured by Nature is a non-profit organization. All monies from the sale of this experience will be used to fund future work by the center providing unique animal interactions to terminally ill and traumatized children.
Animal-lover Steven Bazyl also went swimming with the otters in 2012 and had a really good time as well.
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We’re trying to read the tea leaves to determine whether the Nike Mag is indeed releasing on October 21, a significant date in Back to the Future lore (in the first sequel, it’s the day Doc and Marty travel to in order to stave off the disastrous fate awaiting Marty’s future family). Back in September, we encountered a tweet from a former art director at Wieden+Kennedy, Nike’s longtime advertising agency, seeming to portend the Nike Mag’s release. And now we have the image of the interior of a hat, posted by Major DC. The interior band is embroidered with the October 21 date, and the exterior of the hat (presumably from Nike) appears to have the same color scheme as the Nike Mag. Is this the companion piece to the shoe in question? Stay tuned.
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Snow Peak, the outdoor lifestyle creator, knows that every traveller must have the proper glassware when seeking to imbibe while in the great outdoors. With this in mind, they created a sturdy line of silicone glassware – highball for mixed drinks, rocks for straight spirits and a stemless wineglass for the perfect vintage – that is completely flexible and unbreakable but looks like the real thing.
Unbreakable, flexible and easy to clean, these glasses are the perfect companion for outdoor adventures. This stemless wine glass is shaped with a larger bowl to accumulate more aromas. …This traditional “highball” is best used for mixed drinks and cocktails. …This “rocks” glass is shaped for whiskey or other liquor served on-the-rocks.
images via Snow Peak
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Did the moon landings really happen? I have no clue, I’m not an astronaut, but NASA certainly wants you to think so—they’ve released 8,400 high-res moon landing pictures that they say are definitely real and not at all photoshopped, curiously timed with the release of The Martian, which I’m sure is just a coincidence, right??
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bd594 created a wonderful cover of “Break On Through (To the Other Side)” by The Doors using vintage electronic equipment and a Stephen Hawking like sythensized voice. Here’s a full list of what was used:
HP ScanJet 3C – Vocals
DECTalk Express – Vocals
Yamaha CX-5M Computer – Saw Wave Bass
Yamaha CX-5M Computer – Sine Wave Organ
Drums – Slamming Hard Drive Head
Cymbal – Striking Hard Drive Platter
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America’s favorite fast food nightmare burger now comes with a limited-time bonus side dish in the form of mild digestive problems. To match the spooky black bun of the Halloween Whopper, customers’ excrement has been turning an equally spooky shade of green.
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Students have all kinds of special needs for their bags, but so do the teachers. Lifehacker reader and Digital Media Production teacher mattewrstover shares his bag that’s prepped for both teaching and digital media creation.
Screen Rant highlights their top ten worst video game glitches.
Who says a video game has to actually work to be unforgettable? No matter how many hours developers spend making a game as polished as possible, some technical bugs are bound to make it through. Newer games, like the PC version of Arkham Knight, may take those glitches to a new level, but sometimes, the most unbelievable errors can be found in the games of yesterday
On Monday, a Michigan farmer digging in his field came upon the ancient remains of a butchered woolly mammoth. “It was probably a rib bone that came up,” said the man who just fulfilled the fantasies of 5-year-old aspiring paleontologists everywhere. “We thought it was a bent fence post.”
Mrdesplainesonly really look like a bomb if the kid carrying it is named "Ahmed Mohamed"
We break down what's inside — does it look like a bomb to you?
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