From The Archives: This bicycle manufacturing tutorial film from 1945 was unearthed with a nice vintage feel. The film originally was produced by the British Film Council, which makes it super legit for anglophile bike enthusiasts.
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Light Paintings by Dennis Calvert
Photographer Dennis Calvert does not use digital manipulation for any of his pictures. With the right exposure on his camera, he swings around glow sticks in a dark room or outdoors at night to create his desired visual effect.
Former world yo-yo champ and trick inventor Tomonari “Black” Ishiguro shows why he’s still one of the best in the world by pulling off the old “remove the tablecloth and leave the glasses untouched” stunt using only a yo-yo.
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YouTube Anniversary of the Day: True story: These 19 seconds made Internet history. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim’s otherwise boring elephant musings became the first video uploaded to a site that — exactly seven years later — now boasts 800 million unique visitors per month; 4 billion videos watched per day; and one hour of video uploaded every second.
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Behold the very first youtube video!
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Look At This Off-Roading Dog of the Day: When Roosevelt was adopted from a rescue shelter, she had limited mobility due to her two deformed front legs. New owner Stephanie didn’t want her to Border Collie’s herding instincts to go unfulfilled, so she jury-rigged a wheelchair that lets Roosevelt run everywhere.
“The only difference between Roosevelt and other dogs is that instead of a collar I snap on his wheels to take him out. … People think he should have been put down because they think he’s suffering,” she said. “But he wakes up happy every day. If you had a child with a disability you’d try to enrich them, give them opportunities. So why not do the same with a dog?”
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Look At This Off-Roading Dog of the Day: When Roosevelt was adopted from a rescue shelter, she had limited mobility due to her two deformed front legs. New owner Stephanie didn’t want her to Border Collie’s herding instincts to go unfulfilled, so she jury-rigged a wheelchair that lets Roosevelt run everywhere.
“The only difference between Roosevelt and other dogs is that instead of a collar I snap on his wheels to take him out. … People think he should have been put down because they think he’s suffering,” she said. “But he wakes up happy every day. If you had a child with a disability you’d try to enrich them, give them opportunities. So why not do the same with a dog?”
Epic Video Game Rock Medley of the Day: Fredrik “FreddeGredde” Larsson (of Epic TV Theme Medley, Epic Simpsons Medley, and Epic Queen Cover fame) returns for this Epic Video Game Rock Medley. Louis Abramson joins him on drums.
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Marketing Campaign of the Day: A bicyclist in a sleepy Belgian town couldn’t resist when a giant red button caught his attention — it was just asking to be pushed. The dramatic fallout became TNT’s new ad spot in the country.
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