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Musician Steve Onotera, aka “Samurai Guitarist” performs a bluegrass inspired version of the iconic “Theme A” song from the Tetris video game franchise.
“I couldn’t find a hillbilly-esque rendition of this tune on Youtube. I thought that that was a problem so I made this. Enjoy!” he says as way of explantion. Strangely, it works really well.
If you’ve never seen someone play Tetris at “Ludicous Speed” before, it truly is a sight to behold.
Sure, his virginity is probably here to stay but you can’t deny that the man has some serious talent with virtual blocks.
Light painting is a photographic technique where, well, you paint with light. It generally means waving a light source about while taking pictures with a long exposure.
In this visually stunning video that light source just so happens to be a car (a Hyundai 2015 3.8L V6 Genesis) whizzing around a race track, with red LED lights attached to the wheels.
Director Marc Donahue recollects our collective childhoods in this stop motion film, which is set to a remix of “Pure Imagination” from 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
From animated Lego sets to the Super Mario bedsheets it’s pure nostalgia, a fantastic trip into the pop culture that shaped the childhoods of Generation Millennial.
If earth disappeared, let’s say a meteor struck it, what kind of final message should we send out for an alien intelligence to find?
And now just what would we say, but how would we say it? In what language? Should it be mathematical? Coded? Vsauce ponders the many different ways.
If you thought humans were going to save the earth from zombies, Russian filmmaker Michael Tivikoff thinks otherwise.
In this video he shows two machine gun-wielding cats taking on the zombie hordes as they do their best to outsmart an attack to rescue a tiny kitten.
Alex Gendler provides a pretty great brain-teaser in his TED-Ed video where you’re stuck in the mountains after an internship goes wrong.
But unlike most other brain teasers, this one is extra awesome because it involves zombies! Can you solve it and avoid getting eaten?
You may or may not remember the Pokemon reggae song released last year—well now it has an English translation.
Among other things, it has a line about eating Slowpoke’s tail which tastes like a “yummy yummy snack / We’re hungry and we want more” the song proclaims. Ummm, OK.
