Monthly Archives: July 2010

Crazy Slide Loving Dog

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A Thirsty Ant Drinks From a Rain Drop

And then relaxes on a pillow of water.
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The Roundup

1. Ice diving in Kazakhstan 2. Raggare: Sweden’s Redneck Greaser Subculture 3. Amazing Hyper-Realist Still Life Painters 4. Greta oto (aka the Glasswing Butterfly) 5. Two Footbridges (click a photo for slideshow)
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A Dog Mowing the Lawn

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Blue Tarp Surfing

The background music is “Animal (Treasure Fingers Remix)” by Miike Snow. (via Laughing Squid)
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Old School Parkour

Arnim Dahl (12 March 1922 – 3 August 1998), the most popular German stuntman, demonstrates a variety of crazy moves. During his career, he was hospitalized more than 40 times and experience more than 100 fractures. For one stunt, he did a hand stand on the rails of the observation deck of the Empire State [...]
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The Windmill Farmer

A nurturing farmer in is danger of losing his crop of windmills when he struggles against the cyclical forces of nature. Created by Joaquin Baldwin at the UCLA Animation Workshop, with music by Nick Fevola. This film was inspired while driving back from a trip to Palm Springs, when Baldwin’s partner said that it must take [...]
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Extreme Parallel Parking by a Robot Car

The Computer Science Department at Stanford University demonstrates their robot car performing a sliding parallel parking maneuver. A driver is present in the car for safety reasons, but he doesn’t touch the car’s controls. For an explaination of the science behind this car, see this video. In September, Stanford plans to race Shelley, another robot car, up [...]
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The Roundup

1. Super-Sleek High Speed Mercury Train Unveiled for UK 2. Jurustic Park 3. iFixit Crowdsourced Repair Instructions 4. Stiltsville. More at Wikipedia. 5. Skyscrapers. World. New York. London. Hong Kong. Seattle.
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Happy Tortoise Dancing

A tortoise dances to “Satisfaction” by Benny Benassi.
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