In 2012, Busted Knuckle Films and a group of off-road enthusiasts took to the hills at Morris Mountain ORV Park during an RBD event in Heflin, Alabama for some Extreme Barbie Jeep Racing, a dangerous downhill challenge in plastic toy vehicles. To compete in the race, you must “take a power-wheels vehicle, break off the drive gear, go to a steep hill, climb aboard and watch the madness unfold.”
“The Wheel House” is a theatrical performance that occurs within a circular rolling structure. Two performers play mysterious travelers who live in a rolling house—the movement of the house provides unique opportunities for acrobatics, feats of daring, and physical comedy. The performance is designed to be mobile, as a roving street performance or a narrative show that requires the audience to walk alongside.
Artists Chris McMahon and Thyrza Segal have each added a fantastic collection of monsters to dull landscape paintings (Thyrza) that they found at various yard sales and thrift stores. Check them out, pretty funny idea.
Ogden, Utah-based Graeme Abraham, owner of the Etsy store GreenCüb, has repurposed a collection of recognizable video game controllers as useful desk organizers (Nintendo 64, GameCube, Xbox 360 and PlayStation). Each controller comes equipped with a three foot gold-plated USB extension, action buttons or joysticks replaced with pen slots and a magnetic paperclip holder.
A few days ago storm chaser Brandon Ivey recorded this jaw-dropping video from inside a violent tornado in Smith County, Kansas. Ivey recorded the video alongside film director Sean Casey as their armored storm chasing truck, Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2, was engulfed by winds of up to 175 MPH. The seven-ton TIV 2 was designed by Casey to capture up-close footage of tornadoes and is equipped with metal and composite armor plate, bullet resistant windows, an IMAX camera turret, and wind skirts and anchoring devices that prevent it from being blown away. The storm reportedly tore instrumentation from the roof of the truck and breached the hull in two locations.
Benjamin Grelle, also known as The Frogman, has created “Warp Dogs,” hilarious photos of dogs hanging out of car windows that have digitally manipulated to make it look like they’re traveling through space at warp speed.
French graphic designer and illustrator Yo Az has created “Electro Animals,” a collection of colorful animal illustrations made of geometric, electric circuit-like designs. Very original, worth checking out.
In collaboration with CHI&Partners NY, New York PBS station Thirteen has launched a shrewd ad campaign that criticizes the current state of television. The campaign’s five posters advertise fake reality TV shows, with crazy names like Married to a Mime (“She’s got plenty to say.”) and Bad Bad Bag Boys (“Clean up on every aisle.“), and will appear in New York City subways until the end of June 2013.
Russian scientists have announced the recovery of well-preserved woolly mammoth blood and tissue from a 10,000-year-old female carcass found on the New Siberian Islands off the coast of Siberia. The Russian scientists and their partners from the South Korean Sooam Biotech Research Foundation hope to use the blood and tissue to clone a woolly mammoth. The Russian team was astonished to find the blood in a liquid state, despite that fact that the carcass was surrounded by ice. They theorize that the blood may contain a kind of natural antifreeze.
Photographer Michael Wolf highlights the patterns, textures, and anonymity of Hong Kong’s vast apartment towers in his photo series “Architecture of Density.” Try not to get dizzy looking at these beautiful pictures.
80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest. Miura, who also conquered the 29,035-foot (8,850-meter) peak when he was 70 and 75, reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. local time Thursday, May 22. Truly and inspiring and motivational story. I hope I can conquer big challenges like this as I get older!
In Sports and in life the High-five is still man's go to gesture in a time of celebration or welcoming. When done correctly a High-Five is rewarding and awesome but when there are few things funnier than a failed High-five. These people just can't seem to get it right.
These photos will all make you pause and say to yourself WTF? This collection of photos will make you laugh but might also make you do a double take and say "huh?" We live in a world filled with dumb people and idiotic products. This is just a small sample of the funny world we call home.
Here is today's list of awesome and humorous photos. These joke pictures and memes are fantastic. Too funny. These should help you get through you mid week push. Thank you internet for all of the hilariousness you provide!
Face it peoples names can be hilarious and down right dirty. As dignified as we try to be, it's hard not to laugh when someones name sounds like a sexual innuendo. Unfortunately for these athletes that's just what they must have gotten used to. These athletes all have names that sound like sex acts or what certain sex acts might entail.
I really hate people taking photos near the sculptures. When I was traveling around the Europe with my friends, I just couldn’t get why people think that they have to make a photo near every sculpture. Is it in our genes? Or is there some kind of magnet in those sculptures? Well ok, there might be some sculptures that I would like to have a photo standing near them… Check this awesome list of 20 strange sculptures around the world.
If some of you wonder “What the hell is Origami?”, lets cite our beloved Wikipedia: “Origami (origami) (from oru meaning “folding”, and kami meaning “paper”) is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing or cutting the paper,and using only one piece of paper” Maybe not all of the art works here were done using only one peace of paper, but nevertheless they all look really impressive. Have a good time scrolling down the list!
Meet Erik Johansson,a young yet very talented artist from Sweden. He creates his wonderful images by digitally modifying photographs that he took himself. When you look at his photos you can see not only the mastery of photography but also great photoshopping skills. He has very brave ideas, skills to implement them and good sense of humor.
A boy from the chocolate and waffle country – Belgium – made Mr. Fly into a celebrity. As written in JPG magazine Nicholas met Mr. Gerald Fly in his garden while shooting some cliché flowers. As always, there was a sob story to follow: Over the years Mr. Fly degraded from a successful cab driver to a poor lonely insect as he had 173 wives who cost him a fortune on make-up and clothing. Not to mention his 2184 kids, who all needed money for education and iPods. So Nicholas offered him a job as his new photography model. And I have to admit that both Nicholas and Mr. Fly are very talented in what they do. If you’d like to see more photos by Nicholas, his Flickr gallery can be found here. Enjoy the gallery!
Cats and dogs can not only look cute in pictures, but they can photobomb too. Here is a cool compilation of such photobombs)
We already knew Mitch Hurwitz wanted to do another installment of Arrested Development, and we knew that Netflix was likely to renew the series, but certainty is always appreciated, especially when we still have some many open questions. Certainty is what we got from Mitch Hurwitz, who — when asked Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal if the show would be back — said “Definitely.” Then, turning to Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, he said: ‘I don’t want to get into a whole negotiation right now… but I’ve got a family to feed.’ I can also confirm that Hurwitz does, indeed, have a family; he’s married to the lovely actress Mary Jo Keenan, and they have two daughters, May and Phoebe, the portmanteau of which equals “Maebe.” What Hurwitz is still waffling about, however, is in what form the series will return. From Chortle: ‘I kinda go back and forth between [a movie] and a series. But here’s the most important thing, whatever we do, I want to get the cast all together and not do another anthology thing, and that’s why I keep thinking about kicking off with a special or a three-part show and then going into a series. Then he asked Sarandos: ‘Are you game for that?’. ‘Absolutely,’ the Netflix boss replied. ‘In any form.’ Hurwitz also noted that they now have “the right idea” to take the next step, and I given the exchange, it seems that, even if it’s a movie, it’ll premiere on Netflix (and not in theaters). My only question is how they’re going to work around the Arrested Development movie within the movie being Ron Howard’s next Da Vinci Code when Ron Howard has already signed on to do the next Da Vinci Code.
May was a great month for news bloopers. There was a lot of them. Here are the funniest news mishaps of the month. This 10 minute video is hilarious. It's not easy being a news caster.
Daniel Picard Is an awesome and creative photo artist. He takes children's toys and makes them pieces of art. Check out the high quality photographs of different action scenes using kids toys. This is awesome.
Jon Fitch is a 35 year old MMA Welterweight fighter. He currently fights in the world series of fighting. He has a 24-5 record and is well name in the MMA community. He has an up coming fight with Josh Burkman and in preparation for his fight Jon decided to take a detailed video of how he cuts weight for the fight.
Here are some funny and random photos to help make your day a little bit better. This joke photos and memes are good for a laugh and are sure to brighten your day. Enjoy! :)
These beers might not be the best of the best. That is hard to make a list of depending on what types of beers are your favorites. This list is made up of delicious beers that are definitely worth trying at some point in your life. In No order these are some awesomely delicious beers.
Google does a lot of very weird things. It has a top-secret lab working on dozens of projects we don’t know about. It builds fiber networks mostly because it has the money and is sick of dealing with ISPs. And now, apparently, it’s going to connect places with no Internet infrastructure by using blimps. Honestly, we question how important it is that the Third World get on the Internet as opposed to, say, sending humanitarian aid. But it can’t hurt, and entitled white kids on an “adventure” will be able to get a decent signal to post pics to Instagram with. These wireless networks would serve areas such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia to dwellers outside of major cities where wired Internet connections aren’t available, said people familiar with the strategy. The networks also could be used to improve Internet speeds in urban centers, these people said. Google is also developing cheap hardware to use on these networks, bringing the joy of fart apps to people who live on less than the average American’s coffee budget. Sarcasm aside, it’ll be good to connect these remote areas: there are real benefits ranging from citizen journalism to better medical treatment. And it’s been shown in the past that networks like this can provide real benefit to those living there. On the other hand, you also have to wonder what deals Google will have to cut to get these things in the air. While Africa and Southeast Asia are hardly as bad as the news tends to portray them, there are oppressive regimes and other assorted unpleasant types who really do not want Westerners to, say, find out that they’re running their country into the ground. Google may mean well, but it’s likely sooner or later to find itself embroiled in more local politics than it cares to be involved in.
