The Living Camera

Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic man also known as "The Living Camera" for his ability to recall and sketch landscapes with incredible detail after viewing them only once. Here he draws from memory a 17-foot long aerial recreation of the city of Rome after seeing it for the first and only time on a 45-minute helicopter ride. Astounding. (via Bits & Pieces)

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I had no idea that chickens could do the Fandango

The Muppets - Bohemian Rhapsody (thanks, Tim!)




The six kinds of wonderful Julia Nunes - You're My Best Friend




Freddie Chin - Bicycle Race




My favorite Queen song, the one that always puts a big dopey smile on my face (and looks of consternation on everyone else's when they hear me trying to sing along), Queen - Somebody to Love

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One-man band

Looping Around The House from Si on Vimeo.

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Tipping Point

Walter Wick's "Balancing Act" manages to put 117 toys on a single Lego brick without glue or supports. Stick around for the "unbuilding" section at the end. (via The Awesomer)

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Five Leaves Left

Christoph Niemann explains a lot of concepts using just leaves in his latest picto-piece called Bio-Diversity. (via kottke)

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Selling It

AdweekMedia put together some of the most epic commercials of the 2000s. How many do you remember?

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If I had a hammer (that was shaped like my hand)

Really creative metalwork from DesignMartus (via Crookedbrains)

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Scaring off the visitors

Four words. Dread. Zeppelin. Immigrant. Song.

Wait. Does "Waah-ee-aaaaaaaa-hah!" count as a word? Then five words.

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The Song Remains the Same, and the Same, and Still More of the Same

Stairways to Heaven, Stairways to Hell - One man, one song, 101 ways.

Ken posts at WFMU's Beware of the Blog and has just completed a quest to collect as many unusual covers of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" as possible, including a banjo version (Todd Taylor), a mashup with Laurie Anderson's "O Superman" (DJ Earworm), a Gregorian chant, and, unless my math fails me, 98 other versions. (via Mookie)

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Operation Freedom Clump

Take the "U.S. Military Operation or Brand of Cat Litter?" quiz!

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Video Mixtape

‘The Golden Age of Video’ by Ricardo Autobahn (via Cynical-C)

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Moving Pictures, Sitting Still

Name That Movie: Each series is a sequence of six drawings of shots from classic films (in the order they appear on screen.) No portraits of movie stars, just iconic images from the film.

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You're drinking what now?

17 Obscure Brands of Soda Pop (#17 - #7), includes Pickle Juice "Sport", which not only looks and tastes like pickle juice, it is pickle juice. Carbonated pickle juice.

Continuing on... Obscure Brands of Soda Pop (#6 - #1)

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The Story of ________

The Story of John F. Ptak and His Large (90,000) Collection of Pamphlets From the Library of Congress, and How Many of The Publishers Tried to Spice Up The Somewhat Mundane Subject Matter by Using the Narrative Form "The Story Of ________" In Their Title

Get the full story (and lots of other examples) here. (via Growabrain)

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Because the original title of "Excuse me there, Jude. I was wondering if I could have your attention, please?" lacked a certain punch

Hey Jude: The Flowchart (click to automagically embiggenate) (via Bits & Pieces)




Hey Jude: The Diaper Years




This has been kicking around for years and years. Linda McCartney's isolated vocal track of "Hey Jude" from a live show in 1990.

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