Archive for the 'amazing' Category

Typical American Expressions

"Whatever it's background, the tape contains no less than 547 of what it calls “Typical American Expressions”, each with an explanation and an example...read by this rather humorless and mechanical sounding announcer."
 

RARE MASSIVE 6-GILL SHARK SIGHTING AT 3300 FT DEPTH!!

All kinds of superlative commentary but no one says that they're gonna need a bigger boat. But they are, probably.
 

Origami spaceplane to launch from space station

I can't even begin to imagine why.
 

The Future of Music: Credo

Manifestos like Cage's seem to tend to act against the expectations of more everyday futurism, which tends to predict a future like the present, only moreso, by somehow managing the feat of envisioning a future that is truly different from the present.
 

Roaring dunes

Samples of the sound of "singing / roaring / booming" dunes. Very low frequency sound produced by localized dune avalanches, with accompanying explanation, sound samples and historical instances. Amazing.
 

Squeak the Squirrel

"A squirrel like that's a waste of time, and Squeak has work to do!" A great example of the little known genre of of educational films—Squirrel Porn. More educational and weird shorts here and here.
 

THE FEDERATION OF BLACK COWBOYS

via mudd up