Bulletproof Thoughts by film director and motion designer Antoni Sendra, is a wonderfully provocative video series that takes notable interviews from the past, freely interprets the context and illustrates the words in a creatively unique and modern way. The first episode featured a 1999 interview with the late, great Joe Strummer, followed by a celestial interpretation of a 1974 Ray Bradbury interview. The newest installment features skater Rodney Mullen and his thoughts on falling in 2014.

…legendary skater Rodney Mullen talks about expectations, fear of failure and the importance of being true to yourself in a mixed media technique animation.

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Taras Kulakov the “Crazy Russian Hacker” performed an experiment to see what would happen if he dumped 30 pounds of dry ice into a swimming pool. The ice sublimates into a large cloud of mist with the larger chunks creating an effect Kulakov compares to a volcano.

The Rollercoaster Restaurant at the Alton Towers Theme Park in Staffordshire, England opened on May 13, 2016 and has garnered a great deal of attention for its unique food delivery service. The dining process begins when the customer orders their meal on a tablet. The meal is then prepared, put in sealed metal containers and sent directly to the table via a looping overhead 400m track. Reservations can be made online.

The new Rollercoaster Restaurant is set below a vast rollercoaster track where diners can watch as their order tackles two gravity defying loop-the-loops before dropping 8 metres down the tornado spiral to their table. Each diner will enjoy a full 360 dining experience at one of the 13 tables and will get to select from the brand new menu of family favourites…The Rollercoaster Restaurant in Alton Towers is the first Rollercoaster Restaurant in the UK. It has about 163 seats and located in England’s largest theme park.

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Primitive Technology demonstrated how to create a small fenced-in sweet potato and yam garden using only simple techniques. The patch is protected by a wattle enclosure that keeps wallabies and other animals from entering and eating the plants, and the soil itself is fertilized with wood ash and fallen leaves.

The garden was put in behind the daub and wattle hut created in an earlier Primitive Technology video. Other videos in the series demonstrate how to make things like charcoal, a bow and arrows, and a cord drill using similarly primitive techniques.

Andrew Stadelberger attended a wedding that featured a slow motion photo booth for guests to record fun videos, but Stadelberger seized the moment to stare blankly into the lens while he was surrounded by carefree partygoers to create his video “This Is 30.” For added effect, the video is set to the Simon and Garfunkel song “The Sound of Silence.”

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Vancouver, B.C. resident Benjamin Danforth and his companion found a tiny Rufous hummingbird on the sidewalk. The little bird was unable to fly, so they brought her inside their home and fed her a bit of yummy sugar water, which she really enjoyed before they brought her to an animal care center.

We found this little female hummingbird on the sidewalk in our neighbourhood in Vancouver, Canada. …Just a few teaspoons of sugar into warm water. It was put into a bottle which held eyedrops. As you can see in the video, the hummingbird was perfectly suited to feed out of the bottle.

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A beautiful black cat artfully slithered and shimmied on her back as she descended a set of cool marble stairs. She had almost made it to the bottom landing, when an errant bouncing ball caught her attention and turned her right side up.

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Exurb1a created a quick animated summary of everything in the entire universe in one four-minute video. The animation covers everything from Planck length to the whole universe itself, and beyond.