We all have our after-work hobbies –
gym, painting, music. Cristine Rotenberg's hobby was nail art, but calling it a
hobby is a bit of an understatement. What started out as a fun way to add some
color to her daily life soon became a full-blown obsession.
She was getting her master's degree in
sociology when she started uploading pictures of her nail...
Sometimes all you have to do to make
it in life is be true to yourself. That's the message of almost every Disney
movie ever, but it's also true of Jamie Jo Burn's life, which has been very
much a Disney story.
Jamie Jo's life wasn't always easy. Growing
up in Springfield, Missouri, she was a creative and talented kid, a gifted
figure skated...
Evan DeRushie, a stop-motion artist and movie director, created a short movie Birdlime in order to show how the exotic pet industry may look from the bird’s point of view. He was inspired to explore this topic after being introduced to the exotic pet industry on his trip to Thailand.
In Birdlime, we see an animated bird in a cage...
Paul Jackman, a talented woodworker behind the Youtube channel Jackman Works has just published a video showing how he makes skateboards using old wooden pallets. In the video, we see him taking apart several old pallets, slicing them into sheets, laminating them, and finally turning them into brand-new skateboards. The process itself is mesmerizing to watch and just so...
Ian Padgham has many descriptions to his name: he is an artist specializing in stop motion, special effect, 3D, editing, and animation.
At 17-years-old he bought the domain origiful.com. “I thought it sounded cool (like original + beautiful). I was wrong,” Padgham shares on his personal website. “But here we are two decades later and I'm still stuck being...
Studio 188 is a Russian group that’s behind these hilarious low-cost versions of famous movies. They upload their videos on YouTube and always get hundreds of thousands of views. The latest video they published tells us the story of Titanic all over again and we can safely say the is the first time you'll find the story hilarious.
The channel...
Grandpa Kitchen is a unique YouTube channel in many ways. It was launched in August 2017 and so far has gained over 5 million subscribers. The star of the channel is Grandpa, an elderly man from India whose name is unknown, who cooks massive amounts of food to feed the orphans of India.
Each video starts with Grandpa saying his...
There’s a YouTube channel called Drain Addict where you can find oddly satisfying videos of a plumber cleaning drains. The guy who runs it is from Australia and he never thought his channel would become so popular.
“This channel shows drain cleaning blocked sewer drains using a high-pressure water jet machine,” he says. “The high-pressure water hose that cleans the...
Bees are important part of our ecosystem but they are threatened and need more places to live. Christina Richter, who runs a number of McDonald’s chain in southern Sweden, decided to give these bees a place up on the restaurant roof. Each cup accommodates over 20,000 little creatures.
Today many McDonald’s
restaurants in Sweden have beehives on their rooftops. The...
Woodworker Nick Zammeti has used colored pencils in many of his projects. This time, he decided he should make a giant colored pencil as sort of an homage to the product he uses the most in his work.
“I’ve done quite a few pencil projects... bowls and vases and pots and bits and pieces,” says Nick. “Looking at these pencils...
