How Aphex Twin fans brought a rare ‘90s electronic album to the Internet
Richard D. James, better known as electronic artist Aphex Twin, released a string of influential albums in the ‘90s. However, one album from 1994, recorded under the name Caustic Window, went...
View ArticleOK Go's latest elaborate video is out, and it's bonkers
It’s been two years since treadmill-loving rockers OK Go last released one of their elaborate, one-take videos. And judging from the complexity of their newest effort, “The Writing’s on the Wall,”...
View ArticleCorridor Digital brings face-melting movie magic to YouTube
Like so many great stories, Corridor Digital’s starts with Star Wars. In 2000, junior high friends Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski set to work on a fan film shot in their Minnesota hometown. Today,...
View ArticleThis YouTube star makes $4 million a year from playing video games
In August, 2013, we reported that Felix Kjellberg, the Swedish video game YouTube user who goes by PewDiePie, ran the most subscribed-to channel on the service. He still holds that crown in June, 2014...
View ArticleBehind the scenes of OK Go's must-see new video
To pack four solid minutes of visual trickery into their new video, “The Writing’s on the Wall,” OK Go and their collaborators spent two months holed up in a Brooklyn warehouse, painstakingly building...
View ArticleThe scariest puppets on the Internet are crowdfunding a return to YouTube
The prize for most disturbing Kickstarter video surely goes to Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared. British filmmakers Becky and Joe racked up over 20 million YouTube views with their first two Don’t Hug Me I’m...
View Article'Game of Thrones' gets the 'Brady Bunch' mashup it's always needed
The Game of Thronesopening credits still captivate audiences after four years, but there still could be somethig missing. It’s no secret that Wil Wheaton is a fan. Last week he introduced the...
View ArticleYouTube will force indie labels to join new streaming deal—or be blocked
YouTube is set to start blocking videos from artists like Adele, Radiohead, and the Arctic Monkeys on its site after numerous independent labels refused to sign new licensing deals for an upcoming...
View ArticleWatch Kevin Hart lose his s**t on a roller coaster with Jimmy Fallon
Kevin Hart is confronting his fears, but that doesn’t mean he’s gonna like it. The actor absolutely hates roller coasters, so while he went on The Tonight Show in Orlando, Jimmy Fallon took him to...
View ArticleI can't stop watching this magic pool vine
I couldn’t know, when I started griping about how it would get up to 90ºF in New York today, that a bit of wizardry on Vine would be just the refreshment I needed. Call it a summer miracle. You ready...
View ArticleTaylor Swift fans are getting Instagram comments from their idol
After almost eight years of fans fawning over Taylor Swift, the singer is turning it around and giving her attention back to her fans—specifically, her 9.5 million Instagram followers. Between her...
View ArticleLizzy Caplan settles the 'debate' about female comedians once and for all
To call the question of whether women can be funny a “debate” implies that we’ve yet to arrive at an answer, when of course we have: Many of the planet’sfinestcomedians are female.But until Hollywood...
View ArticleGeorge R.R. Martin makes a cameo on 'Gay of Thrones'
This isn’t your average Game of Thrones recap.For the past couple of seasons, Funny or Die has made the corresponding Gay of Thrones, a recap show from the LGBT perspective focused around a hairstylist...
View ArticleChelsea Handler talk show coming to Netflix in 2016
Chelsea Handler is set to helm the first talk show on Netflix. But don’t get too excited: It’s not going to be streaming until early 2016. Earlier this month Handler revealed that she had a "proper...
View ArticleIn week 2, Mario Batali breathes life into 'High Road' Hulu webseries
After the first episode of Hulu’s new webseries The High Road With Mario Batali, we confess we had more than a few questions—not least of which was: Will this get better? Now, we might have an answer....
View ArticleDisney's 'Into the Woods' sucks all the fun out of the classic
It was always inevitable that a Disney adaptation of the beloved Sondheim musical Into the Woods would suffer from, well, Disneyfication. But if reports surfacing from a recent private talk Sondheim...
View ArticleMariana Abramovic's London performance shuns our connected world
I was caressed by a world-renowned artist last week.“Breathe,” she murmured as she stroked my shoulders, “relax and breathe out.” Her hands lingered on my back for a minute before drifting away,...
View Article'Hunger Games' propaganda posters tease plot of new movie
The Hunger Games’ viral marketing site is back in business, now with a beautiful photoshoot of Panem propaganda icons.Capitol Couture is a fashion magazine from the Hunger Games’ image-obsessed...
View ArticleGoPro captures the moment a record-breaking car jump goes horribly wrong
The GoPro camera, being engineered for extreme action, has brought us images from the furthest limits of human experience. But the genre’s latest eye-popping video captures more than just a crazy...
View Article'Saved by the Bell' is getting its own Lifetime movie
As the wave of '90s nostalgiacontinues to knock us down as we attempt to get back up again, another favorite is getting the spit-and-polish treatment: Saved by the Bell.Yesterday, it was announced the...
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