Category: Mental Health Break

Very sad news: those kittens have subsequently passed away. In memoriam. We didn't mean to be such assholes.

Buzzfeed's Mr. BabyMan puts it best:

Remember that video of the 'fainting goat' kittens last week? I didn't think it was possible to top it, but someone just made it 'go to 11'.

They're not being laser-tasered, fyi. They have myotonia congenita. The rest is editing. Maybe we're total assholes for posting this. But the kittens were not hurt in any way. And it sure takes your mind off politics.

Update here.

Take a number, fellas:

That stunning visual poem by Radiolab gets remixed using snippets of YouTube:

(Hat tip: Devour)

You're never too old to jump in puddles and/or sandpits:

More Super Slow Motion [Water] – 550D from Rickard bengtsson on Vimeo.

A flurry of Millennial nostalgia through 749 NES games:

Mario-centric mashup here. Nintendo recently celebrated its 25th anniversary:

In 1985, home video games were considered a dead market.

Atari, Coleco, and other companies flooded U.S. toy stores with too many bad games in the early '80s, and after their flops, nobody wanted to stock the things. To get Nintendo games into stores for that 1985 launch, the Japanese company pared down: they focused solely on New York City, and when department stores proved skittish, Nintendo's execs had to promise to buy back all unsold units.

Of course, its nefarious history makes the 25th anniversary that much sweeter; the NES's raging success made "play Nintendo" the de facto verb for the pastime, and Nintendo spent the following 25 years mining its Super Marios, Zeldas, and other '80s franchises to great effect. But if you really want to celebrate the earliest NES days, this history-lesson video tells the story better than any other on the Internet.

Throwing little cream-pies at insects. Not exactly something one should do at home, or in an ashram, but photographically cool (if rigged?):

"Thriller" gets an incredible light show in the suburbs:

(Hat tip: TDW)

A cockatoo gets crunk. To see just how amazing this is, check the Willow Smith original (if you want to risk getting that bloody tune out of your head):

Landscapes: Volume One from dustin farrell on Vimeo.

A year's compilation of my time lapse work. All shot on the Canon 5D2 and processed in Adobe After Effects. The majority of the shots are in my beautiful home state of Arizona. Goblin Valley State Park and Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah also make an appearance.