Craft

Marble Tsunami / Jelle Bakker

This Marble Run Marble Tsunami has four tipping containers holding totally more than 11,000 marbles. In this video you’ll see the 10,000 marbles and the 1,000 marbles container will tipping together causing more than 11,000 marbles rolling down the giant tracks. The sound is deafening, because of the noise, it will be equipped with noise damping housing and glass panels on the front — via Youtube

Wildlife

Backyard Bobcats / NotSure2505

You’d be tempted to pet the kittens by the pool, but look carefully, because mama is always watching. It’s true that bobcats are relatively small wildcats, and would normally avoid humans rather than engaging in violence, but a mother guarding her cubs will do anything to protect them. Redditor NotSure2505 posted this photo at a fenced-in yard in Scottsdale, Arizona. Don’t see the mother? You can enlarge the photo at imgur. He also posted some earlier photos of a bobcat on his fence and a coyote at his child’s school — via Neatorama

Design

New York and Paris wallpaper / Domestic

Fancy a change of scenery? You can do just that by hanging some of this New York and Paris wallpaper by Domestic.

Both represent the typical façades of a New York or Paris building. It is as simple as that. But it’s certainly effective. Especially the new York in that bold orange colourway. If that’s a but much, Paris offers something a little more subdued.

Each roll of paper is 250cm in height and around 93cm wide, selling for £82 per roll. That price probably means a feature wall or corner of a room rather than full coverage.

Both are available from Love The Sign — via Retro To Go

Entertainment

Black Angel (1980) / Roger Christian

Accompanied by an exclusive introduction from the director Roger Christian, the incredible fantasy short returns. Black Angel was first released in certain cinemas ahead of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. Lost for 35 years, it has been found and restored to its former glory — via Youtube

Wildlife

Ocelot / Dallas Zoo

A blue-eyed Ocelot kitten born a the Dallas Zoo won’t stay that way for long.  As the kitten matures, its eyes will naturally turn brown. But that won’t make it any less adorable — via ZooBorns

Entertainment, Technology

How Eddie Van Halen Hacks a Guitar

My playing style really grew from the fact that I couldn’t afford a distortion pedal. I had to try to squeeze those sounds out of my guitar. The first real work I did was in my bedroom. I added pickups, because I didn’t like the sound of the originals. I couldn’t afford a router — I didn’t even know what a router was — so I started hammering away with a screwdriver. That didn’t work at all. Chunks of wood flew off and there was sawdust flying all over the place. But I was on a mission. I knew what I wanted and I just kept at it until I finally got there — via Popular Mechanics

Entertainment

ROTOR / DPPLR

ROTOR from DPPLR on Vimeo

A lone night security guard in an eerie factory sees an intruder on one of the monitors and goes to investigate.

Starring: Raymond Thiry
Directed by: Maarten Groen
Written by: Nils Vleugels

ROTOR was produced by DPPLR in Amsterdam

Design, Entertainment

Royal Victorian Manor / Groundhog Day

Don’t tell me you don’t remember it. Because it sure as heckfire remembers you. The B and B? From Groundhog Day? Bing. The house that weatherman Phil Connors keeps waking up in without hot water, to his consternation? Bing again. The house is on the market. Yes, you too can sleep in the master suite and set your clock radio to déjà vu for the price of $785,000.

The house, located in the northwest Chicago suburb of Woodstock, is a 540.23m² Victorian with seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms. Currently, the property is an actual bed and breakfast called the Royal Victorian Manor — via Neatorama