Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

A simple stop-motion video for your Tuesday afternoon…

-via Curiosity Counts

What happens when you put a megaphone on a podium in the middle of New York City and give people the simple direction to “say something nice” into it?  Before you say, “Ugh…so cheesy”, press Play and feel the cynicism slowly creep away…

-via Mashable

Ah…summer in Chicago – the annual tradition of repressing and temporarily forgetting the nightmarish pain and harsh brutality of the winter (ok, maybe that’s a little overdramatic, but seriously, it’s freaking COLD!). My hometown never looked so good:

-via @TechZader

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These NYC travel videos from the 60′s are amazing – even though the vibes of each video are different, they’re both still 100% true. That’s the beauty of New York – it can be a thousand different things to a thousand different people, but in the end, still one unified place.

In 1962, NYC is non-stop & forward-thinking:

-via @EverythingNYC

In 1967, NYC’s Lower East Side is gritty & mind-expanding:

-via Buzzfeed

Mayor Arturas Zoukas doesn’t like when cars park in the bike lanes of his town of Vilnius, Lithuania. Don’t believe him? Watch him demonstrate what he wishes he could do to all these offending vehicles. And most importantly, he does it all with a smile…now that’s a leader.

-via Dooby Brain

Japanese pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s debut “Pon Pon Pon” is one of the strangest videos I’ve ever seen. I think I love it.

-via Buzzfeed

Luckily there’s no one around me right now, because I was just smiling ear to ear like a moron while watching this first-person video of the world’s steepest rollercoaster, the ‘Takabisha’ in Japan. And I might have let out a scream too.

-via Buzzfeed

Not only is this display on the side of a theater visually wacky, you’ll see towards the end of the video how it’s actually controlled by the sounds generated by audience participation. Nice.

-via Boing Boing

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To get in the spirit of the recent Summer Solstice, the people of Poznan in Poland decided to break their country’s record and release 8000 paper lanterns into the air. This is what it looked like:

-via Metafilter

My friends Amy & Marcy are in Reykjavik, Iceland, and sent TITAKC these beautiful photos of stunningly bright street art:

-Thanks @amystarrina & @mad7576!