Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

One of the best stop-motion videos I’ve seen in a looooong time:

-via Ideas Are Awesome

A simple stop-motion video for your Tuesday afternoon…

-via Curiosity Counts

Why didn’t anyone tell me about Australia’s ‘World’s Biggest Most Awesome Waste of Time Competition‘? I guess the organizers felt I was just too important and that my time is incredibly valuable – (maybe next year!)

Check out one of the best stop-motion entries:

-via Dooby Brain

This self-organizing bookcase is amazing, but it sort of takes all the wacky fun out of being neurotic!

-via Urlesque

You should know by now that I’ll love any fruit & veggie reenactment of classic literature when the main character is portrayed by a potato!

-via @brainpicker

These guys must have sold their souls to the Viral Video Devil, because they just keep creating internet hit after internet hit.  Here’s OK Go’s latest masterpiece, “Last Leaf” -

I don’t know about you, but I’m craving some Toast Art right about now.

Mmmm…Toasty…

Being a PA on a music video shoot might seem like fun, but imagine the poor kid who found out his job was creating each individual frame of this Lite-Brite stop-motion masterpiece.

‘Um, I’m cool with just doing coffee runs. Seriously.’

-via Dooby Brain

***Click here for some stunning Lite-Brite World Record designs featured on TITAKC***

Meet Dot, probably the tiniest heroine you’ve ever seen.  This stop-motion video was shot using Cellscope, a high-quality microscope that attaches to a cellphone camera.  The amount of patience and meticulousness that was needed to create this is truly mindblowing.

And just to drive home how impressive this is, here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the production:

-via Metafilter

This action packed stop-motion video is made up of dozens of images of skateboarders cut out of various magazines.  This ain’t your mother’s scrapbooking:

-via Neatorama

If the phrase “Finish Him” means anything to you, you’ll love this paper stop-motion video of ‘Mortal Kombat’ brutal fatality moves.  I almost forgot what a tease Sonya was…she blows you a sweet looking kiss which ends up setting you on fire and burning you to a deadly crisp.  As if my fellow geeky gamers didn’t have a tough enough time with the ladies.

-via Geekologie