RC Car aficionado Masami Hirosaka does more with this little car in one minute than I’ll hope to do with a real one in my entire lifetime. Notice he doesn’t use the wall as leverage, either. [YouTube via Japan Probe]
Digital Photography School has a tutorial on how to photograph fire. Basically, spot focus on the flame and overexpose a few stops to compensate for the fire’s brightness. [DigitalPhotographySchool via Lifehacker]
It looks like writing “John Mayer here” really works to get Apple’s attention when you report a problem. According to Steve Jobs’ fab guitarist, they got back to him directly only four days after he sent the bug report ramblings:
newVideoPlayer("glowing_mtndew.flv", 475, 376);You may recall that glowing Mountain Dew trick we showed you last month, and the debunking that Snopes gave the trick not long after that. Now here’s a likable guy who gives us an amusing demo of what a fake that glowing Mountain Dew was, showing us how it just doesn’t work. In fact, you don’t even need the Mountain Dew at all to make a foamy liquid glow like a lightning bug. He even takes it a step further with an additional ingredient of his own in this entertaining demonstration. [VidZest]
newVideoPlayer("dew_glow_gawker.flv", 475, 376); We had our doubts about that Mountain Dew that glowed like a lightning bug when the guy in the video you see here added a bit of baking soda and peroxide. Sho’ ’nuff, it turns out to be a hoax. The intrepid mythbusters at Snopes.com (in addition to many of our Giz readers) tried the trick and applied a bit of keen scientific expertise to the problem, and discovered it to be false. Sorry to get your hopes up. As for this video, well, the guy must be palming some glow stick goo and slipping it into the bottle, or it could be a simple edit or off-camera substitution. Anyway, it was fun while it lasted. [Snopes]
newVideoPlayer("juansanchezplane_gawker.flv", 475, 376); This video shows crazy RC airplane pilot Juan Sánchez doing some of the most amazing stunts we have ever seen. Watch as he suspends his gigantic aircraft model in the air, making it float vertically over the runway as he walks around it. He was showing his amazing skills at the latest Air Festival for Big Models and Jets, celebrated last week in Xativa, Spain. [CAX77 - Thanks Joel]
newVideoPlayer("dicestacking3_gawker.flv", 475, 376); When we posted an unexpectedly well-received video of dice stacking yesterday, little did we realise that this peculiar activity has been developed into an artform by some amazing magicians. Here’s a new dice stacking video from Thomas Fischbach, the same guy we saw in the video update yesterday. For those of you who thought this was all a camera trick, Fischbach shows us his moves in ultra-slow motion. That’s some awfully quick sleight-of-hand right there. [Thomas Fischbach on YouTube]
newVideoPlayer("dice_trick_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Who knew this kind of dice stacking was even possible? Damn, this guy is good. Are those trick dice? [Break] UPDATE: Impressed by that video? Think it’s a camera trick? On the next page, see another dice stacking video that’s even more amazing. They can’t all be camera tricks!
newVideoPlayer("flying_water_car_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Let us give thanks for firefighters and their mighty equipment. As well as putting out fires, rescuing people from burning buildings and being strong, brave and exemplary individuals, they can do special tricks with their hoses &mdash like this one: lifting a car using the extreme water pressure from eight (I think) of their hoses. Again, please. [Live Leak]
