Sixteen years ago, a man stood alone on a grassy hill during a music festival in Washington state, USA, and began dancing by himself. People looked, then looked away. Some laughed. His roommate walked over and told him he was being filmed. He didn’t stop. Then, a stranger stood up and joined him. Then another. Soon, the hillside began to shift. Within minutes, hundreds of people were running across the field to take part in something that, just thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field. Someone filming from higher up the hill whispered: “Look what one man can do. One man can change the world.” The video went viral in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers later showed it in a TED talk to explain how movements really begin—not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join. Collin Wynter, the man who danced alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was simply tired of seeing everyone sitting around doing nothing.

At just four years old, this young prodigy took first place at an international competition, performing Für Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Chuck Norris fighting in the ring against an undefeated kickboxing champion

Absolutely outrageous from Gout Gout. 10.04 at the age of 16. Speechless.

Immigrantes Highway — one of the most beautiful in Brazil, during the manacá flower season.

Skateboarder performs a lengthy trick called a “manual”

A LEGO Star Wars diorama from The Clone Wars Season 2 — built at a cost of $200K and, reportedly, two marriages… but easily one of the coolest builds you’ll ever see 😳

How Did Rome Flood The Colosseum For Naval Battles 😮

One of the most spectacular light show of SpaceX Falcon 9 ever. [🎞️ EmericTimelapse]

Sleeping Beauty cost $6 million to produce, making it the most expensive film ever made by Walt Disney Productions at the time—surpassing both Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Heavily inspired by medieval art, the film took nearly a decade to complete and became Disney’s last animated feature to be entirely hand-inked before the studio transitioned to xerography.

That is Vatnajökull Glacier, in southeastern Iceland—the largest ice cap in Europe. The view is from Iceland’s Ring Road (Route 1), stretching across the black sand plains of Skeiðarársandur… The art of nature.

Gorgeous weeping plum trees fully covered in pink blossoms in Japan. [📹hobopeeba]

Inventor Colin Furze built a skateboard with magnetic suspension, where the top deck floats above the lower board.

A weather balloon captured a passing airplane traveling at 800 km.

Clouds perfectly hovering over islands.

Rain in Osaka, Japan. [📹 cram_box]

Set against the ruins of Sagalassos, Turkey, the Antonine Fountain stands as a testament to Roman artistry: water flew through it for 2000 years. [📹gezsenburdur]

This layered glass painting technique is absolutely mind-blowing.

In 2011, NTT Docomo released one of the most memorable commercials ever made. Set in Kyushu, the ad features a giant outdoor xylophone built along a forest staircase, where a wooden ball rolls down the keys, beautifully playing Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Eruption at the summit of Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines today. It generated a 5 km ash column.