Author: Brent Lambert

What drives us to create? Is there necessarily always a motivation, or can it be an involuntary process? For instance, what was the goal of the artists who painted the very first cave paintings tens of thousands of years ago? There was no audience, no critic, no flow of gallery visitors, and certainly no “like” button for anyone to click. The act of creating art is inherently human and it’s something that has been with us since the dawn of time. But around a hundred years ago or more — roughly the same time as the emergence of Hollywood — society moved…

When it was built in the mid 1800s nobody could have possibly imagined that this Victorian-era storm drain in Sheffield, England would have become a recreational sport destination. Watch below as a Reuters crew goes inside the drain known as The Megatron, to see why it’s such a dream for local wakeboarders. The Daily Mail also shares some terrific photos of The Megatron, taken by the team at WildBoyz, and you can see them all HERE. According to the Sheffield-based blog, Shine A Light On, the location of The Megatron is located deep underground where “Park Hill, the train station, and Ponds Forge” meet.…

According to Forbes the National Research Federation estimates that 55% of Americans will celebrate ‎Valentines Day in 2016‬, spending a total of $19.7 billion on the big day. The average man will spend $133.61 on gifts compared to the average woman who will spend $62.14 (by comparison Americans spent $15 billion on the day of the ‪Super Bowl)‬. The bulk of that $19.7 billion in Valentine’s Day cash will be spent on chocolate, flowers, and jewelry (in that order).

Earlier this week the findings of a scientific research study about the benefits of music went viral. It references a study from Deakin University in Australia which found that, of the 1000 people studied, those who attended live concerts had much higher levels of SWB (i.e. subjective wellbeing). What’s more, the researchers learned that it wasn’t just the music that led to the higher levels of SWB — it was the interpersonal sharing of the experience with others that boosted the levels.

Many times each week, deep inside an iconic medieval clocktower in the heart of Bern, Switzerland, a man by the name of Markus Marti watches over the clock that inspired Albert Einstein’s first thought experiment. It was an experiment that would set Einstein on a path towards the discovery of his General Theory of Relativity that changed human history forever.

Santorini is one of the most beautiful places in the world, and it’s also one of the most photographed. Thanks to the Internet, we’ve seen Santorini captured in more photos and video than perhaps any of the other Greek islands, so the most difficult challenge for any filmmaker documenting the crown jewel of Greece is to try and show the viewer something they’ve never seen before. It’s a tall order, but two filmmakers have done just that.

The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California is perhaps the single strangest and most peculiar story in the history of American residential architecture. Built by Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester, the massive estate was born out of tragedy. Devastated by the sudden deaths of her daughter in 1866 and her husband 15 years later in 1881, Sarah began construction on the house at the do-or-die advice of a medium. The medium warned Sarah that her husband’s gun empire was responsible for the deaths of so many thousands of people and those souls were now…