This amazing rendition of Stars and Stripes Forever [wiki] by John Philip Sousa played entirely by trombones is done by Bones Apart, a group of four young professional female trombonists (Carol Jarvis, Becky Smith, Rebecca Harper, and Camilla Tveit).

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – a very cool find by Miss Cellania. Happy Fourth of July, everyone!

Digital Photography School has a neat little primer on how to take good photos of fireworks:

Aperture – A common question around photographing fireworks is what aperture to use. Many people think you need a fast lens to get them but in reality it’s quite the opposite as the light that the fireworks emit is quite bright. I find that apertures in the mid to small range tend to work reasonably well and would usually shoot somewhere between f/8 to f/16.

Link – via Make

Pile up 45,000 Bottle Rocket fireworks and light one, then run as fast as you can … So, what do 45,000 bottle rockets look like? Why, just hit play or go to Link [YouTube] via Fazed

Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars spent the last six years working on a magnetic floating bed. He has a scale model now, but the real thing will probably cost about $1.2 million Euros.

Link – via OhGizmo

Hamid took some amazing photographs of the Tsaschin or Dukha, or simply the Reindeer People of Mongolia: Link, Homelands Article via Fogonazos

Bill Clements is a Michigan bass player who lost his right hand and forearm in an industrial accident in 1989. This would have been a career-ending accident, but not for Bill, who started played again 3 months later.

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube], Bill Clement’s Website – via J-Walk

Wooster Collective has this neat little bottle crate tetris display made by Sam, Jerome, Ed, and Gab.

Link – via Cynical-C

Many years after Hollywood’s Herbie the Love Bug inspired a whole generation of viewers (and drivers), Volkswagen finally managed to make a car that can drive itself:

The remarkable car is the VW Golf GTi ‘53 plus 1′ codenamed after the number ‘53′ which Herbie carried when racing in his big screen adventures.

The GTi has electronic ‘eyes’ that use radar and laser sensors in the grille to ‘read’ the road and send the details back to its computer brain. A sat-nav system tracks its exact position with pin-point precision to within an inch.

laid out course on a test track.

On a race circuit, it drove itself faster and more precisely than the VW engineers could manage – and can accelerate independently up to its top speed of 150mph.

Link – Thanks David R!

Why, it’s the perfect thinking man’s companion in the toilet: the sudoku toilet paper. When you’re done with it, you know what to use it for …

Link – via Betuman

This official video of the pop hit Crazy by Gnarls Barkley is a Rorschach Inkblot Test [wiki] on steroids!

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube], Gnarl’s website – via Random Good Stuff