Awesome Leisure

Vasily Patrakov, Alex Chigretskiy and 3RUN head to Israel for this POV parkour video. They start off doing Mirror’s Edge style roof-runs, but soon find themselves jumping and planting their feet all over the country. IN SANDALS.

(NSFW: Language) “All started on park benches with Dante, predicting the future, so observant I’m clairvoyant, the frame can’t contain it, I’m painting a rare portrait.” Talib Kweli looks back on his journey so far in his usual ill flow.

Midnight sees Coldplay doing their best Bon Iver impression. Come on Chris. Justin Vernon would never do those dance moves even if he was holed up in his cabin. Props on the indecipherable singing though!

(NSFW, Spoilers) The trailer for Grounded: Making The Last of Us, a feature-length documentary about how developer Naughty Dog made one of the few AAA games to live up to its hype. Watch it for free in 1080p on YouTube.

(NSFW) It seems like Ron Burgundy hasn’t heard of Blu-ray and DVD releases. Because for one week starting 2/28/14, an extended and R-rated version of Anchorman 2 will be shown in theaters, apparently with exactly 763 new jokes.

The trailer for Gareth Edwards reboot of the ultimate Kaiju movie has us more excited than ever, as the Earth must defend itself against the destructive monster, before, as Bryan Cranston says: “it sends us back to the stone age.”

The first Jedi spirit makes contact, Yoda is asked to go to Dagobah and Order-66 is whispered in The Lost Missions, the sixth and final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The series drops 3/7/14 on Netflix.

(NSFW: Language) A new HBO comedy series from Mike Judge (Office Space, Beavis & Butthead) about socially awkward computer geeks trying to make it in the world of high-tech startups. Premieres 4/6/14.

The Sledgehammer-esque music video for Talk is Cheap, by electronica artist Nicholas James Murphy aka Chet Faker, from his album Built on Glass. Toby & Pete made Chet live through four seasons in pseudo-time lapse stop-motion.

The music video for Eyes, a dark wave single from the upcoming EP of Kids Without Instruments. The LA-based duo fuses pop, folk, electronica, dubstep and addictive vocals. Also, they do have instruments. More here.

Want to have your soul cleaned? It’ll only take 20 minutes. Dave Hughes’ music video perfectly matches the euphoric vibe of Dan Deacon’s four-part song USA. Words cannot describe how awesome this is.

Condition One’s documentary about the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Along with its standard releases, Zero Point will also be the first movie to have an interactive 360º 3D version, which can be watched only on the Rift.

This collectable LEGO kit from a few years back sells for about $500 these days, but given the fact that it actually walks, and is big enough to hold a crew of minifigs, it’s well worth it. Though it probably wouldn’t do so well on Hoth.

(NSFW: Language) Sisyphus is the electronic hip-hop side project of Sufjan Stevens, Ryan Lott aka Son Lux and David Cohn aka Serengeti. Rhythm of Devotion and Calm it Down are from their upcoming self-titled album.

NPR is streaming Beck’s latest album Morning Phase. If you like Sea Change – or sad bastard music in general – then you’ll be happy to know that Morning Phase is equally melancholic. You can also stream the album on iTunes Radio.

Nitro Circus’ Aaron “Wheels” Fotheringham has pulled off some epic stunts over the years, but this 240fps slow-motion footage of him pulling an epic front-flip shot by Darren Dyk lets us see him in action like we’ve never seen him before.

Jonah Hill dresses up as a goth kid, gets an octopus to the face and says he won’t get hurt but does get hurt in the action-packed trailer for 22 Jump Street. Jefe, you need to work on your impressions Holmes!

Handmade from nuts, bolts, pieces of steel and other hardware, this chess set is perfect for carpenters, mechanics and anyone else who uses tools. Comes in a metal tool chest along with a roll-up vinyl playing surface.

While Razor’s Crazy Cart looked like a ton of fun, there was no way we were fitting our big asses in one of those things. Thankfully, its makers are working on an adult-sized version, and it looks just as awesome as the smaller original.

Pomplamoose used foamboard, a projector and a video editor to mix live video with prerecorded clips to make a meta-music video for their mashup of Pharrell Williams’ Happy and Daft Punk’s Get Lucky and Lose Yourself to Dance.

Larger prints of the illustrations in Josh Cooley’s pseudo-children’s book Movies R Fun! They’re signed by hand and come in 8.5″ x 11″ and limited edition 13″ x 19″ sizes. The red texts are just online watermarks and won’t be in the prints.

The latest game in the underrated third-person shooter series is now available. What it lacks in graphics and story, Earth Defense Force 2025 makes up for in humor and mindless fun, as evidenced by its silly launch trailer.

These incredible bottles of J&B whisky were hand-embellished by Paris tattoo artist Sébastien Mathieu of Le Sphinx. Each bottle took 20 hours to complete, and only 25 have been produced. No word on how one might get their hands on one.