Videos

A video based on the only commencement speech made by the late David Foster Wallace. It’s a brilliant elocution on how we choose to take on the mundane and inconvenient moments in life. Get the audiobook here.

In the first go round, Pleated Jeans chose Target as the destination to rename things. Now they’ve swapped signage at Lowe’s with much more logical (and hilarious) names for things.

We’ve already seen how the craftsmen of John Neeman Tools make its axes. Here they show how they make their chisels, which are currently sold out due to high demand, despite their prices. The song is Re: Stacks by Bon Iver.

A short proflie on Michael Chernow, owner of The Meatball Shop restaurants. It’s also an ad for Mr. Porter, but at least it’s one that provides inspiration and proof of where determination and discipline can get you.

A stop-motion animation about the origin and the pivotal developments in the field of typography. Ben Barrett-Forrest does a great job of explaining the differences and the rationale behind different typefaces.

Mario and Fafa give us a multitude of reasons why time travel may not be such a good idea, but it looks like whether we’re coming or going, it’s pretty darn amusing. (Thanks John!)

Mental Floss’ The List Show returns with one of its most practical episodes yet. All websites should require people to watch this video before giving away commenting privileges.

What happens when Leonard Nimoy takes on newbie Zachary Quinto and his all-new Audi S7 in a playful challenge? Old school, new school, speed and smarts, that’s what. (Thanks Craig!)

The classic Russian theme song to Tetris gets a catchy ragtime redo by musician Scott Bradley. We can close our eyes and visualize countless bricks dropping into perfect lines already.

While we’re firm proponets of letting our brains wander aimlessly on the Internet, the guys at Epipheo and author Nicholas Carr say that today’s approach to consuming information may not be the best thing for our grey matter.

Motor Trend’s Epic Drive show takes a trip to a Caribbean museum of 1950s American cars – Cuba. Even if you’re not a gearhead, it’s still worth watching, because it meanders and looks at the culture of the island nation.

(Gore) From the darkest corner of YouTube and the mind of filmmaker Robert Morgan comes this short film about a cat who wants to be like us. Awww right? More like awww crap. The title is not metaphorical by the way.

YouTuber MrSolidSnake745 cranks out another Daft Punk classic on the most appropriate of musical instruments – a set of eight floppy drives. He also offers up One More Time, Something About Us and some Digital Love.

Darth Vader hunts down two unlucky Jedi in The Stunt People’s follow-up to their viral hit. If you want more, pledge to their Kickstarter to help fund a mini-series. Best watched in full screen and high-def with headphones on.

(NSFW: Language) What will you search for in this video? Is it meaning? Purpose? Or perhaps just a point? All we can say is that YouTuber videogamedunkey is not parodying what you think he’s parodying.

This video is the centerpiece of RIT student Michael Lacanilao’s attempt at starting an urban legend – that somewhere on the RIT campus, there is a space-bending stairwell that was made by a mysterious architect.

Red Bull scored the drive of a lifetime, closing off New Zealand’s hairpin-filled Crown Range highway so driver “Mad Mike” Whiddett could burn it up with his 750hp Mazda RX7 as a helicopter captured his hooning from above.

This Labrador Retriever is a lot smarter than this poor fellow. At least he knows what an actual human looks – or smells – like. But he is a dog after all. This is the limit of his understanding right here.

The Gregory Brothers jumped onto the story of Cleveland’s heroic Charles Ramsay quicker than you can say “big testicles,” with their songified version of his colorful post-rescue interview. So grab some ribs and sing along!