Awesome Videos

Life Noggin explains how despite our brains’ best efforts to only believe inputs from our sensory organs like eyes, ears, nose and skin, that things can go wrong causing us to see and hear things that weren’t actually there. Also, we can now use “fusiform gyrus” in a sentence.

To demonstrate the off-road and water fording capabilities of its Renegade Trailhawk compact SUV, Jeep UK sent Olympic snowboarder Aimee Fuller on a journey through an 820 foot-long white water rafting course. Now when can we see Aimee take it snowboarding?

Every Frame a Painting’s Tony Zhou talks about his own film editing process. Like other forms of art, editing has basic rules, but the process changes based on the material and the clues you want to leave to the audience.

Guitarist Luca Stricagnoli turns in an impeccable fingerstyle acoustic performance of AC/DC’s 1990 hit Thunderstruck. Be sure to check out his rendition of Dick Dale’s surf rock tune Misirlou, and his Guns N’ Roses ain’t too shabby either.

Nowness inspects artist Tauba Auerbach’s oversized pop-up book set [2,3]. It consists of six separate volumes, each with one large, complex and arresting pop-up that somehow still folds flat when its folio is closed.

(PG-13: Language) “I would say this is an Omega… but I don’t have an endorsement with them so they can suck it.” While shooting for GQ Style, Robert Downey Jr. shared his collection of expensive watches. It’s like asking Captain America to talk about smartphones.

A curious moose drops by a home in Alaska and decides he likes the sound of the wind chimes out on the back porch. At first we thought he might have just bumped into them, but he keeps going back for more.

(Gore) Taxi Driver is mostly told from the perspective of protagonist Travis Bickle. Fandor’s Jacob T. Swinney points out some of the ways that director Martin Scorsese showed the world through Travis’ eyes, whether literally or figuratively.

Motorsports hall of famer Derek Bell drives around the historic Targa Florio track in Sicily in the Porsche 718 RS 60 that won the endurance race in 1960. A promotional short film for the new Porsche 718 Boxster by Petrolicious.

YouTuber Andrew Parrish’s cat takes in a bit of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho, and proceeds to offer up a series of priceless, wide-eyed reactions to the scares on screen. Let the memes begin!

(PG-13: Language) Rooster Teeth parodies Apple’s ads to promote their new card game. It’s an Apples to Apples-style game based on their eponymous show. You combine cards to come up with a scenario that you would not do, even for a million bucks.

The Minnesota Twins lost in their latest outing against the Orioles, but a new hero rose from the ashes. A Twins ball boy deftly caught a foul ball that was about to hit a young fan’s head. Cue the “Twins should sign him” jokes. Half-jokes. Hail Marys.

Sure, you could go to the store and buy a skillet for about 10 bucks, but you won’t get the satisfaction that Tito4re got when he made his own from scratch, using a sand mold and some molten aluminum. Though he did need another skillet to make the mold too.

The horned helmet has been associated with Vikings for hundreds of years, but Vox reminds us that it’s historically inaccurate. Based on linguistics professor Roberta Frank’s research, the helmet was invented by a costume designer in 1876 for an opera.

The guys at Cut in Half aim their powerful OMAX waterjet cutter at a set of three pool balls, exposing the chewy centers of these heretofore impervious spherical playthings, and reminding us of the sheer power of highly concentrated water.

Paying tribute to two of our favorite franchises at once, designer Kurt Rauffer (aka KROFL) created this reimagined title sequence for The Empire Strikes Back, done in the style of classic James Bond opening credits. The music is Radiohead’s unused Spectre theme song.

Creature designer and performer Tom Woodruff Jr. has been acting in monster suits for around 25 years. He spoke with the Oscars about falling in love with monsters, his big breaks and his favorite creature to act out.

The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon says clipping. vocalist and Hamilton actor Daveed Diggs is Broadway’s fastest rapper, because of his 3-second 19-word burst in the hit musical. Daveed then rapped lines from clipping.’s Taking Off to show that he can go faster.

The NBA honors its first unanimous regular season MVP with this mind-boggling highlight reel put together by the great Hoopmixtape. If you took a howitzer and gave it Allen Iverson’s handles and Jason Williams’ passing, you’d get Steph Curry.

Awe-inspiring GoPro footage of the launch of UP Aerospace’s SL-10 rocket, as it shot up to an apogee of 396,000 feet, with speeds as high as Mach 5.5. The payoff for the dizzying ascent are some of the most spectacular near space images we’ve ever seen.

Screen Junkies pokes fun at Deadpool‘s cliché storyline and the irony of having mostly juvenile humor in an R-rated film – all with the help of the man, the myth, the Green Lantern, Ryan Reynolds himself.

Engineers from the MIT Tangible Media Lab have improved upon their earlier tactile display system, adding the ability to control the perceived amounts of flexibility, elasticity, and viscosity. The result is a display that can feel like a variety of materials, from rubber to water.

A clever ad spot for General Electric which envisions an improbable event in which the skies open up to drop countless cephalopods on our heads, suggesting that the company will be ready for whatever the world throws at us. Maybe a sharknado won’t be so bad after all.