Awesome Videos

(Gore) “We’ve just gone through the birth of Larry King.” Conan O’Brien and gaming megastar PewDiePie fly owls into cliffs, listen to a mammoth’s dying words and tame a perverted badger in Far Cry Primal.

She might look like a darling little 11 year-old girl, but Lisa-X is a serious rocker. Watch as she gets the whole room going by shredding a speed metal rendition of Schubert’s Lullaby on her electric guitar in this commercial for JNB Visa Debit cards.

We’ve always been under the impression that astronauts had to pack light, but one silly piece of cargo found its way onto the International Space Station – a gorilla suit. Unless that’s a real gorilla, and he already ate astronaut Scott Kelly. Today’s official hashtag: #SpaceApe

(PG-13 Lyrics) Some guys in Russia woke up to find their streets flooded, and decided to make lemonade out of lemons by wakeboarding on the wet streets with a tow rope and a snowboard. The Die Antwoord soundtrack might turn off some, but it still looks like fun.

The trespassing climber James Kingston shares his recent ascent of Dubai’s Marina 101, which at 1,394ft is the world’s tallest residential building. We can’t decide who’s more insane: James, or the crane worker who gave James the permission to die on his watch.

Man at Arms: Reforged makes a real life version of the Ring Sword, the weapon of choice of League of Legends‘ assassin Master Yi. Baltimore Knife & Sword also hammer in bits of their knowledge into our brains in the process.

La Blogotheque presents this intimate performance by the prolific and versatile musician Chilly Gonzales with the Kaiser Quartett at the Versailles Municipal Library in France. Chilly worked with the German string quartet in his pop classical album Chambers.

“It was like visiting an old friend.” Renowned composer John Williams talks about creating the soundtrack of Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, briefly describing his approach to Rey’s and Kylo Ren’s themes, and more.

Mrs. Kuroki was devastated when diabetes took her eyesight. Her husband created a vast flower garden in their yard, hoping that she will enjoy its scent as well as the company of visitors that it would attract. Their house is now a popular tourist spot. Photo by Morimori.

A lighthearted take on the 1979 classic The Warriors replacing the original’s street thugs with Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Clyde, and Pac-Man himself. It’s a fun action-packed short from Fury Fingers, though we were hoping the Furies would turn up to play some R.B.I. Baseball.

Aside from being nearly impossible, SciShow explains that eradicating mosquitoes would be overkill, because most species of mosquitoes don’t bite or infect us. Thankfully, scientists have been looking at ways of destroying only those harmful species.

Ahoy looks back at 1982 to 1983, some of the darkest days of the video game industry, born from over-saturation of the market, low quality games, and competition for shelf space. Fortunately, things turned around by 1985, but the cycle could repeat itself.

(PG-13: Language) If you think the Snakes’ cardboard box trick would never work with humans, comedian gamer Charborg is here to prove you wrong. Watch him sneak behind and beside other players in Metal Gear Online.

Casually Explained talks about the basics of a personal computer, particularly its fundamental hardware components. While he’s not into high-end speakers, liquid cooling or fancy cases, his power supply game is on point.

(PG-13: Language) “Nah mate, have a look, is anything TIEING us together?” Aunty Donna pokes fun at the boredom that inevitably sets in at the workplace. We’re not sure why this had to take place in the ’90s, but it’s no less funny for that.

Jay Leno’s Garage gets up close and personel with SpeedKore’s insanely powerful 1650hp showcar, one of the most understated and comfortable hot rods you’ll ever see. Test drive at 17:39.

Malinda Kathleen Reese decided to take the lyrics of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, then poured them through Google Translate several times, and sang the nonsensical new words. We’re guessing this is how Bad Lip Reading makes up their scripts.

With the Oscars upon us, Burger Fiction put together this awesome reel of eye candy which compiles every movie that ever received a nod for best visual effects, from the primitive methods of the 1920s and 30s to the high tech CGI of today, and everything in between.

Watch musician Rob Scallon shred some tunes on an ordinary garden shovel that’s been converted into a one-string guitar. Given its rudimentary design, it plays surprisingly well. Keep an eye out on How to Make Stuff on 3/3/16 for DIY instructions.

Did you know that hockey was not invented in Canada? Or that the black belt is not always the highest rank in martial arts? All that in more in Mental Floss’ final Misconceptions episode. Boooo!

The accordion may not have the range of an Electone, but accordion virtuoso Alexandr Hrustevich shows us that it’s enough to stand in for a string section in this 2013 performance of Vivaldi’s Summer and Borodin’s Petite Suite.

“HOW’D HE DO THAT?!” MaxPreps shares this video of high school basketball player Melvin Lee, who is supposedly only 5’5″ tall. Melvin literally shut a game down, at least for a moment, when he leapt practically his height to posterize two defenders.

Hampton Rutland made this lighthearted time-lapse video about how he built the walls of his new workshop using reclaimed wood. The build starts at 2:10, then something even better starts to happen at 3:30.