Awesome Videos

(Flashing lights, PG-13: Language) A computer science student believes that a certain pattern of images induces visions of God, and it’s been the spark of all religions. He teams up with a film student to complete the pattern in Joseph White’s cheesy but entertaining short.

(PG-13: Language) Not to make light of people with serious mental health issues, CollegeHumor pokes fun at modern mankind’s tendency to rely on pills to fix even the most mundane of problems that virtually all of us face on a daily basis.

Two friends make a frivolous bet. Or not. The next time someone asks you to make a bet, tread carefully. You never know what’s going to – oh. Wait. What just happened? Okay you do what you want to do. Life will sort you out.

“I thought Morgan Freeman was God.” The Late Show and more of the masses found out about No Man’s Sky thanks to Hello Games’ Sean Murray. A show of confidence from the developer and an interest in diversity from the show.

Foodbeast presents two handfuls of simple tips and tricks to make your beer drinking more enjoyable, from opening bottles without an opener, to keeping them cool, and making sure your drunk buddies don’t get their cooties on your drink.

A film festival asked director and editor William Laboury to make an introductory video about himself. He made what he calls a “mashup self-portrait” – movie clips spliced together to speak on his behalf.

(PG-13: Language, Gore) YouTuber Benjamin Combes combed through three decades of Van Damme films to remind us that JCVD did more than splits. He also offed people, flexed his booty and worked with the world’s worst cinematographers.

For the first of his new Tidbits of Awesome series, Darren Dyk of Beyond Slow Motion slows down what normally happens in a blink of an eye, and puts us up close and personal with the magical substance that is flash paper.

PermaGrin Films’ tribute to childhood is one of the most complex stop-motion/time-lapse videos ever. It was filmed over the course of one-and-a-half years and in various locations. We’re not fans of the Pure Imagination remix they used, but we can’t argue with the result.

Tucked in a dusty garage in Gowanus, Brooklyn are 58 rare classic cars and hundreds of car parts owned by Lenny Shiller. Lenny finds it relaxing to take apart and maintain his collection, aware that he’s just taking care of them for their future owners.

Animator and illustrator iZeMo’s darkly comic, award-winning short film recalls the stories of a seemingly endless line of childhood pets, each of whom eventually met their end under mysterious circumstances.

(PG-13: Language) Four young boys think of ways to get back at their school’s lunch lady. This graduation film by a group of Gobelins students deserves to be put on repeat. It’s funny, intense and brimming with character.

Musician Lorenz Rhode turns in a spot-on cover version of the talkbox modulated vocals from Daft Punk’s 2001 classic Harder Better Faster Stronger. It would be cool to see him recording the other parts of the track too.

Motor Trend’s drag race tradition is back, this time pitting a whole new batch of supercars and sporty daily drivers against one another in an epic shootout for 1/4-mile supremacy. Our money’s on the Corvette Z06, but you’ll need to watch to find out the winner.

While performing a stunt, a seaplane was coming in for a touch-and-go landing on a lake, when it hit an unidentified object in the water, forcing the plane to spin out as it touched down. Fortunately, nobody was injured, but the plane required some repairs.

What could charm possibly do for you in a post-nuclear world? Turns out, a lot. In Fallout 4, having a high Charisma stat will make it easier for you to barter, befriend wild creatures, coerce others and more.

Tom Hanks had Wilson, Matt Damon has GoPros. The Martian‘s director Ridley Scott used GoPro cameras both as a plot device and to actually shoot footage for the film. Also pause the video at 0:40 and look at the shot’s top right corner. Illuminati confirmed.

Mental Floss fills us in on a bunch of trivia we never knew about our cash, from the earliest forms of currency, to the least valuable bills, to what money stays the cleanest, and where to find an ATM in Antarctica.

“It is totally the mixture of a cantaloupe and a fart.” The Fine Brothers React Channel subject kids to one of their most bizarre and unpleasant experiments yet, asking them to stomach the intense odor of a durian fruit, and then taste the supposedly delicious insides.

This animated short summarizes Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey using scenes from movies that fit the structure of the narrative template. Iskander Krayenbosch directed and animated this as his graudation project at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht.

Making fun of dance music’s overused build-up and drop structure is nothing new, but Louis Burgess put a postmodern spin to his joke. Sure enough, fellow YouTubers have expounded on his thesis statement.

The Late Show has a new segment where host Stephen Colbert and his guest talk about the mysteries of life on the fly. Watch Stephen and Tom Hanks talk about time machines, deepest fears and more. So we’re not the only one who thinks we might be particles inside a giant.

(PG-13: Language) CollegeHumor roasts the expensive restaurants that don’t bother to explain their convoluted menus, and the people who go there despite knowing what’s in store for them just so they can feel fancy for a night.