Awesome Videos

The flapjack octopus is a small deep sea creature with webbed tentacles, a squishy body and big eyes. It’s the inspiration for Finding Nemo‘s Pearl. Dr. Stephanie Bush is considering giving them the scientific name Opisthoteuthis adorabilis.

An unusual cover version of Queen’s classic Bohemian Rhapsody played on a 110-year-old Marenghi fairground organ, a mechanical instrument which plays music with pipes, percussion, and music recorded on punch cards.

Animator Leigh Lahav once more pokes fun at the feelings many of us experience when going to the theater – this time the emotions we experience with a new Pixar flick. And yes please, never make another Cars sequel or spin-off.

In Richard Keane’s short animated film, a man finds out precisely why you want to pay heed to that “don’t feed the birds” sign at the park, when he gives a small crumb to a couple of cute and squeaky avians, and then things escalate quickly.

The music video for Gener8ion and M.I.A.’s song The New International Sound Part 2 is made of clips from Dragon Girls, a documentary about three kids who enrolled in Shaolin Tagou, “the biggest fighting school for kids in China.”

To promote his new Omaze fundraiser, Arnold Schwarzenegger dressed up as the Terminator to surprise bystanders and visitors in Hollywood. Donate at least $10 for a chance to attend the Terminator Genisys premiere with Arnold.

(PG-13 Language) Wanna hear someone piss in their wetsuit? YouTuber Paul Whittaker and his friends were so enamored of a nearby shark when they went cage diving, they didn’t realize they were being checked out too.

Border collies and frisbees go together like hot dogs and mustard. So it’s only natural that Ace would want every possible frisbee he could get his jaws on. Here, his owner tosses him 30 of the discs in under 30 seconds and he catches them all.

For its Robotica series, The New York Times interviewed owners of Aibo, a robotic pet introduced back in 1999. Sony is no longer fixing them, leaving owners attached to their robo-dogs facing the same mortality that faces real pets.

Vocalist Maiya Sykes and Postmodern Jukebox turn in a soulful and emotionally-charged performance of Green Day’s hit Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Trust us when we say you’ve never heard it sung like this, and it’s great.

Astronauts at the International Space Station recently acquired 4K cameras for capturing sights both inside and outside the ISS, which should help in research as well as in reaching out to the public. Download for local playback here.

After pointing out what Ultron should have done in Avengers: Age of Ultron, How It Should Have Ended demonstrates how the heroes could have made their lives easier, if time and licensing (and stupidity) were not issues.

Red Bull Air Race pilots Paul Bonhomme and Steve Jones pulled one of the most epic feats of flying skill ever, as the two flew their stunt planes side-by-side through a hangar just 24 feet high, their wheels just 3 feet from the ground.

Vimeographer FrinterGarden and his cohorts dug through Facebook to find people’s names that sound like the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s classic Subterranean Homesick Blues. Some of them are a stretch, but we still appreciate the effort.

Screen Junkies takes on Pixar’s CGI-animated classic, pointing out our hero’s flaws, gaping plot holes, and existential questions while reminding us how groundbreaking it was when it came out. Be sure to stick around for Will Sasso’s cameo.

While acrobat Jon Call (aka Jujumufu) didn’t do his split between two moving trucks like JCVD did, he did amp up the danger by holding a 100 pound barbell over his head while doing his.

A runaway wheel comes rolling through a parking lot with its mind set on a single mission – to hone in on a very specific car with an open door and close it for the driver. We’re suspicious of the veracity of the clip, but it’s still amusing.

In animator Svilen Dimitrov’s short film, we start out at the end of a man’s life, but we are transported through the events that led up to his demise, as his day plays out in reverse order. We wish we could play it backwards now.

Look around from the roof of a Nissan GT-R as it races around the Le Mans track, first on its own then against a GT-R Nismo in this 360º video. You can watch it on Chrome, but it’s way more fun on the official YouTube (iOS/Android) app.

Timestorm Films had just finished shooting at a volcano in Chile when Calbuco erupted. They quickly set up all of their cameras and captured 4K and 8K time-lapses of Calbuco’s ash and smoke spreading in the sky.

Jay Leno’s Garage checks out a souped up 1941 Willys Coupe. In-N-Out President and drag racer Lynsi Snyder inherited the car from her father. She’s done a 9-second quarter mile in the hot rod, thanks to its 1000hp Chevy big block engine.

(PG-13 Language) The Stunt Lads is a hilarious virtual reality show set in Grand Theft Auto V. It’s about three poor stuntmen risking their lives so they can become famous and risk their lives some more. First episode here. Theme song here.

We recently saw carsandwater’s failed attempt to destroy a hockey puck with his almighty red hot sphere. Now he’s brought out the big guns – engulfing the puck in thermite, which burns at 4000ºF. Will the mighty puck surrender?