Awesome Videos

We love the colorful paint and marker illustration style in animator Nata Metlukh’s graduation short, a film that shows that while we shouldn’t let our fears rule us, they can sometimes keep us out of harm’s way too.

The Sinker of Threes, the Atlanta Wargs, the King of Chemistry and more vie for the Larry O’Brien throne in the third installment of Bleacher Report and Mutsack’s Game of Thrones and NBA mashup. Valar Moreflopping.

While backstage at The Tonight Show, recently reunited UK mega-band Blur turned in a heartfelt performance of Tender, accompanied by Jimmy Fallon and way more people than should comfortably fit in the Green Room.

Last Week Tonight looks at standardized tests in the US. What should be an objective system often appears to be inaccurate, convoluted and unfair to both students and teachers. If they even make sense at all.

A pedestrian walking along a road in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil had the scare of a lifetime when an out of control truck headed straight for him, hurling hundreds of bottles of soda at him along the way. Incredibly, he escaped unharmed.

“Over the hill… and picking up speed.” That’s how 60-year-old UK expat and Bay Area resident Peter Barnes describes himself. Here he reinforces that statement, proving that age has nothing to do with a youthful spirit. More here.

(PG-13 Language) A guy and his dad were out in the yard when they had an idea. Take the leaf blower they were using and point it directly into the fiery belly of a chiminea. The result – a fire-belching mini volcano. Mom was not as amused.

The NBA aired two playoffs commercials starting a few days before the postseason began. All the teams in the first ad eventually advanced to the second round at the expense of all the teams in the second ad.

Celebrate Star Wars Day with some Imperial destruction! After spending 16 hours building a massive LEGO Star Destroyer, WIRED did the unthinkable – they smashed it and captured the recording at 1000fps for our enjoyment.

TheBackyardScientist poured a bucket of molten aluminum into a watermelon, expecting the fruit to either explode or fail catastrophically. Instead, the hot metal seeped into the melon’s guts and created a fascinating organic sculpture.

This a-hole siamese cat refuses to let his human servant use the mouse on his computer, batting his hand away every time he reaches for the pointing device. Clearly, this guy needs to start using a trackpad.

A man rides a biomorphic motorcycle in Dylan J. Nathan’s proof-of-concept for his futuristic computer animated short film Extr0py. Either the dude is really small or the bike’s proportions are all wrong. Still pretty cool though.

(PG-13: Language) An African American teenager is subjected to a stop-and-frisk on his way home. Reinaldo Marcus Green’s tense short film imbibes in us the fear and paranoia that takes root during and after the experience.

Red Letter Media’s movie trailer version of Groundhog Day is a cynical supercut that points out the elements of Hollywood action movie trailers. It starts out funny, but it snowballs into a sickening blob of formulaic spectacle.

(PG-13 Language) Day Job Orchestra’s nonsensical, obscenity-filled redub of Kanye, Star Trek and Little House on the Prairie is what Bad Lip Reading would be if it were written by a roomful of 10- to 12-year-old boys.

SNL pokes fun at Marvel’s seeming inability to deliver on a compelling female superhero on screen, as they completely miss the point of Black Widow, and cast her in a romantic comedy. It’s not like DC has done any better.

Filip Nordin’s video is at once simple and hilariously confusing. We have lots of questions, yet there is no need to elaborate. What does one do when the source of confusion is also the sight of enlightenment? Are we dancer?

Architect Jeffrey Pelletier talks to Houzz about his remodeled basement, where he stores about 250,000 LEGO pieces. The toys are organized by type or color on hundreds of bins and drawers mounted on custom made shelves.

YouTube Educator CGP Grey explains to us that the part of Nevada that we think is Las Vegas isn’t really Las Vegas at all. Rather, the entire Strip we know and love is an unincorporated area known as Paradise.

Snowboarder Dan Brisese found himself away from the powdery slopes, so he turned to the power of a winch to propel himself through a variety of unexpected environments. Who needs a half-pipe when you can have a whole-pipe?

“Buildings, roads, regular people. These are not superheroes, yet they are consistently shown throughout the film.” The Onion satirizes the overabundance of characters in Avengers: Age of Ultron by demanding the exact opposite.

“The man or beast I run from ain’t been born. And his momma’s already dead.” Carl Moore and his friend John Sargent swear to CBS Sacramento that the 73-year-old Moore decked a bear to protect his dog. Either that or he outboasted it.

Here’s how you warm up mankind to human augmentation. Salta Beer claims it replaced a lost tooth of three rugby players with a metal one that doubles as a bottle opener. We’d rather have it on our hands, but we guess this works too.