Awesome Videos

Bored at your desk? Got a hole punch, a notepad, and plenty of patience? Like artist Scott Blake, you too could create your own flipbook animation using these common office supplies. Too lazy for that? Just buy one that’s already made up.

Another Marvel flick, another Stan Lee cameo. In this Kevin Smith directed promo for Audi, the master of the Marvel universe teaches us how to nail these sort of roles with aplomb. Naturally, the clip itself has some great cameos.

Back in 2007, while ESPN2 was covering an NMSU football game it sent reporter Rob Stone to the university’s chili farm. For some reason he took a big bite of a bhut jolokia, right after he’s told that it’s the world’s hottest pepper.

We’ve seen lyrebirds imitate the sound of mechanical objects and a toy laser gun. New Scientist shares this clip of a lyrebird in a South Australian zoo mimicking the sounds of hammers, saws, vehicles and even human voices.

A sleepy boulder just wants to chill, but the rise of mankind takes him on a transformative adventure. CalArts student Seth Boyden’s graduation short film is a hilarious retelling of the emergence of Western civilization.

(PG-13: Language) Jacob T. Swinney shows some of the twisted, convoluted characters that writer and director David O. Russell loves to create, like the damaged dancers in Silver Linings Playbook and the con men in American Hustle.

If you loved the twitchy remote-controlled helicopter, check out this equally amazing video by YouTuber quadmovr and his custom-built quadcopter. The tiny rotors make it sound like the toy itself is having fun. Woooo!

Earlier this year, “Weird Al” Yankovic won a Grammy Award for best comedy album. Here, he unboxes his shiny prize, which showed up several months later on his doorstep. We’ll be keeping an eye on eBay for when Al starts selling duplicates.

Animator Leigh Lahav teamed up with How It Should Have Ended to explore the various stages of anticipation, excitement, disappointment, and fanaticism we go through each time we watch a new Marvel movie – and its post-credits scene.

Indie musicians Pomplamoose turn in a modern and ethereal version of Madonna’s classic Like a Prayer, accompanied by a sci-fi music video, in which an autonomous drone takes center stage. Also, is that a cloud or a spaceship at 0:00?

Netflix had House of Cards’ Kevin Spacey and Daredevil’s Charlie Cox interview each other about their respective shows. Watch the actors’ lighthearted banter and see if Charlie can catch a cue card before their chat ends.

Nitro Circus and Red Bull rider Josh Sheehan made history by pulling off the world’s first triple backflip on a motorcycle. The air he got was insane, but his measured landing is even more impressive (and important).

While we always thought they were called Scottish Folds because of their folded ears, after watching this video, we’re convinced that it’s because these cats can fold themselves up into improbably small spaces.

“…listen, I’ve got powers too and they’re pretty sweet.” Hawkeye doesn’t have a suit of armor or any super powers, but Jeremy Renner wants you to know that he’s got other abilities too. Plus he’s got an amazing series of comic books.

Inspired by the way that single cells assemble into complex organisms, researchers at Harvard University built an army of 1,024 Kilobots – tiny robots that work autonomously to form complex shapes by cooperating with one another.

You’d think that a fox wouldn’t care if the bits of bread and sausage he found on the ground were organized in any way, but this sly guy spotted in Chernobyl stacked his meat and bread into a 5-decker sammie before he carried it off.

Greg Gage is the co-founder of Backyard Brains, which sells beginner kits designed to spark interest in neuroscience. In this TED talk, Greg uses a couple of Backyard Brains’ devices to allow one person to control another person’s arm.

The slick and smooth cardistry of Fontaine Card’s founder Zach Mueller is especially impressive when played at 60 frames per second. He makes it look easy, but watch his tutorials to learn just how tricky these card flourishes really are.

PixelsPerSecond pokes fun at the problems just about anyone who’s ever tried to do a video conference have encountered, only this time, it’s the fate of the world that depends on a decent broadband connection.

DARPA’s EXACTO (Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance) 50-caliber sniper rounds are so smart that they can compensate for weather, wind, target movement, and even bad aim to ensure a hit no matter what. Scary, but amazing stuff.

“Say, what a lot of huv–whutuv–fish therare.” Redditor zero020 reads Dr. Seuss’ One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish while using to a speech jammer. The device slightly delays what you hear, which messes up your ability to talk.

(Gore) Wes Anderson is no Quentin Tarantino, but his films can get pretty brutal too, as shown here in Dávid Velenczei’s supercut. Willem Dafoe was such a badass in The Grand Budapest Hotel.

After Baltimore police issued a press release claiming that the city’s gangs are bonding together to harm cops in light of Freddy Grey’s death, representatives of said gangs spoke to WBAL News to clear up their names.