Awesome Videos

YouTuber John Ruddock shows two projectionists changing the xenon arc lamp of The Tech Museum‘s IMAX projector. The 15,000W bulb costs about $6,000. It’s so bright if you lit it up on the Moon we’ll be able to see it from here.

For its project AH A MAY, Yamaha swapped designers from its motorcycle and its musical instruments divisions, and one of the results was Raijin, a crazy drum kit which completely envelops its player inside a sphere of drums.

Gametime414 remade part of BioShock‘s opening sequence using CryEngine 3. If you think this isn’t much of an improvement then nostalgia’s gotten the better of you. The game still looks fine though, considering it came out eight years ago.

Animator David Gruwier borrowed a little processing time on a render farm while interning for a VFX studio to produce this short, but impressive animation which breathes life into an otherwise inanimate object – a toy train set.

It’s not hard to teach a dog to fetch. It’s a whole different thing to get one to return a ping pong ball with a paddle. But that’s exactly the skill this talented border collie has picked up – though walking on the table is against the rules.

Kristoffer Örstadius’ dad recently found a GoPro. This is the last video on its memory card, a skydiving video taken about four years ago. At about 1:30 it gets knocked off of the man holding it, and things get trippy. Turn the volume down.

Back in the ’90s, the cult of Neutorology made a music video featuring members praising their beliefs. Here’s what these people have been doing since then. Saturday Night Live pokes fun at the Church of Scientology in this hilarious skit.

This video taken from one of the Endeavour’s F/A-18 escorts shows the shuttle flying over some of Los Angeles’ landmarks before touching down at LAX for its 2013 parade. You can visit her at the California Space Center.

Donning a special suit, and battling fierce winds, 54 year-old stuntman Eric Barone broke his 2000 downhill mountain bike speed record by riding his bike down a mountain in the French Alps, hitting an blistering top speed of 138.75mph.

Listen to the second coming of Bob Marley in this clip from the 2013 Holland edition of The Voice. We take that back – Mitchell Bruning’s voice is even smoother than Marley’s. Hear more of Mitchell’s incredible talent here.

Michael Keaton came back to Saturday Night Live after 33 years(!) for his performance in Birdman. But SNL obviously missed the point of that movie, because all they want him to be is The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight.

(PG-13: Language) “If we sacrifice our values because we’re afraid, [that means] we don’t care about those values very much.” Last Week Tonight talks to Edward Snowden and reminds us of the Patriot Act’s impending renewal.

“All right, who touched my slingshot?!” Joerg Sprave knocks it out of the park with his first spoof video. Watch him ape Valve’s Team Fortress 2 commercial Meet the Heavy with the help of a slingshot minigun.

Blizzard collaborated with none other than master blacksmith Tony Swatton to create a life-size replica of Gorehowl, the legendary two-handed axe from the WarCraft universe. For the Horde!

Sesame Street takes on another very adult TV series and makes it family friendly. This time, they mock Game of Thrones, with the denizens of Jesteros playing musical chairs to earn their place on the throne. That golf club throne looks familiar.

Any studio would be proud to have made just one of these hits. Yet CLS Videos reminds us that Pixar produced classic after classic in a ridiculous 15-year run. We hope we haven’t really seen the best of it yet. That last scene is a feels sniper.

Every Frame A Painting caps off its first year with a meta-video essay that talks about two important lessons from Orson Welles’ documentary F for Fake: how to explore a single idea, and how to switch between multiple ideas.

Spike spun off the popular The Tonight Show segment into a standalone TV series. In its latest episode, Jimmy Fallon looked to the heavens to beat Dwayne Johnson. But Dwayne just shook it off and did more than enough to stay alive.

In celebration of the Easter holiday, Nexus Productions and Download Festival put together this clip of some chicks rocking out and trashing the stage, as fuzzy little baby birds have been known to do.

For a recent episode, The Late Late Show stepped out of CBS’ studio – at 12:30am – and looked for a nearby house to shoot the show at. Fortunately they found Tommy’s house. You can skip to 3:30. We want that t-shirt, Goldblum!

National Geographic caught up with a giant Amazon river turtle in South America, and strapped a camera to its back. Let’s go for a ride with this majestic, endangered beast as it interacts with others of its species.

Animators Amanda Koh and Mollie Helms weren’t fishing for compliments when they made this amusing short film which illustrates the quirky nature of some of the sillier idioms of the English language by taking them all literally.

Physics and illusion tinkerer Brusspup compiled this assortment of tricks, hacks, experiments and generally fun things you can do with fire. Proceed with great caution if you decide to try any of these yourself.