Awesome Videos

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.

Atom the pug really likes the rawhide and chew toys at PetSmart, so he hops in his Honda Civic and drives his human companions to the mall to see what treats they will buy for him.

YouTuber Tucker Gott reminds us that we don’t need to wait for jetpacks to arrive, because we already have powered paragliders. Strapping a huge ass propeller and a motor on our backs might seem insane, until you remember Jetman.

The RED Spy heads an infiltration into BLU’s headquarters to steal the latter’s Intelligence (because his team clearly needs some). But he gets more than he bargained for in The Winglet’s amazing Team Fortress 2 machinima.

RISD film and video professor Dennis Hlynsky recorded this mesmerizing footage of hundreds of starlings as they move from power line to power line. Using a high-speed camera, he was able to record the flight path of each individual bird.

We can make hyperlapse videos with our phones these days. Pacer, the first known hyperlapse film was captured one frame at a time on 16mm film by Guy Roland in 1995, and only screened once before the negative was destroyed.