Awesome Videos

(NSFW: Language) Eric Lerner created this amazing short film which seamlessly merges the real and animated worlds, as skatepunk Gabriel shows off his sick moves. Buy Orel Tamuz & Tal Yogev’s dreamy electronic score here.

Flite Test takes a look at a DIY eight-rotor R/C carrier, partly inspired by SHIELD’s flying fortress. It’s not the first (or the second) of it’s kind that we’ve seen, but it’s fun watching smaller planes try to land on it.

Nat Geo’s Megafactories looks at the production of the Nissan GT-R, the auto industry’s unicorn: an excellent supercar that’s boxy, heavy, mass produced and significantly cheaper than its closest competitors.

Whether Taylor Swift’s megahit Shake It Off was one of your favorite or most hated tunes of 2014, Milky Chance deserves a listen with their complete revamp of the song that transforms it into an excellent folk rock track.

A commercial for KNGF Geleidehonden (The Royal Dutch Guide Dog Foundation), which trains guide dogs for the visually impaired and soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Learn how you can help here and here.

We’d never trust a four-year-old with a set of nunchucks, but this kid seems to know what he’s doing. Watch as he does his best impression of Bruce Lee as he mimics his moves on the TV behind him – without breaking the screen.

Designed by Alireza Taghaboni, the Sharifi-ha House in Tehran, Iran has three rotating bedrooms. They can face outwards to give residents a view of the city or inwards for warmth and privacy. More at Arch Daily.

A dog in Seattle named Eclipse often goes to the park by herself… by taking the bus. Owner Jeff Young says it started when Eclipse got tired of waiting for him to finish his cigarette, so she went on ahead without him.

(Gore) Can you love someone if it means you have to stop loving yourself? Wonder as you watch Ben Aston’s adaptation of Maria Hummer’s eponymous short short story about a man who skinned himself to please his lover.

ThePeterson is back to make us feel old again, this time reminiscing about the popular music, movies, games, television, news and tech that surrounded us in the year that gave us The Powerpuff Girls, The Dude, and The Google.

An impressive machinima of several iconic scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s ultra-violent classic A Clockwork Orange created entirely within Grand Theft Auto V. The video is the result of a collaboration of more than 11 dedicated fans.

An immensely satisfying demonstration of craftsmanship as two Japanese carpenters show the kind of precision required to perfectly interlock a pair of wooden beams into an extremely strong unified structure.

This just in: a dude accidentally touched another dude’s arm! Man cooties! Oh mah gawd! The cancer fundraiser Awesome Games Done Quick had this awkward moment. And he was with his doll too. What a player. Original here.

The human eye is so complex and has so many requisite parts that some think of it as an “irreducible complexity.” But scientists believe that this marvelous optical instrument did benefit from 500 million years of refinement.

(NSFW: Language) Stand up comedian Mike Bobrinskoy shares with us a conversation that he had with a persistent – and daft – scammer on OK Cupid. It starts out slow, but it steadily gets better and better. Skip to 1:12.

Another year, another Super Bowl, another crowdsourced Doritos commercial contest. Sum of Us’ entry is really great, but it will never win the contest. Stick around and you’ll see why. Find out more here.

(NSFW: Language) This argument seems counter-intuitive and callous at first but it’s actually pretty simple. Tipping lets restaurants get away with lower wages for their servers. But until they raise said wages, we need to leave tips.

Watch Richard Swarbrick’s animation of Cristiano Ronaldo’s highlights as Copa90 traces the forward’s journey from Manchester to Madrid. CR7 was the 2013 FIFA Ballon d’Or winner and is once again in the running for 2014.

A laptop sets off a recurring sequence of objects interacting in both the real world and inside its operating system in this creative take on the Rube Goldberg machine by animator Evelien Lohbeck.

“Ah bet ah could move this glahss with mah maaaahnd. But ahm afraid of what it’d mean if ah couuuuld.” Jon Bailey mocks Matthew McConaughey in this parody of the Lincoln MKZ ad. Got an hour’s worth of them flat circles? Here.

With the model’s upcoming 60th anniversary, Jay Leno thought it fit to feature his 1971 Citröen DS on his show. Leno calls it the most unusual and innovative car ever made, mainly because of its hydropneumatic suspension.

SciShow describes the two types of tickling and presents a theory on why the fun kind of tickling – also known as gargalesis – became a common activity among humans and other primates. Here’s our theory: because it tickles.

(NSFW) Amy Schumer’s favorite sketch from the past season of her Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer. It accurately mocks so many things at once we’re surprised that this doesn’t have a billion views. WOOOORMS