Awesome Videos

Puddles the clown turns in a soul-stirring performance of the Christmas classic, showing once again why he’s called “the sad clown with the golden voice.” Even if you’re not religious, you’ll have a hard time not hitting play a second time.

(NSFW: Gore, Language) JoBlo’s not so merry look at Christmas movies, in which Santa Claus shirks his duties as the jolly old man spreading holiday cheer, and instead descends into the deepest pits of darkness. Bad Santa! Bad!

A compilation of animated GIFs created by 38 artists from around the world. To make things interesting, composer Paul Fraser created the music before the GIFs were turned in, then Kevin Sukho Lee sequenced them to go with the track.

The Recidivist is a modded Harley Davidson Softail adorned with tattooed leather on its tires, tanks, seat, rear fender and more. Polish tattoo artists Tomasz Lech and Krzysztof Krolak spent a total of 250 hours inking the bike.

“It took me a few packages of Band-Aids to learn.” David Warther demonstrates how you can make a pair of pliers out of a wooden stick with only 10 cuts. David makes the pliers for visitors at his father Ernest Walther’s museum. Skip to 1:20.

With the recent The Interview snafu, movie studios might want to be careful about how they want North Korea to perceive their work. Here are a few examples of Supreme Leader-approved trailers from Vimeo user RoMo.

RJ Anderson and Holz Racing’s souped-up Polaris UTV is capable of chewing rocks and pulling off massive, record-setting jumps without flinching. It’s been fitted with a powerful engine, a virtually indestructible suspension, and a handbrake.

Like father, like son. TakeMyTalent shares the highlights of LeBron James’ son from a youth basketball tournament in Houston. LeBron Jr. can’t dunk just yet, but the 4th grader’s got game. And a mouthguard.

A hilarious skit from the underappreciated 1996 Dana Carvey Show, in which up-and-coming stars Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell portray waiters who cannot bear to describe of any of the items being served at their restaurant.

“”What purpose did this machine serve?”, people wondered.” A bittersweet interactive short story from Simogo, the developer behind Year Walk, Device 6 and Beat Sneak Bandits. Warning: the video spoils the entire thing.

(NSFW: Language) Commandoflauge imagines a comedy set in Los Santos about two idiots who think being a criminal is as easy as it looks on TV. Actually, scratch that imagine part. It’s being spun off into a web series.

Never try to please everyone. Saturday Night Live imagines what would happen if a toy maker came up with the least offensive doll ever in trying to cater to a large market. They should’ve followed Greendale’s lead.

Musician Esteban Antonio demonstrates a truly unique custom instrument. The Ha-Shem is a 17-string grand concert harp guitar that can be played by plucking, strumming or bowing it like a cello. Doc Ock needs one of these.

This video footage from a festival in Thailand starts out slowly, but once they light the fuses on their handbuilt rocket ship, you’ll understand why this is easily one of the most awe-inspiring videos we’ve seen in a while. Mirror here.

Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch contributed to the Seattle Seahawks’ dismemberment of the Arizona Cardinals with this strawng 79-yard touchdown. But he also got a lot of help from speedy wide receiver Ricardo Lockette.

We’ve seen how the Airbus A350 jumbo jet is made. Now watch in awe, as the French aircraft maker shows off the agility of their massive widebodied jetliners by flying five of them in a synchronized drill. Skip to 3:35 for the action.

(NSFW: Language) Rockstar drink and Nitro Circus’ Erik Roner used 90 balloons, 50 helium tanks and a lawn chair to create a poor man’s version of the Up house. Erik went up to 8,000ft. before parachuting back down.

A woman overcomes her, uhm, anemone infection and helps others through it as well in Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch’s artfully animated music video. Boys Latin is from the must-have album Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper.

Airbus took MinutePhysics on a multi-country tour of its facilities to show how thousands of minds and millions of parts come together to design, build and test its new A350 airliner. Worth watching just to see the Beluga in action.

We’ve seen plenty of basketball trick shot videos, some more plausible than others. But Corridor Digital makes no attempt to fool us into thinking their shots are physically possible – and that’s what makes this clip so much fun.

Before you have a full-on nerdgasm, this isn’t a real film, but a fan edit by MR8866 & Alex Luthor (nice name), which envisions a universe in which intellectual property rights mean nothing and all comic book characters could freely roam.

For his Christmas 2014 video, slingshot madman Joerg Sprave built a massive weapon capable of turned a Christmas tree into a deadly arrow. All we’re saying is that Santa better not fly his sleigh over Joerg’s neighborhood this year.

Prairie Home Companion musical director Rich Dworsky performs a piano medley of Christmas tunes for those who just want to get it over with, cranking out numerous popular songs in just about 2 minutes flat. See if you can name them all.