Awesome Videos

The Pee Wee Football League Mighty Mites ran full-bore towards a celebratory banner, but their unstoppable force met an immovable object resulting in an amusing, but embarrassing outcome for the kids. Upgraded edition here.

A brand new EDI locomotive engine was being unloaded by crane when something went horribly wrong and the strap lifting it broke. If you thought dropping your iPhone was bad, imagine a 137-ton locomotive.

Chicago’s WGN Morning News is known for its lighthearted delivery, which has earned both praise and scorn. One of the show’s anchors Larry Potash turned the tables on the haters with this ad for the show. Original video here.

This video proves that if you try and laugh without the proper smile, what was once a sign of joy and delight can quickly be turned into serious nightmare fuel. Can we go back to planking or hadoukening now?

Bregtje van der Haak and VPRO look at our collective disinterest in preserving our history, and talk to some of the organizations and people who are fighting to alleviate humanity’s amnesia. It’s 49 minutes long, but it’s a must watch.

YouTuber Segmentation Fault presents a music video for Iron Maiden’s Run to the Hills, made using EA Sports’ Madden Giferator. Made by pkfan2004, the series of gifs serve as a silly but legitimate jab at the NFL.

Photographer Gavin Heffernan’s time-lapse film offers a frenetic look at life at night in Los Angeles. We especially love the bright lights and motion in the driving sequences, whether viewed from inside of a car or high above the roads below.

If you have a tattoo, you’re participating in one of mankind’s oldest traditions, rich with contexts both good and bad. TED-Ed presents Addison Anderson’s abridged history of tattoos, animated by Think Blot. Learn more here.

While technically, we all die the same way, depending on where you live, what will lead to your ultimate demise can vary greatly. It’s sobering that some of life’s greatest pleasures can be so deadly in parts of the world.

A man casually riding his bicycle across an intersection in Lyubertsy, Russia lucked out twice in a split-second. The truck across him failed to yield to a speeding car, and he ended up in the middle of the resulting collision.

A group of buskers on the streets of Orlando in Soweto, South Africa show off their amazing (and at times downright freaky) flexibility, but the true highlight of their performance is the floating hat trick.

Gymnast Alexander Bayturin (aka “Baityk“) shows off his incredible upper body strength, agility and the sheer joy of what he does, as he plays on a set of backyard monkey bars he uses for practice.

A time-lapse of illustrator Seok Jeong Hyeon aka Stonehouse painting portraits of a woman at various stages of her life, from birth to death. The software is Corel Painter 11. The song is Big Screen by Silent Partner.

Need the Cliffs’ Notes for the physics lesson where they explained the difference between matter and antimatter? Minute Physics does their best to sum up this perplexing science at their usual rapid-fire pace.

Riots, paintings, stars and illusions abound in this time-lapse short film about “the idea that creation and destruction might be the same thing.” Artist Jeff Frost spent a total of two years taking and editing over 300,000 photos for the film.

YouTuber Joe Myers shares a video that would make Memorex proud. Watch as an army of frogs are captivated by a video of worms on a smartphone, so much so that some of them try to take a bite.

(NSFW, Gross) MRI scanning is low risk and pain-free,  allowing doctors and researchers to take lots of images. Vox shares a few animated MRI scans of humans engaging in various activities. Yes. Yes it shows that. That too.

(NSFW: Language) Last Week Tonight looks at the Miss America Organization, which awards scholarships to women on the condition that they parade around in swimsuits for several minutes and prove their intelligence in 20 seconds.

Casey Neistat examined the queue for the iPhone 6 launch at the Apple store in New York City. To no one’s surprise, a good number of the people in line just bought the new phone to resell it, or were hired by other resellers to line up.

Using nothing more than rappelling gear and their talents, dancers Amelia Rudolph and Roel Seeber pulled off this epic vertical dance on the side of Oakland’s City Hall for the Art + Soul Festival.

The cat on top of this table seems to have no idea that it’s being stalked by the curious kitty down on the floor. Well, we’re all in store for a rude awakening when he eventually decides to pop up and say hello.

A veteran cyborg soldier ruminates on his actions – wondering whether he’s done anything worthwhile or if he believes that this is his purpose – as he makes his way to yet another battle. Or not.

Smosh Games pokes fun at one of Nintendo’s masterpieces: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Listen as they marvel at the games surprisingly mature content, Navi’s existence and that goddamn Water Temple.