Awesome Etc

Many videogame characters ingest a ton of potions in the course of their adventures. These two wizards face the consequences of spamming their mystical elixirs. Don’t cross the streams!

Mediocre Films continues their little experiment to see how people react when a stranger crashes their phone conversation. We’re surprised some of them hold out so long. Check out part 1 here.

Conan O’Brien envisions what it might look like if the quirky director were hired on as director of the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII. More hilarious directors’ auditions here, here, here, here and here.

(NSFW: Language) Alfred Molina plays Arthur H. Cartwright, a critic of an art form that badly needs criticism: children’s theater. He’s out to give these amateuhs a piece of his brilliant mind.

(NSFW: Language) Chris Cullari’s proof-of-concept short about the residents of a small town who live in constant fear of their resident masked killer, and one boy who refuses to believe in the boogey man.

Add a little alien life to your Christmas tree this year, with this big-brained martian inspired by Tim Burton’s cult-classic Mars Attacks! (and the 1950s trading cards that inspired Burton.)

Forget about Venom or the Green Goblin; Screen Junkies is Spidey’s worst enemy. This honest trailer rips into the “re-retold story” of Peter Parker so thoroughly you’ll be ashamed if you watched it.

Greg Johnson of Acoustic Labs plays a haunting, minimal interpretation of 007’s theme, just in time for the release of Skyfall. Check more of Greg’s smooth guitar covers here and here, and here.

Take Google Street View, put it on an F1 car and make the cameras record not just pictures but video and what do you get? This awesome interactive joyride made for Red Bull Norway.

Halloween may already be over, but a creepy illusion is never out of season. Magician Rich Ferguson shows off his impressive skills by taking his head off. Those kids are now afraid of sneezing.

What starts out as a simple LMFAO parody – which, come to think of it, is a feat in itself – quickly reveals its genius. There’s a very thin line between the party goer’s heaven and his hell.

(NSFW) You know how in movies, couples are flirting at a bar one minute, then they’re in bed the next? This is what happens when the characters get stuck in the journey in-between.

Casey Neistat shot this eye-opening video of the devastation by riding bikes around NYC right in the midst of last week’s monster storm. He had to edit it at a Starbucks due to the power outage.

An incredible futuristic prosthetic limb, which provides its wearer with 14 precise hand positions and grips, helping amputees do everything from write with a pen to gently crack an egg.

A bottle of vodka heats up dramatically when sun streaming through the windows is magnified by its glass, eventually lighting all adjacent bottles and a cardboard display ablaze.

(NSFW) Despite the introduction, this isn’t an ad for a dental product. It’s actually a commercial for Big Rock Beer. Let’s just say this dude is a man of his words. His stupid, stupid words.

YouTuber TTCdirektor took advantage of cats’ well documented love – or is it hatred? – of lasers to make this GoPro ad. He put a Hero 2 camera inside a tissue box and put a laser pointer on top of it.

Moritz Simon Geist paid homage to the legendary Roland TR-808 drum machine by recreating the sounds it makes using real percussion instruments, with the help of custom made robots and Arduino.

Nathan Barnatt’s latest alter ego shows off his mad, bad gymnastic skills in this montage of failed video submissions to MTV back in the 1990s. Nice muscle tees there, Newlin.

If the original soundtrack isn’t epic enough for you, kick back and get swept away, as violin artist Lindsey Stirling takes it up a notch in her poetic ode to the Assassin’s Creed III music. (Thanks, Kevin!)

We’re assuming that this was a Halloween costume, but we’ll never know if that was really Aladdin and his flying carpet gliding through campus. Our three wishes: hoverboards, hoverboards, hoverboards.

Inspired by the stealthy mercenaries, this solar-powered watch has a 24-hour hand, stopwatch and a small second hand with a throwing star motif. Waterproof to 10atm, available in 3 colors.

A brand-new EMD GT46C-ACe locomotive is being unloaded from a cargo ship, when the unthinkable happens and the cables snap on the 145-ton train. We’re guessing this isn’t going to buff out.