Awesome Etc

(NSFW: Language) These days, people can be so mean and cynical, so it seems unusual to pay compliments to random strangers – like Timothy DeLaGhetto does in this clip. Try it, you’ll like it.

Constructed by Sander van den Berg entirely from images captured by NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions, this hauntingly beautiful video is made even more perfect by its backing track, That Home.

Burt’s Bees celebrated Earth Day by teaming up with composer and sound designer Diego Stocco. All the sounds in the video were made in real-time using plants, fruits and other natural objects.

These two furry animals are not enemies – the hamster doesn’t freak out and bail when the cat arrives. But they’re not close friends either, as shown by the hamster’s unwillingness to share.

This isn’t the first saw blade shooter we’ve seen, but Patrick Priebe’s hi-tech approach to the idea is equally, if not more impressive than our favorite unconventional weapons manufacturer’s take.

(NSFW: Language) The Politics of Competitive Board Gaming Amongst Friends is a short film that reenacts a hilarious incident involving director Jay Cheel’s Settlers of Catan playmates.

Yep, we’re looking forward to The Avengers as much as anyone else, but can you imagine what it would have looked like if they had made the movie back in the 1970s? Well, now you don’t have to.

While we’d never take our cars through a wash with such hard brushes, these cows seem to really enjoy the scratchy bristles in this automated cow wash. We bet an uddercarriage wash costs extra.

After you put together your arsenal, you need a willing victim to practice on. These undead firing range targets actually “bleed” when you shoot ’em. Each has enough blood for up to 1000 shots.

The music video for 天国 (“Heaven”) by Japanese band 来来来チーム (Lai Lai Lai Team). We may not be able to understand the lyrics, but we sure can appreciate the cool animation by Onionskin.

Frans Hofmeester filmed his daughter Lotte every week, starting from when she was born until she turned 12. Watch her grow and become more talkative and comfortable in front of the camera.

Frank Welker is a legend among voice actors. He has a dizzying roster of roles, from Scooby-Doo‘s Fred Jones to a number of Decepticons. This clip shows him recording lion roars for The Lion King.

We’ve got enough trouble trying to do the old tablecloth trick without hurting ourselves, but the fact that Tomonari “Black” Ishiguro can pull it off with a Yo-Yo scores him extreme bonus points.

YouTuber mophinapg edited the Uncharted games into feature-length movies, removing videogame interfaces and the least gameplay possible. Watch the other two movies on his channel.

The boundless energy and adorable ignorance of dogs never ceases to amaze us. Watch as this dog turns itself into a tornado on a gymnastic ring with complete disregard for its neck and teeth.

Youtuber Ze Frank’s videos might appear primitive, but it turns out that he requires not only a ton of special effects, but some other high-tech tools to create his popular web show.

While it’s not as mysterious as the actual Stonehenge, you can safely bounce off the rocks in this 1:1 interactive sculpture from Jeremy Deller, on display at Glasgow’s Int’l Festival of Visual Arts.

We’ve seen POV videos before, but there’s something special about this visceral test footage shot by Eirik Solheim when he strapped his GoPro to his R/C car and drove through his FPV goggles.

As cool as IKEA’s integrated HDTV/furniture looks, Conan O’Brien points out something most of us probably weren’t considering when we saw it the first time. Time to get out those allen wrenches!

Neo the Belgian Shepherd finds himself fascinated with an electric toothbrush. We wouldn’t want to brush our teeth with it after it’s been laying around the floor and in Neo’s mouth though.

(NSFW: Language) Not even the pretense of an honorable settlement, courteous language and finest velvet can conceal brutish machismo for what it is. It is a deplorab – oh. Oh. Nice work.

(NSFW: Language) FPSRussia’s suspiciously fake looking, but nonetheless awesome killing machine called “Charlene,” is a flying quadrotor armed with a submachine gun with a 100-round magazine.

Animal trainer Mark Dumas goes for a swim with 16-year old polar bear Agee. Mark and his wife Dawn run Beyond Just Bears, an agency that offers “creative animal talent” for films, TV and ads.