Awesome Etc

What do helicopters and washing machines have in common? Under the right circumstances, both can shake themselves to pieces. In this case it’s due to a condition called ground resonance.

Kenny Powers is starting to kick things into high gear as MFCEO of K-Swiss. Here he is introducing the world to the new Blades shoe the only way he knows how: like a boss.

Stop-motion master Alex Kobbs made this montage featuring LEGO-fied versions of last year’s most popular video games – from Portal 2 to Skyrim – for the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards.

Kids take on the classic Black Knight scene from Monty Python’s Holy Grail. They take a little liberty with the lines, but we’ll forgive them. Mad sword skills there, Arthur, King of the Britons.

(NSFW: Language) Instead of re-releasing the Star Wars films over and over, Lucasfilm should just have funny people like Brock Baker dub over them. Chewie is freakin’ hilarious.

An FA-18 Super Hornet flies over Jones Beach back in 2009. There’s debate over whether it broke the sound barrier. But it’s not a sonic boom that woke us – it’s the vapor cone left when it kicks into gear.

Mike Myers Sir Cecil Washington teaches Academy Award winner Kevin Kline about handling and caring for the coveted statue. Aspiring winners take note. You don’t want to deal with this madman.

Bird lovers look away. There’s a reason they keep the bird pavilion separate from the lion habitat at the zoo, as is evidenced by this footage of a heron who ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog crashes the ridiculously superfluous Golden Collar Awards after he’s snubbed, telling it like it is and making us spit our coffee out once again with his snarky antics.

Ever had your groin kicked, or perhaps hit by a ball? Hurt like hell right? Imagine how wingsuit flyer Jeb Corliss felt when he hit a mountain while flying at 120mph. Get well soon, Jeb.

We’re having neck spasms just watching this worker in Bangladesh as he not only has 22 bricks stacked on his head, but carries them without flinching. And if you thought that was crazy…

Judging from the antics in his latest video, it looks like Freddie Wong has a simple action movie hero morning wake-up routine he enjoys every morning. And it’s probably best if you don’t get in the way.

A Battlefield 3 moment of Chuck Norris proportions by YouTuber Stungravy. His plane was being tailed by both an enemy plane and anti-air missiles, leaving him with “only one reasonable option.”

If you were to hear The Most Interesting Man do a horn solo live, “you would feel every emotion you’ve ever experienced, simultaneously.” Then the world would end and a new Big Bang would occur.

Dergin Tokmak was diagnosed with polio at the age of one. The disease severely limited his leg function, but that didn’t seem to stand in the way of him taking on a career as an acrobatic dancer.

Blowing stuff up never gets old – especially in the name of progress. Watch this spectacular video of the demolition of the Fort Steuben Bridge – which connected Ohio and West Virginia for 80 years.

Lord Broadforce seems to be a cruel soldier, but when it comes to aliens, he’s quite the expert. A short film from the Media Design School, based on WETA Workshop’s Dr Grordbort universe.

CGI stop-motion video showing the assembly of the LEGO Millenium Falcon. Francisco Prieto spent three years modeling bricks and animating. The song is Chambermaid Swing by Parov Stelar.

While watching 30,000 individual dominoes topple in a perfect spiral sounds exciting, we’d say it’s more of a relaxing, meditative experience from this 9-minute-long, record-breaking setup.

YouTuber Dominaz3000 combines Bat-imagery with audio from Nolan’s other Christian Bale/Michael Caine collaboration, The Prestige, creating one of the more compelling fan-made trailers we’ve seen.

Departure Arrival Films came upon what seemed to be an antique shop, only to find out that it was actually one man’s home, and that the trinkets inside are not his greatest treasures.

This crazy guy decided it would be fun to take flying leap from the roof of a building to the snow below. We don’t recommend that you try this no matter how much powder is on the ground.

Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films took rides out of the theme park and into the city. A beautiful head scratcher that makes wonderful use of visual effects. The song is Worries by Langhorne Slim.