Awesome Etc

Watching Riley Blakeway’s footage of Taj Burrow and Jay Davies surfing off the coast of Fiji is like injecting cold water and sunshine directly into our eyes. The song is Frequency by Unouomedude.

Corridor Digital continues to knock it out of the park with their action and effect-filled short films. Their latest clip perfectly blends the unlikely pairing of graffiti with street fighting.

Gather the young ones and finish off your Turkey leftovers while watching Ormie the pig try to get his hands on a jar of cookies. A healthy dose of slapstick from Rob Silvestri and Arc Productions.

(NSFW: Language) ROFL-inducing YouTuber Chonny plays Cat Mario, an absurdly difficult Super Mario Bros. copycat filled with unfair traps, including a mushroom that helps you but doesn’t help you.

An octopus at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve slithered out of the water and left something for its visitors. We think it said, “I’ll give you this in exchange for my privacy. No? Dammit.”

Ezio Auditore can learn a trick or two from YouTuber MrTeamVideo’s Dovahkiin. You can’t be a suspect with this setup. We hope he muttered to the priest, “You are already dead” before he sat down.

While it’s probably better than cooking a turkey with thermite, we’re not sure feeding your venison Tannerite before shooting it with an automatic weapon will result in an edible dinner.

A lonely toy takes a journey through the great outdoors, thanks to a little help from his friends, his owner’s iMac, Google Street View, and a sense of imagination from The Theory.

Remember the hair dryer-fighting cat? His name is Oskar; he was born without formed eyeballs and thus can’t see. Here’s Oskar when he was 8 weeks old, getting his first toys – balls with bells inside.

(NSFW: Language) Witness the chaotic capabilities of dogs. It took just one of these creatures to throw an idyllic day at the park into a herd-displacing, traffic jam-inducing, curse-riddled chase.

The main characters on The Walking Dead have thus far been spared from “being bit”, but that doesn’t mean we can’t imagine what they might look like if they eventually turned into zombies.

Destin of Smarter Every Day traveled to Germany to meet master slingshot maker Jörg Sprave and discuss the numbers behind one of his creations. It feels wrong calling that huge ass cannon a slingshot.

Two cats enter, one cat leaves. Or something like that. Watch as these two feline opponents work on their best pro-wrestling moves in the SmackDown ring. Let’s get ready to… awwwwww.

Is that a carrot in the sauna, or do you just need glasses? This jocular ad for UK optical company Specsavers features Gordon Ramsay and a bumbling gent who could really use an eye exam.

Mountain biker Rossimo37 and his dog Lily zip around Trailside Park in Utah. Lily is such a bundle of energy that she keeps up no matter where her master’s speeding bike roams.

Conan O’Brien, himself too busy to investigate the Occupy Wall Street protest, decided to send trusty correspondent Triumph the Insult Comic Dog in his place to see what all the fuss was about.

Let Wheatley (mis)guide you through the testing facility, and do your best to avoid the friendly turrets, with these cute and cuddly Portal 2 collectible LED keychain flashlights.

If there’s one thing we know about dogs – it’s that they like to fetch stuff. This man has harnessed this innate canine ability and put it to good use – to retrieve his beloved vodka.

This footage of the Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony recording the main theme medley was exclusive to Nintendo Video but can now be heard by all thanks to NintenDaanNC. Speakers up.

If you think you and your friends take movies too seriously, think again. Watch the Star Trek: TNG characters analyze Star Wars: A New Hope from a scientific and militaristic perspective.

With impressive visuals like these, it starts out looking like a Blade Runner clone, but Stargate Studios short film eventually turns into an action-packed thriller on the streets of San Francisco.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s audio commentary of Total Recall makes the DVD copy a must buy. He’s like the guy who makes PowerPoint presentations then just reads everything that’s on it.

Last January, Conan O’Brien visited Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Hollywood to see – and update – his statue, meet a game show geek and lie to a group of painfully stereotypical Asian tourists.