Awesome Videos

Trouble sleeping? Photographer and filmmaker Daniel Mercadante might have just the cure. It’s a compilation of people and animals of all ages yawning, set to music by Lullatone. Night night.

Vsauce explores one of those questions that we’re sure you’ve all asked yourself at some point. How can we be sure the colors, feelings and other perceptions are the same as other people’s?

While Jeb Corliss continues to heal from a disastrous crash last year, he posted this daring jump from back in 2004, in which he does a double-twisting quad front off Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower.

BBC TV host Steve Backshall handles one of the most ornery underwater creatures, the Humboldt squid. Clearly, it’s none too happy with him, as it squirts massive amounts of ink at his captor.

Freerunner Ronnie Shalvis takes full advantage of the snow and ice at Salt Lake City’s Gallivan Center, pulling off crazy flips on the ice skating rink and in the surrounding neighborhood. (Thanks Dallin!)

Popular Japanese beatboxer Daichi teams up with an unlikely performance partner, tap dancer SHUN, to create an awesome showcase for both of their frenetic, noise-making talents.

17-year old Leonard Cooper won the recently concluded Jeopardy! Teen Tournament with a daring – albeit partly lucky – comeback. Even better, he finished things off with a John Carpenter move.

Key & Peele’s promo for A Good Day to Die Hard cannot hold a candle to the skit that was used as a basis for that ad, where the valets get pumped up discussing Liam Neesons and Bruce Willy.

2D animation studio Powerhouse Creative promotes their “pure, organic, Z-axis free” specialty with a tongue-in-cheek commercial portraying 3D graphics as the enemy. Way to spin the flat scene.

At around 0:50 of Sverre Liliequist’s Big Mountain run at the Swatch Skiers Cup, a sizable patch of snow breaks off and threatens to engulf him. But Sverre ain’t Sweet Brown; he got time for that.

A pair of chess sets with online multiplayer. When you make a move on your set, the corresponding piece on the other set mimics the move, thanks to magnets and motors beneath the boards.

cdza celebrates Valentine’s Day by visiting a senior living center and meeting four special couples, and invite them to share their stories and dance to their wedding songs. Get out the hankies now.

Juan Etchegaray’s masterpiece: a compilation of men hurling rocks using their non-dominant hand. This is the exact opposite of the phrase “poetry in motion.” The song is La noyée by Carla Bruni.

(Gore) Yippee ki yay Mother Russia! Claymation master Lee Hardcastle hypes up John McClane’s latest misadventure A Good Day to Die Hard with a recap of the vigilante’s explosive résumé.

Camille and Kennerly, better known as “The Harp Twins,” take on the creepy theme to The Walking Dead with exactly the right instruments for the job – though we did wish for at least one zombie/harp kill.

It won’t be long before the Harlem Shake reaches its tipping point and becomes an online pest. Before you get sick of it, here’s one made by ADHD for 90s kids. Where’s Captain Planet and the X-Men?!

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Asapscience shares some of the things that scientists know about love, such as the fact that the emotion affects the brain in the same way that cocaine does.

Skaters have been pulling off tricks involving multiple skateboards for a long time, but we’ve not seen anyone do it the way Adam Miller did – by pulling off a gainer backflip down a set of stairs.

Simon Klose’s TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard is now officially available on YouTube for free. You can also download it via a torrent client or purchase a digital copy or DVD.

It’s every man – living or otherwise – for himself in Corridor Digital’s post-apocalyptic short. It has references to the eponymous videogame mod, but you’ll still enjoy it even if you don’t play DayZ.

(NSFW: Language) Lizzy Caplan stars in a fashion commercial that parodies fashion commercials and their inane attempts at evoking character and authenticity. Directed by Matthew Frost.

Do You Love Me is a short film co-written by Chris R. Wilson and the online A.I. Cleverbot. We asked Cleverbot what it thinks of the short and it said, “Pil? Pil ist dangers.” Indeed.

In July 2012, Wendy Diamond threw a $250,000 wedding party for her dog to raise money and awareness for the Humane Society of New York. But they made one mistake: they hired Rabbi Triumph.