Awesome Videos

The craftsmen of Stan Winston Studio – the same studio that made the Aliens Queen – talk about the process of making the full-sized animatronic T-Rex that starred in the adaptation of Jurassic Park.

A driver in Japan shows his Christmas spirit by playing a rendition of Jingle Bells by simply revving his inline 6. We suppose it’s better than one of those horns that plays La Cucaracha.

A gravely-voiced Conan O’Brien reminisces about the office Christmas party, where things started out just fine until a fight broke out. Is it just us, or did Conan get shorter there for a minute?

Nathan Barnatt takes off his dancin’ shoes and tie to accost people with the most awful renditions of Christmas carols ever heard. Though the lady at the end really understands the spirit of the season.

The Seven Wonders of Crysis 3 is a machinima mini-series that uses the in-game engine to present the events preceding Crysis 3 itself, while showcasing the graphics and gameplay.

This episode of Above Average Network’s Sugarboy perfectly captures 1970s style as the candy-charged kid tells us the tale of a bad-ass lady and her quest to retrieve a stolen Rollie Fingers baseball card.

Vimeographer Jean-Michel chanced upon this spider weaving a web and decided to document the process. He used a Nikon D4 in time-lapse mode, shooting once every 4 secs. for about 1-1/2 hours.

YouTuber phoenixdark9 makes the dark plot of Toy Story 3 appear even darker by mashing it up with the sound from the Star Trek: Into Darkness teaser. The great lip-syncing makes it work.

Genevieve Ip returns with another year-end movie mashup. She combined more than 300 of the movies that were produced or distributed this year. See the list of movies and music on her blog.

An incredible street performer works a spinning ring as well as anything we’ve seen in a Cirque du Soleil show. We’re completely dizzy after watching it, so we can only imagine how he felt.

If you have any friends left over after the last three rounds, Richard Wiseman of Quirkology offers up another set of challenges you can use to extract money from your pals when they’re drunk.

A group of 30 teachers take one of those anti-gravity flights, tossing 2000 ping pong balls into the air just when the modified 727 goes weightless. Where’s ping pong baby when you need him?

A group of kids from a daycare center perform to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas. Everyone’s having fun, except for poor number 7, who can’t believe how shoddy the whole thing is.

MediocreFilms’ Greg Benson and his mom head out to Target, giving each other a list of ridiculous items to shop for. We just about spit out our coffee when Greg got to the “blueberry tampons.”

An elegant 2012 Rolls Phantom heads out to the country for a quiet Sunday drive – assuming your idea of a Sunday drive includes shredding lawns and burning rubber with a 454hp V12.

An incredible bit of trickery pulled off by magician Yann Frisch at the 2012 Beijing International Magic Convention. Our heads nearly exploded when that fourth ball just appeared out of nowhere.

We’ve seen a kid excel at basketball despite having only one arm. High school senior Tim Allen also hasn’t let his disability hold him down. He’s a varsity wrestler despite being completely blind.

Comedy duo Rhett & Link and a handful of other YouTube celebrities teach us a trick about dressing for the Holidays. They sound like early Hot Chip, except you know, a lot sillier.

Currently being developed by sport aircraft maker Sonex, the SubSonex has a cruise speed of 170mph, a smooth ride, great visibility and is said to be akin to “driving a car that only has fifth gear.”

Conan O’Brien whips out the super-slow-motion camera once again, dealing out a generous serving of Christmas-themed destruction. Andy Richter’s Flashdance tribute is priceless.

It’s Jamie Foxx turns the Brady Bunch theme song into something good enough to make love to, even appropriating the styles of underwear-melting singers Babyface, Luther Vandross and Prince.

Made by Red Giant, Tempo is about a scientist trying to prevent the bad guys from getting their hands on a device that fires a time-warp field. Think Portal but with time instead of space mechanics.

He may not have the swagger and dance moves of this guy, but this cotton candy vendor in Ciqikou, Chongqing, China more than makes up for it by using sugar to create edible art from spun sugar.