Awesome Videos

Hunter Davis dusts off his Ian McKellen impression once more, this time doing the most disconcerting rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody ever – in a duet with Gollum. Precious, indeed.

YouTube show Periodic Table of Videos got to see literally tons of gold bars when they went inside one of The Bank of England’s gold vaults. The bank is said to have $315 billion worth of gold.

The video artists of Poland’s White Kanga have come up with a way to project images onto 3D surfaces and dynamically adjust the projection based on the movement of the objects.

Full moon, empty city streets, glowboard. There are many poetic moments in Firefly, an aerial video of nighttime illuminated skateboarding, made with an RC camera copter. See the making of the vid here.

The Tacocopter is probably a hoax, but the Food Delivery War marches on with the Burrito Bomber. Darwin Aerospace built an unmanned drone and an app to make an awesome food delivery system.

While on a plane, a kid chances upon Lionel Messi and is about to ask for his signature, but his mind is blown and thoroughly confused when he sees Kobe Bryant is on the same flight as well.

Ultimate Fan Fights pits fictional characters in a live action battle. Viewers vote who wins. The latest episode has Street Fighter‘s Chun-Li go up against Tifa Lockheart of Final Fantasy VII.

Watson the shar pei and his pal are enjoying their walk when a puddle catches the baby’s attention. Watson wisely lets the kid be a kid. They look like the real life version of Jake and Finn.

A brief profile on California Highway Patrol officer Sgt. Kevin Briggs, who has saved countless people from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. A moving story about the power of caring.

Something like a soccer Danger Room, the Footbonaut training machine might just give players of the German Borussia Dortmund football club an extra edge against their competitors.

In celebration of 50 years of the mixtape, Ithaca Audio created this brilliant 16-track live mix performed entirely on a 23-year-old Tascam 1″ reel-to-reel tape deck.

Google recaps some of the biggest, brightest, and most moving moments of the past year, all from the perspective of what people searched for in 2012. Man, were the olympics just a few months ago?

An online mini-series by Micah & Christopher Moore, Mario Warfare sees the Mushroom Kingdom go head-to-head with the Koopa Kingdom in martial arts infused gun battles. Help fund it here.

The latest short film from Corridor Digital features a dork in an alternate world where people get videogame-like achievements. If only life worked this way. Minus the stupid armor of course.

Here’s OkaySamurai with his latest treatment of pop songs as sung by what must be a Thesaurus-loving English professor. We demand the rest of Extraneous Gangnam Style. (Thanks everyone!)

(NSFW) The Hobbit and Sherlock star Martin Freeman plays Clive Buckle, a mime suspected of killing his wife after their relationship headed south in Tim Bunn’s funny but heartbreaking short.

(NSFW: Language) ZeFrank shares with us some “true facts” about baby echidnas, and about the monotreme in general. Contrary to his previous video, this time he really is telling the truth.

The latest episode of NPH’s warped comedy series takes us inside another of Neil’s insane dreams filled with bad puns, Freudian innuendo, and puppet abuse – Comedy 101 stuff for sure.

A new song from up-and-coming electronica whiz kid M4SONIC. Watch the 21-year old play Virus live using two Novation Launchpads cued with original samples as well as effects and vocal loops.

If you think Blake Griffin sucks at the line, take a look at this poor excuse for a shot. The ball may have just slipped from his hands though. The commentators’ reactions are priceless.

(Spoilers) Bane has got some advice for us, educating us on the importance of strawberries, fiber and other healthy dietary choices. But the best part is his freestyle at the Gotham Rogues game.

Accomplished blues guitarist and vocalist Matt Andersen belts out an impressive and creative performance of Bill Withers’ all-time classic Ain’t No Sunshine. Hear more from Matt here.

Peter Hyoguchi’s collaborative, crowd-funded Anime series has completed its first episode, introducing us to the incredible hidden genetic abilities of its protagonists, including the ability to turn into mechs.