Awesome Videos

The Grad School Scam has snared many students, but some fall prey to an even more horrifying threat: high interest student loans. A hilarious – and genuinely creepy – skit from The Kids Table.

Brad Hansen – the man who brought us The Lion King Rises – matched the six James Bond actors in one on one fights by piecing together scenes from past Bond movies. Poor George Lazenby.

Let’s take Halloween out with a grin by enjoying Nathan Pryor’s Pumpktris, a fully playable version of Tetris in a pumpkin, with 128 LEDs for the display and bonus game controller stem. (Thanks James!)

(NSFW) Agent 47 is asked to take down an adult film director in this kick-ass short film by Freddie Wong. Stupid bodyguards aside, we almost can’t believe how good Freddie has become.

This awesome Aliens power loader costume was built by Jason Smith, and makes it look like it’s being piloted not by Ripley, but by his baby daughter. The Alien Queen doesn’t stand a chance.

“Where childhood thrives, war does not.” War Child is an organization dedicated to educating children in war-affected communities. Donate or sign up to volunteer on its website.

A lot of videos bait viewers with misleading titles. But this one is exactly what it says. If there are a lot of girls in your gym that you want to pick up, you might want to lower your expectations.

The normally composed and informative caption hijacks the music video for Some Kinda Love, a song by Brooklyn-based rock & roll band Nude Beach. Written and directed by Tom Scharpling.

(NSFW: Language) A new animated web series about Lonnie, a local news reporter who shares a place with his friends in the crazy town of Waco Valley. Also, Lonnie and his friends are dinosaurs.

Musician Sufjan Stevens’ new clip offers up his own nightmare-before-Christmas in this blood-and-guts-filled claymation video by Lee Hardcastle that’ll give the kids nightmares for years to come.

(NSFW: Language) A different kind of fishing from a helicopter, as the guys in this helicopter retrieve a lost P-51 Mustang R/C model airplane using their Robinson R-22 chopper. (Thanks Marc-André)

Since we’re now viewing it, we don’t know how impossible it really was, but using their flying drone camera, the guys at HeliPOV were able to capture a cool aerial perspective on the freerunners of 3RUN.

Most people light up their pumpkins with a little votive candle, but Youtuber DaveHax prefers to fill his with toilet paper and kerosene – resulting in a spectacular, but relatively contained fire show.

Eric Maundu has a unique garden. Instead of soil, his plants grow on water and feed on the waste material of fish. He also has an automated garden that he can monitor and nurture from the Internet.

Magician Rick Lax created this illusion you can learn that lets you take any three coins and make the visually and audibly pass through a clear glass, and even let the audience examine it. (Thanks Len!)

Pop violinist Lindsey Sterling returns with her latest clip, a Halloween-themed short filled with dancing zombies – a catchy, modern tribute to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Needs more Vincent Price.

It’s quite a sight to watch the beauty spill out of Agnes Cecile’s brushes in this sped up video of her painting a captivating face. There’s more clips of her great work on her Youtube page.

By tweaking the of footage of planes landing at London’s Heathrow Airport to 17x normal speed, Cargospotter created an strange, mesmerizing illusion that makes the jumbo jets look like toys.

An amazing stunt as a performer balances himself at the top of a tall vertical pole and spins around like a whirligig. It’s about the only scenario where a vertical video is acceptable.

A fun and Tim Burton-esque Halloween animation done by Auge de Vries by painstakingly carving 400 individual scenes into candle-lit pumpkins and stitching them together frame-by-frame.

Cadbury jumps on the zombie bandwagon with this hilarious stop-motion commercial clip called “Last Stand” for their special Halloween-edition Creme Eggs candy. Goo goo goo goo goo!

(NSFW) The music video for Stamina, a song by electronica/dance music artist Vitalic from his new album Rave Age. It’s wild, trippy and fun, much like the song itself. Directed by Saman Keshavarz.

Inspired by Matt Logue’s Empty LA photo book, Ross Ching started Empty America, a series of time lapse videos showing various cities with no person in sight. Making-of video here. First video here.