Awesome Videos

Similar to Games We Play, this montage celebrates the simple things that give us joy, from good weather to the company of another human being. The best things in life really are free (or cheap).

We’re not sure if this cat is speaking with its alien mothership or if its just dropped some really good catnip. Either way, kitty has something important (and downright weird) to communicate.

Old Spice hooks Terry Crews up to a bunch of electrodes, and makes music with his muscles, flaming saxes and sausages. At the end of the video, be sure to jam out on your keyboard.

YouTuber Volterrific shares footage of a luxurious First Class suite on an Emirates A380 jumbo jet for a short flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong. The amenities look nicer than most upscale hotels.

The best part of televised talent shows is at the beginning, when ordinary people share what they can do, expecting nothing in return. Here’s 20-year old Lucy with her song about “beer fear.”

YouTuber timtrusler saw a video of DARPA’s humanoid robot being tested and appreciated the robot’s swagger. It only needed two things: the Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive and an audience.

Motor Trend’s informal and all too awesome quarter-mile race returns. Will the Nissan GT-R retain its crown, or will the eight other competitors – including the Aventador and MP4-12C – smoke it?

It took Marc Donahue and Sean Michael Williams a total of 6 months to film this medley music video. That’s about 6 to 8 hours of work for 3 to 4 seconds of footage. Watch Part 1 here.

Artist Mark Crilley starts out with a torn playing card, and challenges himself to draw a photorealistic rendition of the King of Clubs that’s nearly indistinguishable from the real deal.

Remember this dude’s motorcycle? This cyclist only has a bicycle, but at least it isn’t a prop. Believe it or not, the bicycle actually works. Though it’ll only be good for Tour de Front Porch.

A guy working behind the bar doesn’t look where he’s walking and falls into an elevator shaft that’s used for moving items to the basement. Luckily he only had a sprain after the 10-foot drop.

Professional stuntman and BASE jumper Troy Hartman tests out his personal jetpack, which he combines with a chute to help steer and stabilize his flight. Earlier test footage here.

A driver comes within inches of disaster when a large tree limb drops from the sky just inches from their car. We’re even more impressed with the guy who doesn’t even flinch as it drops in front of him.

Los Angeles is not a cold, dead place. The latest time-lapse video from photographer Colin Rich highlights the energy of the city from sunup to sundown. The song is Echoes of Mine by M83.

Collegehumor teamed up with some of the funniest celebrities – plus Takeru Kobayashi – to make 24 funny videos. Pay at least $1 and you get to watch all of them. All proceeds go to Malaria No More.

The world’s best and only true cartoon series continues. This episode reveals that the great supreme pure 100% nonfat leader Kim Jong-un is both a fighter and a lover.

Scientists experimenting with the axons of a longfin squid piped music (as electrical signals) into the marine creature’s fin nerve, and then observed its chromatophores with astounding results.

Venus the cat is a chimera, which is kind of the opposite of identical twins: multiple eggs or embryos fused together to make one organism. Check her out on Facebook for more pics.

The Flight of the Conchords meet with kids to come up with some fundraising ideas for New Zealand’s Cure Kids charity. They also recorded a new song to help out. Buy the track here. Longer clip here.

(Spoilers) The Hunger Games movie gets Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers treatment and doesn’t even come close to surviving the challenge. Disappointed fans of the book, this one’s for you.

Brett Cohen pulls a Thomas Elliot in New York’s Times Square. What do you get when you combine a fake celebrity with fake bodyguards and fake paparazzi? Real adoration. Unbelievable.

When you want to listen to musical floppy disks, who you gonna call? MrSolidSnake 745, that’s who. Here’s his latest work, a cover of the Ghostbusters theme using eight floppy drives.

By using something called a “thermally modulated transparent carbon nanotube sheet,” scientists are able to vanish physical objects using Star Trek like cloaking tech. Science geeks read the paper here.