Awesome Videos

A solid fan short directed by Bryan Nest that imagines the events that took place between The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. Featuring Bats’ old enemies Victor, Arnold and Edward.

(NSFW: Language) Online zombie survival mod DayZ has its share of hackers, but this dude is on another level. He likes to play a children’s song while stalking other players. First video here.

We always thought you were supposed to just pick it up and start gnawing on it, but watermelon expert Tom Willett explains precisely the right way to eat one. And don’t you dare use a fork!

James Chapman’s compilation of the movie staple. We don’t agree that these are “the greatest” though. Anything that includes the Super Mario movie is forbidden from using that superlative.

They say black cats are bad luck. This one’s just bad. Teddy the cat doesn’t care about his owner in the least. “Oh, you’re recording me? You expect me to do something cute? You want a viral cat video? Here you go.”

The Red Bull Soul Flyers take to the Skydive Arena flying chamber in Prague, and pulls off some amazing, seemingly gravity-defying moves as they deftly float through the see-through wind tunnel.

A new montage of Tret the parkour dog doing what he does best. His owner’s website looks shady, but we have to hand it to both of them. The song is We Can Make The World Stop by The Glitch Mob.

A public service announcement brought to you by director and animator Eoin Duffy. Be careful when camping out in the woods. A bear might… just watch. This is Duffy’s entry to LoopdeLoop.

While it actually plays the GBA SP version of the game, we’re still impressed with the workmanship of Vcoleiro1’s mini Space Invaders cabinet. Looks like he’s working on an entire mini arcade.

The cycle is complete. A remix of using YouTube covers and parodies of Somebody That I Used to Know, made by none other than the man who started it all: Wally De Backer aka Gotye himself.

No, we’re not talking about this cat’s ability to see. Rather, what you’re about to observe is this feline’s ability to annoy when it’s clearly bored and is trying to get its owner’s attention.

Most of Joerg Sprave’s wooden weapons are highly specialized, but his latest creation is quite practical. Just like its namesake rifle, the Blunderbuss slingshot can fire a variety of projectiles.

A guy in a realistic velociraptor costume goes for a walk in a Melbourne, Australia shopping mall. Unsurprisingly, the mall cops are nowhere to be seen as the dinosaur makes its way around.

Matthew Riese doesn’t need roads. He built this DeLorean Hovercraft by hand with the help of the people who backed his Kickstarter fundraiser. His ride was featured during a break at an MLB game.

Made by Johan Rijpma, the music video for Nobody Beats The Drum’s Natural Thing features the potent viral video formula: cats plus laser pointers. Add a dog and a weasel and you’ve got a winner.

Mystery Guitar Man and his friends used motion capture to create pixelated images of him dancing around, then they replicated those images in OpenOffice and Excel. Cell by cell. Go BtS here.

A brief demonstration of the new and improved CryEngine 3 3D graphics engine, loaded with buzzwords like “Dynamic Water Volume Caustics” and “Tesselated Vegetation” (1080p version here)

LEGO enthusiast Peer Kreuger made motorized scale models of the Tumbler and the Bat from The Dark Knight Rises. You can vote to make them official LEGO toys here and here. More pics here.

Astronaut Don Pettit shows off his “microgravity yo-yo tricks” while in space. He’s not as good as his Earthbound counterparts, but he makes up for it by coming up with cool names for his tricks.

Even the world’s best athletes have bad days, but some of the commentators at the 2012 London Olympics are quite the perfectionists. These are some of the contenders for Best Worst Comments.

While most dubstep music requires the use of heavily-processed electronic instruments, guitarist Fracionado proves you can totally improve upon the genre with a good old-fashioned electric guitar.

We might have missed the first round, but the second and third go-rounds of Conan tribute to the Olympic slow-mo cameras is chockful of amusing shots of stuff captured at thousands of fps.

(NSFW: Language) Mitch Hedberg’s delivery was so natural that some people think that he just made them up as he went along. His wife Lynn Shawcroft shares his writing process in this video.