Awesome Videos

Legendary director Ken Burns shares some of his perspectives on making documentaries: the angles in real stories, the manipulation of the audience and why documentaries are so popular.

Eight year-old Jacob is blind and autistic. This video was taken as his family passed by Tyler Gregory, a musician who was busking at the time. Gregory talks about the experience on his website.

This commercial for MiO Liquid Water Enhancer goes through the tried and tested Old Spice routine to demonstrate how a squirt of MiO changes water. Changes you. Changes everything.

While stuck on a delayed flight to Romania, Toronto’s Lemon Bucket Orkestra whipped out their instruments and jammed out an energetic performance for those stuck on the plane.

Joerg Sprave creates what could be his most ridiculous weapon yet, a wheel covered with eight spinning knives. Not exactly the most practical of weapons, but we’d still use it on zombies.

A group of young guys climp to the top of a bridge construction site in Russia, at once scaring the crap out of us, and at the same time living out our Crackdown fantasies in real life.

Cathy Hutchinson suffered a stroke 15 years ago, and is unable to move her limbs or speak. Using a neural interface called BrainGate, watch as she is able to use her thoughts to control a robotic arm.

(MAJOR SPOILERS) If you’ve defeated the login demons of Diablo III, try getting to the game’s secret level: Whimsyshire. It has no cows, but it has ponies, living teddy bears and rainbows.

There are lots of ways to open a bottle of beer, but you have to hand it to this guy for his ability to cleanly pop open a cold brew with just a bit more equipment than is necessary.

We’ve seen people wage war with cardboard, now watch a battle using weapons drawn with magical chalk in this short film by SoKrispyMedia. It’s like an adult version of Crayon Physics Deluxe.

Don’t get bored or sleepy while Vsauce shares some facts and theories about yawning. The leading theory why humans yawn maybe more intense than you think, but it actually makes sense.

(NSFW: Language) Mac Lethal aka the Dana White of rap music wants you to know two things: that he’s not just a pancake rapper, and that “you’re” and “your” are quite different from each other.

A series of short videos made by Junaid Chundrigar showing Marvel’s heroes and villains having a bad day. They have super powers, but when things go wrong, things go super wrong as well. Poor Hulk.

(NSFW: Language) The folks at DigitalRev put the Canon EOS 7D through a series of unscientific but nonetheless punishing tests, hitting, dropping, freezing, shooting and then burning the camera.

Music played on floppy drives never gets old. Ok, it sorta does. But we’re still impressed by this rendition of Ramin Djawadi’s masterful Game of Thrones theme played with these computer relics.

Fasten your seats, it’s going to be a bumpy ride, as Marcelo Gutierrez takes his bike down the ridiculously rough downhill ride, including countless stairs and cobblestones in Monserrate, Bogotá.

Listen all y’all, it’s a children’s remake of Spike Jonze’s music video of the Beastie Boys’ 1994 hit Sabotage. James Winters and his wife made the video with the help of his kids and his nephew.

Jessica of the Korean pop group SNSD was invited to throw out the first pitch at a recent baseball game in South Korea. Despite the lengthy warm-up, she clearly has no idea what a baseball is.

Live Your Life is the first single from the self-titled debut album of Malaysian singer Yunalis Zarai aka Yuna. Pharell’s beats wisely step out of the way of the budding star’s soothing voice.

Today’s kids probably can’t tell the difference between a vinyl record and a frisbee, and this clip only further perpetuates that confusion, as records go flying through the air and onto turntables.

From the same team that brought you the World’s Slowest Porsche comes another pedal-powered replica: the Fahrradi Farfalla FFX, along with the perfect parody of supercar commercials.

(NSFW: Language) A team of Ghosts deal with a TARFU mission. Even without a product to promote, this short film by Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy can stand on its own. Turn captions on.

Mario and Fafa dig up some classic games on their Wii, nailing a killer Super Mario Bros. 2 level, sharing their theories on Pac-Man’s bathroom habits, and… Dubbo Dwibbo. Part two here.