Awesome Videos

Fender gives us a time-lapse view of how its manufacturing facility in Corona, California makes the company’s world famous Stratocaster guitar. The song is Dangerous Madness by Wayne Kramer.

During a practice round, pro golfer Martin Kaymer skips his ball across the water on the 16th hole at Augusta, putting it right on the green, then into the cup. View from another angle here.

A look at the back-story and gameplay style of the new Demon Hunter class in Diablo III. Her powers come from two regenerating mana pools: Hatred for offense and Discipline for defense.

Not only is this clip a perfect time capsule of 1980s style, the guy at the center of the video – The Skipper – would have probably been a millionaire if he had only waited until YouTube came along.

Athlete Christian Vasconcellos might not have had the best day ever when he wiped out in the middle of a run – but that didn’t stop him from turning his epic fail into an epic win.

The Shorty Awards interviews comedian Tracy Morgan, requiring him to answer the questions in 140-characters or less. Watch him fail, drop knowledge and sing praises to the internet.

A possibly senile Gandalf takes to the streets on his longboard for a leisurely ride, at times confusing motorists behind him for a 50-foot-tall Balrog. They could always just drive over the double yellow line.

Compilation master Luc Bergeron aka Zapatou is back with 183 of the best recent online videos. If only we participated in sports and outdoor activities as much as we sat at our desks watching videos.

Popper extraordinaire Poppin John was kind enough to post this awesome clip of his Soulbotics Krew pal Randm knocking out some of the most buttery smooth waves we’ve laid eyes on.

V8 Supercar champion Jamie Whincup loses it in a hairpin turn, pulling a full 360° spin in the middle of the track. Like a boss, he recovers and goes on to complete the race. Show off.

Nathan Barnatt’s dancing fool shows up at an audition for a Kimberly Cole music video, and busts out some serious moves. Honestly, this is so much better than Dancing with the Stars.

Alpha gameplay footage of PlanetSide 2, a massively multiplayer online FPS game with expansive terrain, dynamic weather, ground and air vehicles and large scale infantry combat.

(NSFW: Lyrics) YouTuber bd594’s robot band is back with another cover, and they have a vocalist now: the DECtalk Express, the same type of speech synthesizer that Stephen Hawking used in the 80s.

Not to be confused with People Are Awesome, this compilation still features incredible stunts, tricks and extreme feats of both man and their machines – set to the always great Sail by AWOLNATION.

Vimeo user La Pompadour runs down the English alphabet with names of pop culture monsters. Try and guess all 26 of them. Protip: La Pompadour is quite loose with its definition of “monster.”

Join Commander Shepard, Garrus, Wrex, Tali and the whole gang for this 1980s style cartoon parody. We love the idea of killing reapers with rock and roll. Maybe in Mass Effect 4. (Thanks Alfredo!)

A kid and his two friends shot this short with surprisingly solid action, tight editing, and a perfect score. One Reddit commenter said “This kid’s talent exceeds his equipment.” We couldn’t agree more.

A couple dances their way from darkness to the light. It may not be as wildly creative as their other music videos, but this one for OK Go’s Skyscrapers is still pleasing to the eyes.

A LEGO version of the The Dark Knight Rises trailer, by Paranick Films, Jedimastersoda and Adviceversa. Is it just us, or is Bane more comprehensible as a minifig than as a human?

Improv Everywhere strikes again – loading up a NYC park with eight sets of identical quadruplets, making the real world look like some sort of VFX trick, and messing with the heads of passersby.

Not to be outdone by their colleagues at Google Maps, the Gmail team has their own old-new technology: Morse Code on Android. We didn’t know LL Cool J worked at Google.

Poor Arthur had an injury to his ears, and had to wear one of those stupid plastic cones. Needless to say, he didn’t like it one bit – and even once he admitted his fate, he never quite got the hang of it.

It’s not yet April 1st, but we suspect the guys at Google released one of their pranks early, with the new Google Maps for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Click “Quest” in the upper right to try it.