Awesome Videos

(NSFW: Language) Austin’s Old Murder House Theatre performs classic scenes from the Alien movies – while wearing ice skates. Finally, a reason to return to the theater. More scenes here.

What do you do when you’ve got three polar bears coming at you? You could run the other way, or you could have cojones the size of bowling balls and chase them off with a big bone.

Last October, the gorilla enclosure at the Werribee Open Range Zoo in Australia was tested out by… two guys in gorilla suits. Visitors were treated to an unbelievable display of fake gorilla behavior.

Watch as musician Kenichi Kanazawa turns vibrations on a table covered with colored sand into an interactive work of art as it hits its resonant frequency. See more patterns emerge here.

Korehira Watanabe is a swordsmith, a dying breed of craftsmen. He has dedicated his life to his profession and passion and desperately hopes that the art of sword making will continue to live on.

Japanese “technicolor pogo punkers” Polysics take on the Styx classic Mr. Roboto in this goofy music video, which not only made us chuckle, but improves on the original tune – if that’s possible.

We’ve never heard Darth Vader described as “a bad banana with a greasy black peel,” but One Minute Galactica’s mashup of Dr. Seuss’s holiday classic with scenes of the Dark Lord fits perfectly.

While she’s not quite as coordinated as OK Go once was, you still have got to hand it to this woman for her treadmill dance skills. She certainly makes moonwalking look more achievable.

The Top Gear guys leave the pavement and hit the rails, as they take their ridiculous car-powered trains (and distinguished passengers) on a ride down the tracks. Catch part two for the grand finale.

Trick shot master Brodie Smith and pals take on their frisbee and ball tossing counterparts Down Under. Contrary to what you might think, they don’t throw in the opposite direction as us.

Katy Beveridge wanted to know if it was possible to create a zoetrope-style animation effect and capture it on a rotating bicycle wheel as the bike is in motion. The answer: a resounding yes.

Try as it might, this Roomba can’t shake the cat going for a ride on its back. Our cat would go flying across the room the second this thing moved, but this cat seems happy to have a chauffeur.

Watching Riley Blakeway’s footage of Taj Burrow and Jay Davies surfing off the coast of Fiji is like injecting cold water and sunshine directly into our eyes. The song is Frequency by Unouomedude.

Corridor Digital continues to knock it out of the park with their action and effect-filled short films. Their latest clip perfectly blends the unlikely pairing of graffiti with street fighting.

Gather the young ones and finish off your Turkey leftovers while watching Ormie the pig try to get his hands on a jar of cookies. A healthy dose of slapstick from Rob Silvestri and Arc Productions.

A 5-part web mini-series in the vein of 60s spy movies – stylish, sexy and action packed – but with the hyperbolic humor of the 21st century. A must see. Watch the first episode here.

(NSFW: Language) ROFL-inducing YouTuber Chonny plays Cat Mario, an absurdly difficult Super Mario Bros. copycat filled with unfair traps, including a mushroom that helps you but doesn’t help you.

A track from Lioness: Hidden Treasures, an album of never before heard recordings of Amy Winehouse covering classic songs – including this duet with Tony Bennett – plus two original tracks.

An octopus at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve slithered out of the water and left something for its visitors. We think it said, “I’ll give you this in exchange for my privacy. No? Dammit.”

Ezio Auditore can learn a trick or two from YouTuber MrTeamVideo’s Dovahkiin. You can’t be a suspect with this setup. We hope he muttered to the priest, “You are already dead” before he sat down.

While it’s probably better than cooking a turkey with thermite, we’re not sure feeding your venison Tannerite before shooting it with an automatic weapon will result in an edible dinner.

A lonely toy takes a journey through the great outdoors, thanks to a little help from his friends, his owner’s iMac, Google Street View, and a sense of imagination from The Theory.

Remember the hair dryer-fighting cat? His name is Oskar; he was born without formed eyeballs and thus can’t see. Here’s Oskar when he was 8 weeks old, getting his first toys – balls with bells inside.