Awesome Videos

Not sober (or conscious) enough to remember last night’s New Year festivities at the stroke of midnight? Check out these New Year 2009 firework videos from around the world: Vimeo, Youtube.

Satirical spin-off The Colbert Report is known for its pun-laden verbal metaphor teasers; the video above is a rapid-fire collection (hat tip to Comedy Central) of the show’s 2008 intros.

What better way to ring in the new year than with a bid for world domination: Battle Gear offers both offensive and defensive modes, with a vast selection of land, air and sea units.

NYC bike culture comes alive with this video from the New York Bike Dreams photo exhibit in Tokyo; the tricks are off the cuff, with nothing sped up or slowed down. Thanks, Brian!

What if Wall-E were real? Anthony Meadows’ Wall-E: Down to Earth (Part 1, Part 2) is a beautifully shot using a JVC GZ-HD3 with music from the soundtrack and Thomas Newman.

Inside Digital Foundry has some demo gameplay up for Ninja Blade; it’s visually similar to the trailer, which is a good thing, although there’s a heavy reliance on Quicktime events.

Sure, Race To Witch Mountain may be targeted for kids and filled with cringe-tastically predictable lines, but we’ll see it for the telekinetic aliens, Matrix-like effects and The Rock.

Reviews are mixed over this Japanese-dubbed trailer for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li; nobody looks like any of the game’s characters, but Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li = hot.

A simple concept breathtakingly rendered in HDR, Eirik Solheim compresses a year of photographs in a wooded setting into only 40 seconds; it was shot using clips from his Canon 400D.

Shot only half a day after photographer Dan Chung bought his EOS 5D MK II, One Night in Beijing utilizes five pieces of Nikon and Zeiss glass and is a delight for people watchers.

This epic battles developer diary for Battlestations: Pacific is a bit of South Pacific paradise for WWII combat buffs; it’s chock full of both cinematics and gameplay battle videos.

JibJab’s yearly videos are now nearly as traditional as the NYC ball drop; their 2008 Year in Review takes jabs at all the usual suspects, including the economy and the elections.

Built by Randy Jones for his CS thesis, this multitouch music device is actually a passive force sensor that makes music with a MacBook Pro via an 8×8 RME audio interface.

Putting the wow in WoW, The Craft of War: BLIND is a superbly crafted machinima by Percula with a cool storyline (Blood Elf Rogue + Onyxia) and awesome choreography. Thanks, Ash

Compiled in less than a week by 23 year-old Fredrik Larsson, this one-man Wind Waker music video (a-la Zelda) shows him playing everything from an accordion to a pan flute.

Pyro is a bit like billiards, assuming you set your cue balls on fire and tipped the table over vertically; your objective is to light torches using elastic fireballs and combustible crates.