Awesome Videos
DIY Shake Shack Fries & Milkshake
Shake Shack’s culinary director Mark Rosati dropped by Munchies to show us how to make the chain’s deliciously cheesy fries as well as its black & white milkshake. He also shares tips on picking potatoes and storing french fries.
Red Hydrogen Sneak Peek
Camera maker Red is confident enough to take pre-orders for its mysterious “holographic” Hydrogen smartphone with barely any information about the gadget. Until now. MKBHD got his hands on three Hydrogen prototypes, and he came away impressed.
Tiny Guns
(Gore) These guys may have the world’s smallest guns, but that doesn’t stop them from throwing down. Corridor’s silly, but action-packed short reminds us that it’s not the size of your weapon, but the way that you use it.
Balloon Boom
A crew working in Long Beach, California stumbled onto a couple of mylar balloons entwined in the power lines. Before the lines could be shut off, they caused a spectacular short circuit, blowing up a transformer, and knocking out the neighborhood’s power.
Animation vs. YouTube
In animator Alan Becker’s latest clip, his famed stick figure characters take up residence on the pages of YouTube, watch classic viral videos, and encounter some of the many annoyances of Google’s popular streaming service. If your video stutters today, maybe this is why.
Hyperloop One Test Footage
It may still just be in its infancy, but Hyperloop One is definitely making progress with their high-speed transportation system. They recently sent their mag-lev test capsule rocketing down its vacuum-sealed tube at a top speed of 192 mph. Their goal is 670 mph.
The Wiseguy Behind Goodfellas
…or rather, the wiseguys behind Goodfellas. The Film Theorists share trivia not only about the real Henry Hill – the mobster that Ray Liotta portrayed in the film – but also how the other actors were cast, and how they sought inspiration for their roles.
MegaBots Eagle Prime Giant Robot
The giant robot duel between MegaBots and Suidobashi Heavy Industries has been delayed for more than a year. But the Americans finally appear to be ready. Meet Eagle Prime, the combat-ready – and hopefully pilot-safe – version of their hulking mech. USA! USA! USA!
Silencing a Silencer
For no other reason than to get YouTube views, the guys at West Coast Armory continuously fired 700 rounds from a full-auto M249 saw machine gun to see how quickly they could melt the silencer they installed. The answer? Not long. Not long at all.
Deconstructing There Will Be Blood
Film essayist Nerdwriter1 looks at Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterwork There Will Be Blood as an example of how its relatively modest use of edits and subtle framing adjustments have much greater emotional impact than the crazy rapid cuts we’re used to these days.
Glenn the Gromflomite
Rick and Morty fans will love this fan short film by David James Armsby, in which we find out more about the life of one of the endless stream of victims left in the wake of the multidimensional misadventures of the show’s main characters.
MasterChef Junior Junior
The kids on the FOX show MasterChef Junior have more cooking talent than most of us have as adults. Now, thanks to Gordon Ramsay and James Corden, the stakes are about to be raised even higher (and younger.)
Making a Wooden Mouse
While you can buy an off-the-shelf wooden mouse these days, we much prefer handcrafted items, like the one that ThisWoodwork made from scratch, using an existing plastic mouse as a rough form for creating a sweet pointing device, complete with a wooden scroll wheel.
DIY Cardboard Skee-Ball Machine
Do you love playing those Skee-Ball machines at Chuck E. Cheese’s? YouTuber Seanscrafts shows us how to build a scaled-down homebrew version of the game using sheets of cardboard and marbles. It looks like a simple enough weekend build, so get to it!
Tesla Model 3: Elon Musk’s Master Plan
In less than 15 years, a new player in the car industry managed to convince America that electric cars can be stylish and practical. With the coming of the Model 3, Tesla co-founder Elon Musk hopes to tack on the last crucial adjective: attainable.
Love Will Tear Us Apart: Piano Cover
Pianist Amik Lanfranco cranks out a truly impassioned performance of the 1979 Joy Division classic Love Will Tear Us Apart, with a piano arrangement so good it deserves a place on the soundtrack for Westworld.
Milky Shot
Roy Kafri and Gon Ben Ari’s quirky and charming animated short follows a strange alien creature who hovers above Earth, and who quickly becomes obsessed with the most mundane of objects. The ending was a little cheesy, but it’s the journey that matters.
World’s Smallest Working Train Set
The Museum of Working Miniatures is jampacked with tiny versions of stuff. One of our favorites has to be this miniature model train set which actually works. It cheats by using electromagnets instead of wheels to move the railcars around the track.
Unreal Reality
Art by Rens says what we’re looking at is a real-time render of an environment that was produced using the Unreal Engine and Nvidia’s VXGI lighting system and off-the shelf graphics cards. It’s so realistic that you’ll question its veracity. But this reality is 100% digital.
DIY Cork Hook
La Fabrique DIY made a simple tool to fish out the cork – or other small objects – from a wine bottle in case it falls in. It’s for a niche use case, but at least it’s easy to make. It’s basically three-armed tongs made from thin wire.
3D Escher Cube
M.C. Escher’s impossible cube worked its magic by toying with perspective on a flat sheet of paper. Pierpaolo Andraghetti decided to turn it into a digital model to see how it would work in three dimensions. It’s looks like it’s feasible to print a 3D model of it too.
Mr. Rogers Sings Death Metal
Musician and all-around madman Andy Rehfeldt is back with another death metal cover. This time, he turns our favorite mild-mannered, cardigan-wearing neighbor into an angry member of the Army of Satan. Though at times, Andy’s death metal voice sounds a whole lot like Cookie Monster.