Awesome Videos

The snowboard is based on the snurfer, an American invention from 1965. But Wrkshrt and Patagonia heard of Petran, a remote town in Turkey where snow surfing has been around for nearly 300 years. So they went there to check out the snowboard’s forgotten ancestor.

The 8-Bit Guy wanted to know if VHS tapes actually made for horrible videos. He compared three versions of Back to the Future: a 1080p digital copy, the same 1080p copy recorded on a high quality VHS tape, and a VHS release from 1985. TL;DW: Noise. So much noise.

YouTuber rctestflight made a light bar consisting of 10 100W LEDs and mounted it to a Freefly Alta 8 photography drone. The DIY lamp’s extremely bright yet narrow beam creates incredible contrasts in darkness, resulting in UFO-like visuals. Making of here.

About the last vehicle we’d think of taking off road is a minivan, but that didn’t stop these guys from taking a late ’80s four-wheel drive Toyota TownAce van out on the treacherous Hells Revenge 4×4 trail in Moab, Utah – and they did it with remarkable success.

“Can we please just get down from the mountain?” “Noooo.” Legolambs is back with another hilarious musical movie parody. This time they take on Cliffhanger, a movie where Stallone tries to make as many distinct pained expressions as possible.

(PG-13: Language) “My clothing company is going so poorly that we’re making shirts for the Chinese kids.” Find out who YouTube’s sarcastic life coach was before he put on the stick figure mask in this riveting memoir.

“Somebody in Vegas told them they were gonna win by 20 to 23 plus!” Syracuse football coach Dino Babers congratulates his team after they stunned ACC big shot Virginia Tech – with a fiery speech about fighting even when no one thinks you can win.

(PG-13) A group of artists spent about a year making separate short videos to recreate The Vulture’s Prey, an episode from the 1967 Spider-Man TV series. There are all kinds of animation styles, as well as some live action, backed by the original’s cheesy dialogue.

(Gore, PG-13: Language) “It’s like, she should die ’cause she’s wearing those socks.” Wired showed Ash vs. Evil Dead stars Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless some of the most gruesome death scenes in horror movies.

The Film Theorists argue that the people in the anime adaptation of Attack on Titan would be better off staying inside their walled cities instead of trying to defeat the giants. Assuming that the rich and powerful are willing to share with the poor. Skip to 4:13.

Musician Luna Lee knocks another hit out of the park, this time covering Lynyrd Skynyrd’s classic Free Bird on her gayageum, an ancient Korean string instrument, not typically associated with rock and roll.

Normally, when you need to move around the trailers from an 18-wheeler, you need a big rig to pull them. But with Verhagen Leiden’s V-move Elektrotrekker XXL, an individual can tow around an entire trailer much in the same way they’d pull a little red wagon.

Nick Proch and his Metamorphestra perform a truly enthralling symphonic take on Tool’s classic Schism. One YouTube commenter smartly observed that it should be part of the soundtrack for a sci-fi film. From the upcoming album, The Ship of Theseus.

A kick-ass promotional spot for a kick-ass organization, this spot for the SickKids Foundation at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children features kids and hospital staff doing battle against whatever comes their way, unwilling to give in to disease, illness, or injury.

If rider Antoine Bizet’s downhill run at the 2016 Red Bull Rampage wasn’t impressive enough, about 2/3rds of the way down, he pulled off an incredible double backflip. See what Antoine saw, without fear of breaking any bones in this amazing GoPro POV footage.

Rick and Morty is the last place we’d turn to try and solve our existential crisis, but that didn’t stop video essayist Will Schoder from finding serious philosophical depth in the offbeat and indelicate sci-fi cartoon.

In between projects for Pixar, animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj created this short film about a sheriff haunted by memories of a tragic mistake he made many as a young man. This is animated filmmaking at its absolute best. Learn about their inspiration here.

“Welcome to the Hydraulic Press Channel. Today we have stupid things for our press.” Well at least they’re self-aware. The destroyers of all things toss a bunch of random stuff under their mighty crusher, the most spectacular of which ends up being a simple deck of cards.

Tonight! Richard Hammond is embarrassed, Jeremy Clarkson is embarrassed and James May is embarrassed. Hammond makes it clear what he and his boys think of their replacements with this vicious mashup.

Before we watched Nukazooka’s latest video, we thought NERF projectiles were soft and harmless. But it turns out that all war is hell, whether you’re firing bullets or foam darts. Still, we wouldn’t mind a NERF tank.

“Aren’t all stormtroopers technically death troopers?” Your boy from far, far away is back with his reaction video to the final Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer. Watch as he slowly loses his temper at the inept Empire.

(PG-13: Language) Here are some of the fun bits from Conan O’Brien’s gym sesh with Kevin Hart that didn’t make it on air. Conan talks about loving Fruit Loops, turns down a guy who wasn’t even hitting on him and tells an inspirational story.

As we already know, Adam Savage loves to dress up in complicated costumes and walk around conventions to see if he can avoid being identified. For NYCC 2016, he dressed as the delightfully rotund Totoro. We love how he squeezed through that doorway at 4:45.