Awesome Videos

YouTuber puttefnask wanted to make a guide for taking pictures in Grand Theft Auto V. He actually succeeded, except he doesn’t have the photo to show for it. See, GTA V is so advanced, it’s even got realistic photography. Wait for it… Proof here.

“I put my very best in every bowl I make.” Meet Kunimoto. He owns a ramen restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. Or, as YouTuber Life Where I’m From puts it, the restaurant owns him. He can’t find full-time employees, so he works from 8:00 am to 11:30pm six days a week.

Illustrator Jake Fried’s latest animated clip is yet another amazing example of his incredible artistry – a surreal, dream-like exploration of the human experience, played out through a series of ink, coffee, and wite-out drawings.

(SPOILERS) Frame by Frame examines what inspired design and visual effects studio Aaron Sims Creative when it conceptualized the appearance of Stranger Things’ Demogorgon and its bizarro-Earth home, the Upside Down.

One of the most beautiful examples of projection mapping we’ve seen. Artist Daniel Popper and his team worked with Wayne Ellis and Afterlife to create this illuminated sculpture for Portugal’s Boom Festival. The sculpture is equally amazing in daylight.

Super Gamer Builds and Sony installed a PS4 and a 4K TV inside a detailed replica of the treasure chests in Uncharted 4. The custom setup will be given away to a Sony sweepstakes winner. Skip to 7:19 for the reveal.

YouTuber NighthawkInLight made a machine that generates a small and safe vortex of air. The mini-tornado comes from a modified inline ventilation fan, while its visibility is enhanced by ultrasonic foggers and an LED lamp. It also serves as a humidifier.

Mario, Luigi and Wario jump from planetoid to planetoid to obtain a Power Star. Corridor Digital used a 360º camera to emulate Super Mario Galaxy‘s distinct look in their latest video. Making of here.

Mental Floss examines a number of bizarre, superflous, stupid, and downright awful products, some of which we can’t believe were ever made in the first place. On the other hand, we still want an HP-01 watch.

(LOUD) We’ll say this once. If you get motion sickness, DO NOT hit play. But for the rest of us, this dizzying video shot from the perspective of the rotating blade of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter is pretty neat. We’d love to see the same thing in slow-motion.

While preparing for a marathon in Montana, runner Jeff Dougherty captured nearly 100,000 photos of his 5-mile daily loop, then combined them into this cool hyperlapse, which morphs between sunny spring and summer days, wintry afternoons, and the browns and oranges of fall.

Claire & Max’s short film envisions New York City as a giant movie set, its buildings replaced by thin facades of themselves with the help of some super trippy visual effects. Though we’re pretty sure we’ve seen this somewhere before.

Kurzgesagt presents a vexing conundrum. Scientists have created genetically-engineered mosquitoes that are immune to the microorganisms that create malaria. But we don’t know if letting these “newsquitoes” loose has dire consequences.

Speaking on The Late Show, Chris Pratt told Stephen Colbert he’s grateful that he became famous at a mature age and that his wife Anna Faris went big time before he did. He also talked about the time that he worked for a pyramid scheme.

…Entertainment Correspondent with Tourette’s Syndrome. Such is the description for Conan‘s reporter Josh Redmond. If you’re waiting to get your pitchfork out for the cheap hyperbolic joke about disabled people, keep waiting.

(PG-13: Language) You may or may not know it, but 2014’s award winning film Whiplash started out as a short film. Jacob T. Swinney seamlessly combined Damien Chazelle’s two films to showcase the similarities between the original and the big screen versions.

When we’ve driven through the desert, we’ve had the occasional tumbleweed cross our path. We’ve never seen anything like this though, as seemingly millions of the pesky balls of plant matter took over a stretch of highway like a scene out of a Hitchcock movie.

We’re torn about this unaired Emmys performance. After all, Uptown Funk was overplayed two years ago, let alone in 2016. But we just can’t resist Caleb McLaughlin, Millie Bobby Brown, and Gaten Matarazzo, aka Lucas, Eleven, and Dustin from Stranger Things.

Musician 331Erock adds his own special touch to Daft Punk’s classic Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, as he rocks out some sweet heavy metal riffs to accompany the awesome Live @Alive 2007 version of the track.

Amazing footage of a veritable sea of people participating in a Ganesh Visarjan celebration in India, as they first dutifully clear the way for an ambulance to get through, then get right back to the festivities without skipping a beat.

Maker Samm Sheperd created this insanely bright source of illumination that uses eight 100-watt LED chips which generate so much heat that he built a system with computer water cooling components to keep it from bursting into flames.

Sneaky Zebra dropped by Atlanta’s big sci-fi and fantasy fan convention, and captured video of some of the many fun and fantastic costumes on hand during this year. It was a hard decision, but the four LEGO Ghostbusters minifigs win our vote for best of the show.

Man at Arms: Reforged made a life-size replica of Poppy’s larger than life hammer from League of Legends. The massive hammerhead is hollow, but its steel components more than qualify it as a heavy weapon. Poppy is one strong yordle.