Awesome Videos

The New York Times visits an employee parking lot near Los Angeles International Airport, which has become the primary residence for aviation workers who travel all the time (and probably can’t afford California real estate.)

(Flashing lights) The music video for Dan Deacon’s new single Change Your Life (You Can Do It) is a distillation of his gigs. He makes the crowed do silly dance moves while emotion and humanity slowly sublimate out of his hyperactive music.

(PG-13: Language) CollegeHumor’s requisite bashing of the headphone jack-less iPhone 7 features Tim Cook having a nervous breakdown, and Jony Ive revealing himself to be what we suspected he was all along: a cold-blooded AI.

YouTuber Hevesh5 spent a total of 25 hours putting 15,000 dominoes together in one massive and surprisingly sturdy triple spiral structure designed to fall inside out. Check out a reverse one-shot take here.

NASA used the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), to capture images of our planet over the course of a year – once every 2 hours at a distance of 1 million miles – then assembled them into a time-lapse. Scientist Jay Herman narrates and explains their mission.

Ahoy’s latest firearm profile is about the Fusil Automatique Léger (“Light Automatic Rifle”) aka FN FAL. Developed for the NATO in the face of the Cold War, the FAL never became as popular as its predecessors or the more high tech rifles that came shortly afterwards.

Love Props’ replica of Guy-Manuel’s first generation Daft Punk helmet is packed with electronics to take advantage of its potential as a wearable light show. The LEDs can react to sound or movement, and there’s a USB port and an SD card slot to swap choreographies.

How to Make Everything traveled 5,000mi to a remote village in Oaxaca, Mexico to pick, skin and dry coffee beans before flying back home to roast and brew them. Check out the supplementary videos here.

TheGaroStudios’ latest Game of Thrones profile is about the forsaken guardians of Westeros. Many believe they are preparing for nothing, when in truth nothing can prepare them for what’s coming.

(PG-13: Language) Rapper YG sat down with First We Feast to talk about his favorite fast food pizza, his politically-charged tracks, booting people off his house after a party and more, all while wondering where the hot sauce is supposed to be.

At the behest of their sponsor, UK grooming brand King of Shaves, Brett Domino and Steven Peavis decided to take Europe’s brash synth-rock tune The Final Countdown and turn it into an adult contemporary track that Kenny G himself would be proud of.

With the announcement of the PS4 Pro, PlayStation Japan is slashing the price of the original PS4 by 5,000 yen. The 5,000 yen bill features writer Ichiyō Higuchi. PS4 exclusive Persona 5 features a band of thieves. Mix them all up and you have… a ballad?

(PG-13: Language) A couple have a mature and honest discussion about whether or not they want to have children. It all sounds like they got it all figured out, then you remember that the video is from Cyanide & Happiness.

LEGO master builder Sariel used Technic components and the SBrick to make an automated train cargo loader and rotary dumper. The dumper requires no human input, while the loader goes to work at the press of a button and can also be controlled manually.

Gogamusic has made a career out of turning popular songs into reggae versions. As we dug through his YouTube channel, we came across a few gems, not the least of which is this cover of Journey’s 1981 classic, which seems completely at home in Jamaican style.

Mental Floss‘ Elliott Morgan fills our brains with 26 tidbits of trivia about magicians and their tricks, including the math skills, psychology, and dexterity required to make stage illusions convincing. Also, we never knew Teller’s first name until today.

A look inside Nissan’s Canton, Mississippi factory, where hardworking folks have built every single TITAN pickup truck since 2003. We’re still amazed to see how coils of steel are transformed by man and machine into the vehicles we rely on every day for work and play.

During the Rio Paralympics, British broadcasting station Channel 4 aired these three Maltesers commercials. Each one depicts a disabled person going through awkward, but relatable situations, and has a solid punchline.

Stop-motion animation dates back to the earliest days of movie making. To celebrate the recent release of Kubo and the Two Strings, Vugar Evendi assembled this brief history of the wonderful technique, with snippets of films from 1900 through 2016.

(PG-13) While we were already treated to The Avalanches’ 70s-tinged track in The Was, Mrzyk & Moriceau’s animated music video deserves a watch too, capturing some of the characters and happenings one might encounter on a trip through NYC’s subway system.

(PG-13: Language) FX has uploaded the first episode of Donald Glover’s comedy-drama Atlanta on YouTube. Meet Glover’s character Earns, a deadbeat who sees a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of Paper Boi, a promising rapper who turns out to be his cousin.

Mario Wienerroither spins off his musicless music videos to make a silly dub of Felix Baumgartner’s world record freefall. But it’s still one of the craziest things we’ll ever see in our lifetime. Dude jumped from space! Space!

The Onion film critic Peter Rosenthal takes a look at Clint Eastwood’s film about Sully Sullenberger’s heroic emergency landing in the Hudson River, but reminds us that despite the survival of all passengers and crew, there were still victims of this tragedy.