Awesome Videos

Vox looks at the history and evolution of comic book lettering. The most well known style – all caps, italicized, and with consistent thickness – was developed to make text easier to read on cheap paper. But there are dozens of comic book fonts and lettering styles.

To remove an aging overpass in Nanchang China, a veritable army of Hyundai excavation machines lined up and worked to rapidly demolish the old structure – removing the entire bridge in about 2 days, and reopening to traffic in 56 hours. (Thanks Hubert!)

Back in 2009, astronauts on the International Space Station captured this amazing perspective of Russia’s Sarychev volcano erupting, as a massive plume of ash and smoke ascended towards the heavens above.

Scott Portingale’s stunning short film is an abstract look at the evolution of matter and energy, created using a mix of time-lapse, high-speed, and stop-motion photography. Incredibly, the images were were made with fluids and handmade props, not CGI.

Chef Alton Brown shows us how to create a new kind of deep fried delicacy, which combines biscuit dough with the cooking and glazing process of a doughnut to make a tall and tasty treat. We know what we’re cooking this week.

CoasterForce shares an impressively crisp and immersive 4K video of The Monster, a new roller coaster located at Adventureland Iowa, complete with a crazy 101° vertical drop, crazy banks, and five inversions. The nighttime off-ride footage is worth watching too.

Frank Howarth is back with another awesome build – this time, he’s created a wonderful turned bowl using walnut and maple, with CNC cloud-shaped forms set into the sides. The stop-motion and orbiting time-lapse of the build is just the icing on the cake. (Thanks Victor!)

A fun medley of tunes from Fleetwood Mac’s classic album Rumours, played on ukulele by musician Eat My Uke. While we miss the vocals, we’re reminded just why this is one of the greatest albums of all time, and must go put it on the turntable right now.

(SPOILERS) Barbara clawed her way back to Hawkins to ask one question: why the heck didn’t anyone come for her? It would’ve been more appropriate for her to ask Chief Hopper, but then again it’s fun to see Eleven with her friends again.

Get to know more about the kids of Stranger Things – except Will, because of course he’s not there – in The Tonight Show‘s trivia game. The actors and host Jimmy Fallon took turns reading anecdotes, then sprayed silly string at who they thought it was about.

(PG-13) Did you know that South Park has 1,714 characters? Or that Kenny has died 102 times? What about the fact that the show is 20 freakin’ years old? Learn all that and more unnecessary statistics in this silly retrospective. Season 20 premieres 9/14/16.

(SPOILERS, Gore) CineFix breaks down the first half-hour of the hit action film Sicario, in which the heroine’s team is repeatedly warned of an attack. The long wait, enhanced by great music, gives way to three brief climaxes.

Counter656’s latest stop-motion romp features not only the creatures in the title, but a Sandtrooper and Boba Fett cruising in the Batmobile, and Darth Vader being devoured, among other crazy sights. The least plausible part? The Sandtrooper’s precise aim.

(PG-13: Language) After creating his awesome Hell’s Club mega movie mashups, Antonio Maria Da Silva is back with perhaps his most epic cut, in which a variety of iconic film characters all meet up in what appears to be the world’s most popular restroom.

While traveling through Berlin, vocalist EllandM spotted rapper INFIDELIX performing in the subway. She decided to join in and sing along with this awesome improv jam, backed by the beats of Phantogram’s When I’m Small.

Another intense round of fighting in the M-1 Medieval league, as one armored opponent beats the holy snot out of another, and proves that all that armor does nothing to save you from a knockout in the ring.

In this skit from Limmy’s Show, a man’s life is ruined in between commercial breaks as he wrestles with the fact that a kilogram of steel is just as heavy as a kilogram of feathers. Top notch acting.

We’ve all read our share of Shakespeare in school, but the combination of old English and William’s flowery prose sometimes makes it difficult to comprehend exactly what he was talking about. Our favorite YouTube puppets do their best to sort Romeo & Juliet out for us.

Did you know that in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Scott and Ramona’s Seven Evil Exes have visual cues indicating their number? Or that the actors in Sex Bob-omb actually played their respective instruments? All that in more in Did You Know Movies’ video.

(PG-13) A worried mother goes on a surreal journey when her son disappears while they’re playing hide-and-seek. Graham Parkes’ cleverly shot short film is an ode to the thankless task of raising a child. Here’s to all good parents.

Normally, when you want to tear down a skyscraper, you use explosives and wrecking balls, making a lot of noise and dust. But this technique allows workers to dismantle a building inch by inch, gradually making their way to the ground. Time-lapse at 1:02.

(PG-13: Language) “I’m sure you’ve been slapped before…” Steven Ho doesn’t think highly of his padawan’s foundations, so he decided to teach Conan O’Brien a couple of basic moves. Conan seems to think they’re more Basic Instinct.

Adam Ruins Everything washes out a seemingly harmless piece of advice: drinking 2L or eight glasses of water a day. It turns out no study has conclusively proven that standard. So why are we often told to stay hydrated? Because money.