Awesome Videos

Google employees Nat and Lo spoke with some of their co-workers who handle YouTube to give us an overview of how it compresses and stores the videos we upload and how it distributes those copies around the world.

Most art museums are arranged based on nationality, chronology or genre. Instead of having such sterile and unwelcoming archives, The School of Life argues that art museums should be set up for therapeutic purposes – e.g. museums for loneliness, aging, creativity, etc.

“I uh, I followed a picture.” Jay Leno’s Garage showcases Jerry Miscevich’s beautiful recreation of the Packard Boattail Speedster. Nearly 20 years in the making, the car is made of either hand-fabricated or actual Packard components.

Today I Found Out points out why there are only a handful of foreign light trucks available in the US. It all has to do with the chicken tax, a 25% import tax on trucks that the US imposed in 1963 in retaliation for European countries placing a similarly high tariff on US chicken.

(PG-13: Language) 21-year-old Englishman Isaac Gracie got a record deal on the strength of one song, Last Words. And he’s as good as his hype. Here’s the folk singer on the streets of Paris, singing Last Words and Terrified, both on his EP Songs from My Bedroom.

File Cemre Candar’s latest video under “dumb things to never try,” as he loaded up his bathtub with over 1200 bottles of chili sauce, then took a dip in it. This makes his chocolate and beer baths look like the work of a Rhodes Scholar.

Following up on their montage of the badass Brit’s mighty fists flying, Burger Fiction is back with an epic supercut of the hundreds of times Jason kicked the snot out of his foes. Our groins hurt just watching this.

(PG-13 Language) “We wanted to make a positive, life-affirming video that captures politicians at their election-year best. We got this instead.” The music video for DJ Shadow and Run the Jewels‘ collab sums up the childish mudslinging going on in D.C. these days.

The bear attack isn’t nearly as gruesome, and the cinematography pales in comparison to Emmanuel Lubezki’s masterwork, but we’d still like to play this retro RPG version of The Revenant, brought to life by CineFix, animator David Dutton and chiptuner Henry Dutton.

“Normally wood is just thrown at me. But this time, I needed something bigger.” Something Fishy continues its snarky how-tos for women. This time they show us how to make an end table, and make men feel insecure.

This 2011 documentary shows how the Japanese’s diligence and world famous work ethic translates to its moving companies. Aside from transporting your belongings, they will pack and unpack your items as they were, and even clean both your old and new homes.

Max Fleischer’s 1931 cartoon Bimbo’s Initiation is arguably one of the greatest pieces of animation of all time. Watch this awesome clip, set to a modern instrumental score by Hussalonia and tinged with not too much color, courtesy of editor Craig J. Clark.

Lessons from the Screenplay deconstructs how the Nolan Brothers’ screenplay for The Dark Knight contains the right ingredients for a villain. The Joker neutralizes Batman’s strengths, forces Bats to make difficult choices, and both have a similar goal.

If you need something crash or safety tested in Switzerland, you send it to the Dynamic Test Center. In this video, they decided to load up a shopping cart with groceries, then first run it into a car at 11 mph, then really amp things up by smashing it into a wall at more than 73 mph.

When we saw the title of Kuma Films‘ latest video we thought we’d be watching some kids playing Chopsticks on a piano, but instead, we got to hear some truly wonderful music by Sami Elu, made with a cool stringed instrument that’s played with chopsticks as the hammers.

If you thought the guys who climbed to the top of giant smokestacks had balls of steel just getting up there, daredevil Flaviu Cernescu decided to juggle some oranges and ride his unicycle at the top of an 840 foot-tall tower. Oh yeah, the bricks were loose too.

PixelStorm Films latest video envisions what will really happen to all of us once the Pokémon get sick of being captured by our smartphones. It should have served as a cautionary tale, but instead it just made us want that badass Pokéball assault rifle.

Dee Snider channels Neil Diamond with his acoustic rendition of the Twisted Sister classic, which he sung on behalf of Criss Angel’s cancer charity HELP (Heal Every Life Possible), founded after his 2-year-old was diagnosed with Leukemia. Seriously, Dee, we’ve got chills.

Carbon fiber is used in auto racing and aerospace industries because of its strength and lightweight properties. But can this stuff that’s basically made from woven material and resin stand up to the mighty hydraulic press? Tune in and find out.

The Sam O’Nella Academy fills us in on a few tricks that mother nature plays on our bodies, putting things in the wrong places and the like. You could spend your whole life without even knowing about them, and there’s a 10% chance you’ve got a bonus spleen right now!

YouTuber Jason Wolfe pretended to accidentally puncture his finger with a wood staple to see how his friend Tyler would react. Jason got more than what he bargained for, because Tyler was too shocked to recognize the punchline.

(Flashing images) Vimeo member jansoli’s overwhelming hyperlapse video is the visual translation of “The City That Never Sleeps,” showing off the vibrant colors and movement of New York City.

(PG-13: Language) A woman is exasperated by his man’s entitled laziness and tells him to move his ass and help out. But he lets her in on a secret shared previously only by millions of clueless dudes across millennia: it’s not laziness, it’s magic.