Awesome Videos

On 6/20/16 – the longest day of the year – Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós went on a 24-hour, 827mi road trip around their country via its coastal ring road. The entire trip was livestreamed on YouTube, set to elements of the band’s new song Óveður.

The Smithsonian Channel walks us through the lengthy path that luggage goes through from the time you drop it off at the counter until it makes its way onto your flight. With a process this complex, it’s amazing that more bags don’t go AWOL. From the show X-Ray Mega Airport.

Director Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind) takes us back to the Fab Four’s brief but revolutionary takeover of rock and roll, and music in general. Featuring lots of never-before-seen footage and interviews with Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

Despite its cluttered interface, Waze is a shining example of crowdsourcing – it turns parts of a problem into parts of a solution. Google employees Nat and Lo visited their co-workers to learn more about the community-based interactive map app.

Lilly Mtz-Seara goes through the basic colors to show how filmmakers use them to accentuate, project and imply specific emotions or concepts. Specifically, she shows how each color can be used in both positive and negative contexts.

Physics Girl and Arc Attack might sound like a superhero and her evil archnemesis, but they’re just everyday geeks who love science. Here, they show us how to rip an aluminum soda can to shreds using a powerful electromagnet, along with a couple of other fun experiments.

Pianist and composer Nikolai Kapustin is known for his unique virtuoso pieces, which fuse the playful chaos of jazz with the perfectionist stamp of classical music. Pianist Dimitry Masleev demonstrates Kapustin’s music in this first-person performance of Toccatina Op. 40.

In the Scripps National Spelling Bee, once you start spelling out loud you cannot take it back. You can reset and spell from the start, but you can’t change your answer. So in 2012, 13-year-old Jack Pasche chose to go out guns blazing. Perhaps Will Forte was his inspiration.

YouTuber Jimmy DiResta bought four neglected tools at a flea market for $1 each, then reminds us that sometimes old objects simply need a little cleaning and polishing. He spent an inordinate amount of time with the chisel handles, but we can’t argue with the results.

Kaptain Kristian takes a look at one of our favorite bands. Created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, Gorillaz is a modern-day supergroup, with a constantly changing lineup, a free-flowing, enigmatic style, and fronted by a stable of four archetypal animated characters.

(SPOILERS, Gore) YouTuber Ozzy Man Reviews gives us a more satisfying ending to Game of Thrones’ battle between Jon Snow and Ramsay Bolton. If only Geoffrey and the entire Faith of the Seven were lined up for the beatdown.

(PG-13: Language) After regaling us with a tale in which everything bad happens in space, Luc “Zapatou” Bergeron is back to delight us with a sequel, in which numerous astronauts, explorers, space pilots, (and Matrix dwellers) face off against ever worsening odds.

Mark Rober teamed up with Eclectical Engineering to create this awesomely unwieldy weapon which fires huge foam darts, made from pool noodles and toilet plungers. Thanks to compressed air, it can fire darts at speeds up to 40 mph. Check out the gunpowder upgrade.

Portland’s premiere punk rockers The Thermals dropped by KEXP to perform Into The Code, My Heart Went Cold, Hey You and Thinking of You from their latest album We Disappear, which ruminates on death while blasting catchy riffs.

YouTuber HMS2 makes accurate, but teensy replicas of real world items for dollhouses. Out of all of the creations on their channel, these miniature cups of instant ramen are our personal favorites. Though the tiny Pocky sticks and potato chips are equally impressive.

A talented street food vendor in China works some serious magic as he maneuvers his edible creations into a series of geometric patterns by simply jostling his tray just right. You might even say he was tossing his cookies.

The Cleveland Cavaliers finally bagged its first NBA championship and their city’s first major sports title in 52 years with a legendary performance. Nike captures Cleveland’s stunned reaction now that the thing they’ve wished for so long has finally come true.

Actor Ricky Gervais thinks that the guys on YouTube who rattle off a bunch of impressions are just a bunch of showoffs, and he told Jimmy Fallon that he can do it better. Though Ricky has a much looser definition of what an impression is than real impressionists do.

Unless they’re soaked in huge amounts of sugar, cranberries can be ridiculously sour. And even then, they’re still pretty tart. Despite the look on this toddler’s face, he keeps going back for more. It’s like our love/hate relationship with hot wings.

Humans and vehicles pack and overlap on streets, roads and skies, but everything remains sharply focused. RISD film student Conner Griffith captures the hustle and bustle of urban life in this incredibly creative and mind-boggling twist on time-lapse videos.

Given the similar subject matter to Voltige, we’re guessing the 3rd year graduation class at MOPA all needed to direct an animation about a duo of bumbling car mechanics. Jalabert Camille’s amusing short film is definitely firing on all cylinders.

(PG-13: Language) Young beatmaker Daniel Asadi has a little fun with The Office‘s memorable opening theme by using it as the backgrount beat in this live remix of Kendrick Lamar’s Poetic Justice.

“He rejected the idea that we have to make a fatal choice between being worthy but dull, or popular but shallow.” The School of Life talks about the greatness of Charles Dickens – a pragmatic artist and a timeless role model for teachers and advocates.