Awesome Videos

The Onion’s Peter K. Rosenthal reviews Finding Dory from a satirical self-absorbed perspective, viewing it as an oblivious testament to the difficulties of living with the disabled. Poor Petey. Nana should be ashamed of herself.

John Heisz previously showed us how to take an old saw blade and turn it into a folding knife. Now he applies his craftsmanship to transforming a rusty circular saw blade into an elegant, traditional woodworking tool.

So your buddy is complaining that their seedless watermelon has a seed in it. How do you respond to their whining? Whip out two fingers and play them a sympathy tune. Now, thanks to Design I/O and Project Soli, your fingertips can actually make the sounds too.

YouTuber Mr Steele returned from the 2016 Joe Nall RC airplane show with footage that’s possible only through a camera-equipped drone and one hell of an operator at the controls. The song is The Glow by Big Data.

(PG-13: Language) “Show us character, and you’ve got good dialogue.” Channel Criswell masterfully explains the ideal purpose of dialogue in movies. A great dialogue doesn’t tell you what the story is, but who the characters are.

(PG-13) A neurotic attending primal therapy literally coughs up every emotion he’s repressed. Simon Cartwright’s amazing and intense stop-motion short film is like Fight Club if Tyler Durden was a real being. Aaaahhhhh!!!

(SPOILERS) YouTuber ControvT hypes up the penultimate – and usually climactic – episode of Game of Thrones’ sixth season by summarizing the events leading to the showdown between House Stark’s Jon Snow and House Bolton’s Ramsay Bolton.

In the early ’90s, Nintendo was looking for more Game Boy exclusive games. Then 19-year-old Masahiro Sakurai – who would go on to create Super Smash Bros. – answered the call with a new title that could be enjoyed by first-time gamers. The result is Kirby’s Dream Land.

Nintendo reminds us that it’s the pound-for-pound king of original franchises with another god-tier launch title. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a true open world adventure that just might single-handedly save the Wii U and Nintendo’s next console.

The always spectacular Haley Reinhart turns in another fantastic cover along with Postmodern Jukebox, with this orchestral arrangement of Soundgarden’s 1994 grunge hit that starts out as a sultry jazz ballad, and ends with as much fire and energy as the original.

If you thought dolls were creepy, just wait til you see how they’re made. Core77 spotted this 1963 documentary footage about a doll making factory, in which machines and workers crank out what are supposed to be playthings for little girls, but are actually just nightmare fodder.

After teasing us with a bit of his latest modular ball-moving contraption, LEGO fanatic Akiyuki shows off the completed machine, which he and his pals recently showed off at Japan Brickfest. The six-headed monster is super awesome.

Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs presents another meta cover – this time performing Gorillaz’ 2005 hit in the style of artists ranging from The Prodigy to Sir-Mix-a-Lot to Queen and even Darude. Keep an eye out for guitar cameos from some of our favorite YouTube rockers.

YouTuber NightHawkInLight revisits his brilliantly simple DIY airsoft gun, adding a decorative PVC housing and a longer brake line barrel. If you don’t have an air compressor, you can skip the blowgun and just squeeze the bottle to fire the pellets.

Artist Garip Ay demonstrates how to replicate Vincent Van Gogh’s iconic swirled masterpiece The Starry Night by painting it on water that he’s dyed black. Be sure to stick around for an awesome surprise at the end.

You’ll believe a bike can fly in this epic run from Rachel Atherton, as she sets a record 10th victory in a row at the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike world cup, tearing down the course at breakneck speeds, over rocks, roots, and other obstacles without so much as flinching.

Remix master Eclectic Method combines a number of his already awesome science fiction mixes into a single meta-mix that runs a nearly 27 minutes long, and is worth every single minute of your time. Hit play and crank it up right now.

(PG-13: Language) YouTuber RealLifeLore continues his discussion about the parallels of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones with Great Britain’s history, particularly the Wars of the Roses, which most likely inspired the stories of the Lannisters and the Starks.

After his 21st century musical about the history of Japan, comedian and synesthesia visualizer Bill Wurtz began churning out bite-sized videos, some shorter than animated GIFs. Videos like this one, which tries to define love. Hellll yeah.

(Gore) Batman teams up with the Suicide Squad to… actually we’re not sure what they were trying to accomplish. RackaRacka go for the low-hanging fruit in their trademark brutal fashion.

We’ve already seen skiing on sand dunes, so why shouldn’t sand snowboarding be a thing. Snowboarder Wojtek “Gniazdo” Pawlusiak took to the desert to shred some slopes with a little help from rally driver Kuba Przygoński and his Dakar-outfitted MINI. Photos by Marcin Kin.

How It Should Have Ended realizes that Marlin and Dory’s epic adventure to find Nemo may have made for a great family movie, but the return trip is going to be the aquatic version of The Revenant.

(PG-13 Language) Leigh Lahav and New Form Digital debut a hilarious new animated web series about a video store clerk who converts an old DVD player into a time machine, and the wacky antics that ensue for her and her friend whenever they play another disc.