Awesome Videos

After a failed attempt to crush a ball bearing with their regular press, the Hydraulic Press Channel upgraded their tools with hardened steel, and the resulting revenge against the little bearing that could is quite spectacular – some might even call it explosive.

(PG-13 Language) For anyone out there who had any doubts that the foul-mouthed, humourous lyricist Lil Dicky was a legitimate rapper, this freestyle clip from Tim Westwood TV should put your mind at ease, as the Dickster lets his prose flow with the best of them.

Forester’s animated music video for City, a song by Taiwanese band Sodagreen. A group of children are abducted and turned into infectious spies, turning their targets into accomplices. It’s like The Matrix if Neo was nature itself.

Maker johnnyq90 was playing around with a ceramic bearing and compressed air to see how fast he could make it spin, when he discovered something pretty awesome. As the bearing approaches extreme speeds, some phenomenon causes it to glow.

The LEGO Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS looks awesome, but complicated. Tune in for the next 25 minutes to watch the assembly in this extensive and not so fast time-lapse from Brick Builder. That instruction book looks thicker than the actual car’s owner’s manual.

James Corden fills every seat in his Range Rover with the members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as they sing a number of their hits, reminisce about their past, wrestle on someone’s lawn, and perform a brief tribute to the musical Oliver!, led enthusiastically by Flea.

There’s something immensely satisfying about this video of a 75-ton rocket engine being tested by the Korean Aerospace Research Institute. While you’d think the sound would be ear shattering, the white noise produced is soothing enough that we could sleep to it.

Despite having limited reference materials to work from, Baltimore Knife and Sword’s talented swordsmiths, machinists, and armourers managed to build an impressive replica of Voltron’s iconic blade, complete with propane jets that shoot fire.

Who knew that they allowed prehistoric dinosaurs in the American Ninja Warrior competition? This T. Rex does a much better job making his way through the challenging course than we could, that’s for sure. Though we’d like to see him do it with realistic tiny arms.

CineFix presents its top 10 picks for best character developments in movies. There are heroes with humble beginnings, characters who end up sticking to their old ways, poor folks who descend into madness and more.

The world’s hottest daredevil, Roberta Mancino, recently took a helicopter ride over Chile’s active Villarrica volcano, and proceeded to jump out wearing her wingsuit. Props to Sebastian Alvarez, who went along for the ride, along with photographer Carlos Pedro Briceño.

At the 2016 Beaver State Fling disc golf tournament, Philo Brathwaite threw a mind-boggling shot on an 850ft hole that curves sharply halfway through. It took a fair bit of luck as well, but it’s no less magical for that.

(PG-13: Language) “If you stick around doing nothing while everyone around you f***s up, you’re going to win big.” Last Week Tonight exposes the hidden fees and other deceptions of many retirement plans. You won’t believe what Janice from accounting gave.

Vsauce’s Michael Stevens returns with a typically long-winded, yet incredibly informative video about the nature of time, the innacuracies of time zones and calendars, and the way the planet’s tilt and rotation affect time. Say, is it Local Apparent Solar Noon yet?

Made by Destruction shows how the copper wiring in old copy machines can be reclaimed to produce shiny new products like brass musical instruments. Along the way, we get to see these defunct office machines satisfyingly ripped to pieces by an industrial shredder.

YouTuber inkling inkling imagines what Overwatch‘s opening and ending sequences would be like if it was an anime. J-rock? Check! Quick cuts between action scenes and character closeups? Check! Whole roster poses at the end? Check!

While some may see robots as the creepy harbingers of a dystopian future, YouTuber DFWV likes to think of them as the dopey and irreverent harbingers of Internet memes. Based on an attempt to sing this song. 1 hour special edition here.

(SPOILERS) Game of Thrones’ sixth season brought a classic sci-fi trope into the series. Vox enumerates the three most popular kinds of time travel in fiction and points out that what GoT has is the one that’s both mind-blowing and disappointing.

(PG-13: Language) Indie rock band Weaves at NPR Music’s NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert. The Toronto-based quartet sounds like a suburban teenagers’ first band – pop beats, even rhymes, cute and raw. Except, you know, they’re actually good.

YouTuber Wyomingnot managed to perfectly sync up bits of Star Wars: The Force Awakens with They Might Be Giant’s quirky Fingertips from their 1992 album Apollo 18, an offbeat collection of 21 seemingly random bits of song choruses.

Katie admits to her therapist that she fantasizes about being rescued by and living happily ever after with him. Which can’t happen of course, not unless there’s a complete breakdown of societal norms. Heather Jack’s short film has the right mix of cheese and humor.

“Hey David, hey David, have you ever seen a bra?” Stephen Colbert and David Duchovny wonder about adult life in the comfort of their blanket fort in The Late Show‘s antithesis to its Big Questions segment.

(SPOILERS) YouTuber Lessons from the Screenplay points out how novelist Gillian Flynn expertly applied three fundamental screenwriting lessons in translating her novel Gone Girl to the big screen.