Awesome Videos

Not to be confused with another video game-themed short film, Zachary Antell’s animated short recounts a young man’s relationship with his older brother through their gaming sessions. We could’ve done without the narration, but it’s still worth watching. Making of here.

Now You See It lists some of the common criteria that we use to deem a movie “great”: introducing or perfecting a cinematic technique, influencing or defining pop culture, etc. But for many of us, the great movies are the ones that we saw at the right moment in our lives.

“Ingredients, ingredients, ingredients. I believe the best ingredients are frozen. They come in boxes. They come in bags.” Discover the culinary philosophy of Trev Daley, a cook at a fast food joint. CBC’s parody of Chef’s Table needs more plating and landscape shots.

Skateboarders Tony Hawk and Aaron “Jaws” Homoki left behind the ramps, rails, and half-pipes of Earth, and took advantage of a Zero G aircraft to catch some serious hangtime. The biggest trick? Not hurling their guts out.

The latest trailer for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a short film that explains the game’s setting. Powerful human augmentations have become popular. But the rest of the world becomes afraid of the augmented after a hack temporarily caused the latter to become violent.

Get your virtual sugar fix with this short, but still oddly satisfying video of a machine that serves just a single purpose: to fill plastic jars with handfuls of lollipops. Best if watched in a continuous loop.

An emerging musician recovers the hatchback that she used to live in together with her dad, who raised her single-handedly as a street musician. A 360º animated tearjerker from animator and director Patrick Osborne (Feast).

(PG-13 Language) Super Deluxe presents their prog-metal, pixel art take on Schoolhouse Rock with a brief educational short about the origin of the Pug dog. Cats almost ruined everything, but the diminutive dogs ultimately prevailed. (Thanks Daniel!)

(PG-13) Serial prankster Rémi Gaillard performs a series of ridiculous and inappropriate medical procedures on his co-conspiritors, occasionally enlisting the aid (or wrath) of random bystanders. We were waiting for a dog to come along and eat the transplant heart.

We recently got to speed around the famed Road America circuit in the new 2016 Dodge Viper ACR with pro driver Chris Winkler. Thanks to its amazing aerodynamics, grippy tires, and insane 645 hp 8.4L V10, this street-legal Viper can go around a track faster than any other.

Puppet maker Barnaby Dixon shows off a proof-of-concept design for a new puppet that incorporates the use of his fingers to articulate its hands, feet and head. Combined with Barnaby’s solid puppeteering skills, its movements are impressively human. More here.

This video shows how two-color drinking straws start out by molding hot plastic into a large tube shape, which is then gradually reduced down in size through a series of cooling trays. We’d like to hack this machine to make the world’s longest Krazy Straw.

“I’m not trying to prove anything. I’m just trying to have fun.” Veteran skateboarder Daewon Song has never been comfortable in the limelight. But he’s smart enough to leverage social media to stay relevant. These days he’s playing HORSE against himself on Instagram.

“Roman coinage? Being wheeled into a sunny spot? Lenses in an hour or less?” HBO shares the outtakes of the Silicon Valley scene where T.J. Miller’s insecure douchebag investor character Erlich Bachman meets seasoned CEO Jack Barker.

Welcome to the party, pal! Burger Fiction presents a compilation of scenes in which characters either welcome the audience or other characters to the scene, providing a quick and easy path to exposition.

A fake product that would totally sell millions if it were real, the Bose Shhhh is the creation of Dad Dudes, who envision a gadget which can magically filter out every noise that you find annoying, from kids to coworkers.

Stanley Franks learns that he has a rare condition, in which he can only utter 1500 more words before he dies. Andrew Chaplin’s darkly comic short film looks at how Stanley chooses to use his remaining words, after wasting most of them reacting to his condition.

(Flashing lights) CineFix shares its picks of movies whose greatness lay in throwing convention out the window. There are movies that acknowledge the audience, movies that don’t have stories, and movies that were made by Andrei Tarkovsky.

The School of Life talks about the common factors that influence our sense of self-worth. Whatever the cause, it’s important to realize that we should accept and love ourselves, and that comparing ourselves to others is pointless.

Motor Trend’s Head 2 Head compares the world’s fastest SUV, the 2017 Bentley Bentayga, with the world’s quickest SUV, the 2016 Tesla Model X. It’s mostly a sane discussion, except for the silly drag race at 3:31.

“I’ve gotten to see the world while doing this job. Well, not the world, just the eastern suburbs.” A young construction worker talks about the pros and cons of his job in this funny short promo film made for Carpentry Contractors Company.

(PG-13: Language) Chef, restaurateur and reformed party guy Matty Matheson shows us his take on deep fried chicken. You’re going to need some pickle brine, buttermilk, spices and one to three days. Oh!

The earliest known predecessor of the necktie is depicted in Chinese sculptures from 209 BC. But it wasn’t widely used until the 1630s, when Croat soldiers brought cravats to France. The tie as we know it today wouldn’t come about until the 1920s in New York.