Awesome Videos

The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon says clipping. vocalist and Hamilton actor Daveed Diggs is Broadway’s fastest rapper, because of his 3-second 19-word burst in the hit musical. Daveed then rapped lines from clipping.’s Taking Off to show that he can go faster.

The NBA honors its first unanimous regular season MVP with this mind-boggling highlight reel put together by the great Hoopmixtape. If you took a howitzer and gave it Allen Iverson’s handles and Jason Williams’ passing, you’d get Steph Curry.

Awe-inspiring GoPro footage of the launch of UP Aerospace’s SL-10 rocket, as it shot up to an apogee of 396,000 feet, with speeds as high as Mach 5.5. The payoff for the dizzying ascent are some of the most spectacular near space images we’ve ever seen.

Screen Junkies pokes fun at Deadpool‘s cliché storyline and the irony of having mostly juvenile humor in an R-rated film – all with the help of the man, the myth, the Green Lantern, Ryan Reynolds himself.

Engineers from the MIT Tangible Media Lab have improved upon their earlier tactile display system, adding the ability to control the perceived amounts of flexibility, elasticity, and viscosity. The result is a display that can feel like a variety of materials, from rubber to water.

A clever ad spot for General Electric which envisions an improbable event in which the skies open up to drop countless cephalopods on our heads, suggesting that the company will be ready for whatever the world throws at us. Maybe a sharknado won’t be so bad after all.

(PG-13: Language) Metal Gear Online promised Videogamedunkey that the game values stealth. This is somewhat true, but the game also values shotguns to the face, corpse grenades and stuffed toys. Turn captions on for extra laughs.

Inspired by photographer Noah Kalina’s daily portrait project, YouTuber Sam Reid also took a photo of himself everyday from 2011 until 2016. As a twist, he made his old selves sing along to Coldplay’s Life in Technicolor.

Kaptainkristian articulates Pixar’s recipe for success. The movie studio consistently makes wonderful animation and art, and their best movies are the ones that depict core values and relatable experiences, as opposed to parent company Disney’s more thinly veiled approach.

Donal O’Keefe and Charles Downman created this fun animated short which pays tribute to horror films, using a 3D isometric view to retell bits of classic flicks, as a car journeys from one nightmare scenario to the next. See if you can spot all the movie references.

The Simpsons has both reflected and influenced pop culture for much of its 26+ year run. But did you know the series also managed to predict (or potentially caused the creation of) a number of inventions? Does this mean we can blame them for Farmville? And autocorrect.

(PG-13: Language) The queen of robot underlords Simone Giertz tamed the plastic hand from her brutal wake-up machine and turned it into her personal shampooer. We hope she doesn’t turn her chopping machine into a hairdresser.

YouTuber Kaplamino added a very creative twist to marble mazes. He incorporated spherical magnets to pull off mechanics that would otherwise be impossible or complicated to set up, such as ricocheting balls and parts that trigger other parts without direct contact.

(Gore, Flashing lights) Claymation master Lee Hardcastle sends his ass-kicking cat up against the forces of hell in this amazing promotional short film for the new DOOM game. Mew mew Mister Falcon.

This cheeky Japanese commercial for Kirin Beer features a modern retelling of Aesop’s fable, The North Wind and the Sun, in which two of nature’s greatest forces compete to make a traveler remove his cloak. Only this time, the traveler is two scantily clad women in bikinis.

Amazing first-person footage of the Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft as it makes its way through Earth’s atmosphere and safely lands on the ground 339,178 feet below. We loved hearing all the sounds it makes on its journey. See just how fast it was coming in here.

Another fantastic and hypnotic LEGO great ball contraption module by builder Akiyuki, his latest machine is designed to pickup tiny LEGO soccer balls and basketballs and put them into planetary orbits. The planetary hemispheres came from various Star Wars sets.

(PG-13: Language) i-D and tattoo artist Grace Neutral explore South Korea’s bizarre conservatism on physical beauty. Plastic surgery is par for the course there, but tattoos are so frowned upon that only doctors are legally allowed to operate tattoo parlors. Part 1 here.

“Whoever scores the celestial dance of the comet most evocatively will be named the Lord of Synth.” Three legendary musicians compete for the coveted title of Lord of Synth in Adult Swim’s awesome parody of synth icons Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder and Wendy Carlos.

(SPOILERS) FilmIsNow got its hands on nearly 9 minutes of footage from the making of Captain America: Civil War. It just goes to show how much is done in post-production these days. We hope they stop with the soap opera-style reaction close ups.

After being abducted by aliens, Kate McKinnon’s hilariously uncouth Ms. Rafferty shares another of her out of body experiences, which is decidedly less awe-inspiring than what her friends encountered after heading towards the light after a car wreck.

(PG-13: Language) Last Week Tonight reminds us to be wary of morning show science, i.e. the kinds of “findings” that mass media often present as facts even though the actual studies were unverified, inconclusive or cherry picked.

(PG-13 Lyrics) Time to get Riggity Riggity Wrecked Son! Mashup master Mylo the Cat perfectly edited together bits of Rick and Morty lip-synced them to the sounds of Kendrick Lamar’s Swimming Pools (Drank). Seriously, this should have been the official music video.