Awesome Videos

The Slow Mo Guys’ latest paint experiment involves powder paint and a drum kit. The 2000fps clip is really neat because it showed the instruments’ surfaces vibrating multiple times.

For its latest list show, Mental Floss teaches us a number of things we didn’t know about James Bond and the actors who played him over the years – like the fact that the trademark James Bond theme music might have never been, had a certain musical ever been staged.

Prince Rogers Nelson passed away on 4/21/16 at his residence. A genre unto himself, Prince maintained his privacy while entertaining us with a larger-than-life persona, which he backed up with prodigious talent and productivity.

“I may not have won today, but I still gained something new: an arch-nemesis!” He-Man, Skeletor and six other Eternians become castlemates in a reality show where they try to get along and also fight. It’s not as funny as The Quest for Chicken, but we’ll take it.

Paper engine maker Aliaksei Zholner made something different but no less amazing. His working Stirling engine scale model uses ice and hot water to manipulate the pressure inside its cylinder and generate power. It’s made of paper, cardboard, tissue and lots of glue.

Devin Supertramp and his posse make a big mess of things as they splatter the hell out of each other in an epic paintball battle on a literally cool set piece made almost entirely from ice. Behind-the-scenes video here.

Master playing card manipulator Zach Mueller once again works his magic, making cards do things we didn’t think were physically possible and showing off his limited-run popsicle colored Pink Fontaine cards while he’s at it.

Director John Wikstrøm proves that even the simplest ideas can make for brilliant short films. Case in point, this powerful story about the relationship between a boy and his now departed father, which was based entirely on a single YouTube comment.

A 360º short film about an alien that crash lands on Earth. It goes on a rampage when a woman picks up the device that came with it. Best watched via YouTube on Android or Google Spotlight on iOS device. Behind-the-scenes here.

Screen Junkies takes on Bryan Singer’s Superman ho-boo-quel that somehow manages to be both creepy and boring at the same time. Supes’ flicks make him look like a dumb relic, but there are sublime stories about him. It’s just really hard to tell great tales about a god.

(PG-13: Language) “What? You think I’m this? This is a little boy.” Nylon had Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams take over a board game store in Santa Monica, CA. She gave away GoT merchandise to folks who were willing to act out scenes from the show.

A dying company sees a mote of hope when the impossible happens. RocketJump visualized a joke so old they felt compelled to explain it afterwards, which is just depressing for those of us who got the punchline.

E-commerce platform Shopify digs into the science and psychology which drives us to blow off work and not get things done, and even though we might think you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, there is hope for chronic dilly-dalliers.

Petrolicious features Jay Kho and his 1983 R30 Skyline. The series that revived the Skyline model, Jay and many of his fellow gearheads pined for the R30 even more because it was never sold in the US. There are days when Jay still can’t believe that it’s in his garage.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this sort of act, but every time we see someone perform with these spinning rings, we can’t resist. We’re just simply too hypnotized to avoid it. Kuma Films shares some fascinating footage of the performance art known as Buugeng.

Georgina Hayns is a Creative Supervisor at Laika, the animation studio behind Boxtrolls, Coraline and more. She recently spoke with The Oscars about how they bring a stop-motion puppet to life, a process that takes up to 6 months per puppet.

YouTuber Many A True Nerd spawned a new kind of let’s play video. He made an abridged playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure books to let us dictate how the video plays out. Turn annotations on.

(PG-13: Language) The Nice Guys’ Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling star in this meta-viral video for their film where they consult a shrink (Big Bang Theory‘s Melissa Rauch) to settle their issues. Longer versions here and here.

TED-Ed shares a statistical study that backs up the idiom “too good to be true.” The researchers say we should be suspicious of incredibly consistent observations or agreements by an overwhelming majority, because it’s more likely that an error or a deception has occurred.

Man at Arms: Reforged made a replica of the highly coveted sword from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It may not look as imposing or complex as the other weapons they forged, but it took a lot of time and finesse to create the details on both the blade and the guard.

To celebrate weed’s high holy day, JoBlo Movie Trailers compiled a list of 10 movies in which one or more of the actors was allegedly stoned out of their minds. Though it appears that most of these guys were on harder stuff than just pot.

Corridor Digital and their friends played a round of Team Fortress 2‘s Payload in real life using their cache of NERF guns. They swapped the goals of Red and Blu and there are not enough hats, but the Engineer’s turret is awesome. We give it Half-Life 3/10.

(PG-13) PistolShrimps reenacts a handful of classic movie scenes with felines in place of human actors. Those Wolf of Wall Street bits make us want to see every Martin Scorsese movie remade with cats. “You meowin’ to me? You meowin’ to me?!?”