Awesome Videos

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?!?”

Football freestylers Joltter, Andrew Henderson, and Melody Donchet show off their impressive soccer ball juggling skills surrounded by a ring of fire, and with the ball itself ablaze in this cool short film from COPA90. The track is When a Fire Starts to Burn by Disclosure.

Many people interpret Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken as an encouragement to take risks. Ironically, it’s actually Frost’s lighthearted jab at a friend who experienced the paradox of choice regarding literal paths on their frequent walks.

Wayne Coyne and gang play to a church filled with balloon audience members in the video for this David Bowie cover, which embraces the sort of enigmatic performance that itself would not exist if it weren’t for Bowie himself. A fitting tribute to the master of theatricality.

It’s a phrase we use all the time, but have you ever wondered where it originated? Today I Found Out digs into the origins of the saying “Elvis has left the building,” which is now synonymous with something that was fun or exciting now being over with.

Hornet worked with Leo Burnett London to create this stop-motion commercial for Mc Donald’s UK. The studio spent 3 months building six sets and hundreds of 3D-printed and hand-painted figurines for the 60-second spot. Be sure to watch how they made it here.

Leave it to Mehdi Sadaghdar to come up with an entertaining introduction to 3D printing. Watch as he risks life and limb to make a tree using a glue gun, as well as exploding rockets using a dedicated 3D printer. More on his blog. All we are is 3D printeeeers

Roman Atwood picks up some of his fellow YouTube celebs for a ride in his fancy BMW i8, but as is the case with pretty much everything he does, his passengers end up victims of another one of his pranks.

YouTuber, Future Nobel Prize winner and whisperer HopeEternity17 shares her scientific breakthrough with the world. We’re not going to spoil it, but yes, she’s holding a hair straightener. Like a true scientist, she performed the experiment repeatedly.

Editor Jacob T. Swinney dug through the best films of the last 100 years to create this reel of the most memorable and iconic shots from each year. Some of our favorites didn’t make the cut, but when you’re limited to one film per year, it was bound to happen.

An extraterrestrial explorer is marooned by an endless cycle of war and killing on the planet that he visited in the penultimate episode of Zumabakamera’s critically-acclaimed short film series. You can help fund the finale on Kickstarter.

Retro Report tells the triumphant tale of the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Ironically, D&D achieved mainstream success because mass media demonized it, similar to how video games and social media are treated today.

The normally hard-edged heavy metal band Disturbed recently stopped by Conan and performed their powerful rendition of the Simon and Garfunkel classic Sound of Silence, showing off a side of lead singer David Draiman that we’re not used to hearing.

Missouri-based indie rock band Me Like Bees made a cover of Van Morrison’s pop soul song Dweller on the Threshold using only the lyrics as the basis for their adaptation. Skip to 5:36 for the performance.

The Hydraulic Press Channel dipped a variety of small objects in a -321ºF bath of liquid nitrogen, then subjected them to the powerful forces of their press, shattering them into countless pieces. Anyone out there got a car crusher we can try this with?

The plight of Flint, Michigan’s residents made lead poisoning a hot topic, but Last Week Tonight reminds us that deadly lead is still in the paint inside millions of homes. John Oliver’s new neighbors dropped by to help him wake up lawmakers.

Kermit the frog calls into question Fozzie Bear’s very existence, and Piggy and Kermie share an intimate moment in these improv screen tests between Jim Henson and Frank Oz during the filming of the 1979 classic The Muppet Movie.

Saturday Night Live guest host Julia Louis-Dreyfus pokes fun at electric cars with a hilarious mock commercial for Mercedes-Benz’ new green luxury vehicle – an amazing new car which runs on battery power, yet needs no charging stations or power outlets.

A seagull spots another seagull moving in on its territory, and gives it a stern warning to keep away. The only problem is the other bird is just its reflection it a car’s shiny bumper cover. Guess you can’t expect too much from a brain the size of a pea.

(PG-13: Language) h3h3 Productions noticed that ’90s pop culture is making a comeback, so he decided to get in on the fun and start his own boy band. The hilarious thing is that his basis for doing all of this… is a song from 2000.

A look back at the Golden State Warriors’ (ir)regular season, which set new records – never lost to the same team twice, no back-to-back losses, etc. – en route to breaking the biggest of ’em: 73 wins and 9 losses, topping the 1996 Bulls’ 72-10 record.

Retro Report chronicles the continuing development of the artificial heart. Today, the life-saving device serves as a stopgap while patients wait for a donor heart, but experts continue to work on a surrogate heart that can be used permanently.