Awesome Videos

While we wait anxiously for season 6 of Game of Thrones to begin, HBO has something to whet our appetites for the time being – a look at some of the amazing visual effects work that goes into the series. That flamethrowing crane dragon stunt was pretty epic.

(Crude humor) “I’m not racist but…” Do you love to judge people? Do you trawl the Internet looking for opportunities to be offended and unleash righteous rage? Then play Chaps Eye’s Triggered! Or just go troll any comment section like you usually do.

A dizzying stunt performed by pilot Spencer H. Suderman, who broke his own Guinness World Record of the most inverted flat spins in an aircraft. The daredevil spun his Sunbird S1X biplane around an astounding 98 times over the Arizona desert. We’re gonna go puke now.

One of the biggest stars in a town bursting with them went out with a bang. On his last NBA game, Kobe Bryant dropped 60 points to lead the Lakers to a comeback victory against the Jazz. Only 21 other players have scored at least 60 in a game. And Mamba is 37 years old.

Adjust the bass, and let the Alpine blast with another well executed lip-sync video from Mylo the Cat. This time, the cast of Sesame Street celebrates the warm weather with a little DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, and one of our favorite sunny day jams.

You’d think that a rubber ducky would be no match for the crushing force of the almighty hydraulic press, but this golden waterfowl put up a good fight before ultimately giving in. Ernie did not approve of this video.

(PG-13) “If there’s one thing I know about myself, it’s that once panic takes over, anything is possible.” YouTube’s fountain of wisdom exhibits something we never thought he could have: self-doubt. But if you believe in yourself, you can accomplish great things. You perv.

Practical VFX artist Joey Shanks shows us how to create cool UFO like effects using an off-the-shelf DJI Phantom 3 quadcopter as his instrument of choice. The trick is all about making sure your lights don’t weigh down the drone too much or throw off its balance.

A team of talented and thrillseeking skateboarders literally set their boards and ramps on fire, then performed a variety of cool tricks in front of the watchful lens of BeyondSlowMotion. Needless to say, don’t dare try this at home.

Motor Trend’s Ignition takes the new BMW M2 Coupe out on the track and on the road to see if it can recreate the magic of the 1M. Despite gripes about the manual’s rev-matching feature, and a few cost-cutting measures, they find that it’s a fun car worthy of the M badge.

(PG-13 Lyrics) “Made an Instagram for my cat… And my cat doesn’t even rap…” Mitchell Overton and John Peterson used an iPhone to shoot their lighthearted low budget video for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and xp’s collab track while shooting behind the scenes tour footage.

Watch out Hydraulic Press Channel, there’s a new destroyer in town. Whereas the viral crusher is outspoken, Cut in Half prefers to slice objects with a waterjet and inspect the aftermath in silence. Waterjet vs press vs red hot ball vs guns vs blender! Make it so.

“The problem’s plain to see… too much technology…” Editor Luc “Zapatou” Bergeron combined footage of Star Wars’ least respected droid with Styx’s cheesetastic Mr. Roboto, a song that seems much more appropriate these days than when it was released back in 1983.

Hennessey celebrated its 25th anniversary by having its Venom GT Spyder set a new world speed record for an open-top sports car: a blistering 265.6mph, besting the previous record set by the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse by more than 11mph.

A YMCA wants to save money by consolidating related clubs, and it’s called the head of the feminist and masculinist clubs to tell them the bad news. But as it turns out, their clubs actually see eye to eye… for all the wrong reasons.

One of the more unusual bits from the How It’s Made series takes us to a creepy factory filled with hand-shaped ceramic molds that wind their way through a lengthy assembly line, and then dipped in rubber and heated in an oven. Seriously, did Tim Burton create this place?

Vsauce explains that infinity is not a number but a kind of number, and that some infinities are bigger than others. In fact, it appears you can stack infinities infinitely. Why? Because we say so. Math: the ultimate power trip.

Once a year, The Palm Dubai’s Atlantis Aquaventure Water Park drain the water from its two biggest slides – including the world’s biggest waterslide – for maintenance. This year they invited some of Red Bull’s skaters to carve on the rarely empty pipes. More here.

Volvo Trucks demonstrates the insane amount of power one of its FH16 trucks can exert, as a single truck pulls 40 loaded containers weighing over 1.6 million lbs. We’re not sure it really helped, but they put World’s Strongest Man Magnus Samuelsson behind the wheel.

In recent years, the term “catfishing” has come to mean the act of taking on a fictitious persona that’s very different than they actually are. That’s exactly what happened to Lance Burgos and his son when they were fishing for actual catfish in St. Martinville, Louisiana.

“It’ll make you look like a hero, it will make you feel like a hero.” With Mercedes-Benz and Audi joining the hot hatch market, Carfection’s Alex Goy thinks that the new Ford Focus RS not only stands a chance, but is in fact better than anything that came before or alongside it.

(PG-13: Language) “I don’t need weapons m*****f***** I’m a strength build… I was wrong, here’s the address where to send my funeral bill.” Charborg raps about overcoming Dark Souls’ bosses over an actually decent beat. Sif Dogg straight up wrecked him.

YouTuber Dorrit Shank shares this awesome face swap where the app somehow saw a face in the unlikeliest of places. That’s some Gandalf-level wizardry. If you’re wondering what all the Vape Naysh comments are referencing, thank h3h3.