Awesome Videos

In this brief but brilliant promo clip for the new Chevy Cruze, spoken word artist Prince Ea offers up some flowing and inspiring prose about the internal mechanism that drives us to succeed, and how effort and motivation is more valuable than money and book smarts.

Marvel hired freehand phenom Kim Jung Gi to make a large illustration depicting its heroes fighting each other. The artwork will be split into eight and used as variant covers for the upcoming Civil War II comics, which will be released this June. Hi-res image here.

Did you know that speedometers in European vehicles usually indicate a speed that’s higher than the actual value? Or that speed bumps result in a lot of deaths because they slow down medical vehicles? All that and more in Today I Found Out’s video.

Ice Music is an annual performance in Luleå, Sweden where the instruments and the concert hall are mainly made of ice. Ice sculptor Tim Linhart started it more than 20 years ago when he realized that the upright bass he carved was actually playable.

Los Angeles Lakers’ 32-year-old rookie Marcelo Huertas showed off some Brazilian ninjutsu in their recent match against the Miami Heat. While his teammate was taking a free throw, Huertas hid behind Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, waiting for his unsuspecting prey.

Petrolicious spoke with Christophe Guerin about his 1984 Renault 5 Turbo 2, one of the road-going versions of the French automaker’s rally rocket. A mechanic by passion and trade, a chance test drive of an R5 Turbo when he was 20 years old made it his dream car.

Our pals at Sneaky Zebra dropped by WonderCon in LA to catch some of the more impressive costumes on hand. While Zoolander 2 was a letdown, the guys dressed as Derek, Hansel, and Mugatu nailed it, as did Thanos, Batman and Deadpool. Then there’s BB-8 kid.

Inventor Colin Furze continues to up the destructive ante with his dangerous creations. This time, he’s made a Steampunk-style rocket launcher that fires shells filled with 2000º+ thermite. Making of here and here.

(PG-13: Language) “There can be only one!” Burger Fiction’s latest movie montage compiles some of the greatest one-liners uttered right before someone puts their big finishing move on their nemesis. We totally forgot about that brilliant kill line from Moonraker.

REM frontman Rip Van Winkle Michael Stipe dropped by The Tonight Show to turn in a haunting performance of the David Bowie’s 1970 classic in advance of The Music of David Bowie charity concert slated for NYC on 3/31 & 4/1/16. The 4/1 concert will be streamed live.

YouTuber Jeff Twomby shows us a couple of Walmart employees who also happen to be great impressionists. One dude mimics the voices of Scooby Doo and Shaggy. Mark on the other hand does Man Who Could Not Care Less with absolute perfection.

Cat Man Chris shows his cats Cole and Marmalade an electronic piggy bank where an animatronic cat snatches the coin and hides it insides its box. The shot that will propel Marmalade to meme legend is at 1:00.

How to Make Everything takes on South America’s gift to the world: chocolate. They went to Mexico to harvest cacao, then fermented and roasted its beans and more. They also made their own sugar, peanut butter and caramel. More here.

Photographer Jason S. Ching went with the crew of the Alaska Salmon Program to check out Lake Iliamna and its neighboring streams and rivers to study the migration of sockeye salmon. The resulting imagery is both soothing and stunning.

Mr. Sunday Movies summarizes the nixed screenplay from 2002 for a movie called Asylum, where Batman and Superman also fight but of course end up being bros by the end. It’s as dumb as comic book movies go, but at least we got Sean Willets’ funny fistfight drawings.

Mental Floss‘ John Green expounds on some of the many strange and random bits of trivia about famous rock musicians. We’re wondering what ever happened to those stolen Green Day recordings, and in case you were wondering – here’s an excerpt from that Foo Fighters’ rider.

Even today, computers error out if you try to divide a number by zero, but check out what happens with this old Facit ESA-01 mechanical calculator when posed with that mathematical conundrum. We’re assuming the death spiral was only ended by unplugging the cord.

“It’s like Terminator, but with vegetables.” Régis Raffin’s hilariously odd music video for Republic of Rock N Roll’s Cyber Killer sees a dystopian future in which being a vegetarian is outlawed, and killer robots are programmed to hunt down and kill Earth’s remaining veggie eaters.

Jay Leno takes a break from featuring the year’s hottest cars and mods to showcase one of his old reliables. This classic Indian Scout has surprisingly great handling and low maintenance needs. It just couldn’t compete with the Model T. Ride along at 12:35.

3D printing is awesome, yet its biggest flaw is its speed. While tech is in the works for faster printing in small scale, Autodesk has developed Project Escher, a combination of software and hardware that can orchestrate multiple print heads to build large objects quickly.

“Robert?” “Easy breezy.” Robert Santoli put on his own version of March Madness on Wheel of Fortune. The avid member of Wheel of Fortune fan forum Buy A Vowel steamrolled his opponents en route to winning $76,000 and two cruises.

Blind film critic Tommy Edison explores an interesting question – whether the concept of vision is something that even makes sense to people who have never had eyesight. It’s amazing how much stuff us sighted people take for granted.

(PG-13) YouTuber chloererb spent around 20 hours to come up with a funny music-less version of the music video for Miley Cyrus’ infamous Wrecking Ball. She duped us into watching the video for the first time, but the bad singing made it worth it.