Awesome Videos

(SPOILERS) Alt Shift X expounds on the story of Thoros of Myr for the benefit of people who have not read George R.R. Martin’s books. Is the red priest merely a tool for foreshadowing, or will he play a bigger role in the series?

Charlotte-based crooner Anthony Hamilton and the Hamiltones do a set for NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert to promote his new album What I’m Feelin. He opens up with Amen, a single from the new album, then does three songs from his older releases.

We all love a well executed long take. It gives you a lot to look at, and it’s a surefire way to be immersed in the movie’s world. But Now You See It reminds us that scenes with cuts can be powerful too, and that one is not strictly better than the other.

Builder Peter Brown melted together 256 Crayola crayons in a cake pan, then transformed the resulting block into a colorful flower vase using a drill press and a lathe. There’s something immensely satisfying about watching the waxy shavings go flying.

Blank on Blank animates the thoughts of the late, great astrophysicist as he discusses our tendency to treat Earth as the of center of the universe, likely a big mistake if and when we ever do encounter beings from another world. From a 1985 interview with Studs Terkel.

“Buckle up ladies and gentlemen, because Sterling’s face has entered the building!” Nearly 2 years after saving his soccer club in an epic penalty shootout, Scott Sterling’s face and the rest of his unwilling body are back in the service of Yale.

A brief demonstration of what happens when you submerge a styrofoam cup in acetone. The solvent properties of the acetone dissolves the polystyrene and the cup vanishes into a pile of goo. One commenter pointed out this chilling reference from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Nukazooka (the new name of YouTuber AndrewMFilms) used visual effects to make a bunch of animal stock footage more exciting. Check out a polar bear lightsaber fight, a web-slinging monkey and more.

Impressionist Brock Baker returns with another round of hilarious vocalizations, this time taking on a variety of classic cartoon characters from Mickey Mouse to Hank Hill. His Zoidberg is so spot on, he could have stood in for Billy West.

A man annoys his way into saving money at a garage sale. David Jude Harris’ short film is an amusing adaptation of Jory John’s eponymous short story, which also appears to be a vividly recalled dream.

Kaptain Kristian takes a look at the earliest on-screen days of the Man of Steel, through the brilliant animation work of brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, who not only defined so much of what makes the character who he is, but set the bar for animation for years to come.

A man is visited by the mighty Vitruvius, and is bestowed with the power to turn anything he touches into LEGO bricks. It’s an ability that we really wouldn’t mind having – assuming it didn’t affect our french fries – and we had our shoes on.

“There’s a bush of red hair at the base of your back.” Conan‘s associate producer Jordan Schlansky enthusiastically reviews an electric shaver that he personally uses, and ends up working on Coco’s body to prove the gadget’s effectiveness.

22 folks from Austria, Germany and Switzerland spent four days constructing this massive chain reaction that broke records for most disc cases toppled in a domino fashion (10,266), largest stick bomb (40,910 sticks) and longest domino wall: (131.69 ft, 42,173 dominoes).

This NHK World documentary focuses on ornamental chicken breeds. At 5:08 it talks about the Koeyoshi, a Japanese breed whose roosters have an exceptionally long and deep crow, like an empty faucet or a creaky door.

(PG-13: Language) Comedian Steve Hofstetter was performing his standup act about parenting when a hecker in the audience interrupted his act, walking straight into the perfect response to her attempt to criticize his lack of hands-on experience with childbirth.

John Oliver took advantage of Last Week Tonight’s Easter break to indulge his fantasy of making a conspiracy video. Watch as breaks down the truth behind Cadbury Creme Eggs. Three words. Three. Confirmed.

This dad in Hong Kong gave his kid a thrill ride his rudimentary virtual reality mountain bike simulator. All it took was a big screen TV, a toddler’s push bike, and some upper body strength. Seriously, parents, if you’re looking for a way to squeeze a workout in, this could be it.

(PG-13 Language) The Hydraulic Press Channel continues to satisfy our appetite for destruction, this time subjecting a variety of coins to the thousands of pounds of pressure exerted by his almighty press.

(PG-13: Language) An artificial intelligence wakes up and begins learning about the world around it, including its creators. YouTuber exurb1a’s cynical short film doesn’t break new ground, but it is strangely entertaining.

Microsoft’s vision for holographic communication uses a ton of 3D cameras and its HoloLens augmented reality headset. The scanning and transmission of 3D models happens in real time with just a slight lag.

To celebrate Easter, the always precise, frequently gross Food Surgeon took our favorite artificially-colored marshmallow baby chickens, and impregnated one with the gooey innards Cadbury Creme Egg candy. Wrong? Yes. Delicious? Most definitely.

(PG-13) Director Alex Vivian follows up on his amusing dude-on-dude bike riding lesson with something a little bit, er… a whole lot… sexier – something we like to call Two Girls, One Bike. Is it hot in here, or is it just us?