Awesome Videos

Musician Rob Scallon once again digs out his one-string shovel guitar and shows that it doesn’t take multiple strings or frets to rock out, as he turns in a very respectable performance of RATM’s Killing in the Name on a garden tool.

Vox once again asking the right questions. The infamous Wingdings was never meant to be used as a substitute for letters. Like its predecessor, its characters are meant to be used to decorate a page. Some symbols also stand in for words, i.e. as emoticons.

(SPOILERS) Like The Universal Punchline, it turns out that almost every movie could end with the Dire Straits song Walk of Life. Don’t believe us? Video editor and writer Peter Salomone has enhanced a number of movies to prove his hypothesis.

A classic standup bit (and some not so classic animation) from comedian Pete Holmes about the curious tradition of encouraging kids to beat papier-mâché animals senseless with a baseball bat in the hopes of receiving free candy.

Saturday Night Live rehashes its Pandora skit but with guest host Ariana Grande doing the impressions. Watch as she shows off her take on Shakira, Rihanna, Whitney Houston and more. Durr durr durr durr!

Remember that rudimentary mini crossbow made from popsicle sticks? YouTuber Mist8k has greatly improved upon the idea, with the result being a tiny, functional crossbow that actually looks cool too. Still, it’s not quite as awesome as this design.

Twitter user Chris Hargreaves and his friends met an opportunistic fox at a golf course in Baltray, Ireland. We know that foxes pilfer from humans from time to time, but this one knows what’s worth taking.

A race of cute and cuddly looking cartoon aliens lands on Earth, which leads some humans to welcome the creatures into their homes. But all is not as it seems in this brilliantly done live-action/animated sci-fi film by Owen Rixon and The 2D Workshop.

An old man takes his time sampling the food at a supermarket, earning the ire of staff and his fellow customers. We’ve met many Dandekars, but they’re not all insidious. Sometimes people are just being people. A wonderfully shot and acted short film by Leena Pendharkar.

Anime may be famous for over the top battles and warriors, but as Variant Comics reminds us, Superman has repeatedly reached levels of absurdity that make Dragon Ball Z look like a documentary. This dude sneezed a solar system to death. Good luck Ben Affleck.

No sane human being thinks weatherpeople are necessary. Cracked details just how much of a sham their job is. In short, the best ones are actually either models or comedians.

Magnetic Games shows off a cool, but dangerous setup that uses small nail-like projectiles that have been charged with the same magnetic polarity as their launcher, resulting in “darts” that launch solely under the power of magnetism. Don’t try this at home.

The latest from dance rock duo Spencer Petersen and Thomas Carroll aka Sego. The entire album is streaming on YouTube, accentuated by looping art from renowned gif artist Gustavo “Kidmograph” Torres. It’s also on Bandcamp.

Adam Savage made a life-size replica of one of the swords that Hellboy used in the comics. The 48″ sword is made of plywood, Bondo, carbon fiber tubes, aluminum tape, some spray paint and a plushie. You can skip to 26:37 for the finished sword and the post-credits time lapse.

Colin Furze made an RPG-style launcher for rocket fireworks. It can literally knock your socks off (if you cut the socks and tie them to the rocket). We love how he made a barrier to protect his face but he’s okay with the gas tank being inches away from his head.

3D graphics modder Martin Bergman shows what you can do by tweaking the renderers and textures for Star Wars: Battlefront, then running the game on a powerful gaming rig with an GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card and an Intel Core i7 6700K CPU. More on Imgur.

RocketJump Film School director Clinton Jones defines the core processes that fall under visual effects, including compositing, tracking, 3D modeling, and the dreaded rotoscoping. The video’s description has links to tutorials for each VFX process.

(PG-13: Language) Stevie Williams’ ambition and love for skateboarding drove him to run away from home to become a pro skater. He went through years of hardship, but now that he’s successful, Stevie admits missing having nothing but that fire in his belly.

Mehdi Sadaghdar uses the Seek Thermal infrared camera to explain the basics of thermal imaging, and why such consumer-grade versions are still useful even though they’re vastly inferior to professional equipment.

Pulsing lights slowly reveal the stunning beauty of the Philip Johnson Glass House in the music video for Nebula, the lead single from ambient musician Julianna Barwick’s upcoming album Will.

(PG-13: Language) “That’s me after three beers.” Conan O’Brien tried the latest UFC video game with UFC featherweight champ – and now lightweight loser – Conor McGregor using their respective characters. Conan would’ve won if Conor was controlling Jay Leno.

The finger skaters of Karat Fingerboarding placed props on a restaurant’s spinning lazy susan to create an endless skate park in Kuma Films’ awesome video. The song is Solitaire by AudioTreats.

Gearheads, put on your headphones and crank up the volume for this amazing video which brilliantly captures the sights and sounds of the twin-turbo V8 Ferrari 488 GTB, courtesy of Pennzoil. Why can’t we ever get the cops to shut down the city so we can drive like this?