Awesome Videos

If we said “Lamborghini driver,” there’s probably an image that pops into your head – and it’s not a couple of little old ladies. Donut Media broke down that stereotype when it put Peggy and Audrey behind the wheel of a Street Standard Murcielago. Time to tear rubber!

BRIXO is a new breed of LEGO-compatible building blocks which can create circuits within in your projects. The system will offer conductive chrome blocks, sensors, lighting and motors. The Bluetooth module will let you control your builds from your smartphone.

A single from Atomic, the original score made by post-rock band Mogwai for Mark Cousins’ Atomic – Living in Dread and Promise, a BBC experimental film about life in the Atomic age. The clips in the video are all from the film.

“He’s really hairy. We believe he’s a werewolf.” Field Day asked kids what they thought about their parents, not knowing that their parents were actually in the room and disguised by makeup artist Promise Phan.

We always wondered if creatures in adjacent fish tanks could somehow migrate from one tank to another. At this supermarket in Singapore, we got our answer, as a hungry eel decided to hop the fence to grab some tasty prawns from the tank next door.

Footage from a Discovery program which documented the Piasecki PA97 Helistat, an experimental logging blimp, which used an ungainly configuration of four helicopters to lift it off the ground. Just looking at the thing, it seemed like a bad idea… and it was.

Antonio Maria Da Silva’s exclusive movie multiverse disco is back in business. Patrons like Scarface and the Terminator are joined in the vermilion-tinged nightclub by a ton of newcomers, including Howard the Duck, RoboCop, and Bonds, James Bonds.

This odd contraption by artist Peter William Holden uses a series of eight robotic arms which move fedoras in sync with a musical track. By the end, you’ll be imagining a group of invisible dancers wearing said hats. Also, we’re pretty sure we found their feet.

“Don’t tell me we’ve got time. The subtle thief of life, it slips away when we pay no mind.” Gaelynn Lea sings about a lover who’s painfully aware of her mortality over her haunting looped violin in her winning submission to NPR Music’s 2016 Tiny Desk contest.

We’re digging the ’80s-synth beats and vocoder sounds of Carpenter Brut’s track, but it’s writer/director Seth Ickerman’s brilliant music video that brings it all together for us. Not only are the colors simply spectacular, the car chase at the end is insane.

An IT worker ends his answer to a coworker’s innocent question with the popular “I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.” But he’s not joking. He really means it this time. A darkly comic short film by Max Sherman, starring Ben York Jones and Tim Baltz.

A compilation of some of the PG-rated slurs and sounds uttered by movie characters, from Three Amigos’ son of a motherless goat to True Romance‘s cantaloupe. Burger Fiction, how dare you forget about Angels with Filthy Souls, ya filthy animal!

The Brothers Grimsby star Sacha Baron Cohen shared an anecdote on Conan about his bizarre and frightening encounter with Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher. A talent show with Kanye and Liam as the judges would be the best. Of the worst.

YouTuber T-Man shows off his ability to hit a precise location with a table tennis ball in this compilation of trick shots. Like most trick shot videos, we have no idea how many attempts these took, but the fact that he could nail most of these at all is impressive.

Microbiologist Hendrik Jonkers came up with bacteria-infused concrete. When water seeps into the concrete’s cracks, the bacteria awaken and secrete limestone, which end up patching the cracks. The bacteria can also be applied as a spray or a mortar.

(PG-13 Language) Earth finally makes contact with an alien race, but it turns out the guy on the other end of the line thinks our human representative is a telemarketer. Then the alien decides to have a little fun with the caller.

Did you know that on average, you’ll lose half of your friends every 7 years? But don’t worry, because you’re also bound to gain the same number of new buddies. All that and more in Mental Floss’ episode about the science of friendship.

Asap Science breaks down how the human body breaks down upon death. These processes help coroners and investigators determine a person’s time of death. TL;DW: compounds and microorganisms decompose us from the inside out. Boy, that was depressing.

(SPOILERS) CineFix spoils numerous movies to discuss different kinds of twists, such as the setting, the unreliable narrator and the identity of the hero or villain. There are popular films here, but we’re grateful for the old ones that are now on our watch list.

The Walking Dead and The Impression Guys actor Ross Marquand showed off his specialty on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, impersonating different celebrities accepting an Oscar. It’s not as good as his prepared ones, but for an on the spot performance he did a great job.

Jaguar is teaming up with British skiing champion Graham Bell to see just how fast a man can glide across the snow. In 2017, Bell will don a special ski suit and jet pack to push him up to 160mph. Until that happens, watch Bell hit 100mph as he’s towed behind a Jaguar XE.

Eleven-year-old Taylor Crozier was one of the first kids to try out Tiger Woods’ children’s golf course in a private country club in Texas. With parents, media and Woods himself watching, Taylor showed how one becomes a legend.

Low-cost electrocardiogram developer MobileECG created this awesome business card which uses two thumb sensors and a tiny OLED display to display a real-time ECG of its holder. While not diagnostically accurate, it’s still awesome.