Awesome Videos

Two friends come upon a statue man in the middle of their hike. Curious about the performer’s choice of territory, they indulge him with a donation. Things escalate quickly in Boat Comedy’s allegory of the hellish realm known as the real world.

In the distant future, a visionary scientist invites his colleagues to witness the fruition of his entire body of work. An ancient wonder they never thought could co-exist with human beings ever again: a clear blue sky and lush trees. Directed by YouTuber Vidsplode.

Ben Affleck surprised fans taking the Warner Bros. studio tour in this promotion for Omaze’s Batman v Superman charity raffle. Donate at least $10 (USD) for a chance to hang out with Ben, Henry Cavill and Jesse Eisenberg at the movie’s premiere.

Another video to file under the “oddly satisfying” category, Cpack Pendle Machinery shows off the SP7, their latest “skin packaging” machine – a device which uses heat and a vacuum to seal oddly-shaped items into flat packages.

The so-called war on drugs is about short term gains and check marks for politicians. It goes after suppliers, but drugs are addictive. Users are willing to pay high prices for drugs, which encourages suppliers. The solution is to alleviate the demand for these substances.

Body paint artist Kay Pike has dressed herself in a number of incredible “outfits” made almost entirely from makeup. Her latest creation – the Boy Wonder himself. You can watch the design come together in her time-lapse video.

This truly amazing musical instrument was created by Swedish musician Martin Molin (aka Wintergatan). It uses an incredibly complicated mechanism to produce notes and rhythms using human input and the sound of 2,000 falling metal marbles. (Thanks Paul!)

John Downer Productions set their spherical Snowball Cam loose in the midst of a group of polar bears. The bears end up kicking around the ball for a sort of impromptu game of soccer. Clearly these bears haven’t heard that club soda can get blood out of white fur.

Aliaksei Zholner’s miniature engine factory continues to progress. The papercraft artist’s latest work is a functional rotary engine. It has three main parts and like its predecessors is powered with compressed air.

Corridor Digital used YouTube’s 360º video playback to create a live action and interactive version of Where’s Waldo. Yeah you can pause the video, and we advise you to do so because it has several Easter eggs as well. Making of here.

The master hoonigan returns to tear up some pavement and leave behind a thick layer of rubber and dust in his latest Gymkhana stunt video, taking on wild animals, exotic sports cars, and even a jumbo jet in and around Dubai in his tricked out Ford Fiesta RX43.

Like a Spirograph on steroids, Joe Freedman’s Cycloid Drawing Machine uses a series of highly adjustable geared discs for create incredibly complex geometric images. Skip to 1:00 if you don’t care to hear how amazing the cardboard box was. Or skip to 3:31 to see it in action.

Computer graphics artists and technologists are constantly finding new ways to imbue their creations with life, texture and dimension. This highlight reel soliciting submissions for SIGGRAPH 2016 compiles some of the more wondrous CGI submissions from 2010 to 2015.

CGP Grey follows up his fascinating Americapox essay with a look at why we domesticate and farm some animals and not others. Bottom line is that the critters we leave in the wild are either too dangerous, hard to train, too independent, or too expensive to feed and keep captive.

This skit should really be titled Reasonable War Boy, but that doesn’t make this Late Night with Seth Meyers’ parody of Mad Max: Fury Road any less amusing. Seriously, you’d think they’d all be driving Priuses if they were so worried about guzzolene consumption.

Look away if you don’t like creepy crawlies. You’ve been warned. Back in 2012, YouTuber gurutek was breaking down his saltwater fish tank when he discovered that a Eunice worm had been lurking beneath the gravel, where it had grown to a horrifically large size.

Remix maker The Amazing Mashups Mixes combined the theme song from The Simpsons with the Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj pop hit Bang Bang, and it works surprisingly well for the most part. Skip to 0:11.

YouTuber theseheavenlybodies replaced the sound of trains with the sound of people screaming. We imagine this is what would happen if the Coen brothers made a live-action version of Thomas & Friends. We should do a similar dub for this clip.

Anthony Jones’ title for his video says it all: “My dog likes to look at me while I eat, until I catch him and he looks away from me.” But we wouldn’t be surprised if his buddy’s actually wondering what on earth the room’s theme is supposed to be.

Stephen Colbert is pulling up The Late Show‘s ratings with his coverage of the US Presidential race. But we’re glad that once in a while the show throws out a curveball, like this “archived footage” of a horse race.

Vox and 99% Invisible spoke to human-centered design advocate Don Norman about poorly designed everyday objects such as doors. In summary, we should all be able to tell how a commonly used object works through its form, not through an instruction or a sign.

(Flashing images) The title track from the new album of Canadian technopop duo Junior Boys. The music video for Big Black Coat features industrial glitch art that perfectly complements the song’s smooth buildup.

Please won’t you be our neighbor? Musician 331Erock puts on his comfy cardigan, takes off his loafers, and turns the classic childhood theme song from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood into a rock tune.