Awesome Videos

Before thrilling us with his sci-fi movies Timecrimes and Extraterrestrial, writer and director Nacho Vigalondo showed off his mastery at combining the mundane and the surreal in this short film that elevates what would otherwise be a cheesy rom com scene.

Ben Affleck dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to share the talk show host’s deleted scene from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Or not. The skit goes on for way too long, but we can’t help but be grateful that this even exists.

After his encounter with the gold spammer, comedian James Veitch spun off his troll trolling into an online series on Mashable’s YouTube channel. His latest victim is “an army intelligent” who offered him a ton of diamonds.

Cars, motorcycles, boats, bikes, runners. We love to watch all manner of races. But we never thought a race between a bunch of marbles could be exciting. Marble fanatic Jelle Bakker set off this surprisingly compelling race across a 750 foot-long course carved from sand.

While The Flippist’s short flipbook animation of Leonardo DiCaprio came out before he actually won the Best Actor Academy Award for The Revenant, that doesn’t make it any less hilarious. Buy the original flipbook on eBay, with proceeds going to Leo’s charity.

“There’s no real reason for there to be a man and a woman category in acting. Come on!” Chris Rock’s opening monologue at the 2016 Academy Awards went down just as you’d expect: with lots of sharp digs at racism, punctuated by soft claps and awkward silences.

YouTuber Greg Killian put together clips of robots being stress tested or used in gladiatorial combat in this hilarious – yet still heartbreaking! – parody of ASPCA commercials. “In the arms of the angel…”

A woman discovers that their new place has an incredibly peculiar closet. Anything she puts in there gets doubled when she re-opens its door. Lotta Losten and her husband David Sandberg made this awesomely minimal and taut short film in their new home.

(PG-13) “There is a fine line between being natural about things, and being bothersome to others.” The School of Life looks at some in the milestones of the Western world’s continuously evolving rules of propriety. We hope they do one from the Eastern perspective as well.

(PG-13: Language) A young and small-time actor intends to unwind in the forest, but his job and his peers dominate his time and thoughts. Arnab Chanda’s character fared better than we would in Craig Ainsley’s pragmatic take on Man vs. Wild.

“Where is Box? I love Box.” Boston Dynamics really hit a nerve with its latest demo video of its Atlas robot. We know it’s all a test, but we can’t help but feel for the guy – er, bot. Auralnauts turns the tables around in this horrifying parody.

We’ve seen lots of fancy “making of” videos from blacksmiths making awesome metal weapons. But it turns out that with a mix of frozen water and layered toilet paper, you can make a sword that can also smash helpless fruits – at least until the sun melts it.

You might think you know how to eat ramen, but this lesson from noodle expert Ivan Orkin of New York’s Ivan Ramen will set you straight on the truth. Bottom line: Don’t delay, slurp away, and have fun, folks!

Many people derided Avatar‘s use of “Unobtainium” as a name for a rare mineral. But the word actually exists in real life, a humorous term coined by engineers for rare or non-existent materials. Which means the movie actually made good use of it.

Jason Yang performs a spot-on violin and keyboard medley of two themes which should be immediately familiar to fans of horror and sci-fi – Bear McCreary’s The Walking Dead, and Brad Fiedel’s The Terminator. You got your undead peanut butter in my cyborg chocolate!

In 2012, just for the heck of it, Tim Hwang fooled a nuclear plant into giving him a tour by setting up a fake organization called Infrastructure Observatory. Tim eventually turned it into a real group that organizes tours for his fellow infrastructure enthusiasts.

Rhett LeCompte decided to replace his face with the various celebrity performers from the 1985 charity music classic We Are the World, courtesy of Face Swap Live. The results are both hilarious and disturbing.

“I am you right now, if I wanted to be.” Fusion writer Kevin Roose asked white hat hackers and computer security professionals to hack him. For common folk like us, the simplest of tricks – pretending to be someone or something else – is the one thing we should all look out for.

When the Sherlock Holmes stories were first published, the detective’s address – 221B Baker Street, London – did not actually exist. But in 1930s, the street numbers were reallocated and the address fell to a bank, which was quickly inundated with fan mail. The Game was afoot.

In the second episode of The Players’ Tribune’s season-long series about the Phoenix Suns’ Tyson Chandler and Devin Booker, the rookie talks about learning to take care of his body, while the vet says to value wins over stats.

Petrolicious profiles a second-generation Porsche fan, a man who inherited a 1978 Porsche 930 Turbo from his uncle, who gave it away before he passed so that his ex-wife couldn’t have it. Now he’s taking care of the car for his son.

Art requires context, without which it’s hard, if not impossible, to understand the artist’s point. Combine that with a dearth of honest criticism and you have a recipe for fraud, i.e. pure hype. H3h3 Productions partakes in it in their dumbed down version of Exit Through the Gift Shop.

This episode of What’s Inside? takes a look at the nasty, waxy goop inside of a Lava Lamp, then treats us to POV footage of its inner workings when they drop a GoPro Session camera inside. We also learn that the GoPro Session is insanely durable.