Awesome Videos

Primitive Technology made lots of charcoal by breaking down pieces of dried eucalyptus wood then slowly burning them in a kiln made of dried leaves and mud. The entire process took about a day. Bronze Age, here we come!

A pair of old ladies meet at a public swimming pool for their usual swim. Nearly every scene of Tomek Ducki’s award-winning short film was made with a different kind of animation, contrasting reality and fantasy while maintaining the story’s ambiguity.

Screen Junkies presents some of the earliest roles of Oscar-nominated actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Lawrence, Christian Bale, Rachel McAdams, Sylvester Stallone and Mark Ruffalo.

Anthony Vincent sings Biebs’ Sorry in the style of Ja Rule, Five Finger Death Punch, Milli Vanilli and more in one of his funniest cover medleys yet. Man, that Boy George. Anthony’s been stepping up his props and make up game.

(PG-13: Language) “I’m 50% more influential than MC Hammer, Apostle Judas Iscariot, the Kia Sorrento…” Fans have petitioned that Ryan Reynolds host Saturday Night Live as Deadpool. Ryan says no thanks by mocking Kanye’s delusional SNL rant.

Animator Reto Hochstrasser shares this short clip of a group of LEGO minifigs who, just like Reto himself, like to build things with LEGO bricks. Filmed entirely with traditional stop-motion and no CGI.

(PG-13 Language) Conan staff writer Aaron Bleyaert shares a series of tips to help guys lose weight. The typical advice of diet, portion control, and exercise are there, along with one other thing that’s even harder. Stars SNL’s Beck Bennett and directed by Ben Berman.

John Hatfield took YouTuber Omni Verse’s video collage of 554 The Simpsons episodes all playing at the same time and turned it into a 360º video. We’d tell you to watch it with virtual reality headsets, but we don’t know what kind of hell we might be throwing you into.

(PG-13: Language) Thanks to years of research and the Internet, we’re now aware more than ever of the myriad benefits of buying locally-grown produce. But thanks to laziness, that awareness barely translates into anything fruitful.

The final round of a shopping game show quickly gets out of hand when an extremely passionate contestant does whatever it takes to win. We’re not sure why Saturday Night Live didn’t show this skit in its previous episode, because it was actually funny.

Joel “Rathergood” Veitch and his pals present a musical tribute to the spiky herbivore with a little ditty that is at once a catchy kid’s song, a track adults can enjoy, and surprisingly educational. Lyrics here.

The awesome Only in Japan tries out the Automat Diner in Isesaki City. The restaurant has no staff or kitchen; instead it has three old vending machines. It’s not fine dining, but it’s affordable, clean and unique. Funny thing is, the U.S. used to have lots of automats.

In the late ’40s, the USSR’s citizens were forbidden from listening to foreign-made music. This gave birth to a black market of “bones records” or “ribs” – bootlegs copied on used X-ray film. This documentary is a spinoff of Stephen Coates’ eponymous book.

LEGO built a toy empire with its snap-on bricks, but it’s far from the first company that thought of making such a toy. In fact, as YouTuber JANGBRiCKS explains, the first LEGO bricks were straight up copycats, down to the machine that was used to make the toy.

The night is dark and full of terrors – like baby showers. On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Game of Thrones’ creepy Red Woman Melisandre dropped by the traditionally cloying pre-child celebration to regale the parents-to-be with some happy thoughts.

Nerdwriter1 wonderfully breaks down Howard Shore’s The Fellowship theme from the first The Lord of the Rings movie, showing how Shore varies the track to accentuate, foreshadow and familiarize the audience with the characters.

Metalworker Engineer BrunS walks us through the painstaking process of machining a block of aluminum into a metal matchbox with a sliding drawer, then making tiny brass matches to go along with. They don’t actually burn, but they still look amazing.

“I don’t fight it. I live it.” Fox 28’s Good Day Spokane dropped by to celebrate the 110th birthday of Mrs. Flossie Dickey, a woman whose bubbly on-screen persona doesn’t quite align with her obvious joy for living.

(PG-13: Language) “Collect wood! COLLECT wood! COLLECT WOOD!” DanielFromSL loves to troll gullible video game players. This compilation shows him doing his thing in the survival game Rust. We can barely believe that that NPC prank actually happened.

Because we’ve already seen a cat dressed as a shark, riding on a Roomba, the internet decided we needed something fresh. So here you go: a guy dressed as a T. rex, riding a horse, and kicking a giant soccer ball. You’re welcome.

Learn about the extinction of left-handed magnets, the paradigm-shifting brownie-in-microwave experiment, a fun science activity for kids and mole people and more. Dear electrons, we know it’s hard for you to stay positive, but we appreciate you.

Jim Campbell-Spickler is a wildlife biologist and forest canopy ecologist. Part of his job involves climbing into the nests of wild birds such as bald eagles and peregrine falcons to take blood samples from chicks and test them for toxins.

“Routine day with a dirt cheap brush, then a week goes by and it goes untouched. Then two, then three, then a month, then the rest of your life you beat yourself up.” Aesop Rock raps about regret at letting one’s creativity rot in this single from his album The Impossible Kid.