Awesome Videos

YouTuber Mark Rober and his brother created a rapid-fire snowball gun using a landscaping leaf blower and a few ABS pipes. Its magazines can hold up to 15 snowballs, all of which the gun can unload within a second. Instructions here.

Ritte Cycles co-founder Spencer Canon spoke to Petrolicious about his customized fourth generation Lotus Esprit. It was in a horrible state when he got it, but accepting that he couldn’t fully restore it gave him the freedom to personalize the car.

Great Big Story talks to Jason Sapan, founder of Holographic Studios and a holography pioneer. Located in Manhattan, NYC, his shop offers holography services and classes and also has the world’s oldest gallery of holography.

“For me it’s a documentary.” Mad Max director and co-creator George Miller spoke with Conan about his approach to filmmaking, the logic behind the Coma-Doof Warrior and more. It’s a good talk, despite Conan’s stiff interviewing. Part 2 here.

Indie folk artist Mendeleyev covers Huey Lewis and the News’ 1984 Vietnam War song Walking on a Thin Line without having listened to it. We prefer the original, but Lev did well bringing out the confusion and rage in the lyrics.

A season-long series by The Players’ Tribune. It’s about the passing of wisdom between Phoenix Suns’ 33-year old center Tyson Chandler, a 15-year veteran, NBA champion and Olympic gold medalist, and his teammate Devin Booker, the 19-year old sharpshooting rookie.

Artist Andrei Muntian handmakes amazing wooden cutting boards by layering together precisely cut pieces of contrasting woods. Watch as he creates one of his trippy 3D illusion cutting boards. More on Instructables, and buy his work at MTM Wood.

(PG-13: Language, Flashing lights) Comedian Bill Wurtz teaches us an abridged and mostly accurate history of the Sunrise Laaaand using knock knock jokes with lethal punchlines, rainbow-colored type and the power of music.

A hilarious and well executed retro-kitch promo clip for GitHub’s hackable and robust JavaScript-based text editor, Atom. Memo to Jonny Ive – we want the next iMac to look like that Atom computer.

Meet The Food Surgeon. Apparently we should take this YouTube channel’s name as literally as possible. Watch as they take a donor cream filling from an Oreo cookie and transplant it into a Reese’s peanut butter cup.

While the idea of being towed on your snowboard by a drone sounds like fun on paper, the reality is that today’s consumer flying machines simply don’t have enough power to pull a human at any decent speed. Still, we give the guys who thought of this an “A” for effort.

This 1967 Oscar-nominated animated short by Les Drew and Kaj Pindal envisions a day when Martians look down on Earth, and surmise that our planet is not occupied by humans, but by cars and other machines. Maybe they should have bought a better telescope.

(PG-13 Language) A moving documentary about a prison hairdressing competition in Scotland, and its current champion Francis Duffy, who’s about to be released. The skills and recognition he’s acquired give him hope that his future is still in his hands.

Jay Leno shows off one of his favorite new rides with the help of Ford Performance Chief Engineer Jamal Hameedi. Jay loves the growl of the Mustang’s bespoke 5.2L V8 engine so much that he bought a spare one. Test drive at 18:43.

Multitalented musician Kawehi’s latest track is yet another wonderful cover version, made entirely her own. While it might not be immediately apparent, she’s transformed Led Zeppelin’s classic track Ramble On into a punchy electro-pop groove.

SoKrispyMedia dabbles in the emerging media of 360º VR video with their latest clip, as our protagonist finds himself trapped inside of his TV set, bouncing between channels with the flick of his remote. Yeah, it’s already been done before, but not in the round.

“It’d be hard for me not to improve your team.” Eighteen-year-old Yitzi Teichman has brain cancer, which as he puts it helped him get a 1-day contract with the Los Angeles Lakers (via the Make-A-Wish Foundation). He may not be a great baller, but he’s got a future in comedy.

The Film Theorists share interesting trivia about Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away. Learn how Hayao Miyazaki decided to make it about a 10-year old girl, his favorite scenes in the movie, the origin of the River Spirit and more.

Puzzles and secrets are in all sorts of video games. And why not? It feels great to solve a challenging puzzle. But sometimes game designers mistake “hard” for “impossible.” The Pokémon one doesn’t even cover the even more oblique endgame.

A glimpse at the life of Qu Maomao, who works and lives at a factory in China. His friends, his girlfriend and kickboxing help him endure his mind-numbing daily routine. Häns’ brief documentary stretches itself a bit too thin, but is still a treat to watch. Mirror here.

The ever vigilant Captain Disillusion explains the editing trick that Vine star Zach King rode to fame: the invisible cut. It’s when you film a scene continuously then cut the middle part just right to make it look seamless.

The promo for Archer‘s upcoming seventh season spoofs the opening sequence of Magnum, P.I. It’s all here: the chopper, the mustache, the rodeo clown. Lana as T.C. is incredibly confusing. Premieres 3/31/16.

“We’d like one ticket for The Avengers please.” YouTuber Bo Johnson and his friend Matthew recently fulfilled their “lifelong dream” of getting into a movie theater as one person. Next goal, come up with a better dream.