Awesome Videos

YouTuber Davie504 is back with the second batch of his favorite bass lines, including the ones in Black Sabbath’s N.I.B., Kool & The Gang’s Celebration and Justice’s D.A.N.C.E. At this point we’re more impressed by his stamina.

Talking on your phone. Starting a conversation. Staring at another guy’s junk. Eating your lunch. There are certain things you just don’t do at a urinal. Dude Day Films sets us straight on the difference between right and wrong when standing up to pee. Gag reel here.

This 2009 footage from Consumer Reports shows of just how far automotive safety has progressed in the last 50-odd years, as they rammed a modern Chevy Malibu into a 1959 Chevy Bel Air in a frontal-offset crash test. And car safety just keeps getting better.

Photographer Julian Tryba spent a total of 100 hours shooting and 350 hours editing over 150,000 photos to create another beautiful layer-lapse, this time featuring some of the most popular spots in Boston.

Med livet som innsats (Life on the Line) is a Mythbusters-style Norwegian show where physicist Andreas Wahl entrusts his life to the laws of physics. So far he’s done a freefall, passed through fire and shot himself. May he make it past the first season.

8 Bit Universe has made hundreds of chiptune cover versions of popular songs across the ages. From Devo to The Eagles, from Journey to Beastie Boys. The also make 8-bit versions of TV and movie theme songs. Though we think the ones with vocals should be sung by a robot.

Long before DC’s worst superhero team, J.R.R. Tolkien put a ragtag fellowship on the most suicidal quest of them all. The Unusual Suspects presents the Lords of the Rings trilogy in the style of the Suicide Squad trailer. Gimli is Middle-earth’s Harley Quinn.

Lazy Game Reviews checks out some of the weirdest, ugliest and dumbest computers that came out in the ’90s. Like the stereotypical beige box PCs, these oddballs were expensive and bloated, and their gimmicks weren’t enough to make them successful.

Conan O’Brien recently spent some time at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar with the troops of the U.S. Air Force. Along the way, he learned how to train military dogs, dispose of explosive ordinances, hung out with the First Lady, and entertained the troops.

Visual effects studio Brave New World shares some of its contributions to Mad Max: Fury Road, including adding the movie’s eye-popping blue skies and orange deserts, adding Furiosa’s metal prosthetic arm and removing tire tracks from the sand.

YouTuber Royal Nonesuch welded cylinders onto arrowheads so he could attach ammunition on them Rambo-style. Here he uses 12-gauge shotgun shells. They don’t always go off, but when they do, the entire block is going to know about it. More here and here.

Grand Illusions shows off a physics plaything that demonstrates the differences between the shock absorbency of different metals, with one side coated with a special amorphous metal which allows a bearing to bounce like mad off its surface. More here. (Thanks Paul!)

The modern Stone Age man of Primitive Technology has acquired lots of blisters just from trying to start a fire. So he homo sapiened his way out of his predicament and built a drill. Then he used the basic tool to create upgrades for itself.

“And the last thing she told me: I love you. Yeah that was beautiful.” The music video for Monument is about Charles “Lala” Evans. In 2011, shortly after his wife Louise passed away, Lala turned their house into a museum dedicated to their nearly 60-year marriage.

If film editing tells us a story using several shots, composition tells a story in one shot. Channel Criswell talks about the basic techniques of composition and how they keep us focused and entertained while also evoking emotions or showing who’s in control.

“Can I steal him for a sec? Hmm. I like this.” Dan the Bland Man is looking for his future wife. Will he find it by engaging in vapid power fantasies where he spends brief moments with women who are pre-disposed to like him? Saturday Night Live aims to find out.

Walt Disney’s animated version of Alice in Wonderland was already pretty creepy if you ask us, so it didn’t take much more than some appropriate music for Mashable’s Watercooler to turn Lewis Carroll’s trippy fairy tale into a serious horror flick.

8 years ago, ItsJustSomeRandomGuy created a series of parody Mac vs. PC ads with action figures debating Marvel vs. DC Comics. The first episode’s predictions were so accurate that we’re wondering if he’s Waverider. Also, we now know why Batman v. Superman is a thing.

Iraq war veteran Justin Anderson has faced serious hardships, including an amputated leg and a battle with brain cancer. But that hasn’t stopped him from helping others. Brian has modified his off-road wheelchair so he can plow the snow from his neighbors’ sidewalks.

Carpenter Ian Jimmerson built a working model of a 9-cylinder radial engine out of wood. In his video, he uses the mechanical model to walk us through the fascinating engineering that makes this kind of engine work. Part 2 here.

Beck teamed up with The Chemical Brothers provide the soothing vocals on their ’80s tinged synth track, accompanied by a minimal, yet visually stunning music video by directors Dom & Nic, with visual effects by The Mill. From the album Born in the Echoes.

In AndrewMFilm’s latest action short, a game of chess between two old men leads to a lethal duel as the two geezers use every trick up their sleeve to come out on top. Man, the only old person quirk we’ve acquired so far is the one at the very end.

Casey Neistat and Jesse Wellens of BGvsGF counted on the recent snowstorm to dump tons of powder on New York City so they could pull off this film. The whole thing is surreal. The behind-the-scenes is equally entertaining.