Awesome Videos

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.

YouTuber berlagawesome spent a total of 140h creating and trying to get his 175-step Rube Goldberg machine to work completely. There’s a thrift shop’s worth of odds and ends in there, and halfway through we actually forgot what its purpose was. Single camera perspective here.

Vanity Fair shares some of the impressions that didn’t make the cut in Ross Marquand’s nano-impressions video. They’re just as good as the ones in the final video, but they were excluded because they were too long.

Morena DIY transformed the sugary drink into a giant gummy candy by pouring a soda and gelatin mix into the bottle and then cutting away the mold. The recipe calls for scotch, but we think she meant scotch tape. Still, we took a swig just in case.

When you think of it, the spinning blade on a lawnmower is like a giant version of the one in drink blenders. In this super-sized version of Will It Blend?, we find get to see the slow-mo destruction of various household objects dropped into said mower blade.

While much of the East Coast was paralyzed by the recent blizzard, Tian Tian the panda was thrilled with the snow. But he wasn’t the only one. Jeffrey Perez of Millersville, Maryland was just as happy to frolic in the fluffy stuff.

“A tour de force of dropped Rs and a brilliant showcase of the words “wicked” and “pisser.”” Late Night’s skit about the Boston movie template isn’t a novel idea. Which says a lot about the issue at hand.

If you’ve ever been clocked on the head by a golf ball, you’d be certain they’re hard as a rock. But they’re actually quite pliable. Here’s slow-mo footage of a golf ball as it hits a steel wall at 150mph. While it’s likely it was a practice ball, a regular ball still flexes quite a bit.

(Flashing lights, Gore) Frame by Frame points out that Martin Scorsese’s movies are memorable and refreshing partly because he’s good at using two techniques that are conventionally at odds: neorealism and post-modernism.

Stand up comedian Jeff Simmermon – a nice dude who just happens to look like “the social media guy for the Hells Angels” – tells an anecdote about the time he got into a bizarre three-way shouting match on the New York City subway.

A penniless barkeep hopes to earn enough tips so he can go out with his friends, but he gets more than he bargained for. RocketJump butchers history – and gives FDR ESP – in this otherwise well done comedy silent film.

A man wakes up in a stark white room with nothing but himself and a stranger, who tells him he’s in purgatory and has a minute to ask any question before he moves on to his eternal resting place. So when you get to the afterlife, explore it. Have a short walk at the very least.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Los Angeles Lakers. Nah, MythBusters tested if a tank car can implode because of a vacuum. After two failed attempts, they succeeded by using a damaged and old car. The funny part? They could’ve confirmed the myth with a YouTube search.

Young yo-yo master Hajime Miura shows off his amazing looping and spinning and skills during the 2015 World Yo-Yo Contest. And if you have nothing better to do with your day, head over to the YoyoVideoArchive for an endless library of yo-yo vids.

DaveHax shows us a simple but impressive party trick: making it seem like your shoelaces tied themselves. All you need is an extra shoelace, a string, and pants that are wide enough to hide the bow. Now go and impress your nieces and nephews.

Burger Fiction compiled some of the most popular instances in which actors played multiple characters in the same movie, such as Michael Keaton in Multiplicity and Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap. We wonder if they got paid double their rates.

ISS astronaut Scott Kelly demos a pair of special teflon-coated paddles which allow him to bounce a blob of water between them just like a ping pong ball. We’re guessing the slow motion movement through microgravity would make for some really long rallies.

Jalopnik’s Jason Torchinsky dropped by an event held by Bridgestone and Tire Rack to show off the difference between all-season and winter tires by taking a short ride on ice on trikes equipped with car tires. The contrast in traction and stopping power is dramatic.

If you’ve ever seen a big boulder sitting in the middle of the road when you’re driving in the mountains, you might wonder how they move them out of the way. Sometimes, the easiest method is to blow them up – shattering them into numerous smaller pieces.

Red Bull skaters Vladik Scholz, Michael Mackrodt and Dan Zvereff went to Rajasthan, India to flip and grind their way through the cramped streets of New Delhi, Jaipur and Jodhpur. Another awesome skateboard video from Patrik Wallner.

“You’d shoot for two hours every Sunday. It changes your muscle shape.” Kevin Hicks of History Squad explains the basics of the English longbow, from its construction to its importance to 14th century England. Han Solo wishes he had Kevin’s tongue.

The amazingly talented pilots and aerial athletes of the Red Bull Air Force headed to the dusty desert of Moab, Utah, where they strung together a series of amazing stunts as a gorgeous and powerful Audi RS 7 sped by below. Go behind the scenes here.