Awesome Videos

For its latest “experiment” with its thinking putty, Vat19 made someone immerse himself into 500lb. of Liquid Glass thinking putty. On one hand, the $37,500 bath is cool and soft. On the other hand, it doesn’t want you to leave.

CineFix’s first episode for 2016 aptly lists its picks for the best movie opening scenes, including the mirrored shot of The Searchers, the slow-motion destruction in Apocalypse Now and the restrained long take of Flowers of Shanghai.

A truck driver in a Sri Lankan fuel depot shows off his impressive maneuvering skills as he manages to turn around his semi and trailer in what seems to be an impossibly small space. Who needs 3-point turns anyway?

We’re not sure of the health implications of eating steak cooked in molten copper, but it’s still cool to watch as this raw T-bone is cooked to within an inch of its life as YouTuber Tito4Re douses it with hot liquid metal. Cooking rice the same way doesn’t work quite as well.

Volkswagen’s Trailer Assist is an optional parking assistance technology that automatically handles the steering when you’re parking in reverse with a trailer hitched to your vehicle. It’s a clever tool, though VW may have exaggerated a bit in its commercial.

To promote its upcoming shooter RPG The Division, Ubisoft hired Corridor Digital, Devin Supertramp and RocketJump to create four short films about the agents of the game’s eponymous special forces.

Vocalist Mike Tompkins teamed up with members of The Harlem Globetrotters to put together this fun a capella version of their theme song, using nothing more than voices, bouncing basketballs, and foot stomping to create the multilayered track.

A mesmerizing look at the dexterity and speed of a GROB-WERKE CNC milling machine, as it sculpts a solid block of metal into a precision part. The way it moves the object to meet the cutting blade is like a robotic ballet. More here.

Artist Howard Lee shows actual objects beside his photorealistic hand-drawn copies, then he breaks the illusion and gives us a glimpse at how he drew the copy. You can render his trick useless by pausing the video, but it’s still fun to watch.

A look at how Rodrigo Sfreddo created the Modern Gaucho, a knife made of damascus steel and ironwood. It received the American Bladesmith Society’s 2016 International Master Smith Knife of the Year. And we just earned at least three future Jeopardy! answers.

The Slow Mo Guys loaded up a drill bit with several colors of wet paint, then captured the ensuing spatter with their high-speed camera at up to 2500fps. The spiraling paint drops are cool, and they could probably sell the artwork they created at a fancy gallery now.

Nicolas Vuignier and his buddies navigated the snowy peaks of Wallis, Switzerland at night by taping flares to their skis and snowboards. Good idea, great execution. Behind-the-scenes footage here.

Writer/director Joe Sill and Whitelist Production’s unofficial fan film does an amazing job capturing the spirit of the Star Wars universe, combining action, drama, effects, and a dramatic setting that looks like they borrowed The Force Awakens’ location for Jakku.

TED-Ed’s Erez Garty explains why bread is fluffy, vinegar is sour, wine is tasty, and Swiss cheese has holes in it. Yes, many of the foods that we enjoy are made that way because of tiny microorganisms and bacteria that create wonderfully yummy by-products.

Dude Perfect went to London to hang out with Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling and Arsenal’s Callum Chambers and Mathieu Flamini and challenge them with trick shots. Or as the pros call them, drills.

While the audio leaves a lot to be desired, it’s still awesome to see this performance where Stevie Wonder heard the reggae band Lesterfari and Kings Music gigging outside of an LA health food store, and joined them for an impromptu rendition of Bob Marley’s Waiting in Vain.

Ian Pons Jewell’s awesome bad trip music video perfectly matches the imagery with the deep down beats of Valentino Khan’s dance floor banger, as faces are contorted to the beat of the music. And then there’s the chick with the tentacle eyeballs. Your nightmares miss you.

Members of the Canadian Brass let their fingers go flying at breakneck speeds in this classic footage from one of their performances of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s high-speed orchestral interlude. A more recent incarnation of the group shows off their chops here.

“So you’re really good at heating up soup.” Cooking shows can make preparing food look easy, but Epicurious reminds us that it’s not that simple. Watch as a professional chef tries to guide a clueless man using only his voice.

(PG-13 Language) ADHD envisions the origin story of Mario as if it were Goodfellas, and our favorite video game plumber were portrayed by Joe Pesci. Am I here to f**kin’ amuse you? Yes, Mario. Yes, you are.

YouTuber afteritakeashower tweaked the climactic scene in The Empire Strikes Back where Darth Vader tells Luke about their connection, turning Cloud City into a Looney Tunes playground. That’s what you get for disobeying Yoda.

“Every moment that he had ever seen, at the touch of a button could be played back on a screen.” The world becomes addicted to the perspective of a boy who had a camera for a face. Spencer Brown’s satirical fairy tale is this generation’s The Truman Show.

A forensic scientist helps solve a missing persons’ case through a revolutionary “reverse aging application”: a Facebook photo album. This being Cyanide & Happiness, the joke doesn’t end there.