Awesome Videos

An powerful and heartfelt rendition of Nirvana’s 1991 classic, performed soulfully by Washington, D.C. vocalist Comanaut. You’d never guess he could sing like this from the sound of his dope track Why I’m Not Where You Are.

(PG-13 Language) Eclectic Method takes a break from his own musical creations with this brilliantly dubbed footage from Nick Park’s Aardman classic Creature Comforts, so the animals are singing London MC Skepta’s banging grime track Shutdown.

(PG-13: Language) “I hit the bank today and tell them color me bad, Blue faces, get that new money, and it’s breaking me down to the top.” Kendrick Lamar raps about resisting materialism and the power of money then ends with a fiery shoutout to his label.

Holland recently coined the term “straatsen” – a mashup of “straat” (street), and “schaatsen” (skating) – after ice covered the country’s roads, making them impassable. TasteLikePizza compiled this video of residents turning their frozen lemons into frozen lemonade.

Its amazing to see how many times Pixar’s animators worked in references to classic films, as shown in this well executed, side-by-side video by Jorge Luengo Ruiz. From Hitchcock, to Kubrick, to Spielberg, to Welles, there are subtle and not-so-subtle tributes everywhere.

Apparently, studies have shown that we enjoy not just the vacation itself, but also anticipating it and then reflecting on it afterward. Also, our mind tends to zone in on the beginning and end of our trips, so try to make those parts memorable.

“Is there a limit to how much living I can make with my life?” Old Spice’s eccentric commercial for its Dirt Destroyer body wash tells the tale of a man who broke the world limit to coolness. And his bank account.

“This fall, discover Bond’s most top secret mission…” Funny or Die imagines a movie where Britain’s best spy and the United States’ amnesiac assassin fall in love. Imagine what Taken would be like if these two were the parents.

Here’s one for the folks who resolved to be more fit this year. People Are Awesome’s motivational compilation features feats of strength, endurance, and most of all reps. Another one. And another one. And another one. Hinges.

Filmmaker Jeff Desom teamed up with model maker Oli Pesch to recreate miniature sets of famous movie scenes, and then populated them with “holographic” images of actors projected onto an angled semi-transparent screen. This is how 3D movies should look. More here.

Elliot Lim created this animated homage to the HBO drama The Wire set to the of Way Down in the Hole, the show’s theme – as performed by The Blind Boys of Alabama. We still prefer the Tom Waits version, but that does nothing to diminish Lim’s brilliant motion artwork.

The largest official LEGO AT-AT kit you can buy measures has about 1,100 pieces. Peter “Cavegod” Brookdale’s design uses over 6,000 bricks and is enormous. Charlie Goldberg of BrickVault acquired all the parts to replicate the giant walker, and recorded the build process.

Inside the NBA recently shared the spotlight with a recap of a Counter-Strike tournament. But it turned into a verbal version of NBA JAM when ELEAGUE analyst Duncan “Thorin” Shields instigated a feisty exchange with basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal.

Andrew Reams aka DieselDucy has Asperger syndrome. One of his fixations is elevators, and for the past eight years he’s been uploading “elevatours” on YouTube. Eventually, it became a way for him to reach out to other people with autism and help lift up their spirits.

This ad for Western Sydney University tells the story of Deng Thiak Adut. Born in Sudan, Deng lost his home to war when he was only 4 years old. At age seven, he was forced to become a soldier. Fortunately, his story did not end there. The song is Do You Remember.

Physicists will quickly point out that magnets aren’t truly permanent, and energy is never truly “free,” but that doesn’t make inventor Reidar Finsrud’s wonderful and extraordinarily efficient kinetic sculpture that appears to move on its own forever any less impressive.

Homer Simpson teams up with the family couch to fight crime lord Ned Flanders. Steve Cutts’ couch gag for The Simpsons apes Miami Vice and other shows from the ’80s, which according to the idiots on YouTube, was a decade influenced by Kung Fury.

We don’t know if Joerg Sprave can ride a skateboard, but he can pull off one hell of a trick with it. Watch him turn a cruiser into a powerful compound slingshot that turns the wheels into pulleys.

Last year, YouTuber TurboFoz gunned it through the tunnels of California’s Angeles Crest Highway in his tuned 2004 Subaru. He didn’t realize there was a sharp curve ahead, and ended up going off a cliff. Fortunately, he was okay, though we’re sure his underwear was not.

David Kwong is both a magician and a professional crossword maker. It’s no surprise that one of his staple tricks is based on the popular puzzle. It involves making a crossword with the help of the audience, and then some.

LEGO fanatics Astonishing Studios have made not one or two, but a whole houseful of fun and functional vending machines built from LEGO bricks and Mindstorms mechanisms. Whether McNuggets, Reese’s, Doritos, or Cheerios, are your thing, they’ve got you covered.

While they were shooting Guardians of the Galaxy in London, Chris Pratt says his wife Anna Faris came to visit him and quickly became addicted to a reality show that is apparently the British version of Jersey Shore. Here’s what Chris picked up from it.

By taping together a bunch of roman candles to a PVC handle, a couple of guys from Wisconsin created a weapon that is both spectacular and dangerous for those nearby. It’s even more fun to watch played backwards.