Awesome Videos

Back in 2012, percussion group ЭТНОБИТ (Ethnobeat) transformed the sheets of ice on Siberia’s frozen Lake Baikal into a wondrous natural musical instrument. The recording engineer for this clip deserves just as much praise as the musicians.

The Cauldron mocks Sarah McLachlan’s infamous ASPCA ads to seek help for the perennially horrible Cleveland Browns. At least Browns fans have to suffer through only a handful of games each year. Sixers fans, on the other hand, are on some S&M trip.

Modern hammer drills get their name because they provide short, sharp, hammering action to help make quick work of difficult materials like rock. This crazy antique contraption uses actual hammers to smack a drill bit into a boulder, achieving a similar result, albeit more slowly.

Like its predecessors, Just Cause 3’s appeal is that it lets you defy physics in violent ways, and generally cause all sorts of trouble for the fun of it. YouTuber ThingsWePlay discovered that the game’s AI has the same destructive tendencies.

A factory worker has a happy, if plain life. But the daily grind gets to him, and one day, he snaps. Will he choose certain survival, or take a risk and find something new? Find out in Aaron Fisher’s modernist LEGO stop-motion film.

William Garratt’s humorous short film juxtaposes the look and behavior of audiences across different musical genres. And just when you think its novelty is wearing thin, William reminds you that you’re watching a cartoon.

Mark Rober walks us through the science of condensation, and a series of experiments he used to determine the most effective way getting fog off the inside of car windows. He also shares a couple of preventative hacks that include using kitty litter and shaving cream.

The Hollywood Reporter’s hour-long chat with filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, Danny Boyle, Alejandro Inarritu, David O. Russell and Tom Hooper. The host talked too much, but we’re lucky we get to see this at all.

Matt Damon gets himself into all kinds of situations where he needs to be rescued. ScreenJunkies dishes out their typical snarkiness towards Ridley Scott’s surprisingly lighthearted sci-fi rescue flick, in which the least realistic part of the movie was NASA’s funding.

It’s not a likely real world scenario, but it’s still fascinating to see exactly what happens to a shotgun as a .50 cal bullet is fired directly down its barrel towards the receiver. The explosive slow-motion shot captured by FullMag is Mythbusters worthy.

Conan invited Ice Cube and Kevin Hart to help one of his employees work on her driving. They ended up with a piñata full of dro. Watch this crazy adventure and learn about Ice Cube’s police drill, Conan’s college escapades and more. Also, guess how old she is.

YouTuber Demolition Ranch tests a ballistic mask. Specifically, one that provides level 2 protection, i.e. it should stop most pistol bullets and provide a bit of protection from blunt force trauma. No, he didn’t test the mask while he was wearing it.

To celebrate the end of 2015, Russian science channel SlivkiShow decided to go out with a bang – or a sparkle. They packed 10,000 sparklers into a single pot, then ignited them all at once. Be sure captions are on.

Blind Covers is a new YouTube show where bands are given only one hour to make a cover for a song that they’ve never heard before. Here psych rock band The Mosaics (formerly Town in the City) covers country star Martina McBride’s Independence Day. Performance at 5:30.

(PG-13: Language) “So drunk power yeah, it’s a real thing.” A man’s alcoholism finally catches up to him. Adam Bowers’ dark comedy short fails to live up to its entrancing opening scenes, but it’s still worth a watch.

A poor policeman comes up with a bizarre plan to take advantage of a lonely old lady who feeds pigeons with good food. Even stranger is that his plan works. La vieille dame et les pigeons is Sylvain Chomet’s critically-acclaimed 1997 debut short film.

“If you sign up now, we’ll even waive the initiation fee that we created just so we could waive it.” Gyms aren’t total scams – some people don’t have room (or a safe neighborhood) to exercise at home. Just be smart about what you pay for and show up.

Austrian animal sanctuary Gut Aiberbichl shares this touching moment when a cow named Bandit was freed from its tight quarters. After joyfully dancing inside his new home, Bandit showed his gratitude to the man who found him and helped set him free.

“Every day I worry all day, about what’s waiting in the bushes of love.” Bad Lip Reading rewrites the story of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker as a song, saying that the latter was killed by a chicken-duck-woman thing.

“In a world that wants nothing more than potatoes mashed, spoon them on top, brush with egg, then use parmesan!” The Ghost Inside shows us how to make shepherd’s pie with the help of the growling Linzey Rae. Now we’re hungry and scared.

VFX wiz and pet owner Aaron’s Animals sends his cat Michael to school, where he encounters some of the more annoying things we all experienced in high school. The procrastination part is still with us though.

YouTuber Samm Sheperd loves to make cheap model airplanes. One of his latest creations is a foamboard plane that flies using jet propulsion, thanks to an impeller that he took from a broken heater’s motor.

“Exercise is like reading for your muscles. Except you can’t watch a movie of someone else exercising and basically get the gist of it.” Last Week Tonight doles out a defeatist’s tips on making New Year’s resolutions.