Awesome Videos

For the latest episode of Man at Arms: Reforged, the guys at Baltimore Knife and Sword recreated the deadly and awesome sounding multi-blade weapon that Kitana wields in Mortal Kombat. Fan yourself with one of these, and you’re likely to remove a limb.

In yet another unaired Saturday Night Live skit, Kyle “Cut for Time” Mooney posed as a mumbling and bumbling reporter and spoke to people waiting in the rain for a Justin Bieber concert.

Developed by Disney Research and ETH Zurich, this ingenius robot can change from riding on the ground to driving sideways up walls like a boss. It uses rotating propellers to transition from ground to wall modes, then provide the thrust to hold it to the wall.

Jumpy the border collie mix shows why being a dog is pretty awesome, as he flies along the beach, through the air and over obstacles carrying a selfie stick in his mouth, capturing a unique and gleeful perspective on the life of an agility dog.

(PG-13 Language) Alex Lewis, Chris Reinacher, and Eugene Lee Yang of BuzzFeed Video look back at some of the biggest pop hits of 2015, and the words only they heard when listening to them. We’re surprised they didn’t include any Uptown Funk though.

A group of kids travel the world to hang out with Kevin Durant, Paul George, Elena Delle Donne, Kyrie Irving, Anthony Davis, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. The lesson: We should all pack our bags and live with KD.

Like most J.J. Abrams movies, The Force Awakens left us with as many questions as answers. Like where did Gwendoline Christie’s Captain Phasma get her awesomely shiny stormtrooper armor. Well, thanks to YouTuber levellord, we now know.

(PG-13: Language) Some of the clips in FailArmy’s mega compilation are just people understandably freaking out. But there are hilarious ones like the truck driver with zero Fs to give and a stupid ass rock that you might want to pee on. First video here.

A samurai army escorts their lord, but their expedition’s is threatened from within because everyone’s distracted by their cellphones. NTT DoCoMo reminds us not to text while walking with this grand PSA.

(PG-13: Language) In 1-on-1 video game competitions, players either sit next to each other or far apart. It may seem trivial, but it could affect the success of players and eSports in general. Core-A Gaming explores the arrangements’ origins and consequences.

(PG-13: Language) Vice’s documentary on Phil Tippett, the stop-motion animator who helped create creatures for Star Wars, Jurassic Park and many other films. Today his studio mainly uses CGI, but his latest film, Mad God, is a stop-motion affair.

GoPro looks back at 2015 from its customers’ eyes, quadcopters, surfboards, cars, ovens and more in this wonderfully edited compilation. That underwater surfing shot is all kinds of awesome. The song is Blood Theme by Data.

We’ve seen how one person produces only a handful of trash. This town has been doing the same thing for over a decade. The residents of Kamikatsu in Tokushima, Japan recycle, reuse or compost 80% of their waste. They hope to do that to 100% of their trash by 2020.

Gone are the days when farmers need workers to individually pluck vegetables from the earth, instead relying on marvels of engineering, like the Dewulf GKIIISE carrot harvester, a machine that can yank carrots from the ground, and remove their leafy green tops automatically.

(PG-13: Language) Like stories, passwords should be shown, not told. The RocketJump office descends into chaos because the rest of them can’t figure out the Wi-Fi password. Can you guess what it is before the video ends?

After building a house from scratch, Primitive Technology made coil and woven baskets out of palm leaves and lawyer cane, and two hatchets using branches and sharpened rocks. We hope we achieve immortality so we can watch the rise of his civilization.

Rookie troll Casually Explained makes bogus videos about mathematical and scientific concepts. Here he makes his mark with a long-winded joke that talks about objects with incredibly high temperatures.

YouTuber Mike created the world’s noisiest pencil sharpener by powering it with a remote-controlled car’s nitro engine. To paraphrase a commenter’s suggestion, we already have the engines. All we need is a big enough sharpener.

Don’t dish out punishment if you can’t take it. In their recent game against the Seahawks, Rams punter Johnny Hekker inexplicably shoved defensive end Cliff Avril from behind. Hekker was called for a foul, but the real penalty came in the next play.

Kagen Schaefer makes complex wooden puzzles. One of them is a desk that has over 20 puzzles and hidden compartments, which when solved give you pieces of sheet music. Put that together, play the notes on the built-in pipe organ and you’ll open a final secret drawer.

Videographer Robert McIntosh showcases the power of quadcopters and his After Effects video stabilization add-on ReelSteady in this beautiful one-shot tour of Venice Beach. Just a few years ago this short would have been impossible to make. Raw video here.

We’ve seen a short film that’s best watched on a smartphone screen. On the other hand, we imagine Jean-Charles Granjon’s meditative slow-motion film about a cliff diver would be awesome on a large monitor, turned on its side.

2015 is almost over, and we didn’t get real hoverboards. All we got were some viral videos, and 2-wheeled contraptions that spontaneously combust. At $19,900, the ArcaBoard is the latest effort – a somewhat clumsy device that actually hovers using 36 powerful electric fans.