Awesome Videos

DJ Earworm’s annual music mashup features Adele, Fetty Wap, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and more. It kind of devolved into a sheet of noise halfway through for us, but as a retrospective it does its job quite well. Remember Uptown Funk?

For their series Cardboard Chaos, the guys from Signal Snowboards teamed up with Ernest Packaging and the Fender Custom Shop to create a Stratocaster with a body made from layered cardboard. The end result is completely playable, and more durable than you’d think.

Verizon worked with Minecraft artisans BlockWorks and ad agency Wieden+Kennedy to make a gigantic virtual smartphone in the sandbox game. The phone has a functioning web browser, front-facing camera and video calling.

Angry Video Game Nerd counts down to Christmas by highlighting one bad video game cover art each day, from 12/1 to 12/25. Here he takes on the numerous mind-boggling missteps of Capcom’s art department.

With no time left in their game against the Lions, Packers’ star quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw his first successful Hail Mary pass, a 61-yard lob that was caught by tight end Richard Rodgers. The play completed their comeback from being down 20 points. NFL video here.

Some babies stop crying when they hear music, while others calm down because they can’t multitask. But if your baby’s wrath is particularly hard to stop, try Dr. Robert Hamilton’s disarming hold maneuver. We should try this on soccer players.

Burton and Mountain Dew helped Danny Davis realize his dream snowboarding event. If you can’t watch the whole thing, at least check out the one take opening sequence of Davis and his friends carving through the custom-made park.

Inside Out is not a purely educational or technical piece, but it is founded on a psychological theory. Nerdwriter1 puts emphasis on “theory”, reminding us that we are not robots governed by our emotions – that we are less like Riley and more like Joy.

Last time we checked in with artist Luca Iaconi-Stewart, he was building an intricate paper model of a Boeing 777 out of manila folders. Here, he applies his same incredible knife and tweezer skills to craft a replica of a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380.

For their latest face-swapped music video, David Unger Music created a hilarious homage to everyone’s favorite Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, and set it to their track Tired of Waiting, which is how we all feel about The Force Awakens. Bend-3PO ftw!

Don’t have a drinking buddy? Scotch whisky maker Lagavulin and Nick Offerman will keep you company. Here’s a 45-minute video of the actor silently sipping whiskey by the crackling fire, with a degree of restraint diametrically opposed to his Fargo character.

The incredible vocal talents of Puddles Pity Party and Haley Reinhart teamed up with Postmodern Jukebox to turn in a quirky, vaudvillian performance of Tears for Fears’ 1983 dark classic Mad World. Download on iTunes.

We’ve already learned how to make our own gummy candies, but this neat video from Bosch Packaging Technology shows how they’re made in mass quantities. There’s something immensely satisfying about all those gummy bears and worms rolling off the assembly line.

A fantastically upbeat bluegrass cover version of AC/DC’s classic You Shook Me All Night Long by Finland’s Steve`n`Seagulls. Their cover of Iron Maiden’s Run to the Hills is pretty great too, and what was the last time you saw a real reindeer in a music video?

To demonstrate their durability and traction control system, Volvo Trucks put Sophie, a 4 year-old girl behind the wheel of an 18-ton truck, and asked her to drive it through a challenging obstacle course. For safety’s sake, she used a remote control. Thank goodness.

Gizmodo and artist Scott Park tried to enumerate the vehicles from the original Star Wars trilogy according to their size. They made a couple of mistakes, but it’s still a good list. Scott sells prints of this compilation and more cool works on Society6.

A hilarious old video that looks like it was shot on VHS (or a potato), but embodies the essence of what makes a modern day viral YouTube clip work – a cute animal doing something stupid, yet endearing.

“Gameplay is… it’s just simpler. There’s no people. Just targets.” Federico Heller’s impressive dystopian short film is about a future where virtual reality video games have become extremely addictive. One junkie stumbles onto the chilling conspiracy behind it.

A variety of single purpose machines repeatedly perform mundane human activities in Molistudio’s music video for Endless. The song is a single from Monsters, the latest album from Argentinian alternative duo Anybody There.

Adam Ruins Everything points out how Disney and other corporations asked the US Congress to pass a law greatly extending copyright protection so they could make more money out of their copyrighted works. Remember folks, everything is a remix.

Jimmy Fallon and Seth MacFarlane read back some of the more ridiculous questions and answers found on Yahoo! Answers, performed as a piano duet. As stupid as the questions are, it’s the snarky retorts that give us hope for humanity.

Eclectic Method cut up numerous clips from the first six films of the Star Wars saga to retell the most pertinent plot points from the series, and to refresh our memories before The Force Awakens drops in a couple of weeks. And no, it doesn’t make the prequels any better.

The answer, of course, is no. But just so we can see what it’s like to think like an insane person, YouTuber Vincent H. Valentine made this video about Redditor Lumpawarroo’s infamous, tongue-in-cheek investigative report on the reviled Star Wars character.