Awesome Videos

(PG-13: Language) JoBlo Movie Trailers pieced together the hit movies of 2015 – from the atrocious to Anomalisa, from indie to Star Wars – into one fun and exciting short film.

Jay Leno checks out the wares of Vintage Electric, a bicycle shop founded by Andrew Davidge when he was still in high school. As its name implies, his company specializes in electric bicycles with 20th-century frames and 21st-century prices.

Josh Romito’s massive mod for Grand Theft Auto V tweaks many aspects, but the most apparent are the graphical enhancements, which include 4K textures for many objects. It’s too saturated and shiny for us, but it still looks way better than the stock game.

This clever build by Caliixxs is designed to serve a single, but hilarious purpose – to play those familiar musical soundbites from Seinfeld any time the door opens. We can picture Kramer barging in already.

Watch as this little kid in Japan pulls one of the most epic and challenging BMX flatland tricks – a triple decade. That’s the move where you pull three full 360º spins around the handlebars. The bike drop at the end is the BMX version of the mic drop. Original on Vine.

Another stellar slow-motion surfing video from Chris Bryan. The veteran filmmaker and photographer used Phantom’s Flex, Miro M320S and 4K Flex cameras with his custom made underwater housings to shoot these awe-inspiring sequences.

YouTuber JohanKaos follows his girlfriend as they trek across Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia in this wonderfully edited travel video. If only getting through airports was this easy.

ScreenJunkies does their usual trash talk, this time ripping apart the latest in the Despicable Me universe, a spin-off that will be remembered more for its extensive marketing effort than for its time on screen. Ba-na-na.

Adam Conover takes a look at the way that early video games embraced women both behind the scenes and as players, and how the industry evolved to marginalize female players over the years. Man, we almost forgot about Roberta Williams.

Boomerang maker Victor Poulin attached a Mobius camera to one of his tri-wing boomerangs to see what it would look like. But the boomerang’s sound ended up being more interesting. It’s like a helicopter teleporting in. Turn the volume down.

Editor Kees van Dijkhuizen jr. pays homage to the films and creativity Pixar, using excerpts from writer/director Andrew Stanton’s wonderful TED Talk and Michael Giacchino’s score from Up as the accompaniment.

YouTuber Basketball Forever’s trailer for his 12-part compilation that will pay tribute to some of the best NBA players in the past 20 years, including Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant, who recently announced his retirement.

Primitive Technology makes a sling from bark fiber and then learns how to shoot with it. It’s one of the simplest ranged weapons you can make, but it’s very hard to master and is noisy too. For April Fools’ he should show us how he shoots and edits videos.

(PG-13) A boy yearns for a girl who’s already in a relationship with… a gorilla? CANADA knocked it out of the park with this sexy and surreal music video for Tame Impala’s single. We hope gorilla hand dresses become a thing.

We already know what Darth Vader does in his spare time, and now we get a glimpse of some Imperial stormtroopers as they unwind from a long day on the Death Star. Seems like they’re far more skilled at riding longboards than they are with their blaster rifles.

Korean animator Kang SuHyun’s short science fiction film requires no dialogue to tell its story, a haunting tale of a man who looks back on the events leading to the loss of his partner after a long and mentally grueling mission in space.

Screen Junkies gives Fox an A for effort and a flaming F for what it has done to Marvel’s first family. It takes a colossal effort to screw up a movie with literally hundreds of proven storyboards for reference.

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson demonstrates why he’s one of the strongest men on Earth, as he picks up a 33lb keg and tosses it like it’s nothing, demolishing a world record with a distance of 24ft 6in. We’re assuming that the beer was just a bit foamy when they tapped it.

The Dark Side of the Force meets the crazy side of Los Santos as Michael and Trevor duke it out Star Wars-style. Sadly this wasn’t made with a Grand Theft Auto V mod. YouTuber Boris the Blade spent a month and a half with After Effects to add the lightsabers.

The Gregory Brothers borrow a page from Chase Holfelder’s Major to Minor, transforming happy songs into sad ones. For their holiday jam, they turned Jingle Bells into a dark sort of dirge that belongs in a Tim Burton movie.

Jeremy Clarkson helps Amazon show off its new and improved delivery drone, which is much larger than the previously shown prototype but still takes off and lands vertically. This drone has a range of 15 miles, flies at about 60mph and carries up to 5 pound packages.

We’ve seen a bunch of crazy ways to open a bottle, but this guy might have taken the prize, having trained his Hyacinth Macaw Ringo to crack bottles open with his beak. We could have sworn we saw this on The Flintstones first.

La Blogotheque accompanied dance group The Very Best and choral rock band The Polyphonic Spree to Uganda for a series of hilariously raw but joyous performances, including collaborations with Ugandan musicians and passersby. Skip to 1:00.