Awesome Videos

A few weeks ago, the Brett Domino Trio asked YouTubers to submit parts for a collaborative song. They picked 50 contributions for surprisingly cohesive and enjoyable the final piece. That clapping man has seen some stuff.

Mehdi Sadaghdar thinks power banks are stupid, simply another thing that needs to be charged. So he added a USB charging port to a crank-powered flashlight, but not before sacrificing a couple of gadgets.

“Are there any Jews in New Britain? I heard they don’t let Jews in New Britain.” Cards Against Humanity’s last ever holiday bundle gets you eight “safe for work” gifts throughout December for just $15. If you’re not buying, at least watch their ad.

Artist Jake Weidmann possesses a truly special craft – he’s the youngest of only a handful Master Penmen in the entire world, with the hard-earned ability to create insanely intricate illustrations and calligraphy from the tip of his fountain pen.

A woman who’s sick of being single tries out speed dating. But her desperation may have led her to a symposium of stereotypical jerks and freaks in Meghann Artes’ slapstick stop-motion short film.

Brightly colored plants overrun a world in the music video for Slowly Rising. The song is from Full Circle, the debut album of Dutch beat maker Bastiaan van der Vlist aka Beatsofreen. Director Hideki Inaba says the song made him think of the sun and its life-giving power.

“There are often several fire burning parts to an up goer.” MinutePhysics and XKCD teamed up to explain how to explore space – but with one major restriction – they could only use the 1000 most common words in the English language to describe rocket science.

DNews points out that 2 million years of cooking have made us prefer the taste of hot food over cold food. Cooking lets us eat more efficiently because it pre-digests raw food and destroys harmful organisms, which our modern stomachs are ill-equipped to handle.

Our arm is sore from just watching musician Patrick Mathis turn the crank on this vintage instrument called a Barrel Organ. But what makes it more compelling is the track being played – Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal. His Miles Davis is pretty awesome too.

(PG-13 Language) Ed Asner and Doris Roberts star in this four minute gem of a video, where the uninitiated can now become educated on what exactly it means to “Netflix and chill.” Has this made it to the Oxford dictionary yet?

Adam Ruins Everything talks about the U.S. Electoral College. It was intended to give less populous states a voice and avoid problems should states support regional candidates. But it ended up being an undemocratic mess where a citizen’s vote hardly matters.

(PG-13: Language) Fallout 4 has a robot butler named Codsworth that can recognize and say certain player names. Polygon played a Scribblenautsian name game with the robot to test its limits. If he can’t say your name, you might be insulted at what he can say.

In one of his matches in the British pro wrestling league Insane Championship Wrestling, Graeme Stevely aka Grado pumped up the crowd with an unconventional theme song. The mostly male audience took it all in stride. Skip to 0:35.

Off-road race champ BJ Baldwin takes his 800 hp trophy truck through the forests and urban jungles of the Pacific Northwest to hunt down an elusive sasquatch named Bruce, who has a speedy off-road vehicle of his own. For more fun, check out Recoil 1 and Recoil 2.

A hilarious and explosive Australian commercial by 8Com director Josh Frizzell for the Toyota Camry highlighting the everyday battles and insanity of raising a family. Seriously, they don’t need to spend any money on a Super Bowl commercial in February, and just run this.

The folks behind the fantastic YouTube channel Kurzgesagt present yet another argument about how Facebook encourages a culture of content theft against original creators, where pirates duplicate videos, and get huge traffic from Facebook’s skewed video sharing algorithm.

(PG-13: Language) “Like this was an art project that I did, I found out I had to do this art project 15 minutes before it was due.” Jerma985 used a couple of mods to create hilariously grotesque Skyrim characters.

(Crude humor, Gore) Conan admires his own body, goes on a killing spree with the Slow Downy Machine and looks for post-nuclear hookups in the latest Clueless Gamer episode. War. War never changes. And by war we mean Fallout‘s graphics.

LG is holding a contest where people submit a video of them creating a mockup of their dream desktop PC out of cardboard. Here’s YouTuber Mickey W’s awesome entry. Sadly, he didn’t make it to the finals, probably because he submitted it a day late. (Thanks Joe!)

James Kingston and a fellow free climber snuck up to the top platform of the Eiffel Tower. They ended up staying around 9 hours on the iconic structure, partly because they were spotted by security. They were eventually arrested but were let go without charges.

Despite the added weight, this ordinary scooter actually got much faster and more powerful thanks to the guy riding on the back seat. Toyota should totally offer this as an option for the Prius.

(PG-13: Language) ” ‘Yet’ is the keyword that turns improbability into possibility.” The latest video in JelloApocalypse’s cynical Welcome To series takes shots at swindlers, underprepared entrepreneurs and the plain crazy folks that are ruining crowdfunding.

(PG-13: Language) Last Week Tonight looks at government policies and stigmas that make it very hard for even low-level offenders in the US to rehabilitate, causing many of them to eventually end up in jail once again – an inefficient and most of all inhumane system.