Awesome Videos

Musician and sculptor Andy Thurlow has created not just one or two, but dozens of unique musical instruments, each of which makes strange and unusual sounds. He says he built them because he was tired of everything else sounding the same.

Staged back in 12/2014, Illumi’Nantes was an projection mapped display shown on the facade of France’s world famous Nantes Cathedral. It featured intricate, animated versions of artist Alain Thomas’ Nativity paintings. More here.

PlayStation UK got superstar voice actor Troy Baker – Joel, the Joker, Revolver Ocelot – to say a variety of silly things using the voices of the video game characters he’s played. Voice acting co-champ Nolan North (Nathan Drake) also makes a quick cameo.

XCAR got to drive the bad guys’ rides from the new James Bond movie Spectre. There’s the hulking custom Land Rover Defender, the fast and powerful Range Rover Sport SVR and the inexplicably unproduced hybrid supercar, the Jaguar C-X75.

(Gore) Filmscalpel takes a look at Martin Scorsese’s masterful use of shades of red in many of his films, which functions as both a technical nod to early color-toned films, and a punctuation on scenes of violence, anger, terror, and occasionally awe.

A master glass blower in Italy shows how to take a blob of molten glass and transform it into a detailed sculpture in seconds, massaging the searing hot material into a prancing horse with tongs and scissors. Skip to 1:00.

Some truly immersive rear-view camera footage captured from the Replay XD action camera on the bumper of Paul “The Dude” Morris’ stadium super truck as Matt Brabham attempts to pass him. The jumps and the 3-wheel action are especially awesome.

Adam Ruins Everything kills any possibility of Listerine ever being a sponsor, as he questions the idea that most of us even need mouthwash, and how marketing, and clever use of the ominous word “halitosis” convinced us otherwise. Well, it can always clean your floors.

BBC Radio 1 host Greg James asked iconic nature show narrator Sir David Attenborough to provide a his authoritative and informative voice for an explanation of the opening bits of Adele’s music video for Hello.

“Put your Hemnes in the air, Kaustby got all day.” Ikea promotes the upcoming opening of its outlet in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with this so-bad-it’s-good jingle filled with puns based on the shop’s product names.

Artist Heather Rooney shows off her incredible talent for drawing photorealistic portraits using Caran d’Ache Luminance colored pencils. Her work is so good that some of her subjects look better than they do in real life. Check out her YouTube channel for more.

Aston Martin’s Marek Reichman dropped by Jay Leno’s Garage to showcase one of his latest designs, the DB10. Made solely for the James Bond movie Spectre, the DB10 has an aluminum chassis, a carbon fiber body and the Vantage’s 420hp 4.7L V8 engine.

Musician Chad Neidt performs a rapid-fire medley of every James Bond theme – at least for the official flicks – there’s no Never Say Never Again, and we’re okay with that. And 1967’s Casino Royale had no lyrics, though we would have liked to hear Chad hum it.

Musician Martha Psyko performs rock and metal tunes on her electric violin. From AC/DC’s Thunderstruck to GNR’s Sweet Child O’ Mine to Bon Jovi’s Livin’ on a Prayer, to Metallica’s Master of Puppets, she knows her way around a fiddle. Her Misirlou ain’t bad either.

Conor McGregor is the top contender in UFC’s 145lb. division. Watch him face off in a playful sparring session with Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Game of Thrones’ Mountain and Europe’s Strongest Man for the past 2 years. The loser? Anyone who looks at the comment thread.

Footage of a relatively simple, yet ingenious 4-axis industrial milling machine that can cut, engrave and shape up multiple objects simultaneously. These sort of machines are most often used to make decorative woodwork, furniture legs, or small sculptures.

“”Your overconfidence is your weakness.” “Your face and your hair is yours.” Princess Leia needs a lozenge, Yoda is a stoner and Darth Sidious unleashes a Force Burn in sequentialpictures’ hilarious bad lip reading of the original Star Wars trilogy.

While you probably have moved on from storing your data on CD- and DVD-ROMs, chances are you still have some lying around with sensitive files on them. Photonic Induction is here to show you the proper way to permanently wipe all the data from your discs.

A couple of tiny cars perform a stunt in which they balance on a fulcrum like a giant teeter-totter. We’re just impressed that the driver on the left didn’t back off the end of the ramp.

This bird’s evil laugh will have you convinced that he’s plotting to overthrow the world, while our hero is tied to a table with a laser pointed at his crotch. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the ring leader of the Duck Army.

(PG-13: Language) “What the hell are you doing dog?” “Oh man, I’m just excited about this money man.” Norwegian comedy show Karl Johan asked two strangers to brainstorm ideas for a short film on the spot. Here’s the result.

The fine folks at Holy Kaw! dusted off this 2014 TED Talk with DJ, musician, and producer Mark Ronson, as he uses samples of previous TED Talks to explain how the ability to record, tune, tweak and modify existing sounds transformed the way music is made.

For its Halloween episode, HouseholdHacker shows us how to make realistic fake blood using off-the-shelf items. All you need is flour, corn syrup, red and blue food coloring and 60 seconds.