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How Not to Exit a Parking Lot

How Not to Exit a Parking Lot

This driver in Kemerovo, Russia appears to lack the basic skills required to pull out of even the most basic of parking spaces in the smallest of cars. We can only imagine the carnage he left along the side of the road on his way home. (Thanks Robert!)

Star Wars: Battlefront (Gameplay)

Star Wars: Battlefront (Gameplay)

Eurogamer shares footage of a King of the Hill-style game mode from Star Wars: Battlefront’s closed beta. As we guessed, it looks like a shooting game for Star Wars fans, but perhaps not the other way around.

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If the Wedding Industry Was Honest

If the Wedding Industry Was Honest

(PG-13: Language) “Can you really put a price on love? Yes. Love costs on average $31,500.” Cracked and Roger are back to remind us not to splurge on weddings. Remember lovebirds, you also need money after you get married. You know, to live.

Toyota Barista

Toyota Barista

Toyota’s Gazoo Racing shows the amount of energy can be captured from regenerative braking as it connected its 1000hp TS040 hybrid race car to a roomful of appliances to cook breakfast for 171 people by driving the equivalent of a single LeMans lap. More here.

Mortal Kombat Humilitality

Mortal Kombat Humilitality

(PG-13: Language) Animation Domination HD imagines the most brutal Mortal Kombat finisher: having someone go through your phone while you helplessly watch. A roundabout advisory about enabling a passcode or Touch ID.

Spongebob Sings Black Sabbath

Spongebob Sings Black Sabbath

We can’t imagine how much time it took YouTuber Chip’s World to synchronize clips of Spongebob Squarepants to make it look like he’s singing Ozzy Osbourne’s part from Black Sabbath’s War Pigs, but the end result is that we now have a new Prince of Darkness.

The Lightest Metal Ever

The Lightest Metal Ever

Aircraft maker Boeing shows off Microlattice, an incredibly lightweight, but resiliant metal structure that’s formed from 99.99% air. It’s hoped that this technology may someday translate to a reduction in weight for airplanes and other vehicles.

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Jaws 19 Trailer

Jaws 19 Trailer

Universal Pictures pays homage to Back to the Future with a joke teaser about Jaws 19, which was in Back to the Future II‘s version of 2015. Props for being genuinely funny, and for not trying to cash in on the celebration. We bet the shark still looks fake though.

Extreme Handskating

Extreme Handskating

Athlete Mirko Hanßen decided to ignore the instructions on his inline skate box and wears his on his hands instead of his feet. Needless to say, his version requires significantly greater balance and gymnastic skill than traditional rollerblading.

PilotPriest: The Last Goodbye

PilotPriest: The Last Goodbye

An astronaut desperately goes after her partner. Based on a song by synthwave artist Anthony Scott Burns aka PilotPriest, the details and small movements in BRVTVS Collective‘s wonderfully animated short really make it come to life.

First & Final Frames: Part II

First & Final Frames: Part II

(NSFW) Editor Jacob T. Swinney follows up on his side-by-side comparison of the first and last thing we see on screen in another 70 films. There are some real classics in here from visual masters like David Fincher, Alejandro Inarritu, Quentin Tarantino, and Stanley Kubrick.

Found out I’m Gay

Found out I’m Gay

(NSFW: Language, Crude Humor) A man tells his friend about how a motorist made him come out of the closet. Aunty Donna’s skit is a lot like Key & Peele‘s boxing press con bit but is way more intense. Also that must have been a deserted road.

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Shock Absorbers 101

Shock Absorbers 101

YouTuber ChrisFix attached a camera to the underside of his truck to explain the basics of vehicle suspensions and shock absorbers in particular. Then he replaced his truck’s rusty shocks with a new one to show the difference.

Electronic Doors

Electronic Doors

Electronic tinkerer bd594 is back with another cover version of a classic track, as played by his merry band of old school computer and electronic equipment, this time playing The Doors’ Break on Through to the Other Side. Jump to 2:23 for some vocals.

Pepsi Perfect

Pepsi Perfect

We’ve got hoverboards, Nike powerlaces, and now the latest 10/21/15 prophesied product from Back to the Future II is upon us. Pepsi will be making just 6,500 bottles of Pepsi Perfect, and they’ll sell for about $20 each. Now we just need the Cubs to make the World Series.

Norway’s Bodybuilders

Norway’s Bodybuilders

These bodybuilders like to be as big and manly as they can. To ensure they get they most bang for their muscle buck, they hang out in a miniature village and sip from tiny espresso cups to make themselves look even more gargantuan. Turn subtitles on.

LWT: Mental Health

LWT: Mental Health

With mental health being used to divert discussion from gun control in the United States, Last Week Tonight looks at the country’s – and perhaps the world’s –  miserable treatment of the mentally ill.

Cutaway

Cutaway

(PG-13) An episode in a single handyman’s life, told through his hands and the things they touch. In filmmaking, a cut-in is a close up shot of something in the main scene. A cutaway is a model with its exterior removed, exposing what’s inside. A vivid short by Kazik Radwanski.

Building a Hut from Scratch

Building a Hut from Scratch

Primitive Technology shows us how he created a complete, heated shelter using nothing more than rudimentary handmade tools, trees, strips of cane and mud. He even made his own roof tiles from clay, using a kiln he made with similar techniques. The total build took him 102 days.

Augmented Reality Coloring Book

Augmented Reality Coloring Book

Disney researchers have developed a method which lets kids (or adults) fill in a coloring book and see their creations mapped into 3D space via augmented reality. It works in real time on an ordinary tablet, and can even account for the curvature of the book’s pages.

SNL: Abilify for Candidates

SNL: Abilify for Candidates

As children, we were told that we could be anything we wanted. And that led America to this. So for its season opener Saturday Night Live dreamed up a wonder drug that could rid us of these overenthusiastic dreamers.

You Can Count on Me

You Can Count on Me

Greg Baskwell shows off exactly why they call dogs “man’s best friend,” as his loyal companion Finley is there by his side all day, every day. Looks like Finley is also pretty industrious when Greg isn’t around.

Brain Hack

Brain Hack

(Flashing lights, PG-13: Language) A computer science student believes that a certain pattern of images induces visions of God, and it’s been the spark of all religions. He teams up with a film student to complete the pattern in Joseph White’s cheesy but entertaining short.

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