Awesome Videos

“It’s living on your own after kids and a wife. It’s the question you ask in the middle of the night.” New York City’s soft rock sibling band Infinity Song broke out with their sarcastic hit Hater’s Anthem. But the latest single from their debut album Essentials is a melancholic earworm about the dull pain that inevitably grows and gnaws at us.

We’ve seen a raft made of soda bottles, but this is the first time we’ve encountered one made from red Solo cups. Drew Dirksen shared this clip of a simple but effective raft that floats because of the air trapped between pairs of party cups. We wouldn’t trust it on the open seas, but it seems to work pretty well as a pool float.

Musicians Alexandr Misko and Alexander Boldachev performed this powerful acoustic arrangement of The Cranberries song Zombie as a tribute to fallen Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The duo’s nuanced performance serves to remind us not to be indifferent zombies and to stand up to oppression.

Between the claustrophobia and the potential for nasty things living in it, a drain pipe is one of the last places we’d want to spend time. Daredevil Nicholas Coolridge, aka ModernTarzan threw caution to the wind and skateboarded down a drain pipe on his back for a low-budget thrill. It looked like a pretty clean pipe, but we’d still never do it.

You know those kiddie rides they have at malls? The mad geniuses of Dutch outfit Actic! converted some of the pint-sized motorcycle rides into something they can drive around at festivals and parades. This Instagram clip from wbikekustom shows officers of the Kiddie Ride Police Patrol keeping an eye out for scofflaws. Your electric pony is no match!

On 3.11.2024, NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert dropped this excellent short performance by alt-rock band 311. Lead singer Nick Hexum and his bandmates sound as good as ever, with a four-song set that includes Beautiful Disaster, All Mixed Up, Amber, and Down. We always loved the way they blened rock, reggae, and funk sounds.

Resident Alien is one of our current must-watch TV series. The science fiction comedy features wonderful performances, lots of laughs, and some great visual effects. This behind-the-scenes footage from season three gives us a look at the costumes, makeup, props, and digital VFX that help bring the show to life.

Without The Beatles, rock and pop music might have evolved very differently. We’re not sure if there’s a direct connection to bands like Green Day and Blink-182, but it sure seems like it after listening to Daniel Swisher’s medley of Fab Four songs performed in ’90s pop-punk style. Like what you hear? There’s a second video with eight more tracks.

From Star Wars to Raiders of the Lost Ark to Jurassic Park, composer and conductor John Williams is the maestro behind some of the best and most memorable movie music ever. Williams sat down with Variety to discuss his approach and inspirations behind some of his best-known scores. His exuberance and positivity make 92 seem young.

Andymation is known for his creative flipbook animations. He once created a flipbook smaller than a penny, but that wasn’t good enough for Andy, so he made an even smaller one. It took some work to get the camera and lens setup right; then, he got to work drawing each tiny frame with a sharp pencil. After that came the challenge of stacking them.

March 14 is Pi Day, so there’s no better time to learn as many digits of the mathematical constant as possible. AsapSCIENCE is here to help. While it’s definitely harder to memorize than The Alphabet Song, if you’re paying attention to the lyrics, you should at least get further than 3.1415926.

A coil gun is a weapon that uses electromagnets to accelerate a metal projectile through its barrel. It’s possible to build your own, but the high voltage electricity involved can be dangerous. Using the utmost caution, Jamie’s LEGO built a slightly less deadly coil gun using Technic parts, a bunch of 9-volt batteries, and some 100-volt capacitors.

How do you stop a bear from attacking? Take away his right to bear arms. Adam from North of the Border imagines a way to make a grizzly bear more deadly: by arming it with a high-capacity, rapid-fire weapon. After sculpting the bear’s body, head, feet, and hands, he imparted a fur texture before building a mini minigun and ammo pack.

Getting all the snow off your car when you park it outside can be a pain. Chinese automotive company NIO shows off an unconventional use for its SkyRide active suspension system: making its flagship ET9 sedan shake off a thick blanket of snow like a cold puppy dog. Just don’t do it inside the garage, ET9. Good boy.

We’ve heard some of Peter Bence’s fantastic piano playing before. Like his other flourish-filled performances, Peter’s arrangement of The Police’s creepy stalker track Every Breath You Take has him tickling the ivories and live-looping notes to create layered rhythms.

The Vikings made many interesting weapons, armor, and other battle gear. In this video from metalsmith Freerk Wieringa, he handcrafts a replica of an ancient Viking shield. He starts by hammering its iron center and forging nails. He then cuts wooden planks into a circle and adds canvas, paint, and a rawhide edge before attaching the metal dome.

Artificial intelligence has become a major subject of today’s technology conversations. In 1983, one company marketed an early smart home product designed to control home appliances via voice control like Siri or Alexa. Kevin from Popular Science got his hands on the costly Butler in a Box to explain how it worked without Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or the Internet.

EV maker Rivian revealed not one, but three new models. The boxy R2 is a mid-size family SUV, the R3 is an adventurous crossover, and the R3X is a performance-oriented version with off-road chops. Rivian CEO and founder RJ Scaringe talks up the brand and shows off the new vehicles and their features. Reserve the $45,000 R2 for 2026 delivery.

Photographer Darius Twin is an expert at creating long-exposure images and animations like this one. In this 2-minute tutorial, he shows how to make your own light paintings using manual exposures, a shutter remote, and a focused light source. Be sure to check out his YouTube channel for more of his work.

“Some things don’t have words. So we have to be close enough to feel them.” A mother explains to her daughter how she came to understand the way her father expresses his love and support. Julian Curi aka Righteous Robot spent almost three years creating this paper stop-motion short film as a way of coping with his father’s passing.

Choreographer Sergio Reis and members of Netherlands-based CDK Company flex their muscles with a fantastic modern dance set to Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know. The picture-perfect photography and wide-angle shots are straight out of a Wes Anderson movie. Their performance of Eye in the Wall by Perfume Genius is similarly captivating.

Star Trek TNG star Jonathan Frakes had a lot of questions for us back in the 1990s. Well, it turns out if you slow down Frakes’ voice from the show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, he sounds like a really drunk guy asking random questions as he stumbles home from the bar. More drunk guy questions here.

For the first minute or so of this video, we thought it really was a Doors cover. Then the lyrics kick in and it’s clearly Metallica. Musician Denis Pauna seamlessly blends two very different styles of rock music in his remake of Enter Sandman. It’s a slow burn, but a hot one.