Awesome Videos

Cinematographer Roger Deakins is responsible for some of the most striking imagery in the films of the Coen Brothers, as well as Kundun, Jarhead and Skyfall. Plot Point Productions pays tribute to this true master of composition, light and shadow in this short montage.

In Russia, many drivers ignore signs for disabled parking spaces. The non-profit Dislife decided to teach these folks a lesson by rigging up holographic projections of people with disabilities who would pop up as they enter a parking space without the proper permit.

In this brain-burner of an episode, Vsauce talks about the messages that NASA and other organizations have sent to space in a bid for humanity to communicate with, or at least be remembered by, other intelligent life. Then there’s this.

Who y’all think y’all frontin’ on? For their latest cover, Jimmy Fallon’s barbershop quartet The Ragtime Gals are joined by Joseph Gordon-Levitt for a wholesomely harmonized version of Rihanna’s hit Bitch Better Have My Money.

We’re dying to take a ride on this platform, which can be used to simulate a wide variety of movements by tugging at its eight steel cables, taking its carbon fiber frame and rider on trips in six different directions. We can only imagine how cool this is with the VR headset on.

(PG-13 Language) Self-confessed bed spiller Taylor Mali performs a poem about proofreading. At first it seems like a cheap way to get away with double entendres at a poetry reading. Well it is, but it’s also hard to intentionally speak like that at length.

YouTuber Ram Mehta shares this kickass bonding moment between a father and her daughter, who managed to snag a fairly large bass with her Barbie fishing pole. Dad held up the line at times, but Avery kept reeling.

And here we thought the polka version of Rammstein’s 1997 metal track Du Hast was the wackiest version we’d ever hear. But this is the internet, and where there’s a will there’s a way. So sit back and enjoy this silly interpretation of the track as performed by Viva Vox.

The Red Bull Hardline is a treacherous downhill mountain bike run in the hills of Wales. This year’s course is so hard that designer Dan Atherton and several other pros got injured while attempting it. Here’s Dan’s brother Gee on a practice run. Contest results here.

Did you know that the upside down squeeze bottle wasn’t invented until 1991? And that electric guitar designer Leo Fender – creator of the Telecaster, Stratocaster and more – never learned to play the guitar? All that and more on this episode of the List Show.

For the latest episode of his Clueless Gamer series, Conan O’Brien takes a stab at Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5, going up against Lil Wayne, as Tony Hawk eggs them on in a virtual skate-off. We think every game should include a big-head mode.

If you can’t remember the last time you felt anything while watching The Simpsons, YouTuber Yoann Hervo is here to rewire your memories. His trippy take on the show’s opening sequence is part of a longer but unfinished tribute.

“A President with the conviction to nod, the courage to point, and the experience to cram buzzwords into everything.” Meet Gil. He’ll say whatever gets him money for his campaign. Represent.Us is trying to include Gil in the U.S. Presidential race to highlight corruption.

YouTuber Pouff turns an otherwise mundane footage of a grocery run into a mind-melting collage of animals. He used samim23’s Deep Dream Animator, which applies Google’s photo manipulating software to videos.

Raven Kwok created this mesmerizing music video for the track Skyline by Karma Fields. The visuals were created using code that is based in part on Voronoi tessellation, a geometric model first used by René Descartes back in 1644.

We think of New York City as being crowded with humans, but the city is teeming with critters too, and they’ve gotta eat. We’ve already seen a rat trying to take home a slice of pizza, and now we’ve got a squirrel who has a thing for Shake Shack.

While most people install dashcams in their cars in order to record accidents, they’ve also been known to capture other events. For instance, this small plane made an emergency landing in Irvine, California, and taxied down the street along with the rest of traffic.

The duo behind Corridor Digital present their take on the basic principles and techniques behind action scenes. Usually, a great action scene answers two questions clearly: how the scene is unfolding and why it needs to exist.

Petrolicious talks to Mark Jarel and his 14-year old son Haven, who’s been around motorcycles since he was three. Last year Haven finished building his motorcycle, and this year he’s going to work on his car.

Usually, partnership announcements come in the form of boring memos and press releases. But when two great creative firms like Aardman Animations and NYC CG animators Nathan Love join forces, we get something much more special and entertaining like this.

3D modeler and Star Trek fanatic Jason B is building out an insanely detailed digital reconstruction of the Starship Enterprise-D as it appeared on The Next Generation. Take a tour of the first few levels of his ambitious VR project for the Oculus Rift.

Thinking of showing Disney’s Peter Pan to the little ones? Screen Junkies says you might as well show them the news. Here are all the disgusting and creepy things that hopefully flew over your impressionable head the first time you watched it.

Perhaps in a bid to keep a steady supply of whatever it is that keeps his eyes like that, Justin Timberlake went to Seth Meyers to sell a late night theme song. His drafts are good, but there’s something off about them.