Awesome Videos

For their Rockin’ 1000 event, a group of 1,000 musicians turned out in Cesena, Italy to play an awe-inspiring group performance of Foo Fighters’ Learn to Fly, with the hopes of convincing the band to come and play a concert there. (Thanks Alberto!)

If you had to choose between losing all of the world’s sports or all teachers, which would you pick? Key & Peele’s (and BMW’s?) satirical SportsCenter for teachers skit reminds us that we value rarity way more than utility.

Action Park employee Maria Bitko tries the water park’s nearly 2,000 foot-long slide. It will take you over a minute to reach the bottom, enough time to hypothesize where that gross brown stain came from.

Princess Yellow Feather sounds like the name of a character from a family flick, and this amazon parrot knows how to sing Everything is Awesome from The LEGO Movie like a boss. Best comment: “Everything is awesome…when you live in a tree.”

Who does Seth Rogen sound like? A treasure hunter hitting the jackpot. Last month the Schmitt family found a $1M worth of gold coins and other treasures from a shipwreck off the Florida Coast.

In Zamboni Grenade’s skit, a burglar tries to use chloroform on his victim, only to find out that it’s not like in the movies where the compound can knock someone out within seconds. But he’s got time.

An animation challenge to create clips using just 99 frames. Many of the videos show tremendous creativity and artistry given the extreme limitations. We’ve posted some of our faves, and you can view the numerous submissions here.

Stunt driver Gregg Godfrey recently smashed his own record for jumping in a big rig semi truck, flying 166 feet across a pair of dirt ramps, paying tribute to the late Evel Knievel. The previous record was just 50 feet. Side view here.

Creative technologist, artist and hacker Martin Backes created this computerized installation which endlessly sings hit ballads from the ’90s, vocalizing the songs with a sort of robo-speak which expresses a tremendous sense of emotion.

An incredibly strong man decides he’s had enough of people parking their cars in the bike lane in, so he decides to do something about it, clearing the lane by himself. The fact that the car appears to be a Yugo made the lift a little easier.

“Because water is free. And freedom should flow like water.” Meet the Timmy Brothers. They are passionate about handcrafting water. Paul Riccio pokes fun at the hipsters who ruined the word “artisan” and sound worse than PR robots.

Guitarist 331Erock’s latest metal cover comes to us courtesy of John Williams’ dramatic main theme from Jaws. We have to say the abrasive electric guitar sounds seem much more fitting of an angry great white shark than a cello does.

File this one under the “what kind of sorcery is this?” category. This demonstration of carbon nanotube aerogel technology will have you scratching your head as to how this stuff seemingly defies the laws of physics.

Cool footage of a Polish Air Force MiG-29 fighter jet as it lifts off from a runway, then proceeds to go straight up into the air. We can only imagine what it must be like to be in the cockpit of this impromptu rocket ship.

AsapSCIENCE looks at a variety of facts about dogs, from their impressive schnozzes, to their ability to respond to emotions, their intelligence compared to humans, and the reasons they do the things that endear them to us.

Brock Baker mimics a variety of Pixar characters, including Buzz Lightyear, Crush the turtle from Finding Nemo, Dug from Up and Merida. Owen Wilson impressions always get us. “Weayw!”

Surf gear maker O’Neill challenged filmmakers to create surfing videos with a twist. Here’s Stefan Nadelman’s contribution, an eye-popping visualization of waves in a variety of different contexts. Wave is love. Wave is life.

This KLM jumbo jet had to contend with strong crosswinds while landing at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. It looks funny now, like a gigantic drunk bird, but we bet the passengers and flight crew had a different opinion.

While we already learned how to start a fire with a motorcycle, this Rhodes scholar thought he could put one out with his bike. You can already guess where this is going. Seriously, if you don’t want your motorcycles, you can give them to us.

Lt. Clay Higgins straddles the line between rage and reason. Watch him politely put a criminal on blast for breaking into and stealing from a local supermarket. He’ll scare the crap out of you and teach you English at the same time. More here.

Some guys were on a road trip when they caught their buddy Micah asleep with his mouth wide open. So what’s any good friend to do? Stuff his mouth full of Twizzlers, of course. Our reaction would be similar: Hey, free candy!

A wonderful segment from unReal as freestyle mountain biker Brandon Semenuk makes his way through a hilly course. Beyond Brandon’s skills, the one-take, gyro-stabilized cinematography is truly impressive. (Thanks Scotty!)

(PG-13) To commemorate the birthday of the late Stanley Kubrick, CutPrintFilm put together this brief montage of the cinematic master’s tracking shots from The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Eyes Wide Shut.