Awesome Videos

Artist Elliot Schultz created a variety of machine-embroidered discs, each of which is covered with numerous still frames which create animations when spun on a record player under a strobe light. It’s music for the eyes.

A crop duster checks out an explosion in Florida’s Everglades and finds a crate filled with bottles. Inside each bottle is a strange insect. Ryan Gillis’ animated short is a kickass sci-fi mystery.

The opening scene from the third episode of Kirby Ferguson’s ongoing series This is Not a Conspiracy Theory goes over the appeal of the supernatural. Beyond entertainment, magic provides hope and certainty.

A weird Japanese video in which they demonstrate how to turn vegetables into juice by setting off underwater explosions. The cool part is that the juice remains inside the veggies, as their innards are pulverized by the shockwave.

(PG-13 Language) “Pixels is bad enough to make you hate the things you love.” Moviebob confirms your suspicions about Pixels and then some. We’d tell him to calm down, but anything pointless, pandering and sexist deserves such ire.

A couple of months ago, YouTuber Harrisen Howes’ friend got his drone stuck on his neighbor’s roof. Since “access to the roof wasn’t possible”, he had to use his new drone and a pair of coat hangers to rescue his old friend.

8-Bit Bastard and IGN created this amusing machinima of the opening title sequence from the classic Mike Judge animated series King of the Hill, using characters, environments and vehicles from Grand Theft Auto V.

CineFix’s picks for the most beautiful movies include Alexander Sokurov’s single camera continuous take Russian Ark, Woody Allen’s Manhattan and Ron Fricke’s mind blowing documentary Samsara. 10 is just too few.

Pennsylvania-based youth ministry Epic Student Life shares a new summer sport. This fun twist on kickball uses a beach ball, kiddie pools as bases, and slippery tarps between each base.

Digg takes us through the history of strange and unusual lifeforms in science fiction flicks, from Gort to Groot and everyone in between, backed appropriately by Radiohead’s Subterranean Homesick Alien.

DJ VEKKED puts today’s all-digital DJs to shame, spinning, scratching and fading his sounds the old school way, with a pair of turntables and a mixer. He’s still controlling digital samples, but with serious analog skills.

Get an early look at the new ABC prime-time series The Muppets, which takes us behind the scenes of the lives of Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie and all the gang. The documentary style makes it look like The Office: Muppet Edition to us.

Look away, California. The Slow Mo Guys revisit the bit that made them famous, but this time they put Dan inside the 6-foot water balloon. You can skip to 3:30 for the money shot, but you’re going to miss half the fun.

(PG-13 Language) PLGRM profiles barber Nasir Sobhani, a rehabilitated drug addict. Once a week he cuts the hair of homeless people and hears them out, alleviating some of the loneliness and shame that he’s all too familiar with.

We don’t know who’s interviewing the man in the foreground, and we certainly don’t know what he’s talking about. But we do know that the poor old lady at the back needs the Mission: Impossible theme tune.

A young girl wants to trade with the tooth fairy, but she also wants to keep her tooth. Her naughty mother films her reaction before and after the fairy’s visit. Huh, so that’s what Kurt Vonnegut’s up to these days.

At the fighting game tournament Evo 2015, Woshige pulled a comeback against one of Guilty Gear Xrd‘s best players, Ogawazato. So he stood up to celebrate. But his win was only the second match in their best of three.

(PG-13 Language) An screenwriter goes out of town so he can escape showbiz. But while you can take a douchebag out of Hollywood… We can’t remember the last time we wanted to punch a fictional character so badly. Great acting.

The latest trailer for Batman v Superman showed Supes’ and General Zod’s destructive battle in Man of Steel from Batman’s perspective. YouTuber Long Rangel stitched the scenes from both movies into one cohesive clip.

Ezequiel López combined footage from the 1963 madcap comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with audio from Mad Max: Fury Road, resulting in an action-packed car chase flick that we’d pay good money to see on the big screen.

Video of Marines from the 3rd Marine Logistics Group, 9th Engineer Support Battalion showing how they breach a concrete wall, standing their ground against the explosive charge, protected only by a ballistic blanket and each other.

Sad Hill Productions parodies the classic Mexican standoff from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, but with Han Solo, Boba Fett and Greedo in place of Eastwood, Van Cleef and Wallach. Place your bets as to who shoots first.

Stephen knows that you love to watch videos while eating, so he’ll be your lunch buddy this week. For Monday he had food with small-sounding names. Check the Late Show’s YouTube channel for the rest of the episodes.