Awesome Videos

The vanishing bottle is one of the simplest yet fun to watch magic tricks. But the world famous magician, entertainer and educator Shawn Farquhar put a spin on the trick by doing it slowly. Keep an eye on his left hand starting at 0:36.

For Brandon Li, Tokyo “saturates the senses.” He made this video to preserve that feeling and present the city’s many facets: the serene and the boisterous, the old and the new, the holy and the hentai. Plus the club with robot boxing.

EarthCam presents one of the longest time spanning time-lapses you’ll ever see. Watch One World Trade Center’s 11-year construction – from October 2004 to May 2015 – in under 2 minutes.

“Yipeee!” What if Anakin Skywalker kept talking and thinking like a kid all his life? We’d get the sci-fi version of Kung Pow. M. deicke mashed scenes from the original trilogy with the young Anakin’s dialogue from the prequels.

(PG-13 Language) Last Week Tonight returns to look at the indictment and arrest of some of FIFA’s top officials on charges of corruption. Sadly, the organization will live on unless its sponsors pull their funding.

To promote its EDGE product line, Castrol enlisted Matt Powers to drift his 650hp Ford Mustang while wearing an Oculus Rift that simulated a course filled with daunting obstacles. Watch the 360° version here. BTS video here.

The multitalented Daniel Koren takes on A-Ha’s 1985 guilty pleasure classic Take on Me with his own unique arrangement packed with jazz and multilayered vocal harmonics.

The elder statesman of musical comedy proves he’s still got it, as he shows off his youthful exuberance at the age of 89, dancing with his wife Arlene to the jazz-infused bluegrass sounds of The Dustbowl Revival’s track Never Had to Go.

(PG-13 Language) Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe reminds us that so-called “reality” shows are as made up as any show on TV. Cameras, digital storage and editing software let directors manufacture any plot from a pool of raw footage.

We’re pretty tired of CGI creatures, and would rather go with old school practical effects. But we’ll make an exception for Aaron’s Animals, who used VFX to produce a rather unexpected pack of animals to pull his wagon down the road.

This series of Adult Swim segways by Paul Robertson plays out like the greatest 16-bit console game ever, with brilliant character design that will have you grinning ear to ear, and wishing it were playable. Watch the entire playlist.

A team of marine scientists funded by the NOAA used a robotic camera off the coast of Puerto Rico to capture incredible footage of just a few of the unusual undersea lifeforms dwelling up to 20,000ft. beneath the surface. More here.

(PG-13 Language) CollegeHumor’s cynical break down of some of the people that join recreational sports leagues and their reasons for signing up. Hint: it’s not about health. Well, not physical health.

(PG-13 language) Amy Schumer and her stripper friend show up at a house to perform for a bachelor party, but it turns out the groom is no gentleman. In fact, he’s a real dog – complete with fleas. Who’s a good boy?

Street artist Javier De Riba uses spray paint and stencils to create patterns that look like floor tiles, adding a surprising bit of life to the sites where he paints them. You can buy prints of Javier’s patterns from his shop.

Cosplay spotters Sneaky Zebra were at it again at the May 2015 MCM London Comic Con, where they caught up with a variety of creatively costumed folks, from Chappie to Fred Flintstone, from Baymax to Thor, and everyone in-between.

Mike Szczys of HackADay shows off a neat trick using a grid of SmartMatrix RGB LEDs, a Teensy 3.1 circuit board, and a classic Atari joystick. The end result – a fully playable version of the arcade classic Pac-Man. Full build instructions here.

Dancer Madd Chadd appears to be more robot than human as he pops, locks and breaks it down into controlled mechanical movements all while he maintains his balance on a wheeled Airboard. The track is So by Dabow.

Advertisers have wasted millions of brain cells with catchy commercial jingles that burrow into our heads. YouTuber Grant Woolard turned 25 of the most memorable jingles into one long earworm.

A year after the tragic crash that seriously injured comedian Tracy Morgan and killed his friend James McNair, Tracy broke his silence on TODAY. An emotionally raw look at a man who usually makes us laugh. Keep strong, Tracy!

Steve Ramsden’s brilliantly edited mashup of two classic, but very different movies which take place in iconic hotels – Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel – and the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

Erick Solis and Ricardo Trevino aka Playback Collective edited clips of the sublime Mad Max: Fury Road to make an ’80s-style trailer for the flick. Or at least a music video for Power Glove’s badass song Vengeance.

With the recent addition of racially diverse Emoji on iOS devices, CollegeHumor allows the communications icons to speak for themselves on the subject. Seriously, folks. Do our Emoji really need to be that politically correct?