Awesome Videos

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?

(PG-13 Language) If Aaron Sorkin has his go to phrases, the writers of The Wire had a simpler quirk: rhetorical tautologies, or redundant statements such as “the game is the game”, “what happens happens” and “once you in it, you in it.”

Jelle Bakker built this 33-foot-long wooden contraption, dubbed “Marble Tsunami,” through which thousands of marbles roll their way to their eventual resting place. We can only imagine how loud this thing is in person.

The guy who enabled Kung Fury’s mission walks us through the finer points of sending objects through time, using the latest in high-tech computer equipment. His main problem? He’s got his 3-1/2″ and 5-1/4″ floppies mixed up.

(PG-13: Language) Every Frame A Painting highlights the importance of production design by examining chairs in movies and TV shows. Chairs can clue us in on the setting, a character’s personality or stature, or the mood of a scene.

The Sheffield Ski Village once was home to the UK’s largest man-made ski slope. The facility was destroyed by fire in 2012. A group of freeskiers recently returned to the abandoned slope to drum up support for bringing the park back to life.

CineFix chose its best movie sets based on a variety of criteria, making for a wonderfully diverse list. You’ll find entire fake cities big and small, virtual realms and even mental ones that existed beyond the set itself.

Researchers already figured out how to make a robot that could run like a cheetah. Now scientists at MIT have made their own version that can run untethered and jump over obstacles up to 18-inches-tall. Yes, folks, we’re doomed.

South African performer William Jafta forgoes celebrity impersonations, instead imitating the sounds of numerous animals, including birds, cats, dogs, goats and cows. But can he do a Lyrebird?

(PG-13 Language) “A dead end. A choice. One could go left, or one could possibly go ri– oh coins! Coins!” The hilarious gamer Jerma985 plays through a short adventure that he himself made using GameGuru.

To celebrate his YouTube channel hitting 1 million subs, mad scientist Colin Furze set up a rig on the back of his truck loaded with firework, and ignited them at the same time for an epic pyro show. He probably should have worn his suit.

YouTube celebrates its 10th birthday with an alphabetical, animated compilation of some of its most popular videos and genres, set to Blackalicious’ Alphabet Aerobics. YouTube, you da real MVP.

A motion-sensing billboard at a subway station in Sao Paolo, Brazil showed a person yawning when someone passed by it. Eventually it had a lot of commuters yawning. Guess what product it was promoting.

(PG-13) ADHD steals a page from Schoolhouse Rock, and educates us on what the NSA really does with all of their high-tech surveillance equipment. Next time you embrace your fetishes online, keep this little ditty in mind.

A motorcycle rider does his best Ghost Rider impression when he accidentally sets the whole thing on fire by smoking his tire for far too long and catching his oil on fire. We love the guys who try to put the flames out with their beer.

Adult Swim followed rap battle veteran Hollow Da Don as he looked for unsuspecting folks to diss in rhyme. Hollow racked up an insane number of wins, but a bird – a literal bird – straight up wrecked him.

To promote its 4K Action Cam, Sony created this OK Go-worthy video, in which they drove the cameras on a robotic platform surrounded by thousands of moving sticky notes which created a colorful landscape to travel through.

(PG-13 Language, Gore) The ’80s action movie parody delivers on the hype. Kung Fury mostly knows when to be bad and when to be good. The hero should be in Mortal Kombat. And the crying Nazi should win an Oscar. (Thanks Everyone!)

“Mother, if I don’t make it out of this alive, please, take care of Bobo for me.” GoPro used The Film Jar’s footage of children being launched off of a water blob at a summer camp to make this hilarious compilation.

Ben Steensels and his friends recently went on a whirlwind tour of New Zealand, covering a lot of ground – from lush forests to snowy peaks – in just six days. He captured the overwhelming experience in this wonderfully edited short film.

“…the thing about a photograph, it never lets you forget.” Tom Varisco’s creepy yet relatable short film plays out inside the tortured mind of a man who comes across one of his ex-lover’s old pictures.

Above Average imagines a new Airbnb rental option that lets you forego paying for lodging while still being able to enjoy one of the service’s best perks: going through someone else’s stuff and judging them based on what you find.