Awesome Videos

Vsauce talks about awkwardness, including why we feel the same symptoms when we’re embarrassed as when we’re in danger of physical pain. He also explains that in a stupid way, people who are easily embarrassed are being narcissistic.

Rhett & Link are back with a new song, and it’s a catchy little pop tune about stealing food off of your buddy’s plate. As is par for the course with these guys, the absurdity escalates quickly. Download the track on iTunes.

Austrian artist Klemens Torggler creates these amazing doors which open and close by rotating two panels around pivot points, and need no tracks to operate. We want all of our walls made out of these things.

Woodworker Frank Howarth shot nearly 6,000 stills, then assembled this stop-motion animation to create the illusion that his table saw and its accessories have lives of their own, and require no human intervention to operate.

In this hilariously unironic commercial, Taco Bell presents itself as a utopia in the breakfast hunger games against McDonald’s. We give them points for the posters, but come on. This is like ditching Coke for Mountain Dew instead of water.

Director Mac Premo and skateboard shop Sanford Shapes turned discarded buckets and plywood into skateboard decks as their contribution to Do The Green Thing’s Everyday Things collection.

Long before we had phones that could shoot time-lapse videos, Disney used good old film to document the construction of its California theme park, and recently shared this classic footage in celebration of its upcoming 60th anniversary.

YouTuber Michael Gramlin shares one of the most memorable gaming moments we’ve ever seen. Taken hostage by other players in DayZRP, a player is told to sing so they’ll spare his life. Skip to 3:20. Original song here.

(NSFW: Language) A man catches his wife cheating on him, but he can’t bring himself to confront her. So he goes to the hardware store to replace the things that have been taken from him. Captions available.

OK Go’s commercial for Chinese furniture store Red Star Macalline features a remix of I Won’t Let You Down… but it let us down a bit because the tricks here are actually from The Writing’s On the Wall, so no synchronized umbrellas for you.

YouTuber SlamTheSlammer and his friends made this parody of basketball trick shots back in 2011. We like that it’s simple and short, but we wish they were playing baseball, eating, doing their homework and sleeping by the end.

Popson4 has a Dropcam security camera in his garage. It’s there to catch human intruders, but one night it caught a another kind of creepy crawler with its watchful eye. That’s what you get for keeping diamonds in your garage.

Animator Paul Johnson (aka “OtaKing”) spent countless nights and weekends over a four year period creating this epic Star Wars fan film, drawn in the style of 1980s anime. Trust us when we say this needs to be made into a feature film.

Tom Hanks made a guest appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, and impressed with a rapid-fire recap of the highlights of his extensive acting career. We were hoping for some Bosom Buddies too.

This man and his friend got on the G-MAX slingshot ride in Singapore. In the agonizing wait, he plays it cool and repeatedly tries to calm his friend down. The tables turn at 1:08. Be gone demon! Be gone so he can hold her hand!

…aka Fritz Takes Food to the Face. YouTuber Fritz Dog features nothing but the poor Golden Retriever Fritz trying to catch various human foods, from a meatball to a taco. To be fair we wouldn’t have caught any of those either.

If there’s nothing strange in your neighborhood, call Mario Wienerroither, who takes on the Ghostbusters theme song for his latest Musicless Music Video. Lady, why did you live in such a creepy house if you’re so easily scared?

(NSFW: Language, Gore) A man wakes up to find that the whole world dreamed about him. And now everyone’s afraid of him. Writer and director Carles Torrens crafts a creepy urban legend in this awesome horror short film.

With Winter gasping for its final breaths here in the Northern Hemisphere, editor Scott Duffy pays tribute to the sport of ice hockey – sampling sounds related to his now melting backyard ice rink. Well, there’s always the indoor rink.

(NSFW: Language) Last Week Tonight talks about the absurd interest rates and miscellaneous fees added to some municipal violation fines. Violators who are strapped for cash end up paying several times the original fine, or worse.

Animator Hombre McSteez is back with another set of simple yet silly animations, which he creates by sketching cartoon characters on transparencies then having them interact with real-world backgrounds. The avocado is our fave.

Digital Wizards Studios used over $100,000 worth of LEGO to recreate some of the most memorable scenes from Jurassic Park. Though in the spirit of LEGO films and games they added humourous twists here and there as well.

Jerry Seinfeld’s debut performance in India was cancelled over concerns about traffic. And parking. Rohan Desai and Adhiraj Singh vented their frustration in the only appropriate manner. Be sure to read this before watching.