When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Awesome Videos

The Birds and the Bees

The Birds and the Bees

Cut Video filmed several parents explaining to their kids where babies come from, proving that it’s not the little ones, but the dads that we should be worried about. Come on guys. If the badasses you meet on Call of Duty can do it, so can you.

DUM: Faceswap Music Videos

DUM: Faceswap Music Videos

For their videos, the guys from electro-pop band DUM take scenes from classic movies and replace the actors’ faces with their own. Their silly tributes include Home Alone, The Neverending Story, and Dumb and Dumber for starters.

Advertisement

Gatorade: Sledge Hockey

Gatorade: Sledge Hockey

Sledge hockey or sled hockey is a variant of the sport for people with lower limb disabilities. Gatorade interviewed the Cruisers sledge hockey team, then surprised them with a special selection of opponents.

Roasting Marshmallows over Lava

Roasting Marshmallows over Lava

While exploring Marum crater in the volcanic island of Ambrym in Vanuatu, Simon Turner and Bradley Ambrose decided to take a brief break. Why bother with a camp fire when there’s a lava lake before you?

From Poop to Potable Water

From Poop to Potable Water

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates checks out the Janicki OmniProcessor. It extracts clean water and ash and generates electricity from sewage sludge. Not only could it save lives, it could also make waste profitable.

Movie Color Grading

Movie Color Grading

Color grading is done to correct or enhance the colors of photos or videos, and to ensure they match. Taylre Jones of Grade demonstrates its significance with these before and after shots of his work for the movie The House on Pine Street.

Luge Cart POV

Luge Cart POV

YouTuber Lewis Knights shows off his luge cart run at the Skyline park in Queenstown, New Zealand. The park has a scenic track and an advanced track. We were waiting for one of the guys in front to start tossing banana peels.

Advertisement

Stop Saying “It Ruined My Childhood”

Stop Saying “It Ruined My Childhood”

(NSFW: Language) CollegeHumor juxtaposes two types of childhood ruination: the one where Michael Bay screws up your favorite cartoons, and the one where real sh*t went down. Here’s a parody: “Stop taking expressions seriously.”

Die Hard: Alien vs. Predator

Die Hard: Alien vs. Predator

YouTuber ChiefBrodyRules does what he can to fix Alien vs. Predator by adding officer John McClane into the middle of the fray between the warring alien species. We wonder how you say “Yippee Ki-Yay, Mother F**ker!” in Yautja.

Steve Harvey Knows What’s up

Steve Harvey Knows What’s up

Audrey dropped by Steve Harvey’s talk show with an interesting story: she still has no idea what her husband of 20 years does for a living. All she knows is he’s in “innovation strategy.” We gotta get into that. Whatever that is.

Eight Totally Arbitrary Things

Eight Totally Arbitrary Things

Vlogbrothers‘ Hank Green expounds on a series of things that we all assume have some deep meaning, thoughtful or storied background, but just sort of turned out that way. We’re proud to be part of the rare culture that doesn’t eat bugs.

Captain Risky

Captain Risky

Let’s kick it and rip it! Australian insurance company Budget Direct borrows a page from Super Dave Osborne’s book, with this silly commercial that stars a daredevil who basically has no idea what he’s doing.

Advertisement

Ride the Sky

Ride the Sky

Photographer Lance Page creates a unique (and literal) spin on the astronomical time-lapse film, by synchronizing the movement of his camera with the position of the North Star, reminding us that it’s the Earth that’s turning, not the stars.

US Navy Autonomous Helicopter

US Navy Autonomous Helicopter

The military version of Amazon Prime Air. The Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System is a US Navy program that aims to convert helicopters into drones, which can the be summoned for supply drops via a user-friendly mobile app.

Cleaning with a Laser 2

Cleaning with a Laser 2

We’ve seen a laser vaporize rubber off of metal. Here’s another mesmerizing display of the beam’s mighty cleaning power. Watch as Laser Age’s machine makes grime disappear from a baking tray, leaving no residue behind.

Millions, Billions and Trillions

Millions, Billions and Trillions

In this supercut of footage of the late, great astrophysicist Carl Sagan, we’re reminded just how small we are by the seemingly countless times he said million, billion, trillion, or quadrillion during the 13-episode run of the original Cosmos.

Stuck Head, Free Body

Stuck Head, Free Body

This kid managed to get his head stuck between the bars of a gate. A man tries to help the kid get free by gently pulling him back, but has no luck. But the kid came up with a, shall we say, more straightforward solution.

The One-Handed Drumroll

The One-Handed Drumroll

This street performer starts out with a solid demonstration of his pickle-tub drumming skills, but amps things up to percussion level 9000 when he busts out a lightning-fast, single-handed drumroll at the end.

Damian Walters: 2014 Showreel

Damian Walters: 2014 Showreel

Stuntman Damien Walters shows off more of his incredible athleticism, gymnastic skills and the giant size of his balls in this compilation he posted to celebrate hitting 500,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

The Statue Handshake

The Statue Handshake

Oklahoma City Thunder centers Nick Collison and Steven Adams recently showed off their secret handshake on TV. It’s not filled with dozens of daps or complicated sequences. In fact, it’s just the opposite. KD seems used to it.

Gravity Glue

Gravity Glue

Artist Michael Grab creates beautiful, yet temporary sculptures by precariously balancing found stones upon one another. In this soothing and hypnotic video, he revisits some of the sculptures he created in 2014.

Climbing a 1500ft. Tower

Climbing a 1500ft. Tower

Tower climber Kevin Schmidt scales a 1500ft inactive TV tower in Salem, South Dakota, then takes a well-deserved selfie at the top. Amazing footage by PrairieAerial. Imagine if you left something you needed at the bottom.

Art of F1 2014

Art of F1 2014

YouTuber Miran Dilberovic captures the past year in Formula One with this intense highlight reel. See the thrills, skills, heartbreaks, escapes, winners and losers of F1 2014 set to Ctrl-Z’s remix of Dies Irae.

ADVERTISEMENT

Home | About | Suggest | Contact | Team | Links | Privacy | Disclosure
Advertise | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Sites We Like

Awesome Stuff: The Awesomer | Cool Cars: 95Octane
Site Design & Content © 2008-2024 Awesomer Media / The Awesomer™