Awesome Videos

Singer and music teacher Anna-Maria Hefele demonstrates polyphonic overtone singing. This uncanny technique allows her to generate two melodies in one breath and manipulate them independently.

Last Week Tonight on the abuse of civil forfeiture, a process whereby the police can take your belongings by charging them – yes, your stuff! – with a crime. America – where corporations are people and inanimate objects are sued.

Corridor Digital freely admits they’ve got no parkour skills, but that didn’t stop them from making a parkour action video. Though they did cheat a bit – shooting the entire thing lying on the ground. It’s like that Who’s Line Is It Anyway bit.

The guys from Rodafonia can play a gig pretty much anywhere they want with their traveling stage on wheels. It’s like a portable version of Burning Man – without the desert heat, body odor and peyote.

Japanese prank shows can be exceptionally sadistic. In this clip, we get to see how they’ve amped up the old pie-in-the-face prank using a high-powered hydraulic cream cannon concealed beneath a tabletop.

War Thunder is a free-to-play multiplayer action war sim for PC, Mac, PS4 and Linux. We honestly have to say we’ve yet to play it, but after watching this incredible cinematic battle between Russia and Germany, we’re going to install it later today.

We’re not too sure that a simple Snickers bar possesses the magical powers suggested here, but watching the maladroit Mr. Bean trying to be a stealthy ninja is well worth the price of admission.

Le Figaro and Musée de Cluny give us a basic idea of what it was like to fight in full combat armor based on 15th century documents. Dark Souls it ain’t. We bet many battles were shut down because the neighbors complained.

It’s 1964. Joe comes home after a hard day’s work, but his wife doesn’t greet him at the door, and dinner isn’t ready yet. Francesco Calabrese makes great use of color and props in this dark subversion of domestic life.

Musicians will tell you that a 7/4 time signature is one of the trickiest rhythms to follow. In Stewart MacLennan’s short film, performers show off their ability to keep in sync with this unusual beat. Inspired by Dave Brubeck’s eponymous track.

(NSFW: Language, Crude humor) This is the only Guy Fieri video that you’ll willingly watch. Multiple times. Jaboody Dubs cooks up a YouTube classic by dubbing the crass chef’s show. We’ll bless our sausages from now on. Meow!

Animator James Farr’s latest crossover short film reenacts the events in the Avengers movie using Mario, Link, Princess Peach and other Nintendo characters. Samus should have been Iron Woman, but Pikathor is a great hybrid.

Comedian John Mulaney dropped by The Tonight Show to promote his upcoming sitcom. While he was there he shared one of his worst stand up gigs ever, where he found himself on the receiving end of a biting yet poetic remark.

17-year-old rapper A-F-R-O has an uncanny ability to improvise lyrics on the fly, spitting an amazing flow of prose as he’s handed random objects. Oh, did we mention he did this while suffering from 8 cracked ribs and a broken spine?

We’ve heard Marc Martel’s amazing Freddie Mercury impression before, but we didn’t know he could do Luciano Pavarotti too. Here he performs a duet of Puccini’s Nessun Dorma. He also forgot to shave half his beard.

The RED and BLU Scouts compete in a marathon sponsored by Saxton Hale himself. Rivalry Rush won the Action category in the 2014 Saxxy Awards. Top notch animation and voice acting. Steam should have a Source Filmmaker channel.

For his latest exploration of the world’s greatest filmmakers, Tony Zhou takes a look at the precise visual style of David Fincher, the man behind such diverse and amazing films as Fight Club, Seven, Benjamin Button and The Social Network.

Jerry Seinfeld recently received a CLIO Award for his work in commercials, but instead of the typical platitudes, he took the opportunity to rip the advertising industry and consumerism to shreds with a brutally honest acceptance speech.

Comedy duo Julia Starostina and Michail Kuzminykh aka Bonya and Kuzmich indigenized the music video for Kiesza’s Hideaway. Whereas the original is set in a city, Bonya and Kuzmich take us through a farm in Russia.

Petri Perämäki demonstrates his precision at running an excavator, as he gently stacks a tower of individual nuts with heavy construction equipment. And if you had any suspicion that they’re magnetic, stick around ’til the end.

SciShow explains why your recorded voice sounds different from what you hear. Part of your voice is conducted through your head on its way to your ears, making it sound deeper and more resonant to yourself.

YouTuber AS Goprod lucked out a couple of years ago when they placed their GoPro near an owl nest. The camera caught the attention of an adult owl and its two owlets. The big owl’s beak up expression cracked us up.

Three years after the last installment, Alan Becker presents his new and Kickstarter-funded Animator vs. Animation short film. His stick figure nemesis is reborn, and it quickly gets personal. Hilarious and endearing.