Awesome Videos

Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio provide a look at our big blue marble from the vantage point of the International Space Station’s cupola, pointing out cities and landmarks as they orbit far above our planet.

While shows like Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers assumed that young heroes have their acts together, Jake Portman’s amusing short seems more realistic, with its team of distracted teens having to work together to fight evildoers.

Musician Bill Ruppert demonstrates how to reproduce Vangelis’ epic theme music from Blade Runner using nothing more than an electric guitar and Electro-Harmonix‘ effect pedals. It’s the kettledrum part that really gets us.

With the release of GoPro’s pet mounts, we’re bound to see many more dog POV videos, but they’ll be hard pressed to top this epic 36 second video of Walter, a labrador who loves swimming in the sea more than just about anything else.

(NSFW: Language) Poor Danny R. He woke up feeling great, but Montreal’s freakin’ 6 a.m. traffic ruined his day. At 6! Imagine at 7! If he was in China’s infamous 10-day traffic jam we’re pretty sure he would’ve turned into the Hulk.

IKEA’s 2015 catalogue can be yours as a book. No, not an e-book; an actual book. A bookbook. It’s completely wireless and never runs out of battery. We should archive this video for future reference.

YouTubers 8-BIT BASTARD and Branberry Muffin used Grand Theft Auto V to recreate scenes from popular music videos. The results are hilariously crude yet still recognizable. Check out part two here.

Gadget reseller Gizmogul gives us a peek at life in Agbogbloshie, Ghana, the world’s largest electronics dump. Parts of the junk in Agbogbloshie are sold or recycled but the rest are burned, polluting the town with toxic fumes.

(NSFW: Language) Last Week Tonight looks at the US’ gender-based wage inequality. As if paying someone less for the same work wasn’t bad enough, some politicians are actually saying that the fault somehow lies in women themselves.

The talented and creative Jiwook Kim takes us on a creepy cartoon trip to the gloomy Blackford Manor, where sweet little Josette the maid attempts to unravel the disturbing mystery of the master of the big ol’ dusty house. Muhahaha.

On The Tonight Show, Adam Levine faced off with Jimmy Fallon to sing a random selection of songs, done in the style of famous musicians. While this is right in Fallon’s wheelhouse, Levine is a surprisingly solid vocal impressionist too.

CinemaSins aims its watchful eye at Pixar’s breakthrough feature, finding numerous annoyances, clichés and obvious plot devices in the classic animated film. This whole movie about anthropomorphic talking toys is so unrealistic!

We have no idea what prompted the violence, but the guy who received the beatdown from Mickey Mouse, Spongebob Squarepants, Scrat the Squirrel and some elephant is going to be nursing his bruised ego more than any physical injuries.

Will Reid decided to start a series of satirical instructional videos for his kids, because “telling them face-to-face is not working.” James and Beth, here’s how to top up the bathroom’s toilet paper. You can do this. Dad believes in you.

TasteLikePizza compiled some of the best GoPro videos of animals you’ll ever see, from folks hanging out with sharks to an excited black leopard. Links to original videos here. Part 1 here.

Animator Edlyn Capulong’s short film is charming, clever, and offbeat to say the least. It tells the tale of a little girl who befriends three unlikely companions as she wanders the world. That ending was not what we expected either.

The short answer? You don’t. Or rather, you can’t. Current decaffeination methods can’t extract all of the caffeine from coffee beans, which means if you want to stay caffeine-free you have to give up coffee completely.

Vsauce looks at ways to quantify the value of Earth. Then he points out how ridiculous it is that we can even think of selling our planet. Of course, those are just a few of the things he races through in the video.

The Batman: The Ride roller coaster has chairs swing and flip independently as they go about the already twisted track, apparently causing riders to experience weightlessness. Opens at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in 2015.

It wasn’t long ago that rendering images with this level of detail and lighting accuracy could take hours for a single frame. Silicon Studio’s Mizuchi rendering engine can do it in real time. The question is if we’ll ever see it in a video game.

Cookie Monster team’s up with Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver to bring us the latest news – as long as it has something to do with words. And what is up with the word “abbreviation?” Can’t it be shorter? Be sure to watch the outtakes too.

Our latest look at Civilization: Beyond Earth is about the game’s Purity affinity. Unlike the other affinities – Harmony and Supremacy – Purity wants to keep humans as they are and looks to the past for inspiration.

If there’s one universal truth, it’s that cats love laser pointers. So what better way to keep your cat occupied than to tape a laser pointer to its head, like this guy did. Between this and self-fetching dogs humans are now obsolete.