Awesome Videos

A missile silo technician loves to paint and make missile scale models, so much so that his hobbies have made him neglect his job. Just when he decides to do better, fate deals him a cruel blow. A hilarious and tense short film.

An Assassin’s Creed game that goes back… way back. AC/BC puts you in the foot bags of a Stone Age assassin, with all new weapons like rock, stick, and perhaps even fire. Screw this, we want the tale of the single-celled assassin.

R.S. Owens handcrafts some of the United States’ most prestigious awards, including the trophies for the Academy Awards, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Emmy Awards. Here they show how the Primetime Emmy is made.

Animator Cyriak’s latest clip is as trippy as they come. It starts off with a creepy dog-like manifestation of himself crawling out of the drain and just escalates from there. Warning: May cause nightmares and hallucinations.

It’s been a while since ZeFrank brought us one of his nature films, but he’s back to teach us about these unusual creatures who seem like normal mammals, but from a parallel universe. NOTE: Don’t eat lunch before watching the baby koala.

A fireworks maker approached mad scientist Colin Furze to make a promo video. Colin decided to make a steel suit so that he could stand in the middle of a fireworks display. Naturally. Tony Stark would be proud.

…aka the best pizza ad of all time. YouTuber haberdashery12 put a GoPro to the pair of tongs that he uses to remove pizzas and other pies where he works. Pizza chains are going to see a spike in orders in the next couple of weeks.

Patrick Cheung and Brandon Ho spent about a year making one of the most impressive time-lapse videos we’ve ever seen. Patrick made it seem like Brandon was standing still as the scenery around him moved and evolved.

Let Mental Floss amuse you with trivia about amusement parks, including an establishment that missed the point of bumper cars, the crazy cost of the Jurassic Park ride and more. Also the infamous Action Park is back in business.

Andy Thomas combines nature and technology in his “audio life forms”, 3D animations of abstract shapes inspired by plants and animals. Andy uses these shapes to visualize sound, in this case the chirps of a nightingale and a canary.

After recording a discussion about strawberries, The Kloons are back to act out some random bits of conversation between Nik’s mom and aunt. If True Detectives doesn’t win first place, we’ll be disappointed.

Presenting, the human Eeyore. Daniel Colman won over $15M at the World Series of Poker over veteran Dan Negreanu. Apparently at that point the 23-year old Colman felt conflicted about his career. Here’s Negreanu’s take on it.

Actor Nick Offerman quotes some of the funniest contributions to Reddit’s Shower Thoughts, a subreddit about, well, things that people come to think about in the shower. That last thought? Best thought.

Multitalented musician Jacob Collier does a brilliant a capella rendition of this Stevie Wonder classic, with multi-layered harmonies and beatboxing. And just when you think he’s done, he whips out the musical instruments. More here.

Animator Monsieur Caron made this silly LEGO recreation of Ghostbusters, in which Slimer has been replaced with a special guest ghost. Now that you can buy an LEGO Ecto-1 kit, there’s no reason why you can’t make your own sequel.

To ease his grief, a widower starts hanging out at a coffee shop. A stranger mistakes him for the person he was supposed to meet. Thus began his multiple lives. Based on Etgar Keret’s short story Healthy Start.

Hank Green gives a highly simplified definition of intellectual property rights before focusing on one of its types: copyright. He then goes on to explain how YouTube is trying to empower copyright holders.

Jimmy Fallon represented a generation of gamers in an awkward but still enviable moment. The late night show host played a quick match of the classic Nintendo 64 shooter GoldenEye 007 against none other than James Bond himself.

Film critic Tony Zhou looks at the various ways that films and series depict text messages and the Internet. He presents a couple of great implementations for text messages, but isn’t so sure about how online content is relayed.

Chiptuner RGYDK has not just created 8-bit covers of a few tunes here and there, he’s replicated entire albums by Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Nirvana and even Jethro Tull. Sadly, the lawyers yanked down his Led Zeppelin album.

Breaking Bad duo Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul reunite in this Emmy Award promo. The two play a parody of Pawn Stars‘ cast and are visited by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The intro alone is worth whatever this cost to make.

YouTuber Kruszon1984 shares this one-in-a-million accident between a motorcyclist and a car, whose driver swerved right into the biker’s path. Thankfully, the car turned out to be both friend and foe. Skip to 0:15.

“Always swallow the seeds, and go at it like a typewriter.” In this old episode of Nick’s Figure It Out, a watermelon-eating prodigy shows us the second fastest way to eat a watermelon. Because the fastest way really hurts.