Awesome Videos

The Shaffer Boys managed to take something as simple as an improvised Slip N’ Slide and turn it into a hilarious short film that for some reason reminds us of an old Saturday Night Live commercial parody. You know the one.

YouTuber tsuruhimeja shares videos of real life karate kids. One of them is 7-year-old black belt Mahiro. Here she performs the Kanku Dai, an advanced kata that consists of offensive and defensive moves against eight opponents.

Shorty the double take cat might have been hanging out with Party Cat. Her owner just caught her getting high on “bananas.” That last shot of her is just plain creepy, even for a cat. Catnip: not even once.

After retiring from the music scene, Phil Collins took to the stage one more time, joining a group of kids from his sons’ middle school band. The tunes begin at about 2:15, with In the Air Tonight. and at 11:50 with Land of Confusion.

Joining in the great tradition of wingsuit flyers going through narrow gaps, Sebastian Alvarez zoomed into a 39ft. space between two buildings after being dropped from a paraglider. The song is Röyksopp’s Keyboard Milk.

(NSFW: Language) Some days, everything just goes right. No barkin’ from the dog. FoxADHD takes on the Ice Cube classic It Was a Good Day, summing up a perfect day in this high tech, always on, meme-filled world we live in.

Merrill Garbus aka tUnE-yArDs performs Water Fountain live at KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. A single from her latest album Nikki Nack, Water Fountain seems like a protest song disguised as an upbeat children’s rhyme.

Jon Lajoie imagines a commercial for a dating website dedicated to actors who star in commercials for dating websites. Now that’s a niche market. Also, that jingle sounds familiar.

(NSFW: Language) Forget about the NSA, Heartbleed and Net Neutrality. The Onion exposes online articles that turn out to be autoplaying videos. And what about the overload of gifs on mobile sites? Freaking Grantland.

We’ve previously seen footage of NASA’s Project Morpheus, but this nighttime footage is even cooler. It’s capable of taking off, hovering, flying, and automatically landing itself – in the dark. Oh, and Sony needs to rename their project.

These high-intensity workouts might just help you get in shape – or they might end up breaking you in two, as is demonstrated by this compilation of painful schadenfreude at the gym put together by FailArmy.

Journey lead singer Steve Perry hasn’t sung in front of an audience in decades, but for a very special encore at a recent EELS show in St. Paul, Minnesota, he decided the time was right and took to the stage. He’s still got a golden voice.

Wildfires in the United States cost an estimated $3 billion in damages and 4 million acres of wildlife lost yearly. That’s why the Missoula Fire Lab is hard at work trying to understand how wildfires start and spread. More on The Atlantic.

After suffering a stroke, Milena Channing was left blind. But then she started seeing raindrops, steam and other things in motion. Her rare condition is unfortunate proof that our vision is compartmentalized. More at NPR.

All kinds of cool costumes turned up at WonderCon this year, but this Predator cosplay might just be our favorites of all time. Sure, the tot has no idea what’s going on, but don’t little kids exist solely for our amusement?

(NSFW: Language) A mercenary company’s accountant looks at the video log of a missing rookie. Ferand Peek’s riveting short plays like a series pilot. More please! Pay what you want for a 1080p stream or download here.

In his commencement address to the 2014 MUM graduates,  Jim Carrey talked about the power of a positive perspective and believing in oneself. And that when you find that things aren’t going your way, blame him.

(NSFW) Should you juice your way to a killer body? Let your man Mike Tornabene aka Dom Mazzetti pump you full of facts and sarcasm before you decide. Also the answer is no. That pyramid digression was brofound.

(NSFW: Language) May 2014 was a banner month for television journalism, as is evidenced by NewsBeFunny’s compilation of crazy moments during news broadcasts. Do these guys all have their minds in the gutter, or is it just us?

Madman Colin Furze continues to build his own personal arsenal of X-Men abilities, this time replicating Pyro’s fiery skills with tiny, but mighty wrist mounted flamethrowers. Impressive, but we don’t think he’ll be able to do Deadpool.

If we compiled a list of the persons we would like to have speak at our bachelor party, Bill Murray would be pretty high on it. One lucky groom and his buds (more so) were graced with some sage advice from the man himself on their night out.

The fearless James Kingston once again sets our toes atingle with a POV video of him conquering another London landmark. You might say “seen one crane climb, seen em all,” but the huge gap he soars over might convince you otherwise.

(PG-13: Language) Tony Zhou is back with another great breakdown of a filmmaker’s style and technique. This time he looks at Edgar Wright’s (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) creative efficiency in delivering humor.