Awesome Videos

While she’s not nearly as terrible as the Wheel of Fortune dude, this girl’s answers and reaction time during Family Feud’s Fast Money round resulted in the same outcome. We bet her belly was throwing up after the show. Skip to 2:15.

An incredibly lazy interplanetary delivery man unknowingly wreaks havoc on a Liliputian planet and its inhabitants. Johnny Express is a hilarious and wonderfully animated short by Kyungmin Woo of Alfred Imageworks.

A mariachi band plays a medley of catchy tunes from Super Mario Bros. at a wedding. We were disappointed to find out the bride and groom weren’t dressed like Princess Peach and Mario though. (Thanks Anwar!)

Mountain bikes with 29″ wheels can take on any terrain, but critics say they’re not good for tackling corners. Specialized Bikes and freerider Matt Hunter say otherwise. Do it on a sidewalk!

A teaser for the 2013-2014 World Kardistry Championship. The contest sees cardists from all over the world compete through video submissions. Check out the entries of the grand finalists here. The song is Iron by Woodkid.

Get up close and personal with musician Thomas Leeb as he demonstrates his fingerstyle skills playing Pink Floyd’s classic, capturing the performance from unusual vantage points inside and outside his acoustic guitar.

A man grows tired of his mundane existence and decides to get away from it all, and a man grows curious and yearns for adventure in this amazing short film by Daniel Britt. That damn ship shouldn’t have left on time.

Biting satire from The Onion. America’s finest news source imagines what would happen if the folks at NASA had a change of heart and decided that they were looking for the wrong things in the wrong places. Yeah love, bitch!

One of the more amusing recent couch gags from The Simpsons is equal parts hilarious and depressing, as it’s a more accurate reflection of real life for many than we care to admit. We like to think of our lives as a game of Mouse Trap.

Andrea Vadrucci aka Vadrum covers Leroy Anderson’s lighthearted piece, The Typewriter. Much of the humor is lost in the cover – you have to see it performed as intended – but Andrea’s a beast with the sticks.

Spoken-word performer Gary Turk reminds us that the pervasive use of “social media” tools tend to make us anti-social in the real world. Kids, it’s time to put down your smartphones for a few minutes and drink in some actual life.

Kinetix set up a robotic drum and percussion set and a variety of synthesizers to play a kick-ass electronic track. The video is a real-time recording of the song. Buy the song to fund Kinetix’ trip to NIME 2014.

Remember the funny short film The Expert? D. Scott Williamson watched it as well, and unlike Anderson he thought to himself: challenge accepted. Watch him fulfill all of the unreasonable demands of the client in the story.

Slow-motion footage of tattoo artist Gaëtan Le Gargasson aka GueT at work. It’s amazing how much skin and flesh vibrate because of the tattoo machine. The song is a sped-up version of Emmanuel Top’s Industriel.

A short fan-made fight sequence between the dual-wielding Sith Lord and a group of Jedi. What was the point of waiting you guys?! Also, how come no one’s ever thought of pulling off a Force Crotch Punch or Force Eye Poke?

We know, we know. We had a hard time looking past the vertical video and horribly low definition too, but this quick clip of a partier who clearly has nothing left to turn down for – and rallies for another stumble through the club – must be seen.

Back in the 1930s Walt Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston came up with 12 basic principles to help bring characters to life. Here, their observations are illustrated with a simple geometric shape by Cento Lodigiani.

(Season 4 Spoilers) Animator Leigh Lahav takes on Game of Throne’s upcoming trial of Tyrion Lannister, that’s sure to give him a *cough* fair and just hearing. Will our favorite characters ever get the break they deserve? Probably not.

YouTuber LeZ captured this hilarious blooper from the show La meilleure boulangerie de France (“The Best Bakery in France”). Is this a French, a bakery or a French bakery inside joke? Original video here; skip to 11:58.

This English Springer Spaniel named Kellar was born blind, but he’s still pretty good at playing fetch. He uses his sense of hearing along with verbal cues from his owner to find his toy. Give your friend a chance to play too!

Put on your headphones, turn down your lights and go full screen to experience a tangle of geometric filaments fluttering to life at the speed of light in this installation by Mimi Son and Elliot Woods. Where’s an oculus rift when you need it?

(NSFW, Gore) Welcome to the future! The post-apocalyptic future, that is. Animation Domination HD imagines what the year 2055 would be like if we keep destroying our environment and each other.

DIY effects artist Joey Shanks shows off a couple of really cool practical visual effects which can produce the illusion of holographic or floating images. The clothes steamer and humidifier ones are really pretty nifty.