Awesome Videos

Director Anton Chistiakov’s award-winning short film is about a solitary robot programmed to sell ice cream. He lives a lonely and bleak existence, but finds solace in his unexpectedly vivid imagination. Beautifully animated and poignant.

“It’s so insignificant, yet so monumental.” Photographer Vik Muniz and designer Marcelo Coelho worked for four years trying to etch microscopic castles on individual grains of sand. More on Marcelo’s website.

George Lucas, Mark Hamill and sound designer Ben Burtt talk about the conceptual and technical aspects of the most famous movie weapon of all time, the lightsaber. The documentary includes a lot of behind-the-scenes clips.

Jim Meskimen and Ross Marquand play fictionalized versions of themselves – two impressionists trying to be serious actors – in this comedy mini-series by SoulPancake. It’s starts off slow, but stick with it. Watch the rest here.

(NSFW: Language) If we could have any voice for our nav system, we’d choose Morgan Freeman. In this amusing clip from Josh Robert Thompson, he envisions a GPS that not only sounds awesome, it provides sage advice. More here.

Screw all the pranks and veiled ads. The best thing to come out of this year’s April Fools’ Day is a new episode of Homestar freakin’ Runner. Go and watch Homestar and Strong Bad work their old schtick like it’s still 2000.

Insane first-person footage shot from the perspective of a high-speed 250cc Superkart racer as it takes to the daunting Peel City circuit on the Isle of Man. Unfortunately, the race is no longer held due to a deadly crash. More here.

Samuel L. Jackson dropped by the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to perform a slam poem summarizing the tale of Cory Matthews, the main character of Boy Meets World. If you’re a fan of the show, it’s essentially a time travel chant.

We know that the air vent in this car wasn’t designed in the factory to do this, but that doesn’t make it any less fun to watch. Though it does sound like a freaking lawnmower once it gets going. CHECK ENGINE SOON.

(NSFW) Supercut Online presents a montage of characters getting ready for battle, whether it’s to put on a high tech suit of armor, a cape, cowl and utility belt, some grease and a headband or just lipstick and their Sunday best.

Daniel Stoupin shows corals and sponges brimming with life in this artificial time-lapse. Daniel focus stacked 150,000 shots to make the video. Thank Daniel by donating to the Australian Marine Conservation Society.

Ever encounter one of those April Fools’ pranks that sounds so good, and then you’re sorely disappointed to find out it’s not real? This is one of those times. Respawn and EA, get on the phone with Hasbro and make this happen now.

(Spoilers: Seasons 1-3) Screen Junkies reminds us of the awesome characters, deadly battles, naughty bits and all the other things that make us love Game of Thrones, a show about the fight for the world’s most uncomfortable throne.

It’s a quest. It’s a quest for fun. You’re gonna have fun, and I’m gonna have fun… We’re all gonna have so much f-ing fun… Or at least you’ll learn a thing or two about fun places, things and pastimes in the latest clip from Mental Floss.

Honda parodies the hipster DIY culture with its April Fools’ Day gag – a car that comes completely disassembled, with over 180,000 individual pieces. We’d like to think they hired IKEA to create the assembly manuals.

While waiting to fly from Brisbane to Sydney, the Australian touring cast of The Lion King decided to serenade other passengers on their airplane. This is so much better than when the flight attendants on Southwest try to sing.

Red Bull Air Race aerobatic pilot Péter Besenyei pulled a Luke Skywalker, flying his tiny Extra 300S D-EFBY plane through the narrow 70-foot-wide Corinth Canal with just about 20 feet of clearance on each side of his wing tips.

Gainesville, Florida news channel WCJB 20 wanted to report on the Florida Gators’ win over the Dayton Flyers during NCAA March Madness, but they didn’t have the rights to on court footage. So they reenacted the highlights.

Not about to be outdone by their American counterparts, Google Japan joins in on April Fools’ Day with this technical joke: a mechanical hand that makes it easier to use touchscreen devices. Captions available.

YouTuber Gabriel Valenciano shows off his budding Final Cut editing skills on this short clip that features one of the most surreal swims you’ll ever see. The classic backing track by Yello only serves to complete the effect. More here.

A teenage girl and her father scavenge for a precious substance on an alien planet. When her father’s worst fears come true, their fate falls on her hands. A wonderfully shot short film by Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell.

Photographer Ernest Goh talks about the subject of his latest book: ornamental chickens. To document these unusual models, Ernest went around Malaysia, where chicken beauty pageants are held nearly every week across the country.

The music video for Cell Song, a track from Let’s Go Extinct, the latest album by indie rock band Fanfarlo. Ewan Jones Morris used images from old science journals, encyclopedias and magazines to make the trippy animation.