Awesome Videos

Destin of Smarter Every Day teamed up with the Slow Mo Guys to capture what happens when you shoot an AK-47 underwater. At 27,450 fps, we see a gas bubble and a water jet emerge along with the bullet.

Prepare to hear one of the worst songs ever made as sung by some of the best actors in the world. Not willingly. YouTuber dondrapersayswhat used scenes from a staggering 280 movies to complete this unholy project.

(NSFW) As previous episodes have indicated, a scientifically accurate version of anthropomorphic animal characters is always bad news. Combine that with freaky duck facts are and our childhood is really ruined.

If he were still with us, Stanley Kubrick would be 85 this month. Animator and Kubrick fan Shaun Pitz created this short tribute to the visionary director, which expands upon the journey of the mythical monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

University of Pennsylvania’s RHex robot has six bouncy legs which let it not only run like a screaming banshee, but it can climb stairs and spring itself into the air. While it’s designed for rescue missions, we want a toy version.

Blind Film Critic Tommy Edison explains what he finds attractive in a woman, without the benefit of sight. Maybe if we all connected with our partners on this level, there wouldn’t be so many failed relationships.

We’re not sure why these Danish cops are getting chauffeured around on a stack of speakers in the first place, but that’s not important. It’s the tune they’re jamming out to that is. Original (sideways) version here.

On his trip to the Amazon Rainforest, Destin of Smarter Every Day found a group of caterpillars that seem to have figured a way for all of them to move faster. How? By acting as each other’s conveyor belt. Unedited video here.

Stuntman Steve Truglia is also a magician and an expert on gambling cheaters. Here, he does a burn and a card trick to symbolize the pressure that cheaters feel. The trick isn’t great, but we certainly couldn’t do better while on fire.

Time-lapse videos of Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas and Los Angeles turned into kaleidoscopic eye candy by photographer Michael Shainblum. Check out the stills on his Flickr page. The song is Butterfly by Bassnectar.

While music store performances aren’t always the best, you’ve got to hand it to this little old lady who stopped by La Crosse, Wisconsin’s Coalition Drum Shop to turn in an impromptu performance. (Thanks Aaron!)

For his latest clip, Richard over at RatedRR lives out many a geek’s fantasy, by obliterating one of those pesky Minecraft Creepers with 30 pounds of real TNT. Unfortunately, one of his GoPros was a casualty, but the big boom was worth it.

Last year Marvel fans at the San Diego Comic-Con were dazzled by Iron Man. This year they were peppered with insults by the God of Lies and Mischief. And they gleefully took it all. Longer video here.

We have to hand it to Old Spice’s ad agency. Somehow they’ve managed to have more winners than losers with their ad campaigns, and despite being only 18 seconds long, their latest clip made us do a major spit-take at the end.

If Sterling Archer were Captain of the Starship Enterprise, it might look something like this. Casting Lana Kane as Uhura is brilliant. Though we’re not sure there are roles for Cheryl or Pam on the bridge. Catch episode two here.

We’re not quite sure what these dolphins think of the girl performing gymnastics in front of their aquarium tank, but one of them seems to be sufficiently amused to break off from its school and take in the free show.

Filmmaker Sebastian Linda wanted to capture the sense of awe that he felt as a kid when he first saw a skateboarder jump. We think he nailed it. The song is Conquest of Spaces by Woodkid. See the making of video here.

Daniel Csobot captured various plants growing and blossoming. They look like beautiful alien creatures. Csobot used a Canon 7D to shoot the time-lapse; check out his setup here. The track is Digital Hearbeat by Daniel Gautreau.

Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk played a couple of new remixes in a recent performance, including this epic mashup of Kanye West’s Black Skinhead and Marilyn Manson’s The Beautiful People. Here’s his Daft Punk/Michael Jackson mix.

(MAJOR SPOILERS, Gore) HBO’s tongue-in-cheek retrospective on the characters that were killed in the past 3 season of Game of Thrones, from those you don’t even remember to the ones you won’t forget.

The latest guitar track from Acoustic Labs’ Greg Johnson is a brilliantly intense fingerstyle rendition of the familiar theme from Halo. Crank it up, close your eyes, and imagine waves of grunts, elites and jackals coming your way.

Robin Thicke’s song is still rattling around in our brains, so we’re enjoying this minute long Sesame Street/Muppet video version. Also Grover as Pharrell is pleasing us.

While we still ponder how we managed to draw a cube that one time in art class sophomore year, Chris Carlson impresses with this 3D chalk art time lapse of Donkey Kong versus Escher; bonus stop-motion scene included.