Awesome Videos

Trekkies may know Capt. Will Riker of the USS Enterprise as a Picard’s Number One, a ladies man and owner of a suave beard. Thanks to YouTuber WeirdHat, now we’ll remember him as the dude who treats chairs as motorcycles.

Daniel Sierra’s thesis animation for his MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Daniel wanted to illustrate the fact that all sound can be broken down into sine waves. More on his website.

Watch mascots tussle, miss trick shots, get nut shots and more in this compilation put together by YouTube channel AmazingLife247. The dancing bird mascots at 3:28 are the only winners here.

(NSFW) The second episode in Brooklyn-based Team Spirit’s music video series by animation duo HannesJohannes picks up with the boys finding themselves in Hell and being forced to play at the celebration of Satan’s Unholy Union.

Google thanks the number one ladies in our lives. The videos and images were uploaded by YouTube and Google+ members. The all-knowing company forgot to include the most important data, but we’ve got your back.

YouTube will be holding its first Comedy Week on 05/19/13 to 05/25/13. Expect all kinds of shenanigans from the Lonely Island, Rainn Wilson, Collegehumor, the JASH team, the Gregory Brothers, Ryan Higa and more.

Watch Jack Conte, an animatronic face and a hexapod play a song about effects pedals. Behind the scenes here. You can download the EP for free, but you might also want to donate at least $1 to Conte for his efforts.

With Mother’s Day right around the corner, Rhett and Link thrown down and have a Yo mama battle… of compliments. Yo mama’s so musical that I confuse Yo Mama with Yo Yo Ma! Ooooh snap! Lyrics in the video’s description.

Collective Cadenza has done medleys about wooing before. Recently the group put its collection of modern serenades to good use, brightening up the day of random ladies (well, except for the last one) in New York City.

YouTuber Anthony Jackson’s cat loves popcorn. But he doesn’t seem to want to put the snack in his belly. In fact it seems the other way around. He wants to be one with the popcorn. Is he tripping on catnip?

Alex Chacon’s adventure of a lifetime. He traveled from his home in Texas to Argentina, up to Alaska and back to Texas – a 75,000mi trip that lasted over 500 days. More on his website. Image from Alex’s Facebook page.

Our pal Mark Rober always wanted to shoot Matrix-style “bullet time” footage, but never had the rig to do it right. But somehow he managed to pull it off with a GoPro Hero3, two flashlights, a wood turntable and a ceiling fan motor.

Remember that scene in Transformers 2 with the parachute? No? We don’t blame you. Well as with most things, actually opening your chute too early is a bit more jarring in real life.  The goods are at the 27s mark.

A thrilling, seat-of-your-pants montage, from various POV scenes of car chases, edited by Zach Prewitt, and accentuated perfectly by Hans Zimmer’s Mombasa from the Inception soundtrack. Do pod racers really count as cars?

(NSFW: Language) If you think First World Problems are excessive, let ZeFrank introduce you to a whole new level of non-issues: Cat World Problems. We bet a Sad Dog Diary would actually make us weep.

CGP Grey has talked about a city within a city and a convoluted kingdom. Here he talks about countries that only have one neighbor country, either because one is inside the other or because the two are surrounded by an ocean.

We’re curious to know what happened to Jeff Bliss, the student in this video who told his teacher his candid opinion of her teaching style and education in general. After watching, you might want an update too. (Thanks Josh!)

PITtv waxes on the bane of all instant messagers: the blatant non-reply. Maybe the world was a better place before delivery receipts. Yes, we think you’re stupid if you confess your love over Facebook chat btw.

A video based on the only commencement speech made by the late David Foster Wallace. It’s a brilliant elocution on how we choose to take on the mundane and inconvenient moments in life. Get the audiobook here.

In the first go round, Pleated Jeans chose Target as the destination to rename things. Now they’ve swapped signage at Lowe’s with much more logical (and hilarious) names for things.

We’ve already seen how the craftsmen of John Neeman Tools make its axes. Here they show how they make their chisels, which are currently sold out due to high demand, despite their prices. The song is Re: Stacks by Bon Iver.

A short proflie on Michael Chernow, owner of The Meatball Shop restaurants. It’s also an ad for Mr. Porter, but at least it’s one that provides inspiration and proof of where determination and discipline can get you.

A stop-motion animation about the origin and the pivotal developments in the field of typography. Ben Barrett-Forrest does a great job of explaining the differences and the rationale behind different typefaces.