Awesome Videos

BBC’s Earth Unplugged films a golden eagle named Tilly to learn the functions of her various feathers. Worth watching just to see her chilling stare. Now imagine if this video wasn’t staged.

If you haven’t seen it yet, watch Dove’s overly dramatic ad about women and their supposed insecurities. Then watch this hilarious parody by New Feelings Time. The sketches here are much better than the ones in the Dove ad.

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a guy with a vacuum cleaner! The title says it all, as this guy blows himself up inside of his inflatable Superman costume. His archenemy must be named Pinhead. Animated .gif here.

(NSFW: Language) Harrison Ford dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the Jackie Robinson biopic 42. He agreed to a brief Q&A with the audience on one condition: no Star Wars questions. Then it got really weird.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield performs an experiment suggested by a couple of 10th grade students: what happens when you wring a wet washcloth in space? One of the most bizarre things we’ve ever seen.

Swoozie returns to regale us with another tale of working at Disney World, this time telling us about his annoying co-worker, Steven, who manages to get away with acting like a child instead of actually doing his job.

The commercial for Australian brand Easy Lamb Roast has very unusual ways of demonstrating just how easy to prepare their lamb roast is. You gotta love the dude mom.

Suki the cat is just 8 months old, but YouTuber MiGoArCHiMi already managed to teach her a lot of agility tricks and other neat commands. Soon she might be good enough to compete in dog shows.

Patton Oswalt guested on Parks & Recreation as a citizen who stages a filibuster to block a city council vote. They let him improvise his scene. His delaying tactic? Proposing a mind-blowing story for Star Wars Episode VII.

We’ve seen a Newton’s cradle made out of light bulbs. This one’s made of people. Shark Helmets set it up to demonstrate the shock-absorbing capability of its motorcycle helmets. Don’t try this at home.

Director Nacho Guzman’s teaser for OPALE’s release “Sparkles and Wine” is an exploration of how human features can change dramatically by moving around a light source. Inspired by the unfinished 1964 french film L’Enfer.

To help celebrate her husband Oren’s birthday, Leigh Lahav created this amusing reel of fake TV openings with Oren and his family in the starring roles. Why don’t we ever get birthday cards this awesome? (Thanks Kenny!)

This street musician shreds like you wouldn’t believe with a finger-blistering performance as his digits go flying across the frets and strings of his acoustic guitar. We’re impressed he doesn’t get his beard caught in the strings.

(NSFW: Language) The eye-popping music video for Can’t Hold Us, the rally-rousing single from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ album The Heist. Lewis went H.A.M. on this track. Very fun and inspiring to listen to.

What if Edvard Munch’s famous painting was actually about the reaction of an awed tourist having a great time in Norway? The country’s tourism website certainly makes the case in this silly commercial.

Joey Shanks and PBS Digital Studios shot time-lapse videos of a “thinking putty” – magnetic silly putty – as it seemingly comes alive and devours magnetic objects. Watch it regurgitate them in the reverse video here.

An orchestra performs a variety of pranks, popping up to surprise passersby, adding a triangle player to the band, and trolling people as they try to cross the street. Despite being the first one, the Psycho one is still our fave.

Wingsuit flyer Alexander Polli keeps on living 2013 the way he started it: daring death to come get him. This time he flies at about 155mph through an extremely narrow hole in a mountainside.

(NSFW: Language) A short film based on a true story about street artist Shepard Fairey. It has a good cast and is very well shot, but it would’ve been even better had it provided even a modicum of context for Fairey’s iconic piece.

(NSFW: Language) Commander Bolt Lightning embarks on a suicide mission in this live action short. Made by Corridor Digital to promote the out of left field fps Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. For best results, do not watch in HD.

Cirque du Soleil performer Adrienn Banhegyi shows off her incredible rope-jumping skills while Devin Supertramp captures her agility with his ever watchful lens. Adrienn clearly has muscles in her body that other humans don’t.

You’d think that the English language had one of the more colorful vocabularies around, but after watching this clip from BuzzFeed, we really need to start making up some new words of our own. Thank goodness for Urban Dictionary.

While it’s surely done with CGI animation, we’re still impressed by Aatma Studio’s epic domino display that looks like it was made with 10,000 iPhone 5s. Though it would have been even cooler with $2+ million worth of actual iPhones.