James Farr continues his Star Wars and Super Smash Bros. mashup with a retelling of The Empire Strikes Back. Watch Link Z-target a massive Octorok, train with an electric-type Jedi and learn who is father is. Part two here.

John Downer Productions has captured incredible imagery of birds in their native habitats. In this clip a striated caracara picks up their clever egg-shaped camera, and provides us with POV aerial footage of a rockhopper penguin colony.

whatever tried to see if they could get any bank to let them open an account while wearing a ski mask. The answer: No. In fact, most called the police, and they encountered at least one vigilante. Needless to say, this is a bad idea.

OlliOlli is a side-scrolling skateboard game for the PS Vita. Master over 120 tricks and grinds, marvel at the hand-drawn pixel art and the sweet background music and compete with other players with daily challenges. Drops 1/21.

Artist Jitish Kallat used resin, paint and steel to make what appear to be fossils of vehicle-shaped monsters. According to Designboom, Kallat is referencing his own photographs of vehicles that had been set on fire during riots.

While taking a bath, a man discovers a hole in the wall of his bathroom in this creepy comic strip by writer and illustrator Ryan Andrews. So…when did it start? What happened to the rest of the world? And why would you go in a random tunnel?

A man finds a briefcase full of golden LEGO bricks, and must use them to face off against an army of life-size minifigs. This VFX-filled romp by Andrew McMurry is something fun to watch while we’re waiting for The LEGO Movie.

This amazing 1:60 scale model of a Boeing 777 airliner is being crafted from thousands of meticulously cut pieces of manila folders by papercraft artist Luca Iaconi-Stewart. The doors even have working hinges. WIP videos here.

Created by Harris Soetikno, these beautifully illustrated playing cards let you take a journey around the world every time you shuffle. Each card is embellished with an image of one of 52 different cities and historic sites.

A compilation of insane and death-defying stunts by a group of young Ukranians going by the moniker Mustang Wanted who climb to the top of buildings, construction sites, moving trains and other places they really shouldn’t be.

Here’s one of those amazing phenomena that you can’t believe actually occurs on our planet. melkiy582 captured this awe-inspiring footage of these solar parhelia and an accompanying halo while riding the train in Moscow.

Jabra Rox earphones use Bluetooth or NFC to connect to media players. They have a built-in mic and playback buttons. Embedded magnets let you attach the earbuds to each other, prompting Rox to enter a power-saving mode.

You are a cat. Knock stuff over. Catlateral Damage is a “first-person destructive cat simulator” inspired by developer Chris Chung’s 17-year old cat. Play or download the demo and vote for in on Steam Greenlight.

Brooklyn pop artist Technodrome1 creates colorful eye candy of pop culture figures using bold black outlines and brain-popping fields of color. Be sure to check out their T-shirts and iPhone cases too. Framed prints here.

Photographer Eric Sterman shares some of his aerial footage of surfers on the world famous Banzai Pipeline in Oahu, Hawaii. Sterman used a GoPro camera attached to a drone to take the videos. More on his Instagram page.

The Smart Grill is a voice-activated grill that adjusts its settings based on what you’re cooking, helping you through voice prompts. But it does have a manual mode for grilling pros. Consumer Reports says it will be out in 2015 for ~$7,000.

Brothers Edwin and Davis LaMair were skiing in Vail in Colorado when Edwin was caught in an avalanche. The video is from Davis’ point of view. At around 1:00 you can see Davis stop and quickly realize what just happened.

You probably already heard about San Francisco going above and beyond to make young leukemia survivor Miles’ wish to become Batman come true, but this behind-the-scenes look at the day will warm up your heart in a whole new way.

(NSFW) Takayo Kiyota aka Tama-chan talks about her sushi art. Amazingly, she is not a trained chef. The humble and funny artist started her hobby because “very few Japanese know how to make sushi these days.” More here and here.

(NSFW: Language) Nick Frost and Chris O’Dowd star in this politically incorrect flick about a couple of bros who decide to take salsa dancing lessons so they can score with the ladies. Out Valentine’s Day (in the UK). Alt trailer here.

The Backup Plus Fast is a USB 3.0 portable hard drive with a massive 4TB of storage – the highest capacity external drive that doesn’t need a power supply. It also comes with user-friendly backup software.

Numberphile and physicists Tony Padilla and Ed Copeland share one of the most mind-blowing concepts we’ve ever heard. Apparently, the sum of all positive numbers is not infinity. It’s not even a positive number. Mathlethes report here.

Animator Alan Becker and his friend Sean Hein are building a replica of the magical world in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away using Minecraft. You can download the world and texture pack here. Take the complete tour here.