Awesome Christmas

Mario Wienerroither turns Grinch and spoils a childhood memory, removing the music from Bing Crosby & David Bowie’s unexpectedly classic live duet of The Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth. Best enjoyed if you’ve got no holiday spirit.

LEGO builders in Sydney, Australia have erected an enormous christmas tree made from LEGO and Duplo bricks. The fake plastic tree measures 32.8 feet tall and weighs over 3.5 tons. It’s on display at the Pitt Street Mall through 12/26/14.

ThinkGeek continues to tacticalize all the things. This stocking has MOLLE straps, two carabiners, two quick-release clips on the toe, a hook-and-loop panel, a bi-directional side zipper and is of course black. MOLLE Christmas!

A fictionalized recreation of the Christmas truce – a series of unofficial ceasefires and friendly exchanges that took place between German and British soldiers during World War I. A bittersweet reminder of the senselessness of war.

Eclectic Asylum Art spent a total of 50 hours making this realistic portrait of Santa Claus on Microsoft Paint. It’s not as jaw dropping as Kyle Lambert’s iPad finger painting, but come on. It’s freaking Microsoft Paint.

FinalCutKing’s video greeting card gives us insight into the chaos and mayhem created by gingerbread men while we’re out shopping for last minute gifts. We’re surprised they’d trash their own gingerbread house though.

Aymann Ismail of ANIMAL set up a camera overlooking a UPS distribution facility in NYC’s Hell’s Kitchen in the days leading up to Christmas, capturing the mesmerizing ballet of trucks moving in and out of narrow spaces.

You can worry less now about having your holiday spirit attacked thanks to an easter egg from Google. From any mobile device, simply type “let’s go caroling” into Google’s search box and karaoke versions of several classics pop up.

Birdbox Studio’s offers up an animated classic about little boy who creates a friendly companion out of snow, and wishes that it would come to life. He finally gets what he wants for the holidays – and it’s not what you think.

Following up on last year’s Christmas Sweatz, Rhett and Link are back with their friends to bring a little random holiday cheer our way – perhaps starting a new Christmas trend to replace ugly sweaters along the way. Or not.

For their Christmas 2013 clip, The Piano Guys perform an amazing arrangement of Angels We Have Heard on High, using keys, hammers, hands and bows to produce sounds out of their piano that no single pair of hands could achieve.

Upscale UK retailer Harvey Nichols launched this tongue-in-cheek holiday campaign which suggests you spend your money on awesome gifts for yourself, leaving your family with such prized items as paper clips, toothpicks or gravel.

By rigging a couple of nets with bells an all-star lineup of NBA players are able to ring in the holiday season and the announcement of Special Edition Christmas Day Uniforms becoming available at the NBA Store.

Sean Ward’s friend’s son Kieran wanted “to have Spider-Man” for Christmas. Incidentally Sean has a Spidey costume that he uses for his online show. So we guess Kieran owns Sean now.

Not everyone looks forward to Christmas. And we’re not talking about lonely people or atheists. One hell of a dark comedy short from director Andreas Pasvantis and producer 328 Stories.

Santa Claus? Nope. Chuck Testa. The famous taxidermist teamed up with Rhett & Link to ask some kids what they would like for Christmas. Their answers are the real stars of this video.

Forced holiday gift giving in the office can be a painfully awkward affair. We can only assume that Starbucks makes an extra billion dollars off of gift cards this time of year.

(NSFW: Language) Guitarist Erock returns with another holiday medley – this time shredding some Christmas classics for all to enjoy. Stick around to about 2:50 for a special gift.

A driver in Japan shows his Christmas spirit by playing a rendition of Jingle Bells by simply revving his inline 6. We suppose it’s better than one of those horns that plays La Cucaracha.

Nathan Barnatt takes off his dancin’ shoes and tie to accost people with the most awful renditions of Christmas carols ever heard. Though the lady at the end really understands the spirit of the season.

A group of kids from a daycare center perform to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas. Everyone’s having fun, except for poor number 7, who can’t believe how shoddy the whole thing is.

Comedy duo Rhett & Link and a handful of other YouTube celebrities teach us a trick about dressing for the Holidays. They sound like early Hot Chip, except you know, a lot sillier.

Conan O’Brien whips out the super-slow-motion camera once again, dealing out a generous serving of Christmas-themed destruction. Andy Richter’s Flashdance tribute is priceless.