Awesome Holidays

When YouTuber bd594 isn’t making music with old computer equipment, he likes to dress up for the holidays. Here, the tinkerer demonstrates the most over-the-top ugly sweater of all time – complete with a working model railroad.

It’s an annual St. Paddy’s Day tradition here in Chicago – turning the normally brownish-green Chicago River into a bright green spectacle. This short time-lapse video by Peter Tsai does a great job capturing how it’s done.

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.

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.

Here’s to all the dads out there on Father’s Day – if you aren’t kicking back or out playing, we hope you’re having as much fun as Ronnie and his father are in this video. (Thanks Bryce!)

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.

The Masters of Malt have combined our love of tiny paper doors and booze with their Whisky Advent Calendar. It offers 24 3cl samples of deliciousness, including a 50 year old Scotch. (Thanks Ryan!)

You don’t need a tree to enjoy these festive HOrrible HOliday HOoligans by Sebastian Reymers. 3 jerks with a saw, axe and match hanging around? Sounds just like the holidays at our house.

Let’s take Halloween out with a grin by enjoying Nathan Pryor’s Pumpktris, a fully playable version of Tetris in a pumpkin, with 128 LEDs for the display and bonus game controller stem. (Thanks James!)

Valentine’s Day is over, and all that’s left behind are some dried up roses, empty bottles of bubbly, and some half-eaten chocolates. Here, Conan bids farewell to these unwanted sweets.

Can’t think of what to get your loved one for Valentine’s Day? Why not serenade them with a few tunes, like Fredde Gredde in this medley of 21 syrupy songs. Better than a box of chocolates.

Long after Jimmy Kimmel’s cruel pre-holiday prank was over, parents continued to mess with their kid’s heads and tell them they were getting crap for Xmas. Broccoli = the new lump of coal.

If you can’t get through the holidays without watching A Christmas Story for the 1,000,000th time, but you’re sick of the same old human actors, here’s a classic scene, reenacted by frankfurters.

The always entertaining FreddeGredde returns with a little holiday medley, cramming 12 classic Xmas tunes into a seamless 4-minute medley. Bonus points for Banjo-Kazooie and The Pogues.

Hannah Hart dips into the egg nog (and rum) to fix us all a delicious gingerbread house. If we were gingerbread men, we’re thinking we wouldn’t want her to architect our homestead.

We’ve seen some impressive Xmas light displays over the years, but this installation takes the cake, with 56,100 LEDs, controlled bye a custom-built computer. It’s like Vegas, only in the suburbs.

Another clever viral video from Pedigree featuring a group of caroling dogs. Assuming it was done without audio trickery, we’re calling it awesome. Otherwise, happy barking holidays anyhow.

YouTubers Rhett & Link ran classic Christmas carols through YouTube’s automated caption generator, then sang the new lyrics for all to enjoy. Manicurist mutts to all, and to all a good night.

Vocal impressionist Jim Meskimen returns with a short holiday poem, done in the voices of dozens of famous celebrities. We’re not sure if David Letterman or Tom Waits is our favorite.

Science teacher Chris Bergmann demonstrates the power of chemistry, while at the same time carving his Halloween pumpkin the best way possible. Why is it our teachers were never this cool?

Magician Simon Pierro built his 2011 Halloween magic show using an iPad 2 and a custom iOS app as his primary gimmick. We wish our iPads would dispense jellybeans too. Maybe the iPad 3 will.

While the song is definitely not as classic as last year’s Thriller, this Halloween house is definitely in more of a upbeat mood in 2011, as it sings along to LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem.

Yeah, we know the fireworks are faked in with computers, but we still think it’s cool way to celebrate Independence Day. Now go outside, eat some barbecue and blow some sh*t up already.