Awesome New Zealand

Pneumatic tubes were a popular way for companies to send documents between offices. These days, the only place we still see them is at bank drive-thrus. Tom Scott visited C1 Espresso, a Christchurch, New Zealand café that uses the tubes to send orders to the kitchen, and delivers some food items to customers’ tables.

Every time we see a cool tiny house, it makes us want to downsize and live a more spartan and economical life. Living Big in a Tiny House introduces us to Jason and Summer, who built themselves a modern and pragmatic house on her parent’s land and filled it with art. We love that indoor/outdoor kitchen passthrough.

Weta Workshop is one of the world’s best special effects and prop companies. Now, visitors to Auckland, New Zealand can enjoy a 90-minute interactive tour that allows them to experience the creative processes behind three imaginary movies in the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres. Book tickets here.

If you’ve never seen sheep being herded by sheepdogs, it’s a pretty impressive sight. A few years back, New Zealand-based photographer Tim Whittaker piloted his drone over a farm to observe thousands of sheep as they moved in concert between their paddocks.

Skydiving expert Angus Sellen takes us on a death-defying flight through some incredibly rocky ravines of Shark’s Tooth Mountain in New Zealand. The fisheye perspective of his GoPro MAX camera captured a truly immersive visual that’ll have you holding on for dear life.

For many of us, New Zealand is a bucket-list travel destination. If we do ever manage to make it there, we’d love to stay at this 4-bedroom Auckland villa, which offers spectacular views and creature comforts galore, including a large deck overlooking the sea, a media room with comfy recliners, and easy beach access.

This lighthearted commercial from New Zealand features an ordinary man named Carl, who just happens to suffer from a slow, laggy, and stuttering connection to his entire life. Internet company Chorus thinks he simply needs to upgrade to their fiber broadband service to keep up with the rest of the world.

We already wanted to visit New Zealand to experience the incredible scenery. Now we want to join their police force too, thanks to this amusing, action-packed ad created to entice new law enforcement recruits to join up.

Incredible footage captured from the flight deck of a jet airplane as it descends above Queenstown, New Zealand. From the snow-capped mountains, to the orange sunset, to the puffy white clouds, it’s simply one of the most stunning real-world visuals we’ve ever seen.

The somber occasion of a funeral parade for 3 fallen members of the New Zealand Defense Force’s 2nd 1st becomes all the more moving as they perform one last haka in their honor.

This ad for New Zealand’s DB Export Dry beer recalls a time where men had all but given up on beer, forced into sipping wine instead. Perfectly captures the era – especially the hairdos.

(NSFW: Language) Long before Robert and Sheepy, Jemaine Clement and the Capper brothers made this four minute, hedgehog-filled safety campaign for the New Zealand Land Transport Agency.

If you ever find yourself in New Zealand, and are looking for the thrill of a lifetime, take an insane ride in a Shotover Jet boat. You might just wet yourself, but you can just blame the water spray.

This ad for the Rugby Channel features New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team showing off some incredibly precise skills. Ok, maybe it’s all staged, but it’s fun nevertheless. (Thanks Louis!)

New Zealand-based artist Brett Graham explores cultural and historical themes in his sculptures of near full-scale weapons of mass destruction, mainly made from MDF, steel and rubber tires.