Awesome Talents

Declan Feeney likes to play the saxophone. Except he doesn’t actually own one. Instead, he does some crazy stuff with his vocal chords to create an uncanny mock sax. Here, he plays a bit of The Pink Panther theme.

Dancer Madd Chadd appears to be more robot than human as he pops, locks and breaks it down into controlled mechanical movements all while he maintains his balance on a wheeled Airboard. The track is So by Dabow.

South African performer William Jafta forgoes celebrity impersonations, instead imitating the sounds of numerous animals, including birds, cats, dogs, goats and cows. But can he do a Lyrebird?

Samurai Guitarist proves his dexterity as he performs Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds on three ukuleles, a snare drum, tambourine, organ, bass and harmonica all at once. His five guitar rendition of Für Elise ain’t too shabby either.

“Over the hill… and picking up speed.” That’s how 60-year-old UK expat and Bay Area resident Peter Barnes describes himself. Here he reinforces that statement, proving that age has nothing to do with a youthful spirit. More here.

Dancer Karen X Cheng does her best impression of a stereotypical robot, mocking its imprecise movements as it tries to eat breakfast. Guess we’ll need to stock up for the robopocalypse. Bonus points for the audience member at 1:22.

(PG-13 Lyrics) An impressive live performance by the digital remix duo of Tha TrickaZ, loaded with iconic audio samples from music, TV shows, and movies. See if you can name all the tracks. We love that they snuck the Robocop theme in.

Every impressionist on the planet thinks they can do Arnold Schwarzenegger, but David Andrew Brent pulls off the best Arnie we’ve ever heard by exhibiting impressive restraint, rather than the Hans and Franz approach others have taken.

New York performer Ricky Syers uses “Chopsy,” his drummer puppet and tiny tin can drums he created to play the percussion section of the 1981 Rush classic Tom Sawyer. We’re betting the guitar part would be a bit more difficult to pull off.

Parisian entertainer Marc Métral turned up on Britain’s Got Talent with a hilariously quirky act – a dog that can really talk. Sorta. His dream is to perform in front of the royal family. We think Marc deserves the chance.

Les Objets Volants performs Bach’s Prélude n°1 using quirky musical instruments – plastic tubes called Boomwhackers – which emit a note when hit. The sound is reminiscent of Blue Man Group, but thankfully there’s no blue makeup here.

Huron Low, Kevin Ho and Daren Yeow of The Virts are back to show off their impressive card handling skills with Virtuoso’s new SS15 deck, with its vibrant and eyecatching color scheme. Sign up to get on the early bird order list.

Kuma Films captured the mesmerizing bubble artistry of Su Chung Tai as he commands soap bubbles to follow his every whim. The bit with the stacked concentric bubbles is simply stunning. (Thanks Todd!)

The legendary Dick Dale introduced us to surf guitar music, but surfer and musician Chris Hau seems to have misinterpreted the phrase, instead playing his guitar while wakeboarding. And we can barely walk and chew gum at the same time.

Master and commander of the pool table Steve Markle is back to show off his uncanny ability to command ball physics like a boss. That shot at 1:45 made our brains hurt. If Steve were one of the X-Men, his name would be Pathbender.

Cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser crank the energy level up to 9000 for this amazing, frenetic performance of the Muse classic Hysteria, done as only 2CELLOS can do it. One of the numerous epic tracks on their new album Celloverse.

We’ve seen five people play one guitar, but before that ever happened, a dozen pianists shared duties at a single grand piano. When all of their hands get going at once, it looks some sort of crazy centipede. (Thanks Orion!)

The athletes of DTM Freerun show off their amazing agility and gymnastic skills in this short film, set to the heartpumping rhythms of Jungle by X Ambassadors. Man, these guys can tumble.

The almighty Mountain Hafþór Björnsson, yet again proves his epic strength, as he breaks a world record by carrying a 1411 lb. log on his back and walking five steps – a feat that which purportedly last happened in ancient Viking days.

It’s challenging enough to balance on a unicycle and ride it in a straight line, but these talented tricksters in Taiwan show that you can pull off some MacAskill-like moves even if you have just a single wheel. Shot by Kuma Films.

“I’m an obsessed marathon runner and an out-of-work drummer. I’m not particularly good at either.” That’s how Brendan likes to describe himself as he gets in a little workout while he practices his percussive skills.

Al the Jumper shows exactly why he’s been given that name, as he performs an incredibly dangerous stunt – jumping over two bikes bearing down on him at nearly 70mph. One wrong move, and both Al and the bikers are toast.

Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser show off their impeccable cello skills in this concert recorded at last summer’s Exit Festival. The show starts off quietly enough but escalates at 6:26 and doesn’t let go. Put your headphones on and enjoy.