Awesome Talents

An early Holiday present from the Flight of the Conchords of cover songs. Watch the Brett Domino Trio awkwardly tear through 40 of the most popular Christmas songs. San-a Clourse is coming to town!

Musician Josie Charlwood returns with another extraordinary cover version – this time doing a minimal, but nonetheless awesome take on Adele’s theme to the latest and greatest Bond flick.

An incredible and unlikely performance of the electro-rave sounds of Insomnia by Faithless, as this elderly man accompanies the track with the fastest spoons in London. (Thanks JJ!)

Marquese “Nonstop” Scott and his equally ill friends from the Dragon House crew pop and grind to Gramatik’s Illusion of Choice. The opening sequence alone puts real robots to shame.

Taiwan’s Yif Magic messes with our heads once again, with a variety of close-up illusions (and an unforgettable breakfast) that we can’t for the life of us figure out. Turn captions on for English subtitles.

Jason Latimer has dazzled us with lasers, but he can also do the same with low tech props. Here he does the old cups and balls trick using clear cups and what seem to be teleporting balls.

With Skyfall fresh in our minds, vocalists Nick McKaig and Trudbol connected to produce this catchy and infectious a capella rendition of 007’s theme. We had to hit play more than once.

Greg Johnson of Acoustic Labs plays a haunting, minimal interpretation of 007’s theme, just in time for the release of Skyfall. Check more of Greg’s smooth guitar covers here and here, and here.

Here’s a less silly take on Assassin’s Creed by Devin Graham, featuring Ronnie Shalvis. The parkour is still a little over-the-top, but it’s still fun to see how Connor might move in real life.

An amazing stunt as a performer balances himself at the top of a tall vertical pole and spins around like a whirligig. It’s about the only scenario where a vertical video is acceptable.

What happens when you cross the talents of singer Logan Afyouni with a random drunk dude who insisted she bust her guitar out streetside after her gig? The best drunk singing ever. (Thanks Dan!)

There are lots of ways to get across town, but Phil Doyle shows us that taking the rooftops, Mirror’s Edge-style is the fastest (if not the safest) way across the city of Cambridge.

While there’s something cheesy about Taiwanese magician Yif’s production values, the part where he pulls an entire ice cream sundae out of the menu’s flat pages still had us scratching our heads.

Magician Mahdi Gilbert has deformed arms and hands. But as Magic-Con said, Gilbert “palms without palms, shuffles without fingers and is living proof that nothing is impossible.”

A street musician in Copenhagen rocks out an amazing performance of Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik using a bunch of water (or possibly liquor) filled bottles as his instrument of choice.

Matt Mulholland covers Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream by sampling and looping his voice to mimic the accompanying musical instruments. His skill is equaled only by his majestic T-shirt.

Marquese “Nonstop” Scott once again demonstrates his grace and insane body control, dancing to a remix of Need Your Heart. Nonstop, these robots and this cat justify the existence of dubstep.

Highliner Faith Dickey does something no sane person would do, crossing a line strung between two speeding Volvo trucks before they run into a pair of tunnels. Amazing, but a big bowl of crazy.

Multitrack master Nick McKaig returns with another one of his vocalizations, this time combining 62 individual tracks to replicate the classic theme song from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Impressionist Steve Love does a king’s job pulling off spot-on impressions of everyone from Ned Stark to Littlefinger, along with a hilarious Mormont. We want some Daenerys Targaryen now.

Mike Tompkins used only samples and live looping of his own vocal sounds to create an amazingly dynamic performance based on Skrillex’s Cinema and Santigold’s Disparate Youth. (Thanks Ben!)

Performance artist Maugly handmade a pair of custom LED Buugeng, accentuating his elegance and grace on the stage, while providing a constant spectacle for our eyeballs as he spins them around.

We’ve heard Jim Meskimen’s outstanding vocal impressions before. Here, he focuses on one familiar, deep voice, with some hilarious and offbeat haiku he wrote in his spare time.