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Awesome Talents

Performing Songs Backward

Performing Songs Backward

Musician Joel James has a unique talent – he’s able to perform songs backward so they sound like the original when played back in reverse. It’s a simple concept, executed brilliantly by Joel. See if you can guess these songs before he hits rewind.

Learning Ventriloquism aka Ventriloquism for Dummies

Learning Ventriloquism aka Ventriloquism for Dummies

Joe Brogie is a talented actor, magician, and comedian. In this video clip, Joe provides a week-by-week status update on his efforts to learn ventriloquism. His furry orange companion has a thing or two to say by the end of his training.

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School of Rock: The Final Countdown

School of Rock: The Final Countdown

School of Rock is a great place for kids (and adults) to hone their musicianship and performance skills. This group of AllStar students was a the top of their game when they took on Europe’s hair-metal classic The Final Countdown in the studio. Lead vocalist Eliza could go out and record an album right now.

Flying a Giant Kite Indoors

Flying a Giant Kite Indoors

Since wind is a requirement for flying kites, it’s typically an outdoor activity. However, experienced kite flyers like Spence “Watty” Watson know how to get them off the ground indoors. At the 2023 SPI Kite Fest, Spence showed off with a 25-foot-long 8-stack kite that he flew over spectators heads. Video by Tommy J. Saenz.

Master Slinky Manipulator

Master Slinky Manipulator

“Slinky Josh” Jacobs, knows a thing or two about bossing around springy playthings. In this video from WIRED’s Obsessed series, the Slinky master shows us some basic tricks, explains the proper equipment, then really shows off. It’s also the only time we’ve heard the phrase “burgeoning Slinky manipulation community.”

Super Mario Bros. 2 Beatbox

Super Mario Bros. 2 Beatbox

Beatboxer Hiss is unbelievably good at producing tones and sound effects with his mouth. In this short clip, he shows us how he replicated the Overworld Theme music from Super Mario Bros. 2, building it up layer by layer. The man is a living synthesizer.

Too Many Ollies

Too Many Ollies

Douwe Macare knows a thing or two about skateboarding. In this clip, he performs ollie after ollie while climbing a staircase, much like we’ve been known to do when we can’t string together any big tricks in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Now check out his insanely-long kickflip nose manual.

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WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

The musical Jesus Christ Superstar has some incredible songs and serves as a vocal showcase its lead performer. Some mad genius edited together performances of the song Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say) in which Jesus asks an essential question. Our new question: Why are you dressed like a sheriff, Lin-Manuel Miranda?

Stop, Hammer Time.

Stop, Hammer Time.

If you’re not careful hammering nails, you can really smash your fingers. But Veysel Çelik has his nailing technique down to a science. We watched in awe as the professional builder banged in nail after nail in exactly the right spot with just a tap and a hit every time.

Extreme Unicycling

Extreme Unicycling

Riding rocky mountain trails on a bicycle can be daunting enough, but Lutz Eichholz does it all the time – only on a single wheel. In this video from 60 Second Docs, we get a brief look at Lutz’s extreme unicycling skills and hear about what motivates him. More footage here.

26 Minutes of Accordion Genius

26 Minutes of Accordion Genius

A few years back, musician Alexandr Hrustevich wowed us with his mad accordion skills. Now sit back and fill your ears with this nearly 30-minute classical solo concert that includes music by Bach, Sibelius, Vivaldi, and Albinoni. All we can say is he must have some serious calluses on his fingertips.

Bending a Wire Bonsai Tree

Bending a Wire Bonsai Tree

Bonsai trees are typically living plants that require an immense amount of care and precision pruning. These talented artists show us how they make bonsais that require no watering – using thousands of strands of stiff metal wire to create their intricate designs. We wonder how long the process takes to do in real time.

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Polyphonic Overtone Singing in an Echo Chamber

Polyphonic Overtone Singing in an Echo Chamber

Anna-Maria Hefele has wowed us before with her polyphonic overtone singing. Her ethereal composition Andesana is given added impact through its performance in a space that encourages rather than cancels echoes – standing underneath a musical sculpture by artist Josef Baier. Here’s an explanation of how the technique works.

Most Claps in a Minute

Most Claps in a Minute

Give this man a round of applause for his ability to clap at an insane rate of speed. Dalton Meyer recently set the Guinness World Record for the most claps performed in one minute, handily beating the prior record with 1140 claps. That’s 19 claps per second – our ears can’t hear that fast, so we just have to believe the bean counters.

Green Day A Cappella

Green Day A Cappella

Vocalist Jared Halley has wowed us before with his one-man a cappella songs. This time, he took on the 1992 Green Day track Boulevard of Broken Dreams, using his voice to layer together every track of the recording. Also, we can’t get that one a nunna, one a nunna, one a nunna out of our heads now.

Timothy Fletcher: Drum God

Timothy Fletcher: Drum God

Musician Timothy Fletcher is one of the most talented drummers we’ve encountered. Here, he shows off his mad snare drum skills as he juggles his sticks and swaps some out in the middle of the performance. Be sure to check out his TikTok or Instagram channels for more amazing drumming.

Falling Down Stairs on Purpose

Falling Down Stairs on Purpose

Photographer Mathieu Stern recorded this captivating footage of choreographer and acrobat Yoann Bourgeois performing a routine where he climbs and repeatedly falls off of a staircase onto a trampoline. As he bounces back into the air, he gets back on the staircase to keep the cycle going.

Playing 10,000 Harmonics on Guitar

Playing 10,000 Harmonics on Guitar

Our fingers are tired just from watching musician Alan Gogoll and his epic 14-minute acoustic solo. Click play and listen as he performs a hypnotic sequence of harmonics on his acoustic guitar. Is he a man, or is he a machine? You be the judge.

Making Smaller and Smaller Portraits

Making Smaller and Smaller Portraits

Illustrator DP Truong chose Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow as the subject of a pencil drawing. After he finished the 21 cm (8.26 in) black-and-white portrait, he kept going. Only for the next drawing, he went with a smaller piece of paper. Then he repeated the task over and over until he got down to a 0.2 cm (0.07 in) image.

Doing Push-ups with Style

Doing Push-ups with Style

We’ve seen some unusual form at the gym, but this guy takes his workouts to a whole different level. We watched in both shock and awe as this powerful athlete turned himself into some kind of jumping spider while doing high-energy push-ups. We want to see the rest of his routine now.

Amazing Dragon Hand Puppet

Amazing Dragon Hand Puppet

Lena from aboxfullofstuff shows off Azure, an intricate dragon puppet she created with beautiful blue scales, horns, and details like moving eyeballs and smoke that comes out of its nostrils. We love how her costume has a fake left arm to conceal that her real arm is inside of the puppet.

Tallest House of Cards Built in One Hour

Tallest House of Cards Built in One Hour

Even the slightest breeze or unsteady hand will cause a house of cards to topple. Tian Rui remains undaunted. Using a stacked card technique, he built a 27-level tower in under an hour, setting a Guinness World Record. It’s nowhere near the tallest house of cards ever, which measured 25 feet tall, but Bryan Berg built that with no time limit.

Soap Bubble Tennis

Soap Bubble Tennis

Hailing from Hyvinkää, Finland, Taija Taika is a magician and an expert soap bubble artist. If we knew that could be a profession, we might have chosen a different career path. Here, she shows off her unique skill by blowing a smoke-filled bubble, then using a bubble wand to bounce it like a tennis racket.

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