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Watching an unsuspecting victim get nailed in the nuts by a paint chopped in half by a guillotine is everything you could possibly want in a YouTube video—dramatics, destruction, pain, humor born out of sadness, the element of surprise. “[An] incredibly painful accident,” writes Destruction Channel. One we now get to enjoy. [Select All]
I love murmurations or bird swarms or flocks of starlings or whatever the heck you want to call them because from far away they look like they’re shapeshifting in the air with the help of dark magic. It’s like seeing an unreal special effect only it’s made up of thousands of birds. Marco Campazas captured…
The machines are coming for us and we can’t pretend like we didn’t see it coming, because even the lowly metronome has been trying to warn us for years. Here are 100 of those ticking boxes starting at different beats but then slowly synchronizing themselves together toward the same beat. It’s like they’re all being…
Here’s a uselessly amusing idea to wrap your head around: what if history’s largest empire, the British Empire, still existed today? What would it look like? How many countries would it include? How many people? What would they look like? Would the Sun really never set? Real Life Lore examines a reunited British Empire and…
I wouldn’t think that defrosting frozen fruits and vegetables would be fun to watch. And yet, I stared at ice melting off of strawberries and peas, peaches and pomegranates, rambutans, and slices of watermelon for over seven minutes in this mildly tingly video and am seriously at peace with myself. Seeing the icy frost slide…
The wintry spirit is strong with this one. There’s a mood to the process of blowing glass that feels right in line with the season. [The music in this video certainly adds to that.] The process of carefully bathing a tube of glass in fire and blowing it into that perfect ornamental shape has a…
Kaptain Kristian’s latest explainer video is a fun one: he explains how the anapestic tetrameter rhyming style of Dr. Seuss helped us better understand language as kids, all while rhyming in the video himself. It’s stupid catchy (obviously, because it’s done in the style of Dr. Seuss) and so easy to listen to, which is…
Hot damn, the state of Oregon is beautiful. Like, maybe the most beautiful state in this country beautiful. Like, you should probably go to Oregon when you need some sort of adventure or guidance in life beautiful. This video from Michael Shainblum shows the natural wonders of it all: the gorgeous green, the mirrored lakes, the…
I don’t think I’ll ever understand why the yule log video is such a thing but traditions are all kind of like that: you half-assedly do things that people once did a long time ago because they had nothing else to do, even though we now have so much more we could do. Anyways, these…
Yeah, sure, replacing the noises that animals make with human screams is totally silly but, man, some of the edits of these scenes are really freaking good. Matt Amys took footage from Planet Earth II and then swapped out the audio with screams that are damn near perfect for each situation. Life is way funnier…
Well, why the hell not. The Slow Mo Guys put an old iMac in front of a combustion tube that fires out blasts at 1,800 meters a second (that’s, uh, over 4,000 miles per hour)—and holy smokes, that thing gets smashed to bits. The combustion tube is meant to test flame acceleration and deflagration to…
Driving around Manhattan can hardly be considered driving because there’s so much damn traffic and construction and crazy taxis and people on the street. Most of the time you’re “driving,” you’re actually just stopped or digging your car out of a pothole, or are constantly avoiding accidents or dodging human bodies. You’re certainly not hitting…
Broadcasting TV shows live seems like a crazy idea that no one should actually do, because it’s basically a punishing race against the clock. Just check out this set change on Saturday Night Live, there are so many hands working on transforming the cold open set into the monologue, and they still barely get it…
Kind of! At least if we’re to take Kurzgesagt’s word for it. Lets do a little recap on how birthrates work. A few generations ago—in the US and other westernized countries anyway—families had far more children. This was an insurance policy. More kids died young back then, so having more of them ensured some would…
There’s been a lot of hype surrounding the upcoming duel between the giant fighting robots being built by the MegaBots team in the US and Suidobashi Heavy Industries in Japan. But even if it never goes down, at least we’re getting a bunch of awesome videos of giant robots smashing things up out of it.…
Sure, opting for a real Christmas tree fills your home with the wonderful smell of pine needles during the holidays. But getting its dried husk out of your home and onto the curb after New Year’s can be a logistical nightmare: unless you have the brilliant foresight to mount your Christmas tree to a drone.…
Photographer Joshua Nowicki captured photographs of the St. Joseph lighthouse at the mouth of the St. Joseph River in Michigan and it’s beautifully (and completely) covered in ice. And because the thick icicles that accentuate the lighthouse are angled back from the strong winds, it looks like an alien sculpture that’s frozen in time. This…
It’s not the fault of Hollywood or Netflix or even the internet. Or, well, it’s not all their fault. We’re to blame for encouraging all these nostalgic re-releases and poorly re-hashed versions of things from our childhood, too. 8-Bit Philosophy delves into our need for nostalgia and cites philosopher Svetlana Boyn, who has said that…
In these wonderful videos by Glass Distortion, you get to see the creative process of filmmaking: you can read what was written in the script, peek at what was imagined in the storyboards, and see the finished scene that was filmed for the movie. It’s the whole sausage making of turning words on a page…
Sticking your arm inside a box of mosquitoes to get bit is very probably the most fearless thing a person on this planet can do. It’s also very probably the dumbest thing in the world to do because you’ll end up with over 30 itchy mosquito bites that’ll make you want to rip the skin…
