Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

Matt Damon Pull Hilarious Prank on People with a Surprise Bourne Spy Mission

As part of promotion for a contest for charity Omaze Jason Bourne (aka Matt Damon) phones people up at a shopping mall in Los Angeles and pranks them with pretend spy missions. These poor unsuspecting shoppers suddenly find themselves in the middle of a Bourne-type situation, not knowing whether to play along or cry, probably.

Friday, July 1st, 2016

Watch a Guy Perform Insane Stringless Yo-Yo Tricks

Derek Muller from Veritasium introduces yo-yo badass Ben Conde and his amazing and mind-blowing stringless yo-yo tricks. They truly are something to behold, but it goes one better than that because Muller also explains the physics behind what we’re seeing.

Thursday, June 30th, 2016

Have You Ever Faked An Org*sm? A Guy Takes to the Streets to Find Out

YouTube channel DefinePranks takes to the streets of Los Angeles to find out what no man wants to hear, whether women fake orgasms. And the answers is: yes of course! It seems that it’s pretty common among the women who are in this video—and they have no qualms about admitting to it either.

Thursday, June 30th, 2016

Tony Hawk Lands his Famous 900 Trick at 48

Age should not be an obstacle to doing what you want—that’s the idea but the reality is often quite different, except when it comes to pro skating legend Tony Hawk. At the age of 48 Hawk recently landed a 900—that’s a two-and-a-half aerial spin—and it was exactly 17 years to the day since he first [...]

Monday, June 27th, 2016

The Visuals in this Real-Time-Rendered Sci-Fi Short film Are Jaw-Dropping

This short demo film was created using the Unity game engine and rendered in real-time. While the narrative is relatively simple the graphics are stunning, it looks just as good as if it came from a Hollywood studio but was completed at a fraction of the cost. It’s implications for making this kind of virtual [...]

Monday, June 27th, 2016

The Onion Reviews ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’

The world’s greatest film critic, The Onion’s Peter K. Rosenthal reviews, Independence Day: Resurgence the upcoming sequel to 1996’s Independence Day. As Rosenthal so eloquently points out in this video the original film did so much for servicemen in regards destigmatizing the prejudices surrounding their wish to marry a stripper.

Sunday, June 26th, 2016

True Love is…This Couple Dancing to ‘What’s Up Fatlip?’

Back in 2005 Spike Jonze directed the video for rapper Fatlip’s song ‘What’s Up Fatlip?’—it was already a pretty weird video featuring a sad clown rapping while standing around in LA. But now this couple, h3h3Productions, have added an extra layer of weirdness by making their own, frankly awesome, homage to that video.

Friday, June 24th, 2016

‘Gorillaz – Deconstructing Genre’ Looks at how the Band Revolutionized Pop Music

They’re a band that, theoretically, don’t actually exist instead they consist of cartoon characters—but behind the fictional lineup of Gorillaz is Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett and a lot of musicians who have collaborated on the project. In this video Kaptain Kristian takes a look at the group and the influence they’ve had.

Thursday, June 23rd, 2016

Brilliant Mashup of ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Leeroy Jenkins’ Viral Video

If you haven’t been paying attention Game of Thrones recently aired its much-anticipated episode “Battle of the Bastards” where Jon Snow took on Ramsey Bolton. In a video titled ‘A Jon Snow’s tribute to Leeroy Jenkins’ YouTuber The Blind Editor hilariously mashes up the epic battle with the classic Leeroy Jenkins viral video.

Thursday, June 23rd, 2016

Aphex Twin’s New Music Video is Directed by a 12-Year-Old

Earlier in June Aphex Twin announced a new EP, Cheetah due out July 8 and he’s recently released the first song off it and an accompanying music video. In typical unexpected fashion the music video for “Cirklon3 [ Колхозная mix ]”, his first music video in over 15 years, is directed by a 12-year [...]

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016

Barney the Dinosaur Raps Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Big Poppa’

YouTuber Adam Schleichkorn has been doing a series of videos bringing old school hip hop to the masses by mashing them up with popular TV shows. Often they’re kids shows and Barney the lovable purple dinosaur has featured in quite a few. Mainly because he seems to be the perfect figure to edit into looking [...]