Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Monday, May 21st, 2018

Suicide Olympics—Or How You’re Probably Going to Die

YouTuber exurb1a proposes something called the Suicide Olympics where the winner, who will receive a billion dollars, is the one who dies in the most unlikely or unusual fashion. But, the way you die has to be an accident, so you can’t just throw yourself off a cliff or anything. This leads to exurb1a looking [...]

Thursday, May 17th, 2018

Guy Dives into 1000 Mousetraps on a Trampoline

Mousetraps are a classic of visual comedy, but as cliched as they no doubt are, you’ve never seen them in a situation like this before. One half of the Slow Mo Guys, in the name of entertainment, bravely jumps onto a trampoline consisting of 1,000 mousetraps. They filmed the whole thing in 4K at 1000fps [...]

Wednesday, May 16th, 2018

Here’s How Humanity Could Spread Across the Galaxy

Elon Musk talked recently about his Interplanetary Transport System that he hopes will take humans to Mars within the next ten years. He wants to then use it as a base to explore the galaxy. But manned spaced flight is not the only way. Way before Elon Musk scientists proposed the idea of the von [...]

Thursday, May 10th, 2018

Dad with Tourette’s Syndrome Plays Cards with His Daughter

This is a rather sweet but sweary insight into a father and daughter relationship. It happens that this dad has got Tourette’s syndrome, a neurological condition which causes the sufferer to make involuntary noises and twitches. Those noises often take the form of swear words, the mans’s daughter also suffers from it but not quite [...]

Wednesday, May 9th, 2018

Meet the Warrior Monk Who Brought Kung Fu to America

YouTube channel Great Big Story take a look at Shifu Shi Yan Ming who trained as a Shaolin Temple Warrior Monk in China. In 1992 he was on tour in the United States when he defected and by 1994 he’d moved to New York City which is where he opened the USA Shaolin Temple.

Tuesday, May 8th, 2018

Paper Cut, a Skate Film Printed on 1000s of Pieces of Paper

Filmmaker Philip Evans filmed skaters Jak Pietryga and Chris Jones skating about the streets of London, and then done something unique—he printed the footage on over 3,000 pieces of paper and then turned it onto an animation. The result has all the hallmarks of an entertaining skate video, great tricks, cool locations, but adds something [...]

Monday, May 7th, 2018

Timothy Olyphant Tells Conan about Smoking Willie Nelson’s Weed

As famous pot smokers go country legend Willie Nelson is right up there. He’s been smoking pot for years, so you can imagine the type he likes to ingest is probably quite potent. All those years of toking must mean he’s built up quite the resistance. So it’s completely understandable that actor Timothy Olyphant would [...]

Friday, May 4th, 2018

The 8 Spiders You Eat In Your Sleep Every Year

It’s an irrefutable fact of the world that every single one of us eats eight spiders a year while we sleep—but just how does that happen? Well, this video shows the science behind it, demonstrating how some you eat while sleep-eating a salad, other times it’s when you sleep-cook a tarantula.

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

The Philosophy of Bill Murray

Bill Murray is pretty much at the stage of becoming a national treasure, he’s the type of actor that basically just plays himself in every movie. In this video Jared Bauer of Wisecrack takes a look at the iconic actor looking at his brand of deadpan comedy and how he evolved from just a goofy [...]

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018

Watch the Excellent Utah Saints ‘Something Good’ Music Video

Back in 1992 British electronic musicians Utah Saints released their song ‘Something Good’ but it wasn’t until 2008 that it got this excellent music video courtesy of a remix. The original 1992 track was based around a sampled Kate Bush lyric from her song ‘Cloudbusting’ off her 1985 album Hounds of Love.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2018

Darth Vader VS Buzz Lightyear, the Ultimate Disney Face-Off

Now that Disney owns Star Wars, it’s high time that we saw some of their various characters from different franchises fight each other. Disney themselves are never going to sanction such a thing, so it’s been left to YouTube channel Nukazooka to present to us the ultimate Disney face-off, Star Wars Vs. Toy Story.