meow.camera: watch Chinese cats eating. For some reason. {via}

Barbaras Rhababerbar: I think this is a comedy song about a villager named Barbara and her famous rhubarb cake. {via}

Red Hot Copper Ball Experiments: that’s one of the things I love about the Internet—distributed shenanigans.

LiMu Emu and Doug: hilarious sketch of an especially insufferable commercial.

Car Manufacturing Process Overview: Toyota is such an amazing company and this is a very clear presentation.

why do beds have to be so boring: yeah, sure, sure, pretty leaves. WHY ARE BEDS NOT ELEVATED FOR MAXIMAL STORAGE UNDERNEATH?

The Impossible Drone Shot: I’m not sure exactly what makes it impossible but it’s certainly an impressive tracking video.

“NO CIG” is really just “INVISIBLE CGI”: this sort of exposé is exactly the sort of thing I love.

Queenright vs Queenless Colony Sound: eerie. I hate bees and that’s why I stay inside mostly.

Out of the Trees: 1975 sitcom by Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams. {via}

Boomhauer Performs Rap God: so good. The channel “There I Ruined It” is worth a few hours viewing.

Enjoy the Silence: this looks like the boat version of hanggliding.

The Art of Auto Engineering: it’s a steal at $25.

Corn: words are fun.

My Pleasure: accurate.

Batman and Robin’s Falling Out: memes plus voiceover really works here. Favorite YouTube comment: “I love how Batman concedes to every point that robin makes, it feels like if he had just spoken up sooner a lot of these problems would’ve been resolved and they’ll probably develop a better working relationship after this” {via}

Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band – Jaan Pehechan Ho: love this take!

Your Brain-Gun: Turn the Safety Off: hilarious parody from The Onion in a series of parodies of TED Talks. “Shooting with intellectual blanks.” (More here.)

How Cell Service Actually Works: this is a clear and helpful explanation of a stupendously-complicated topic.

Virtual Ancient Rome in 3D: impressive work! I enjoy the detail and expanse but it’s bereft of people—thus barren and lifeless. (One thing you notice is how much statuary there was.)

How To Get Your Picky Toddler To Finish All Of Their Foie Gras: I’ll have to try the tip about shaping it into a fleur-de-lis—that seems like a solid suggestion.

Extreme autotomy and whole-body regeneration in photosynthetic sea slugs: two species of sea slug can shed their bodies (including heart) and regenerate them from their heads. Oh, don’t worry, there’s video…

The Antikythera Mechanism: a series attempting to recreate the mysterious ancient Greek device. There’s also scholarly interest, of course.

Mercedes-Benz Museum: this really gives a sense of the space—though it’s far too rapid to replace a visit—and I look forward to this becoming a thing that happens regularly. {via}

deeptomcruise: fun deepfake videos that illustrate how terrible the future is going to be. Imagine if totalitarian regimes had these in the past! No need for show trials.

Watch real video of Perseverance’s Mars landing: so moving and impressive.

Monkeyball Masterclass: funny parody of those ads.

5 to 9 by Dolly Parton: this is such a great commercial. It’s on brand, clever, and inspiring.

The Princess Bride – Home Movie: whoa. {via}

GORILLA GLUE HAIRDO
– I STILL CAN’T GET THIS GLUE OUT AFTER ER!!! – Might Be Time to Sue: this cannot result in a settlement. This cannot result in a settlement.

Delightful Acapella Versions of Familiar Jingles: this is some acapella that doesn’t annoy me.
[UPDATE: Brand new one today!]

Pee-Wee Park: exquisitely-crafted trailer—seamless to my eye.

Epic NPC Man: funny Web series about the life of a supporting cast in a fictional RPG. {via}

Charles Bridge Construction: 3D modeling of how the Charles Bridge in Prague was built from 1357 to 1402. Stunning, eye-opening animation.

Steve Inman: he’s an MMA commentator that can’t work due to COVID-19 restrictions so he passes the time by providing color on MMA-worthy “protest” videos. His “Ludacris Cam” segment of this Cone Guy is a particularly inspired choice. Is there a Twitter Emmy?

Smashed Mouths – All Star Deepfake Smashup: not perfect but pretty darn close. {via}

The Flying Train (1902): this is amazing footage and such an inspiring view of alternative modes of transportation from the past. {via}

[UPDATE: Someone colorized and 60fps’d the footage and it adds in some missing realism.]

Landing on the Melbourne Citadel in Microsoft Flight Simulator: the backstory on this is someone mistakenly entered “212” into OpenStreetMap instead of “2” for the number of stories that a building in Melbourne, Australia had. Apparently, the information in OSM is used to generate maps and landmarks in Microsoft Flight Simulator, which just released a new version, and the monstrosity in this video was the result.

[UPDATE (8/21/2020): And the Washington Monument looks less accurate. Found an article with more examples.]

SpongeBob Anime: wow. I’m not a fan of anime but this is an amazing effort. {via}

Murphy Ladder: funny and makes me want one. {via}

Gymnasts Try to Keep Up With Parkour Experts: parkour is so beautiful. The informality contrasts interestingly with the formal moves of gymnastics.

Danger Zone – X-Wing Tribute: this works surprisingly well. {via}

Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe 2020: it’s like a British Last Week Tonight. {via}

Unreal Engine 5 Revealed: this is nummy. {via}

Out of Touch: solid satire.

How Many Rubberbands Can Explode A Watermelon: a question I never knew I had until I found out about this video. {via}

Engineering Vids: this is likely Just Another Aggregator but it is so compelling to watch.

Project 88: a scene-by-scene, crowdsourced remake of Back to the Future 2 and here’s the result. {via}

Covid 19 Protecting Your Family Dr Dave Price 3 22 2020: great reasonable video from a front-line practitioner in NYC.

CAR vs. WORLD’S STRONGEST TRAMPOLINE- 150ft (45m) drop: it’s 10 seconds of footage expanded out to fifteen plus minutes but that 10 seconds is totally worth it! {via}

60 fps 4k version of 1896 movie from neural networks: very captivating. He describes the process in the YouTube description and has a colorized version as well.

Rebel Alliance Life Insurance: yes, it’s a BYU sketch show but this is a solid premise and execution.

Soviet Soldiers Dancing: Twitter delights, at times.

Grouch: this is well done and funny.

Urban BASEjumping – Fifty In Five: what would possess someone to do this? Look at all the close calls with street poles, for starters. Just do drugs, for crying out loud.

JustWatch: easy way to search for where a movie or TV show can be watched. {via}

Can today’s cars drive themselves?: this is about Tesla but this is an inherent flaw in automated systems that still require human interventions.

Injuries at annual cheese-rolling contest in UK: this is such a ludicrous event—and it’s apparently been going on for centuries. Google Street View goes to the top of Cooper’s Hill.

BNSF Head On Collision Kismet CA: that is so hard to watch because you know what’s coming. It looks like someone from the other train disembarks at 0:28, but that seems like the worst place to be.

Mothers Day: so disgusting and needlessly divisive.

EUC contest 2016: very impressive! {via}

Arrested Development – Star Wars with Ron Howard: nicely done!

Interrogating Zuckerberg: these must be so much fun to make.

Zack Morris Is Trash: a bad guy on a bad show, but now definitively proven. (It’s also available on Amazon Prime Video, which is where I found it.)

Crazy Rich Asians Trailer: this looks decent and explicitly ready-made for the Chinese market.

Juicero, Cold Press Juicer for Rich Weirdos: funny teardown.

How to build a house alone: doesn’t look too difficult if you know what you’re doing. (I don’t have any idea what I’m doing.)

A Song of Vanilla Ice and Fire: well-crafted version of Ice Ice Baby using Game of Thrones footage.

The Cake Server: holy crap! I am in awe.

Trump vs Talking Heads: very well done.

Deluxe – My Game: simply amazing video by one of my favorite bands.

Paul McCartney Rabbit Hole: not into the Beatles or Sir Paul, but this is exceedingly well done. {via}

How It’s Made – Toilet Paper: mesmerizing. {via}

Stockholm family wraps home in greenhouse to warm up weather: not a bad idea if you live in a very cold climate, I’d say. (I don’t.)

AirFish 8: like a boat but without all that water drag. I’m amazed that it’s classified as a marine craft rather than an airplane. The corporate video is compelling.

Introducing MARTY, Stanford’s self-driving, electric, drifting DeLorean: mmm, donuts. (More details here.)

Toronto restaurant shocks vegans protesting meat: you want to avoid meat, fine. You want to force me to avoid meat, we’ve got problems. (Frankly, why not throw animal blood—or paint—on them like they would always do to fur wearers.)

David Hogg Goes Wild: such a coarsening of the public discourse. This is emotional, demagogic populism—sadly, he’s going to be with us for a long time.

It’s a JOKE!: excellent take on the British travesty. (Lots of warranted cursing.) {via}

Intern Crashes LGBTQ SxSW Meetup!: such intolerance.

Fresh Prints of Bills Here: oh my. No. Uh uh.

This Week in Unnecessary Censorship: also funny.

Inappropriate Laugh Track: so hilarious. There are a ton of them.

How Star Wars The Last Jedi Should Have Ended: damn straight—a huge improvement. {via

Skydio R1: this is pretty slick, might make GoPros obsolete. {via}

The Japanese Office: pretty much nailed it.

Hermione Growth Spurt: funny SNL?!

English Sports: that pretty much nails their inscrutability to me. {via}

Jordan Peterson Is Canada’s Most Infamous Intellectual: the makeup/high heels answer is deliberately provocative and a convenient way to dismiss (or deliberately miss) the point he’s making. If you think he’s saying the harassed was asking for it, listen again.

The blue marble: whoa. {via}

Britain’s Giant Airship: I’ve read his book and it is wonderful. The writing is so compelling.

Ass Is The Most Complicated Word In The English Language: this is absolutely hilarious. {via}

Family fun with deepfakes: I particularly liked his closing paragraph imagining legitimate uses of the technology. (It’s so easy to think of the evil that can be done: Black Mirror‘s “Shut Up and Dance” episode but without having actually done the initial act.) {via}

Fast rail – watch 1,500 Chinese workers build train station track in 9 hours: I’m a sucker for these time-lapse videos of Chinese construction. It almost makes you forget the perils of an authoritarian regime.

Woman Takes Service Turkey on Flight for Trip to Scatter Husband’s Ashes: no one sat next to this lady?! Hard to believe. It’s just a matter of time before someone brings some motherf’ing emotional support snakes on the plane.

Washed Out – Get Lost: not my kind of music but it’s a well-done video. {via}

How McDonald’s Makes Its Fries: that explains why McDonald’s fries are so good and consistent. {via}

Queen Elizabeth’s Life in Banknotes: neat watching a life encapsulated in 20 seconds. If you’d rather read about it, the Washington Post has the text version. {via}

3 football player vs 100 kids player in Japan: it sure took them awhile to score. Geesh. {via}

Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen/PIKO-TARO: 80 million views. 80 million.