This is some drone footage of a climber successfully summiting a rocky, snow-covered peak. It’s beautiful, sure, but I’d be lying if I said that looks like a good time to me. That looks cold and dangerous. And while I’m all about danger, I don’t do the cold. I do
This is a video of Polish stunt pilot Lukasz Czepiela landing a specially modified plane (total weight reduced to 940 pounds, main fuel tank moved to rear for harder braking, plus nitrous added for taking off again) on the 87-foot diameter helipad atop the 56-story Burj Al Arab Jumeirah hotel
Because normal candles aren’t nearly enough of a fire hazard (my past landlords would disagree), this is a video of Evan and Katelyn of appropriately named Youtube channel Evan and Katelyn making and lighting a 63-pound, 1,000 wick candle. The result reminds me of a fire in one of those
This is a video documenting Youtuber Jake Carlini’s quest to build a pair of roller blades using two kid’s bikes. He starts with the version seen above, which proves impractical and basically immobile, even after lowering the bindings and adding training wheels. He then builds a pair with each skate
This is a local news report from ABC 7 in Commerce, California (which, just to be clear, is NOT the bridge to any future I want to be a part of) where a driver, despite seeing another car already stalled in the water under an overpass, decides to go for
Because with enough Youtube money you can do anything, this is a video of Cody from popular Youtube channel WhistlinDiesel driving a Tesla with 10-foot metal wagon wheels attached. Are those part of the Oregon Trail equipment package? He also drives the car upside down with those wagon wheels. That’s…something.
Note: Volume DOWN, the slow motion sound of a clay pigeon in the air isn’t exactly ear candy. This is a video from a clay pigeon with a tiny camera attached being launched and immediately blasted out of the sky with a shotgun. The whole skeet based camera system was
This is a video of pro golfer Jeff Hayden Buckley sinking a hole in one on the Waterworld themed 17th at the Players Championship in Ponte Verda Beach, Florida over the weekend. That’s cool. Unfortunately for him, Hayden was cut from the tournament with a +3. Now I don’t know