This is a video tour of the functional M249 SAW blowback style machine gun built by Youtuber Patrick Grant Lego, inspired by an earlier model developed by LEGO gun maker Phant0m. It has a 25 rubber band ammo capacity, fires in both semi and full auto modes, and has an

This is a video of Youtuber Rachelf learning the play the electric guitar over the course of four years, as documented monthly with examples of her skill playing. I felt like she was a pretty quick learner and was already jamming by the end of her first year. By the

This is a video showcasing the mad ups of Riley Smith, a guy who’s 5’9″ with an astounding 50″ vertical leap, allowing him to easily dunk, and jump so high he can hit his head on the basketball hoop. That is impressive. For reference, I’m 6’1″ and just tried to

This is a video of incredibly talented pianist Vinheteiro performing a very spirited arrangement of The Simpsons theme that he made. Clearly, Vinheteiro is great at making arrangements. Me? I am not so good. One time I made arrangements to take my girlfriend out for our anniversary but forgot what

This is a short video of a little archerfish demonstrating how easily it could hit an apple on someone’s head by spitting a perfect bullseye and knocking its shrimp treat into the water. Impressive. Maybe not as good as my aim, but *tosses paper wad at trashcan, misses* Whatever. You

This is a video of samurai descendant Kaito Suiju, master of the Hisui school of battōjutsu and instructor at Hisui Tokyo, discussing and rating “the realism of katana sword scenes in movies, including skills of actors, the way they hold and train with the swords, as well as the choreography

This is Tokri (The Basket), a beautiful 15-minute stop-motion short created by the Mumbai, India-based Studio Eeksaurus about a little girl who crafts baskets, which is really all I can say without ruining the story which is simple and sweet. The video was in production for the last eight years,

This is a video of 37-year old Japanese Zen Buddhist monk Yogetsu Akasaka layering sounds and chants all created with his own voice into this ‘Heart Sutra x beatbox live-looping remix’. Apparently prior to becoming a monk Yogetsu was a beatboxer, busker, and theater actor. Now he’s a beatboxer and