Friday night means party time. But you probably don’t party like the older gent in this video. He opens his beers like a real man — by using a chainsaw. Because that’s just how he rolls.
The video has gone viral on YouTube since being posted Thursday, with more than a quarter million views at time of this writing. I’ve accounted for at least 10 of those.
Nintendo has been in the gaming market for a long time. So long, in fact, you might think it would be impossible to encapsulate its many iconic characters in games in just three minutes.
One young Nintendo fan was up for the challenge. Describing himself as a “professional domino-ist” on Reddit, the 15-year-old behind the video set up 30,000 dominoes of various sizes and colors, some game cartridges and a few accessories (like a tape measure) as a tribute to the Japanese game company and its various franchises — including Mario, Sonic and Zelda.
The result is spellbinding. We particularly like the various structures that collapse slowly as dominoes from beneath are knocked over. Be sure to watch all the way till the end, where you’ll catch a slight blooper (?) as a few of the dominoes fail to fall.
Here’s a perfect example of the good kind of troll — the one who leaves no high five left behind. Everyone wants a special snapshot when they visit a historical monument like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and Darius Groza wants to make sure visitors get that perfect image.
The prankster, who writes for Romanian blog JEG, runs into pictures and gives a big high five to tourists posing ironically like they’re holding up the building.
What’s not ironic is the fact that a Radiohead cover of “Creep” is playing in the background. Who wants to see more good-hearted pranks like this on the Internet? Sound off in the comments.
At Seattle Children’s Hospital, one floor is full of kids fighting battles that no one should ever have to face — especially not at their age. For a moment, however, the ward was filled with hope and joy from the most unlikely of sources.
In the above video, the ward’s patients and staff lip-dub to Kelly Clarkson’s song “Stronger.” The video below shows footage from behind the scenes.
The Hematology-oncology ward covers the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases and cancer.
We understand if you have “something in your eye” by the end of the clip.
A Belgian advocacy group has taken a unique approach to the texting-while-driving epidemic: It has told potential drivers essentially, “You want to text while driving? Fine, we’re going to force you to do it.”
The reverse psychology trick worked magic. As the video shows, young drivers get flustered and flummoxed trying to multitask behind the wheel. “It’s impossible,” one protests. “Honestly, I feel like an idiot who can’t drive,” says another.
The drivers’ reactions and the bizarreness of the situation make the video funny, but there’s also a point. As the instructor notes after a wipeout while peering out the windshield, “Imagine that’s a child.”
Ever eat something that doesn’t taste as good as it looks? Luckily, a lioness named Kya at the Oregon Zoo didn’t have a chance to find out how this little boy tasted.
The lioness was going after a zebra — which was actually a one-year-old named Jack, who was wearing a black and white striped sweatshirt. Jack, thankfully, was behind a thick glass wall, so no injuries occurred.
The unforgettable moment, which happened on April 26, was captured on video and uploaded to YouTube. The video has since gone viral, with more than 155,000 views.
“It was Jack’s first trip to the zoo,” Jack’s mother Heather Baltzor told the Huffington Post. “We didn’t even realize he looked like a zebra until we got home but a lot of the animals in the zoo — the crocodiles and the jaguars — apparently did. They would come up to the glass and look at him.”
In the above video, a woman interrupts a taped segment for WCIU-TV, an independently and locally owned, programmed and operated station based out of Chicago, and spits repeatedly on the ground in front of the camera.
The video above tells the story of a blind, homeless dog that has been given a second chance, thanks to the friendship of another stray puppy.
Tanner, a 2-year-old Golden Retriever, was born blind with a slight seizure problem. After his owner died, the dog was forced into a shelter.
The stress of the loss led to a increase in the severity of his seizure disorder, and he became panicky. His future seemed to be bleak.
That was untill Tanner met Blair, a 1-year-old black Labrador mix who had been living on the streets before he was brought to the animal hospital after being shot, according to The Daily Mail.
It took 238 takes to make this video, which features video on four synchronized iPhones. We think it was worth the effort.
The iPhones are coordinated to a guitar version of Fun’s “We Are Young” by YouTube user MysteryGuitarMan. Among the cool images: The moon passing by, the Earth and the sun and MGM himself starting and ending the tune.
All of the images are very impressive. But as the comments note, it’s possible that the effects were achieved by less labor-intensive means. (MGM could not be reached at press time for comment.)
Either way, the video — which is on its way to 800,000 views — is likely making the members of OK Go smack their foreheads for not coming up with the idea.
What do you think? Is this for real? Does it matter? Was it worth a broken iPhone? Sound off in the comments.