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The 40-Year-Old Psychopath, A Fake Trailer Imagining ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’ as a Psychological Horror Film
Evan Anderson has created “The 40-Year-Old Psychopath,” a fake teaser trailer that imagines Judd Apatow‘s 2005 romantic comedy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, as a psychological horror…
First-Person Video of an Instructor Teaching a Kids Martial Arts Class
German filmmaker Florian Baron asked a martial arts instructor at Ryer Martial Arts Academy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to wear a GoPro camera while teaching a…
Charming Facts About Children’s Books
Mental Floss host John Green offers a series of facts about children’s books and their authors in “47 Charming Facts About Children’s Books”. For example,…
A Look at How Shipping Containers Are Constructed
In this video from 2011, Canadian construction company BigSteelBox goes inside a factory in Shanghai, China, where shipping containers are built. The steel is cut,…
‘The Trip’, An Animated Short About a Psychedelic VW Bus
“The Trip” is short by Brazilian animator Antonio Vicentini featuring a cartoon Volkswagen bus driving through a series of increasingly psychedelic circumstances, set to the…
An Amusing Parody of the Television Show ‘Cosmos’ Imagining Neil deGrasse Tyson High on Marijuana
Nacho Punch imagines what the television show Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey might be like if host Neil deGrasse Tyson, played by actor Erik Griffin, were…
A Large Scale Radio-Controlled ‘Star Wars’ TIE Advanced x1 Quadcopter Made Out of PVC Pipe
Designer and musician Rodger Cleye has created a large-scale radio-controlled Star Wars TIE Advanced x1 quadcopter out of mostly PVC pipe. Rodger plans on creating…
Sidewalk Harmonizers Recreate Viral Jam Session With Special Guests on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’
The three guys who became a viral video sensation after harmonizing on a sidewalk outside of a Kroger supermarket in Irving, Texas joined forces again…
A Geeky A Capella Cover of the ‘Pokemon’ TV Show Theme Song by The Warp Zone and Smosh
In this video, The Warp Zone and Smosh team up to perform a geeky a capella cover of the Pokemon television show theme song. We…
The Spielberg Oner, A Study of Steven Spielberg’s Fascinating Long Takes in Movies
Film enthusiast Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting has created “The Spielberg Oner,” an interesting video essay that takes a look at director Steven…