People doing awesome

VIDEO: This is a girl painting a picture of Yao Ming with a basketball

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Artist Hong Yi specializes in all sorts of “unconventional” art. But, unlike your average performance art-type, she’s actually talented. Check out this video of her painting Chinese icon/former Rockets center Yao Ming with a basketball. It’s amazing. Read more

VIDEO: An 8-year-old girl singing hardcore music is worth a listen

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This is Juliet. She’s your average 8-year-old girl. Except she has a hardcore single titled “My First Hardcore Song” and it’s both awesome and adorable. Read more

VIDEO: Louis C.K. even makes the act of giving to charity hilarious

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Louis C.K. is awesome. We all know that. But how far can he go with this awesomeness? In this clip from last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Louis announces he passed $1 million in sales of his online comedy special, then reveals the charities he gave some money to in the funniest way you’ll ... Read more

VIDEO: This ‘Simpsons’-'Breaking Bad’ mashup is fantastically done

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Bart Simpson: Meth dealer? No, it’s not the latest season of The Simpsons running out of plot ideas (well, yet), but rather a mashup of The Simpsons and Breaking Bad. And it works brilliantly. Read more

VIDEO: Couple remakes ‘Full House’ opening for San Francisco vacation video

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When you’re taking a vacation, the memories are obviously the main thing. So what better way to chronicle a trip to San Francisco than recreating the opening to Full House? That’s what this married couple, Lauren and Michael Kaplan, did. And it’s awesome. Read more

VIDEO: The ‘Saved by the Bell’ interactive 8-bit game is stellar

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The Fine Brothers do a lot of cool viral video things including their famous Autotune the News and Kids React to Viral Videos series. But this latest interactive video designed to replicate an 8-bit “Saved by the Bell” game may very well top them all. Read more

VIDEO: Girl crushes “Gonna Miss Me” cover with clapping and a beer pong cup

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I’ve got a soft spot for covers that feature more soul than you’d expect from a slightly dorky white girl (see: Karmin). And this cover of Lulu and the Lampshades’ “You’re Gonna Miss Me” by a YouTuber named tay9andahalf definitely fits that criteria. It’s a beast. Read more

VIDEO: A moving little short film shot entirely on a cell phone

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Here’s something I don’t often admit: I am easily manipulated by well-made cinematic tales of romance. So this short film created on a Nokia phone for the 2011 Nokia Shorts competition, called “Splitscreen: A Love Story” hit all the right notes for me. And even if you’re not as much of a sissy as I ... Read more

VIDEO: “Rocky IV: The Musical” would be a creative triumph

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“Rocky IV” might not seem like a natural movie to try to turn into a musical but watch this video for such an endeavor made by the Kaplan Brothers (who also did similar treatments for “Silence of the Lambs”, “Predator”, and others) and tell me you wouldn’t watch. Read more

VIDEO: A “cool” yellow dinosaur teaches us all about pedophilia

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I always felt like, growing up, the people telling me about the dangers of creeps out there didn’t really relate to me. Now I know why: There wasn’t a “cool”, jive-talking yellow dinosaur talking to me. In this clip, a hip yellow dinosaur talks about “tricky people”, aka people who’ll molest you vigorously. It’s transcendent. Read more

VIDEO: If this kid Jason Pitts doesn’t get it in at prom, something is wrong with society

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How did you ask your girlfriend to prom? A stammering speech? Perhaps an awkward IM depending upon your age? Well you have nothing on this kid Jason Pitts who walked into his potential date’s 3rd period class at Santa Monica High School with a guitar (and back-up singers) to ask a young lass to prom. Read more