This fantastic slo-mo video sequence, in which top skateboarders ride through a postindustrial landscape rigged with explosives, is the intro to a skateboarding DVD called Fully Flared, which Ty Evans, Spike Jonze, and Cory Weincheque directed for the footwear company Lakai.

These people are reckless and crazy, and we get to watch!

Make sure you stick around until the end, because you’ll get to see an entire staircase get blown up with napalm.

The music is M83’s “Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun.”

[via my pal Jonathan Hayes, again!]

I guarantee this is the weirdest and yet most rewarding thing you’ll see all day. It’s a video for a Russian metal band’s tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev. On the video’s Vimeo page, the director, Tom Stern, writes:

I did this video for a Russian Metal Band called ANJ. It is pretty crazy. When I saw the lyrics it seemed to be an earnest tribute to Mikael Gorbachov (that’s how the Russians spell it), so I was a bit confounded about what the video concept should be, but then I had a brainstorm to take it way over the top and I think it was just the thing. Suffice to say it’s half Russian History allegory as told through an old zombie movie made in the Soviet Union, and half animated Soviet Propaganda posters.

(Vimeo videos can stutter when they haven’t loaded completely, so let this finish loading before watching it.)

[via Mark Lisanti.]