A British production house called Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratories created this fantastic video of a scientific experiment in which disembodied heads are used as musical instruments.
This spectacular footage captures a bunch of insane thrill seekers as they zoom around a canyon in webbed flying outfits.
This fantastic short was made to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the British HarperCollins imprint 4th Estate.
Barack Obama is hard to caricature, but this video is pretty great.
Billed as “An X-Rated Musical Fantasy” and produced by the same man who brought the world Flesh Gordon, this is one of the more artistically ambitious porn spoofs you’ll ever see.
This awesome clip shows a barely pubescent Jimmy Page playing skiffle on a British TV show in the late ’50s.
Fringe handles location IDs in a way I’ve never seen before, at least on television: Each one is placed into the actual scene as a physical element that the characters pass by or the camera swoops through.
Sesame Workshop is preparing a new version of the classic ’70s children’s show The Electric Company, which I wrote about lovingly in 2006.
In The Sexxxing, a young woman named Miss Torrent applies to be the winter manager of a porn company’s offices—and the place turns out to be haunted by horny, fake-breasted lesbians.
Amateurs are doing amazing things these days with consumer-grade high-def camcorders, especially Canon’s HV30 MiniDV unit and its predecessor, the HV20.
Created anonymously by a group of professional animators in about 1929, this silent short is a gleeful exploration of the penetrative arts.
A guy shot 3,000 images over the course of three days and then stitched them together into this excellent stop-motion video.
Here is Peter Sellers in the hilarious outtakes sequence at the end of Being There. When I was a kid I thought this was the funniest thing ever. Blooper reels were rare in major Hollywood films back then, so I’d never seen anything like it.
A huge breakthrough: The German company Celemony has developed technology that can analyze polyphonic audio and break it up into individual notes, which can then be pitch-shifted, time-shifted, and otherwise mucked with.
Santeri Ojala’s brilliant video mashups are alternate-universe versions of rock-god cliches.
A mock-sitcom by the excitable House of Cosbys creator Justin Roiland, the funniest writer-actor-animator-director-pervert-scatologist working on the web today.
A music video featuring “trampoline gymnasts simulating typical video effects.” Filmed in one take. I can’t stop giggling when I watch this.
I’m Andrew Hearst. I’m the director of content strategy at Blue State Digital and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. More info is on the About page.
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