Star Trek : Into Darkness & Toy Story Mashup.
Well done.

A recurring theme.

An overworked concept? Maybe. But the funniest bits are the most true.

I used to live and work in New Zealand, so I have flown Air New Zealand a number of times.
Once again, Air NZ (and Sir Peter Jackson, let's be fair) have created one of the two best safety briefing videos ever.
If I wasn't sitting with my seat upright, seatbelt buckled and tray table stowed, I'd be on the edge of my seat for this.

As I have noted before, there are few things I like better than flash mob videos, or Star Wars.

Put them together = awesome.  Staged, but awesome.  Best score ever.

City Rising - by Tom Ryaboi.  My love of Toronto, compressed into 4 minutes.




(Apparently not everything has to be slowed down to be more awesome, speeding it up works too.)

Yet further proof (from a growing case) that there's nothing better than everything slowed down.  Preferably to music.
And that I need a Phantom Flex.



(why don't my home movies look like this?)

(instead of this)

I really enjoyed the Hunger Games - I loved the books (okay, book) but here's Director Kevin Tancharoen's pitch when he was applying to direct, cut from some other work one might recognize.  Nice, dark, violent ... 

Every two years, we get a deluge of the most over-the-top inspirational ads.  This one isn't a tear-jerker (like the P&G ad) but it's awesome.


Meet the Superhumans from STITCH on Vimeo.

Awesome.

... Also in the category of over-the-top (which describes pretty much anything Muse does ...) :

I don't give that much thought to the Olympics.  And Muse is over-the-top.  Put them together, and it's a killer pump up video ... fast motion, slow motion, and melodramatic music.
Yes!
If only the Olympics were even partially this awesome.