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Super slick CGI movie teaser makes me want to see the whole thing

CGI and visual effects are often over used in mainstream movies these days but there are still some really cool sequences that can only pop and make you gasp with the help of VFX. This short teaser for The Message, a short film by Industry Visual Effects, goes all in on CGI and it looks…

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This might be the most fun you can have with a Nerf gun

A Nerf gun is never not fun. If you see one of those laying around anywhere, at a toy store, in the office, in a kid’s bedroom, in your dreams, you have to pick it up and get goofy with it. So how can you have more fun with something our DNA says is never…

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Unicycling down a mountain is pure crazy

First of all, I’m not even sure I would walk down some of these stretches of the mountain. And yet these guys decided to unicycle down the mountains of Moab because there’s nothing as nuts as taking on mother nature with just one wheel between your knees. You don’t go as fast on the unicycle…

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A scientifically accurate Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers is quite nasty

Back again to ruin all of your childhood’s favorite cartoons, here’s ADHD hilariously explaining how disgusting chipmunks are. Sure, they might look cute with their puffy cheeks but in reality, their always growing, suicidal teeth and disease riddled selves don’t make for ace detective material. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…

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Spectacular volcano eruption caught on camera

Here’s a spectacular eruption of Mount Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea. What’s cool about it is following the shockwave of the blast, the clouds immediately scatter away and the booming shockwave eventually reaches the people on the boat. Boom, for real. I like to think of the clouds running away as even Mother Nature gets…

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California is such a stunningly gorgeous place

I’m biased because I grew up in California so it’ll always be home to me but I’ll always be a little jealous of people who aren’t from here, just for the opportunity to be able to see it for the first time with brand new eyes. It’s such a big state that there are so…

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Beautiful video shows how Pixar uses a rainbow of colors in their movies

This is great. Rishi Kaneria made a quick supercut that stitches together scenes from Pixar movies according their particular color. Following the Roy G. Biv color spectrum, you’ll see how Pixar chooses to use colors to make their animations. And it’ll make you want to watch all the Pixar movies again. It helps that the…

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Normal guy catches a super fun ride on a spaceship back to Earth

The sad truth is that most of us will never be astronauts who can ride spaceships back to Earth. Here’s one hilarious way we can pretend though: be like this genius prankster who brought a blow up spaceship with him on a skydiving jump from a hot air balloon. Yup, he rode a spaceship back…

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Watching this piano burn and slowly disintegrate is beautifully sad

Having Beethoven as the soundtrack obviously adds to the feels but there’s something strangely beautiful and yearningly sad about seeing this wood piano burn to ashes by two heat guns. Like it’s a memento of a simpler life disappearing via the hands of cold robots. The short film, Deconstructed Piano, was made by Laurin Döpfner.…

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Good morning, Lisbon

It’s embarrassing to admit but my knowledge of Portugal beyond Cristiano Ronaldo and delicious Portuguese egg tarts and that one hilarious drone fail is pretty much non existent. It looks peaceful though! Maybe I should go. The time lapse of Lisbon and Sesimbra was filled by Kirill Neiezhmakov. This is part of a series in…

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Watch the Amish build an entire barn in less than 10 hours

You put a group of people together and give them a common goal and magic can happen. Even if that magic, in this case, is just building a barn. It’s hypnotic to see the organization in this, like seeing a bunch of worker ants swarm together with one mind. Penny Miller, the person who filmed…

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Wes Anderson’s movies have the most beautiful POV driving scenes

The worlds that Wes Anderson creates in his movies are so beautiful that even something as mundane as driving from one point to the next seems like a fun-filled adventure. Here are his POV scenes of vehicles from movies like the Life Aquatic and The Grand Budapest Hotel. The scenes were stitched together by Jaume…

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Seeing skateboard tricks in slow motion is like breaking gravity

Slow down these skateboard tricks all you want and it’s still damn impressive how skateboarders can make a board twist and bend exactly how they want it. It’s like there are invisible strings attached to the board or a hole to exploit in gravity. But it’s just a beautiful ballet of footwork. SPLOID is a…

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Why are these fish shooting out blue lasers with their mouth?

I wish these crazy blue laser lava spewing fish were a newly discovered species or some radioactive experiment gone wrong but they’re not. Luckily, reality is just as cool. Well, almost. The blinding light is actually a tiny crustacean called an ostracod’s defense mechanism against the translucent cardinalfish. Basically, the tiny little 1mm in size…

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Map shows what each country’s military camouflage pattern looks like

Here’s a fascinating map that reveals how each country defines the idea of camouflage for their military. Of course, different branches of the military have different camo needs but this map, created by a Reddit user, draws out the broad strokes. Here it is in full. Hit expand to see it in detail: SPLOID is…

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What it’s like to see cities from the ISS like an astronaut

You know how when you look outside the airplane window and you’re in awe of all the lights and the outlines of the city and how you’re in the freaking air? Yeah, that’s nothing compared to the fun that is spotting cities from the ISS. Watch as astronauts show us what cities look like from…

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Watch this terrifying rolling cloud overtake a city in this time lapse

Kansas City, you never stood a chance. Watch as an arcus cloud—those scary low clouds that roll on top of itself and brings apocalyptic-like weather—make its way from one side of the city to the other. Stephen Locke captured the haunting beauty in his time lapse below. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…

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How a country that has no new bike parts fixes its bicycles

What happens if you live in Cuba and your bike breaks down? It’s not like you can hop on the Internet and get two day shipping for a new bike. In fact, it’s pretty much impossible to score new bike parts. What you have to do is find a guy who knows another guy who…

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Watch vegetables get turned into juice with underwater shockwaves

Screw juicing or making kale smoothies, here’s the next big trend in what to drink: turning fruit and vegetables into juice with underwater shockwaves. The outside of the vegetable look the same after the explosion but the inside has turned into juice. Just stick a straw in and enjoy. It’s a stunt ad for Japanese…

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New map shows where the Milky Way galaxy is inside its supercluster

For the first time, scientists have pinpointed where our galaxy stands amongst thousands of other galaxies in our home supercluster. The new map shows beautiful feathery strings linked together with the Milky Way galaxy placed on the edge of the newly named Laniakea supercluster, home to 100,000 other galaxies. We’ve seen the Milky Way in…

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Super slick CGI movie teaser makes me want to see the whole thing

This might be the most fun you can have with a Nerf gun

Unicycling down a mountain is pure crazy

A scientifically accurate Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers is quite nasty

Spectacular volcano eruption caught on camera

California is such a stunningly gorgeous place

Beautiful video shows how Pixar uses a rainbow of colors in their movies

Normal guy catches a super fun ride on a spaceship back to Earth

Watching this piano burn and slowly disintegrate is beautifully sad

Good morning, Lisbon

Watch the Amish build an entire barn in less than 10 hours

Wes Anderson’s movies have the most beautiful POV driving scenes

Seeing skateboard tricks in slow motion is like breaking gravity

Why are these fish shooting out blue lasers with their mouth?

Map shows what each country’s military camouflage pattern looks like

What it’s like to see cities from the ISS like an astronaut

Watch this terrifying rolling cloud overtake a city in this time lapse

How a country that has no new bike parts fixes its bicycles

Watch vegetables get turned into juice with underwater shockwaves

New map shows where the Milky Way galaxy is inside its supercluster

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