Jesus Diaz, Author at Gizmodo

The beautiful and often disturbing paintings of Jeremy Geddes

I love Jeremy Geddes’ paintings—his photorealistic style mixed with his surreal, often disturbing subject matter. Like his Cosmonaut series, in which dead cosmonauts fall from the sky. Jeremy Geddes is a painter from Melbourne, Australia, author of the Cosmonaut painting series. He also authored the comic book covers for Doomed, which got him the Spectrum…

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Guys slide over water in one the most stunning places in the world

A year ago Brian Grubb and Dominik Preisner thought it would be a good idea to wakeskate across one of the most amazing spots in the planet, the famous rice terraces of Banaue, Philippines, who many consider one of the wonders of the world. It was. Here’s the video to prove it. According to Grub:…

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iPhone 6 soaked in liquid-nitrogen shatters like a Terminator T-1000

RatedRR bought six iPhone 6 to torture them in every way imaginable. Their first test was to submerge one in liquid nitrogen and then use a hammer to smash it. Like the T-1000 in Terminator 2, the phone shatters in a billion pieces. Their drop test also shows their new glass shatters just like any…

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Beautiful music video makes me want to live in eternal summer love

I like all seasons but it’s summer, which will end with the September equinox next week, the one that always gave me the most happiness. This video by Zack Spiger for The Dove & the Wolf is about that. It feels like summer love—intense, fleeting, careless, lazy, eternal and spotless—forever set in your mind. The…

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Amazing video of people dancing on the wall of a building

This is Amelia Rudolph and Roel Seeker suspended on the wall of Oakland’s City Hall, dancing like some kind of fairies or angels. The effect of them moving over the building’s façade as it if were the ground is disoriented but really beautiful. I can watch them doing this forever. SPLOID is a new blog…

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The four more likely places to host alien life in the Solar System

NASA’s astronomy picture of the day is nothing especial today. At least for more people. For me it is special because I like to look at the four moons that tantalize Earth scientists with the possibility of life—four moons that we should explore soon, shown here to scale. So beautiful, they never get old. The…

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Cool retro soul music video is worthy of its own James Bond movie

Jazz singer Kellylee Evans has a great new video directed by Julien & Quentin for her song My Name Is, from the album I Remember When. Retro soul at its best with visuals to match. Worth of a James Bond movie. Or perhaps Peter Sellers. Canadian musician Kellylee Evans sings jazz and soul music like…

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12 cars drifting on a racetrack at the same time looks like a lot of fun

Some of the sequences in this video featuring Ryan Tuerck and 11 other formula drift drivers—filmed at Pat’s Acres Racing Complex in Canby, Oregon—reminds me of those old 8-bit top perspective racing games from the 80s. I want to grab a joystick and play Super Off-Road all day now. SPLOID is a new blog about…

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A flight emergency landing can’t be more chilled out than this

This video shows the emergency descent of Jetblue flight 1416, which happened yesterday, September 18. Seeing those oxygen masks going down as the cabin fills up with smoke—after one of the engines stops!—is the beginning of one of my worst nightmares. Yet, all passengers seem completely calm about it. Even the guy holding the camera…

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Good night, Gothenburg

I come as much as I can to Gothenburg, Sweden, because two simple reasons. First, it’s one of my favorite cities in the world, along with New York and Madrid—I could spend a hundred pages talking about how nice it is. But, most importantly, it’s the home to some of my favorite people in the…

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This is one of the most amazing images in aviation history

Gizmodo’s Attila Nagy got this high resolution photo by Eric Schulzinger from Lockheed Martin: “This unaltered image was captured at Beale Air Force Base, CA, in the late 1980’s. All of the subjects wearing pressurized flight suits are actual pilots or back-seat reconnaissance systems officers.” SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…

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New Millennium Falcon video reveals Batmobile in the next Star Wars

A video of the new Millennium Falcon posted by the Star Wars production team reveals something completely unexpected: The Batmobile from Chris Nolan’s Batman will be in the next part of the galactic series. I couldn’t believe it until it’s revealed. Check it out. The use of the toy Batmobile model in the new full-size…

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Short film: Practice is important but it’s ok if you miss a few

A great short shot by Fantavious Fritz in Brooklyn, New York, using 35mm film. Mixed with footage from the 2000 IMAX film Michael Jordan To The Max, it uses an edited version of Allen Iverson’s famous practice rant as the soundtrack. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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This excellent animation short makes me want to play League of Legends

Superb animation made to promote the League of Legends 2014 World Championship, a professional gaming competition with a prize pool of $2,130,000. It was created by Robert Valley for Riot Games. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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I want to eat all these neat Crayola sculptures of famous characters

These are the tiny sculptures of Hoang Tran, an artist who likes to make popular characters out of crayons. From Calvin and Hobbes to Star Wars, he has them all. They are so cool and lickable that I want to eat all these Crayolas more than ever. Hoang also makes other stuff, like really cool…

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Man runs out of subway car and races it to get back in at next station

I could have never imagined this could be possible: Watch this guy getting out of a London subway car and running all the way to next station to get back inside the same subway car. I think this can only happen in London. In a place like New York—where trains most often run at Mach…

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The biggest comparison of sci-fi spaceships ever is complete at last

At last, it’s done. The biggest spaceship size chart ever created is now complete and fully operational. 4,268 x 5,690 pixels of technological terror that includes everything from the smaller Star War ships to EVE. According to its author, Dirk Loechel, this is the last update. It’s epic. The last update For real this time:…

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Behold the awesome nebulae flybys in this new In Saturn’s Rings teaser

Our friends of In Saturn’s Rings have a new teaser for their incoming 4K IMAX grand tour of the Universe, made using millions of high definition photographs taken by telescopes and spacecraft. There are no 3D models in these videos. Just photos, animated by 67 volunteers from all over the world. According to Val Klavans,…

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Yes, I can’t have enough of these futuristic spaceships and city scenes

I can’t have enough futuristic spaceships and cities—and Dmitry Vishnevsky is pretty good at creating these postcards from places that never were or haven’t been yet. Dmitry Vishnevsky is a concept artist and illustrator based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. You can follow his work on Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, and ArtStation. This is part of a…

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If nobody owns these cool animal selfies, we should give them the money

This animal selfie compilation got me thinking: If the courts say these photos can’t be owned by humans because they are taken by animals, shouldn’t there be some kind of international legal mechanism to make the people who use the photos pay some money to protect each species? Makes sense to me. Above: My dog…

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The beautiful and often disturbing paintings of Jeremy Geddes

Guys slide over water in one the most stunning places in the world

iPhone 6 soaked in liquid-nitrogen shatters like a Terminator T-1000

Beautiful music video makes me want to live in eternal summer love

Amazing video of people dancing on the wall of a building

The four more likely places to host alien life in the Solar System

Cool retro soul music video is worthy of its own James Bond movie

12 cars drifting on a racetrack at the same time looks like a lot of fun

A flight emergency landing can’t be more chilled out than this

Good night, Gothenburg

This is one of the most amazing images in aviation history

New Millennium Falcon video reveals Batmobile in the next Star Wars

Short film: Practice is important but it’s ok if you miss a few

This excellent animation short makes me want to play League of Legends

I want to eat all these neat Crayola sculptures of famous characters

Man runs out of subway car and races it to get back in at next station

The biggest comparison of sci-fi spaceships ever is complete at last

Behold the awesome nebulae flybys in this new In Saturn’s Rings teaser

Yes, I can’t have enough of these futuristic spaceships and city scenes

If nobody owns these cool animal selfies, we should give them the money

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