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Pilot scares his friends in insane acrobatic flight

Pilot Sebb Stratta put together this video showing every time his friends joined him in one of his insane acrobatic flights. Their scared faces and uncontrolled reactions are hilarious. Check them out: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

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This is the cutest (and possibly smallest) 3D printed drill in the world

Lance Abernethy, a maintenance engineer from Auckland, New Zealand, 3D printed a cordless drill that measures 0.67 inches (17mm) tall, 0.27 inches (7.5mm) wide, and 0.5 inches (13mm) long and holds a 0.02 inches (0.5mm) twist drill. Not happy with that, he is already working on a smaller version. Lance told 3Dprint.com: It took me…

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Raiders of The Lost Ark’s boulder scene was inspired by Uncle Scrooge

Cinefix dissects the iconic opening scene of Raiders of The Lost Ark showing how it was made. From the planning to the practical effects and sound design. It also talks about George Lucas’ obsession with Disney comic books and how Uncle Scrooge’s The Seven Cities of Cibola influenced the boulder scene. SPLOID is delicious brain…

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I wish all robotic insects were as cool as these

Robot bugs will surely live around us in the near future. Unfortunately, judging by what we are seeing so far, they are not going to look anywhere as cool as these retro-futuristic designs by Andrew Serkin. Andrew Serkin is a motion graphic designer and art director based in Moscow, Russia. You can follow his work…

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Neat cutaway video shows how an iconic shotgun works on the inside

If you watched The Godfather, Transformers, or Dirty Harry, you’ve already seen the iconic Winchester Model 12 in action—and probably imitated the pump-action gesture to reload it. Watch this guy make a cutaway version of the popular shotgun to expose its guts and show how the shooting mechanism actually works. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…

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Guys perform impossible basketball trick shots using a forklift

If there is such thing as a Michael Jordan of crazy basketball trick shots, David Kalb would be it. In fact, he’d give Jordan himself a run for his money with his tricks. This time, he went to a warehouse and performed impossible shots with the basketball hoop strapped to a moving forklift. It’s true…

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The most iconic photos in history recreated as detailed miniatures

Swiss photographers Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger have a really cool project called Iconen (Icons) where they make detailed scale miniatures to recreate history’s most famous photos. Concorde – by Toshihiko Sato, 2000 AS11-40-5878 – by Edwin Aldrin, 1969 The Hindenburg Disaster – by Sam Shere, 1937 Nessie – by Marmaduke Wetherell, 1934 Tiananmen –…

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All those iconic space pictures are really black and white

Most of the gorgeous images of distant galaxies we all keep in our minds were captured by the lens of The Hubble Space Telescope. But those lens can only take black and white images. The color is added afterwards according to “the wavelengths of light that different elements emit in space.” This is how they…

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Each letter of this alphabet moves like an appendage of an animal

This alphabet—by Boston-based graphic designer Ari Weinkle—is quite unique. First because its texture feels realistic, organic, and alive. And second because its creepy moves: The letters twist and turn as if they were actual animal appendages. In my work, I look to break apart and re-appropriate different forms such as the human figure, geometric and…

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This Oscar nominated film about a couple growing apart melted my heart

Sometimes life—and love—seems to pass before your eyes at the speed of light. One day, you wake up and realize that the person you’ve been living with for years has changed so much that they’ve almost become a stranger. Head Over Heels is an Oscar nominated stop-motion film by Timothy Reckart that perfectly depicts that…

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Don’t watch this if you suffer from claustrophobia

When I first bumped into this clip my mind refused to accept what my eyes were seeing. And, to this moment, my brain still doesn’t fully understand how these people managed to squeeze their bodies into such a minuscule hole. One thing is clear: If these guys suffered from claustrophobia, this video wouldn’t exist. According…

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The insane skills of a concert pianist in a cool POV video

A video of guy playing piano could sound like a boring thing to watch but, if that guy is the skillful and amazingly talented concert pianist Jason Pelsey, it can be as extreme as any insane wingsuit clip we shared here. Check it out. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

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Short film: What if you wake up one day and the whole world hates you

Sequence—a great short film by Spanish director Carles Torrens—starts with a guy waking up one day. The girl he loves hates him because she had a terrible nightmare where he was doing something utterly horrible. They argue, he leaves to work, and finds out the whole world had that exact same dream and hates him…

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The world’s most popular beers in one neat map

Booze lovers’ magazine Vinepair put together this neat map showing the most popular beer brands around the world. Yeah, it’s hard to believe that a tasteless concoction like Bud Light is the top selling beer in the US. Unfortunately, as it’s often the case, most popular doesn’t mean better. Click on the picture below to…

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Video: How to cook delicious bacon using a M16 rifle

Competitive shooter Dustin Ellermann cooks bacon using his M16 rifle in a video that is a perfect example of what MURICA, FUCK YEAH means. To do that, he wrapped the bacon around the suppressor of his gun, covered it in aluminum foil, and fired the M16 until the heat made it nice and crispy. SPLOID…

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You can remotely control this huge robot arm to sculpt a cube

Designers Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar have reprogramed this robotic arm so anyone can control it online. They claim the robot will cut a cube in the shape you desire. If you want to try it just go to robochop.com. You can make furniture, create abstract forms, or forget about all that and enjoy this…

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Rally drivers escape from flooding car in claustrophobic video

Driver Ott Tanak and his co-pilot Raigo Molder crashed on a river during the Mexico leg of the FIA World Rally Championship. Fortunately, they could escape before the water flooded the car completely. This insane video, shot from a camera place in the back seat, depicts pretty graphically one of my worst nightmares. SPLOID is…

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The best GIFs of 2015 according to the Internet

I love animated GIFs. I make them as part of my work here in Sploid, I drool when we see one that is a perfect infinite loop, and I think it’s a great medium to tell stories. That’s why I like theGIFYS. An award show devoted to honor the best animated GIFs on the Internet.…

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I wish all vacation videos were as cool and well crafted as this one

When motion graphics artist Yvon Lan visited New York for the first time four things grabbed his attention and filled the memory card of his camera: Brownstones, yellow caps, stressed people, and, of course, the omnipresent Starbucks. He then took all those pictures and compiled them in this neat time lapse. SPLOID is delicious brain…

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Repairing high voltage lines is one of the scariest jobs I’ve ever seen

This excerpt from Straight Up: Helicopters in Action—a documentary released on IMAX theaters a few years ago—shows the dangerous daily routine of the guys in charge of fixing the high voltage lines. One of the workers say that even if you’re afraid of heights or electricity you can still do this job—I seriously doubt it.…

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Pilot scares his friends in insane acrobatic flight

This is the cutest (and possibly smallest) 3D printed drill in the world

Raiders of The Lost Ark’s boulder scene was inspired by Uncle Scrooge

I wish all robotic insects were as cool as these

Neat cutaway video shows how an iconic shotgun works on the inside

Guys perform impossible basketball trick shots using a forklift

The most iconic photos in history recreated as detailed miniatures

All those iconic space pictures are really black and white

Each letter of this alphabet moves like an appendage of an animal

This Oscar nominated film about a couple growing apart melted my heart

Don’t watch this if you suffer from claustrophobia

The insane skills of a concert pianist in a cool POV video

Short film: What if you wake up one day and the whole world hates you

The world’s most popular beers in one neat map

Video: How to cook delicious bacon using a M16 rifle

You can remotely control this huge robot arm to sculpt a cube

Rally drivers escape from flooding car in claustrophobic video

The best GIFs of 2015 according to the Internet

I wish all vacation videos were as cool and well crafted as this one

Repairing high voltage lines is one of the scariest jobs I’ve ever seen

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