The odds of Disney and Warner teaming up to have their live-action superheroes go toe to toe on the big screen actually happening in reality are practically non existent – but that doesn’t stop Youtuber Alex Luthor (presumably not related to Lex) from mashing them together in this brilliant fan trailer. Using clips from everything…
Martha Goldman Sigall—the last colorist and inker from the original Looney Tunes who died last week—reveals how Bugs Bunny was born in this short. According to her, it was director Ben “Bugs” Hardaway who came up with it. The clip is a must-watch testimony on the legendary pop culture icon. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…
You’ll want to take it with a grain or two of Tatooine salt, but this photo posted to a Chinese Star Wars fan forum this morning claims to give us our first look at a handful of the six-inch figures in the inevitable Star Wars: The Force Awakens toy line. They appear to be mostly…
British make-up artist Jordan James Parke spent $150,000 in plastic surgery to look like his idol Kim Kardashian. The 23 year-old confessed he became obsessed with Kim since the first time he saw her on TV. It’s been 50 plastic surgeries so far, and Jordan is already saving for the next one: Another nose job.…
This video on the future of racing—based on concept tires designed by Hankook Tire and the University of Pforzheim, Germany—is pretty goddamn fun. I don’t know if we will ever get to this point (seeing the evolution of racing since the time of Roman Empire, I wouldn’t be surprised) but it’s great to watch. They…
It’s always tough to pick my favorite visualization projects. I mean, it’s a challenge to pick and rank your favorite anything really. So much depends on what you feel like at the time, and there’s a lot of good work out there. Nevertheless, I gave it a go. These are my favorites for the year,…
I didn’t know that this movie existed until today: Apparently there’s an upcoming full feature film based on Pixels, the short by Patrick Jean that went viral on 2010 (below.) Being a fan of all things 8-bit, I got really excited when I saw these new teaser posters and the synopsis: Former 1980’s Video Game…
South Korea’s nuclear power plant operator is conducting a two-day drill to test its resilience to digital attacks, following a series of posts on Twitter from a hacker claiming to have compromised power station computer networks. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP), which runs 23 reactors and supplies around a third of the country’s electricity,…
Eyes On Cinema recently uploaded this nearly-six-minute video of soundless footage from filming in 1976. As the footage shows George Lucas, Mark Hamill, and Garrick Hagon (Biggs Darklighter) on the Tatooine set, it’s not only set footage, it’s set footage of a scene that got cut. https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-deleted-scenes-reveal-the-utter-disaster-that-1663817712 [via Slashfilm]
Matthew Ramsey, the creator of this insane Pornburger says he woke up to this crispy fried chicken between two “cheeseburger waffles”, sriracha mustard, american cheese and smoked bacon, and then went back to bed. I don’t blame him, that actually seems like the perfect Sunday to me. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
Ever wondered how astronauts go about working out if organisms can survive the stresses of space? Largely by strapping them to the side of the International Space Station is how. In this image, you can see the European Space Agency’s Expose-R2 project. The unit, attached to the outside of the ISS, contains 46 species of…
Beijing-based artist Li Hongbo—featured here with his fantastic malleable paper statues—created this neat series of silhouettes carved out from butcher’s knife blades. This artwork, called Shadow of Knives, was presented earlier this month in a solo exhibition at Contemporary By Angela Li. The gallerist writes: In this series, the metal sculptures are in the shapes…
A staggering 22,680 users have seen fit to award The Interview a perfect 10 on IMDb. Which is impressive for a film that virtually nobody is ever going to see. Update: Sadly, the score is now back down to 9.9. While the score for the film has been hovering at 9.9, Verge notes that today…
Watch David Warther making wooden pliers using a simple pocket knife his dad—famed master carver Ernest “Mooney” Warther—designed in the early 1900s. It only takes him ten cuts and a few seconds—so simple and fast that it feels like magic. Also, I can watch this man talking and doing this forever. SPLOID is delicious brain…
There are Christmas-themed episodes that are saccharine affairs from start to finish (usually, they rip off It’s a Wonderful Life in some way) and then there are glorious holiday romps that are absurd and fun all the way through. This episode of The Librarians was the latter. Bruce Campbell as Santa Claus! THIS IS EVERYTHING.…
Over the weekend, the U.S. asked China to help it stop North Korean hackers. Now, China has publicly stated that, while it condemns cyberattacks, it believes that there is no proof that North Korea was responsible for the recent hacks of Sony Pictures. https://gizmodo.com/u-s-wants-china-to-stop-north-korean-hackers-with-a-b-1673612390 In the statement, reports Reuters, China made no reference to requests…
Next time you’re annoyed that someone tagged an unattractive picture of you on Facebook, just be thankful that you don’t weigh 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds. [Doghouse Diaries]
The latest trend in magical hairstyles is a pack of animals rather than the usual hair follicles. You are never alone when you have animals for hair! This is a series of truly excellent works by Reimena Ashel Yee, and the rest of them are below. You can buy “A Sloth of Bears” as a…
Snapchat has decided to clamp down on third-party apps (for good reason). But now, Windows Phone users will find that they’re left without any way to sext—given that there’s no official app and all the other options have no been removed from the Windows Phone Store. Windows Central reports that third-party Snapchat apps have already…
North Korea isn’t happy with the U.S.. After the FBI pointed the finger firmly at North Korea and Barack Obama got on board, the country has warned that it will strike the White House and “the whole US mainland, that cesspool of terrorism”. https://gizmodo.com/obama-sony-made-a-mistake-pulling-the-interview-1673268761 Such rhetoric is hardly new from North Korea, but it does…
