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Don’t let William Basinski get all the Google search returns for “ambient decay tape loops.” Save some for Howlround, which pairs Robin the Fog and Chris Weaver, who use reel-to-reel machines to make sounds as rough as they are fragile, as ephemeral as the are rooted in texture. This audio is sourced from what was,…
This is a really silly building. When I first saw it I thought it was probably some kind of Photoshop fake. It isn’t. It’s cool establishment in South Korea called Dreamy Café. It looks like an awesome red Rolleiflex and inside it’s full of of awesome vintage cameras too. https://gizmodo.com/awesome-giant-camera-may-look-fake-but-its-actually-a-1555891012
When I first saw this giant camera standing bigger than the house next to it I instantly thought it had to be a fake. It wasn’t. It’s a real and quite wonderful place in South Korea: The Dreamy Café. The Dreamy Cafe looks like a giant red Rolleiflex, the legendary twin-lens medium format camera originally…
Instead of coming up with idiotic ideas, perhaps all the dumb companies trying to push their stupid April Fools’ Day “jokes” down our throats should start making some actually awesome pranks. Like this one, played on young waitress Chelsea Roff, who basically got her shift turned into the best day of her life. Chelsea went…
In case you hadn’t heard, we’re all pretty much doomed. It’s just a matter of time before nature sets about wiping any remaining traces of our failed human civilization and reabsorbing even our most enduring monuments as her own. https://gizmodo.com/new-un-climate-report-were-all-doomed-1555136338 Odyssey, a music video from Magali Films performed by Dream Koala takes us through a…
If you eat the planetary science cakes off Solar System plates, does the universe explode? https://gizmodo.com/why-use-the-fine-china-when-you-have-these-awesome-plan-1555372184 https://gizmodo.com/stop-everything-and-look-at-the-greatest-science-cake-e-1555569891
This is a really unusual weather situation, according to the National Weather Service: Three low pressure systems in line over the entirety of North America. NASA Goddard describes them as “three atmospheric dragons.” They do look like dragons! It must be a Game of Thrones’ marketing ploy. There are three low pressure systems around the…
Airbnb announced today that it will begin charging San Francisco’s 14 percent hotel tax on reservations in the city, starting this summer. The taxes will be paid by guests. Last week, the company announced a different partnership in Portland, Oregon, where Airbnb itself will pay some city taxes.
Is it worth investing a few weeks of your life in Battlestar Galactica? What about Game of Thrones? Or Deadwood? Here’s a graphical tool that maps all the Internet Movie Database’s ratings for every episode of every TV series—a scientific method to pick the next show that is going to make you lose countless hours…
Astronaut Douglas Wheelock tweeted out this gorgeous view of the aurora as seen from the International Space Station: Wheelock is the same astronaut who snapped the lovely photograph of the pyramids a few weeks ago. With that caption, maybe he took poetry lessons from Commander Wakata… https://gizmodo.com/pyramids-from-space-1544683675 https://observationdeck.kinja.com/cargo-plane-earth-smell-green-apple-1517853110 Image Credit: NASA/Wheelock. Need more eye-candy? Here’s…
Donuts are one of the world’s most perfect foods, and it’s just about impossible to make them better. But that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t try. So that’s why I applaud Krispy Kreme for combining its donuts with one of the world’s other most perfect foods: Pie. Today, Krispy Kreme announced two new, limited-edition flavors, and…
And this is before the hail, thunder, and lighting kicked in:
Okay bear with us for a second: in 2009 the Flaming Lips covered Dark Side of the Moon. Now they’ve made that project even Flaming Lips-ier, by releasing an immersive companion album you’re supposed to play along with the original Pink Floyd recording. Oh, and it syncs up with the Wizard of Oz apparently. That’s…
As you settle down to watch the Opening Day night games tonight, you probably won’t be thinking about the massive array of lights that illuminate the game. But that blinding artificial sunlight was once a technological phenomenon that stunned fans and had the police threatening to shut it down. As GE Reports explains this afternoon,…
Chef Jasper van Ramshorst figured out the best way to skin an apple is to stick it on the end of a power drill, place a peeler in position and boom. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
When the biggest file-sharing site on the internet first came into existence, it was entirely in Swedish and boasted just a few hundred torrent files. But the very first of those, the one that started it all, was uploaded almost exactly 10 years ago and, shockingly enough, wasn’t porn. It was a recipe book. The…
A lime shortage is threatening the U.S. food and beverage industry, with some bars and restaurants jacking up drink prices, charging extra for a slice—or refusing to serve the citrus at all. But there’s another reason to rethink that margarita: The pricey limes you’re buying from Mexico might be supporting drug violence. Bad winter weather…
Anyone dreaming of casting off the shackles of Earth for the microgravity wasteland of Mars is in for some (more) bad news. In addition to a host of other problems, the necessary 18-month spaceflight would, apparently, lead to one very unhealthy (and spherical) astronaut heart. https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-people-who-would-leave-earth-and-take-a-one-wa-1537495094 The new findings come from a recent NASA study…
This ethereal little lamp is the latest creation of visionary lighting designer Ingo Maurer. Made of transparent film mounted with LEDs, Dew Drops adds flowing curves and a soft glow to any room. From certain angles, it almost looks like a grid of tiny stars, peeled back and draped into your wall or desk. Domus…
