Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
RocketJump Film School put together this really great video that shows us the different kinds of cuts and transitions that filmmakers use in their movies. By showing examples from both classic and modern movies, we get to see the tricks they employ. Cutting on action, cutting away, cross cutting back and forth, jump cuts, and…
Hong Kong bartender Rajendra Limbu is bringing the intoxicating effects of high art to the more pedestrian world of alcohol with cocktails that take influence from Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dalí, and Piet Mondrian. Each artistic recreation is hand-painted into egg white foam that floats atop these delectable drinks. How do they taste? The ingredient…
Well, this certainly makes you think. About how emptily delicious and briefly satisfying a Big Mac from McDonald’s is. Oh that Big Mac Sauce. Oh that middle bun. Oh those double patties. Eat it with some fries. Slurp it down with some Coke. Wonder if the Big Mac is actually an edible food thing because…
Closeups on hands might seem like too small a detail to become a trademark of a director’s visual style, but looking back on Nolan’s oeuvre shows just how much they reveal about his characters. Over the course of Nolan’s nine feature films, he uses hands to show in practice what dialog would only be able…
Science presenter Steve Mould used a simple bow to demonstrate how when played like a violin, a metal plate will resonate and cause a bunch of spilled couscous to beautifully align into what are known as Chladni figures. The science and mathematics explaining why the metal plates resonate in these specific designs are too complex…
Turning a tin can into a grater might be a tedious process, but it offers the advantage of getting all those little food strips inside a vessel you can easily dump onto whatever you’re making. With a little plastic wrap it could even be used to store your pre-grated ingredients for later—and it comes at…
Film takes inspiration from the world around us so it’s no surprise that directors mimic art paintings in their movies. Vugar Efendi put together famous art paintings next to movie scenes to show how film meets art. It’s like seeing the paintings come to life. Some of them are so picturesque that it actually looks…
I’ve never been to Vienna but I can tell you that it is beautiful because this video by FilmSpektakel basically takes you all over the capital of Austria through a fun zooming effect that teleports you to different landmarks. It’s sort of like traveling on a haze of drugs and booze. SPLOID is delicious brain…
The Elide fire ball must be filled with magic potion because it can get thrown into any fire and put it out immediately. Watch this demo video of it as it gets tossed around and turns flame into smoke. Sorcery! SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Contact the author…
What makes a watch tick? This exploded view of a mechanical watch shows the centuries old tech that’s still used to keep time without a battery. It’s all in the movement and the design, which is somehow harder for me to grasp than microchips and circuit boards. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
Dubai’s skyline is an ever-growing collection of impressive towering skyscrapers, including the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. And you know what loves tall buildings even more than tourists do? Lightning. Instagrammer faz3, also known as Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum (the Crown Prince of Dubai), captured this amazing lightning…
Ross Garfield is the farthest thing from a household name. But if you’ve even listened to Nirvana’s Nevermind, Metallica’s black album, Michael Jackson’s Bad, Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers or dozens of other seminal records from big-name artists, you’re already familiar with his work. Garfield is the drum doctor, a…
There’s no better way to celebrate the birth of a nation than by blowing stuff up. And what more appropriate way could there be to commemorate the Fourth of July than with a shoulder-mounted bazooka that ignites and blasts fireworks into the sky? Colin Furze’s latest creation isn’t a DIY for the faint of heart.…
Mythbusters may have finally called it a day, but that seems to have freed up time for Adam Savage to get back to what he does best: build props. Recreating the Hellboy sword is deceptively simple, but Adam throws in a few clever tricks to make the sword look like weathered metal despite weighing practically…
It’s deeply unsettling when a character from films by Stanley Kubrick locks eyes with you through the fourth wall. They’re not entirely breaking the barrier but they do make it uneasy, like they know that we’re watching them. It’s a fairly common shot in his movies, which you’ll see in this video showing ‘The Kubrick…
Iki-ningyō are life-sized dolls that were primarily used in festivals and exhibitions in Japan. This one, which belongs to the Victoria and Albert Museum, is estimated to have been made around 1880, shortly after the samurai class was outlawed. The restoration process is a careful and complicated one that seeks to match as many of…
It’s because though English is a Germanic language (the grammar and core vocabulary comes from that), there are a lot of words that come from the Romance (Latin-based) languages too which was leaked into English when French-speaking Normans ruled England. That explains why there are a lot of twin words that mean the same thing…
On a cold day, nothing hits the spot like a big steaming bowl of salty, fatty, delicious ramen. We can’t promise it will fill you up in dessert form, but watching SweetAmbs work is satisfying enough. Gentle piped icing is the basis for the noodles as well as the chashu pork, soft-boiled egg, chopsticks, and…
Sometimes the person you love is perfect except for one little, tiny, unavoidable, totally obnoxious thing. Director Lacey Leavitt and writer Robert O’Twomney teamed up to film The Costanza Breakups, three short vignettes based on responses to an Ask Reddit thread about reasons people have ended relationships that most resembled the famously picky Seinfeld character…
Blockbuster movies that cost millions of dollars with hundreds of talented people working on them still manage to screw up all the time. Whether the screw ups pop up because of editing or deleted scenes or just plain forgetfulness, the most embarrassing movie mistakes are often in the giant sized plot holes that the filmmakers…
