Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
This neat commercial for Cycling Canada—an organization for the promotion of cycling in Canada—shows a bunch of bikes riding themselves and having fun. The cyclist-less bikes appear drifting on dirt roads, descending mountains full speed, and zooming across the city. The commercial was made by director Mark Zibert and the effects house Alter Ego. They…
I can pretty much watch these fighter jets rip through the runway at night forever. I mean, what is more awesome than seeing city lights blur and afterburners shoot out fiery power? This footage comes from The Aviationist and includes all kind of fighter jets burning rubber at the Nellis Air Force Base near Las…
The Matrix was one of the best sci-fi action movies of all time and the rest of the trilogy had some of the most outrageously awesome action sequences ever, even if the movies themselves didn’t reach the levels of the original. Basically, The Matrix trilogy is responsible for a lot of awesome moments in film…
My favorite foe for the vaunted red hot nickel ball is food items. The bigger and more ridiculous and goofier the food, the better the destruction. Take this burning of a giant jawbreaker, it crushes the exterior and then starts boiling and bubbling the gooey green innards. It’s like alien candy blood leaking out. AND…
Drop everything you’re doing for the next 20 minutes and watch the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer 10 times. The rest of the world is doing exactly that right now and smiling giddily at that last scene in the trailer. Enjoy. https://gizmodo.com/luke-skywalker-is-back-second-teaser-for-star-wars-th-1698255293
It’s one of the most addictive things humans can do. Everyone does it. And it feels so good when you get to do it. We’re talking about cracking your joints. Researchers have alway been curious as to where the sound of joints cracking comes from and put a hand under MRI to find out (and…
There is honor in having a worn down book with creases on its spine and dogeared corners and highlighter marks on its pages and a cover that barely resembles anything anymore. But sometimes, a book gets a little too roughed up and is on the brink of falling apart and needs fixing. You can fix…
Yoshida Brewery in northern Japan is a 144 year old family brewery that makes sake the old fashioned way. That is, they make sake in a way that preserves a 2000 year old tradition. Erik Shirai made a beautiful short of the people at Yoshida and the process of making sake in his film The…
The music video for Fantasía—by Spanish band Fur Voice—seems to come straight out of Salvador Dali’s mind. The video—directed by Spanish director Pablo Mestres—is full of surrealistic images and uncanny dreamy sequences that made my brain hurt—in a pleasant way. Fur Voice is an alternative-electronic band from Barcelona, Spain. You can follow them on Twitter…
John Carpenter’s The Thing is a masterclass on the use of practical effects. The makeup effects team worked for seven days a week for 57 weeks to create the realistic alien creatures, gore, and viscera we see on the film. This neat video by Cinefix explains how they made it. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…
Tim Bavington—an artist based in Las Vegas, Nevada—is not the first artist who tries to paint music but he might be the most precise at it. He came up with a color-coded chord wheel that helps him translate notes into colors so he can make paintings that are exact visualizations of his favorite songs. SPLOID…
In this quick short, Foodie explores how Cassia (synonymous with cinnamon in the States) is harvested to make cinnamon. It’s an interesting and decidedly old school process, the bark of the trees are cut and peeled off and then scraped and dried (where the bark curls up). Big pieces become powder, narrower pieces become cinnamon…
When a film sends a robot back into time to kill a baby, it’s always going to bring back memories of the Terminator movies. But this short, Future Hero by Ramin Serry, is so much sillier and goofier and weirder that you almost forget about Ahnold. It’s about a lazy dad and his future, time…
I have no doubt that Avengers: Age of Ultron is going to be ridiculously fun and awesomely badass in all the ways that comic book superhero movies should be. But boy, making such a spectacle for a movie leads to some hilarious behind the scenes footage. I mean, check out this 9 minute clip of…
Watching the stunning opening titles of the FITC Toronto 2015—a conference for digital creators of all kinds—is like watching the life of the whole of humanity flash before your eyes. The video—created by motion graphics artist Will Reid—sums up human evolution in three minutes full of pure eye candy. Will Reid is a video editor…
Roman Holiday put together this video that shows the close up shots in everyone’s favorite action movie (or Christmas movie or just movie) Die Hard. I can hear the Yippee Ki Yay just from watching these scenes. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Tumblr user AVBH transformed the official poster of The Avengers: Age of Ultron into an amazing animated GIF you can enjoy for the rest of the eternity. He broke it down to five smaller GIFs so we can appreciate all the details—and luckily, it doesn’t take forever to download. Here’s the original illustration by Ryan…
Paul Wex’s Interrupt is an absolutely beautiful look into people and life in southeast Asia. It’s filmed entirely in slow motion with a vintage 35mm OM Zuiko lens on a Canon 5D Mk3 and the footage of random daily life is peaceful and serene and stunning and unreal. Its like the video has stopped time…
When a commercial starts with a silly premise like:”What would you do if your friend turned into an animated GIF?” you know you’re about to watch something great. That’s why I’m such a big fan of Flying Horse’s ads. The Brazilian energy drink brand makes some of the weirdest and most hilarious commercials I’ve seen…
Netflix’s new TV show Daredevil is supposed to be fantastic. I haven’t watched it yet but judging from this super long fight scene that was filmed entirely in a single take, I just might start tonight. I like the fight scene because it’s choreographed perfectly and even though there were points where they could switch…
