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Game of Thrones is one of the best shows on TV but sometimes the plot twists, sudden deaths and cruel storylines can make it hurt to watch. You never know when you’re gonna fall in love with a character and then see their head get chopped off or smashed in. This hilarious animation of Game…
Ramen burgers are just nutty mad scientist creations cooked up to force people to form lines. It’s shock value packaged in a sandwich and it doesn’t even make sense. But this. This spaghetti bun and meatball sandwich makes perfect sense. Spaghetti and meatballs are perfect together. A meatball parm is a perfect sandwich. Let’s add…
Man, this is such a cool shot of the awesome tilt-rotor aircraft, the V-22 Osprey. The crazy flying machine is on a US Navy ship at night and the way it’s illuminated and glowing in the dark makes me think it’s about to dive into some sort of dark underworld mission inspired from The Grid…
I don’t know what’s happening here but it’s a visual trip show and we can thank science for it. It’s the recrystallization of impure 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde being dunked into ice water. You can see the compound inside the flask transform from a liquid at room temperature to a flurry, swirly, milky substance as it cools in…
Hikaru Cho is an amazing body painter who bends reality and breaks eyeballs with her art. Here’s an old favorite where she essentially makes her neck disappear and creates a floating head only to re-attach it later. It’s done completely through body paint with no Photoshopping whatsoever. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
This interesting video by the guys at ChefSteps explains in detail the process of making the perfect espresso and what happens inside the espresso machine that gives the drink such a creamy and unique taste. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
I don’t even know how to describe this weird music video directed by Mattew Lessener. All I can say is that it features dolphins, go-go dancers, and makes no sense at all. Just watch it because it’s hilarious. The song in the video is 83 by Hey Today!—an electro music band based on Hamburg, Germany.…
Youtube user DBZGTBGM1991 compiled this neat video showing how Darth Vader’s “I am your father” line—probably the most famous line in movie history—sounds in 20 different languages. My favorites are Japanese and German—because they sound pretty scary. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
We’ve previously featured the fascinating and yet disturbing black and white animations by Kevin Weir. This interesting short documentary shows how his creative process works: From finding the old black and white pictures to the animation of his perfect loops. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Here’s a neat series artist David Schwen made with The Daily Share: he deconstructed pizza, cheeseburgers, tacos, sandwiches and hot dogs and then placed each of their ingredient separately on lunch trays. The comfort foods look almost surgical under this sort of layout. And, well, they also look like a slightly grown up version of…
The horizon in this picture is totally straight and normal but the helicopter and the USS Anzio ship are, well, totally angled and not. That makes for a really cool picture that makes it look like the world is bent all out of order. But it’s just another day in the life of the US…
This beautiful floating flower garden would be such a wonderful place to get lost in. That’s because it’s like a dreamland that’s come to life. Over 2300 flowers are ‘floating’ in the garden and they’re all alive and blooming and growing. It’s an incredible sight to see them rise up and down while being planted…
Made from Kevlar, quarter inch Kydex plating and impact resistant foam, Armatus Designs created a real life version of the Batman suit. It won’t stop bullets or make you Bruce Wayne but it is stab and slash resistant while still being pretty lightweight and flexible. I wouldn’t recommend you putting it on and becoming a…
British TV channel Drama made a life-size chocolate model of Benedict Cumberbatch to celebrate their launch on UKTV’s on demand service. Chocolate Cumberbatch weights 88 pounds (40 Kg) and was made using 500 bars of Belgium chocolate. The likeness is truly impressive. This is how they made it: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
Canadian graphic designer and 3D artist Gareth Fowlermakes these neat and perfect infinite loops of unreal machines. If you ask him what he does to figure out how these machines actually work he would say “seek out a mechanical engineering student/graduate, buy them beer, and have them explain stuff to you.” Gareth Fowler is a…
I’ve never been too keen on playing dress-up but this clever cup trick made me change my mind. It’s very easy to make, works like a charm, and you can create your own characters—which is what makes it exciting. You just need a few transparent plastic cups, a permanent marker, and some basic drawing skills.…
The German Mark. Lithuanian Litas. Estonian Kroon. Irish Pound. Slovenian Tolar. Portuguese Escudo. Greek Drachma. Slovak Koruna. Maltese Lira. Finnish Markka. Dutch Guilder. Spanish Peseta. Luxembourgish Franc. Belgian Franc. Italian Lira. Cypriot Pound. Austrian Schilling. French Franc. Latvian Lats. All got replaced by the Euro. N9VE made this animation as an ode to those beautiful…
The last thing I would want to do while flying in a wingsuit (other than fly in a wingsuit) is to blast through a sign while flying. But wingsuit pilot Sebastian Alvarez is not me. He angled his flight route perfectly so that he would smash the Chilean flag sign on his way down. That…
Playboy has a map that uses data from Reddit to showcase what the signature food item (or alcohol! or drugs!) from each state is. California gets In N Out burger, New York gets bagel love and Texas gets Tex-Mex. That mostly makes sense. But I’m not sure why Nevada gets cheeseburgers and why Colorado and…
Wes Anderson’s quirky characters are always memorable and leave an impression on me even long after I’ve watched the movie. Artist Alejandro Giraldo memorialized them in these illustrations, capturing the essence of each character in his drawings. It says a lot about the characters you create when a simple drawing of them, even with their…
