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Man at Arms is at its best when it makes real life versions of the weapons we see in our favorite movies, TV shows, comic books and video games. Turning something that lived in our dreams into something in real life is always fun. This video has the guys artfully making Arya’s Needle sword and…
What a perfect picture. The timing is perfect, the angle is perfect, the sky is perfect, the F-16 Fighting Falcons are perfect. I mean, the photo is so perfect that it almost doesn’t feel real. Like they’ve been CGI’d to look like that. Or that they’re toy models strung in the air. But nope, they’re…
I remember always being a little intimidated by MGM’s Leo the Lion logo as a kid (big cat! the roar!) so whenever I see the roaring lion logo pop up these days, it always gives me a tinge of nostalgia that no other movie studio logo does for me. It’s also the logo that has…
Although we don’t normally hear about it, most countries celebrate their own versions of the Oscars every year. And their trophies are crazier and more distinctive than the naked man Oscar. Illustrator Robert Shaw made this neat infographic showing the ‘Best Film’ awards from around the world. He also included at the bottom his own…
If there was a canine table tenis championship I’m sure this border collie would be the winner. Watch how he successfully returns one ball after another holding the ping pong racket with his mouth. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
I would gladly watch a show that tells the story of the seven kingdoms only from Tyrion Lannister’s perspective. Polish editor Grzegorz Grabowiec seems to agree with that thought and put together this neat supercut taking his best bits from the show and summing up his story. [Spoilers ahead, obviously] SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…
Dear Lord. Cleaning the windows of skyscrapers is already a scary enough job but cleaning windows of the 91st floor of the 1600-foot tall Shanghai World Financial Center while the wind violently throws around the scaffolding like some unhinged, unbuckled roller coaster swing? That is absolutely pants laundering terrifying. The workers were thankfully rescued but…
Here are twelve KC-135 Stratotanker refueling airplanes all lined up on the runway like a dozen ducks in a row. It was part of an aerial exercise at the Kadena Air Base in Japan where the Stratotankers pumped 50 aircraft with 800,000 pounds of fuel. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…
I love to watch movies by Spike Jonze because he always tells interesting stories with even more interesting characters. But what I may love more is the look of his films. Jacob T. Swinney edited together this video to show the aesthetics of whimsy and you’ll see interesting camera angles, lens flares and more. Jacob…
This short animation by Amanda Koh and Mollie Helms is fun to watch because it bring idioms and other common sayings to life. Featuring the elephant in the room and the skeleton in the closet, sayings like a clean slate and shooting fish in a barrel and others are shown off literally (and sillily). Language…
I you were anywhere near a TV set in the eighties, you will shed a tear of nostalgia watching this supercut—edited by Robert Jones—that compiles some of the most famous teen movies of that decade. Here’s the list: The Breakfast Club 16 Candles Adventures in Babysitting An American Werewolf in London Back to School Back…
Yep. Believe it or not, this is not a stunning picture of a chameleon.It is the latest bodypaintng piece by the Italian artist Johannes Stötter. I had to wait until the end of the video to realize there were actually two women. Almost a year ago, another of his bodypaintings hit the Internet. It was…
Frank Ordaz worked with George Lucas in The Return of the Jedi—among other films—making some of its awesome background matte paintings. When he left the film industry he combined his freelance work with some personal projects involving oil painting. This is a selection I made of his latest work: Here are some pictures of Frank…
This great short film—written and directed by Ray Wong—tells the story of a young couple that one day finds out there is a hole in their backyard with awesome powers: It duplicates any organic life that falls into it. That uncanny discovery ends up affecting their life and, of course, their relationship. Ray Wong is…
Welcome to our post-apocalyptic world. You can find the last remaining civilization in San Francisco. Or something like that. It’s startling how much this simple time lapse of a San Francisco sunset makes it look like nuclear bombs have gone off and destroyed everything we know. But nope, just a normal sunset in the bay.…
It’s always fun to see things that aren’t supposed to be real, come alive. Breathing life into inanimate objects and giving them their own personality spins your brain sideways. This video by turns a woman’s nails into their own little monsters. The stop-motion animation was filmed using 521 different nails that were made by a…
These wildly inventive dishes from clever Instagram user Chef Jacques La Merde (translation: Jack Shit) repurpose junk food you’d find in the cupboard of college kids feeding themselves for the first time into perfectly plated, “tweezered everything” dishes that wouldn’t look out of place at three Michelin star restaurants. So instead of purees and molecular…
I love the mystery of Robert Burn’s underground tunnel photography. They look like portals into another world, entrances to alien homes and haunting, unused gateways leftover from a different time. But they’re just photographs of tunnels in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that have been perfectly lit and captured to heighten the supernatural aspect. Here is a collection…
Do you see Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe? If you see Einstein, that means your vision is good! If you see Marilyn Monroe, your eyes need some help. In the GIF above, you should see both as it zooms in. When the image is further away and smaller, you’ll see Marilyn. As it comes closer,…
What a fascinating view. I don’t pretend to know what triggers a bird’s decision to take flight or what makes an entire flock want to take off all at once but man, is it cool to see. This video shows three recordings of starlings taking off from a power line: in real time, at half…
