Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Hyperlapses aren’t anything new these days, even your phone can do them. But back in 1995, no one knew what the hell a hyperlapse was (the term was coined in 2012) so imagine the collective mind melting and freakout that happened when this video was shown off in 1995. It was shot on a 16mm…
There have been other great alpine ski runs. More epic, difficult, or far more dangerous but this one, by the World Champion alpine skier Marcel Hirscher, is the prettiest and most colorful I’ve ever seen—and it’s environmentally friendly. They claim they only used 100% natural materials to make the color effects. SPLOID is delicious brain…
This neat time lapse by Paulo Ferreira takes us on a tour to Oporto, one of the most beautiful and bustling places in Europe. Oporto, or Porto as they call it in Portuguese, is the second largest city in Portugal—actually, the country is named Portugal after Porto, which translates into port in English. As reader…
Pop Chart Lab made this cool poster featuring basketball and running sneakers from the 80’s and the 90’s, or as they call it “the illustrious, ultra-rad ’80s and ’90s.” If you are like me and often leave the store thinking that most of today’s sneakers are not even half as cool as they used to…
I love this spectacular picture of the US Air Force Thunderbirds flying in perfect unison into the sky because the trail they leave behind look like the fingers of a cloud monster giving the jets a boost into the air. And because they’re above the clouds, it almost looks like they’re flying on a Hoth-like…
Season Five of The Walking Dead might have been the best season of the zombie killing, gore porn that is America’s favorite TV show, which means that there have been enough zombie kills this season to fill a 7-minute gorypalooza video. Some of these zombie deaths are really artistic while others are so brutal they…
These time-slice photographs of Shanghai and Hong Kong are beautifully unreal. In each photo, photographer Dan Marker-Moore captures an entire day of those amazing cities from one vantage point. You see day shift into night, sunlight giving way for city lights and it all adds up for photos that looks absolutely stunning. The picture above…
Quentin Tarantino loves to flex his directorial muscles in his movies, so much so that he’s developed so many different trademark shots. Roman Holiday put together a bunch of close up shots from Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown to showcase all of those scenes. It’s kind of fun to track the story through just these…
Eventually the weather will warm up and cities on the east coast will come alive again but until then, people will continue to mummify themselves while visibly exhaling their frustration at why they live, where they live. And then the first sign of sun comes and everyone remembers why. This video from Seeker Stories shows…
A hundred thousand million yums. After watching this chocolate food porn overload from Marks & Spencer, I think I have developed a permanent craving for chocolate. Like, this is forever now. The video is an ad for chocolate Easter Eggs but it features all sorts of chocolate deliciousness that it makes me want to bathe…
This video explainer by Kurz Gesagt focuses on why nuclear energy is actually terrible and something we should stop using because it’s so bad. The reasons are pretty obvious: nuclear energy leads to nuclear bombs, nuclear waste is really dangerous and nuclear accidents and disasters are catastrophic. To see why three reasons why nuclear energy…
Nuclear energy is great! Nuclear energy is terrible! There are two sides to the argument and Kurz Gesagt is breaking down both perspectives with point/counterpoint video explainers. The three reasons why nuclear energy is awesome and why we need more? It saves lives. It helps the environment. And that using it could develop new tech…
The Fast & Furious movies today are fun, blood pumping action movies with a few car scenes spliced in. But the original movie that kicked it all off, The Fast and The Furious, was pretty much all about cars. This 8-bit racing game version sums the movie up pretty well. I would have loved to…
Danny Cooke’s short How Comfort Is Born shows the entire process of making an Arlo & Jacob couch. You see wood being framed, springs being made, framed wood being shaved, made springs being put together and then finally the cushions and fabric carefully being handled so each couch is perfect. The machinery and people that…
If you’ve spent some time on the Internet, you already know that the same characters and personality types keep popping up. There’s the smart ass, the politically incorrect, the skeptical, the list goes on and on. This clever ad for Mainpeople—an international charity social network—makes fun of those stereotypes. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
These images show how a bacteria looks under a microscope. But that doesn’t mean Artist Rogan Brown used a microscope obtain them. That would be too easy. Instead, he spent four months cutting sheet after sheet of paper with a scalpel knife and ended up with this insanely intricate and astonishing sculpture. At over 112…
I love watching Honest Trailers’ takedown of movies because they highlight actual problems, they’re actually really funny and they have no sacred cows. They can skewer Michael Bay right next to burning down everyone’s post-Dark Knight shrine to Chris Nolan. Here they are hilariously ripping up Interstellar. It includes digs on okra, Matthew McConaughey always…
Here’s an entire series of ASMR videos featuring baking and cooking and prepping and opening packages and so forth. The chef makes vegan goods, which depending on your world view may shade what you think of the cooking, but there is no doubt: it is so very pleasurable to watch the food get made. It’s…
Furious 7 is releasing this weekend which means all of mankind is about to have their eyeballs blasted (and brains removed for two hours) with the most insane special and practical effects that don’t involve space or superheroes or space-based superheroes. Here’s a quick cut of some behind the scenes footage of Furious 7 and…
Say it with me: awwwww. In a story that’s a little like the first hour of Wall-E, this short film, Artoo In Love by Evan Atherton, tells a cute love story of R2-D2 and a blue mailbox. R2 starts holding picnics with it, zaps away people who want to mail things and holds an umbrella…
