Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Damn. This video of a dancer in a light suit is like staring into a future that us humans chained to the present aren’t supposed to see. The dancing is fun to watch, of course, but there’s something about that black and white light up suit moving in those ways that is just jarring and…
Fighter jets and aircraft carriers and fighter jets taking off of aircraft carriers are some of our favorite things in the world for so many reasons. One of them is just how perfect each launch has to be. Just look at how the wheels of the jet reach the end of the aircraft carrier as…
I love these fantastic charts from Halcyon Maps that show which skyscrapers or churches or temples or mounds of dirt or other structures that have been the tallest buildings on each continent throughout history. You can see the ridiculous skyscraper arms race that develop in each area over the years and see what outdid who.…
Though most of the real world lives in China and India and other parts of Asia, the fake animated world is almost exclusively set in the USA and Europe. Obviously that’s because many popular animation movies are made by Western shops for Western audiences but hey, can the rest of the world get some animated…
This is the most terrifying thing I’ve seen in a long time. Like, monsters are real and the apocalypse is nigh terrifying. And yet I can’t look away because the footage of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is so stunning that I can smell my fear burning as the molten lava rock starts taking over the Earth.…
Forgive me for being enchanted with this beautiful music video for Jack and the Giant’s song A Love Like Pi. I feel like I’m following orbs with unique personalities traveling through space. Or like watching comets burn as they complete their journey to different planets. In reality though, I’m just watching soap and food coloring…
CineFix animated the first two seasons of The Walking Dead in the classic 8-bit video game style and somehow, the blood, guts, gore and zombies of the TV show still translate over. It’s a pretty decent summary of Rick and the gang’s journey and how many damn walkers they needed to kill. SPLOID is delicious…
If you watched The Godfather, Transformers, or Dirty Harry, you’ve already seen the iconic Winchester Model 12 in action—and probably imitated the pump-action gesture to reload it. Watch this guy make a cutaway version of the popular shotgun to expose its guts and show how the shooting mechanism actually works. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…
If there is such thing as a Michael Jordan of crazy basketball trick shots, David Kalb would be it. In fact, he’d give Jordan himself a run for his money with his tricks. This time, he went to a warehouse and performed impossible shots with the basketball hoop strapped to a moving forklift. It’s true…
Swiss photographers Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger have a really cool project called Iconen (Icons) where they make detailed scale miniatures to recreate history’s most famous photos. Concorde – by Toshihiko Sato, 2000 AS11-40-5878 – by Edwin Aldrin, 1969 The Hindenburg Disaster – by Sam Shere, 1937 Nessie – by Marmaduke Wetherell, 1934 Tiananmen –…
St. Patrick’s Day is debaucherous and sloppy and filled with drunkards decked in green. The Northern Lights are beautiful and stunning and light up the sky in a wonderful hue of green. Naturally, they’re made for each other. Or if not, they should be. Ignore the noise today and just watch this Northern Lights time…
Listening to George Ziermann talk about his life and how he got to making boots while watching him work at his craft is a true treat. Ziermann has been hand making boots for over 40 years and seeing the care that goes into each pair makes me think that his boots will last a lifetime.…
Studio DRIFT made these lovely lamps that feel alive because they’ve been designed to bloom like a flower. It’s a beautiful idea that’s even more gorgeous when you see it happen, I would love to walk into my living room and have these ethereal lights dance for me as they descend and shine up the…
Supersymmetry is a short film made by Trent Jaklitsch as an ode to his father. But really, it’s an inspirational tale for all of us. Using personal footage from his childhood along with NASA archival footage and other publicly available clips, he stitches together a story about how the universe created us and how we…
This new Carbon3D printer totally looks like the science fiction future but it’s real. The liquid 3D printing method uses liquid resin, laser light and oxygen to print out things up to 25-100 times faster than traditional 3D printers. It’s fascinating technology and it looks like things are just magically rising from the gooey liquid,…
Yowza. I think if I hopped on this jet-powered boat in New Zealand my hair would fall out, my neck would get stretched out and my face would be permanently smushed in. It goes fast. Like a runaway roller coaster that’s off its track fast. I mean, look how quickly it zips in and around…
Most of the gorgeous images of distant galaxies we all keep in our minds were captured by the lens of The Hubble Space Telescope. But those lens can only take black and white images. The color is added afterwards according to “the wavelengths of light that different elements emit in space.” This is how they…
Here are 9 rules about basic photography composition from famed photographer Steve McCurry that will instantly make your pictures look better. You know some of them already—rule of thirds, etc.—but it’s nice to see them illustrated with great pictures and be reminded of the most important rule of all: that you can—and should—break them. Here…
This alphabet—by Boston-based graphic designer Ari Weinkle—is quite unique. First because its texture feels realistic, organic, and alive. And second because its creepy moves: The letters twist and turn as if they were actual animal appendages. In my work, I look to break apart and re-appropriate different forms such as the human figure, geometric and…
Sometimes life—and love—seems to pass before your eyes at the speed of light. One day, you wake up and realize that the person you’ve been living with for years has changed so much that they’ve almost become a stranger. Head Over Heels is an Oscar nominated stop-motion film by Timothy Reckart that perfectly depicts that…
