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Film editor Jacob T. Swinney put together this interesting edit showing 55 movies side-by-side, putting each film’s first scene right next to the final scene. Sometimes you get a story that comes completely full circle, sometimes you get a finished story with coherent imaging and other times you get something else. Swinney writes: What can…
A prediction about the future that I’m pretty confident in making: this picture will be the best thing to come out of St Patrick’s Day 2015. The photo, showing a line up of DeLoreans and a BTTF DeLorean caboose, was taken by BruceK and shows the DeLorean portion of the 2015 St. Patrick’s Day Parade…
Before you sic the No Fun Federation of Parenting onto Jorge Tirado, an awesome dad and surfer, just look at how much fun his 9-month-old baby who was apparently born for the thirst of the ocean is having. And just think about how awesome he’s going to be when he grows up after having such…
Whatever you’re stressing about right now, try to clear your head by watching this epic video of a mountain climber attacking the Ledge Route of Ben Nevis, Scotland. We’re just a small part of this world, it stretches beyond what we can see. Winter is ending, adventures are beginning. Enjoy it! Rob Johnson, who filmed…
Volcanic lightning is one of those crazy, Old Testament-type phenomenons that makes you think that maybe hell is hidden under Earth. We’ve seen crazy photos before but here it’s captured on video by Marc Szeglat. He was chasing down the Sakurajima volcano as it was erupting in Japan and got this awesome footage. SPLOID is…
In following Pinky and the Brain’s hilariously cursed cartoon quest to take over the world, we kids get to see a story about the classic odd couple and the funny hijinks they run into. What we don’t see is the truth that adults willfully ignore: that lab rats live a miserable life and would totally…
Watch as an eagle takes off from the Burj Khalifa and flies high up above Dubai in this incredible video that shows you the stunning view from the eagle’s point of view. It’s fun to see it calibrate itself at 2700 feet in the air and then recognize its landing target and take an immediate…
This is Robert Kirtley and this is his workshop. Watch him artfully draw puzzles and manufactures puzzle die masters all by hand. It’s such a fascinating process to see and a skill that has grown increasingly rare in the world of puzzles. In fact, there are only a few other people in the entire world…
When I first bumped into this clip my mind refused to accept what my eyes were seeing. And, to this moment, my brain still doesn’t fully understand how these people managed to squeeze their bodies into such a minuscule hole. One thing is clear: If these guys suffered from claustrophobia, this video wouldn’t exist. According…
A video of guy playing piano could sound like a boring thing to watch but, if that guy is the skillful and amazingly talented concert pianist Jason Pelsey, it can be as extreme as any insane wingsuit clip we shared here. Check it out. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Sequence—a great short film by Spanish director Carles Torrens—starts with a guy waking up one day. The girl he loves hates him because she had a terrible nightmare where he was doing something utterly horrible. They argue, he leaves to work, and finds out the whole world had that exact same dream and hates him…
There are some pretty nutty patterns that pop up in this time lapse of frost and ice crystals forming on Brenda Loewen’s kitchen window. They almost look like the surface of a different planet or a topographical map of miserable wastelands or a microscopic look at creepy organisms. Whatever your imagination sees, it’s cool. SPLOID…
Completely silly and self serving but also completely dripping in cool. Hackett Martini Racing teamed up with men’s suit maker Hackett to outfit their pit crew in stylish suits as they go about their pit stop in glorious slow motion. Remember, these stops only last a few seconds but when you look like stormtrooper in…
I like food that’s as close to being alive (or fresh, depending on your perspective) as possible. That’s partly because it tastes better but also because it’s tingly to see food move when you don’t expect it too. This blooming chocolate dessert is a mover, all right. As you pour the cream onto the dish,…
There’s an awesome story here about a mom and dad who built a backyard ice rink during the winter so that their two boys could have fun skating and playing hockey outdoors. But what I love most about this excellent quick cut video is just hearing all those sounds come together. It’s enough to make…
A snowmobile weighs nearly five hundred pounds and isn’t meant for flying and yet, that’s what professional crazy person Antti Pendikainen did with his snowmobile. He gunned it down the mountain and then launched it off a cliff and then started soaring, reaching heights in the air typically meant for helicopters and planes. You know,…
Booze lovers’ magazine Vinepair put together this neat map showing the most popular beer brands around the world. Yeah, it’s hard to believe that a tasteless concoction like Bud Light is the top selling beer in the US. Unfortunately, as it’s often the case, most popular doesn’t mean better. Click on the picture below to…
Competitive shooter Dustin Ellermann cooks bacon using his M16 rifle in a video that is a perfect example of what MURICA, FUCK YEAH means. To do that, he wrapped the bacon around the suppressor of his gun, covered it in aluminum foil, and fired the M16 until the heat made it nice and crispy. SPLOID…
Seeing flowers bloom in a time lapse is always worth your eyeballs’ time but this time lapse is especially cool because it gives you a direct view straight inside the center of a blooming flower. It looks a lot like looking through a dreamy world filled with different rules and different colors and different life.…
Kurz Gesagt’s latest video explainer points his easily understood animation gun towards the evilness of banks and how they’ve transformed over time from a simple idea (helping people trade goods) into what they are now (big behemoth bullies who make money for themselves). It’s not all bad though, Gesagt also shows how things have changed…
