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I read somewhere that love was invented as a cure for loneliness. I don’t know if that’s completely true but this brilliant short film—directed by Julio Pot—illustrates that thought perfectly. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
The WindEEE Research Institute, in Ontario, Canada, has this amazing wind chamber capable of creating a tornado vortex at the touch of a button. The tornado can go up to 16 feet wide (5 meters) and move at six feet (2 meters) per second. Maryam Refan, researcher of the WindEEE institute, explained to New Scientist:…
Italian artist Alessandro Diddi is back with more mind-boggling anamorphic drawings that seem to be popping out of the paper. Even if I know that these are plain 2D drawings, my brain keeps telling me it’s 3D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bKVDt… This video—by another artist—shows how anamorphic drawings are made: Alessandro Diddi is an illustrator born and based…
Bravo NASA f0r capturing this new cool Mars Curiosity selfie on the surface of Mars at its new research site, the Mojave. NASA made this image by combining dozens of photos taken during January 2015. Here is the annotated version, so you can see the sites that the rover visited before reaching this point. The…
Apparently, July 4th ain’t got nothing on Chinese New Year in Beijing. This video was recorded on an airplane that was landing in Beijing at midnight of Chinese New Year and it shows all the fireworks going off at once across the city. It looks like every corner is firing off explosions at the same…
Paul Thomas Anderson—director of Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood—is one of the true auteurs in filmmaking today and he often uses long shots in his films to show how isolated characters are from the rest of the world. It’s a neat visual decision, one you can see throughout his movies. Jacob T. Swinney…
This is just awesome. A camera was strapped onto a GoFast 2014 rocket—an amateur rocket that set the record for highest and fastest rocket ever launched into space—so that we can see the entire launch from the rockets point of view. The initial burst and thrust into the air is epic and then the world…
There’s a lot of hubbub and crap being spewed about not vaccinating your kids and letting measles creep back into our lives. The animation explaining shop Kurz Gesagt doesn’t want to deal with the arguments of pseudo-science, they just want to explain what measles does inside your body. And why it’s helpful for everyone to…
Very cool high resolution shot of a missile launch from the wing of a Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker. According to Cenciotti at The Aviationist, it’s an R-73, a “heat-seeking, short-range missile with a sensitive, cryogenic cooled seeker that can “see” targets up to 40° off the missile’s centerline.” SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
Check out Beijing’s new airport terminal by Zaha Hadid: 700,000 square meters (173 acres!) in total, with an 80,000-square-meter ground transportation centre. It kind of looks like the mother of New Mexico’s spaceport, from where Virgin Galactic operates: New Mexico’s spaceport, however, is tiny compared to Beijing. Look at the insane space inside this place.…
I knew octopi are crazy fast in water. Outside I thought they were just defenseless blobs of jelly muscle. This crab thought the same. This crab and I are stupid. Sorry crab. I’m not making your mistake, buddy. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Looking at this picture it is hard to believe that the United States and Australia were in a bloody no quarter war against Japan only 70 years ago: Spot the Mitsubishi F-2 escorting a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, the direct heir of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. U.S. Air Force, Japan…
Holy Ice-hockey-Jesus-on-a-Pogo-stick. I can’t believe the darkness in this short by Joseph Kahn, a “deboot” of the Power Rangers, as he calls it—a fan film, “not a pilot, not a series, not for profit, strictly for exhibition.” A free fan film starring Katee Sackhoff, the iconic Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica. As Kahn describes it: This…
This is the mascaret at the port of Saint-Pardon de Vayres, near the city of Bordeaux, a tidal bore that produces waves for 15 minutes of continuous surfing. One second the river is completely quiet, the next the waves break in, taking dozens of surfers with them. A close up from the boards: Some aerial…
I can’t really tell you much about this Swedish short film without spoiling it. I’m just going to say that it’s hilarious and completely nuts—even with the English subtitles on. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
British motion designer Thom Haig lays out some very interesting questions about our future: Is the Internet and the new connectivity systems affecting our individuality? Are we capable of creating new thoughts or are we just simply replicating the same ideas over and over again? I’m sure you all have your own thoughts about this…
Dashuhua is a 500-year-old Chinese tradition practiced in Nuanquan town, in Hebei province, during the Lantern festival. It consists in throwing molten iron scraps to the cold bricks of the city gate to produce a spectacular shower of sparks that burst into the air creating a similar effect to a fireworks display. SPLOID is delicious…
All these fighter jets and war planes and attack helicopters are on display at Russia’s Central Air Force museum just outside of Moscow. They’re advanced killing machines. And yet this drone footage makes them look so peaceful, resting and hibernating in the Russian winter snow. It’s as if we’ve stumbled upon a paradise for planes.…
When I think of the colors red and yellow together, I think of Big Macs and french fries and chicken nuggets. Yep, I think of McDonald’s. But maybe I should think of Wes Anderson movies now. As you can see in this lovely supercut by Rishi Kaneria that shows Anderson’s use of color, red and…
On good days, my knife skills could be considered rudimentary. On most other days though, I’m probably a danger to myself. So never in my wildest dreams would I ever think that I could pull this sorcery off: turn a regular carrot into a perfectly webbed net by strategically cutting it with a knife. The…
