Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Though only parents and maybe a handful of Underwoodian kids watching would understand the parody, Sesame Street pretty much nailed House of Cards in a skit about the Three Little Pigs. Frank Underwolf stars and recreates the same feel of the political drama—soliloquies, southern accent, plotting, etc.—only with muppets instead. It actually sums up the…
The whole time I was watching this video of Marshall Miller base jumping into Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland, I was screaming inside. You see the entire jump from his perspective, as he looks down and around and can’t see anything but fog and yet he still makes the jump. And as he’s falling down, you still…
I imagine that the creators of The Amazing World of Gumball are heavy consumers of zolpidem tartrate. Argentinean animation studios Ronda probably got a few boxes too, so they came up with theses never-ending loops of the show for Cartoon Network. Pure eye sour candy. SPLOID SELECTS is a series where we feature awesome and…
According to Dwell, this is the “world’s first carbon-positive prefabricated house,” which produces more “more energy than its uses.” Its designer, ArchiBlox, claims it’s “expected to offer the same environmental benefits as 6,095 native Australian trees.” Simple, clean design—put it in a forest and I will move in. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
French artist Cal Redback is a master of digital photo retouching. His new work, called Treebeards, is a collection of creepy hyper-realistic portraits of human-plant hybrids and a clear proof of his amazing Photoshop skills. Cal Redback is a profesional photographer and retoucher based in Paris, France. You can follow his work on Behance, Fliker,…
DMG MORI has combined laser deposition welding and precision material removal in this amazing machine. Watching this thing move to build different parts and components feels like an special effect from Tony Stark’s machine shop. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Watching Feast—directed by Patrick Osborne, co-head of animation on Big Hero 6, and produced by Disney—is like riding an emotional roller coaster. It tells the funny, sad, tender, and happy story of a food-obsessed Boston Terrier puppy and how he adapts to the changes in his owner’s life. Update: The video has been removed due…
Bill Gates has an incredible statistic: According the USGS’ cement statistics, China has used more concrete from 2011 to 2013 (6.6 gigatons) than the United States in the entire 20th century (4.5 gigatons). It blows my mind but, then again, as Gates point out, look at Shanghai’s evolution in just 20 years… …and now imagine…
Impressive aerial photo of New York surrounded by ice taken from the southern tip of Manhattan—tiny icebergs and ice plaques floating along the Hudson, the East River and New York bay. CBS has video here. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Pick your pop culture reference—the Fortress of Solitude or Hoth—and brush the mountains in cotton candy white and add water raging underneath the frozen sheets and you get a little bit close to what Niagara Falls looks like right now. NBC News has footage of the frozen Niagara Falls and it looks like another planet.…
I don’t wear a watch and I hate time and yet I’m still so very impressed with the movement of this watch by FP Journe. It’s stunning and it is the most complicated watch that FP Journe makes because it’s a grande sonniere watch. Which means, it’s a complication that is able to audibly chime…
I love this video about Ryan Neil, an American Bonsai master, because not only do I get to watch him work but I also get to hear him talk about the art of Bonsai. Neil reveals the amount of respect and consideration you need to be able to craft these beautiful pieces of art from…
Fight Club 2 is here, the first 6 pages of Chuck Palahniuk’s 10-isssue comic book maxiseries illustrated by Cameron Stewart and published by Dark Horse are here. The first issue will hit the stores on May 27. Check out the cover and the first page: The synopsis: Fight Club 2 takes place alternately in the…
NBC affiliate WITN has published these two photos of a frozen sculpture created by the front of a Jeep, left standing on a curb near Vidant, a hospital in Greenville, North Carolina. Can this be really possible or is it an elaborated 3D render hoax? According to WITN, they “received two different photos from viewers,…
NASA’s Terra satellite has captured an image of the current status of the Eastern United states, with “Arctic and Siberian air masses have settled in over the Eastern U.S. triggering many record low temperatures in many states.” The snow cover combined with the frosty air mass made the eastern U.S. feel like the inside of…
This is the Tex, the 2015 Masters Agility Championship winner at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. Incredible. Good doggie. And since we are on the subject of dogs, well, here, have some of the contestants. The best in show: Miss P, a 15-inch beagle from the hound group. Those eyes kill me. Photos by…
We are used to see the epic, awe-inspiring, perfect photos from the golden age of NASA, during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. Those are not the photos that you will find in Drewatts Bloomsbury’s auction. These are all pretty shitty—poorly exposed, badly framed, out of focus, or just plain boring. But while these photos…
Jack White’s music video for his latest single That Black Bat Licorice is three videos in one. If you just hit play you’ll see an animation of Jack White. If you hit “3” while the video is playing, you will get a live action version of the first one. And if you hit “B”, a…
I’m a sucker for good radio ads but, sadly, most of them are hideous. They all share the same cliché background music, terrible scripts, exasperating sound effects, and awful voice overs. These hilarious videos—promoting the 2015 Radio Mercury Awards—list all the things that make a radio ad suck. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
Our friend Anna Péter, from the Hungarian food blog Malackaraj, is back with another gross-looking but delicious plate called kocsonya, a cross between a meat plate and a gelatinous soup that seems straight out of a gore movie. I have never tasted it, but I definitely want to. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
