Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
The film editing maestro Clara Darko stitched together this perfect montage of actresses in action movies kicking mother freaking ass. I love how each punch or kick or swing of the sword or crossbow shot or anything perfectly blends together from one movie to the next. More ass kicking please! SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…
Michelin-star chef Raymond Blanc gives another cooking master class in this video where he reveals the secrets of baking. Traditionally, baking has been associated with pastry, but monsieur Blanc will prove it otherwise. Prepare to drool with his delicious recipes of baked scallops, leg of lamb, or baked cheese. Baking, as opposed to roasting, avoids…
A few days ago, these guys were fishing in Alfonse Island, in Seychelles, when a giant trevally bit the lure. As soon as they started to reel the fish in, a vicious barracuda appeared and ate half of it in just seconds, leaving the fishermen—and myself—in shock. Sharks might be the first think that comes…
San Francisco isn’t Gotham. That’s New York (or Chicago if you want to be wrong). San Francisco is too colorful, too weird, too positive and too future friendly to be the dark and gritty Gotham City. But Toby Harriman stripped the color of SF in this time lapse and man, the city by the bay…
This is interesting not only because you get to see the juxtaposition of the orchestra and scenes from The Great Human Odyssey or because you learn how 70 musicians score an entire film in 3 days without any preparation or how the filmmakers painstakingly do their job, but also because it’s just cool to see…
I know Chef Evan Funke of Bucato is making pasta in this video—I see it and it’s absolutely beautiful—but it almost looks like he’s playing a musical instrument. There’s so much skill in his work and so much grace in his movements that I can’t help but feel like I’m watching an artist at work.…
I’m a sucker for rockets and technical illustrations, which is why I love this poster of rockets of the world drawn to scale by Tyler Skrabek—a clean, updated version of a 1995 classic by professor Peter Alway, published in the book Rockets of the World. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…
Tsunami is a cute, perfectly crafted animated short film made by the students at the Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark. It tells the story of a man returning to his house, flooded after a tsunami, and a water spirit that got trapped in there. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
These industrial robots—by FANUC America Corporation—pick and arrange batteries at ultra-fast speed. Watching these two guys work is mesmerizing. Pro tip: Mute the utterly boring voice over and play this instead. It works like magic. Here’s another video with the three-axis Delta robot working solo: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…
Meet the Spider-Tailed Horned Viper, a species that lives in western Iran and uses his tail in the shape of a spider as a lure to attract birds. Snakes and spiders are quite scary per se, but this animal combining both seems like a genetically-modified monster conceived by a mad scientist. SPLOID is delicious brain…
This video shows how NASA makes and tests their largest, and most powerful solid rocket boosters ever. These engineering beauties will propel the new Space Launch System (SLS) and its astronauts to deeper space explorations. Mars, here we go. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA put out this video of all the coolest, jaw dropping explosions that happened on our Sun over the past five years. You basically watch the Sun dances with shooting flares and solar loops. It’s unreal. This video from NASA is just fantastic. NASA writes:…
I didn’t wake up craving dumplings today. But after reading about this epic dumpling crawl in Lucky Peach and seeing Momofuku’s David Chang post videos about dumplings and then learning a brief history about dumplings and watching them get made in the video above, well, damn. I’m really craving dumplings now. SPLOID is delicious brain…
You probably have to be a little crazy to be a pole vaulter. I mean, what normal person wants to catapult their bodies as high as possible? This GoPro footage of pole vaulter Allison Stokke filmed from her point of view confirms the crazy and shows the violent movements and perfect grace necessary to make…
Tom Havlasek is a painter who is obsessed with motorsports. His large format pieces, all made using acrylic, capture the perfect angles of some of the most iconic race cars in history. I would love to have the Gulf Porsche and any of the cars with Marlboro livery. See if you can identify all of…
This collaborative animated film tells the story of two snails in love tragically separated by a very busy highway—and a daredevil frog that risks his life jumping from one speeding car to another. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
This video uploaded by Virgin Australia shows how they repaint their airplanes. It took 11 days, 18 painters, and 260 liters of paint to remove the previous paint and repaint it by hand. My favorite part is when the paint melts, I could spend hours watching just that. Not all airlines do this job manually.…
After watching Interstellar and hating it, designer Nick Barclay thought on Hal 9000 and a crazy idea popped into his mind: If a circle can be a main character in a film it could also be the protagonist of a poster. So he decided to make a whole series offamous movie posters using only circles.…
Valentine’s Day is almost here and the guys at Cinefix decided to pay an homage to sweet sweet love by putting together this interesting video ranking the (arguably) ten best sex movie scenes of all time. Here’s the list: Titanic (1997) Team America: World Police (2004) Weekend (2011) Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) Coming…
In what has to be one of the shortest shoots ever, all it took to make this three and a half minute music video was five seconds of filming. That seems like some pretty good bang for your buck! The trick was that a Phantom 4K camera inhaled those five seconds at 1000FPS to create…
