Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
If you’ve had some fun blackout stories with the boys or had a crazy insane Hangover weekend for a bachelor party and thought that was fun, wait until you see this: a group of friends re-created the plot of Rambo for their friend Dana Saint’s bachelor party. It was awesome. I mean, seriously. Motorcycle chases,…
Meal time! Artur Homan captured this footage of a beautiful and wildly colorful hoopoe bird feeding its young in slow motion. Shot in Poland, you can see multiple angles of the hoopoe mouth feeding the kid bird with a crunchy bug that it just swallows whole. Nature can be so gruesomely gorgeous. SPLOID is delicious…
If this video doesn’t get you going, you’re dead inside and we can’t be friends. Florian Renner made this short animation, Retrowave, as an ode to the style of the 1980’s. It basically combines the worlds of Back to the Future and Tron by turning the DeLorean into a Light Cycle on The Grid. Not…
Kids are cute and also hilariously picky eaters so they’re pretty perfect for this experiment by Cut Video that makes them eat different breakfast foods from all across the world. It’s fun to see how they react and also interesting to see what different countries eat for breakfast. The whole set up of the video…
I don’t want to spoil this brilliant short film by freelance London director Toby Meakins—starring Josef Altin, Pypar in Game of Thrones—so please watch it and try not to hold your breath. You won’t regret it. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Some people claim that ice cream tastes best just made, so Alton Brownwent down to try it at Three f(x) Ice Cream & Waffles in Jacksonville, Florida, where they make ice cream to order. They have a machine that stays at -30°F (-34.4°C) and cools the mixture in seconds. As reader Tsalonich points out, this…
The majority of action films today suck. They became repetitive formulas. Sterile displays of visual effects, annoying camera movements, and happy ending duels between the hero and his foes. Luckily, there are exceptions. Chris Stuckmann analyzes why this happens in this interesting video. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
After capturing the most amazing images of New York ever,Vincent Laforet is using the same technology to photograph other major cities around the world. This is Las Vegas. The results are even crazier than NYC—with this unprecedented clarity and from this vantage point, Sin City looks like the world of Tron. Unreal. Click on the…
Because everyone loves Pulp Fiction, CineFix followed up their original 9 things that people probably didn’t know about Pulp Fiction with 7 more factoids. This time we find out the story about Samuel L. Jackson’s hair, why Christopher Walken drank hot sauce behind the scenes and how Stanley Tucci is connected. SPLOID is delicious brain…
If you ever wondered what hitting an egg with a golf club or throwing pork belly into a pan or shooting an arrow through a light bulb or cutting a woman’s hair all looked like in slow motion, you don’t have to wonder anymore, this video shows you and a lot of other awesome random…
Wow, here’s an absolutely stunning picture of a waterfall in Silver Falls, Oregon taken by photographer Jarred Decker. Only at first glance the picture doesn’t even look like a shot of a waterfall. It looks more like you’re peering into the soul of Godzilla. Colossal says that the image is, “actually three stitched shots Decker…
This time-lapse by Dominic Boudreault’s is a beautiful, crystal clear view of Manhattan.Even after all these years of coming here it causes the same reaction of awe and wonder in me, both in real life or watching these animated images. This is part of a series in which we are featuring beautiful time-lapses of cities…
I always wanted to see the actual infantry attacks on the Hoth’s Rebel Base. Not just a couple scenes but a full Saving Private Ryan’s Normandy invasion battle with a ton of imperial storm troopers led by Darth Vader. Apparently illustrator Dave Dorman had the same idea in mind. Here’s his vision. Imperial troops disguised…
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Pixomondois one of the digital imaging companies working on Game of Thrones’stunning visual effects. Among other things, they are responsible for bringing Khaleesi’s terrifying dragons to life. Here’s how they do it. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
French graphic designer Nicolas Damiens made this cool series of animated black and white GIFs showing the difference between a Tokyo with and without its iconic street ads, logos, or banners. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Editor Jacob T. Swinney put together this cool video showing the evolution of Batman from the 1943 serial to Nolan’s blockbusters. Many things have changed: The suit, the vehicles, or even the psychological approach to the character. But others, like people’s interest on this superhero, remain exactly the same. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
These are the contents of a mysterious white bag found hidden in Neil Armstrong’s closet: Weird looking lamps, wrenches, utility brackets, sights, and a film camera that later was identified as the one that captured the famous Apollo 11’s descent on the Moon’s surface. Nobody knew about it, including his widow. According to NASA, Carol…
Built and designed in the 1960s after the A-12 Oxcart, the SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest, most vanguardist air-breathing airplane in the history of aviation. These once classified photos reveal how Lockheed built both birds in secret, in California. They look taken at the Rebel base in Hoth. “Everything had to be invented” The…
Damn, science. Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China have created a see through eggshell to keep track of how an embryo grows over time. The material is made from a soft, silicon-based organic polymer that maintains the shape of a real eggshell but is completely transparent. What you’re looking at is what is happening…
