Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
This music video directed by Christophe Thockler for Victoria+Jean’s song Firecracker reminds me a little bit of staring inside a kaleidoscope. Only if the inside of that kaleidoscope was filled with mini-drones in the shape of marbles that move around as if they were controlled by one hive mind. My imagination aside, it’s pretty cool.…
Anthony Bourdain has a new show of sorts that explores the craftsmanship of certain items and the people behind them and the first episode focuses on Borough Furnace, a small metal casting workshop that makes handcrafted cast iron skillets. You see a bit of the process of how they turn recycled iron into cookware. It’s…
DARPA’s Airborne Launch Assist Space Accessis not a new idea. In fact, they have been working on it for some time. Now the Pentagon’s research arm have a neat concept video to show us how they are planning to put stuff in low earth orbit. You know, like satellites and other secret darpish things. SPLOID…
“Jupiter Ascending isn’t just a mediocre film. It’s also self-indulgent, and in love with its own excesses,” says Charlie Jane Anders for io9. One of the excesses is the glorious eye candy, which seems to be a constant mental overload. You can thank the genius of George Hull and his baroque concept art for that.…
I’ve seen this cutting operation with smaller glass panes, but I would have never imagined that it could work so nicely at such a big scale without the glass shattering in a million pieces. I can watch these dudes doing this job for hours. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Our good old friend, the amazing master chef Raymond Blanc, shares the best tips for grilling and barbecuing fish, meat, vegetables, seafood, or even fruit in another set of his mouth-watering recipes. These are his best tips: Before grilling an eggplant make two little incisions with a knife so it doesn’t explode. Remove the backbone…
So this machine comes with a weird thingie and it starts moving the ground and then there’s this weird hose that goes under and stuff or something. I guess the hose will be connected to a pump to drain the water at some point. I don’t know. I don’t care. I just know that I…
Earlier this week we saw some beautiful footage of an Airbus A380 cutting through clouds. Youtube user flugsnug made this neat video showing different aircrafts create more of this amazing atmospheric effects: Cool trailing vortices caused by wing condensation and mesmerizing spiral clouds. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Polish illustrator Gabz (Grzegorz Domaradzki) reimagines the posters of some of the most popular movies—like Terminator, Apocalypse Now, Inception or Bullit—in this cool series of prints. Grzegorz Domaradzki(AKA Gabz) is an illustrator and graphic designer from Poland. After the graduation, he first worked as an illustrator and later as a graphic designer for various advertising…
If you have played Destiny, you are familiar withJesse van Dijk’s phenomenal work. His work as lead concept artist at Bungie have resulted in incredibly vast settings full of detail. His architecture feels real, with purpose, history, character. His titanic machinery, overwhelmingly heavy, solid. Jesse van Dijk is Dutch concept artist now living in Seattle…
Vietnam is where my family is from and I only just visited the country for the first time a few weeks ago. The food is delicious, the people were kind and it seems like a wonderful place to get lost in and explore and get lost again. Georgy Tarasov and his brother spent 45 days…
I don’t know why this is so unsettling. The eerie music and the fact that the drone is taking footage from abandoned places doesn’t help but it’s also mostly because the world is literally flipped upside down and my normally aligned brain can’t begin to process that without melting a little bit. Underdrone by Claire…
The ground just starts cracking right in front of the snowboarder. I mean, what do you even do when the ground fractures and the snow murmurs and life glitches like that? What do you do when you have two seconds to realize you’re screwed and to come up with a plan to unscrew yourself? You…
Neat animation effects in this video directed by Ernest Desumbila for Lighten Up, the latest song by Citizens! This London band kind of reminds me of Phoenix after going through a dance club blender mixed with some LCD Soundsystem and Pet Shop Boys ice. Good track to drive around LA, destination unknown. Citizens! is a…
It may look like the SR-71 Blackbird, but this sleek flying beast is not the most famous supersonic spy plane ever created but its father, the A-12 Oxcart. In some ways, it was a better machine than the famous Blackbird. This is its history. The story of this Mach 3.2 technological wonder starts in 1957…
The Universe is an incredible place that defies belief. We take it for granted because the distances and scale is so alien to our little tiny pale blue dot that our brains can’t even process them. Maybe that’s why Italian artist St. Tesla turns galaxies and nebulae into tiny precious jewels. “Macrocosm and microcosm is…
There’s no reason why a full size version of this RC quadcopter Millennium Falcon wouldn’t work. We just need a good titanium frame, a carbon fiber hull, the twin turboshaft engines from four Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawks, a light cockpit from a Sikorsky Schweizer, and we are in business. Punch it! Here’s the second flight with…
Argentinians are masters at cooking meat. The asado—their version of barbecue—is known around the world. Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann explains in this video which are the best cutsand why they are so special. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Everything in slow motion looks cooler. But there are always exceptions. In this case, the exception is called Leonard (Martin Starr): A white collar worker with a serious slow motion condition. The film was directed by Peter Livolsi. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Nature is never not amazing. Even the simplest things—things you’ve seen in 7th grade science class—are impressive to watch again and again. Like this time lapse of an acorn transforming itself into an oak seedling over a period of 8 months. One day, that little guy is going to be one helluva tree. SPLOID is…
