Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
I love this stop motion animation video so much. Created by animator Jon Rolph, it shows a painter painting but instead of using regular ol’ paint, the paint is made of Lego. It’s so clever and so well done, you can see how the lighter brushstrokes use different bricks from the finished painting. SPLOID is…
Being an ant is hard. Being an ant around humans is even harder. Being an ant around humans who are skating on a skateboard in a skateboard is pretty much impossible. This video uses CGI to imagine the struggle of an ant at the park and pretty much everything is either an obstacle or a…
D’Espresso was a neat coffee shop on 317 Madison Avenue, New York, that had its walls, ceiling, and floor turned 90 degrees. It makes me sightly dizzy when I look at the photo. Maybe that’s why it does not exist anymore. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
The light angle helps, no doubt, but the depth of the ink inthis microscope photo of a one dollar bill is impressive. Keep in mind that the dollar bill is only 0.0043 inches thick (o.1 millimeters): SIZE: US currency bills are are 2.61 inches wide and 6.14 inches long; they are .0043 inches thick and…
I didn’t know that the Svalbard Seed Vault—the doomsday ark that will keep safe the seeds for 820,619 plants in case of nuclear war, massive natural catastrophes, or asteroid impacts—looked this amazing at night. It clearly looks the part. High five, architects. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
According to Nick Park’s answer to this Redditor’s question,the manufacturing cost for the original models of Wallace and Gromit is $20,000 a pop. It’s hard to believe looking at Gromit’s guts here, but knowing that every single part—including the plasticine—is custom made, it seems like a reasonable price. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
Like a game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, these interactive maps show the relationship between all the inventors listed in Apple’s patents and its Wizard of Oz: Steve Jobs—the big red dot. He’s connected to almost every patent and team, from industrial design to hardware to user interfaces to music to security. Kenedict’s André…
If you have the book Incredible Cross-Sections of Star Wars you already know the amazing work of Hans Jenssen, a genius technical illustrator based in the United Kingdom. His work, done using classic drawing techniques and no computer aid whatsoever, is a pure joy to zoom in and explore. His non-Star Wars work is equally…
Steven Edmundson uploaded this extraordinary video of the landing of the enormous Lockheed C-5 Galaxy—one of the largest cargo aircrafts on Earth—from the point of view of its undercarriage. According to some commenters, it landed on Travis Air Force Base, in California. Steven Edmundson uploaded also a video of the C5 Galaxy taking-off shot from…
Watch Júlíus Björnsson (AKA The Mountain of Game Of Thrones) carrying a 1433-pound (650 Kg) log on his back and walk five steps with it breaking a 1000-year-old viking weightlifting record. The record is based on the 1000-year-old legend of Orm Storulfsson, an Icelander that carried a 1433 pounds and 33 feet (10 meters) long…
LA-based director Darren Pearson gives a masterclass on long exposure photography and light painting technique in this neat video. The time-lapse shows a light-made skeleton with some serious skateboarding skills. Darren writes: These light-sculptures are created through long exposure photography (the same technique commonly used to write a name with a sparkler or capture car…
PipocaVFX’s We Go Forward starts off as most cheery side scrolling video games do: run, jump, smash bad guys and keep going forward. But then the game transforms into a metaphor for life: we can’t make the jump but we can’t go backwards so we settle, we teach our kids to be better and then…
A good logo should be easily and universally recognized, even if it were written in Chinese. But sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. Chinatown, a project by Mehmet Gozetlik, shows how a famous logo can look both foreign and yet still somehow be recognizable at the same time. It’s like getting a glimpse of…
Octopuses have become my favorite animals because it’s very clear that they possess super powers from an alien world and even clearer that they use those powers for evil (or exactly how I would use them). Here’s an octopus showing off his truly incredible camouflage powers. It goes from a brown mound to a blue…
I don’t know if ridiculous 90’s style commercials like this completely disappeared or if it was just because I stopped watching Saturday morning cartoons but I totally miss getting sold diabetes or useless toys from overexcited kids and crude special effects and weird parents. This parody of those 90’s commercial nails them. RocketJump totally skewers…
Our favorite Crazy Ivanis back with more photos: Kirill Oreshkinis one of the few people who can make me panic by just looking at his photos climbing onto any building or structure without any safety measures whatsoever. And then hanging there all calm, as if he were just having tea and biscuits. SPLOID is delicious…
I’m sure that professional and semi-professional bowlers know that high end bowling balls are not solid but contain weird-looking cores that are supposed to make your game better. I don’t know how much science is there, but you can listen to the explanation on this marketing video by ball manufacturer Storm. Any bowling pros would…
Redditor and adventurer Orenishamtook this amazing photo climbing up Ridjim Assaf on Jebel Rum, Jordan. It reminds me of the The Word of God, the second challenge of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: “Only in the footsteps of God, shall he proceed.” He explains that the local call this siq jump: A ‘siq’ is…
It may be the weird combination of airplanes, their colors, or the texture of the runway, but this photo of two Bangladesh F-7BG Defenders, a BAF C-130B Hercules and two U.S. Air Force C-130H Herculesas they prepare to take off from BAF Base Bangabandhu, Bangladesh, feels like a 3D render to me. SPLOID is delicious…
Lockheed Martin has published a surprising listof all the stuff that flew to space in the first Orion test. You are looking at one of the items: A Tyrannosaurus Rex’s tooth fossil sent by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Here’s another one: A Cookie Monster’s cookie and Ernie’s original rubber duckie. More items:…
