Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
I love to see Earth next to other objects, like this comparison of all planets and the Sun or this visualization of all the planets between the Earth and the Moon. It helps me comprehend the scale of it all. Actually, it doesn’t. It just doesn’t compute, sorry. Ron Miller imagined how this would look…
Ladies and gentlemen, after the great MacGyver musicless intro comes another classic starring the Hoff himself: Knight Rider! I just can’t have enough of them looking at the camera and laughing like morons. Mario Wienerroither, I don’t know why you keep doing these but please never stop. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
Susi Sie refuses to use computer animation and effects. She just likes to explore all kinds of physical substances and push it around to create amazing animations. Some of her work defies belief as in “I can’t bloody believe these are made just using real stuff and not computers.” This is her showreel: And just…
First We Feast reader Juan Cisneros made this great comic explaining why astronauts eat tortillas instead of bread in space. Mexican astronaut and scientist Rodolfo Neri Vela was the first requesting them for a mission back in 1985. From that moment it became a staple of the astronauts’ diet. They use Taco Bell’s tortillas that…
Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Mike Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw, and Ralph McQuarrie. Updated: Frank Ordaz…
The Rescued Film Project is an online gallery showing pictures found in lost film rolls from countries all over the world. They recently discovered a batch of 31 undeveloped rolls taken by a World War II American soldier, 70 years ago. Here are some of his best: This video documents the process and development of…
Lockheed Martin sent us this impressive shot by Matt Short of the F-35 Lightning II showing all the weaponry it can carry. Of course, it can’t carry everything you see at the same time, just a few of them. But it’s designed to carry—and fire—any of them. An F-35A, at Edwards AFB, Calif., is pictured…
Check out this detailed video timeline showing every single X-Men member that ever joined the team from September 1963, when Stan “The Man” Lee and Jack “The King” Kirby debuted X-Men #1 with Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, Beast, and Marvel Girl, led by Professor X. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
They may not have the cool F-16s of the US Air Force’s Thunderbirds or the ultra-cool Northrop F-5E Tiger II of the Patroullie Suisse, but the Spanish Air Force’s Patrulla Águila (Eagle Patrol) can do some cool tricks too. Here they are landing in formation. Bonus: Enjoy this short list of the best aerobatic teams:…
Watch Chris Van Dine racing on the down hill urban course of Taxco, Mexico. He first crashes attempting a backflip at full speed—then he tries again, jumps and rides his bike on a wall, before completing a successful backflip. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Watch Michelin-star chef Raymond Blanc explain how to roast various ingredients to perfection. Just follow his tips and you’ll be able to reach food heaven in your own kitchen. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
If you like starling murmurations you’ll get a mental orgasm with this stunning video filmed by Alpacamedia in Utretch, Netherlands. Just sit back, take it to full screen, hit play, and the rest of the world will fade away while you watch thousands of birds dance to a mysterious silent song. SPLOID is delicious brain…
I love my Swedes, especially when they get crazy. I’m not so sure about launching fireworks rockets under the ice of a frozen lake. That’s just dumb. Fun, but dumb. Go home and leave the fish alone, Swedes. You are drunk. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Dominik Sky is the name. His superpower: Jump like freaking Daredevil. Or Trinity and Neo, from The Matrix. He says he has “been working on this video for about a year. Lots of injuries and set backs in between but it was worth the trouble.” You can see the failures and injuries in the video…
New aerial footage and satellite photos show the titanic field of lava growing north of the Vatnajökull, the largest in Iceland. According to NASA, the “Holuhraun lava field had spread across more than 84 square kilometers (32 square miles),” larger than Manhattan, the biggest in 200 years. And it isn’t stopping. The eruption started as…
The Smithsonian Channel just uploaded this very silly but pretty cool animation of an hypothetical battle between a mighty dragon and an AH-64 Apache helicopter. Who do you think it will win, the mythical fire-breathing creature or one of the most lethal machines created by men? SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook…
French profesional skier Candide Thovex made this great point of view video showing his insane ski skills. The video starts with him taking a shower at home and ends with him locked in an elevator confronted by a crowd of angry skiers. You don’t want to miss what happens in between. SPLOID is delicious brain…
Using 24 key social, economic, and environmental indicators, our friend Félix Pharand-Deschênes has created a dashboard that shows how human pressure on planet Earth is reaching critical level. Fast. The acceleration shown over the last 60 years is absolutely crazy. Zoom in. Freak out. Just look at those curves—some of them exponential. World population and…
This is old, but it has resurfaced today and it is so good that it is worth a re-post. Heck, we should be posting it every week. Watch genius Charlie Brooker—creator of the must-watch Black Mirror—slamming today’s generic TV news reporting style by delivering a hilarious news report on news reports. SPLOID is delicious brain…
This beautiful Adidas’ commercial directed by Karim Huu Do—featuring Pharrell Williams, David Beckham, Rita Ora and Damian Lillard—questions what a superstar really is. So we have to buy their shoes I guess? Ah, leave the shoes, take the canoli. Who cares. It’s a pleasure to watch. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook…
