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Greg McLeod—from BAFTA Award-winning animation studio The Brothers McLeod—created “one second of animation every day for the 365 days of the year 2013.” According to him, there was “no storyline, script or storyboard. The ideas come from things read, seen or experienced on the day.” Brilliant. You can purchase a digital copy here. SPLOID is…
Aaron Gough makes great custom knives. Here you can see him crafting “a prototype bushcraft/camping knife using only simple tools. The blade is made from O1 tool steel, the handle is made from brown Micarta.” It’s so relaxing to watch that now I want to have a siesta. Here’s one that he made for an…
Crushing cars should be obligatory for every human being. We should all spend a day in a junkyard at least once a month. It would be more calming that a bathtub full of Valium. Just watching this video with four ways to dispose of cars relaxes me. I want to try them all. SPLOID is…
This happens to me very often—and I’m sure it happens to you too: I’m watching a movie and one of the characters wears really cool glasses, so I go to google and look for the brand. British opticians Yates and Suddell spare us the work with this neat infographic showing the most iconic movie glasses…
Oh man, this week’s French-inspired Pornburger is making me drool real bad: I drooled when I saw the picture. I drooled when I read the ingredients—I’m dying to try the bone marrow onion jam. I just can’t stop drooling, really. Here are the ingredients: Melted Gruyère de Comté over a grass fed beef patty, a…
This neat CollegeHumor video explains the origins of tipping and debunks some of the most popular arguments in favor of this stupid American custom. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
I didn’t think it was possible for that impossibly weird cage fighting nude shorts music video by Sia with Shia LaBeouf and Maddie Ziegler to get any weirder than it already was but if you remove out all the music from the video and replace it with sounds of what’s actually happening, boy, it’s a…
I don’t know what the hell I was expecting from a short titled He Took His Skin Off For Me, but I sure wasn’t expecting this. A love story that is a horror nightmare that is a metaphor of certain relationships. Or vice versa. All with with excellent 100-percent practical special effects. Hard to watch,…
This movie can’t come fast enough because each trailer unveils a new layer and just adds to the sure to be epic-ness of The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron. The latest trailer shows off some more action sequences and reveals a lot of infighting and gets quite tense thanks to every character giving their best…
Most of you have probably watched The Big Lebowski like a gajillion times and remember enough lines to re-create entire scenes by yourself but there still may be some tidbits that you don’t know about the cult classic. Like a kooky conspiracy theory that links The Dude with 9/11. CineFix tackles 7 things you didn’t…
To celebrate David Bowie’s 68th birthday earlier this year, Artist Helen Green made this very fun illustration of David Bowie showing him change throughout the years in animated GIF form. Bowie has inhabited so many different hairstyles and faces and styles that he almost looks like a different person each time. You can see the…
Back in 2006, Jérôme Lambert and Philippe Picard made this short documentary showing the creative process behind the first cover that made the fanatics to target Charlie Hebdo, a magazine that I used to read when I was a student in France. A unique look into a creative process that will surprise many Americans. At…
Many of us have seen a 22º halo, that surreal circle of rainbow-colored light around the sun, in real life. Some of us have seen a sun pillar in real life. A lucky few have seen a sun dog in real life. But I doubt any of you have seen them all of these super…
This hilarious short film by creative agency Studio Hansa shows a regular day in a corporate office. A place where everybody seems to be waiting for an opportunity to hurt you in the most sadistic way. Sometimes it really feels that way. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Japanese carpenters are famous for their elaborate joining techniques that put their wooden constructions among the most durable in the world. These videos show how this neat ancient technique works. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
It’s always exciting to receive a message from a master like Vincent Laforet telling you about his new photos. This time he has outdone himself (once again!) so I had to share it right away. Never in my life I’ve seen New York from this perspective and with this stunning quality—so perfect it feels unreal.…
This week NASA published new astonishing high definition images of the famous Pillars of Creation—two 4-light-year-tall columns located in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years from here, first photographed in 1995. The only problem is that the pillars don’t exist—they were destroyed more than a thousand years ago. Limited by our understanding of reality and…
If you existed in the year 2014, you have probably either cringed or sang along or cringed while singing along to Taylor Swift’s oppressively catchy song Shake It Off. Just why the hell is it so catchy ? Well, for one it’s pop. But also as Chilly Gonzales explains, it’s the same principles that has made…
This woman totally seems like she has harnessed the power of a black hole and can suck up all the light and everything around her. But it’s just a nice little camera trick showing swinging burning steel wool in reverse. The light flies to her as she twists and turn but in reality, it’s just…
I keep getting my dreams shattered. When I was a kid I thought the Rebel Alliance hangar could have been a real stage but it was just one of many matte paintings, an example of ILM’s visual sorcery. But the scene of the Emperor coming to the Death Star? I was absolutely, 100-percent convinced that…
