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Despite a million heartaches, I’m still a sucker for love-at-first-sight and love-against-all-odds stories. Kismet Diner is the perfect example: A waitress sings songs to a patron she has a crush on, but he always ignores her advances. Or does he? Watch it. I’m sure you’re going to like it—but get some Kleenex ready. (But don’t…
I started to watch this video expecting a routine BASE jump, but no, it’s nothing routine. “JT Holmes follows Mark Broderick as he pushes the limits of base jumping with nine front flips on a tower,” says the description. Indeed. Broderick cut it so close that, for a moment there, I thought he was going…
An all-girls high school student claims that her yearbook photo has been heavily altered to change her face in the name of “beautification.” Apparently, removal of blemishes like zits is normal practice nowadays, but this goes way beyond that, with face thinning, eyebrow reshaping, and skin recoloring. I go to an all girls high school…
Five hundred million years ago our eyes were only little cavities with the ability to detect the direction of the incoming light. That cavity evolved radically transforming into the complex organs we all know today. But how did this happen? This TedEd video has the scientific answer: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
I don’t know why I find this so funny, but I can’t avoid laughing every time I seethis video of a dude flying his DJI Phantom 2 drone for the first time—only to see it fall into the water after running out of power. Watch the video to see him struggling in the water to…
Pepsi celebrated the New Year with a cool visual experiment: They put thousands of ping pong balls on mousetraps, then they actioned one of the traps making the ball fall on the others triggering an epic chain reaction . As reader Inane boy points out, the idea isn’t new—maybe nothing is anymore. The same experiment…
Film blog Keyframe asked its readers which were the best movies from the 2010s—from 2010 to 2014. Then, they compiled the results of that poll ranking the 26 most voted movies in this neat video. The list includes films like Moonrise Kingdom, The Act of Killing, or The Social Network. Check out the full list—149…
These pictures by photographer Rebecca Rütten made me laugh so much because she re-created Renaissance-era poses and still life paintings with people today and a whole lot of junk food. It’s a wonderful commentary on our culture and is pretty much what the Renaissance would look like, if it happened in 2015. Rütten writes about…
I don’t know if I’m hungry or turned on right now and it’s such a weird mix of feelings to experience at the same time. The close up shots of this Chocolate Framboise Mille-Feuille is borderline explicit and yet it’s just food being whisked and dolloped, whipped and dripped around. It’s artful pornography you can…
The public service announcement is emotionally manipulative and strategically pulls at the most basic things everyone likes (cute kids! young love!) and might even be scripted and is definitely edited nicely but still, the message is something that even children know to be true: Domestic violence is not okay. The video starts off as an…
Here’s the music video for She & Him’s song Stay Awhile. It’s a lovely stroll that follows Zooey Deschanel dancing around with an invisible person inside a bedroom, a living room and the clouds. Dancing alone is always the best since no one is watching but dancing with an invisible person looks even better. She…
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Dayis back with a winner: Saturn’s crescent phase captured by Cassini with its rings and the moon Rhea. It looks like a menacing eye from a colossal evil being from another dimension opening in the darkness of space, watching all of us. There’s an amazing movie too: SPLOID is delicious…
That trail behind the Empire State Building is a Minotaur V rocket taking a spacecraft to the Moon. The photo was taken by Ben Cooper from Top of the Rock, Rockefeller Center, 265 miles away from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Here are 10 more phenomenal launch photos from Mr. Cooper: Orion launch on…
I think my dog Amos—attentively listening above—understands me. I’m not talking about his hundred tricks learned thanks to these guys and the power of the clicker (he follows commands better than most kids.) I’m talking about true understanding. This video explains why this thought isn’t crazy at all. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
A new long-term study of Eta Carinae—”the most luminous and massive star within 10,000 light-years”—has revealed amazing, never-before-seen features using data captured by multiple observatories during 11 years using multiple observatories, including the Swift and the Hubble. Located about 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina, Eta Carinae comprises two massive stars whose…
This neat Ikea commercial feels like a National Geographic documentary about bird migrations. But instead of birds, it is your beloved t-shirts. They did it to illustrate how, when the cold time comes, it’s time to use Ikea’s storage to put your summer clothes away. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…
These Indian kids don’t need a calculator to solve mathematical operations in just seconds. They do it all in their heads using a mental abacus—an old Asian technique that allows them to visualize an imaginary abacus and operate it to perform the calculations. This video explains how it works—just don’t pay attention to the exaggerated…
Sploid loves awesome places, which is why we have a series dedicated to beautiful cities. Awesome places like New York City, which looks incredibly beautiful in Victor Chu’s aerial film of the five boroughs: Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. It just needs some Rolling Stones for that soundtrack. This is part of a…
Lil Amok—a professional dancer based in Berlin, Germany—strapped fireworks to his ankles, lighted them up, and performed this insane breakdance show. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Olivier Pron was the lede matte painter for Guardians of the Galaxy. His concepts for the movie sets—and other movies and personal projects—are extremely cool. I love the Chris Foss-iness of Xandar, the home planet of the Nova Corps. The rest of his work is equally great. I wish I could roam his worlds with…
