Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
The Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark—the first Chinese carrier-based fighter that is designed to match and even surpass the American F/A-18E/F Super Hornet—is no longer a test prototype. This photo shows fully operative serial units on the deck of the Liaoning, People’s Liberation Army Navy’s aircraft carrier. According to the US Naval Institute, “these aircraft are…
Take a look at the trailer for Big Game,the new movie starring Samuel L. Jackson, directed by Jalmari Helander. It’s like a ridiculous mix of Home Alone, Die Hard, and Escape from New York set on the mountains and forests of Finland. I can’t wait to see this one. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
Stunning image of the Nile River and the cities all along its path captured by astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore while flying over North Africa onboard the International Space Station. It looks like King Cobra made of light, with the heading Cairo. Somewhere in another dimension, the pharaohs are smiling. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
Photographer Julian Calverley recently got a job in Faroe Islands, in the Kingdom of Denmark. He used the frequent dead times during the shooting to take some pictures of the surroundings with his camera phone. The result is this stunning collection of otherworldly landscapes that makes me wish I was there now. These beautiful islands…
Yesterday was the anniversary of one of the most surreal music performances in TV story: 35 years ago David Bowie ushered the 1980s in Saturday Night Live. The producers censored a gay reference in the last of his three-song set—but they missed him repeatedly showing a giant penis at the end of it. [NSFW-ish] Bowie’s…
Here’s a beautiful video by french designers Alexis Zacchi and Federico Pelat—a brilliant typographic exercise that contains the 26 letters of the alphabet, each made in the style of contemporary and classical art masters. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Probably inspired by the thousands of YouTube videos featuring daredevils failing in their stunts, the ad agency 303lowe created this hilarious ad for Australian insurance company Budget Direct—the story of Captain Risky and his clumsy stunts. It is brilliant. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Belgium online music platform Hello Play’s New Year promo video is a loose guide to the basics of electronic music. All the visual effects are made on camera using stop motion, 3D prints, and six kilograms of white chocolate. This is how they made it: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…
That is one hell of a boom. Which makes sense since it’s an explosion of a factory of things that go boom. The explosion occurred in Colombia and injured two people. The initial blast knocked the cameraman over and the ensuing fireworks kept shooting out for a solid minute after that. It’s pretty nuts. SPLOID…
My pores on the palms of my hands are shaking. My caps on my knees are sweating. I’m having trouble breathing. And it’s all because of this slightly terrifying video showing a tower climber climbing atop a 1500-foot TV tower to change the lightbulb like it’s a leisurely walk in the park. Praire Aerial writes:…
Making bourbon is already hard and magical and totally worth it but before you even think about pumping that liquid gold deliciousness, you have to worry about the barrels you’re going to store the whiskey in. Making those whiskey barrels are a whole ‘nother story, as you’ll see in this video. A lot of wood,…
We have featured plenty of extreme airliner landings and insane maneuvers, but not a lot of crazy take offs. Some Redditor made a GIF from a video of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in almost-vertical-take-off, originally filmed at the 2014 Farnborough International Airshow. There’s plenty more angles: More angles: Yet nother angle plus a touch-and-go: Bonus:…
This unidentified flying object was captured on video over Southern California. The UFO—which is producing a corkscrew tail that seems to indicate rotational movement—ejects some round thing that flies into another direction at a faster speed than the object itself. What can it all be? First, watch the video: What could it be? A meteor…
I wish I could go through life with one of these lasers that can remove any substance from most surfaces. Accumulated dirt, steel rust, bronze patinas, plastic residues, oil… anything. Above you can see oxide being remove from a steel plate (source video) but check out this collection I just made. So satisfying. Rubber residue…
While our favorite crazy weapons inventor Joerg Sprave made this drill-powered machine gun using cap guns, he says that you can easily use any .22 revolver because the trigger resistance is the same. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
The people at the beautiful Woods Hole Inn* have snapped these photos of Steve Jobs’ yacht in the wild. It’s the first time we have seen Venus open like this, offering a peek at its interior design. It looks like a summer home from this angle. Here are two more views of the starboard and…
366 Days—an award-winning animation short film written and directed by Johannes Friedrich Schiehsl—tells the story of a young man working in an ambulance during his year of national service. As he gets closer to his patients he realizes they all suffer from the same illness: Loneliness. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook…
French BASE jumper Matthias Giraud had the “ridiculously dumb idea” of making a paraglide rope swing. Everyone probably told him that it was also a bad, absolutely crazy idea but, after a couple of years of preparation, he went with some friends to the Columbia River Gorge and did it. This is what happened: SPLOID…
It seems that, every time the heavy rain season comes, some Austrians live in a permanent situation of impending disaster. Just look at these homes right next to a flood protection wall that seems about to burst and destroy everything. I completely missed this when it happened back in 2013. It looks terrifying but, if…
I’m imagining this animation by Minhyuk Jang called Rocketboy as a glimpse into the note book from the kid in the back of the classroom. It’s a little dark mixed with a lot of imagination and is sketched in a way that reminds me of those outside of the margins doodles that we all made.…
