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Casa Los Algarrobos. Perched on the moutains of Puembo, Ecuador, this 8,966-square-foot (833m2) house is yet another dream home to live in and have peace, food, and sex forever. The views, the materials, the distribution—I like it all. But it’s that bedroom that took my heart away. I want to wake up there so badly.…
Argentinian beer Andes had a great idea: Let people use QR codes printed on their bottles to record video messages so friends or family could get them by pointing their camera phones at it. Then they made this hilarious ad campaign showing one potential use: Send uncomfortable messages about delicate matters. I wish someone could…
This is Zaha Hadid’s latest building, the headquarters for UAE’s environmental management company Bee’ah, in the emirate of Sharjah. The company says that Hadid’s “design team found inspiration in sand formations created by the wind’s movement and direction.” I say aliens.
Looking at this Airbus A300 fuselage cross-section at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, makes me realize once again how lucky we are to partake in the miracle of flying. Look at that, just some metal sheets, seats on top, luggage containers in the bottom. How the hell could that fly. Obligatory: P.S. I’m at…
The violin is a cute little instrument but also, as I learned from watching this video of violin maker (or luthier) John Young, a really interesting instrument to make. It’s artfully designed and carefully shaved down and is still made in a similar way from when it first appeared centuries ago. Young makes each violin…
This video is fascinating because it let’s us pretend to be a fly on the wall of a Porsche 911 engine assembly line. There’s no annoying soundtrack, no voiceover explaining what’s happening, we’re just seeing humans and machines teaming up to create beautiful, powerful engines that purr the best cars. All the shiny metal reminds…
I like this cute short film from animation studio Simpals called ‘Dji. Death fails’ because it shows how the Grim Reaper can be bad at his job too. Death, he’s just like us! The Grim Reaper thinks he has easy pickings when a driver careens off the road but ends with death escaping, well, death.…
A belt is so simple, it’s just fabric that ties together to hold up your pants. But in this video, you see how considered the process of making a leather belt is. Each feature of the belt, whether it be the holes or the rivets or the buckle or the color, is carefully handled and…
Just when I thought I had enough of Rosetta’s photos of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ESA has released this four-image mosaic that shows an incredible cliff more than one kilometer (0.62 miles) high. The image was taken from a distance of 20.1 kilometer on December 10. Here’s another version, zoomed out. The image resolution is 1.71 m/pixel…
That’s a red blood cell on top of a knife’s cutting edge. Now, we know we can’t see a red blood cell with our naked eyes. It’s too tiny. But we think we can see the cutting edge of a knife because it’s there in front of you, right? No, you can’t see it. To…
Today’s National Geographic Your Shot editor’s pick is this stunning image of what seems to be a man/alien hovering over the ground in a forest. In reality, it is a surreal photo of a diver in a cenote, in the Yucatán, Mexico. The lighting is so perfect and the water so clear that you can’t…
Look at this. It’s so perfect it seems artificial—some illuminated display inside a “Visit Norway” booth at a travel fair. It is actually the view from a cabin in the northwest coast of Norway, 250 miles northwest of Oslo, a paradise in the middle of a fjord. It is now one of my dream homes,…
I love Scott Park’s work. His collection posters—like these cars—are the best. This movie and TV heroines poster has 80 characters, from Agent Scully (The X Files) to Kira Nerys (Deep Space Nine) going through Leeloo (The Fifth Element) or Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill.) I just love to zoom in and go through all the…
Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom spend 20 years traveling to megapolis like Paris, New York or Shanghai to document the influence of globalization in the way people dress. His series People of the Twenty-First Century show clear patterns of taste and behavior that repeat across nationalities, races, and cultures. Hans Eijkelboom is a conceptual artist and…
Long takes are pure joy for the eye and can put your brain into a trance. This one—the Orson Welles’ cut from the opening scene of Touch of Evil—is one of the very best in filmmaking history, one of my favorites, and an absolute must-watch scene. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook…
Star Citizen’s new trailer claims all the footage is taken from the in-game engine, no pre-renderings, but it is so amazing, so detailed and beautiful, so impossibly complex, that I just can’t believe it. If it is really this way, I will buy a PC, an Oculus Rift, and disappear forever from the face of…
OK, F-35 Lightning II, OK. You look amazingly futuristic in this full frontal shot. That’s some Robotech-level shit right there. You win. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
If I had a Portal gun like these guys, I don’t think using it for basketball trick shots would have been on the top of my to do list. But after watching this video, I may have to change my mind. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
NuSTAR—NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, the most sensitive high energy X-ray telescope ever invented—has taken its first picture of the Sun ever and it looks absolutely amazing. Like the prettiest Christmas tree ornament. NuSTAR’s image is laid over another picture by Solar Dynamics Observatory. According to NASA: Green shows energies between 2 and 3 kiloelectron…
Every person who has seen the movie Up and also enjoys dreaming about fanciful things every now and again has thought about flying away in balloons like Carl Fredricksen. Professional daredevil and crazy person Erik Roner just did it. He bought tanks of helium to pump up giant balloons to make him fly. All it…
