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When a screw sticks out on metal or isn’t perfectly flush with the surface, an angel in heaven loses an eyeball. Or something like that. But fret not eyeballs of angels in heaven, people of Earth can make a screw completely flush. It’s a lot of filing and sanding and hammering but eventually the screw…
When I first saw this my first thought was “wow, Shanghai is looking really crazy these days,” thinking that it was a photo. Then I zoomed in and saw it was a painting. The author is a young French artist named Klaus Pillon—who says it is the world map for an incoming indie video game.…
Come spend your vacation in the beautiful fields of Madagascar, they said. It will soothe your soul, they said. That’s what I imagine Michele Martinelli—the author of this photo featured by National Geographic’s Your Shot—thought when millions of locust took to the skies with a deafening bone-chilling buzz. A dense swarm of locusts obscures a…
Consciousness uploading to a computer network at the time of death. It is a great idea. It will happen. People will be able to live forever, roam the universe, experience the unimaginable. Or perhaps it will all get ruined by corporations, as this video—which can be the plot for a Black Mirror episode—shows. Do you…
British ad agency Joint London made these postcards swapping the traditional Santa claus in Coca-Cola’s iconic Christmas illustration for real top fashion designers’ clothes. If you feel fashionably stupid or stupidly fashionable these holidays, you can download the postcards here. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Not long ago sites like Netscape or Altavista were the kings of that new thing called the internet. That thing has evolved to the point that I can’t believe there was a time when Facebook and Goolgle didn’t even exist. This infographic shows that evolution listing the 20 most popular sites from 1996 to 2013.…
I’m so in love with the amazing paintings of Simon Stålenhag. So much that I’m posting about him again. There’s something about his aesthetics that remind me of the sci-fi movies from the 1980s—the combination of color, everyday suburbia scenes, and the kids wandering around his world. Simon Stålenhag is a Swedish illustrator who lives…
Dutch photographer Juuke Schoorl explores the limits of human skin in this series of pictures called Rek—stretch in Dutch. To create such patterns and shapes she doesn’t use Photoshop but cheep household materials like nylon fishing rope or tape. The artist writes: With ‘Rek’ (stretch in Dutch) I explore the aesthetic possibilities of the human…
I don’t know if I would be happy to fly so close of an active volcano that is ejecting lava like in this photo featured on National Geographic’s Your Shot. I know the plane is not flying over the lava, but you never know when Earth is going to get mad. For photographer Baldur Sveinsson,…
I’m a big fan of Conan O’Brien (and Andy Richter) and this supercut of his show at TBS is a great sample of their particular brand of hilarious absurd humor. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
BAFTA-winning animator Jonathan Hodgson said Rabbit and Deer—a short film by Péter Vácz and Attila Bertóti—”is a stunningly directed and beautifully crafted play on the universal conflict of emotional incompatibility.” He’s completely right. Some of the best 15 minutes I’ve spend in front a screen this year. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
I never get tired of Brusspup’s Amazing Animated Optical Illusions series because I love making my eyes feel dumb and in turn making myself feel even dumber. It’s always good to humble yourself with optical illusions. Especially optical illusions that seem to be animated to move but are actually just well designed images. The lines…
I’ve always liked watching home improvement shows because the idea of rebuilding and renovating and creating with your own hands is so interesting to me. But this time lapse of an apartment being completely remodeled is better than any of those TV shows because it scrunches 120 days of work into one video. I’d advise…
Here’s a short film by Ancarani Studio that shows the process of making a Beretta shotgun. It’s an artistic take on the process so shots are dolled up and it’s not like every Beretta gun comes with its own birth movie but I love seeing how futuristic robots and old fashioned human craftsmanship work together.…
Perhaps the best part about the new Star Wars trailer was seeing BB-8, the adorable rolling ball robot in the new Star Wars movie, bounce and roll itself across the screen. It looked so familiar and so cute and so perfect as the new movie’s answer to R2-D2. And the best thing about it? BB-8…
Director Alexander Engel sent us his short This Is It—a 3-minute look into the daily life of roommates with a dialog entirely constructed with questions. It is funny because this is really it, this is exactly how it is. My advice: Don’t live with a roommate. Try to avoid it at all costs because all…
Many people know how a camera works—at least conceptually. In the practice, it’s not easy to imagine (in fact, it truly blows my mind if I really think of it.) This excellent 3D visualization shows exactly how the photo is taken. Very very neat. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Criterion Collection just released an amazing 306-page book showing all the cover art work they commissioned to different artists during last 30 years. This neat video, full of cinematic references, is a sneak peek into that book. You can buy the book here. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Outstanding photo of 24 (twenty-four!) USAF military transports in an elephant walk on December 6, 2014, at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. Eleven C-130H Hercules’ and 13 C-130J Super Hercules’ prepare to take off Dec. 6, 2014, from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, in support of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School’s Joint Forcible Entry…
This is really fun: A web service that will turn your text messages into video messages using words taken from famous movies and TV series. It’s name is Crumble. Give it a try here. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
