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This one is an oldie, but I’m a sucker for NASA’s rocket comparison graphics. I cleaned the one above, which I tookfrom this PDF overview of NASA’s Space Launch System by the Marshall Space Center. I just wish someone made a high quality vector file to print out in giant format. SPLOID is delicious brain…
We love 8-bit Cinema’s game movie versions—like the ones they made for The Matrix or Inception.This video shows how they make them. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
I can’t figure out if this music video was made using computer graphics or macro photography. Maybe it’s a combination of both. Or maybe the eggs I ate this morning had some toxins and all of this is only happening inside my head. Aquarian is an electronic-music producer and photographer based on Brooklyn. This song,…
The MS Ostend Sprit was a cross-channel ferry operating between France and the UK which has been sold as scrap. This video shows the dangerous beaching maneuver where the vessel enters full speed into a demolishing yard in Turkey. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Here’s a fun video that uses a lot of symbolism and visual metaphors to describe the experience of a first date. The idea is simple but complex at the same time: we’re getting a peek inside the mind of a germaphobe and everything we see is an interpretation of what he’s seeing. It’s fun to…
If life was a video game right now, it’d be a pretty terrible one. That’s because it’d just be levels of Facebooks and Twitters and Instagrams and social networks that would encourage us to pimp our lives for likes. And push us to hashbrag what we do. And to make sure the world sees our…
Sure, it’s basically The Avengers re-casted with characters that we never knew existed fighting bad guys in space and yeah, it’s totally Marvel flexing their movie muscles and exploiting us sheep but man, Guardians of the Galaxy was fun. Even Honest Trailers admits how hard it is to make fun of this movie. SPLOID is…
This video contains one of the most terrifying human-produced sounds you can hear in the planet: The screaming noise from hell of an A-10 Warthog’s GAU-8 Avenger gatling gun.Some of the very few who were on its reticle and survived say its banshee scream was the worst thing they have ever heard. It is Satan’s…
Refik Anadol sent us this video of his latest multimedia project—Visions of America: Amériques—done in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The awesomeness here is that conductor Esa-pekka Salonen is driving both the orchestra and the entire 3D projection with his hand movements: ‘The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s multimedia presentation…
Watch Bill Gates—in Lego form no less!—tell you about his favorite books of 2014, an impeccable list that has a little bit of everything for everyone. I’ve included all his recommendations and short reviews below so you can easily buy any of them (I recommend getting all of them for yourself too. Good stuff.) The…
Highliners from around the world gathered last Thanksgiving in Moab, Utah, and built this insane pentagonal hammock suspended in the middle of a 400-foot-high canyon. The “Mothership Space Net Penthouse”—as they called it—took 3 days to complete and more than 50 people. The hole in the middle was used by BASE jumpers as a leaping…
These two guys were hiking in the High Tatras Mountains, in Slovakia, when they bumped into this frozen lake with crystal clear ice. The water is so transparent that they seem to be floating a few feet above the ground. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
The neighbors of this community in Yucaipa, California, synchronized the Holiday lights on their houses together to create this impressive show. I can’t imagine the endless discussions to agree on colors, types of lights, or music—a nightmare before Christmas. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Holy cow. I don’t know how professional skier Cody Townsend pulled off this insane ski line that saw him pretty much drop straight down and then through the most narrow of cracks while skiing insanely fast but he did it. The English language is not equipped to express how unbelievably mind-blowingly awesome his ski run…
The Landing is a powerful short film directed by Josh Tanner that tells the story of a mysterious UFO crash in the 1960s and the truth that is revealed when it’s found again in the present day. It makes us question what is alien and makes us wonder if it’s better off just not knowing…
Here’s a clever video that shows the “formation” of a snowflake. It’s actually footage of a snowflake melting but it’s played in reverse so it seems like we’re seeing the birth of a snowflake. But even though it uses that bit of trickery, it’s such a beautiful process to see. I wish we could see…
A lot of people already think that riding a motorcycle is dangerous. A lot of people find riding a roller coaster thrilling and scary. So why not combine the both and use a motorcycle to ride a roller coaster track? Mixing all that scariness and dangerousness and ridiculous thrills together gets you pure crazy. Red…
Most people don’t know this, but NASA doesn’t only work in exploring space. Its contribution to airplane technology—National Aeronautics and Space Administration—has been crucial to the development of safer, faster, more efficient travel. These are their coolest future concepts—some of which could enter service as soon as 2025. These concepts have been developed working with…
Enjoy this neat time-lapse of all the International Space Station modules assembled since 1998 because, as the international tension between East and West continues, it’s starting to become clear that it won’t survive beyond its already extended-mission time limit of 2020. If you are curious about all the pieces, here’s a map: Humans. Two steps…
It’s hard to imagine the size and hostility of Antarctica from the comfort of our warm homes. Its overwhelming vastness feels like an alien world right here on Earth. Yet, this Wes Andersonian documentary makes it look fun to live there. These are the daily adventures of the people who work at Union Glacier, in…
