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There’s something about this magnificent photo of the Eiffel Tower taken by Sylke Scholz that makes it look completely different from what I remember—most probably the choice of lenses. Sylke Scholz is a photographer based in Dresden, Germany. You can follow her on Flickr. This is part of a series in which we are featuring…
Amazing video of a large cargo ship passing through a small storm and the effect it has on its steel megastructure, which bends and moves as if it were made with Play-Doh. I love the sea but looking at what it is capable of and how small we are compared to it, I get terrified.…
As if wingsuits and BASE jumping weren’t dangerous enough, skydivers Espen Fadnes and Bjørn Magne Bryn decided that it would be cool to dock midair, one acting like a magic carpet and the other surfing standing on top. Well, Espen and Bjørn: You’re totally right. That was cool—and fucking crazy too. In August 2014, Team…
I’ve seen lots of photos of airborne refueling, but always from the side of the boom operator. I’ve never seen the fuel nozzle like this. It looks so weird and cool! I like how the nozzle comes out of the flying boom, like the mini-mouth coming out of the alien’s mouth. This is how it…
Against all odds, Philae has confirmed that the first ever drilling of a comet has happened! ESA has received telemetry data indicating that the drill worked. They also managed to send ALL data before going into sleep mode. What is Philae going to find? Perhaps the building blocks of life? UPDATE 5. This is to…
Beijing is a great city, especially if you want to develop lung cancer thanks to the overwhelming pollution that shrouds the city most days of the year. This mosaic made by resident Zou Yi during a year of photos from the same window is even more powerful than the usual pictures we are used to.…
I’m completely nerdgasming out over this image of old jet fighters flying over the pyramids of Giza during operation Bright Star in 1983. If I’m not mistaken, I see from left to right, top to bottom: F-4 Phantom, Mirage (III?), MiG-19, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-14 Tomcat, A-6 Intruder, MiG-21, and A-7 Corsair. SPLOID is delicious…
Critics think that Foxcatcher—the film about 1988 Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz sight Channing Tatum and Steve Carell—may win the Oscar for best picture next year. I think they should give it to Sploid reader Jonathan Hartwig, who sent us this brilliant mashup trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Foxcatcher. I love it. And since…
The intention of this ad might be to sell a new intelligent fridge that helps you keep a healthy diet but I can help but to get hungry (and sad) watching all that delicious food blowing up in beautiful slow motion. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
The explosions caused by this malfunctioning fireworks launching mechanism were so big and the noise so deafening that they could make Michael Bay proud. Beware of your volume level. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Beautifully drawn short animated film by Amsterdam-based filmmaker Hisko Hulsing that tells the story of two childhood friends meeting many years after with disastrous consequences. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
I’ve had this night in New York before. Actually, anyone who has lived there has had this night. And though you might not immediately recognize it, you will. That’s because the art in this video is lifted straight from those nights you don’t exactly remember but you know were awesome. Basically, New York on any…
Here’s a silly exercise in animation: Zeitguised made this lighthearted clip to show how different objects would look and act like if they were birds. Yeah, I told you it was silly. But I can’t stop laughing at sliced eggs and a bunch of leaves and worms sitting on a tree branch. Oh the worms.…
We’ve all been there. When things change, when love is gone, when something happens, when someone leaves, we spend too much time chasing it back again. Péter Vácz made this stop-motion animation music video for James’ All I’m Saying to illustrate that chase. Vácz explains: A man goes on a quest to find the spirit…
David Bowie has a new song in his retrospective album Nothing Has Changed. It’s called Sue (Or In a Season of Crime), a dark jazz track full of dissonance that would be perfect for a Hitchcock movie or, better yet, a film starring Alain Delon and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Watch the equally dark video…
Phenomenal, almost abstract video created by London-based directing duo Bif. I like how they managed to transform reality into a 60s rug. This is SPLOID, a blog of delicious brain candy. Join us on Facebook
If you ever wondered what the characters of South Park looked like in real life in the minds of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, wonder no more. Last night’s crazy episode revealed what Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny would look like if they weren’t just cartoons made of shapes and circles but actual humans instead.…
H1 Unlimited is like the Formula 1 of the sea—except it’s much faster and has way more crashes. The Unlimited Hydroplanes are powered by a 3000 horsepower Lycoming T-55 L-7 military Chinook helicopter turbine engine capable of going over 200mph. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
The Siberian Times just published these new amazing pictures of an expedition of scientist who descended inside the mysterious crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia. They are collecting data because its origin remains a mystery but, believe it or not, there may be a Bermuda Triangle connection. According to the Russian scientist Igor Yeltsov—deputy…
Apparently, if you take the spacey audio track from Comet 67P and mix it with the orchestral performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of The Bumblebee you get universal perfection! Just listen to this awesome mashup: Hat tip to font4yne! SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
