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Someone made a Star Wars-themed parody ofthe catcall video that went viral last month and it’s even better than the original: This one didn’t edit out the white guys and left only blacks and latinos. Males from the galaxy far far away can all be creepy and gross regardless of race or affiliation—just like in…
At first I thought this cutout was some kind of a joke, but it’s real: A guy kept firing multiple times after his Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver got blocked with a bullet. Gunslingers call these squibs, and apparently they can be quite dangerous.The guy who fired these was really lucky. According to Redditor…
This gorgeous Pornburgerhides a real treasure under that yellow blanket of corn creaminess: A grass feed beef and pork belly patty. The other ingredients are cheddar cheese, cold smoked tomato, pickled okra, crispy watercress and pea shoot salad, and mustard green aioli. I’m drooling so much that I had to stop to get something to…
Forget Kiss and any other heavy metal band. The guys from the band Modest Mouse got the best pyrotechnics ever at the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas, three days ago: An actual meteor blazing through the sky. Never the rock was so real in rock’n’roll. Of course, there are other images from the…
I don’t know if it’s the Red Bull he is drinking or what—actually this would make a great viral for any energetic drink—but Eminem is on fire in this freestyle rapping video. The speed and accuracy at which he spits his rhymes is so insane that it’s overwhelming. Warning: Explicit lyrics. Eminem—Marshall Bruce Mathers III—is…
Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite sci-fi writers. I read his books and watched the movies adapted from his books—Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 is a must watch—but I’ve never heard him talk. This video illustrates the audio from a 1974 interview where he shares his thoughts about science and the universe. We are the miracle…
I like to watch Cinefix’s top whatever whatever because they always prompt me to rewatch something or watch something new. But then I don’t like them because they are inevitably unfair. They could have done 10 lists of the top 10 chases scenes of all time and all of them would have been different. You…
I was lucky enough to eat at one of Alain Ducasse’s restaurants once—Le Louis XV in the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, almost two decades ago. It was an unforgettable experience. Watching this short documentary titled Naturalité makes me want to travel to Paris to dine at his re-opened restaurant at the Plaza Athénée. Aside…
Last month, the biggest sunspot in 22 years traversed across the Sun. Labelled AR 2192, it was big enough to see without the need for a telescope. This awesome timelapse animation can show you what you missed. Created by processing 72GB of data from NASA’s solar dynamics lab, the video is a composite of more…
I love Bryan Ferry’s new Loop De Li song, from his new album Avonmore. His captivating voice and his classic Roxy Music sound are back as powerful as ever. The disturbing video directed by Aoife McArdle is great, featuring what it looks like a-clockwork-orangy, sexually-ambiguous young Ferry. Warning: NSFW. Bryan Ferry is… you really should…
I can’t have enough of these shots of the Moon and the Earth taken by the Chang’e 5 spacecraft. Here’s the opposite side of the amazing image of Earth taken outside lunar orbit. You can see Africa, the Arabian peninsula on the left and Australia entering the night on the right. SPLOID is a new…
DARPA—the Pentagon’s advanced military technology research agency—is taking a page from Marvel’s playbook and wants to make “aircraft carriers in the sky.” They won’t be Nimitz-size, of course, but they will have “to carry, launch and recover multiple unmanned air systems for a variety of missions.” According to the agency, drones are obviously a great…
New York is a monumental, awe-inspiring city. Much of its gritty cinematographic character comes from her heavy makeup, layers upon layers of pollution deposited for decades in every nook and crack. Trevor Little’s photo of two guys powerwashing a building clearly shows this beautiful old whore’s true skin. Going through Trevor’s gallery makes Bobby Short’s…
We have featured thetimelapse videos of Stian Rekdal in the past. This one—titled Encounters—is just as impressive as his other work and makes me feel even worse about the fact that I haven’t travelled to see the Northern Lights yet. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Since the first drunk-driving PSA in UK—50 years ago—the number of DUI accidents deaths has fallen dramatically.But how can you celebrate the good results when there is still people out there killing themselves by driving drunk? This brilliant commercial shows how. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Italian artist Francesco Sambo’sBestiary is a collection of digitally manipulated pictures where he swaps his head for that of different animals. The resulting beasts can be sometimes creepy, sometimes cute, but always interesting to look at. Francesco Sambo is a multidisciplinary artist based in Venice, Italy, that focuses on digital art, video, and photography. You…
Moab, Utah. To me, one of the most magical and imposing places on Earth. Nothing would prepare you for its majesty. The vastness of Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park are very hard to appreciate in photos but this wingsuit jump video gives a good sense of scale. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
We think our vision of the world is unique and original, so we use our cameras (and the Internet) to let everyone know about it. This video—made with 465 photographs each of them taken by different photographers—shows that in reality we are not that unique. We all get fascinated by the same things. And that’s…
Today’s Simpsons-Futurama crossover episode brought us many good things. Some fun gags, some much-needed self-deprecation, evil Bart-gremlin hybrids that taste delicious, lots of Bender (or not enough), and the best of all: The Futurama intro made with Simpsons characters and sung by Homer. Update: A reader asks if this final gag gives a hint that…
If you watched Interstellar and didn’t fully understand its time dilation and loops complexities, the following timeline—sent to SPLOID by Frametale’s Dogan Can Gundogdu, a designer from Istanbul, Turkey—explains it all very clearly. Warning: Don’t continue if you haven’t watched Interstellar yet. Expand and pinch or use your browser settings to zoom in: This other…
