Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
Ever wonder would what would happen if you turned a teddy bear inside out? Me neither. But Kent Rogowski, a Brooklyn-based artist, not only wondered, he actually tore apart countless teddy bears, reassembled them, and then photographed the freaky result. You know, for art’s sake. Honestly, some of them are kind of cute, in that…
Good animation by Kurzgesagt explaining how the ebola virus attacks the human body step by step. It turns out that, at the end, it is the immunological system—hacked and threatened by the virus—that eventually kills the host. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
I had my doubts about these Botero-ish morbidly obese versions of iconic pop culture characters, but then you got me at Finn and Jake eating all those pastries from Candy Kingdom, Alex Solis. And Cookie Monster meeting its ultimate destiny, of course. Alex Solis is a Chicago-based illustrator who now works at Threadless. You can…
If you think Akira’s glowing vehicles were just a fantasy coming from Katsuhiro Otomo’s mind you are wrong. Bōsōzokus—biker gangs—existed before Akira and, as you can see in this video, they still drive their extravagant modified vehicles through the roads of Tokyo. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
There was alot of debate among the anal retentive crowd at Reddit about if this image was tilt-shift or not or whatever. Who the hell cares! I just like how it looks, floating like a Christmas tree ball, jumping off the page thanks to the selective blurring. Expand the image to see the full effect.…
This kinetic art piece created by Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen is called Unstable Matter. I really wish I had this at home, controllable by my phone’s motion sensor. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
The Week reports on this new comic by Bill Watterson, made for the poster of the best comics fair in the world: The Angoulême International Comics Festival in France, where Watterson will be honored for his a life of great work. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
You are witnessing the formation of a solar system just like ours, 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus, as photographed in detail for the first time in history by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array international observatory in Chile. I’m absolutely stunned. Just like Catherine Vlahakis—ALMA Deputy Program Scientist and Lead Program Scientist…
Filmmaker Alex Avella filmed this beautiful video on his road trip from New York to Los Angeles. If there is something that really amazes me about North America is its stunning landscapes full of cinematic references. This short captures this feeling perfectly. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
This short time lapse by Bruce W. Berry Jr is already a powerful piece of work. It turns the buildings of Philadelphia into towering monoliths that hide people away, it makes the sky look like ghouls seeping in and it turns the city into a haunting place. Sadly though, the story behind this time lapse…
It’s no wonder that the uneducated minds of antiquity—and some simpletons today—were anthropocentric. The Sun, the Moon, and the entire sky seem to revolve around us. We are so special, they thought. Except we are not, as Copernicus discovered. This cool stabilized time-lapse clearly shows how Earth rotates. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
Pain. Tears. Hurt. Agony. Numbness. Burning hell. When an entire orchestra decides to make the questionable life decision to all eat the world’s hottest chili peppers at the same time and then perform a song, all of that and more happens to them. For us watching though? It’s just funny as hell. Here’s what happened:…
Spoilers, probably. I wouldn’t know because well, I don’t want to know more. But this video is supposedly leaked footage from Game of Thrones season 5 (can’t wait!) and it shows six people being led to their death by fire. Like, seriously. Hell on Earth doesn’t even begin to describe how hot this fire burns.…
I’m happy when I see astronauts happy. There’s something about seeing people in space enjoy all there is about space that’s just infectious. Even the little things, like playing around with a giant water bubble blob. I mean, I would do the same thing they’re doing. Let it swallow my hands while a GoPro is…
I love to zoom into pictures, especially spectacular ones like this one of the Egmont National Park, New Zealand, published by the European Space Agency. The clear circular boundary is actually the edge of the park, with the dormant volcano Mount Taranaki in the middle. It looks like a reverse crater of lush life. Click…
We have seen drawings and animations before, but this video is great at teaching how to pick a conventional door lock. It can’t get clearer than this cutaway mechanism. Now go practice and learn to be a good thief/spy/detective/dude in some thriller movie/policeman without scruples. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…
This show film written and produced byAli Vingiano and directed & shot T.J. Misny made me laugh out loud at parts because this is exactly how it is sometimes. I wish life came with subtitles all the time. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
This ad is so crazy and so wrong that I can hardly imagine a real brand behind it. And actually there isn’t. It’s a fake commercial created by students in advertising film at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, in Germany. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
I don’t know about you, but every time I’m reminded about the huge scale of the universe, I mentally re-evaluate my own life and my relationship with what is around me. This amazing illustration by Roberto Ziche’s with the Sun and the planets laying on the floor makes that comparison even more impressive. You can…
If you haven’t watched True Detective yet, first, what the heck is wrong with you. And second, you should probably stay away from this absolutely fantastic video, Landscapes from Louisiana by Jaume R. Lloret, that stitches together the general shots from this most excellent TV show. For everyone else, go ahead. There’s not too many…
