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There are tiny apartments. And then there are ridiculously tiny apartments. And then there is this apartment. The only thing smaller than this 86 square foot apartment in Paris is a prison cell. Maybe. And yet this apartment hides so many tricks that it can transform itself to feel a lot bigger. I think I…
We already know that The Life Aquatic is amazing as its own movie and spectacular when re-done in the style of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.Turns out, it’s also fun when you turn Wes Anderson’s flick into an 8-bit video game like CineFix did in this animation too. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
Because my only experiences with live lobsters are when they’re on display in tanks at restaurants or used for poses in photographs, I never knew how insanely quick they can be. And because I didn’t know they had cat-like reflexes, I never knew how hilarious it is to watch people fail at catching them. Now…
There’s a lot more animals than I thought there were—I think more than 25—and they come out of nowhere.The hidden animals are called tahrs which are related to wild goats and to be honest, I wouldn’t even call this camouflage, it’s just really impressive hide and seek skills. The tahrs start running when they realize…
Orbo likes to make perfectly looped GIFs, freezing a few seconds of reality into infinite hypnotizing animated postcards. These cars burning rubbers forever are a good example of his art. Yes. Art. A-r-t. ART. I don’t know who the hell is Orbo. If you are Orbo, please contact me. This is part of a series…
You may think that a close up video of a rocket engine failure would be just hell and mayhem—and you would be right. But there’s something strikingly beautiful and poetic when the camera flies away in slow motion, spinning down a tornado of fire in this video from Copenhagen Suborbitals. Copenhagen Suborbitalsis a do-it-yourself, non-profit,…
Holy crap, Die Antwoord has a new video for their new single Ugly Boy—from their 2014 album Donker Mag—and it’s as crazy as all their previous work. The video is packed with stars like Marilyn Manson, Aphex Twin, Cara Delevingne, ATL Twins, Jack Black (!), Flea, and Dita Von Teese in pasties. The track itself,…
Photographer Gail Albert Halaban doesn’t like the term voyeur, she is friendly window watcher. That’s why this series of pictures called Paris Views don’t look at all creepy but rather tender and beautiful. This is Baudelaire’s poem Gail refers to in the video: WINDOWS A man looking out of an open window never sees as…
Of course the musicless version of the video for Snoop Dogg’s Drop It Like It’s Hot—featuring Pharrell Williams— is going to be hilarious. I mean, what the hell did you expect. It’s totally ridiculous muted, but with Mario Wienerroither’s sound effect work, it’s just hysterical (like always.) SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (aka Daniels) had a huge hit earlier this year with their video for Dj Snake and Lil Jon’s Turn Down For What. And now they come back with this utterly surreal short film with insane CGI. [NSFW] FILMMAKERS is a series in Sploid where we feature the interesting short…
We all carry a portable lie detector at all times and it’s called ears. According to this Ted Lesson we can tell if someone is lying just by analyzing his language. This technique called “Linguistic Text Analysis” is based on the difference between how we structure sentences in invented and true stories. SPLOID is delicious…
The US Navy variant of the F -35 Lightning II has landed aboard an aircraft carrier for the first time ever. This arrested landing by Navy test pilot Cmdr. Tony Wilson on the USS Nimitz marks a new two-week period of testing at sea. Watch it from multiple angles: According to Wilson: “Today is a…
Our favorite augmented reality artist, Marty Cooper, is back with more hilarious doodle fun in Aug(De)Mented Reality 2. You know the drill, he takes seemingly normal situations and inserts his adorable monsters into them. Those creatures can take eating pizza and watching cars drive by look absurd. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
Reddit user IronyAndWhine made this graphic showing the frequency of 55 sexual fantasies by gender according to the study What Exactly Is an Unusual Sexual Fantasy? published on October 30, 2014, on the Journal of Sexual Medicine. It’s an interesting look at human sexuality. Note: I modified the graphic for readability. According to the authors—Christian…
Here’s an action scene from a movie called Hardcore that’s filmed completely from one character’s point of view so it looks exactly like a first person shooter video game. In fact, it’s so good, it’s as if those FPS video games like Call of Duty all of a sudden came to life. Watch it. It’s…
Prince and 3rdeyegirl played an eight-minute medley of songs—Clouds, Marz, and Another Love—during the latest SNL and it was freaking amazing. With a few notable exceptions, SNL musical guests have ranged from abysmal to horrible in the last few seasons. After this they should just cancel everyone. Forever. Prince is fucking Prince. You can buy…
To this day, I’ve never felt dumber than when elementary school me thought that 100 pounds of bowling balls would fall faster than 100 pounds of feathers. This video doesn’t show that riddle in action but something even cooler: how things fall at the same rate inside the world’s largest vacuum chamber. Brian Cox visited…
Cinefix has seven more things you probably didn’t know about the Terminator movies. The most surprising is that they had to dub John Connor’s voice for half of Terminator 2 because Edward Furlong—the actor who played him—grew some pubic hair and his voice changed during filming. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook…
Made with the permission and in constant communication with the control tower and the airliners’ pilots—Postandfly’s Tarsicio Sañudo used drones to show the day to day operations of the Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México from a new cool perspective. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
If you have ever eaten a McDonald’s McRib you probably have wondered about the same just like the rest of us: How the hell they make these weird ribs that are not ribs and taste so delicious? What kind of sorcery is this? Wonder no more. This is how they do it, from raw materials…
