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I like Chicago. The city is clean, the architecture is nice, Wrigley Field is fun, a river cuts through it and the lake is right there. I wanted to make fun of the Bean but it drew me in like a mosquito about to be zapped. And hey, I realized that I don’t really like…
French illustrator Manchu is one of the masters of classic sci-fi illustration. His worlds and spaceships are massive, optimistic, colorful, and sometimes even zany on his alien spaceship designs. Masterfully crafted, his work reminds me of another one of the greatest: The British Chris Foss. Seeing these paintings make me happy. Manchu is the alias…
Foodbeast found a new KFC Double Down burger that is even more insane than the original: the Zinger Double Down King at KFCs in Korea. Instead of just sandwiching bacon and cheese with two fried chicken filets, this Double Down uses the same fried chicken for buns but adds a sauced up burger patty in…
Air New Zealand loves to make fun in-flight safety videos that can include anything from body paint to supermodels to Richard Simmons to Betty White. This time though, they’ve gone beyond epic: the safety video is basically a full on LOTR and Hobbit movie set in Middle Earth. It’s impressive. Air New Zealand has featured…
I’m not going to lie, I don’t really need to know how to cut and make a quill pen from a goose feather. No one does anymore. But! I was completely fascinated by the process of it. It’s funny how he uses both vintage tools (an 1800’s era quill cutting knife) with modern technology (a…
Stereotypes today are typically outdated and vaguely racist but when harmless, they can be quite comical. Like these quick hitter animations about what the USA thinks of Europe and vice versa and what different parts of Europe thinks about the other parts. They’re a lot of fun to watch. Most of the humor seems to…
I always feel guilty eating plain double cheeseburgers at Shake Shack, but after seeing the Tower Cheeseburger by Korean-Japanese fast food chain Lotteria, I won’t anymore. These people are crazy. And the real thing even looks crazier than this beauty marketing shot: Holy crap this thing! Instant heart attack between two buns. I honestly think…
Comicbook Resources got the trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron, apparently leaked early by Movieweb, and now it appears it has leaked everywhere. It’s narrated by Ultron (James Spader), and features all the team members—plus the much anticipated Iron Man’s Hulkbuster armor. [UPDATED with highlights] Update: Here’s the official trailer from Marvel. Here are the…
This is the music video for It’s Alright, by Fractures, filmed in location in Chernobyl, Ukraine, right after the Maidan revolution that shook that country. It’s not as visually or musically powerful as Paolo Nutini’s Iron Sky, but I like the overall tone. Fractures is the moniker of the Melbourne-based musician Mark Zito. You can…
“What happens when you serve McDonald’s food to some experts and pretend it’s a new organic meal?” ask Sacha and Cedrique. To answer this question they went to a organic food fair in Houten, Netherlands, armed with disguised McNuggets and Big Macs. You can imagine what happens—or just watch their video: Make sure to turn…
Into Dusk is a sci-fi short film about a terminal patient—Ellie—and her lover—Wren—who is broke, desperate to save her life—and has a gun. Jason Ho filmed it to attract investors to make a full feature. I would watch a film that explores how a normal drama could develop in a future world with different rules.…
Wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas made this impressive time-lapse showing the massive migration of wildebeests from Kenya to the fresher pastures of Tanzania. Will calculates that about 1.5 million wildebeests crossed the Mara River, Kenya, during the five days they spent shooting. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This image is so impossibly flawless in every aspect that is hard to believe it is real. Technique, composition, subject matter—it’s like a perfect dream, but it’s an actual photo of Svolvaer, Norway, by extremely talented Max Rive. His other work is equally perfect and stunning to the point of disbelief. This is how he…
The first stage of Smart Highways—a project created by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde and Hejmans Infrastructure—is finally completed and looks amazing. Located at N329 in Oss, Netherlands, this futuristic road has lines that glow in the night and charge during the day. Increasing driver’s visibility and safety. But this is only the beginning, since plans…
Here is a beautiful animation series by Filios. Called Loterias, the five short spots focus on holidays in Mexico like the Day of the Dead and Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. They’re fun to watch because of the unique style of the animation and quick and cute stories. I don’t always get what’s going on…
X-Men: Days of Future Past is basically Terminator 2 with mutants. Screen Junkies explains the plot similarities: “An indestructible bad ass gets sent back into time without his clothes to protect a vulnerable young man with long hair who will one day become a leader and stop a shape shifter from destroying the future.” Yep.…
Even if he looks like a retro video game player, I can still feel my spine shivering when Hannibal Lecter comes onto screen. That’s what happens when you’re one of the all time creepiest, scariest characters in film history. Here is CineFix’s 8-bit version of Silence of the Lambs. SPLOID is a new blog about…
I mean, holy crap, I think this is the best movie trailer I’ve ever seen. Which, duh, makes sense since 2001: A Space Odyssey is a masterpiece and probably the best sci-fi movie ever but this new trailer, made to promote its theatrical re-release on November 28th in the UK is absolute perfection. Yeah, we…
I’ve seen the future and it is math less and it is awesome and it is this PhotoMath app that solves math problems just by pointing your phone’s camera at them. It’s like a cross between a text reading camera, a supremely sophisticated calculator and well, the future. Point and solve and never do math…
I think this silly animation about a giant rock creature trying to rescue a town is a hilariously dark lesson that shows how some things just aren’t worth saving. Or that maybe all our work is useless. Or perhaps that bad intentions can cause good actions. Or whatever, maybe it’s just a really fun CG…
