Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
I’m just posting this for two reasons. Because I find it fascinating from beginning to end—I just couldn’t stop watching him prepping the cheese wheel to break it open—and because I just discovered there’s a thing called Channel Cheese TV on YouTube. An entire channel about cheese! I’m doomed. This channel is going to suck…
Taiwanese photographer Yun-Fei Tou created these portraits of abandoned dogs minutes before being euthanized to “arouse people’s awareness of animals rights.” What really fucks me up is to look into their eyes knowing they didn’t know what was coming up next. A stark reminder of our responsibility towards these beings. The pup above was photographed…
Holy crap, they did it! The engineers at Hendo just released this video showing a real-world Back to the Future style hoverboard! And it actually works! And they are Kickstarting it! And yes, I’m VERY EXCITED, which is why I’m putting exclamation marks everywhere! From the company: So where does the HENDO hoverboard stand today?…
I love this ad for the Helsinki-based radio station Radio Aalto. Not only it’s cool—the actors are the actual hosts of one of their shows—and well produced, but also it has an insightful and fun concept: Who hasn’t used a famous song line in an informal conversation? Well, this ad is entirely made with them.
Marseille is one the biggest and most important ports in France. This time-lapse by Dider Viodé shows not only that, but its beautiful historic buildings, fantastic landscapes and, one of the things I miss the most since I moved to England, the light that makes from the south of France a gorgeous place to live…
Daredevil Arnaud Longobardi shows a crazy array of paragliding tricks in this video shot in Chamonix, in the French Alps. One of those tricks is particularly insane: He flies so close to a moving cable car that he could perfectly give a handshake to one of its passengers. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
I must be a horrible person because I howled so hard when I saw this CGI footage by Dave Fothergill that shows computer generated people falling down over and over again as they get swept around by a swinging metal fence. Don’t get me wrong, I’m rooting for these clumsy CGI folk to make it…
Data Looks Dope’s Max Einstein just made this visualization that charts every touchdown pass that Peyton Manning, who is now the record holder for TD passes, has thrown in his career. Yep, all 510 of them (so far). It shows the distance of each pass along with the receiver who caught it from 1998 to…
If you ever wondered what characters from The Simpsons would look like if they got animated in the style of South Park or Archer or Adventure Time or various animes or maybe even made to look like minions, well, here you go. On last night’s episode, we got to see what The Simpsons would look…
I always enjoy these stupid simple and zany animation summaries of movies by 1A4STUDIO that take film classics and squeeze all the important scenes in goofy squealing glee. Here’s the newest: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It’s like one awesome chase scene. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Swimming inside an iceberg looks amazing because the ice looks like glass and that’s crazy, and because it kind of resembles an underwater version of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. Or at least, like a crystal palace. National Geographic shows us how a free diver explores the ice cold waters below. The first minute and a…
It’s been a long time since I craved a computer program, but now I want Space Engine so much that I’m ready to buy a PC just to be able to immerse myself in it. Developed by Vladimir Romanyuk, Space Engine is a complete sandbox simulation of the Universe with mind-blowing graphics. Check this out:…
Everyone seems to be making fun of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar as we all eagerly await for it. After the Wall-E parody, here comes a classic: Spaceballs. A hard one to pull, but the Schwartz is strong in this one. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
ComicsAlliance has published this helpful future timeline of all superhero movies that will come out till 2020. It’s a list of all the confirmed ones—its missing “one or two movies from Marvel” in 2019, apparently—and of course dates may change, but this is pretty much all of it. From ComicsAlliance: Our timeline makes the assumption…
I love Joe Forkan’s The Lebowski Cycle, a series of oil paintings that uses frames of The Big Lebowski to reference artwork by classic painters like Caravaggio, Velázquez or David. I would like to have the one above—the last one of the series—made after The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio. After Supper at Emmaus…
Someone sent me this link to a YouTube black hole of glorious slow-motion videos and I have spent the last hour going through an endless torrent of metal shaving, drilling, chipbreaking and whatever else these machines are doing. It’s so satisfying. The music is horrible, so mute your computer to watch in silence. SPLOID is…
Airline and aerobatic pilot Glen Dell and FMX rider Nick de Wit needed two years of planning before attempting this amazing stunt: Nick backflipped his dirtbike over Glen’s plane flying under it. Everything worked out perfectly and the resulting images are truly spectacular. Unfortunately, five weeks after shooting this, Glen died as a consequence of…
My favorite fixed-helmet-on-cam video is still this ski jump, but I think we should get a lot more like those because they are pretty cool. Here’s a biker zooming through Whistler Mountain Bike Park, in Whistler, British Columbia. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This is a blister beetle photographed with a Macropod—”a low cost, portable, three-dimensional imaging solution” that allows scientists to break the depth of field limitations typical of macro photography by taking multiple exposures and merging them into a single ultra-sharp image using software. [Macropod] overcomes the extreme Depth of Field (DOF) limitations inherent in optics…
Joey Shanks has a series of videos where he shows how to create Hollywood movie effects using household objects. For this one he created the proton streams from Ghostbusters just using colored lights, long exposure photography, and stop-motion. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
