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I’ve had this song, Paradise Awaits by ZHU, on repeat ever since I first played it. Partly because the song gives me energy but also because the video makes me feel like I’m walking through an underground dance party in New York with glow in the dark graffiti on the wall and pulsating fun in…
Here’s one of those ads that make you go, “those damn consumerism pimping bastards actually came up with an annoyingly clever idea.” Volkswagen outfitted bumper cars with its City Emergency Brake technology so that when you try and bump another car, the ultrasonic sensors would force the bumper car to brake and stop itself. Volkwagen…
I don’t know how many finger exercises it takes to pull this off or how much wizard potion these kids from Singapore drank but they make shuffling cards look like a dancing symphony. Each finger seems to be powered by its own brain and yet they all work in concert to make complicated movements look…
I’m not entirely sure at what point I stopped thinking this video was incredibly stupid and started thinking it was incredibly hilarious but I think it was probably after The Big Lebowski got a hold of the basektball. And once it hits space thanks to Shaolin Soccer and Anchorman, I pretty much couldn’t stop giggling.…
Created by Spanish director Aritz Moreno and producer Leire Apellaniz, this 60-second short is the story a man who gets up and prepares some coffee. Or maybe he never gets up. It’s like a dark, condensed version of Groundhog Day without the possibility of ever having a happy ending. Loop won the Filminute Festival of…
This is the poster for the new Toy Story half-hour television special that will air on ABC on December 2. The title: Toy Story That Time Forgot. It will feature the voices of Tom Hanks ad Tim Allen. More importantly, it’s directed by Steve Purcell, the creator of the legendary Sam & Max. If it’s…
Gulfstream has new jets, the G500 and G600. They can fly at almost supersonic speed and come with lots of new cool stuff, like a new cabin that is supposed to make you feel like you are not flying or this new glass cockpit called Symmetry—which looks out of some sci-fi movie. It looks to…
Pump up the zolpidem tartrate and fire up those speakers up to eleven before watching this new video for Source, the second track of Fever The Ghost’s EP Crab In Honey. Fever The Ghost is a Los Angeles-based band. Their EP Crab in Honey—mastered by Mastered by Bob Ludwig (David Bowie, Nirvana, Radiohead)—sounds delicious. You…
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is featuring a stunning Auroral Corona over some beautiful Norwegian islands, masterfully photographed by Harald Albrigtsen last month in Kvaløya, Tromsø. If you told me this is how wormholes look like, I would believe you. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
I watched this short film yesterday night and I’m still thinking about it. Who is this guy? Why are there clones of him? Why is there a time loop? Is the guy actually a mouse in some experiment? Is it a metaphor of the futility of life itself? Thanks filmmaker Justin Tagg for fucking up…
Gunther Holtorf spent the last 26 years on a road trip around the globe with Christine, a total stranger who met him in Africa after he published ad asking for a companion in a German magazine. His journey includes 177 countries, 549,000 miles (884,000 kilometers) and loads of pictures taken from his old Leica. According…
This beautiful time-lapse takes us to a tour of Shanghai, one of the most futuristic looking cities in the world. After watching the video, Shanghai climbed to the top of my list of cities to visit before I turn 40. This is part of a series in which we are featuring beautiful time-lapses of cities…
It could be that piece of wood spinning endlessly or the fact that it’s hard to take your eyes off someone doing his job so skillfully, I don’t know. But watching David Earle turning a big piece of elm wood into a perfect salad bowl is truly an hypnotizing experience. SPLOID is a new blog…
This is the nose of the Gemini XII spacecraft as photographed by Buzz Aldrin. He was standing up on his seat with his hatch open while orbiting at 8,000 meters per second 188 miles over the Earth. I wish I were able to imagine the sensation of what this felt like. This is how it…
And here I thought simple slow motion was enough to make gymnasts and breakdancers and parkour athletes look awesome. Nope. You need to add some bullet time action to turn up the intensity knob to the point where it looks like gravity is completely broken. Marc Donahue made this bullet time video with a 20…
The amount of meticulous detail and genius craftsmanship and microscopic precision that goes into one of these Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime 5175R is ridiculous. Just watching the little pieces fit together is like seeing the most beautiful puzzle ever get completed. It better be, since the watch costs $2.5 million. Patek just released the details…
Among other reasons like the guy always getting the girl and that explosions look cool and never seem to kill anyone, awesome slow motion shots are why movies are so much cooler than real life. CineFix shows us what it thinks the best 10 slow motion sequences of all time are in the list below.…
Most of us get our food from supermarkets. Some of us try to go organic and natural and cage free and all those other positive buzzwords people use to feel good about themselves but there are very few of us who still hunt for our food. These guys do. And they’re not ashamed of it.…
Data Looks Dope’s Max Einstein sent us his new creation: What the top 100 porn stars look like. At the top you can you can see the breast cup size. At the bottom there’s the top 100 actresses as ranked in Xvideos.com along with body measuring information according Internet Adult Film Database. Expand and zoom…
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