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Check out the latest hit at Japanese parties: $5,000 latex dolls that pour drinks from their nipples when you squeeze their boobs. It looks disturbing. What’s going to be next, Japan? Male and female android fountains wandering around parties serving drinks from their lower naughty bits? But of course. SPLOID is a new blog about…
Photographer Julian Tryba sent us this crazy time-lapse of Boston which, actually, is not a time-lapse but a layer-lapse: The objects in each sequence—buildings, vehicles, the sky—run at different speeds and times than others. That’s because he has layered them, animating each layer separately. He explains how he did it: Traditional time-lapses are constrained by…
Rich Shelton loves airplanes and San Francisco, which shows in all his beautiful photos. He was able to take this incredible image of a Blue Angels’ F/A-18 zooming through the Golden Gate bridge at Fleet Week in San Francisco. Here are some more images taken by him from previous editions. Based in Tiburon, California, Rich…
Peaceful and lovely Springfield turns into a creepy place at night in this collection of drawings by Tim Doyle. Tim Doyle is an illustrator and print-maker working out of Austin, Texas. Growing up in the suburban sprawl of the Dallas area, he turned inward and sullen, only finding joy in comic-books and television and video…
DiverXO—a three Michelin-star restaurant in Madrid, Spain—is known for its radical flavors and textures. Eating there is not just about the food. It’s an experience for the senses that might not blow your brains off literally, as they show in this short film, but in some ways it certainly does. NSFW. SPLOID is a new…
I was happily installed in my fall-is-so-gorgeous mood when I came across this gorgeous video by Los Angeles-based photographer Morgan Maassen. Now I am craving summer again.Underwater slow-motion shots, great music, and fantastic editing makes it an irresistible pleasure to watch. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Aerial firefighters are some of the most badass pilots out there, flying through smoke, extreme heat, and turbulences, in often battered airplanes to drop water with amazing skills and courage. Sometimes, however, they get to do fun stuff like this: Put out a semi truck fire on a road in the middle of nowhere. From…
I don’t need a lot to crave chocolate. The mere mention evokes flavors and memories that make me want to lick it, drink it, eat it, and pour all over my face and body. But this crispy video of pâtisserie Le Daniel, in Rennes, France, has put that constant desire in overdrive. I’m drowning in…
Nicolas Belmonte—Technical Lead for Data Visualization at Twitter—has created an impressive interactive 3D visualization of the world’s temperature anomaliessince 1800 using data from NASA. It’s like a deformed monster bloating and about to explode. The higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal is blue. Here’s another graphic from NASA showing…
I like Johnson Ting‘s vision of Neo Japan 2202, wherever his Neo Japan is located to have two moons (or maybe one is no moon but some space station, I don’t know.) Every time I see illustrations like this I long for immortality. Or at least a couple hundred years in good health so I…
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is featuring this long exposure photo of the lunar eclipse rising over the city of Chongqing, China, captured by photographer Zhou Yannan on October 8. The zooming tail effect as the Moon went out of the eclipse is fantastic. From NASA: As the Moon rose and the Sun set…
This is great news, just announced this Friday at New York Comic Con: Marvel is releasing a Guardians of the Galaxy animated TV series coming in 2015 on Disney XD! Check out the first sequences of how it is going to look here (I like that colorful 80s look!) SPLOID is a new blog about…
Johnson Ting creates these amazing images by painting new layers on top of existing photographic material using a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet and Photoshop. The results sometimes end being completely different from the original, and they are always impressive. Johnson Ting is a concept artist and illustrator based in Malaysia. You can follow him on…
[To the Rolling Stones’ I Miss You] Look that mantis eat a fly/ You’ll never she her cry/ Lord I hate you. Mother Nature she’s the Ma’am/ She just doesn’t give a damn/ She will kill you. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Skateboarding, motorcycling, breakdancing, doing gymnastics—all of those sports already look awesome in real time. But if you record them with a Phantom at 1000FPS slow motion in beautiful 4K, they become so epic that you wish life came with a slow motion button too. Watch. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
Vocativ analyzed over 600 presidential speeches in US history, measuring syllables and keeping track of word and sentence count to determine the Flesch-Kincaid reading level of each speech. In the beginning, presidential speeches were at the level of a PhD, now it’s at the reading comprehension of a 7th grader. But this is actually a…
Set in the World War II invasion of France, this is the story of a British paratrooper that crash lands in a forest and the cute magical creature who finds him wounded. It’s also the story that shows that there’s only one thing worse than an evil being: A total imbecile. The short was created…
Here’s a photo of the Sun looking like a Jack O’Lanterntaken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on October 8, 2014, a blend of two light wavelengths (171 and 193 angstrom.) SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
The creators of this Shelved—director James Cunningham and eleven visual effects students at the Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand—say their short film a homage to movies like Clerks, Mallrats, Slacker, and Dazed and Confused. After watching these two robotic losers in action, I can see why. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
You have to give it to those Swedes: Behind those chiseled marble faces with platinum blonde hair and cold steel blue eyes there’s a great, almost British sense of humor that takes the piss out of everything. This Swedish marines commercial mocking Hollywood-style US military recruitment adsis a good example. SPLOID is a new blog…
