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What might be even cooler than seeing this 8-bit game version of Frozen is hearing 8-bit sounds beep and butcher all the songs that made Frozen so damn popular in the first place. Watch CineFix pull their 8-bit take on Frozen below. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This lovely animation, directed by BlackMeal and Baptiste Pagani, tries to sum up all the major happenings from the first four seasons of Game of Thrones in under a minute. Obviously, there are spoilers for the TV show. The animation get a lot of it but also miss some key plot development and character deaths…
Japanese illustrator Chaico loves her Disney and her manga, which is why she has turned her favorite characters into what they would look like if they were animated in her native Tokyo rather than in California. Some of them are really spot on (my favorite is her human Donald.) Mickey & Company The Lion King…
Adobe has made a video with its vision for the future of its tablet-based graphic applications. Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere… it is really amazing, almost unbelievable—borderline magical, really. Check it out. If they achieve a fraction of what is show here, I would be happy. I have no doubt that all the features will happen eventually,…
I’ll admit it, I was a doubter. When I saw this chocolate cake, I couldn’t imagine it ever blowing my mind. Even when it started spinning, I didn’t see what the hoopla was all about. And then the lights started flickering and all the chocolate pieces started dancing and moving in a complicated orchestra. The…
Calvin and Hobbes made a lot of mischief during their decade-long run—but just how much damage did they actually do? One intrepid superfan went through every single panel and tallied the total cost of their mayhem, from $2 cracked glass jars to $4,798.83 to fix a flooded home. Even though the Proceedings of the Natural…
The biggest sign that humanity has no chance of survival? That we’re all sheep with baa-d taste? That we should blast ourselves out of this planet and let dolphins take over as the dominant species? Transformers: Age of Extinction and how it made $245,430,526 at the box office. Honest Trailers shows how horrible the movie…
If you don’t count Pixar movies (and I don’t), the best Disney movie as far as I’m concerned is The Lion King. It’s not even close. But even though I’ve seen it so many times, there are many more fun facts that I had no idea about: like how Mufasa’s roar was made from a…
I think I want one of these German Datron M8Cube High-Speed Machining Center in my house. It would replace my TV. I would just turn it on to make random 3D models out of blocks of aluminum to watch it while I eat pizza all day long. Like this mold for a radio controlled quadrocopter.…
Liz Kaszynski has one of the best jobs in the world: She is one of the ten aerial photographers working at Lockheed Martin, taking pictures from the back of fighter jets and hanging from helicopter doors all over the world. Watch her talking about it here and be jealous (I am. Very.) SPLOID is a…
By day, Mathias Verhasselt works as a senior concept designer at Blizzard. By night, he is a superhero fighting against crime and a space lover who likes to come up with cool concepts like this full scale maglev-launched spaceplane. Accelerated while magnetically levitating on a track. It’s not my idea either, it’s been proposed for…
I never thought Woody could be portrayed as a horror character until I saw this video of Toy Story mashed up with Annabelle. It’s so scary that it will haunt my dreams tonight, tomorrow, and the rest of the week. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
When Sean Schemmel and Jason Douglas record the English voices for a Dragon Ball Z fight, they get so much in character that I was expecting them to get covered in yellow flames too. The energy they display is as interesting to watch as the fight itself. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
The Pornburger of the weekmight not have the appearance of a proper burger, but who cares when it’s so delicious: A gorgeous braised lamb patty, sauced with lamb demi glace, stuffed inside a golden yorkshire pudding, and topped with potato and parsnip gratin, crispy onion rings, and mustard caviar. SPLOID is a new blog about…
Some friends visited Turkey recently and they came back really impressed. They told me about its stunning landscapes, friendly people, and extraordinary food. This travel video—beautifully made by Leonardo Dalessandri—shows that they weren’t lying. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
I love the perfect surfaces and old school style of Russian artist Yuri Shwedoff’s illustrations. I wish I could buy the original of the one above, titled White Castle. Or any of the images below. His alternate fan movie posters for Rambo (yes, Rambo), Guardians of the Galaxy or Fight Club are so good. Yuri…
I spent some of my college years studying with the Jesuits, which inevitably led to theology classes and the fascinating history of religion. That class is summarized in this new version of a great graphic by Simon E. Davies,a complex tree of myths and traditions continuously evolving into remakes. Even while the dates are approximate—many…
This is fun. Griffon Ramsey, an artist who works with wood and uses a chainsaw, carved and sculpted a real life Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy from an Eastern Red Cedar tree log. She creates a pretty lifelike version of everyone’s favorite tree person but I kind of wish she made a 20-feet tall…
You can have your graphene or your insane non-flammable fabricor some NASA space material, magic material to me will always be bubble wrap. It’s catnip for humans with souls and the process to make it is pretty fascinating. It starts with resin that is vacuumed out and heated to create a film and used to…
The first time I saw this video of a car crash during the Jolly Rally Valle d’Aosta 2014, I thought it was a scene from Final Destination. The second time I saw it, I thought it was some amateur fake. I’ve watched it multiple times now and I’m still not sure how the out of…
