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Pinching bubble wrap. Getting something stuck on your teeth out after trying for minutes. Watching pop tartsbeing made. And spring coils.And pretzels.And caligraphy. There are many strangely satisfying things in the world. Seeing a nuclear submarine breaking through arctic ice is one of them. Enjoy: Here’s another clip from a older video: SPLOID is a…
Behold the island of Alcatraz as re-imagined by film director and concept designer Bastiaan Koch for his near-future thriller Follow the Camera. Instead of a prison, it’s now the luxurious fortress-home of Steven, a powerful tech mogul. Given San Francisco’s current situation, this is totally believable. Bastiaan sent us these renders after wrapping up the…
What does crocodile dung and weasel testicles and pig intestines and fizzy cola and moonshine mixed with ground beaver testicles have in common with each other? They were all used ascontraceptives throughout history. Some were inserted into a woman’s body, others were eaten and a few were just worn. Weird, right? EngenderHealth made this visually…
Many people are freaking out about ebola, but the fact is that there’s no reason to panic because it spreads too slowly. Way slower than other infectious diseases. The graphic above shows it clearly: While a measles patient can infect a maximum of 18 people on average, an ebola patient can only infect two. That’s…
I don’t know if there’s going to be a Batcycle in the new Superman vs Batman movie, but this bike could work perfectly without any modification. It’s the new Ronin 47 from Ronin Motor Works, based on the Buell 1125. It’s a strikingly beautiful and unique machine. Only 47 will be made. Each bike will…
Chapman Skateboards shows the whole step-by-step process in how they make their boards and it’s such a cool process to see. You get to see how the wood pieces bond together into one piece, how the skateboard gets its shape and how it’s cut out from the block. I can watch this kind of thing…
When you hop into a hot air balloon, you expect to fly up. Not anymore. For the first time ever, a hot air balloon was successfully flown down and underground into the Mamet Cave in Croatia. Even better, it was a 70-year-old man who accomplished the feat, dipping down nearly 700 feet into Earth. Ivan…
Thomas Pringle is one of my favorite concept illustrators. Some of his stuff—like the landscape with a spaceship taking off above—border on abstract art. The unholy space-age son of Turner and analytical cubism Picasso, if you will. His work excites my eye because my brain has to fill the blanks. Thomas Pringle is a Danish…
32-year-old self-taught Italian artist Giorgio Arcuri likes to make photorealistic drawings. He told me in an email that he loves the tiny detail work and this giant 27.56 x 11.73-inch (70 x 29.8-centimeter) reproduction of a one dollar bill is a great example of that. Watch the time-lapse of how he created it. You can…
Everyone, from classic movie directors to film school students, has used the zoom at some point to add some swagger to their films. This cool mashup collects some of the most famous zoom ins, zoom outs, dolly zooms, and basically anything zoom related in the movie history. List of films: 1. West side story. 2.…
Twin Peaks marked a before and after in TV history: For the first time someone used film production values to TV, with perfect script, direction, acting, and cinematography. Laura Palmer’s murder took over the world and, over time, it became a masterpiece. Now, we may get lucky and get a new season. That has always…
This is the third time we feature Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze’s Hong Kong cityscapes in Sploid. His book Vertical Horizon has been published again in a second edition with new amazing photographs that reveal the order and chaos in this megalopolis. He sent them to Sploid for your viewing pleasure. Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze is a French photographer and…
Photographer Simon Roberts took to the skies above the North Pole to shoot the sunset in each of the Earth’s 24 time zones over the course of 24 hours. Above you see a composite of 24 of the photographs spliced together. The whole Chasing Horizons project is really an advertisement for Citizen watches. Head over…
Canadian poet Shane Koyczan—the creator of the famous anti-bullying video To This Day Project, with more than 14 millions views on YouTube—strikes again with this powerful animation where he rants against trolling. Worth watching: Shanetold Buzzfeed: After the release of the To This Day video I got a lot of letters from people asking me…
Photographers, you all can give up because astrophotographer Göran Strand just won the best little planet photo ever contest with this amazing photo featured in NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day: The equinox night on the above Lake Storsjön in Jämtland, Sweden, with auroras and all. Of course, the scene is really the northern hemisphere’s…
German camera brand Leica celebrates the 100 anniversary of their first camera with this beautiful homage to photography: An emotional and impeccably shot commercial recreating the most iconic photographs in history. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
I remember seeing the Peugeot 205 GTi everywhere in Europe when I was a kid. Thirty years later, the French carmaker, launches a modern version of their classic urban automobile with an epic ad that seems extracted from a James Bond movie directed by Michael Bay. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
Skiing in Hawaii. Impossible you say? No if you have big enough waves and special skis made for water. Watch German professional skier and entrepreneur Willy Bogner do it. Fun factoid: According to his Facebook, Bogner has participated in four James Bond ski sequences and many other films. Bogner seems to enjoy mixing sports as…
All my life using Adobe Illustrator and it’s only now when I learn how it draws vector curves—technically called Bézier curves. If you are an illustrator, you will love this. If you are not, it’s fascinating anyway. In fact, it is one of the most interesting videos I’ve seen this year. Kudos to Peter Nowell…
Let’s just stay here watching this perfect video loop of the manufacturing of a spring coil till the Universe ends while we hold hands. Full, buttery-frame-rate video below. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
