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We’ve all gasped at GoPro videos on YouTube and thought that it would be so awesome to record all the awesome things we do in our lives. But here’s the truth, our lives aren’t that exciting and worth recording. Reddit user fryest hilariously proved that by splicing his GoPro camera footage with other GoPro videos.…
By the end of the decade, NASA will send a robotic spaceship to grab a 40-foot (12-meter) asteroid and bring it close to Earth, placing it in an orbit around the Moon, and then send astronauts in an Orion spaceship to study it. They just published six papers detailing this historic mission, crucial for humanity’s…
I feel like you don’t even have to watch Star Wars to know what Star Wars is about. Just by living on Earth you’d be able to accumulate enough knowledge about it: Darth Vader is Luke’s Dad, Han Solo shot first, the prequels sucked and so on. But if you still don’t know, here’s TL;DW’s…
PornHub seems to be the porn benchmark of the internet. Here you have a fascinating visualization that shows you the most viewed videos in relation to their category. On the left you can see all the videos ordered by views (3.2 billion in total!) On the right you can see the 15 categories they belong…
NASA has published these two images of the Aral Sea, which used to be the fourth biggest lake in the world before the Soviet Union plugged into the rivers that fed it to irrigate massive agricultural areas. The photo on the right was taken in 2000. On the left you can see its current state.…
Mark Hamill appeared yesterday at the Golden Heart Gala in Los Angeles sporting a full beard and long hair. Since they are filming now, I think it’s safe to say that this is how he looks on the new Star Wars Episode VII by J.J. Abrams. So I photoshopped his face on top of Obi…
Impressive map of the United States showing only all roads and streets in the country. 240 million individual road segments—according to the its creator Fathom Information Design—and nothing else. It’s amazing how you can see all the geography contours. Check out the details: Roadless terrain forms the topography of the Appalachian Mountains. A detail of…
The end of your own existence is actually a blessing in disguise, says this short animation by Dice Productions selected for the Encounters Film animation festival. Wait no, actually, what is saying is that death really sucks because it doesn’t make sense. And they are right. As my favorite cook says: “Comer y follar, que…
The good fight for freedom and democracy against Beijing’s dictatorial regime continues in Hong Kong, where protesters keep flooding the streets in massive demonstrations. This photo published by Hong Kong Democracy Now is an impressive look into one. Here are some more from the ground. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
I’ve been spooked by dogs in parked cars plenty of times, but I never teased them. Unlike the guy in this short created by London-based animation house Birdbox Studios. At the end, he learns his lesson the hard way. Karma, people. It’s a bitch. The short was showen at the Encounters Film festival in Bristol…
Spanish filmmaker Francisco Montoro shows in this beautiful video that communication goes beyond words. Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, we can connect with each other in many ways, but we are certainly missing the most important one. The one that creates the strongest bonds: Physical contact. This is the translation from the words at the…
Head swaps aren’t new but they are an unlimited source of fun. This video for the song On & On—by DUM—takes footage from Never Ending Story and superimposes the faces of the members of the band on the ones from the characters in the movie—they change some other things too. (NSFW-ish.) It’s not the first…
It doesn’t matter how much money you have. If you are not tough enough, you can’t afford this car. If that were true we would be living in a completely different planet with a completely different set of principles. But this is Earth and this video is just an ad. A pretty good one. SPLOID…
A trio of 9 year olds and a 6 year old helped Prince Ea come up with this lovely stop motion animation video that uses their illustrations to answer the meaning of life. Obviously, the third graders had some help in answering that unanswerable question but their illustrations are so cute and their speech is…
It’s an obvious stunt. Nestle Fitness outfitted a woman with a bra camera to show just how many people sneak a glance throughout the day. Spoiler! It’s a lot of random eyeballs. Why did they do this? Nestle Fitness says: to remind women around the world to check their breasts regularly to help prevent breast…
Here’s the official music video for Pharrell Williams’ latest single “It Girl”. It’s a visual trip that combines lovely anime and nostalgia inducing 8-bit video games with the always colorful imagination of artist Takashi Murakami. It’s not so much a music video as it is moving art. This is part of a series in which…
I think we should re-visit the playgrounds of our childhood to see how much fun we can have now. Because if it’s anything like these guys from the Streaks Show, it looks like it’ll be an insane amount of fun. I mean, they used a seesaw to basically jump flip out of the world of…
Kudos to General Electric for hiring actor Jeff Goldblum and directors Tim and Eric to make this hilarious commercial to promote their new LED lightbulbs. I’m a fan of Philips’ LEDs but, after this, I will be checking GE again. Because I’m that easy to convince and it’s Jeff fucking Goldblum, ok? SPLOID is a…
Phil Hansen is a multimedia artist “who specializes in representative portraiture using media that connect to the subject matter.” This portrait of Nikola Tesla using electricity is the perfect example of that. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Science illustrator and animator Eleanor Lutz has created these cool animated technical drawings of flying animals in motion. I would love to paths the wings draw in 3D. Eleanor Lutz is a designer in Seattle who has a bachelor on molecular biology from the University of Washington. You can follow her on her site, Twitter,…
