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Harrison Sanborn found a whole lot of beautiful aerial footage shot by his dad in the late 1980s—using an Arri IIC camera with Eastman Kodak 5247 film. He scanned it at 2K resolution and made this little piece “for fun.” Looking at the Twin Towers still standing makes me sad and nostalgic. SPLOID is a…
BBC’s Steve Leonard wanted to discover who dives the fastest in free fall: A peregrine falcon—known to be fastest animal on Earth—or two skydivers in tandem. To test that they jumped off a hot air balloon from 10,000 feet. Here’s what happened: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
My uncle used to own an old medieval Spanish armor. I remember looking at it and thinking how the hell knights could fight stuffed inside those heavy and clunky metal suits. This video shows how: Reconstructing medieval fight techniques using combat treatises of that time as a reference. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
I can’t believe no CGI was used in the making of this beautiful short film: An electrician dances with ten flying lamp shades—drones in disguise—in a mesmerizing choreography. A computer controls the drones so they move in synch and interact with the actor. To make this happen Cirque du Soleil teamed up with one of…
A.W. Mangieri is the chef at famed Una Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco and he makes pizzas. Fantastic, simple and delicious 12-inch Neapolitan pizzas that look absolutely perfect. I’ve never had them but I can totally smell and taste them through this video. Plus, Mangieri seems a little crazy about pizza so they must be…
He’s going down the mountain road so fast that it looks like he’s about to hit warp drive or something. I mean, damn. It seems like one little pebble on the road or one little shift in the wrong direction and he’d be catapulted off the side of the road. But he manages to hang…
Maybe you’ve heard of The Pixar Theory by Jon Negroni that showed how all the characters of the Pixar movies are connected to each other in one universe. The evidence was undeniable! Bloop Animation shows how it all ties together in the video below. I want to believe! The theory is encompasses all of Pixar’s…
I don’t know if Jupiter Ascending—the new movie from the creators of The Matrix—is going to be incredibly good or impossibly bad, but one thing is sure: The amount of sci-fi visual porn in this trailer alone has sent my brain into overdrive. The design seems phenomenal. I’m really hoping for the movie to be…
Professional pool skater Cory Juneau did more than 60 takes around this skate park to create this time collapse: A video in which every version of himself across time is put into the same space thanks to the magic of video editing. This is how they did it: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
If the entity known as “God” is not a figment of our collective imagination—product of our desire to find solace from the nonsense that is life—he actually did a pretty horrible job. Maybe things would have been a lot different if he left everything to the little girl in this short animated film. SPLOID is…
These burgers are not made of human flesh—but they taste like human flesh. That’s what chef James Tomlinson and food inventor Miss Cakehead say. They developed the recipe using the description from cannibals like William Seabrook—a journalist who cooked human meat provided by a hospital intern at the Sorbonne. From the Daily Telegraph: Thankfully, the…
Mongolians love their golden eagles. They use them to hunt on the steppes of Western Mongolia, riding on their horses at the same time—an art known as “Horse Riding Falconry.” David De Vleeschauwer and Debbie Pappyn went to Mongolia to put a camera on one of these winged beasts of the Altai Mountains. They should…
Jamie Oliver’s burger is insane in many ways. First its name: Insanity Burger. Then the picture, I started dribbling from the moment I saw the thumbnail. And finally because the way it’s cooked. I couldn’t describe it better than the guys at Serious Eats: The onions are dressed with vinegar, the cheese is slightly tangy…
Kazakhstan looks nothing like what Borat showed me! All jokes aside, the nature in the country looks amazing. Wanho Lim put together some timelapse footage for the Kazakhstan National Museum of his month in the country and came away with some stunning shots. That thunderstorm, especially. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
I don’t know why I’m so mesmerized. Maybe because the ant looks positively alien from up close. Or maybe because I wish I could suck out and deflate the water I drink like a balloon letting out air instead of having to pour it in me like fuel. Whatever it is, it sure makes for…
The Piano Guys made this epic video that traces the 50 year history of music in Batman using a piano and a cello. Oh and of course three different Batmobiles. What’s awesome is how much each era they go through musically looks like the Batman movie of its time. The shot at the end with…
I can watch Oguz Uygur marbling paper forever. This must be the least stressful work in the world. So satisfying and relaxing. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Tim Urban of Wait But Why traveled to Russia, Japan, Nigeria, Iraq and Greenland and asked dozens of people if they had three wishes what they would wish for. A lot of the wishes are obvious: money, happiness, a house, love and peace come up often. But others just want something simple, like a biscuit.…
If you enjoy a good laugh or watch The Walking Dead or ever wondered what zombies are saying through all that clawing and moaning, the Bad Lip Reading guys have got you covered in their latest take on The Walking Dead. It’s pretty damn funny. Instead of worrying about zombies, they’re disinviting people from a…
Cute kid: Check. Handsome older brother: Check. Charming dog: Check. Long(ish) take of a mysterious corn field: Check. Lost alien that looks evil but it’s actually friendly: Check. Merciless military trying to hunt it down: Check. It feels like 1980s Spielberg published this short film using a time machine. Except it’s not Steven Spielberg. The…
