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After two months of traveling across Europe, I’m back in New York. Right now, it kind of sucks—all rainy, gritty, and foggy after all these sunny days in Budapest, Vienna, Madrid, Cádiz, Göteborg—even London! I needed a reminder about why I love this city so much, and here it is, fresh out of the time-lapse…
This is the story of Manny, a 13 year old boy from Tijuana who has to pay the bills for his family. Weak, poor, desperate, Manny is ripe prey for the merciless Mexican drug lords who sent him into the Arizona desert as a mule. But things are not what they seem. The reality is…
Good makeup is key to create believable fictional characters. That’s why moviegoers at Cinefix decided to pay homage to the best movie makeup artists by putting together this list of the best ten makeup transformations of all time: Here’s the full list: Mystique from X-Men (2000) Makeup Artist: Gordon Smith Tootsie (1982) Makeup Artist: Allen…
The brothers Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia claim they recorded the voice of a Russian cosmonaut as her capsule burned in re-entry on November 1963. This short film contains that recording and dramatizes the events. No matter if it’s true or not, the short film is terrifying. This is the translation of the audio allegedly captured…
One of the things I hate the most from tex-mex food is burritos. Maybe it’s because I’m from Spain and mixing rice with a flour tortilla is not in my culinary DNA. But this chili con queso burrito made me so hungry that I’m willing to give up my nationality for one bite.* *Not really.…
I’m a sucker for kaleidoscopic videos. Their trippy geometrical shapes, the colors, and how they perfectly blend with the music often hypnotize me. If I were a doctor, I would always prescribe this along with every box of Ambien pills. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This underwater video is impossibly surreal but the makers of the video, Francisco and Armando del Rosario and Armiche Ramos, say that no computer special effects were used in the video, just some camera tricks to make it look like the ocean world can be sideways and water can be walked upside down on. It’s…
TV shows like The Walking Dead make the zombie apocalypse look like a soul evaporating place because the characters enjoy making dumb decisions. Zombie movies like 28 Days Later make it look terrifying because of the constant state of panic. But what if the zombie apocalypse was actually… fun? Don’t get me wrong, the zombie…
Water isn’t supposed to float on top of water because well, water is water. So how are these droplets of water suspended on the surface of the water? Sound. The water is actually on top of a speaker and the acoustic vibrations allows the water drops to stay as drops on top of water. It’s…
Because dropping the iPhone 6 on the sidewalk is not enough and because soaking it in liquid nitrogen to shatter it and shooting it with a .50 cal is a little too unfair, RatedRR decided to do the ultimate drop test for the new iPhone: dropping it while skydiving in a wingsuit thousands of feet…
Everybody uses Facebook even if you don’t. Artist Pawel Kuczynski played on the idea of our obsession with the social network and people’s behavior while using it and how Facebook treats its users in these perfectly on point satirical illustrations. They take Facebook’s logo and twist it into something else. The illustrations are clever! Facebook…
NASA’s Greg Shirah made this great grid graphic using images of the north pole sea ice extent from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. From left to right you go from 1979 to 2014. From top to bottom you can see the months. You can see how the spots are smaller every year. Zoom…
*OK, not really, but that’s what they look like to me. In reality, PornBurger’s Fugazim is not made of dragon or unicorn parts. Not even meat, it’s just “crispy brussel sprouts, shallot confit, and black garlic aioli.” But they seem delicious, even if they are a vegan burger sacrilege. SPLOID is a new blog about…
Someone had the genius idea of editing out all the bullshit from an episode of Wheel of Fortune and leave only the parts where something actually happens. The result is three minutes of intense and frenetic Wheel of Fortune action. I wish there was a channel with no-bullshit versions of all TV shows. SPLOID is…
This 8-bit style animated short film features a very enthusiastic moose and his inseparable sidekick, the yellow cat. They are on a mission to rescue Princess Burger from the evil clutches of a Hipster Octopus. Will they succeed? Of course they will. The short film was created by Mike Scott for the Nickelodeon International Animated…
This cool video produced by the New York Times tries to explain the mystery of how a string quartet communicates by transforming their movements into visual data. Every member plays a different and very complex rhythm but, when the four combine, the result is perfectly harmonious. Watch the interactive video of the Kronos Quartet playing…
Friction welding spins so fast and burns so hot that it looks like the excess orange metal is something that’s not meant for this world. The metal pipes forge together so colorfully (and almost unnaturally) that I never get bored of watching the process. Here are a few more videos of friction welding: And linear…
Though the new iPhone is called the iPhone 6, we’re actually on the 8th generation of iPhone that has existed. But who cares about that. Let’s just see how much the camera—maybe the most important feature on the iPhone after messaging—has improved over those 8 generations. Hint: a lot. Lisa Bettany compared the new iPhone…
All art can stop being made because this is it. This is the best. Photographer Sandro Miller and John Malkovich teamed up to recreate famous portraits from history in their photo series Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters and it’s absolutely perfect. And hilarious. And the best. You’ll recognize so many of these famous…
I don’t know how mash up star Kutiman keeps making such kick ass music just using YouTube clips. And this new song No One In This World might be the best yet. The musical magician lifts random clips off YouTube and seamlessly blends them together into something so stunning, you’d think it was recorded in…
