Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
This is Gary Dryfoos demonstrating one of the 2014 Ig Noble prizes: Use bacon “to stop uncontrollable, life-threatening nosebleeds.” Seriously, it’s a real research paper and it has already saved lives. Watch the ceremony to see the most ridiculous—but sometimes crucial and enlightening—scientific research of 2014. Here’s a list, linking to the original peer-reviewed research…
This Russian cyclist miraculously escaped death when he got involved in what could have been a terrible traffic accident. Luckily no one got hurt, but I couldn’t help but to gasp when I saw the debris, resulting from the collision between the car and the truck, passing inches away from him. SPLOID is a new…
Right now, the Earth is at its equinox. Today, the duration of the day and the night all around the world would be the same because the sunlight is hitting the Earth at the perfect angle to align its shade with Earth’s spin axis. You can see it in this video, captured by the Russian…
I’ve been listening to Mi Senti—the last EP by electronica music goddess Róisín Murphy—for the last few months. Her long-awaited new work—created with her partner Sebastiano Properzi—takes classic Italian songs from the 70s and turns them into masterful covers. Here’s Ancora Tu, originally by Lucio Battisti. The music video uses footage from L’année dernière à…
I just saw this new poster for Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem in Film School Rejects and I was quite impressed. Not only because it describes the essence of the film quite accurately—Christoph Waltz head dissolving into the Universe—but also for doing so in such a simple and beautiful way. Here’s the trailer in case…
Ludovic Ismaël and Nicolas Delille propose these playful series of portraits mixing photography and 3D. The goal is to guess the name of the famous rock&roll bands pictured in each of these portraits. I struggled to figure out two of them. How about you? SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…
I love Jeremy Geddes’ paintings—his photorealistic style mixed with his surreal, often disturbing subject matter. Like his Cosmonaut series, in which dead cosmonauts fall from the sky. Jeremy Geddes is a painter from Melbourne, Australia, author of the Cosmonaut painting series. He also authored the comic book covers for Doomed, which got him the Spectrum…
A year ago Brian Grubb and Dominik Preisner thought it would be a good idea to wakeskate across one of the most amazing spots in the planet, the famous rice terraces of Banaue, Philippines, who many consider one of the wonders of the world. It was. Here’s the video to prove it. According to Grub:…
RatedRR bought six iPhone 6 to torture them in every way imaginable. Their first test was to submerge one in liquid nitrogen and then use a hammer to smash it. Like the T-1000 in Terminator 2, the phone shatters in a billion pieces. Their drop test also shows their new glass shatters just like any…
I hate driving, I really do. I especially hate driving in Los Angeles. And even though I know it’s impossible and unreal for me to ever feel this cool driving (unless I turn into Ryan Gosling), this time lapse by Gavin Heffernan makes me want to get in my car and drive through Los Angeles…
Cineastas spent some time with Mike Whitehead and Finex Cast Iron Cookware Co. to give a glimpse of how Finex is trying to reinvent something that has existed for thousands of years: cast iron. I love the slow and considered process—and I love to imagine the delicious food that will be inside them. If you’re…
My favorite thing about these then and now type of videos that show what the world used to look like versus what it looks like now is not seeing what has changed but seeing how much has actually stayed the same. This video shows the 100 year difference at Alkmaar in the Netherlands. The video…
To no one’s surprise, Burger King’s all black burger looks like a disgusting turd in real life. Actually, it might be even worse than some turds. It looks like it tastes like ash. It looks like it’s made from burnt cardboard. It looks like it’ll bring death to anyone who dare eats it. Grub Street…
I like all seasons but it’s summer, which will end with the September equinox next week, the one that always gave me the most happiness. This video by Zack Spiger for The Dove & the Wolf is about that. It feels like summer love—intense, fleeting, careless, lazy, eternal and spotless—forever set in your mind. The…
This is not your usual eye-candy time lapse of a gorgeous landscape. This one—created by Jeff Frost—is different. Speaks directly to the feelings. It’s sometimes creepy, violent, and weird. And others stunning, beautiful, and relaxing. The same type of contrasts you find in real life. That’s why I like it so much. Jeff used 300.000…
This is Amelia Rudolph and Roel Seeker suspended on the wall of Oakland’s City Hall, dancing like some kind of fairies or angels. The effect of them moving over the building’s façade as it if were the ground is disoriented but really beautiful. I can watch them doing this forever. SPLOID is a new blog…
British artist Michel Gillette got inspired by Ian Fleming’s seductive Bond girls to make these instantly classic book covers in 2009. They are now available for sale as a limited, hand-numbered high quality series printed on 100% cotton, hand torn paper. Each print is signed and numbered in pencil by Gillette. Individual prints are available…
NASA’s astronomy picture of the day is nothing especial today. At least for more people. For me it is special because I like to look at the four moons that tantalize Earth scientists with the possibility of life—four moons that we should explore soon, shown here to scale. So beautiful, they never get old. The…
Mammut is celebrating its 150th anniversary climbing 150 peaks around the world and capturing stunning images like this one: A group of mountain climbers atop one of the highest peaks in the Bernese Alps, in Switzerland. This is how they made it: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Jazz singer Kellylee Evans has a great new video directed by Julien & Quentin for her song My Name Is, from the album I Remember When. Retro soul at its best with visuals to match. Worth of a James Bond movie. Or perhaps Peter Sellers. Canadian musician Kellylee Evans sings jazz and soul music like…
