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More than a hundred NGO’s—including Oxfam, Save the Children, and Amnesty International—have united to put pressure on next week’s United Nations General Assembly meeting with this shocking PSA. As the slogan says: We can’t reverse what’s happened in Syria but we can change how the story ends. I really hope they will. The director of…
Some of the sequences in this video featuring Ryan Tuerck and 11 other formula drift drivers—filmed at Pat’s Acres Racing Complex in Canby, Oregon—reminds me of those old 8-bit top perspective racing games from the 80s. I want to grab a joystick and play Super Off-Road all day now. SPLOID is a new blog about…
This video shows the emergency descent of Jetblue flight 1416, which happened yesterday, September 18. Seeing those oxygen masks going down as the cabin fills up with smoke—after one of the engines stops!—is the beginning of one of my worst nightmares. Yet, all passengers seem completely calm about it. Even the guy holding the camera…
I come as much as I can to Gothenburg, Sweden, because two simple reasons. First, it’s one of my favorite cities in the world, along with New York and Madrid—I could spend a hundred pages talking about how nice it is. But, most importantly, it’s the home to some of my favorite people in the…
A person’s eyes can express so much. That’s why directors hone in on them in crucial scenes of movies. That’s why you can just see the eyes of a great actor and immediately know what movie you’re watching. That’s why this supercut about eyes is so fun to watch, it’s just famous scene after famous…
This is great. Celia Bullwinkel made Sidewalk, an animation that shows a little girl become a woman while walking on the sidewalk and all that it entails. There’s a perfect amount of awkwardness and embarrassment, annoyance at rude gawkers, and a whole lot of hard work. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
All the sexual fantasies of an adolescent hired by the sensual owner of a mansion to clean the pool materialize in this music video for Dancing Anymore, a song by the British band Is Tropical. Warning: This video contains 3D rendered sexual content. It’s definitely Not Safe For Work. Is Tropical is an English musical…
We’ve seen so many beautiful time lapses of the Aurora Borealis (not that I’m complaining!) that it’s pretty refreshing to see how ethereal it can be in real time too. I guess that means I should really see it in real life. The video was filmed by O Chul Kwon in Yellowknife, Canada. If I…
When I first saw 300, it felt like I was using my eyes for the very first time. The stunning visuals made it feel epic. And though I may not feel the same about other Zack Snyder movies, I still enjoy watching them because if you use enough slow motion like he does, you can…
Gizmodo’s Attila Nagy got this high resolution photo by Eric Schulzinger from Lockheed Martin: “This unaltered image was captured at Beale Air Force Base, CA, in the late 1980’s. All of the subjects wearing pressurized flight suits are actual pilots or back-seat reconnaissance systems officers.” SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
A video of the new Millennium Falcon posted by the Star Wars production team reveals something completely unexpected: The Batmobile from Chris Nolan’s Batman will be in the next part of the galactic series. I couldn’t believe it until it’s revealed. Check it out. The use of the toy Batmobile model in the new full-size…
A great short shot by Fantavious Fritz in Brooklyn, New York, using 35mm film. Mixed with footage from the 2000 IMAX film Michael Jordan To The Max, it uses an edited version of Allen Iverson’s famous practice rant as the soundtrack. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Superb animation made to promote the League of Legends 2014 World Championship, a professional gaming competition with a prize pool of $2,130,000. It was created by Robert Valley for Riot Games. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
These are the tiny sculptures of Hoang Tran, an artist who likes to make popular characters out of crayons. From Calvin and Hobbes to Star Wars, he has them all. They are so cool and lickable that I want to eat all these Crayolas more than ever. Hoang also makes other stuff, like really cool…
Police have released this hilarious security camera video of a young man trying to steal an art piece that commemorates World War I from the Castle Fine Art Gallery in Birmingham, England. Obviously, the gallery’s security staff caught him as he stepped out of the museum. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
I just knew about They Ate WHAT? A competition where vets send X-rays of animals with weird things stuck within their bodies. These are some of the winners—some images look kind of harsh but don’t worry, all the animals were treated appropriately and they are fine and hungry again. First place: More than 30 ornamental…
Some people say great movie directors come to this world with a camera on their hands. Add hard work to their natural-born visual storytelling skills and they become genius filmmakers. But talent is something you are born with. This fantastic ad shows how that happens. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
I could have never imagined this could be possible: Watch this guy getting out of a London subway car and running all the way to next station to get back inside the same subway car. I think this can only happen in London. In a place like New York—where trains most often run at Mach…
There is so much more to Amsterdam than weed at a coffee shop and the red light district. Not that there’s anything wrong with either of those. But just check out this hyperlapse of Amsterdam and pretend that you’re biking around or going down the canal or just enjoying the quaint vibe of the lovely…
I should have never grown up. Or at least, I should have never stopped jumping on a trampoline because these guys, brothers Sean and Eric Kennedy of the troupe Flippenout, make jumping on a trampoline so damn cool. It’s a combination of grace and synchronization with a splash of never growing up. The duo were…
