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None of the mics are actually plugged in and the video is an ad for COS by Lernert & Sander but it sure makes the job of a foley artist look like a lot of fun. Rushing to recreate noises by creatively manufacturing sounds, choreographing moves to heighten the senses, it looks like a band…
From the beginning to the very end and all over again. From birth to death, here are all the stages of one woman’s life in drawings. You see the drawing morph from a baby to a child to a teenager and adult and so on. The speed painting, done by Stonehouse, is beautiful and it’s…
We see some things happen so often in movies that they start to seep into our reality. We totally think they’re real. Like thinking the asteroid belt is some dangerous road or that firing a gun to break a lock works or that silencers truly silence a weapon. But nope! Those are all myths that…
Nintendo’s handheld video game consoles didn’t start off being called Game Boy and the ones you can buy now aren’t even called Game Boy anymore but to my brain, and to many other well adjusted humans who are just pretending to be adults right now, a Nintendo handheld video game console will always be a…
You are looking at a photo of a spaceship flying 250 millions miles away from Earth. It’s Rosetta, floating in the pitch black vacuum of space photographed by its Philae daughtership, a lander that will soon arrive to the object on the background, the comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
Do not ever challenge Ziemowit Janaszek to a game of pool. This man can handle his cue and balls alright, and the trick shots he pulls off are all kinds of incredible. Even better? He strapped a GoPro to his rod for an entirely new perspective. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
I always thought the final scene of the original Star Wars was one of the most ridiculous things ever* but, without the music soundtrack and with added ambient sound, it turns into one of the most cringeworthy scenes in the history of cinema. It’s just ridiculous. *By the way, can anyone explain why the hell…
Behold the new welding “tool” at the Vertical Assembly Center in NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the largest spacecraft welding tool in the world for the largest rocket ever, the Space Launch System that will take us one day to Mars. This thing is 170-foot-tall and 78-foot-wide. It will put together the main…
Luke Piewalker, Flan Solo, and Chewie the Cookie come to rescue Princess Parfaita from the clutches of Darth Baker and the Galactic Empire. Will they succeed? And most importantly. Will Chewie the Cookie survive Flan Solo’s uncontrollable hunger attacks? All these questions and more will be answered here, in this video: SPLOID is a new…
Dogs also suffer the consequences of a long road trip. Their legs get stiff, their backs hurt, and even their necks could use a good stretching. But if you have a dog, don’t worry, just sit him on your lap and watch this ad for a super-efficient car with him. He might learn something—if he…
This cool music video for the song Katachi shows the mesmerizing dance of about two thousand PVC silhouettes. Polish-based directing duo Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski made all the silhouettes from colorful PVC plates using a computer-controlled cutter. They used the same animation technique—with more money and better lighting—for a TV commercial. (Pro tip: The…
OK people, stop doing whatever the hell you’re doing. Stop working, stop eating, stop loving or hating. Stop. Stop and watch these perfect OMFGAFASDGASDGHJDFG photos of puppies swimming underwater by Seth Casteel. Because nothing else matters, really. Nothing. Nothing but puppies. You can read Seth’s interview with NPR here. Seth Casteel is the author of…
If you watched the movie, you have seen Daniel Simon‘s amazing work for Tron Legacy on the big screen. I did too, but I don’t get tired of seeing his original concept art and admire his flawless work. A sleek vision of an alternative world that still makes me dream of a far-away future. P.S.…
Accidentally dropping things is such a sinking feeling. It’s a combination of feeling embarrassed because you dropped something and being grossed out because it’s on the floor now mixed with carelessness and I should know better since I’ve been living on this planet for many years-ness. This cute little animation short called Butter Fingers by…
For a second, you think hey maybe the motorcycle has a chance in this Top Gear bit since it screams to a lead but then the land-based jet machine insanity known as an F1 race car steps it up and the other two are fighting not to get lapped by the closest thing we have…
I learned two things while watching this aww-inducing video. Scarlett, the cute 2-year-old girl in the video, is a genius child with an eagle eye for instantly recognizing typefaces better than most humans and that it’s going to be awesome to be a parent because you can teach your kid whatever the heck you want…
There have been many attempts to make this right, but it seems that everyone has failed until now. Or at least claims the inventor of the pepperoni pizza with french fries dough, who says that everyone else has failed to make the french fries base correctly: I’ve see many variations of the french fry pizza…
Like most people who got too famous too fast or too rich too young, it’s no surprise that our favorite cartoon characters would burn out and get fat, drunk and be out of work too. Well, if they were real. Steve Cutts made this short animation that imagined the harsh reality of cartoon characters past…
22 Words found this little clip by Mark LaGanga, recorded just after the first World Trade Center tower fell on September 11, 2001. One simple understated phrase from a man walking away from the wreckage. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This is it. Curiosity has reached its prime destination. After a brilliant conception, an amazing landing, and two years of continuous travel, the rover is now at the base of Aeolis Mons—aka Mount Sharp—a mountain that rises 18,000 feet (5.5 kilometers) at the center of Gale Crater. This is where the real fun begins. Mount…
