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Everyone has their own reasons for loving Robin Williams, he taught some people how to laugh, his movies defined many a childhood, he was a great guy and so on and so on. Plus, he was a fantastic actor. Tony from Every Frame a Painting explains just how great by focusing on one tiny thing:…
A long exposure photo by masterful Swedish astrophotographer Göran Strand is featured once again on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day: Double aurora ovals—green and violet—over the town of Östersund, Sweden, with the Milky Way covering the entire sky. What an awesome world we live in. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
I really thought Godzilla was going to be cool. I mean the the teaser had that sick HALO jump scene and the cast had a post-Breaking Bad Bryan Cranston with an always watchable Ken Watanabe and oh yeah, GODZILLA! There was no way they were going to screw it up like they did in 1998.…
Its animators describe Mortal Breakup Inferno as “an angry girlfriend’s infernal hunt of the man who broke her heart.” I find it hilarious because it reminds me of some real cases that may or may have not involved men or women turning into fire-breathing monsters—although none had a final twist like this. The short film…
Sure, it has had lots of problems. Yes, it is expensive as hell. But you can’t deny that the F-35 is one handsome bastard. It still feels from the future in these pictures that Lockheed Martin just sent me. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Meet Meat is another great animation film from the graduates at French art school Gobelins: A whale hunter hunts a whale, then gets chased by a bigger monster. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
I love these simple, beautiful print ads for Faber-Castell Aquarelle pencils, which you can use to draw normally or, like the slogan says, “just add water” to make those beautiful watercolor effects. So pretty. Editors note: If you like to draw and you have never tried the Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle, get a box. I…
When you have a childish mind, amazing After Effects skills, and too much spare time, you end up making videos like this one: An insane nerf battlewith realistic special effects, actors overacting, and ketchup. Gallons of ketchup. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This is the LZ 129 Hindenburg being moved into a hangar in Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 9, 1936. A year later—on May 6, 1937—it would be destroyed by fire in one of the most famous air accidents in history. It just seems fascinating to me that Nazis could freely prance around the world like…
French animation school Gobelins is one the most prestigious on the planet. This year’s graduate films are brilliant, as usual. This is my favorite: A hilarious story based on King Arthur’s renowned legend of the sword in the stone but with a romantic twist. Check out some other great work from the students at Gobelins…
Take me to the stake, but I’m not a fan of the Bugatti Veyron. I just think the design is a bad pastiche of old and new. But I’m a fan of watching things being carefully made and a fan of strange industrial machinery like the trolley above, used to join the different parts of…
When I first saw this image I thought that some industrious Photoshop user had put together an oil tanker and a power station for the fun of it. Then I discovered she is a real thing: A full thermal power plant on top of a hull. One of these ships is now on its way…
I’m not sure if this is considered just cooking or if it can be classified as high art or even a musical performance but whatever it is, it’s an absolute joy to watch. What you’re seeing is soba master Tatsuru Rai, owner and chef of Sobatei Rakuichi in Niseko, Hokkaido, making his soba noodles in…
It’s hard to keep track of what could kill you these days but if you really want to know, it’s basically everything.College Humor created this dark comedy animation bit where the Grim Reaper waxes poetic on all the things that can kill a person from A to Z. It’s a reminder to not avoid life…
CGI and visual effects are often over used in mainstream movies these days but there are still some really cool sequences that can only pop and make you gasp with the help of VFX. This short teaser for The Message, a short film by Industry Visual Effects, goes all in on CGI and it looks…
A Nerf gun is never not fun. If you see one of those laying around anywhere, at a toy store, in the office, in a kid’s bedroom, in your dreams, you have to pick it up and get goofy with it. So how can you have more fun with something our DNA says is never…
First of all, I’m not even sure I would walk down some of these stretches of the mountain. And yet these guys decided to unicycle down the mountains of Moab because there’s nothing as nuts as taking on mother nature with just one wheel between your knees. You don’t go as fast on the unicycle…
Back again to ruin all of your childhood’s favorite cartoons, here’s ADHD hilariously explaining how disgusting chipmunks are. Sure, they might look cute with their puffy cheeks but in reality, their always growing, suicidal teeth and disease riddled selves don’t make for ace detective material. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
It’s not a new image, but I just saw it popping again on my feed and I had the irresistible urge to get in there, to enjoy this bath during that sunset until I look like a California prune. If you are not familiar with this luxury condo skyscraper in Manhattan, it’s name is 432…
National Geographic’s Photo of the Day is this picture of Mount Hood, Oregon, shot by Paul C. Glasser. A beautiful image of something actually quite terrible, as Glasser himself describes: The hills were bathed in smoke from the many fires burning across Oregon. It’s only after it has died and shed its needles that the…
