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This short animation for Channel 4 is brilliant in many ways. It shows an overly developed world inhabited by millions of cute little creatures, with cute little jobs, and cute little bars. All is fine till the final twist—so unexpected that it blew my mind. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
Hey Tokyo! You going to bed yet or having some late drinks? If you are sleepless, here’s a beautiful tilt shift time-lapse of your crazy city, which really looks like the coolest model of a futuristic city in the planet. I’m off to get some pre-dinner tapas in Madrid and it’s midday in New York.…
Everyone’s talking about tomorrow’s supermoon—how big, bright, and beautiful it will be. It’s always the same. But how big is it going to be, exactly? This image shows how much the moon size varies in the sky from its perigee (it’s closest point to Earth) to its apogee (the furthest point from Earth.) On the…
This photo and video of a daredevil from the Red Bull Skydiving team holding a glider while riding another glider makes me giddy with joy and excitement. First, because it’s simply amazing—one stunning, extremely difficult stunt that they executed perfectly. The other reason is that it reminds me of a kid throwing a paper glider.…
If the new TV series Zona is half as cool, weird, and intriguing as the concept art byAlex Andreev, it will sure be a must watch. Based on a short sci-fi novel by brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Zona is scheduled to launch in Russia in 2015. Alex Andreev lives in St. Petersburg, Russia. He’s…
Beans. They are delicious. And great for you too. One of the staples of the mediterranean diet. Sure, they have some resounding side effects, but nobody is perfect. This cute video explains the science behind farts. Watch it and learn—because farts are always great table conversation. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
I don’t know how scientifically accurate the script of this short film by French directorAćim Vasić is. It seems very unlikely that planets can shift their orbits the way the film describes but there’s something undeniably true that makes this movie worth watching: Its depiction of human greed. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
Neutron stars. They are so strange that we can barely wrap our heads around the idea of their existence. In fact, we still don’t really know most things about them, so we can only guess and wonder trying to explain their extreme properties. This video explains all we know—or suppose—about them. SPLOID is a new…
Here’s a spectacular eruption of Mount Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea. What’s cool about it is following the shockwave of the blast, the clouds immediately scatter away and the booming shockwave eventually reaches the people on the boat. Boom, for real. I like to think of the clouds running away as even Mother Nature gets…
I’m biased because I grew up in California so it’ll always be home to me but I’ll always be a little jealous of people who aren’t from here, just for the opportunity to be able to see it for the first time with brand new eyes. It’s such a big state that there are so…
This is great. Rishi Kaneria made a quick supercut that stitches together scenes from Pixar movies according their particular color. Following the Roy G. Biv color spectrum, you’ll see how Pixar chooses to use colors to make their animations. And it’ll make you want to watch all the Pixar movies again. It helps that the…
The sad truth is that most of us will never be astronauts who can ride spaceships back to Earth. Here’s one hilarious way we can pretend though: be like this genius prankster who brought a blow up spaceship with him on a skydiving jump from a hot air balloon. Yup, he rode a spaceship back…
Having Beethoven as the soundtrack obviously adds to the feels but there’s something strangely beautiful and yearningly sad about seeing this wood piano burn to ashes by two heat guns. Like it’s a memento of a simpler life disappearing via the hands of cold robots. The short film, Deconstructed Piano, was made by Laurin Döpfner.…
A fisherman caught this monstrous 18-inch-long creaturewhile fishing from a dock in Fort Pierce, Florida. Scientists say it could be a rare kind of Mantis Shrimp but further analysis needs to be conducted in order to determinate what the hell is this mutant monster from hell. If it is a mantis shrimp, it’s an exceptional…
Explorer Sam Cossman just uploaded this shocking video to Youtube showing his expedition to the bottom of the Marum Crater. An active and very dangerous volcano located in the Republic of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific Ocean. The images captured are both impressive and terrifying. According to the youtube description: Sam Cossman and George Kourounis…
Imagine you could talk to machines the same way the kid from this GE commercial does. Manipulating any electronic device just with a beep from your mouth. BEEP…phone on. BEEP…buy first-class flight ticket to Tulum, Mexico. BEEP…phone off. The ad is cool, well shot and all that, but the idea doesn’t seem that original to…
Archerfish can kill prey using a precise water pistol they make with their mouths. New high speed footage shows how they produce a stream of water capable of shooting down insects several feet away. Just like snipers do. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
ManvsMachineis an award winning design and motion studio based in London, England. Their work for the visual identity of english movie channel Film4 is outstanding and far more interesting than most movies out there. Watch these examples and judge for yourself: Check out also this really cool work they did for 4Seven: SPLOID is a…
It’s embarrassing to admit but my knowledge of Portugal beyond Cristiano Ronaldo and delicious Portuguese egg tarts and that one hilarious drone fail is pretty much non existent. It looks peaceful though! Maybe I should go. The time lapse of Lisbon and Sesimbra was filled by Kirill Neiezhmakov. This is part of a series in…
You put a group of people together and give them a common goal and magic can happen. Even if that magic, in this case, is just building a barn. It’s hypnotic to see the organization in this, like seeing a bunch of worker ants swarm together with one mind. Penny Miller, the person who filmed…
