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The jiggles, man. Ryan Matthew Smith filmed Jell-O bouncing in super slow motion and it’s weirdly fun to watch. Mostly because anything in slow motion is fun to watch but also because something as alien and flubber-esque and globby looking as Jell-O is just spectacular at bouncing. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
Milan Vuckovic mashed up two things most humans love by re-imagining Game of Thrones’ opening credits in the style of Saul Bass, the master of the title sequence. It’s like if Game of Thrones existed in the 60s. Pretty soon, we’ll have a recreation of Game of Thrones for every era. SPLOID is a new…
You can recognize these shots even if you only saw them for a second. Because they’ve been spoofed and parodied, referenced and homaged, spliced into our brains through pop culture, recreated in conversation so many times that these iconic shots are what we’ll remember even when we forget everything else. I don’t even think I’ve…
I’ve seen many dash cam videos is my life but this one is so surreal, so unexpected and so hilarious that it’s already one of my favorites, even if it’s fake. Think of it as a movie and enjoy. Car rage videos aren’t normally this funny and that’s because this one is not real, it’s…
I don’t know if Jeff Bridges shares the same love for the White Russian as The Dude does. But the guys at the Mexican liquor brand Kahlúa—one of the main ingredients of the cocktail—seem to think so because they just produced this twisted-ending short film starring Jeff Bridges—or maybe The Dude, who knows. SPLOID is…
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this wonderful picture of what he describes as “My favorite views from space—just past sunrise over the ocean.” Gorgeous. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
According to the Youtube description, this video—published yesterday in Reddit but shot last year—captures the moment when a tornado violently hits a village in Bashkiria, Russia. The hair-raising footage was taken from a car’s dash cam that stayed on even when the tornado was passing right over it. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
Sci-fi movies are often cold and emotionless but Swedish artistSimon Stalenhagthinks otherwise. His paintings, inspired by those movies, escape from the artifices of the genre to show the calm everyday life in a post-futuristic world full robots and abandoned mechanical structures. You canbuy Simon’s prints here or pre-order his book here. SPLOID is a new…
Moe Qureshi—a chemist at the University of Toronto—gave his ALS bucket challenge a shocking twist when he decided to use liquid nitrogen instead of ice. I would be terrified just by the thought of pouring liquid over my head at -321°F (-196ºC), but Moe survived the challenge unscathed—thanks to science. SPLOID is a new blog…
How many times did you use the word awesome today? Five, ten, fifteen times? We use the word awesome so often and, most of the time, so incorrectly that the term has lost its original sense— maybe forever. Comedian Jill Shargaa explains why in this AWESOME TED talk. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
With all those flashing lights and colors, this could be a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It’s actually the highlight of Burning Man: The last night of the festival. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day features an amazing photo by Phill Round. It looks like a frame from a Spielberg movie—an humanoid figure appearing at the base of a mountain, with the unknown starry sky of an alien world behind it. In reality, it’s a man getting into New Zealand’s Hollow Hill Cave. From…
Sometimes you don’t need to show much to turn people on. For me, it’s the lips and the tongue (and kissing and the licking) that send me into hyperdrive. Hyperrealistic painter Hubert de Lartigue seems to share this fascination. His series of large scale lips paintings are amazing—and so erotic. So much that some will…
The Basque Country is the culinary center of the world. Not only for its many gastronomical temples—like Martín Berasategui, Arzak, Zuberoa, or Azurmendi—but for the infinite amount of places where they prepare amazing plates—and pintxos. The Inglorious Basque-ard Burger is Pornburger’s homage to the latter. The ingredients: Braised oxtail burger comes served in it’s own…
If you want to get away from people and feel like you’re not living on Earth while living on Earth, the places that come to mind are like Iceland for the out of this world alien paradise life or Montana for the punishingly beautiful outdoors or New Zealand, where the world looks like it hides…
Labor Day is near so summer is just about wrapped up which means the idea of cold and winter is just beginning to percolate. And the best part about winter is thinking about it. When you can remember the memories of holidays and taste the hot chocolate and not feel a single drop in temperature…
It’s always incredible to see ants work as a team by stringing their bodies together like a rope to pull something much heavier back home. It looks a lot like what us humans would do when we’re trying to move something big. Ants, they’re just like us! SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
It’s very clearly a stunt ad, so calibrate your reactions accordingly. But still. Gross. Bissell Canada wants us to believe that they believe in their all-in-one steam cleaner and vacuum so much that they’ll eat off any surface that it cleans. Even if it’s a gross, mucky, grimy subway floor. A senior brand manager for…
This is the story of Aleksander Aurdal, a Norwegian freestyle skier who fully understands the most important rule in life: You need to crash to learn and progress. Repeatedly. In sports. In your job. In love. In life. Even Nature itself knows this—existence itself is a chain of failures and successes. Aleksander went to the…
This ad is so cool it makes me want to run the Mizuno Uphill Marathon, one of the toughest and most demanding races I’ve ever heard of. It takes place at the gorgeous Serra do Rio do Rastro, a beautiful mountain in Brasil with a winding road with a drop of 4,658 feet (1,429 meters.)…
