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Slow roasted lamb belly slathered in hot strawberry harissa sauce, balanced by a cool tarragon green goddess, grass-fed beef patty, and a schmear of fresh goat chèvre. All of that inside a toasted brioche bun. I’m literally salivating right now. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
A new specimen of an insect was found this month in a mountain in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. The insect belongs to the order of Megaloptera and has a wingspan of 21 centimeters—8.3 inches. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Filmmaker Russell Houghten created the illusion that the skaters in this video were travelling alone thru an abandoned Los Angeles, an eerie view of a city that is always brimming with heavy traffic. A lot of the time they were in fact mixing with speeding traffic which he later patiently removed in post-production. The film…
You’re looking at Buzz Aldrin lifting his boot before taking the photo of the most iconic footprint in history. It’s one of the many discarded Apollo images stored in NASA’s archives. Here’s a collection of those rare, funny, intimate, and always fascinating views to celebrate the 45 anniversary of the landing on the Moon. Blurry…
The myth: You can’t fold a paper in half more than eight times.* The reality: Given a paper large enough—and enough energy—you can fold it as many times as you want. The problem: If you fold it 103 times, the thickness of your paper will be larger than the observable Universe: 93 billion light-years. Seriously.…
I love calligraphy to the point in which I shiver with pleasure when I see someone writing beautifully—slowly and carefully. I’d have liked to see Turkish calligrapher Tolga Girgin making these 3D writings spotted by Colossal. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Driving in Russia is flirting with death—watch these three accidents happening in 30 seconds. First, the grey van violently rams itself into the car in front of it. The red car cuts off the dash cam and skids by. And then the original grey van zooms into the intersection and gets smashed sideways by a…
Scotty Bob, the crazy guy zipping the air in the wingsuit, is flying so fast you might miss it but he comes so impossibly close to scraping the mountain on some of his turns that he can pretty much high five the photographer taking a picture of him. The flight isn’t particularly long but it’s…
Craig Mullins is now one of my all-time favorite concept artists and illustrators, up there with N.C. Wyeth and Ralph McQuarrie. He has created some of the most iconic designs on film and video games, touching everything from history to fantasy to science-fiction. Here’s a selection of my favorites. What I love about Mullins is…
Astronaut Reid “Captain America” Wiseman keeps delighting us with his antics in the International Space Station. Here’s the latest: A ball of fire materializes in space and comes alive, flying away like some kind of fairy—a flaming Tinker Bell. It was made by the FLEX-2 experiment—or magics, for all we know. SPLOID is a new…
The Till House has stunning views of the Los Arcos coast, in Chile. The house is the only one built on the top of this hard to access cliff making it a very private place. Designed by the Chilean studio WMR Arquitectos, this is the perfect location for a romantic weekend. A romantic weekend meaning…
Watch a madman leap on to a moving train as it emerges from a tunnel in France. The idiot then tells the camera that he will try again soon because it didn’t work out how he had planned—as if it’s not easy enough to get yourself killed these days. SPLOID is a new blog about…
Scientist are already working hard to figure out how the mysterious Siberian hole appeared. Meanwhile, The Siberian Times went to the site they call the crater at the end of the world and captured images and video that reveal in more detail how the interior looks. https://gizmodo.com/new-footage-of-mysterious-giant-siberian-hole-as-scient-1606452428 Andrey Plekhanov, Senior Researcher at the State Scientific…
Saline used a well-known optical illusion to turn the greatest scary monsters of all time into beautiful postcards that feel three-dimensional on your screen. I love that they paid homage to the often gimmicky classic horror films of yesteryear with such a gimmicky technique. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…
Bovey Lee—an artist based in Pittsburgh—has the skills and the endless patience to make these amazingly detailed illustrations. She hand cuts each one on a single sheet of Chinese xuan (rice) paper using a wide array of cutting instruments. The resulting pieces are delicate and mesmerizing. My narrative-based cut paper explores the tension between man…
Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut in Germany have created the closest thing we have to a real life holodeck using a wireless Oculus Rift and multiple cameras distributed inside a 32-foot by 32-foot room. Of course, it’s still far away from Star Trek, but it works. Watch the video to see how: Subjects in the lab…
A photo of the Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine—”the most powerful single-nozzle liquid-fueled rocket engine ever flown”—being tested at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama. Five of them powered the first stage of the Saturn V. Watch and listen to all of them being tested—in Dolby 5.1 sound. It’s amazing. Here’s a drone video of the…
Pour yourself a whiskey and think about this before going to sleep tonight: “What you perceive as a conscious perspective is actually a bunch of little particles banging into each other and swerving around based on the same rules that form stars, nebulae, and black holes… …That means these rules must contain within them the…
So today I learned that all wasps are not yellow and black. There’s a an iridescent rainbow variant called the cuckoo wasp—of which this is a particularly beautiful specimen. They are kleptoparasitic wasps, who lay eggs in others insects’ nest. The baby wasps will then eat the eggs or larva in the nest. Gorgeous bastards.…
The best part about the video—other than that ridiculously close call of the flying race car launching right pass the driver—is how the driver who almost got crashed into, calmly fixes his side view mirror and keeps driving. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
