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The Disney Universe has every single view of the stars and the sky contained in every Disney film—from Pinocchio (1940) to Frozen (2013)—seamlessly integrated in one multi-gigabyte 150 x 40-inch illustration. The image was painstakingly created by Marianne Hanoun for her graduation show at Kingston University in London. You can admire it in all its…
According to the youtube description Niklas Daniel and his fellow Brianne Thompson jumped out of a DHC-6 Twin Otter at 5,000ft. landing perfectly on their backs to slide the full length of the waterslide at around 50mph. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Stunning portraits and concept art of apes in their ceremonial attire from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The artwork was created by The Aaron Sims Company who already worked on Rise of the Planet of the Apes and other movies like The Transformers. ASC worked closely with Weta on both films to design…
Illustrator and digital artist Oliver Wetter photoshopped Kaiju and other big beasts into classical landscape paintings, mimicking the artists’ styles . He nails the lighting, brush strokes and mood, all hand drawn with a stylus—a skilled tribute to the original painters as well as the cult icons he added. The original paintings Oliver remixed were…
The bread and butter at Razza Pizza Artiginale is made by James Beard Rising Star Chef semi-finalist Dan Richer. He’s the chef behind the restaurant and might be more obsessed with bread and butter than any person on the planet. This video shows how he made his restaurant’s bread and butter the most delicious. It’s…
45 years ago today—on July 16, 1969—astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched to the Moon on top of the mightiest spaceship ever built. These amazing photos from NASA’s vaults show how they built and launched that spaceship—I look at them in awe and admiration. It was the most important trip in the…
I wish there wasn’t any music to this video. I wish it would just be the sounds of the pottery wheel spinning, the hands shaping the clay and the quiet focus of the ceramics masters resonating. But even with the music, watching masters of their craft actually perform their craft is an incredible sight to…
When you’re trying to build the fastest car in human history, like the guys making the Bloodhound SSC, you have to make wheels that basically re-invent the wheel. To reach 1000mph and go supersonic, the wheels they’re using weigh over 230 pounds, nearly 3 feet wide and spin four times faster than a F1 car.…
You may think this is some real life level of Mario Bros. Or that it’s an organ pipe made for a robot giant but it’s actually one of the pump stations that keep beautiful New Orleans safe from flooding. It sucks in water from one side and spits it out on the other. What you’re…
Whoa. Artist Alexy Zakharov re-imagined the world of Futurama in 3D and transformed the cartoon into a complete stunner. It makes me want to watch a movie version of Futurama set in this world right now. Hell, it makes me want to cryogenically freeze myself so I can live in this world when I wake…
Robert S. Ballard and his team of ocean explorershave taken new crystal-clear photos of a Nazi submarine in the Gulf of Mexico, right off the Texas’ shoreline: U-166 was one of the many Kriegsmarine U-boats that swam like sharks waiting for prey around the United States’ coast. Admire it in all its decrepit glory—in high…
French artist and photographer Franck Bohbot has the ability to make New York City look even more cinematic than it normally does by manipulating color very carefully. According to him, he plays with melancholic light and hues to create an “enigmatic atmosphere with a documentary-style approach.” It works. I’ve never seen the city more beautiful…
Behold the spectacular trailer for Master Jiang and the Six Kingdoms, a new Chinese animation feature that feels like a wild magic mix between Seven Samurai, Ran, and Lord of the Rings through a Studio Ghibli lenses. It looks amazing and, the cel animation was done by just two animators: Li Wei and Pei Fei.…
An impressive old photo of a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II trying to escape planet Earth. The two seat, twin-engine supersonic fighter jet looks more awesome and more Star Wars than the current stealthy, always-grounded F-22s and F-35s. At all that wear and tear is so beautiful. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
This pop up book created by Megumi Kajiwara and Tathuhiko Nijima changes the shape and adds motion to the silhouettes when you apply light to it. The effect is sometimes magical—as if the silhouettes are alive, changing the story depending on how the shadows drop on the page. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
Watch GoPro footage of 600 lunatics on bikes descending at once down the Pic Blanc Glacier, France—it’s all part of Megavalanche, an 18-mile endurance event, with an 8,500-foot descent over snow, ice and unsteady terrain. The event has run for nearly twenty years and attracts adrenaline junkies in their thousands. SPLOID is a new blog…
According to Duke Engineering, their axial engine is the most efficient and lightest engine you can put in boats, light aircrafts, and generators—the mechanical engine of the (near) future! Maybe. I don’t know if their claims are true and I don’t really care. I just love watching it in action in this eternal gif. Casey…
Now this is how you enjoy summer. You go to San Francisco, you lay out blue tarp on a city street, you bust open a fire hydrant and you create one of the biggest Slip ‘n Slides ever. Oh and you ride that thing down while screaming out of your mind. It’s absolutely perfect for…
The ever creative guys of Man At Arms: Reforged created Wolverine claws that Batman would wear, which means Wolverine’s blades have been replaced with super sharp batarangs and the whole rig is armored and blacked out just for the dark knight. It’s basically a video showing how you improve the most badass superhero ever created:…
Few artists in the world have the perfect command of lighting, color, and oil media technique of Yigal Ozeri. His always sensual and sometimes disturbing hyperrealistic art—which usually focuses on women in dreamy and contemplative states—is simply stunning. Warning: Some paintings are NSFW (nipples shown). Yigal Ozeri is an Israeli painter based in Queens, NY.…
