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Dogs can be incredibly smart but—when it comes to trusting humans—they are as naive as a little kid who doesn’t know what a lie means yet. Watching these dogs getting completely confused when magician Jose Ahonen mades a treat disappear right in front of their eyes (and noses) makes me laugh and awwww at the…
Check out the incredible footage of a ball breaking a glass filmed at an uncanny 10 million frames per second by the HyperVision HPV-X Camera of Shimadzu, a Japanese corporation that makes precision instruments, measuring instruments and medical equipment. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
You can agree or disagree with the selection of films in this compilation of the most influential special effects since the 1980s, but your brain will be on a sensory overload from beginning to end. Its author, Roger Serrabassa, sent it to us through Sploid’s Facebook page. He also made a 10-minute version, so pop…
How to turn ice cream sandwiches into MAGIC? Simply stack the sandwiches as directed, drizzle with hot fudge (or caramel sauce, or any other kind of drizzle-able topping of your choice), then “frost” with whipped cream or frosting (I’d use Cool Whip). Top with nuts or sprinkles or candy or anything else one might serve…
About a third into this video of Russian Ukranian kids doing their usual thing—climbing onto buildings, towers, and bridges with absolute disregard to their own life—I had to stop. I’ve seen things like this before, but this was too much. Seriously. I’m not exaggerating and I may be too impressionable, but I couldn’t take it…
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On the first day of spring, Grant “The King of Random” Thompson blew up a snowman to bits and filmed it in slow motion—150 times slower than real life. It’s oddly satisfying.* *[Because fuck winter already, really. I want to kill all the snowmen in the world—JD] SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
How did a “scruffy,” “rough and tumble” “bounty hunter of antiquities” become one of the most beloved heroes in film history? Read this transcript from a 1978 meeting featuring Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan, as they workshop the concept of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The best parts are hearing them figure out…
PlanetQuest is NASA’s effort to search for new Earths, exoplanets like ours that would probably contain life too. They’re doing some really cool stuff, like this sunflower-telescope combo spaceship—”a cutting-edge effort to take pictures of planets orbiting stars far from the sun.” Imagine that—seeing the actual planets! It’s a simple concept: In order to be…
Apart from Jeff Gordon’s insane prank on Jalopnik’s Travis Okulski, this has to be the coolest car prank ever: A car company convinces two guys that they are racing in a simulator, but they’re actually zooming through a real life obstacle course in a port. https://jalopnik.com/these-two-guys-think-theyre-in-a-simulator-theyre-1548662257
The world’s most famous buildings and monuments never look like you think they will in real life. Photographers create iconic postcards that are burned in our brains, most often to the landmark’s advantage—like Stonehenge, the Niagara Falls or the Great Pyramids. But others times zooming out reveals an even more impressive picture, like Mount Rushmore…
Here’s a wide ranging film montage that shows the evolution of film from its conception in 1878 to the whizbang movie trailers of today. It covers over a hundred years of film, with a new movie representing a new year starting from 1920 and on. Made by Scott Ewing, the compilation clip comes quick at…
I don’t know if this makes me an awful human but I can’t stop laughing and saying aww (also known as awwwfu-laughing) when I watch this video of a group of penguins tripping over a rope. Those poor guys can’t fly so to cross the beach they just have to trip. Imagine the conversation. “No,…
Here’s a fascinating 3D animation short from Malek Rizkallah. Called Crush, it entertains the idea of crash test dummies becoming sentient from a timely spark in the precious moments before the car crashes. The execution is crisp and clean but the concept is so interesting that it makes you feel real emotions in the eyes…
You’ve probably heard Katy Perry sing her song Dark Horse before. But you probably never heard Michael Jackson or Frank Sinatra or Metallica or Nirvana give their rendition of that pop song. Don’t worry, they never did. But if you close your eyes and listen to this guy sing Katy Perry while doing the impersonations…
If you’re a hardcore gamer, you probably know Snowdrop, the new game engine used in the new Tom Clancy’s The Division. I’m not, so I learned about Snowdrop through this new video just released for the Game Developers Conference 2014. It’s unbelievable. In the words of one of the artists who used it to create…
Scott Robertson is one of my favorite concept designers of all time, a true master (both figuratively and literally). Anyone who loves science fiction and space and cars and mechs and any kind of awesome vehicle should own at least Blast and Drive. Here’s a tiny sample of his extraordinary work. Scott Robertson is a…
Need a quick reminder as to why war should be avoided at all costs? Spend an hour in the driver’s seat of a Syrian Army T-72 tank column as it spews destruction through Syria’s Darayya warzone. Then watch the rebels destroying the tanks. Warning: Although you can’t see the bodies, fighters on both sides are…
This is Colossal highlights this mesmerizing video by Susie Sie: The Essence Of Sound. She put some lycopodium powder* on a surface on top of a subwoofer and filmed it in slow motion with some exquisite lighting. Some of the sequences remind me of Jupiter’s atmosphere. Others of herds of critters moving around. * Lycopodium…
Either CNN anchor Don Lemon is one of the stupidest people on the planet or he doesn’t have any scruples. Watch him speculating about the completely idiotic ideas sent by imbeciles on Twitter—asking if it could be possible that Malaysia Flight 370 was swallowed by a black hole or maybe the island from Lost took…
