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I thought these things only happened in the movies, but it actually happened for real in San Diego, California. Watch the video. https://jalopnik.com/watch-a-broken-hydrant-lift-half-a-car-straight-off-the-1544996919
This sequence feels computer generated but it was shot in Alaska using a GoPro HERO3+ on the DJI Phantom quadrotor helicopter. It feels like a tiny ice tunnel until you notice the two guys standing inside and you realize that this hole is huge. The entire video is beautiful. The behind the scene video is…
This is Marshmallow—the incredible Houdini cat who can escape any cell at a veterinary clinic in Marseille, France, just by unlocking the door. The veterinary calls him the “king of evasion.” I just love this Steve McQueen of a cat—he just wants to be free! Run Marshmallow, run! Screw the oppression! Liberté! Free Marshmallow! We…
“The Patrol cutter Hercules and two rescue boats over Nu Sera,” reads the caption by concept designer Isaac Hannaford. I really like Isaac’s work because the design and the finish is not only beautiful—it feels solid. I see the above image and it seems as real as NASA photo of the space solid. In fact,…
Everyone is doing Disney’sFrozen videos and covers lately, but this has to be the best yet: Watch Brian Hull singing Let It Go impersonating 21 classic Disney and Pixar (which is now Disney too) characters, which is extremely hard to do while singing. Really amazing talent. He really nailed it. The list of characters: Captain…
This truly outstanding photo taken from the International Space Station shows the Japanese HTV-4 spacecraft illuminating the Earth’s clouds as it disintegrates in the atmosphere during re-entry. Unbelievable shot. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Not only is Titanfall, the video game that everyone can’t stop talking about, an incredibly fun game that surpasses the hype, it also has this fantastic cinematic intro sequence that makes me almost wish I could watch the movie version of Titanfall instead of playing the video game. The sequence was made by Spov Design…
OK, folks, we started this whole strangers kissing viral craze and we have had enough of it. This video of dogs kissing for the first time is the end of this stupid trend. They are not models and they like to sniff each other’s butts and that’s all we need. Enough is enough, people. Carry…
I’m a huge fan of the work of Daniel Simon, the design wizard behind the spectacular vehicle design in Tron Legacy, Oblivion, the Lotus C-01 motorbike, and countless other machines—like his outstanding Cosmic Motors series. Whenever I look at that his Cosmic Motors book I can’t stop myself from imagining driving his creations in alien…
Seeing a smart cat walk on a treadmill to its plate of food tickles me more than it should. I scream out aww under my constant laughter. I must be a bad person. But let’s be honest. Metaphorically, we’ve all been this cat before. We’ve seen our goal but we kept walking in place not…
Man, it took me an embarrassingly long time to see her but she’s there all right. The picture above is not a parrot but a woman in bodypaint posing so she looks exactly like a parrot. What a fantastic mind trip. It’s so impressive. Even after seeing the woman, I can still convince myself that…
If you don’t cringe and close your eyes a few times watching this seven-minute compilation of close calls with death, you’re probably a robot. I just can’t believe all these people survived these accidents, sometimes by only an inch. And I just can’t believe how some of the people who were almost killed just kept…
Check out these hyperrealistic pencil drawings by Redoskin—spotted by Illusion. It’s hard to believe that they are not photos. A close up of the above: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Who the hell looks at a 600-foot cliff in South Africa and says “let’s build a rope swing here”? Mike Wilson and Andrew Kirkpatrick, that’s who. Luckily, they filmed the madness as they sent a bunch of their friends flying on the world’s biggest, scariest, craziest rope swing. This thing is so big, they needed…
Following the deployment of American F-16 Falcon fighters and AWACS surveillance airplanes to Poland, the Russians have sent six Su-27 Flanker jets armed with live missiles to Belarus. Two of them are reportedly shown in this photo. Belarus offered its territory to Russia to deploy warplanes two days ago. SPLOID is a new blog about…
What would it look like to travel through a wormhole? Maybe a little bit like this new photo series from Randy Scott Slavin. “Alternate Perspectives Two” challenges the very definition of panorama, turning simple landscapes into 360-degree spheres of beauty. You almost want to fall right into the photos, just to see where in the…
Getting 20 hot, confident models to make out—like they do every day, for their job—is pretty and all, but it’s no big feat, really. Vice got 20 completely normal strangers to kiss each other. Some of them are awesome, some of them are weird, all of them are normal. It’s real life! Enjoy it. Where…
I know I will never use Google Glassuntil it becomes an invisible part of my eyeglasses but I just realized that teaching people how to cook may be a great application for it. Imagine it: Instead of having to look at your tablet or laptop, you can follow recipes without taking your eyes from your…
I’m amazed. I have never seen the World’s Most Awesome Aircraft without its characteristic black paint, but here it is. Thanks to Curt Mason and his Project Habu,now you can see the SR-71 Blackbird completely naked, in glorious titanium. About Curt Mason’s Project Habu: Descended from a Lockheed Skunk Works engineer and a middle school…
University of California researchers have created a system that shows how the brain works in real time, allowing users to navigate right inside their own heads and see their neuronal activity firing in three dimensions, showing “real-time source-localized activity from electroencephalographic signals.” They created a high resolution 3D brain model using Magnetic Resonance Imaging, complete…
