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To have a little bit of fun, artist Marty Cooper drew some cute critters and funny looking monsters on a transparent sheet and inserted them into real life. As in he superimposed his drawings into the environment around him. It’s like what the world would look like if monsters were living among us. You’ll see…
Everyone wants a pool in their backyard until they realize they never actually swim in it. Those neglected pools become nothing more than holes in the ground filled with cloudy water that act as mosquito magnets. Not this pool though. This outdoor pool is magic. The floors sinks into the ground and it fills itself…
If you crossed Hunger Games with Oblivion, mixed in some feelings of Moon, sprinkled a little of action from that Bourne movie without Matt Damon and shook it all up with astronaut suits, futuristic guns, another planet and an eerie death match you would get Project Skyborn, a heart pumping short by Marko Slavnic. It’s…
Man, talent is talented. Watch fantastic artist Heather Rooney draw an amazingly photorealistic picture of the famous Ellen Oscars selfie. You know the one with a billion celebrities that got retweeted a billion times. All she used was Prismacolor colored pencils to turn a blank sheet of paper into what looks exactly like a photo.…
Watch Mickael Bimboes launching “off a massive cliff in his 3rd place run for the Swatch Freeride World Tour at Aiguille Pourrie, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France.” And remember, folks—this guy got the third place. Seriously, watch it all because you are not going to believe how nuts and/or suicidal this dude is. SPLOID is a new blog…
Sincere apologies in advance for this, but here is a video of two tortoises doing it and I cannot stop laughing. Also cringing. It’s not only the video, it’s the sound—you’re going to want to throw your headphones on, and you’re going to want to watch it until the very end—or “climax,” if you will.…
After our first cutaway collections on spacecraft and weapons, here comes a new one: Aircraft! You can see here a few really rare and special illustrations, some of them never published on the Internet before. Breguet-905 “Fauvette” Image: Aviation Magazine, May 15, 1958. Jodel-S.A.N. D-140 “Mousquetaire” Image: Aviation Magazine, May 15, 1958. GAMD “Étendard” IV…
I’m so sick of this damn cold weather that I just spent the last two hours going through summer vacation porn and collected my favorite swimming pools on Earth from our own articles and some other sources. Watch, dream, and post your own favorite in the comments. Shawn house, Vancouver Ubud Hanging Gardens Resort, Bali…
Tina Amini writes the Kotaku review for Titanfall, the game that everyone is talking about. Her verdict: Believe the hype. It’s really awesome and fun and awesomely fun. I love the idea of being in a post-apocalyptic world driving a giant robot—and having infinite lives.
If you’re a true film buff, you can watch this montage without fear, because of course you’ve seen every Oscar winner for Best Picture. But even if you haven’t seen them all, it’s still worth watching as a beautiful ode to cinema. The supercut, posted to Vimeo by Final Image Films, shows the final image…
You’re looking at alpinist Gaston Rébuffat standing proud on the Aiguille de Roc,a striking needle rock in the Alps, near Chamonix, France. It’s an outstanding image—one that aliens from another solar system or galaxy may see one day. How, you ask? It’s in Voyager’s Golden Record—along with all the images below. Impressive, right? And this…
This simulation of a flight through the known universe shows “the real positions and images of the galaxies that have been mapped so far” according to the Galaxy and Mass Assembly catalogue. While the positions of galaxies are spot on, they have been made bigger for visual purposes. At high speed, the Universe looks like…
If you reverse the process in one of those enlightening How It’s Made videos you get a fantastically funny How It’s Unmade parody series. This particular comedic episode shows how a delicious Oreo is extracted to provide half the United States with flour and harvested for cocaine, gunpowder, cocoa and sugar by wizards. It’s hilarious…
It’s the unicorn of the sea. The Billfish Report is calling these photos the first ever pictures of the extremely rare albino blue marlin. The mystical creature replaces the shiny blue and silver skin of typical blue marlins for a pure white that looks so striking in the ocean. Captain Juan Carlos Zamora with Carlos…
This has to be the most perfect lip-sync job I’ve ever seen. Heck, if somebody told me these two were actually singing Frozen’s Love Is an Open Door I would totally buy it. I’m flabbergasted by how well they do it. And the daughter not giving a damn is the perfect cherry to this sugary…
This battered diamond has survived a “journey to hell and back,” and it has a pretty specular story to tell. Spat out from deep inside the earth, it is our first direct evidence for a scientific theory that says that vast amounts of water are trapped deep inside Earth’s mantle. Discovered by miners who thought…
I don’t even know what I’m looking at here. I think I see some eyes and a beak attached some oversized head attached to the body of a spider. It’s a pelican spider. “They look like little birds,” says Hannah Wood of the University of California, Davis. The spider’s body is about the size of…
It’s amazing to me that professional free divers can hold their breath for 15 or 20 minutes while swimming into the ocean’s depths. It’s even more amazing that, sometimes, they push themselves so hard that their superhuman efforts end in their own death. Robert González explains how they do it in io9. Bonus: here’s a…
Twitter user Chris (RaiderTex52) just posted this photograph taken yesterday by his friend Ryan Scott, flying at 38,000 feet northwest of Amarillo, Texas. It’s a massive haboob—the arabic term for a type of intense dust storm. It just looks like The Nothingness is eating Texas like a good juicy steak. SPLOID is a new blog…
A ground short rib patty on a grilled onion roll, with shredded mustard greens, dill pickle slices, black garlic fries, and cheese curds glazed with a bone marrow poutine sauce. The Full Mounty burger—brought to you by the insane people of Pornburger. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
