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“Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unbridled enthusiasm for the project doesn’t seem to have waned in the thirty years since he began assembling what might be the greatest story never told on the silver screen,” says Jordan Kushins in Gizmodo. I don’t blame him—it would be so awesome. https://gizmodo.com/incredible-concept-art-from-the-most-amazing-sci-fi-mov-1531018019
The animation in this tiny short may not be as good as I’d like, but oh boy oh boy oh boy I really need to watch a movie or a TV series that chronicles Batman’s fight against Skynet in the Terminator universe. (We can kill the rest of the superheroes because Batman is enough.) SPLOID…
Were you expecting to see a Michelin Star restaurant? Something like Per Se? Certainly a restaurant where fine dining doesn’t even begin to describe the orgasmic experience, right? Like Alinea? Nope. Those excellent restaurants—and others of their kind—are not the best restaurant in the USA according to Yelp. That honor would go to a small…
This video, shot and made by Scott Gold, plays like a dream. It depicts Scott and his wife’s trip to Japan in January but to me, it shows how Japan is maintaining its illustrious history and mystical culture amidst the fast paced, beep beep, every person cross the intersection right now modern world. You’ll see…
Beautiful. You see them glow blue one second and then they turn invisible the next. You’re never sure if these Sapphirina copepods are real until you see them light up like a stunning firefly but for the ocean. And then they disappear just quick enough to make you question what you just saw. The Sapphirina…
What are you doing to me? Let me sniff it. What is this giant metal spider? Let me sniff it again. Is that a squirrel over there? Wait… I trust you because I love you but I’m not sure what this… ohhh myyy goddd that feels so good. Keep it there. Keep it going. Everything…
A professional photographer’s job doesn’t end after they snap their photograph, hell, in some ways that’s when their job starts. In this image, The Today Show reveals what a photographer sees in his photo and what he needs to fix. And boy there is a lot that needs fixin’. A seemingly normal photograph of the…
If you leave aside the fact that The Muppets are shilling for the world’s crappiest brand of tea, this TV commercial in which everyone in New York gets replaced by Animal from the Muppets is absolutely brilliant. Because the truth is, my friends, that everyone eventually turns into Animal in this city. “Out of my…
Confirmed: Dark chocolate is good for your heart. Really good. What’s better, scientists have discovered that people who eat 70 grams of chocolate every day increase their vascular health dramatically by “restoring flexibility to arteries and preventing white cells from sticking to the walls of blood vessels.” The research published in the March 2014 issue…
This is Big Bird, a Great White pelican who lost his flock after a storm hit Lake Tanganyika. Injured, unable to feed himself, he desperately landed at the beach of the Greystoke Mahale Camp in Tanzania, where he recovered and learned to fly again. Here’s his story, according to camp owners. It was nearly 4…
Poor Travis Okulski—one of Jalopnik’s writers—got pranked hard when NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon disguised as an ex-convict cabbie took him in a police chase. He totally bought into it and I just couldn’t stop laughing. “THIS NEVER ENDS WELL!” https://jalopnik.com/how-jeff-gordon-scared-the-crap-out-of-me-1531016226
Impressive time-lapse video of The Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, 2,600 acres of desolate desert where 5,000 military airplanes went to die. It makes me sad to look at them, but their decay is truly beautiful. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
There’s nothing quite like a nice, aged cheese, but even the most adventurous cheese connoisseurs would be put off by a recent discovery from an an ancient Chinese tomb. Archaeologists uncovered perfectly preserved mummies whose chests were sprinkled with extra aged, 3,5000-year-old cheese—the world’s oldest cheese by a long shot. Since dairy has a tendency…
Last Tuesday President Obama met with top engineers and Pentagon people. He publicly said: “Basically, I’m here to announce that we’re building Iron Man […] Not really. Maybe. It’s classified.” People laughed, but the truth is that yes, the US military is building Iron Man, and the first prototypes are coming in this June. First,…
I guess this “Norefjell 2014-01-05. En stille skitur, plutselig skjer det noe 50 meter fra løypa. Kraftlinje på 132 kV tilhørende EB nett. Overslaget varte i minst 5 minutt” roughly translates to “Norefjell January 5, 2014. Bad news people, an interdimensional portal 50 meters high has opened in the forest. 132 demons have went through…
Time-lapse and video production company District 7—the people who created the intro for House of Cards—decided that it would be fun to mash it with The Walking Dead, which seems quite apt to me, knowing how Washington works. Here’s the result. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
The folks from I Want to Fish were about start fishing salmon off the coast of British Columbia when a humpback whale came to their boat to say hi. No, really, she actually came by, said hi waving her fin and left. That’s how awesome whales roll. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…
Tattoos don’t have the same stigma as they once did but we’re still a bit away from having body art painted on the sleeves of politicians or on the necks of princesses. I wish they were though. These photoshopped images of famous people covered in tattoos are so great that I wish it was real…
This is terrible. Japan is getting under China’s blanket of gross air contamination. The situation is getting bad pretty quickly—proof that we need to think globally about gas emission controls. It’s not just about raising sea levels in the future. It’s about getting cancer now. https://kotaku.com/chinas-pollution-is-making-japanese-air-all-crappy-1531371641
Remember when Jean-Claude Van Damme really pulled off that impossible stunt by doing the splits with two moving trucks? And then we all laughed when Chuck Norris hilariously beat him with airplanes and CGI? Well, Van Damme just won. https://gizmodo.com/no-tricks-were-used-in-this-unbelievable-stunt-1464511530 He just shut the competition down by taking this digital wang whipping contest to space.…
