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YouTube Mikolaj Gackowskikeeps making magic happen: Like with Gangman Style,he took the video for Prodigy’s Firestarter and extracted the music out of it, adding the corresponding ambient sound effects. The result is hilarious because, let’s face it, music videos are kind of ridiculous by definition. Here’s the original video: I like the parody a lot…
Norwegian public radio (Google-translated) reports on the instant dead of thousands of fish in a bay in the island of Lovund, Norway. An air temperature of -7.8 C (17.96 F) combined with a strong east wind froze the sea water instantly, trapping and killing the fish you can see in this fishapocalyptic image: The dog…
In 1969, Günter Zettl was a 18-year-old student in Waren an der Müritz, a little town in East Germany. Zettl liked to listen to prohibited Western radio stations and one day he decided to participate in a music contest by sending a postcard. Unfortunately, the communist version of the NSA got it first. The postcard…
The first official Game of Thrones season 4 trailer is out at last, and it looks fantastic. April 6 seems so far away. Now I need another shot of House of Cards. I just look at it and my excitement grows as I anticipate all the moments that I know are going to happen—because I…
Ever wondered how the US Air Force cleans its planes? Here’s one way: They use a giant shower on a runway—or a planewash if you must. Here you can see it cleaning the salt accumulated on a Lockheed Martin WC-130 Hercules after flying through storms over the Gulf of Mexico. One of the best USAF…
Redditor spidermanngp made this absolutely hilarious and perfectly accurate summary of Iron Man 1 and 2 for his girlfriend. Unfortunately, they broke up before he could finish it. Fortunately, he has released it so we can all enjoy it—which is great news because it’s quite good. My ex was coming to see Iron Man 3…
Jack Long is a 55-year old photographer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He’s developed an impressive technique for photographing liquid in motion. Using “special devices to fire a precise mixture of water and dyes.” After achieving notability, Long is now spilling his secrets. He captures these images using a camera with an insanely fast shutter speed, special…
“Aviation history in the making,” says the YouTube description. I don’t know about that, but it’s pretty crazy to watch this Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing 767-300ER taking off in a shockingly short distance at Arusha Airport, in Tanzania. That runway is only 5,351 feet (1,631 meters) long. Keep in mind that a fully loaded 767-300ER requires…
I love the work of Finnish artist Vesa Lehtimäki aka Avanaut, a brilliant illustrator and photographer who likes to take pictures of his kids’ toys in his spare time. Check out these series of Star Wars toys set in the real world. Some of them look so real that you may think he actually build…
I’m not sure there’s an explanation for this amazing set of pool tricks other than the guy doing them, professional pool trick shot player Florian Kohler, is just impossibly good at what he does or that Kohler has somehow found a way to coax all of the magnets on Earth to bend balls however he…
SpaceShipTwo just finished its third rocket-powered test and reached the highest altitude its ever been at 71,000 feet by hitting a maximum velocity of Mach 1.4. You can see the new reflective coating on the rocket plane’s tail booms which perfectly reflects the flame and our Earth. Lovely. Cant wait to book my ticket! Here’s…
Genius. Photographer Chino Otsuka has discovered the art of time travel. Instead of exploiting a whole in the Space-time continuum to time travel, she simply digitally spliced her adult self into old photographs from her childhood. That way it looked like adult version of Otsuka was meeting child version of Otsuka. So clever. Otsuka explains…
What is this? A flying drone? Eight flying drones? One flying helicopter? A moving room? A truck? It’s a little bit of everything. Called the AT Black Knight Transformer, it combines the vertical takeoff and landing of a helicopter with the off-road driving capabilities of a truck. So yes, that means it can fly and…
Photographer Adam Magyar took a high speed camera and recorded everything as his subway train car was getting into the station. Here’s the result in three spellbinding clips, part of his film Stainless, in three different cities: New York, Berlin and Tokyo. Above you can see 42 Street—Grand Central. Here’s Alexanderplatz in Berlin: And Shinjuku…
Birds singing, frogs croaking, animals walking, the sound of rain hitting trees, ponds, and the wet soil—if you listen to this video with your headphones you would believe you’re listening to the recording of a rainforest. But the truth is that you’re listening to space: CHORUS consists of brief tones which sounds like a chorus…
We know it’s tasty and delicious but who knew flavor could be so beautiful? This audio visual installation by Schwartz Flavour Shots riffs off the explosion of flavors one tastes with spices by literally exploding those flavors. Several tons of black pepper corns, cardamom, turmeric, paprika, cumin seeds, ginger, chili and coriander were placed in…
Ever wondered how it would feel if they magically turned you into a hula hoop and some Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders played with your new hula hooped body during a swimsuit calendar shoot? Wonder no more. Jump to the 46 seconds mark for the money shot. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
Sploid reader Julien Guntz sent me this, a short video called Love Horses. At first I was like, “hhhmmm, what?” but I put on my headphones, cranked up the volume, and watched it. Halfway through it I was mesmerized by the sounds of these everyday scenes of horses. I love it. Now I just want…
So you’re a swallow just flying along and *BAM* a fish jumps out and snatches you from the air. Scientists have been hearing rumors about this bird-eating-tigerfish for years but never put much stock in the rumors. At a lake in South Africa’s Mapungubwe National Park, however, they saw this happen twenty times. “[T]he first…
Set to The Shins’ New Slang, this super cut of slow motion sequences masterfully directed by Wes Anderson is delicious. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.
