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These are the amazing light paintings of Tackyshack, who is really taking this art form to a complete new level. Some of the amazing images in this small collection of his work are crazy psychedelia. Other look like Alice in Wonderland landscapes. And the one above—playing with shadows and subtle abstract shapes—looks like entrances to…
This video is for all the times you’ve been told not to look at the Sun (hopefully you listened and never did). But unlike other videos of the Sun, this one shows the Sun like you’ve never seen it before: in different colors. That’s because it’s made from data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and…
Many days in winter I’m glad I grew up in a place where snow only existed when you drive hours away to a mountain (and still only barely). Other days when snow falls just perfectly and the snowballs form so easily and when school and work are canceled, I wish I lived with snow. Today,…
Our lives aren’t always interesting. Some days go by and you forget them by the end. Other days bleed into yesterday. Last week feels like it never happened. Last month seems like next month. Who knows what’s tomorrow? Time disappears and sometimes we don’t know what happened. That’s why we should all record a bit…
It’s been like this for some time now but nothing is ever real in movies anymore, it’s just all special effects. Even that wall of that building that’s out of focus in the background and completely forgettable was generated with a computer. That’s why it’s almost way more interesting to see the behind the scenes…
There’s not a lot details of this video of a near collision between a fighter jet and an airliner. Taken from the fighter’s cockpit, it seems that the pilot—who is Italian—was completely taken by surprise. It could have been a full frontal hit. Imagine the face of the pilots in the airliner. My italoñolo is…
He’s Superman. Actually, I take it back. I don’t even think Superman would fly this impossibly close to the ground because it’s just ridiculous. Insane, really. That didn’t stop wingsuit pilot Brian Drake from zipping mere feet from the ground though. Look at him tear through the gully and marvel at death being defied. So…
Good news, everyone! We may have detected our first exomoon outside a solar system. It orbits a gas giant 1800 light years away from us, and it’s half the size of Earth—just like the famous Yavin IV from which the Rebel Alliance launched its attack against the Death Star. It’s a really weird moon too.…
Berkeley scientists just generated a pristine genome sequence of Neanderthal DNA—the most complete ever created—and what they found might gross you out. It might also blow your mind. The DNA sequence came from a 50,000 year old Neanderthal bone, a woman’s toe to be exact. The scientists compared it with DNA from modern humans as…
When I first I saw this extraordinary image by Thomas Kast, I though “oh wow, nice light cannon setup.” Then I learned they are not light cannons but a natural visual phenomenon caused by ice crystals. This looks as cool or cooler than an aurora. From APOD: Pictured above are not aurora but nearby light…
Underwater missiles that could have hit New York, jet-powered bombers that were nearly impossible to intercept, sub-orbital bombers, vertical launch rocket fighters, or infrared visors are just a few of many in this definitive collection of incredible Nazi weapons. Be happy that those bastards never got to mass produce them. Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe…
I don’t get golf. But I can appreciate the genius billiard-like quality of this shot—”Golf Shot of the year,” experts say—at the Farmfoods British Par 3 Championships at Nailcote Hall Hotel. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook
I wish I could put the southern hemisphere superstar RS Puppis on top of my tree—if it weren’t ten times more massive, 200 times larger, and 15,000 times brighter than the Sun. This “holiday wreath made of sparkling lights” captured by the Hubble Space Telescope is amazingly beautiful. From NASA: RS Puppis rhythmically brightens and…
It’s scientifically inaccurate and stupidly juvenile, but this ad for a fictitious baked beans brand it’s perfectly crafted—made me smile. Fart jokes in space are always a win. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook
Well played. Ad agency Victors & Spoils poked fun of mass media’s tendency to turn normal humans into plastic Barbie and Ken dolls through their abuse of Photoshop by, well, using Photoshop in reverse. That is, they took a viral photo of a girl in a bikini that had been heavily altered and added more…
If you watched Thor: The Dark World, you surely remember the epic sequence that kicked off the movie. The opening battle did a great job in setting the tone and looked absolutely incredible. Blur Studios, the shop who did the visual effects for the prologue, lifts the curtain a bit to reveal how they made…
We no longer live on Earth, my friends. We’re in some weird world where people can do the impossible. Do you want to fly? You should try. Do you want to spin in the air in both directions? I think you can. Because this insane Superman double backflip bicycle trick destroys everything that should be…
There are few things more amazing than watching humans driving a lunar rover. I mean—these guys came in a spaceship from another planet to drive a goddamn buggy on the bloody Moon. The only way to better that video is to stabilize it. For comparison, here’s the original: I’m loving this trend of stabilizing shaky…
It’s Ahnold. It’s 28 minutes long. It’s every kill he’s ever made in movies. It’s amazing. It’s everything the Internet was ever created for, really. From popping up in TV series like the Streets of San Francisco to becoming a star in Conan and Terminator to all time classics like True Lies and even post-gubernatorial…
Here’s where you don’t want to find yourself in the freezing cold after a building explosion: stranded on top of a freaking crane with no way to go down because of said explosion. Luckily, you can go up. What? Yes, up. Like a scene from some impossible 80’s action movie, a guy trapped on top…
