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Blizzard’s Overwatch short film is worthy of Pixar
Blizzard announced their new game today. Its name is Overwatch and, looking at the short film—they call it trailer, but it is a short—they could produce a movie out of this. Make Brad Bird direct it and grab a few billion dollars on top of all the gazillion dollars that they are going to be … Continued
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All the asteroids found to date in one cool animated visualization
Here’s a cool visualization that, even knowing how much empty space is out there, still freaks the hell out of me: All the ~600,000 asteroids discovered in the Solar System since 1980 to 2014, animated through time by Scott Manley. Amazing video. Bonus: How Jupiter shepherds them away from us. Bonus: Jupiter the shepherd of … Continued
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Man/wizard balances objects on seemingly impossible positions
Rocks, cellphones, chairs, people on chairs, bicycles, motorbikes, washing machines—it doesn’t matter. If it has mass and it’s hard, Rocky Byun will make it balance on any point, miraculously making it stand still in seemingly impossible positions. Even with his eyes closed. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Cool photos of jet engines with their shell open
I like to see everyday objects under different, almost unrecognizable perspectives. Like these jet engines with their shells open. Above: a General Electric GEnx turbofan engine. Above: A General Electric CF34. The red light is heating lamp used to cook off the resin used in a lining repair. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us … Continued
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How many times keys get pressed in a Chopin piano piece
If you like classical music, Joey Cloud’sPlanogram is a fascinating toolto analyze the frequency of notes in different piano pieces. Above you can see Chopin’s Etudes Op. 10. Listen to it below. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Last Hobbit movie trailer shows parts of the spectacular final battle
Here’s the trailer for the last part of the Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, The Battle of the Five Armies. It looks spectacular. I really hope they don’t screw this one, because what remains is my favorite part of the book. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Watch the first sneak peek of the Simpsons Futurama crossover episode
Mark your calendars because this Sunday the Planet Express crew is back for an encore in a new Simpsons episode. The whole Futurama cast—John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom, Maurice LaMarche, and Tress MacNeille—will be back in an episode called “Simpsorama.” Here’s a sneak peek! I’m excited for this, despite The … Continued
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This commercial about a kid and his penguin melted my heard
I hate holiday gift ads in general, buy especially when we are so far away from those dates. And yet, I can’t get myself to hate this ad about a kid and his penguin. Yes. A kid and his penguin, who looks like the real thing even if it’s 3D rendering. What can I say. … Continued
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This non-Newtonian fluid in motion is so weird it looks rendered
The Slow Mo Guys put a non-Newtonian fluid on a speaker to film the action with a high speed camera. The result is a blob of red that seems to be alive to the point in which you think it’s 3D modeled and animated. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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How ebola attacks the cells in the human body explained step by step
Good animation by Kurzgesagt explaining how the ebola virus attacks the human body step by step. It turns out that, at the end, it is the immunological system—hacked and threatened by the virus—that eventually kills the host. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Morbidly obese versions of iconic pop culture characters by Alex Solis
I had my doubts about these Botero-ish morbidly obese versions of iconic pop culture characters, but then you got me at Finn and Jake eating all those pastries from Candy Kingdom, Alex Solis. And Cookie Monster meeting its ultimate destiny, of course. Alex Solis is a Chicago-based illustrator who now works at Threadless. You can … Continued
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This image of the Moon is cool and I don’t care it’s fake
There was alot of debate among the anal retentive crowd at Reddit about if this image was tilt-shift or not or whatever. Who the hell cares! I just like how it looks, floating like a Christmas tree ball, jumping off the page thanks to the selective blurring. Expand the image to see the full effect. … Continued
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Watching thousands of ball bearings dancing around is so satisfying
This kinetic art piece created by Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen is called Unstable Matter. I really wish I had this at home, controllable by my phone’s motion sensor. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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New Bill Watterson comic because we can’t have enough Bill Watterson
The Week reports on this new comic by Bill Watterson, made for the poster of the best comics fair in the world: The Angoulême International Comics Festival in France, where Watterson will be honored for his a life of great work. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Revolutionary photo clearly shows star system forming for the first time
You are witnessing the formation of a solar system just like ours, 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus, as photographed in detail for the first time in history by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array international observatory in Chile. I’m absolutely stunned. Just like Catherine Vlahakis—ALMA Deputy Program Scientist and Lead Program Scientist … Continued
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Stabilized time-lapse of the night sky clearly shows how Earth rotates
It’s no wonder that the uneducated minds of antiquity—and some simpletons today—were anthropocentric. The Sun, the Moon, and the entire sky seem to revolve around us. We are so special, they thought. Except we are not, as Copernicus discovered. This cool stabilized time-lapse clearly shows how Earth rotates. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us … Continued
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Spectacular satellite image shows almost perfect 9.6-km foliage circle
I love to zoom into pictures, especially spectacular ones like this one of the Egmont National Park, New Zealand, published by the European Space Agency. The clear circular boundary is actually the edge of the park, with the dormant volcano Mount Taranaki in the middle. It looks like a reverse crater of lush life. Click … Continued
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Video shows how lock picking works using a cutaway lock
We have seen drawings and animations before, but this video is great at teaching how to pick a conventional door lock. It can’t get clearer than this cutaway mechanism. Now go practice and learn to be a good thief/spy/detective/dude in some thriller movie/policeman without scruples. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or … Continued
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This short film about exes meeting again is hilarious because it’s real
This show film written and produced byAli Vingiano and directed & shot T.J. Misny made me laugh out loud at parts because this is exactly how it is sometimes. I wish life came with subtitles all the time. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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These cars will be burning rubbers for all eternity
Orbo likes to make perfectly looped GIFs, freezing a few seconds of reality into infinite hypnotizing animated postcards. These cars burning rubbers forever are a good example of his art. Yes. Art. A-r-t. ART. I don’t know who the hell is Orbo. If you are Orbo, please contact me. This is part of a series … Continued
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