Cute animation shows the different ways to make coffee
How do you make coffee? Do you buy it at Starbucks? Support your local coffee shop? Just pour a mug at work? Or are you one of those fancy types who make coffee by roasting their own beans and like, performing high-level science experiments with it? Here’s a fun little animation that shows different ways people make…
Watch a stone skip a world record 88 times across a lake
One of the two best feelings a kid can have is that immediate king of the world, I’ve got this life thing all figured out of learning how to skip a stone across a body of water (the other is the freedom of learning of how to ride a bike, I think). But that smug satisfaction of throwing rocks that jump like 2-4 times…
Riding a bike on a slackline high up in the mountains is psycho madness
It’s already hard enough to just go mountain biking where there are no trails. It’s already hard enough to just walk on a slackline suspended in the air. So naturally, it makes perfect sense to go mountain biking on a slackline. Wait. What? That’s what Kenny Belaey did. He rode his bike on a slackline over a 367-foot…
R2-D2 adorably falls in love with a mailbox in this super cute film
I can’t imagine anything cuter than R2-D2 trying to seduce someone—or in this case, something: A blue mailbox. He brings her flowers, performs the sweetest mating dance, watches movies with her, or even zaps away people who try to mail things.
The history of the Great Wall of China and what makes it so great
Ted-Ed takes a look at the history of the Great Wall of China, telling the story of its origins and how it relates to what was happening in China at the time. Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen tell the fascinating story of the 13,000-mile ‘dragon’ wall in this animated short.
Being inside a grocery store during an earthquake is like being in a horror movie
Chile was hit with another earthquake—a strong 8.3 this time—that forced a million people to evacuate and killed 11. It wasn’t as bad as the devastating 8.8 quake of 2010 but still, any time the earth is shaking is never a good time to be on the ground. Here’s footage taken of the earthquake inside a grocery store.
The golden glittery fireworks of a grenade launcher captured in a photo
It looks more like a flamethrower or a firework shooter or a glitter dust bomb gun but it’s actually a firing M32 grenade launcher. It’s a picture of Marines training Malaysian ARmed Forces during a non-lethal weapons seminar. What perfect timing it must’ve been to capture this shot.
How to make a latte with regular drip coffee and no espresso or milk
Here’s a fun little trick to turn regular drip coffee into a frothy and delicious latte-esque drink that’s not a latte but totally looks and feels like a latte, courtesy of our friends from ChefSteps. It’s pretty simple, actually. Just brew your normal coffee and throw it in a blender with a bit of xanthan gum (about…
Hilarious short film rips action movie heroes apart
Most action movies follow the exact same recipe: One tough badass cop, one mad villain with an evil laugh, and explosions, loads of random explosions. Add an extraordinarily beautiful woman that needs to be rescued, insanely shaky camera movements, and you have a movie.
This 7-mile wide solar system model built to scale on a dry lakebed is simply incredible
I’m at a loss for words. This project and accompanying short film, To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, is so incredibly awe-inspiring and so beautifully executed, that it will make me dream of the cosmos tonight (maybe every night). The premise is simple: to build a solar system model to…
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Do you like pretty things? Do you like GIFs? Do you like short films? Photography? Food? Slow motion? Hoooow thiinggggs aree maaaade? Do you like to occasionally not Google something so you can let you brain wander and wonder a little bit? If you do, you should apply to join the team at Sploid. We’re looking for help.
These photos of F-22 Arctic Raptors in Alaska are so striking they look unreal
Taken by photographer John Dibbs for Lockheed Martin’s Code One magazine, these two F-22 Raptors are flying against the snowy picturesque backdrop of Alaska and they look absolutely stunning. So stunning and pristine and impressive that the pictures almost look fake.
Super fun video mixes phone call scenes from movies into one long game of telephone
This is so fun and great that I wish it would never end. Burger Fiction stitched together this super long scene of phone calls from movies so that it looks like different characters from different movies are all talking to each other on the phone, like one never ending game of telephone that breaks the boundaries of…
Video shows what it's like to get attacked by a crocodile and to see inside its mouth
Man. These crocs come out of nowhere and attack with such a quickness that you don’t even know what’s happening until you’re already clamped down inside the terrifying and unrelenting jaws of the crocodile. National Geographic made some flotation devices that held cameras to capture exactly what it’s like to get…
It takes $1500, 6 months, and a lot of farming to truly make a sandwich at home from scratch
How do you make a sandwich at home? Grab some bread, slap together some mustard and mayo, throw in some turkey, add some cheese, lettuce, tomato and onions, and then eat it right? That’s what normal people do but that’s a total shortcut. How do you truly make a sandwich at home and from scratch? It involves farming…
Here are 5 alternate movie endings that would have totally been more bad ass
Sometimes movies change their original, director intended endings because the audience gets too attached to characters or studios want to leave room open for sequels or we all just want a teeny bit of happiness after we sit in a dark room for two hours. But some endings shouldn’t change because the alternate endings…
Watching CGI silly putty creatures fall on top of each other is hilariously satisfying
I can’t help but laugh when I watch these CGI silly putty creatures fall down and smack the ground and then have their buddy fall down on top of them and smack them and have another buddy fall down on both of them and smack them and then have them all sort of melt together in some sort of viscous congealed gooey mess.
Honest trailer for Furious 7 proves that it was the perfect mix of silly and awesome
An easy way to weed out un-fun people who you shouldn’t hang out with is to find folks who don’t enjoy the Fast and Furious series and then stay far, far away from them because they don’t enjoy the best thing in life: stuff that is just stupid but awesome and totally silly but so much fun. That’s basically the movie.…
Video: The brown sludge that is mass producing brownies
Brownies are absolutely delicious and probably one of my favorite things in the whole world. It’s a wonderful little treat. What’s not wonderful? When you mass produce them and have to pour buckets of ingredients to mix them up to create a oozy brown sludge that can be baked. Oh well, at least they’ll still be…
This stunning aerial view of the coast is like a moving painting
Brendan Lim’s latest, Adrift, shows a beautiful view of the cliffs and the rocks and the waves and the ocean in a perspective that combines all of those features into a moving painting of sorts. When the camera soars right on top of everything, the edge of the world has never looked better.
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