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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alex Russell (@alexforsythrussell) Brooklyn artist Alex Russell has created two incredibly detailed maps of the New York City neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Each map spotlights local businesses, parks, waterways, and restaurants. The whimsical nature of the maps showcases...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Whimsical Illustrated Maps That Showcase the Local Businesses of Greenpoint and Williamsburg in Brooklyn first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing in 2019, vlogger Jared Owen created a highly informative and brilliantly crafted 3D animation explaining how the Apollo Lunar Module was constructed. Owen virtually shows how the module lands and then takes apart the structure to explain how...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Highly Informative 3D Animation That Shows How the Apollo Lunar Module Was Constructed first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The late Peter Bastian, a talented multi-instrumentalist from Copenhagen, Denmark, played a jaunty tune on a straw that he held between his fingers. Bastian had skillfully made the drinking implement sound like it was a double-reeded woodwind rather than just a tube of rounded plastic. Peter Bastian is playing a...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Musician Plays Plastic Straw Like an Instrument first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by C A Sculpture (@casculpture) Artist Connie Adams creates absolutely stunning horse sculptures out of galvanized metal wire and scrap. Several of these sculptures are more than life-sized and able to hold a human being, while others are smaller mounted pieces that...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Stunning Horse Sculptures Made From Galvanized Wire first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Ben Ouaniche (previously) of Macro Room set up an elaborate button controlled contraption to hold 10 colorful balloons. When he was done, he stood in a marked spot and hit the balloon button, capturing slow-motion footage of the balloons bursting open upon hitting his face, covering him with paint. This...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Slow Motion Footage of a Contraption That Smashes Colorful Paint Filled Balloons Onto the User’s Face first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg Koren (@gregkoren) Bernie Sanders made quite a fashion statement at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden that instantly took over the Internet as a meme. The popular Senator from Vermont and former Presidential candidate looked very cozy and casual in...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Website That Lets You Add Bernie Sanders Sitting at the Inauguration to Any Location on Google Maps first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Cerahome has created a wonderfully whimsical set of professionally smoked, lead-free crystal cocktail glasses that feature jellyfish tendril stems. The glasses are appropriate for wine, beer, and a variety of mixed drinks. The glasses come in a set of two. Cerahome Transparent Martini Glass Creative Jellyfish Glass Cup Juice Glass...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Whimsical Crystal Glasses With Jellyfish Tendril Stems first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tim Davies (@tim_davies_design) British artist Tim Davies, who previously created a wonderful 16 foot tall air-powered inflatable spider puppet with fully articulating legs and a giant inflatable octopus named Ocho, has returned with a beautiful inflatable deep sea isopod puppet that...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Illuminated Giant Inflatable Deep Sea Isopod Puppet first appeared on Laughing Squid.

French craftsman Olivier Gomis skillfully glued and pressed together hundreds of colored pencils that he then woodturned into a beautiful spiral vase. Gomis stated that he used no epoxy resin in the process. Alright you’ve probably seen coloured pencil being turned a million times on YouTube, but have you ever...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Beautiful Woodturned Spiral Colored Pencil Vase Made Without the Use of Epoxy Resin first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Deniz Sa?d?ç (@denizsagdicart) Turkish textiles artist Deniz Sagdiç creates absolutely incredible and exquisitely detailed facial portraits using the fibers from recycled denim. Each portrait within her “Ready Remade” and “Denim Skin” series tells a story, not only about the subject but...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Exquisitely Detailed Portraits Made of Recycled Denim first appeared on Laughing Squid.

While in Los Angeles during January 1969, the members of the Grateful Dead performed two of their classic songs, “Mountains of the Moon” and “St. Stephen”, on the set of Playboy After Dark. Before the performance, Jerry Garcia bantered a bit with Hugh Hefner about the hippie scene in San...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The Grateful Dead Performs Live on ‘Playboy After Dark’ After Being Secretly Dosed With LSD in 1969 first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ted Chin • Photoshop Art (@tedslittledream) Digital artist Ted Chin has created a wonderful composite photo series that’s aptly entitled “Ted’s Little Dream” which features imaginatively surreal scenes in which animals of the sky, sea, and earth are paired with very...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Imaginative Composite Photo Renderings That Merge Various Animals With Unlikely Environments first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Photographer and filmmaker David Friedman (previously) created a “vanity supercut” of his first name by gathering a number of different utterances of the name “David” as seen in various films and television series and compiling them all into one convenient video that he featured in his newsletter Ironic Sans. Being...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Vanity Supercut of the Name ‘David’ in Film and TV first appeared on Laughing Squid.

“Unbreakable”, created by Roof Studio for INSMED, is a touching animation about a toy bunny named Barbara who comes off the assembly line coughing, wheezing, and popping her stitches. The toy factory rejects her and puts her out into the street. A determined Barbara, however, visits every shop in town...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Coughing Toy Bunny Who Keeps Ripping Out Her Stitches Searches For a Cure in a Touching Animation first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a swirling episode of The Slow Mo Guys (previously), host Gavin Free put a portable ultrasonic homogenizer stick, which runs at an astonishing 30,000hz, to use on variety of objects, each with a different texture and purpose. In order to capture the results in slow motion, macro footage, Free...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Fascinating Slow Motion Macro Footage of a Whirling Ultrasonic Homogenizer Used on a Variety of Items first appeared on Laughing Squid.

As part of his “Unfinished London” series, comedian Jay Foreman (previously) takes a humorous look at the current borders of greater metropolitan London, all of which were set in 1965. Foreman further explains how the borders came to be, what changes were made to previous borders, the different advantages of...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post How the Current Borders of London Were Determined first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Video editor Bill McClintock (previously) has put together an unlikely pairing of the Metallica song “Enter Sandman” with the 1980s hit “Hip to Be Square” by Huey Lewis and The News. The resulting mashup is oddly catchy in its own right. Music used in this mashup: Metallica – Enter Sandman...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Oddly Catchy Mashup of ‘Enter Sandman’ by Metallica With ‘Hip to Be Square’ by Huey Lewis and The News first appeared on Laughing Squid.

“The Moon’s Not That Great” is a short, award-winning animated film by Mathieu Libman that tells the story of a female astronaut who returns from a pioneering trip from the moon. As she returns to Earth she encounters a filmmaker who wants to tell her amazing story. Despite his excitement,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Astronaut Is Told ‘The Moon’s Not That Great’ as She Returns From Lunar Mission in an Insightful Animation first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Israeli filmmaker Ariel Avissar has compiled together a wonderful supercut of clips from various films, both animated and live-action, that prominently features a giant supermoon looming over the characters. According to Avissar, this film was was fairly simple to put together. This one practically edited itself. via The Awesomer Related...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Beautiful Supercut of a Supermoon in Films first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A rather interactive pig named Rowan quite happily showed off his mastery of musical skills on instruments made for children. The porcine musician needed a bit of encouragement at first, but once he got going, there was no stopping him. Rowan is a fun-loving piggy. Who lives in our home....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Talented Pig Shows Off His Fine Musical Skills first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Totty of Trek on the Tube has compiled a wonderful graphic that plots the complex diverging timelines within the entire Star Trek franchise into visual means. This account begins with the Star Trek: Enterprise in 2151 and continues through the various series and the numerous timelines developed by temporal incursions,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Wonderful Graphic That Plots the Complex Diverging Timelines Within the Entirety of ‘Star Trek’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Marc Chouarain (@marcchouarain) French musician Marc Chouarain, founder of Le Studio Féerique, performed a beautifully entrancing cover of the Hans Zimmer theme from the film Interstellar on a Cristal Baschet. This hypnotic performance during the second iteration of Studio Féerique Live....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Entrancing Cover of ‘Interstellar’ on Cristal Baschet first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Finnish Origami artist Juho Könkkölä quite deftly showcased the incredibly intricate process of folding an exquisitely detailed Samurai warrior out of a single piece of paper. Könkkölä used neither cutting nor tearing to create the delicate folds and definitive features, just a bit of time, a bit of water, a...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The Intricate Process of Folding an Exquisitely Detailed Origami Samurai Warrior From a Single Sheet of Paper first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The Finnish engineer behind the Device Orchestra (previously) quite brilliantly programmed a toaster, a typewriter, and two electric toothbrushes to perform the iconic Star Wars theme “The Imperial March”. He gave all of the devices googly eyes (including the toast) and the toothbrushes tiny Lightsabers to complete the effect. He...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Toaster Performs ‘The Imperial March’ Star Wars Theme first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In addition to contributing to a long-term plan for ST success, cultivating leadership in others, managing PPL, data, & processes, & improving school leadership … a VP has the duty of helping to create a positive school culture … one that saves the day! pic.twitter.com/udZhQ19SGV — shandeemay (@shandeemay1) January 13,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Thoughtful Vice Principal Writes a Letter to the Tooth Fairy Verifying That a Student Lost a Tooth in School first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Musician Alex Payler performed a unique arrangement of the iconic “James Bond Theme” from the equally iconic film Doctor No on his Yamaha Electone (electronic organ). Payler quite skillfully captured each track of the multi-instrumental theme using various functions on the keyboard. UK YAMAHA Electone artist, Alex Payler, performs his...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The James Bond Theme Performed on Electronic Organ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Masayoshi Matsumoto, the incredibly talented balloon artist about whose realistic balloon animals we’ve previously covered, shares how to make these animals through a series of videos that appear to become more challenging as they go along. This channel is here to teach you a little about how to make balloon...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Tutorials That Teach the Art of Making Balloon Animals first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A vintage 1999 promo for the Nickelodeon‘s evening programming “Nick at Nite” quite amusingly put together a timeline that connected the specific actions of the Brady family from The Brady Bunch with those of former President Richard Nixon‘s time in (and eventually out of) office. For years it was covered...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Amusing ‘Nick at Nite’ Promo Featuring a Timeline That Connects ‘The Brady Bunch’ to Richard Nixon first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The Typewriter Collector demonstrated an incredibly rare and fascinating typewriter made by Toshiba in 1940 and then remodeled in 1956. This vintage typewriter was the first of its kind. It used a horizontal cylinder that featured Japanese, Chinese, and English characters. They were then chosen by manually rolling the cylinder...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Rare Vintage Horizontal Cylinder Typewriter by Toshiba With Japanese, Chinese, and English Characters first appeared on Laughing Squid.

During a very early episode of The Carol Burnett Show in 1967, the titular hostess played “Mrs. Invisible Man”, a young mother whose baby was invisible, just like her husband. The drugstore then delivered a tonic to make the infant visible, her husband insisted on trying it out first. When...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Leonard Nimoy as Spock Makes Surprise Cameo Appearance on ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ in 1967 first appeared on Laughing Squid.

“Singapore Rediscovers” is a whimsical film short by the vastly imaginative filmmaker Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films that captures the sights of Singapore. Whenever a little girl looks through her pair of homemade binoculars, however, this urban center turns into a surreal carnival with dancing buildings and flying trees...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Singapore Becomes a Lively Carnival Whenever a Little Girl Looks Through Her Homemade Binoculars first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A wonderful event showcasing the beauty of nature was captured by photographer Marco Valk, who filmed the stunningly graceful movements of a starling murmuration as the birds collectively flew in sequence with one another above Geldermalsen in The Netherlands. It’s one of the great wonders of the natural world and...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Photographer Captures the Utter Beauty of a Graceful Starling Murmuration Over the Dutch Countryside first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Musician Luna Lee, who is known for playing popular songs on her traditional Gayageum, performed an amazing rendition of multi-layered classic Chicago song “25 or 6 to 4”. Lee skillfully covered the vocals, the bass, the guitar, and even the horn tracks without breaking a sweat. Related PostsA Beautiful Vocal...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Amazing Rendition of the Multi-Track Chicago Song ’25 or 6 to 4′ Played on a Traditional Gayageum first appeared on Laughing Squid.

‘Around the Block’ is a short film by Scottish filmmaker Jonnie Lewis that offers a first-hand look at the work of street and sidewalk artist David Zinn (previously). Lewis’ camera follows Zinn as he talks about his work, using Zinn’s own animations to accompany and complement the narrative. Zinn stated...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post ‘Around the Block’, A Short Film About Artist David Zinn Who Finds Inspiration in the Imperfections of Sidewalks first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Comedian Adam Buxton (previously) wrote, directed and provided the audio for a wonderful anecdote about the late, greatly missed David Bowie that director Michael Dignum had shared on Facebook. The Brothers McLeod (previously) provided the animation for this slightly profane, but incredibly humorous memory that gives insight into who Bowie...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Animated David Bowie Recounts a Time When He Was Dressed as a Clown for the ‘Ashes to Ashes’ Video first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Jay Foreman, who creates silly educational videos, quite humorously explains why the city of London is divided into an immense 32 boroughs within its metropolitan area. Surprisingly, this current number was brought down from an absolutely unwieldy 86. Foreman cites the very complicated process that brought the number down, the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Why London Is Divided Into 32 Different Boroughs first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Ben & Jerry’s, longtime purveyors of cold sweets for humans, has expanded their offerings to the canine population with their “Doggie Desserts”. This frozen treat is specifically formulated for dogs and comes in a couple of yummy flavors inside a frozen sunflower butter base, “Pontch’s Mix”, which has peanut butter...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Ben & Jerry’s Introduces a New Line of Yummy Frozen Doggie Desserts for Beloved Canine Pals first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Tom Seibert, a biologist at Colorado State University captured remarkable footage of a brown snake wrapping its body around like lasso in order to shimmy up to the top of a metal cylinder. This experiment was studying the newly discovered “lasso locomotion” of snakes, which was conducted in collaboration with...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Scientists Discover Brown Snakes Employing ‘Lasso Locomotion’ to Climb Vertically to Top of Metal Cylinder first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by LEGO (@lego) Niko Vás and Carl Merriam, designers at LEGO, created a beautifully calming sustainable LEGO Bonsai Tree. The tree can be built in a variety of different ways using green leaves or pink blossoms made up of LEGO frogs. The...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Beautifully Calming Customizable LEGO Bonsai Tree first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic and WordPress.com and friend of Laughing Squid, captured absolutely gorgeous 4K drone footage over some of Iceland’s most iconic sights while on a trip in 2018. The sights include the incredible multi-colored waterfalls, the otherworldly terrain, and a free run of unique Icelandic horses...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Gorgeous 4K Drone Footage of Iconic Sights in Iceland first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Thomas Kinkade Studios (@thomaskinkade) Artist Monte Moore of Maverick Arts created a wonderful limited edition series depicting different scenes from The Mandalorian for the Thomas Kincade Collection. Each of the four paintings are done in Kinkade’s iconic pastoral style. The Mandalorian™...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Limited Series of Four Paintings From ‘The Mandalorian’ Created in the Iconic Pastoral Style of Thomas Kinkade first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Becky Ferreira of Vice’s Motherboard virtually sat down with Matt Russo, who happens to be an astronomer, a physics lecturer at the University of Toronto, a musician and founder of System Sounds. System Sounds consists of a group of musicians who seek to translate the rhythm of the galaxies into...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Musical Astronomer Sets the Galaxy to Music first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A compilation of clips from BBC Earth shows the magnificent beauty of different owls at different stages of life, beginning with birth. A tiny owl hatches from the egg and is cared for around the clock by human caretakers. A hungry barn owl silently searches for food under the snow....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A BBC Earth Compilation That Shows the Magnificent Beauty of Different Owls at Various Stages of Life first appeared on Laughing Squid.

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, LEGO has introduced a colorful LEGO Flower Bouquet from their LEGO Botanical Collection. Each component within the kit is customizable with specially designed LEGO sustainable pieces that are positionable depending on the look desired. Flowers such as roses, snapdragons, poppies, asters, and daisies...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post LEGO Introduces a Customizable Flower Bouquet Kit first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Chang Yu-Te of Taoyuan City, Taiwan set a rather effervescent Guinness World Record for an amazing 783 small soap bubbles that he blew into a larger soap bubble that encased them all. Soap-inception as Chang Yu-Te (China) manages to fill up a soap bubble with some even smaller bubbles! Chang...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Man Sets Guinness Worlds Record for Most Soap Bubbles Blown Inside a Large Soap Bubble first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a lofty Ted-Ed (previously) lesson written by Robert Siddall and animated by Matt Reynolds, narrator Jack Cutmore-Scott shares the rather interesting fact that certain squid have flying abilities. These soaring cephalopods engage the same locomotive actions that they use underwater to soar just above the waterline, ready to dive...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post How Some Squids Are Able to Fly first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A rather creative human quite cleverly utilized his bulldog’s love for peanut butter in order to provide a yummy distraction while the canine’s nails were being trimmed by putting some of it on a plastic wrap headband. As the dog licked, the human trimmed. While the tasty treaty was distracting,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Clever Human Wears a Peanut Butter Headband to Distract His Bulldog In Order to Clip His Nails first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Musician Luca Stricagnoli, who performs gorgeous acoustic versions of popular songs, played a brilliant dual acoustic guitar cover of the poignant Metallica song “Fade to Black”. Like his cover of “Thriller”, Stricagnoli played two different guitars at the same time. “Fade To Black” is, in the opinion of many, a...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Poignant Acoustic Cover of Metallica’s ‘Fade to Black’ Simultaneously Played on Two Guitars by One Musician first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Snubby J (Kent Jenkins) collaborated with ZeroElectroDrum to perform a virtual duet on their respective percussion instruments. Snubby J played the RimbaTubes, an instrument he invented, while ZeroElectroDrum played a pipe instrument of his own design. ZeroElectroDrum and I teamed up for this special new song featuring our pipe instruments....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Snubby J and ZeroElectroDrum Perform a Percussive Duet on PVC Pipe Instruments first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Japanese filmmaker Daihei Shibata has created a wonderful animated short film that celebrates the rich complexity of visual gradations. In doing so, those objects that seem distinctly apart become connected through commonality. When we gradate the boundaries between two polarized things, the two become smoothly connected. … Gradation is to...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The Rich Commonality of Visual Gradations first appeared on Laughing Squid.