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Richard Browning, British inventor and founder of Gravity Industries, set a brand new Guinness World Record for the fastest speed flown in a body controlled jet engine powered suit, reaching 32.02 MPH. A post shared by Guinness World Records (@guinnessworldrecords) on Nov 9, 2017 at 3:03am PST A post shared by Gravity (@takeongravity) on Jul...

A post shared by Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) on Nov 9, 2017 at 5:00am PST In July 2017, we wrote about the grand BBC announcement revealing that actress Jodie Whittaker would be portraying the 13th iteration of Doctor Who and succeeding the great Peter Capaldi. Today, the BBC revealed the look of the new Doctor....

On an episode of The Late Late Show, the cast of Thor: Ragnarok (Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston, Tessa Thompson, Mark Ruffalo, and Jeff Goldblum) and host James Corden crashed a theater in Los Angeles to act out a live 4D performance of the new Marvel superhero film for a surprised audience. A Gritty...

Lincoln, California inventor Les Cookson and artist Ken Higginson are working together to create The Animation Dome, a spectacular zeotrope that will be able to create 2D and 3D animations from drawings, claymations, and toys. They are raising funds on Kickstarter to help with production costs. The Animation Dome is a creative new toy that...

A post shared by Beat Mumenthaler (@beatmumenthaler) on May 9, 2017 at 7:08am PDT Swiss photographer Beat Mumenthaler in partnership with the Gamaraal Foundation, has created an absolutely haunting photo series entitled “The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors“, which captures the quiet dignity of those who survived the Holocaust and made Switzerland their home. The images...

Nickelodeon associate writer and producer Kevin Carroll spent a few weeks creating a SpongeBob SquarePants rap song for the You Bring the Color event where the greedy Mr. Krabs sings about wanting some of that “Green Stuff.” For the past couple of months, you’ve been busy BRINGING the color. Now we’re showing off your work...

Fred & Friends have created a baby pacifier featuring an analog volume knob on the front that goes to 11. The wonderful This Is Spinal Tap themed pacifier is available to purchase from the Fred & Friends shop. Fred’s CHILL, BABY volume pacifier is designed to provide the comfort babies crave while providing parents with...

Portland, Oregon stop-motion animator Kevin Parry of LAIKA (The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings) created an amusing video that features him performing miniature action sports with his hand. Parry filmed his stunts with a Nikon KeyMission 170 camera. Incredible Optical Illusions Performed by Kevin ParryAnimator Demonstrates 100 Different Types of Walks While on a...

With the short timelapse montage “Zenith: Chasing Light in the Icelandic Highlands“, independent filmmaker Henry Jun Wah Lee of Evosia Studios has once again captured the gorgeous landscape of the Icelandic Highlands as illuminated by the midnight sun. Lee stated that he endlessly chased the light so that he could capture the most vivid images....

A post shared by Handicat that walk'n'rolls ? (@rexiecat) on Oct 10, 2017 at 2:43am PDT An extremely photogenic cat named Rexie has a unique ability to roll his tongue and will often do so while modeling handmade kitty apparel for his human’s camera. Rexie was born without the use of his back legs, but...

Filmmaker Julian Tryba has created “NYC Skyline“, a gorgeous timelapse montage capturing the iconic Manhattan skyline from different vantage points around the city. This project took Tryba almost three years to complete, but by partnering with 929Media on commercial shoots, he was able to gain access to some of the most exclusive real estate in...

An adorable seafaring French bulldog named Bosun hilariously jumped at the sight of his own reflection in a mirror that reached down to the floor. Bosun was just going about his own business walking down the hall, when suddenly another dog appeared from nowhere. As soon as the little Frenchie realized the other dog was...

In November 2016, comedian Dana Carvey appeared as a guest on The Howard Stern Show to promote his Netflix special Straight White Male, 60. During the interview, Carvey did several impressions including a rather humorous one in which Paul McCartney explained about life in 2016 to a ghostly John Lennon. Dana Carvey’s interview …was jam-packed...

Cartoonist Brian Fies shared the heartbreaking story of completely losing his Santa Rosa, California home and everything in it to the October 2017 Tubbs fire. Fies and his wife Karen awoke in the middle of the night to the smell of smoke. Acting quickly and calmly, the Fies’ packed those items most important to them...

Animator Tim Searfoss created “The Working Man,” an animated short about a miserable man stuck in a very bad job with untrustworthy machinery and angry bosses. Got so fed up with work and dealing with my boss, I spent a year and half making this hand drawn animation to show what it’s like to be...

The cast of BoJack Horseman sings A Tribe Called Quest‘s song “Find A Way” in an amusing mashup by Adam Schleichkorn (a.k.a. “Mylo the Cat“). Here is the original music video. The Sesame Street Cast Reenacts the Beastie Boys Song ‘Sabotage’ in a Mashup by Mylo the CatBert, Ernie, and the Cast of Sesame Street...

Over 90 kids teamed up with artist Shing Yin Khor (a.k.a. “sawdustbear“) deep in the woods of New Hampshire at Beam Camp to build Salvage Station No. 8, an incredible abandoned space salvage station. The immersive installation was brought to life to “create a sci-fi narrative of an abandoned space salvage station lost in the...

While she was out and about, an adorable basset hound named Lady unknowingly acted a skilled herder when dozens of sheep at a South Cambridgeshire, England farm began following her around the yard. According to her human, Lady’s skill was discovered quite by accident. Michael Jobson, 29, adopted three-year-old Lady three years ago before discovering...

“Insider’s Guide to New York City” by comedian and filmmaker Ryan Mazer is a rather absurd stock footage film short that hilariously warns visitors to avoid typical tourist traps and provides safe alternatives in their place. According to Mazer, the film “goes off the rails” pretty quickly. @alanresnicks do u like this guide to NYC...

Funko created a life-size Rick & Morty Portal Gun Toy. The interactive replica, which discharges a variety of lights and sounds, is available for pre-order from Amazon with a release date of December 15th, 2017. This full-size roleplay Portal Gun is primarily used for travel, but don’t be afraid to use it offensively or defensively...

German company, Volkner Mobil, released a dreamy new luxury Performance S motorhome so large that it comes with a built-in garage underneath the vehicle to store a car. The 40-foot behemoth also comes equipped with a double bed, a kitchen, a large lounge area, and a heated bathroom. images via Volkner Mobil via Bored Panda...

A post shared by Nobel Truong (@nobeltruong) on Sep 23, 2016 at 7:44am PDT Artist Nobel Truong has created a beautiful line of fluorescent green cactus and monstera leaf sculptures that are expertly laser cut out of translucent acrylic. Many of the cacti also fit into a lighted base that makes the acrylic softly glow...

On an interesting episode of his Homemade Science series, Pennsylvania physical science teacher Bruce Yeany shows off a collection of marble tracks that he built to introduce his students to motion, acceleration, and inertia. via reddit A Mexico City Science Teacher Dresses up as Spiderman to Capture the Attention of His StudentsKinetic Marble Track That...

Employing the old adage that bigger is better, Hidden Valley is offering a wonderfully decadent five liter mini-keg filled with their signature ranch dressing for the 2017 holidays. The $50 keg can be pre-ordered through the Hidden Valley Ranch Flavour Gallery for delivery beginning on December 11. It isn’t a party unless the Hidden Valley®...

Sony Pictures Animation and Frederator Studios has released their first GO! Cartoons short, titled “The Summoning“. The creepy cute short, created by Brisbane, Australia tattoo artist and taxidermist Elyse Castro, follows a witch named Claire, accompanied by her cat Edgar, who is missing one key ingredient for her summoning spell. The Summoning is available to...

Illustrator Jenni Sparks, whose work we have written about in the past, was commissioned by Evermade.com to create a series of 10 Hometowns prints celebrating different unique boroughs in London. She also made city prints for Bristol and Brighton. Sparks’ prints are available to purchase from Evermade.com. images via Jenni Sparks submitted via Laughing Squid...

Determined Scottish YouTuber Mike Boyd of the Learn Quick series challenged himself to shake the dust off of his downhill biking skills by learning to go faster than ever before. With help from British downhill champion Ben Cathro, Boyd was able to shave 23 seconds off of his original time. A post shared by Mike...

A remarkable Jacobean re-emergence after 200 years of yellowing varnish 1/2 pic.twitter.com/yBGNGDcNd7 — Philip Mould (@philipmould) November 6, 2017 Philip Mould, an art dealer and host of the BBC One show Fake or Fortune, live tweeted an incredible project in which he was removing over 200 years of yellowing varnish from a 400 year old...

A post shared by Brian Goldfarb (@briangophoto) on Jan 30, 2017 at 10:43pm PST Brooklyn photographer Brian Goldfarb creates amazing images that have a whimsical sense of the surreal with just a hint of hilarity just below the surface. This can be seen in a photo of a woman flying away with her balloons, reading...

A post shared by Andy Seliverstoff (@andyseliverstoff) on Aug 30, 2017 at 8:00am PDT As with his wonderful photo series and book “Little Kids and Their Big Dogs“, Russian photographer Andy Seliverstoff has once again captured that truly special bond that exists between a little ballerina in a tutu and a couple of doting standard...

Going through our archives recently, I came across the June 1998 issue of the Japanese internet culture magazine Konpeito, that interviewed me almost two decades ago for a feature story on Laughing Squid. The article includes a screenshot of what the Laughing Squid website looked like in 1998, as well as mentioning our coverage of...

Artist and filmmaker Eric Dyer gave a wonderful TED talk about his love of the zoetrope, sharing a number of stories about what inspired him to create such beautiful but complicated kinetic works of art, how he was able to soothe the hours he put in on the computer by building these animations and his...

Joshua Slice has created an adorable animated short about a cute little spider named Lucas. The tiny arachnid announced that he has too many eyeballs to look around with. He then ran off to his spiderweb. The spider was voiced by Slice’s nephew, also named Lucas. This is an animation test of a character I’ve...

Concerned about the growing problem of “Noodle Harassment“, Nissin, the Japanese company known for their Cup Noodles brand, has created the Otohiko, a noise canceling noodle fork that connects with a proprietary smartphone app that plays specific music whenever the sound of slurping is detected. This unique utensil can be pre-ordered through the company website...

Former MythBusters co-host Jamie Hyneman and his team are currently in the process of creating the seventh generation of their Vortrex virtual reality shoes. Hyneman is currently raising funds on IndiGoGo, which will aid the team in building a prototype that works exactly like they intended. We want to create electric shoes for VR gaming....

While on his Makerspace Tour, a very neighborly Adam Savage of Tested didn’t have to go far past his own backyard to get a comprehensive tour of the makerspace NIMBY. NIMBY is an enormous 60,000 square foot shared industrial art space in Oakland, California featuring studios, storage and shops (some inside of shipping containers) that...

A very sweet but seemingly picky homeless cat refused to eat the food that shelter volunteers provided in front of them, but instead preferred to take a “doggie bag” with her. Curious to see what was going on, one of the volunteers followed the cat and to their surprise, a little ginger kitten came running...

In a random, non-sponsored episode of Amazing Places, host Tom Scott visited the San Francisco headquarters of Cloudflare, a reverse proxy company that improves website performance and security. Upon entering the office, Scott encountered a beautiful wall of colorful lava lamps. While pretty to look at, these lamps are actually used to generate cryptographic entropy...

An adorable but demanding little orange kitten named Daisy is very loved by her humans. So much in fact, that the tiny feline refuses to stop meowing unless she is picked up, played with or snuggled. If none of these things are happening at any one time, little Daisy will certainly have something to say...

“Moodles” is a brilliant animation by filmmaker Ari Winkel in which animated human figures that are frozen in place, suddently unravel into shapeless strands of spaghetti. Each vignette is of a different color in order to represent various moods, fears anxieties and emotions such as stress, exhaustion and panic, which are often the only things...

ThinkGeek is featuring a plush Feisty Pets Christmas Bear, who goes by the name Ebenezer Claws, that quickly changes from nice to naughty when squeezed. Ebenezer Claws understands. A holiday Feisty Pet, this adorable teddy bear wears a little scarf and a Santa hat that reads “Naughty/Nice.” And he’s definitely on both lists. You see,...

On the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the kids and a demogorgon from Stranger Things united with the cast of the 1980s sitcom, Perfect Strangers, for an epic “Perfect Stranger Things” mashup. A Mashup of the Opening of Perfect Strangers and the Stranger Things Eerie Theme SongStranger Things Reimagined as a 1980s SitcomWhat the...

Braziliandanny created an amusing video where they used the new Animoji feature of the iPhone X to recreate popular movie scenes. They featured scenes from Pulp Fiction, A Few Good Men, and Star Wars: A New Hope. iPhone X Users Make Animals Sing in Hilarious Karaoke Videos Using the New Animoji FeatureRick and Morty Claymation...

Davie504, the incredible bassist who is constantly performing in new and creative ways, played an impressive continuous solo on 25 different basses. The instruments ranged from very traditional at various price points to rather esoteric, including a triple neck bass, a 15-string bass and an incredible 24-string behemoth that he’s sure to bring back soon....

At the end of 2016, Larry Smith, the creator of Six Word Memoirs and friend of Laughing Squid, partnered with the ABC television show Fresh Off the Boat to put out a call for six word stories about how a nation of immigrants came to the United States. The call received well over one million...

In a fascinating essay, video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter looks into the specific origins of time travel, when the genre was first developed and how it made its way into in popular culture through the advent of utopian fiction as a basic narrative of cause and effect. Human beings have...

While promoting his new film Thor: Ragnarok, the wonderfully affable Jeff Goldblum sat down with Wee Claire of the BBC Scotland show The Social to answer a few Scottish-themed questions about the end of the world. Claire asks Jeff about his survival skills (since Thor: Ragnarok is all about the end of the world). She...

While on a walk with his human in Stonehaven, Scotland, a very clever dog named Bailey came upon a sign featuring a yummy sandwich. Bailey must have thought he hit the jackpot with a giant sandwich all to himself. After giving a few sniffs, however, a confused Bailey couldn’t figure out how to get it...

Toymaker Kevin Holmes of 4-Mation created an handmade zoetrope that features 3D printed green fish with yellow fins and big teeth endlessly dining upon other fish while spinning. This and another zoetrope of the company’s design featuring frogs ceaselessly jumping upon lily pads, were made from a modular 3D kit of original design, which will...

Philadelphia artist and teacher Andrew DeGraff has released Cinemaps, his new book filled to the brim with incredibly detailed illustrated maps of thirty-five popular movies. It features maps and the charted routes of major characters from beloved films like The Princess Bride, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, Ghostbusters, and The Breakfast Club. The hardcover and Kindle edition...