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In 2000, Joshua Neuman began filming a documentary with and about his younger musician brother Jonathan. The idea came to the brothers after Jonathan, who had just begun treatment for leukemia, performed in hospital concerts as his alter ego Johnny Physical. Sadly after a year and a half Jonathan succumbed to a lung infection June […]

Cat City, a really amusing animation by Victoria Vincent that tells the story of a determined runaway cat who gets an apartment, a job that pays well and life on his own terms. But when things go wrong, can he really ever go home again? via The Awesomer Related Laughing Squid PostsLife By A Thread, […]

German musician Carolina Eyck performed an absolutely gorgeous theremin cover of the Ennio Morricone composition “The Ecstasy of Gold” from the Sergio Leone film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Composed by Morricone for the legendary movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly featuring Clint Eastwood and heavily used by Metallica before the […]

Mirchi and Mime is a wonderful restaurant in Mumbai, India that offers a unique, socially inclusive spin on meals. Using the tagline “Good Food Served Quietly“, the restaurant has hired employees from the deaf, speech impaired and sign language communities and plans to continue doing so. In an interview with MEA India File restaurant CEO […]

KQED Deep Look thoughtfully analyzed the incredible self-preserving physiological traits of the California brown pelican, specifically noting how these seemingly awkward birds are actually uniquely qualified to make accurate dives at high speeds in search of prey without ever harming themselves. So how does this massive bird survive a 40-foot drop onto rock-hard water? A […]

In a fascinating episode their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually explain the manner in which languages are determined have common origins, the coincidences of sound and definition across languages and the common use of borrowed words from unrelated languages. When two languages […]

Daven Hiskey of Today I Found Out explains the long history within publishing to mark specific pages with the phrase “Intentionally Left Blank” and how it was first brought about due to copious errors made during the early phase of printing. To begin with, the practice of marking intentionally blank pages, known as vacat pages, […]

Video editors Ana Beatriz (a.k.a. “AnneSoshi“) and Zoé (a.k.a. “SunnyVids“) teamed up to create a powerful mashup of scenes from HBO‘s hit television series, Game of Thrones, and the powerful song “Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes. Here is the original music video. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsA Powerful Video Montage of Epic […]

British expatriate Chris Broad of the video series “Abroad in Japan” was surprised to discover that northern Japan has some of the most prodigious snowfalls in the world. Undeterred by the weather, Broad and his friend first visited with absolutely adorable vulpine creatures at the renowned Fox Village (Zao Kitsune Mura) in the in the […]

While on-board the International Space Station, NASA astronaut and Expedition 50 commander Robert Shane Kimbrough demonstrates how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in space. Astronauts on the International Space Station eat the same kinds of food as people on Earth—they just prepare them differently. Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough demonstrates on-orbit preparation […]

When Shane Godfrey returned to his Sanford, North Carolina home after five weeks in the hospital due to a serious bout with the flu, he looked forward to reuniting with his beloved dog Willie. Unfortunately, because Godfrey had lost so much weight during his hospital stay, a rather confused Willie didn’t recognize him and began […]

In honor of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 landing in theaters next month, Los Angeles baker and author Rosanna Pansino of Nerdy Nummies demonstrated how to make out of this world cookie versions of Star-Lord‘s “Awesome Mix” cassette tapes. A post shared by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Apr 25, 2017 at 9:35am PDT Related […]

Adam Savage of Mythbusters and Tested went incognito at the 2017 Silicon Valley Comic Con dressed as Chewbacca with C-3PO strapped to his back. Last year, Savage went to Silicon Valley Comic Con dressed in a comic book Hellboy costume. A post shared by Adam Savage (@therealadamsavage) on Apr 23, 2017 at 5:05pm PDT A […]

ViralHog shared amusing footage from a man in Stockholm, Sweden of a his little nephew riding his bike down the sidewalk when suddenly becoming distracted by a racy strip club ad plastered on a van. The kid hilariously says, “ooh la la!,” before accidentally crashing his bicycle into a wall. “I was babysitting my nephew […]

For his school project, mechanical engineering student Christian Schürch tweaked a FANUC M-2 iA 3S delta robot to make it connect wooden tracks and create an endless looping railroad for a toy train. His project is currently on display at the Luga trade show in Lucerne, Switzerland until May 7th, 2017. via reddit, The Awesomer […]

JP Lambiase and his wife Julia of HellthyJunkFood demonstrate how to make a pizza stuffed inside of a burger that is inside of a pizza in their latest tutorial video. They shared the full recipe on the HellthyJunkFood website. Ever wonder what it tastes like to have an entire double sided pizza inside a burger? […]

Irfon Automation created a video featuring a daring man playing a ridiculously risky game of “five finger fillet” with their knife-wielding Staubli TX40 robot to demonstrate the machine’s speed, precision and programming. via The Awesomer Related Laughing Squid Posts‘Shovel Knight’, A Video Game Featuring a Protagonist Wielding a Shovel and a Classic 8-Bit AestheticBarBot 2012, […]

20th Century Fox has released the first trailer for Kingsman: The Golden Circle, an upcoming action spy film directed by Matthew Vaughn and sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service. The film will star Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Halle Berry, Channing Tatum, and Jeff Bridges. Kingsman: The Golden Circle is scheduled to sneak into […]

In 2013, a rather crazy-eyed but beautiful orange cat named Rijka clung tightly to the vacuum cleaner with her front paws and proceeded to lick at the suctioned air moving through the device. While doing so, however, the determined tabby would get her face stuck in the hose for a moment, calmly remove and continue […]

Davie504, the talented musician who is constantly performing in new and creative ways, played an impressive medley of Rage Against the Machine songs on his trusty machine gun bass, cleverly titling the video “Rage Against the Machine Gun Bass” Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Incredible Toy Instrument Cover of the Rage Against the Machine Anthem ‘Killing […]

A post shared by Alli: Hart & Crafts (@hartandcrafts) on Nov 14, 2016 at 10:41pm PST Alli Parker of Hart & Crafts in Melbourne,VIC who makes “crochet pieces made with love for you to love to pieces”, has created an adorable line of crocheted animals that are specifically native to her Australian homeland. Included in […]

For the gorgeous instrumental “Explosions in the Sky” by The Ecstatics, skilled animator Hayley Morris of Shape and Shadow created a brilliant stop-motion animation that used multiple layers of cut, shaped and folded materials (paper, glass and cellophane) to express the theme of the song in a visually rich manner. Stop-Motion Animated music video for […]

Two absolutely adorable two-week old baby goats named Millie and Charlie channel their very hyper juvenile energy by repeatedly jumping onto their mother Luna’s back. When that gets boring or if Mom’s not in the mood, the pair are perfectly happy just bouncing off the walls of their stall at the famous Sunflower Farm Creamery […]

The visual effects production studio, Main Road|Post, shared their breakdown of the amazing visual effects seen in the 2017 Russian sci-fi film Attraction. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Breakdown of Oblique FX’s Amazing Visual Effects Work in the Sci-Fi Film ‘Arrival’A Fantastic Breakdown of the Visual Effects Used in The MartianThe 1993 Film ‘Jurassic Park’ Reimagined […]

MarkHacks, a vlogger with a fondness for doing things in reverse, has posted a wonderfully calming and hypnotic video that features a sand pendulum creating a constantly changing pattern made up of many Lissajous arcs set to a piano soundtrack entitled “Go Not Gently” by Jason Shaw of Audionautix Related Laughing Squid PostsBeautifully Hypnotic Time […]

Kermit the Frog of The Muppets sings R. Kelly‘s R&B song, “Ignition (Remix),” in a remix created by Adam Schleichkorn (a.k.a. “Mylo the Cat“). Here is the original song. Related Laughing Squid PostsKermit the Frog Singing ‘It Feels Like Christmas’ From ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ at DisneylandJimmy Fallon’s Barbershop Quartet Covers R. Kelly’s ‘Ignition (Remix)’ […]

The team at Kitty Hawk has created the Kitty Hawk Flyer, a personal electric aircraft that’s easy to fly and does not require a pilot’s license. Their first prototype was “designed to be flown over fresh water in uncongested areas of the US.” The official Kitty Hawk Flyer is currently scheduled to become available to […]

23-year-old two-handed bowler Ben Ketola of Etna, New York may have set a world record for the fastest “perfect game” by using 10 lanes to roll 12 strikes in 86.9 seconds. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Bowler Picks Up a Spare With an Impressive Spinning Bowling Ball Trick ShotMan Performs a Wonderful One-Handed Drum Roll on […]

While traveling cross-country between Tampa, Florida and Los Angeles, California, passengers on a Delta flight were surprised to see musician Kenny G strolling up and down the aisle with his soprano saxophone, playing his particular style of calming soft jazz in an impromptu onboard concert. The musician was coaxed to play by flight attendant Jane […]

A post shared by Olivia Mears, the "Taco Belle" (@avantgeek) on Apr 22, 2017 at 11:20am PDT Artist Olivia Mears (a.k.a. “AvantGeek“) has created an incredible Pizza Dress that magically fans out into an entire pizza pie whenever she sits down. Olivia crafted the dress and a throne made out of pizza boxes, hand painted […]

Lyrebird, a sound technology company in Montréal, Quebec Canada, has developed an eponymous revolutionary speech synthesis technology that can be used in a number of ways. Like its aviary namesake, Lyrebird can listen, learn and mimic back voices within a matter of minutes. The conveyed emotion, pitch and tone of the speech can be captured […]

When visual artist Luca Zannoto was called upon by the Finnish coffee company Paulig to create a cup of coffee with a single bean, he happily obliged. Using that one bean ground upon an emory board with water boiled over a candle and everything else in miniature, Zannoto very gracefully created the world’s smallest cup […]

Photographer Amol Jadhav and art director Pranav Bhide, both of McCann Worldwide Mumbai, have created a stunning visual campaign in order to create awareness around the good work of the World For All Animal Care and Adoptions organization. In each photo, an optical illusion was created with perfectly posed humans who formed a clever area […]

The Beer Chilling Sticks by Sky Innovations are stainless steel rods that you pop in the freezer for 45 minutes and then place in your beer bottle to keep your beverage cold longer. 2-packs of Beer Chilling Sticks are available to purchase from the Laughing Squid store for $18.99 (52% off retail price). Made of […]

The master candy makers at Lofty Pursuits in Tallahassee, Florida created an extremely satisfying music video featuring candy being melted to the song “4 Million Lines of Basic” by Doctor Popular. Fun fact, Doctor Popular‘s rad song was written on a Game Boy Advance using a Nanoloop 2 cartridge. Related Laughing Squid PostsHelp Doctor Popular […]

On the latest episode of Tooned Up! by Channel Frederator, host Jacob Atkinson explains why so many popular cartoon characters are yellow. SpongeBob SquarePants, Pikachu, Jake the Dog, the Simpsons and countless others all have one thing in common… they’re all YELLOW! Why are so many popular cartoon characters yellow? There must be a reason […]

Rob Lowe has been cast as Colonel Sanders, famous businessman and the face of Kentucky Fried Chicken, for their new ad campaign for the spicy Zinger chicken sandwich. Lowe promotes the new sandwich and the food chain’s plans to launch the Zinger into space. When your spicy, crispy chicken sandwich is already world famous, there’s […]

An affectionate black and white cat named Pusic joyfully ran to meet his beloved human at the door as he arrived home after being separated for 20 days. Once at the entrance, Pusic was a bit confused, but perked up as soon as he was picked up and began affectionately nuzzling and kissing his human […]

The Dream Factory (Director’s Cut) by Ross Haines tells the incredible story of the renowned Fender Custom Shop through the eyes of eight master builders who founded the shop. Each man recounted the emotional ups and downs of the company, the crazy startup environment, and most importantly the pride of craftsmanship. The film was made […]

Coin engraver Shaun Hughes demonstrated the fascinating process by which he transformed a 1973 Lincoln penny profile into a skull with decorative scroll flourishes. This craft, known as Hobo Nickel, is incredibly intricate, but Hughes walks the viewer through every step, making it seem easier than it is. via The Awesomer Related Laughing Squid PostsA […]

A post shared by Reuters (@reuters) on Apr 20, 2017 at 10:55am PDT On April 19, 2017 a massive iceberg made its way down Iceberg Alley, near the south shore of the Avalon Peninsula near Ferryland, Newfoundland, marking the coming of Spring. A number of area photographers including Greg Noel and Kaelam Power captured gorgeous […]

A post shared by HumanCharger (@humancharger) on Sep 24, 2013 at 3:36am PDT The HumanCharger is a cleverly designed therapy device that seeks to provide increased energy levels, an improved mood, increased concentration and decreases the effects of jet lag, all with the use of light. Requiring only 12 minutes per day, the HumanCharger directs […]

Mynd (picture) + Band (string) = Myndband (video) ???? A post shared by Every Single Word In Icelandic (@everysinglewordinicelandic) on Feb 20, 2017 at 11:39am PST Artist and writer Eunsan Huh has created a wonderful pictorial series entitled “Every Single Word in Icelandic“, an illustrated guide to the fascinating Icelandic language and culture, one deconstructed […]

Los Angeles professional beauty and special effects makeup artist Mykie of Glam&Gore has released a glowing and creepy special effects makeup tutorial where she demonstrates how to turn yourself into a rainbow neon zombie. A post shared by mykie (@mykie_) on Apr 19, 2017 at 7:16pm PDT A post shared by mykie (@mykie_) on Apr […]

In a beautiful episode of “Notes from the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame“, a collaborative series from Quoted Studios and Jazz at Lincoln Center, an animated version of legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins opened up about his sense of self-confidence, his endless drive to be the best version of himself and that seminal night in […]

In an informative TED Ed lesson animated by Petya Zlateva , Indiana science teacher Kate Slabosky explains how, despite all the things that all mammals have in common, there are three vastly different ways in which they give birth to their young – placental (human, cat, dog), marsupial(kangaroo, koala, wallaby) and monotreme (duck-billed platypus, spiny […]

Ben Vagle has created the TrotBot, an interesting 8-legged robot built out of LEGO Mindstorms that features a walking mechanism inspired by the gait of a galloping horse. Ben goes into more detail about the build process of TrotBot on his website and Make:. via Make: Related Laughing Squid PostsA Coin-Operated Machine Built Out of […]

The ever-amusing Simon’s Cat demonstrated how he interacts with the variety of boxes that he likes to explore, showing both his successes and failures in a very helpful animated guide that features some of his friends. Do your cats struggle with finding the purrfect box? Watch Simon’s Cat and the Kitten battle with a number […]

Following up on his popular first appearance in February, 13 year old Robert Irwin of the Australia Zoo and the newly launched Crikey! Club, returned to The Tonight Show with a fascinating variety of animals including legless lizards, baby bears and a binturong. Several of the animals made a very uncomfortable Jimmy Fallon squirm, however […]

In 2012, Adult Swim released a sneak peek clip for season 6 of Robot Chicken that revealed how Starbucks came up with their iconic twin-tailed mermaid logo. Sacrifices were made during a photo shoot that went awry. Related Laughing Squid PostsArtist Creates Incredible Coffee Cup Art by Altering the Starbucks Mermaid LogoArtist ‘Sleevebucks’ Transforms the […]