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A post shared by Vera van Wolferen (@veravanwolferen) on Apr 18, 2016 at 6:50am PDT In her amazing “Story Objects” series, Dutch materials artist Vera van Wolferen has created a meticulous miniature world made of balsa wood in which each piece indicates a narrative much in the way of a neighborhood, individual stories that are […]

‘ In the Bon Appétit series “Back to the Chef“, the infamously irritable chef Gordon Ramsay challenged a hapless, inexperienced cook named Shane to prepare crab cakes in just 15 minutes by listening to verbal instructions given by the chef while he created the same dish with their their backs turned towards each other. While […]

On January 9th, 2017 the tour boat Lava Kai and Captain Shane Turpin captured a spectacular up close view of lava pouring into the ocean off of Hawaii. The flow was caused by the same New Year’s Eve 2016 lava delta collapse that was captured in the USGS video of a “lava fire hose“. Lava […]

Two weeks after he reunited with his beloved piggy squeaky toy after five years, the very vocal Finn the Dachshund hilariously performed his very best impression of Chewbacca and growled at his own sneezes whenever he was excited, per his filmmaker human Kyle Simpson. Our dachshund Finn just being his goofy self. He gets overly […]

Aliaksei Zholner, the brilliant engineer behind the working paper model of a V8 engine, has turned once again to his favorite medium to create an amazing working miniature pipe organ. The idea came to him when his wife suggested that he create a music box. Zholner took that idea one step further, handcrafting paper pipes, […]

On a special episode of Wisecrack, host Jared Bauer looked at the obscure philosophy behind Negan from The Walking Dead and how the ruthless dictator used charm, violence, and inflicted psychological harm to rise to power in a post-apocalyptic world. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Amusing Musical Parody Tribute to Negan of The Walking DeadThe Mystery […]

Burger Fiction has created a supercut video of every Oscar winner in the “Best Animated Feature” category since 2001. They feature everything from the 2001 animated film, Shrek, to Disney‘s Zootopia from 2016. Related Laughing Squid PostsSupercut of Every Oscar Winner for ‘Best Visual Effects’ Since 1927Supercut of Every Oscar Winner for ‘Best Visual Effects’ […]

Looper has released a video where they share some of the untold truths about the iconic Star Wars character, Princess Leia. They reveal that the fearless Rebel Alliance leader’s famous hair was an “homage to 20th century Mexican revolutionary women,” that “Luke and Leia weren’t supposed to be siblings,” and that her name is a […]

While out on a nighttime jaunt in the rainforest of Costa Rica, Brave Wilderness host Coyote Peterson encountered a whole bunch of creepy-crawly insects and reptiles. Some of the encounters were painful like the angry army ant who repeatedly stung Peterson’s finger and the giant cockroach whose spiky legs dug into Peterson’s skin several times, […]

Give that special nerd an appropriately geeky valentine with Evil Mad Scientist‘s fifth annual set of nerdy valentines. The site is offering them freely for download as part of a full set with cards from all five years. This year’s set features relativity, atomic orbitals, exponential growth, an LC resonator, and an epsilon delta declaration […]

Marvel released a clip from part two of their funny “Team Thor” series that takes a look at how Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and his roommate Darryl’s rent situation is currently going. The full short is available to view on the Digital HD release of Doctor Strange, which came out today. The first “Team Thor” short […]

A post shared by Today Is Art Day (@todayisartday) on Feb 8, 2017 at 12:31pm PST Today Is Art Day, a Canadian art collective who seeks to find new ways to make art history more fun, is raising funds through Kickstarter to create a wonderfully amusing and educational Vincent Van Gogh action figure that features […]

In the upcoming Apple Music series Planet of the Apps, developers will pitch potential new apps to a panel of celebrity advisers to try to earn featured placements in the iTunes app store and investments from venture capitalists. The panel features Jessica Alba, will.i.am, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Gwyneth Paltrow, and when one of the panelists […]

YouTuber CAPTAINQUINN and his son built a hilariously loud trombone rifle back in October 2015 that blasts out a deafening toot when fired. CAPTAINQUINN’s boy put the rifle through its paces while he low crawled through the grass and quickly fired off a powerful toot. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsSuper Slow Motion Video of […]

Talented musician Davie504, whose work we’ve written about in the past, has taken upon himself to play an uplifting acoustic bass cover of the song “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from the movie Toy Story. A post shared by Let's Funk! (@davie504) on Feb 12, 2017 at 7:31am PST Related Laughing Squid PostsMusician Performs […]

In 2016, an obviously excited tourist gleefully declared to her selfie-stick that she had finally arrived in New York City. Because it was nighttime and she was being rather loud, an off-camera voice very unsurprisingly (and appropriately) told her to “shut the fuck up”. This utterance quickly turned her mood from glad to sad in […]

The Kinkajou Bottle Cutting and Candle Making Kit by Bottle Cutting Inc. allows you to make custom glassware out of old bottles and then fill them with homemade candles. The kit is available to purchase from the Laughing Squid Store for $59.99 (31% off the retail price) with free shipping. Ever sipped a brew out […]

Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) is “Lemonading” (a reference to the Beyoncé album and film Lemonade) in a teaser for the third season of the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. All episodes of season three of the series premiere on Netflix on May 19, 2017. Ellie Kemper stars as Kimmy Schmidt, a woman who escapes […]

The group of creatives at 5 Mad Movie Makers have captured POV footage of a Hot Wheels diecast car racing through a magical world of colorful lights, glow sticks, and deadly fire. There’s no telling where the track will go next. Filmed with a Sony VG30H and a GoPro Hero Session 4 mounted on a […]

Dumb Drum has created a wonderful low-budget shot-for-shot remake of Marvel‘s sneak peek trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. They also released a side-by-side comparison with the original trailer. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips Related Laughing Squid PostsA Low-Budget Shot-for-Shot Remake of Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ TrailerA Low Budget Shot for Shot […]

God of Thunder meets Sorcerer Supreme. Bring home #DoctorStrange tomorrow on Digital HD. pic.twitter.com/OLcc7Z2w0B — Chris Hemsworth (@chrishemsworth) February 13, 2017 In honor of Doctor Strange releasing on Digital HD today, Marvel Studios and Chris Hemsworth released an amusing end credits featurette that shows the first meeting between Thor and Stephen Strange. The two superheroes […]

The ever-insightful School of Life offers an animated explanation about the internal factors involved that can make one feel as if they are boring. Lack of self-esteem and focus and immense self-doubt work together to create a pervasive uninteresting sense of self. Fortunately, the gift of being interesting is neither exclusive nor reliant on exceptional […]

The Vogelchecks, the awkwardly affectionate kissing family, reunited in a 2014 Saturday Night Live sketch during an episode hosted by Andy Samberg who starred in the original 2008 sketch. When the youngest Vogelcheck boy (Andy Samberg) brings his new boyfriend (Taran Killam) home to meet the family, things get quickly uncomfortable thanks to their overly […]

British Pathé shared a 1957 film from their archives that features confectioners shaping “London Rock” candy by hand. Two colors of candy are expertly combined in large rolls that are then stretched out and cut to create the final product with the words “London Rock” formed by the process. Three men are lifting a huge […]

In honor of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day , the Museum of Jewish Heritage and National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene paid tribute to the late author, activist and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel with a live-streamed community reading of his iconic biography Night. The event took place on on the evening of January 29, 2017 and included […]

Each year 40 million red crabs take a cue from weather and the Moon to take over Christmas Island and mate in droves. Their journey is the subject of episode six of the series That’s Amazing, a collaboration between Great Big Story and The Weather Channel. Every year in late October, Christmas Island sees red. […]

On December 28, 2015, Lemmy Kilmister, the beloved badass frontman of Motörhead, unexpectedly passed away at the age of 70 after being diagnosed with cancer just a few days earlier. On January 9, 2016, a great many of his friends and loved ones attended Lemmy’s funeral, where Dave Grohl of The Foo Fighters gave a […]

Tom Scott visited a beach in Cape May, New Jersey in his series Things You Might Not Know to explain that the Earth is running out of useable sand. Scott spoke with Steve Rochette of the United States Army Corps of Engineers about the process of dredging sand from offshore onto beaches, and why despite […]

German artists Angelina Erhorn and Stine Paeper of Moji Design have created an absolutely beautiful line of origami-inspired ceramic dishware that includes plates, bowls, snack dishes, cups and espresso mugs that express the signature folds of the delicate paper artistry. Many of these lovely pieces are available through the Moji Design Etsy store. This tableware […]

Corridor Digital has created a new special effects video where we find an anatomically correct version of Spider-Man, played by RocketJump filmmaker Clinton Jones, who fights the bad guys by shooting web straight out of his butt. Peter Parker’s ability proves to be an actual pain in the rear end when he tries to get […]

Willem Hebbe created a 10 minute compilation of the tops of trucks being stripped off as they pass under an 11’8″ clearance bridge in Durham, North Carolina. The compilation features crashes filmed between 2008 and 2016 by Jürgen Henn for the site 11foot8.com that catalogs the frequent accidents at the bridge. On average, about once […]

In a gorgeous underwater clip from the David Attenborough-narrated BBC Earth series The Blue Planet, beautiful bioluminescent squid perform a magnificent color changing mating ritual. The cameras also captured rare footage of a walking handfish Strange and unusual life inhabits the plankton rich seas of the underwater kelp forests. Watch this short video from BBC […]

Paramount Pictures has released a new trailer for Ghost in the Shell, an upcoming live-action adaptation of the popular sci-fi manga by Japanese artist Masamune Shirow. The action-packed trailer features Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson) searching to find truth about her past and fighting evil along the way. Ghost in the Shell, directed by Rupert […]

In the hilarious Canal+ series “What the Fuck France“, British comedian Paul Taylor an expat who lives in Paris, humorously tries to bridge the gap between what he understands about his adopted country and the things that seem to make no sense to him. In one episode, Taylor addressed the confusing coffee menus that don’t […]

The Solomon Society has created “The Art of the Homage – Part I,” their first video featuring side by side comparisons of classic film references found in other, more modern movies. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Homemade Remake of the Trailer for the 1995 Live-Action Film ‘Mortal Kombat’ Based on the Video Game SeriesHomemade Remake of […]

Japanese Twitter user 38beem has created an edible, rusty looking manhole cover out of chocolate and made it look like it is actually sitting on a road by creating realistic asphalt out of crumbled up cookie bits. ?????????????????????????1/6???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????w pic.twitter.com/4qoD9SSoEY — ????(??)Berryz????? (@38beem) February 5, 2017 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? pic.twitter.com/cOAden0IGh — ????(??)Berryz????? (@38beem) February 6, 2017 ????????????????????????????????????????????? pic.twitter.com/tJdaJBU7IP […]

A tired dog who was napping on the floor unexpectedly began to howl as his human tentatively practiced the classic children’s song “Frère Jacques” on her flute. The lazy canine was either enchanted by the lilting music or was just really cranky and wanted it to stop. Either way, the flautist found it to be […]

Celebrities pair up to sing in the car in the new Apple Music series Carpool Karaoke inspired by the Late Late Show segment made popular by host James Corden and his impressive list of past musical guests. The trailer for the series features Corden singing with Will Smith as well as the pairings of Billy […]

In an enlightening episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually explain how certain words, such as terrific and terrible and awesome and awful, each come from the same source despite having meanings quite opposite from one another. The word awe originally […]

A sasquatch covered in marijuana leaves wandered into WWLP meteorologist Jennifer Pagliei‘s live news report on a February 9, 2017 snow storm in Springfield, Massachusetts. After being spotted by the camera the beast tried to make a hasty retreat behind a bush. The clip was quickly picked up online and even covered by other local […]

The ever-mischievous Simon’s Cat watched as his human Simon brought in bag after bag of yummy groceries purchased for a romantic Valentine’s Dinner. Wanting to help out a bit, the curious cat dug right in whenever Simon left the room. All was going well until Simon’s Cat accidentally encountered a terrifying cucumber more than once. […]

Dark chocolate and milk chocolate battle it out in a chemistry showdown thanks to the PBS Digital Studios series Reactions. The competition looks at factors like flavor, health claims, and even price, but they’re leaving it up to viewers to make the final decision which will be announced on Valentine’s Day 2017. Valentines Day is […]

Studiorbit has recreated the opening credits to Stranger Things with actual Eggo Waffles. via Extra Crispy Related Laughing Squid PostsHawkins Newscaster Reports on the Disappearance of Barb Holland in Stranger Things Archival ParodyStranger Things Retold as an Old School 8-Bit Animated Video GameHow to Make Emoji Eggo Waffles

Director Marshall Cook has created Follow Me, a both funny and sad short film co-written and starring Will Sasso about a father who struggles with balancing family and his addiction to social media popularity. Related Laughing Squid Posts‘The Beast Inside’, A Short Animated Documentary About the Struggles of a Homeless Teenager‘Live Rich’, A Poetic Short […]

Multimedia meme artist James Nielssen has created an amusing video featuring the catchy Smash Mouth song “All Star” remade with Windows XP system sounds. Here is the original song. A video posted by james nielssen (@jamesasheck) on Feb 11, 2017 at 7:08am PST Related Laughing Squid PostsNew Jersey Man Replaces the Lyrics of Popular Songs […]

Marvel released an amazing production featurette for Avengers: Infinity War, their upcoming continuation of the Avengers movie series that assembles all of the superheroes for one incredible battle. The featurette gives us a behind the scenes look at the epic new film and a glimpse at Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Tom Holland (Spider-Man), and […]

Two curious dogs behind a big red gate were able to watch what was going on outside of the confines of their yard through conveniently placed holes for their eyes and their adorably big noses. via reddit, Archie McPhee’s Geyser of Awesome Related Laughing Squid PostsA Creative Wooden Fence That Allows Dogs to Peek Outside […]

In a slightly nerve-wracking clip from the PBS version of the BBC Series “Spy in the Wild“, a brave meerkat sentry climbed up a very tall tree to look for danger in the area. Upon spotting the very realistic animatronic cobra, the tiny soldier did her best to scare the snake away, without any luck. […]

In an Honest Ad for his eponymous Hortöns Tote Bags, the smooth-talking Cracked spokesman Roger Horton (Jack Hunter) offered a rather forthright explanation as to why people pay so much money for designer handbags despite the fact that they are not in the least bit useful and can cause physical damage to one’s body. Yes […]

The Slow Mo Guys, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy, combine colored powder and 25 air bags to create gorgeous exploding rainbows. They captured the blasts in stunning 4K resolution as they cover a quarry in color. Sometimes ideas get too big for our backyard so in this video, Gav, Dan, a camera crew go to […]