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“The Birth of Saké” by Eric Shirai is a beautiful short film that documents the hard work involved with the traditional process of brewing saké at the Yoshida Brewery and the sacrifices that a group of skilled men must make in order to keep the business running and successful. The workers at Yoshida Brewery are […]

While creating his short film “Stainless“, German filmmaker Adam Magyar traveled all over the world and captured through high-speed, black and white photography, the life that exists in the subways, under such cities as Berlin, Sao Paolo, New York City, and Xidan. By slowing down the footage, Magyar brought out the eery, but incredible elegance […]

“Just Add Water” by Great Big Story and CNN Films tells the fascinating and dark history of The Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys and their creator Harold von Braunhut. The “monkeys” are a type of brine shrimp that come to life when the eggs are placed in water, but they are as much of a magic trick […]

In the 27th episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, WatchCut Video provides a visually chronological history of the past 100 years of beauty in Sweden as modeled by Caroline Codd, whose hair and makeup were styled in correlation with the expertly researched trends of the time. images via WatchCut Related Laughing Squid Posts100 […]

Lodz, Poland artist Kamila Krawczyk (a.k.a. “Krawka“) has created an adorable Star Wars themed AT-AT walker crochet pattern to help “medium advanced crocheters” make their very own All Terrain Armored Transport figure. The pattern is available to purchase from her Krawka Etsy store. Crochet walker, when finished, is 26 cm tall (10.2 inches), 28 cm […]

Quince, the newly minted three-star Michelin rated San Francisco restaurant, is offering their diners a truly interactive appetizer. Entitled “A Dog Searching for Gold“, the dish offers a “white truffle croquettes on iPad Pros playing videos of water dog on the truffle-hunt” per a message sent to Richie Nakano aka Line Cook. The concept is […]

A young woman named Leila cries while on anesthesia when she thinks a tank full of fish are drowning despite assurances from the person filming the video that the fish are just swimming. Related Laughing Squid Posts‘Underwater Woman’, A New They Might Be Giants Dial-A-Song Track About an Isolated Life Under the SeaWoman Found a […]

The Fowndry is featuring the Bowler Hat Colander, a flexible polypropylene colander for rinsing off veggies or straining spaghetti that is shaped like a classic bowler hat. Colanders make great hats. But never has a hat made such a great colander. Bowler Hat Colander adds a pinch of Charlie Chaplin eccentricity and a dash of […]

18-year-old Japanese high school student Kiyotaka Mizukoshi (a.k.a. “Mozu“) used handcrafted character figures and miniature sets to create “Maru and Mari,” an amazing stop-motion animation about a young blue robot who attempts to skip detention to meet up with his pink robot friend. Kiyotaka spent five months creating his diorama sets and then another five […]

MinutePhysics and physicist Sean Carroll teamed up to explain why time doesn’t flow backwards in a series of videos that shows the relationship between time and entropy. Related Laughing Squid PostsTiny Rescued Dog Drags Her Plate Backwards Across the Kitchen So She Doesn’t Have to Eat by Herself‘The Black Glove’, An Eerie Video Game That […]

In March 2015, students at the Ikeguchi Laboratory at Saitama University performed a fascinating experiment in which they set 100 colorful metronomes, all ticking at different speeds, upon a floating table. After just few minutes, each metronome amazingly became completely synchronized with the others. It is known that when multiple metronomes are placed on a […]

The American Film Institute shared classic footage of the amazing and powerful Carrie Fisher, who sadly passed away yesterday, hilariously roasting Star Wars creator George Lucas during his AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony that took place back in 2005. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsGeorge Lucas Confirms Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill & Carrie Fisher’s Return […]

Funny or Die and Boo Ya Pictures have created “Why Walt?,” a parody trailer mashup of Bryan Cranston‘s characters in the newly released movie Why Him? and Breaking Bad. When a loving father (Bryan Cranston) discovers his little girl is dating billionaire drug lord Walter White (Bryan Cranston), he will go to any lengths to […]

On a force-filled episode of the AWE Me show DIY Prop Shop, host Hendo demonstrated how to build your very own Star Wars lightsaber. Related Laughing Squid PostsBuild Your Own Star Wars Lightsaber at DisneylandSystm On How To Build An Exact Replica of a Star Wars LightsaberA Star Wars Kylo Ren Lightsaber Room Light

Australian bricklayers filmed a row of bricks falling perfectly into place like dominoes. After the initial toppling, the bricks each nudge themselves tightly into their final position to cap the wall. All we did was shoot a video of capping the wall using the technique that we filmed. via Geekologie Related Laughing Squid PostsAmazing Domino […]

Director and animator Austin Williams (a.k.a. “thebrickranger“) and Paradox Pictures have recreated the trailer for the upcoming Marvel superhero film Logan using LEGO. Here is the original trailer. via Entertainment Weekly Related Laughing Squid PostsAnt-Man Trailer Recreated Using LEGOX-Men: Apocalypse Trailer Recreated Using LEGORogue One: A Star Wars Story Recreated in LEGO

Lord Aussem has created a video where the entire film, Star Wars: A New Hope, is played through to the end and sped up every time someone shoots a laser. They were able to recap the full movie in only 1 minute 13 seconds. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsStar Wars Battle Drones That Fly […]

“China From Above” is a gorgeous compilation of aerial shots taken over China by videographer Stef Hoffer. Hoffer filmed with a DJI Phantom 4 drone and edited the footage to show the diversity of landscapes around the country. This little adventure took me from the Northern ‘rust belt provinces’ to the beautiful mountain landscapes of […]

Blacksmiths operate massive machines to forge large pieces of metal in an fascinating video filmed inside Kihlberg Steel AB in Sweden. Awesome and hypnotic video filmed inside an impressive forgery using a massive pneumatic Hammer. Kihlberg Steel AB is a Swedish company specialized in the forging of a wide variety of parts. via Sploid Related […]

In an episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler reveals the truth about how dangerous piranhas are, and also explains how President Teddy Roosevelt helped skew the truth about the toothy fish for generations. Although still potentially harmful to humans and animals, piranhas are far from the cartoonish eating machines often depicted in […]

Artist Albo has created a wonderful mashup tribute to both the classic cartoon Peanuts and the BBC time-traveling series Doctor Who by positing Charlie Brown‘s iconic dog Snoopy as each of the twelve iterations of the Gallifreyan Time Lord. This very clever design is available through TEEPUBLIC in a variety of forms, such as a […]

In June 2016, a tiny kitten went to sleep in a nice, warm safe place that turned out to be the bumper of a beloved BMW auto belonging to Royal Navy helicopter pilot Lieutenant Nick Grimmer of the 814 Naval Air Squadron. Grimmer had driven the car over 300 miles to his assignment before he […]

Zero is a new app for tracking fasting created by Kevin Rose that is designed to help users keep to a regimented eating schedule. Rose says the inspiration for the app came from learning about the 16-hour fasting regime Hugh Jackman used to prepare to play Wolverine. Zero is available to download now from the […]

Homestar Runner goes for the gold in a brand new episode written by creators Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel in 1996 that Homestar and Strong Bad uncover after 20 years. Homestar and Strong Bad discover a long-lost Homestar Runner story. They read it. That’s all. Related Laughing Squid PostsStrong Bad Warns Homestar Runner About the […]

Pigcasso is no ordinary pig. After being rescued by the wonderful humans at Farm Sanctuary SA, the creative little porcine lady decided the best way to express herself was through painting and is rarely seen without her trademark paintbrush in mouth, though it does happen occasionally. Pigcasso’s finished art work is available for purchase and […]

Kat Rosenfield and Scott Harris of Looper have gathered their information and released the untold story of the legendary Sith Lord Darth Vader from Star Wars. They provide information on the five men it took to play Vader, how the voice was a secret, how Vader had an apprentice, and more. A long time ago, […]

San Francisco artist and cartographer Michelle Chandra of Dirt Alley Design has turned street grids of San Francisco and Brooklyn into amazingly intricate puzzle mazes. Michelle’s puzzle mazes of San Francisco and Brooklyn are available to purchase in different color variations from the Dirt Alley Design website. Using street centerline data available in the public […]

photo by Riccardo Ghilardi photographer – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Carrie Fisher, the legendary author, screenwriter, producer, speaker, hero and actress who most notably portrayed Princess Leia in Star Wars, passed away on at 8:55 AM on Tuesday, December 27, 2016 due to complications from heart failure. She was only 60 years old. Family […]

In October 2016, Great Big Story visited with Helping Hands, an organization in Boston, Massachusetts that trains tiny capuchin monkeys to act as helpful service animals to disabled persons who have lost the ability to use their hands due to spinal cord or brain injury. The animals are perfectly suited for the job due to […]

H.J. Simpson has shared a video that features a side-by-side comparison between the old intro for The Simpsons from 1991 and the show’s high-definition update that was released in 2009. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsHan Solo, P.I., The Intro From Magnum, P.I. Remixed With Star WarsHomemade Remake of the 1966 ‘Batman’ TV Series IntroThe […]

Tom Gosling (a.k.a. “MessyPandas“) has created a retro 1980s version of the intro for HBO’s popular Westworld television series. MessyPandas’ awesome synthwave style remix of the Westworld theme song is available to stream and download from Soundcloud. via The Roosevelts, The Awesomer Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Anthropomorphic Robot Slowly Realizes That Something Is Amiss in […]

“It’s not the fall that kills you, Sherlock. Of all people, you should know that, it’s not the fall, it’s never the fall. It’s the landing!” In celebration of the upcoming January 1, 2017 premiere of the fourth series of the highly-acclaimed BBC One show Sherlock, video editor David Garuchava of The Garo Studios has […]

Filmmakers Clinton Jones and Freddie Wong of RocketJump have created “Five Nights at Freddie’s,” a parody of the popular point-and-click survival mystery video game Five Nights at Freddy’s. Freddie spends a week in his house while an escaped convicted may be on the loose in his neighborhood. All sorts of peculiar and silly things occur […]

Chris Poole, the careful human to the kitty duo of Cole and Marmalade offered a very helpful visual guide to common household items that can present a hazard to the resident feline(s). The list includes such dangers as human medications, certain foods and specific plants. Poole also suggests a convenient method for alerting others that […]

Max Shishkin created a marvelous supercut tribute for CLIQUE featuring scenes from 154 movies and television shows from 2016. via DesignTAXI Related Laughing Squid PostsA Nostalgic Supercut Tribute to Epic Dance Scenes in 1990s Movies‘Screams’, A Supercut Tribute Wes CravenA Supercut Tribute to the Some of the Best T-Shirts Worn in Movies

A TED-Ed lesson by Farnaz Khatibi Jafari explains some of the ways dead bodies are handled by different cultures around the world. The lesson also covers the question of when the world will run out of burial space, which could happen in places like London in the very near future. Since the dawn of humanity, […]

Cynthia Delaney Suwito, a multi-media artist in Singapore, has a true talent for knitting and crocheting as demonstrated in her “Knitting Noodles” exhibition. The project entails a looped video that shows Suwito knitting with instant ramen noodles, a very delicate procedure and a visual aid to remind her audience the importance of being patient and […]

Heather Brooker, host of the series “Motherhood in Hollywood” and her husband tried to surprise their three-year old daughter with a kitten things didn’t turn out as they’d hoped. While the child was opening the box, the spry little gray kitten escaped out the other side, leaving the child with “nothing”. Luckily the kitten didn’t […]

Looper shared a video where they explore moments from the Rogue One trailers that never ended up making it into the final cut of the newly released Star Wars film. They also dug up Easter eggs and hidden references found in Rogue One. Related Laughing Squid Posts46 Shots From Rogue One That Never Actually Made […]

Us the Duo covered the top hits of 2016 in a delightful three-minute medley that includes songs by Sia, The Weeknd, Twenty One Pilots, and more. They are about to embark on their worldwide Just Love Tour in 2017. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Three Minute Recap of Game of Thrones Mapping Out Everything That Happened […]

Disney Parks shared a behind the scenes look at Pandora: The World of AVATAR, a new land based on James Cameron‘s Avatar film coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida during the summer of 2017. Pandora: The World of AVATAR will feature magnificent floating mountains and an […]

A photo posted by Hey Joe Coffee (@heyjoecoffee) on Nov 13, 2015 at 7:14am PST The GoJoe by HeyJoeCoffee, is a very convenient single-serving mug that brews a cup of coffee (from filtered pods) with just the simple touch of a button. Because the GoJoe is powered by batteries, it can be taken along just […]

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill (Dan Bull) and 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt (EpicLLOYD) faced off in a heated episode of Epic Rap Battles of History created by Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD. Related Laughing Squid PostsExplorers Lewis & Clark Face Off Against Excellent Adventurers Bill & Ted in […]

Game of Phones is a party game that rewards players for having the quickest smartphone skills out of their friends. Players are asked to find specific images, contact loved ones, and show off choice apps. The game uses a deck of cards with commands that players have 60 seconds to respond to with the best […]

Filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay created a new video essay that analyzes the way information is revealed within a film and how it affects the perspective and experience of the audience. Using the excellent Ex Machina as an example, Tucker goes on to explain the concept of the “Revelation Sequence” as posited […]

Everyone knows what a claw hammer is, but did you know just how many different types of claw hammers there are? This is just a small sampling of the claw hammers we have on display at the museum! #hammers #clawhammer #collection #museumcrushmonday #didyouknow #tools A photo posted by The Hammer Museum (@the_hammer_museum) on Aug 22, […]

Bean the Chiweenie and his sister Lola calmly slept in front of the fire with their feline buddies in a truly peaceful scene that could have gone on forever but for several hungry tummies. The end is worth the wait! A photo posted by Bean (@beanthechiweenie) on Dec 17, 2016 at 3:45pm PST Related Laughing […]

The D-Vine is a convenient and very clever device designed to serve a single glass of perfectly aerated wine at its ideal temperature. Much like a Keurig coffee machine, the D-Vine uses an inserted individual-serving bottle that employs an RFID chip to communicate with the device. The wines are carefully curated from France and the […]

redditor Lamnethian2112 posted a really interesting photo that shows the crazy colorful dancing light effect resulting from a spinning lit Christmas tree, an open camera shutter and lots of low light. via reddit, PetaPixel Related Laughing Squid PostsLight Warfare, An Action Packed Demo of Light Painting‘This Book Is a Camera’, A Pop-Up Book That Opens […]

A photo posted by Andy Seliverstoff (@andyseliverstoff) on Oct 24, 2016 at 7:47am PDT In his wonderful series “Little Kids and Their Big Dogs“, Russian photographer Andy Seliverstoff has captured the truly heartwarming bond of immense love and trust that exists between a young children and their dogs. Seliverstoff has also written a book of […]