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On an amazing episode of Great Big Story, talented extreme athlete Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham talks about how he doesn’t let his disability get in his way at all when he hits skateparks and pulls off all sorts of insane wheelchair tricks. As one of the pioneering forces behind wheelchair motocross, or WCMX, Aaron is taking […]

Orpheus by ThinkGeek is an absolutely adorable and cheery looking DIY robot who just snaps together easily upon arrival. Orpheus also doubles as a light up music box. With just the turn of his hand-crank, Orpheus will light up, twirl his little head and play a sweet little sad song that could make even the […]

“Different” by Alex Norris on webcomic name Related Laughing Squid PostsWebcomic Name, A Daily Comic Featuring Blob Characters in Silly and Awkward Situations‘Monikers’, An Updated and Illustrated Version of the Classic Party Game ‘Celebrity’Sirron Norris Studio & Gallery Grand Opening

Upon the embarkment of his newest project entitled “Meghalaya“, San Francisco installation artist and longtime friend of Laughing Squid Brian Goggin sat down with Cynthia Stone of KQED Arts to talk about his creative process, his drive and the amazing large-scale creative projects that have literally become a part of the city. These surreal, high-concept […]

For CineFix‘s ongoing Trailer Mix series, New York filmmaker Bobby Burns and Dustin McLean worked together to create a fake movie trailer that reimagines Robert Eggers‘ supernatural horror film, The Witch, as a quirky Wes Anderson movie. H&M just released a Christmas commercial ad directed by the great auteur, Wes Anderson. Now what if he […]

Former NASA engineer and YouTube creator Mark Rober used the scientific method to determine the loudest way to cheer. Rober used special equipment to measure audio levels in a full stadium during a football game, and then returned to the empty stadium with some volunteers to measure how loud various cheering methods are and which […]

Christian Gassner of Rapid Liquid has created a great multitrack video of Gabe, Jesse Hamel‘s cute little dog that’s a mix of American Eskimo and Pomeranian, barking an exuberant version of Mariah Carey‘s song “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Intense Christmas Light Show Synchronized Across a Suburban BlockA Funny […]

New York graphic designer Ji Lee has created the Redundant Clock, a “simple and totally redundant” wall clock that comes equipped with redundant instructions on how to read the Redundant Clock. Lee is currently raising funds on Kickstarter for manufacturing costs. This is a redundant clock, and this is a redundant description. images via Ji […]

A photo posted by Fondoodler (@fondoodler) on Nov 13, 2016 at 3:58pm PST The Fondoodler by the newly established BuzzFeed Product Labs, is a super fun food-safe reloadable hot gun that melts most types of string, shredded, block or sheet-style cheese in a cylindrical canister, just like a hot glue gun. From there it’s easy […]

“The King of Random” Grant Thompson made a realistic four-pound chocolate chicken by pouring melted chocolate into the mold he created by casting a real cooked chicken in silicone. In an effort to meet HUNDREDS of viewer requests, I make another candy chicken, but this time out of solid milk chocolate. This just keeps getting […]

Back in October, Adobe Creative Technologies Lab intern Zeyu Jin announced the addition of VoCo coming to the Adobe Creative Cloud suite at the Adobe MAX 2016 creativity conference, co-hosted by Jordan Peele. VoCo (voice conversion) is one of eleven experimental technologies demoed at the creativity conference. It will allow users to flawlessly edit recorded […]

Comedian Seán Burke shares an alternative guide to London in a sequel to a similarly ridiculous video about Burke’s hometown of Swords, Ireland. Burke focuses on some of London’s tourist attractions, its expensive real estate, and high cost of living. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsWhite Walkers Being Lectured by Their Accountant for Nearly Going […]

Designer Rafael Esquer of Alfalfa New York has created a gorgeous, limited poster entitled Iconic New York Illuminated, which recreates a very specific feeling of being in the midst of Manhattan at night. Inspired by the distinctive style of Gustav Klimt, the poster is made of sparkling foils and metallic inks that reflect beautifully on […]

Ron Munsey, a Bedford, New Hampshire night custodian at Peter Woodbury Elementary School, delightfully surprises the students by creating playful rug art designs each day with his vacuum cleaner. His entire collection of rug designs are available to view on the Peter Woodbury School News blog. Mr. Munsey is new to Peter Woodbury this year. […]

In “Every Story is the Same“, filmmaker Will Schoder explains the history of story structure, starting with Joseph Campbell whose theory of the Monomyth, also known as the “Hero’s journey“, explained what every fictitious story has in common. Schoder then moved on to how Dan Harmon of Rick and Morty and Community fame and his […]

Coders at the Google Creative Lab are working with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to teach an experimental artificially intelligent (AI) database to learn, organize and visualize the incredibly varying sounds of different birds “by ear”, without any other information. Using data from the Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds: Essential Set for North America and […]

Netflix has announced a new feature that will allow subscribers to download content to their tablet and smartphones for offline play. The feature lets users take Netflix movies and television shows with them even when they don’t have internet access. It is available for all Netflix subscribers and works on both Android and iOS platforms. […]

Vox explains how the growing Chinese film market is influencing Hollywood film production. China is expected to soon overtake the United States in box office sales and cinema screens, and American studios have started catering to Chinese audiences. Although Hollywood is pursuing the Chinese market, the Chinese government has tight restrictions on foreign films entering […]

In 1996, legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola sat down with author R.H. Greene to talk about his films, working with Robin Williams and his understanding of death. This interview was wonderfully animated for the lost interview series “Blank on Blank” We move through life very fast and it’s not a matter of how long you […]

BETC Paris has created “Canal Kitchen”, a truly ingeniously zany ad promoting the variety of choices available on the French premium cable television channel Canal+. The scene is set inside a busy French kitchen where skilled chefs cook with colorful ingredients made from the characters from the available television series on the channel. As with […]

Researchers at the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition have programmed the Atlas humanoid robot to walk over partial footholds using a new balancing algorithm. The improved balance lets the Boston Dynamics robot balance on edges that only make contact with part of its feet. In simulation, the robot can also take quick steps over […]

In a Thanksgiving episode of her humorously informative grammar series, the very knowledgable and witty Mary Norris aka “The Comma Queen” explained the proper use of the comparative words “like” and “as” within a descriptive sentence. We’re going to talk about like and as. Like is a preposition and it’s followed by a noun or […]

Google updated their 30-year Google Earth Timelapse with four more years of data and even sharper images from two new satellites, giving a clearer and more complete view of the planet from above. The company partnered with Time to highlight some of the most interesting features on the planet as they change over time including […]

Toronto, Canada artist Douglas R. Witt captured hilarious, yet creepy slow motion footage of his friend’s baby crying. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsDe Staat’s Music Video for ‘Witch Doctor’ Is Creepy, Yet Incredibly MesmerizingAmazing Slow Motion Footage of Big Cats Enjoying a Yummy Treat‘Underwater Diving Dogs’, Slow-Motion Footage of Swimming Canines Doing the Doggy […]

How It Should Have Ended (HISHE) has released episode five of their animated series, Villain Pub, where Batman manages to invade the evil pub lair and engages in a heated boss battle with all sorts of iconic movie bad guys. Related Laughing Squid PostsVillain Pub, A New Animated Series Where Iconic Movie Bad Guys Throw […]

The father and son team of Dan and Lincoln Markham from What’s Inside? got into the Christmas spirit by using a pair of scissors and brute strength to cut open and tear apart a brand new Elf of the Shelf figurine. Elf on the Shelf has been a great thing in our home the past […]

On a magical episode of How To Cake It, host Yolanda Gampp provides a step-by-step guide on how to make a chocolate cake based on the friendly snowman, Olaf, from Disney‘s Frozen. A video posted by Yolanda Gampp (@yolanda_gampp) on Nov 29, 2016 at 8:09am PST A photo posted by Yolanda Gampp (@yolanda_gampp) on Nov […]

Things go horribly wrong a person trying to follow a recipe in a cocktail tutorial video. The sketch by The Layoff Kids parodies the popular top-down-view instructional videos often seen on Facebook, but with a dark twist. The dos and don’ts of making the perfect Old Fashioned. Do: Use a good rye whiskey Don’t: Have […]

While on holiday in 2014, Lancastrian landscape photographer Melvin Nicholson captured the absolutely stunning image of a white rainbow (fog bow) curving over a solitary tree growing in the boggy peat of Scotland’s Rannoch Moor. It is a colourless rainbow that is made up of tiny water droplets that cause fog. It’s an amazing thing […]

Mat of the really interesting gadget channel Techmoan took a look at the calibrated oscilloscope, the remarkable pre-digital device that visualizes sound through voltage changes and waveforms. By way of explanation, he rebuilt an old Tektronix 760A to show how the machine works. Mat also spoke about online resources that easily simulate oscilloscope music and […]

Veritasium shared the history of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit and the Fahrenheit temperature scale in a video animated by Marcello Ascani. The video explains some specific numbers on the scale like what 0°F means and why water freezes at 32°F. The crazy story of the arbitrary temperature scale used in a tiny minority of countries. Related […]

The CollegeHumor office celebrates an almost never-ending list of Twitter holidays, and Mike Trapp has had enough. You will never know the pain of being truly alone on national calico cat appreciation day. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Series of Movie Scenes That Were Incredibly Hard to Shootlinks for 2009-11-30Supercut of Kisses in Movies Being Interrupted […]

In a fascinating episode of the online trivia series Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler recounted the very unusual and infamous day in which all flights out of London’s Heathrow Airport were grounded due to sightings of a flying pig. Hell hadn’t frozen over, rather it was a photo shoot for Pink Floyd‘s legendary […]

Homesick Candles are a collection of scented candles crafted by a group of friends, “who relocated from states they still feel close to,” to smell a lot like your home state. The entire series of state candles are available to purchase from the Homesick Candles website. We worked hard to perfect the scent of each […]

A photo posted by Vincent Bal (@vincent_bal) on Nov 2, 2016 at 1:12am PDT Belgian artist and filmmaker Vincent Bal has created “Shadowology“, a humorously ingenious series in which he illustrates the shadows that are cast by common household items that are lit by the sun from different angles. According to Bal, these are “crazy […]

Brooklyn product designers BREAKFAST have created an interactive and modular kinetic flip-disc system that can be easily assembled and installed. The system can display logos, video, and even interact with movement in front of the board itself. Once installed, the flip disc system can be controlled with a paired app. Here’s a video of it […]

ThinkGeek has created an officially-licensed Back to the Future Flux Capacitor Wall Charger that lights up, when switched on, and is capable of charging up to two devices at the same time via USB. We’ve come to the realization that the Flux Capacitor is very versatile. You need to travel to the future to fix […]

Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna along with their counterparts at the University of Oxford have found that the Goffin’s cockatoo, a non-nesting bird, is able to repeatedly solve the same problem using different materials to each time to do so. The experiment involved three captive birds, Figaro, Dolittle and Kiwi, who all […]

Paris entrepreneur and product manager Jacinthe Busson of Elegantt.com has created UX Timeline, a website visualizing the evolution of websites for well known companies like Netflix, Uber and AirBnB. via Product Hunt Related Laughing Squid PostsSelfie-a-Day App Everyday Returns With New Features for Creating Personal Time-Lapse VideosAn Infographic Illustrating the Evolution of Corporate LogosThe Evolution […]

Tom Scott visited The Gävle Goat to explain how a giant straw goat and arson both became Christmas traditions in the small Swedish city of Gävle. Although burning the goat down is not legal or strictly part of the tradition, it has happened all but 12 of the years the goat has been constructed. In […]

Respected author, researcher and paranormal expert Loren Coleman, founder of the famous International Cryptozoology Museum in downtown Portland, Maine, is currently raising funds to help him pay bills that stemmed from a health crisis. Coleman founded the museum in 2003 in order to educate the public about “the study of hidden or unknown animals” and […]

A video posted by ???? Siberian HUSKY For Sale ???? (@mywinterfells.siberian_huskies) on Nov 18, 2016 at 3:05pm PST A pair of adorably vocal Siberian Husky puppies at My Winterfells attempted scale a short brick garden step with the help of the other. This clumsy attempt at assistance, however, became truly hilarious when one of the […]

The Chinese online novelty shop Taobao has released the Spirit E666, a clever set of headphones that easily and inexpensively transforms normal human ears into the long pointy ones sported by elves. The cost is a little above $14.00 USD, so the sound quality may not be especially good, but it’s a simple way to […]

This post was sponsored by Cognitive Surplus via Syndicate Ads. Finding unique gifts for your favorite science nerd can be a challenge, particularly if you’re looking for something as beautiful as it is smart. Cognitive Surplus is a small Oregon-based company that aims to change that by creating gifts that are inspiring, intelligent and eco-friendly. […]

While on location in Cleveland, Texas, the Coyote Peterson of Brave Wilderness and his team ventured out into the sub-tropical lands of The Retreat at Artesian Lakes under the cover of night to seek out some of the areas most unusual creatures. During their fruitful trek, Peterson and crew found a Mediterranean house gecko, a […]

Chand John explains the fastest way to alphabetize books or other large collections of data in a TED-Ed lesson about the QuickSort method and other sorting techniques. The lesson uses animation and a hypothetical library emergency to demonstrate different ways of sorting data and comparing them. You work at the college library. You’re in the […]

The Dronegun by DroneShield is a device for taking control of and safely landing rogue drones. The operator simply points the device at the errant drone to cut communications between the drone and its original operator. The Dronegun can either be used to land the drone safely for investigation, or trigger the drone to return […]

Alt Shift X has created a wonderful video that summarizes all six seasons of Game of Thrones in a little over five minutes. Fans of Alt Shift X can help support their future work on Patreon. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Recap of Game of Thrones Season Five in a Single Six-Minute TakeA Three Minute Recap […]

Internet puppets Fafa the Groundhog and Mario of Glove and Boots attempted to do the Mannequin Challenge, but failed horribly. Instead of standing frozen in action like mannequins, Mario pushed an actual mannequin off the roof of a building and watched as it shattered on the pavement below. When Fafa pointed out that they may […]

The White Rabbit Project is a new unscripted Netflix series, from the producers of Discovery‘s MythBusters, that will also star the show’s fun-loving build team Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara. They will venture down the rabbit hole and “rank history’s greatest inventions, heists, and more.” The White Rabbit Project will premiere at midnight […]