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“Footsteps” by Jeremy Benning is a fascinating short film that takes a look inside Footsteps Studios, a small post-production house in rural Ontario with artists who specialize in developing sound effects for films. The film looks at the work that respected and award-winning Foley artists such as Goro Kayama, Sandra...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Inside Look at How Foley Artists Create Movie Sounds first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Nomadic traveler Nikki Delventhal shares what it’s like to live out of her Prius while she’s traveling across the United States with her faithful rescue dog Camper by her side. Delventhal explains that she’s always had an adventurous spirit and having a copilot like Camper is an absolute dream come...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Nomadic Woman Shares What It’s Like to Live Out of Her Car With Her Dog While Traveling Across the US first appeared on Laughing Squid.

@mancypodcast ##stitch with @annaxjames had to answer this one ##phonetics ##linguistics ##accent ##dialect ##voiceactor ##californiashift ##poppunk ##blink182 ? Coffee Music – Cafe Music BGM channel RJ Walker of the Mancy Podcast answered a listener’s question regarding how accents in the United States have changed since the 1990s. Walker explained that...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post How California Sport and Music Subcultures of the 1990s Changed How Vowels Are Pronounced in the US first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a nautical episode of Things You Might Not Know, host Tom Scott (previously) visits the west coast of Scotland to see the Skye Ferry in action. This ferry is the very last turntable ferry in the world, but as Scott learns, the clever design behind it benefits both passengers...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The Clever Design of the World’s Last Turntable Ferry first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Maybe Master Yoda was the real 5th Beatle… We also would accept: "All you need, love is…"#Yodisms pic.twitter.com/dvJLjQtZSb — Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) June 10, 2021 Related PostsGlove and Boots Perform a Trippy Cover of the Iconic Beatles Song ‘All You Need Is Love’Yoda Loves E.T.Make Something People Love: Lessons From...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Love Is All You Need first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In honor of Father’s Day, the ever-funny Ryan Reynolds introduced a refreshing cocktail of his own design that he charmingly named “The Vasectomy”. The tall drink contains ice, 1 ounce cranberry juice, 3 ounces tonic, a dash of lemon juice and a good helping of his bespoke Aviation Gin (actually...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Ryan Reynolds Shows How to Mix a Special Father’s Day Cocktail That He Calls ‘The Vasectomy’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Creezy, who previously created an incredibly intricate Rube Goldberg chain reaction machine that followed a blue ball, found inspiration with Mark Rober and took his puzzle-making skills outside to feed the squirrels that populated his backyard. As it turns out, there were more than squirrels back there. I built a...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Intricate Rube Goldberg Chain Reaction Machine That Feeds Squirrels and Other Small Backyard Critters first appeared on Laughing Squid.

LEGO builder Wes Talbott has created an amazing old school LEGO typewriter in a very traditional vintage color of mint green. This build features working keys, a moveable carriage, a margin slide, and the ability to take a letter. This is the very first LEGO build that uses a fabric...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Old School LEGO Typewriter in Vintage Mint Green With Working Keys, Moveable Carriage and Ink Spools first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A herd of 15 wild elephants decided to take a much-needed nap on a comfy clearing inside a local forest outside Kunming City, the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The tired pachyderms are on a 500 mile trek across China, however severe rainstorms and swollen rivers have impeded their...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Herd of Wild Elephants Take a Well Deserved Nap After Trekking 500 Miles Across Southwest China first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Animator and felt artist Andrea Love, who previously created a brilliant stop-motion animation that showed her making a full breakfast made out of wool, prepared an ice cold pitcher of lemonade, also made out of wool. Love cut the lemons, added ice cubes, honey, and water. She then stirred it...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The Preparation of a Cold Pitcher of Wool Lemonade Captured in a Refreshing Stop-Motion Animation first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Bucky Barnes of Bonsai Releaf shared a wonderfully mesmerizing video in which he painstakingly designed, pruned, carved, and sculpted a small Japanese larch into a beautiful Bonsai tree using his specialized tools and skills. The project, while depicted in 22 minutes, took place over the course of a single year....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Mesmerizing Footage of a Larch Bonsai Tree Being Pruned and Sculpted Over the Course of a Year first appeared on Laughing Squid.

James of The Action Lab (previously) squeezed a section of orange peel over a floating balloon, causing the balloon to instantly pop. Oranges contain limonene, a hydrocarbon component that makes latex substances very brittle when it comes in contact. As it turns out, limonene is also very flammable. I show...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Why Orange Peels Cause Balloons to Pop first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Minwook Paeng, a South Korean industrial designer who is part of the Innovation Design Engineering program at Imperial College London, has created a wearable robotic “third eye” that alerts wearer of to look up from their phones in order to avoid oncoming obstacles. When an obstacle of any kind is...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Wearable Robotic Third Eye That Alerts People to Look Up From Their Phones to Avoid Obstacles first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Comedian Daniel LaBelle (previously) and a friend quite hilariously played a round of “speed golf”, a game in which every player is in a rush. Imagine if people golfed as fast as they possibly could. This game is part of a series of reimagining everyday actions being performed in a...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Comedian Shows What Golf Would Be Like If People Played When They Were in a Rush first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A rather protective golden retriever named Sampson put himself to work in his own backyard, guarding the tree line from errant deer outside his Wurtsboro, New York home. One day, however, a rather gregarious deer crossed the line and stomped her paw. Sampson excitedly responded and the unlikely pair began...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Gregarious Deer Befriends a Playful Golden Retriever in His Own Backyard first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Musician Grant Woolard composed a brilliant classical music mashup in 2016 that featured 57 Popular Songs by 33 Composers, followed by part II in 2017 which featured 52 Popular Songs by 31 Different Composers and again with part III in 2019 featuring 70 different songs by a variety of composers....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Marvelous Classical Musical Mashup Featuring 70 Different Songs by 70 Different Composers first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys has created Portal, wondrous circular high-tech installations that allow people from Vilnius, Lithuania to say hello to those in Lublin, Poland, which is over 375 miles away. The “portals” are placed onsite at train stations so as to get a wide swath of people to participate....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Wondrous Portal Installation That Connects People From Two Different European Cities 375 Miles Apart first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a heartwarming clip from the NatGeo Wild series The Wizard of Paws, an adorable duck named Waddles, who lives with guitarist Ben Weinman of Suicidal Tendencies, received a badass safety orange 3D printed replacement prosthetic for his missing left leg. Waddles was born with a deformed leg and had...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Pet Duck Born With Deformed Leg Gets an Amazing Safety Orange 3D Printed Replacement Prosthetic Leg first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Sir Patrick Stewart as vacuum cleaners. A thread. pic.twitter.com/o0nkYjoLxQ — Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) June 7, 2021 Comedy writer Amanda has quite hilariously reimagined the great Sir Patrick Stewart as various vacuum cleaners. The commonality seems to come from the fact that the appliances quite remarkably coordinate with his colorful outfits. pic.twitter.com/KrR3nvJPEQ...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Sir Patrick Stewart Hilariously Reimagined As Color Coordinating Vacuum Cleaners first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The Danish Road Safety Council worked with the Copenhagen creative ad company &Co to create a very amusing public service announcement about the importance of wearing a helmet when riding a bicycle. Or in this case, a horse. The ad hearkens back to the country’s Viking origins in which a...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Stubborn Viking Leader Refuses to Wear a Helmet in an Amusing PSA for the Danish Road Safety Council first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Disney+ has partnered with Lucky Charms to transform the beloved magical mascot of the cereal into the very mischievous Loki and his bag of tricks for a limited edition box of “Loki Charms”. There’s been a disruption in our reality and the Lucky Charms we all know and love have...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post ‘Lucky Charms’ Mischievously Transforms Into ‘Loki Charms’ Ahead of the Disney+ Series Premiere of ‘Loki’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Engineer Nick O’Hara quite ingeniously built a badass robot to play Guitar Hero for him. Admitting that he’s not very good at the game, O’Hara meticulously went about designing the perfect AI to shred the competition the next time he plays. He even gave the robot the amusing name of...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Badass AI Robot That Shreds ‘Guitar Hero’ Solos first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The wonderfully humorous British comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (previously) quite anachronistically portrayed himself as a traditional radio announcer from the 1940s and with the most accurate BBC accent of the time, read aloud popular internet memes of modern times to his audience. The first meme he describes is a woman yelling...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post 1940s British Radio Announcer Proves Why Most Internet Memes are Meant to Be Seen and Not Heard first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The very talented musicians of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (previously) performed a rather lively cover of The Clash song “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” back in 2005 at The Barbican in London. This performance of ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go’ is taken from our...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs a Lively Cover of The Clash’s ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Swedish artist and craftsman Love Hulten (previously) has transformed the otherwise wieldy shape of a standard full sized synthesizer into a convenient portable form with his design for the MDLR-37. Hulten’s version is divided into sections and folds up into the shape of a toolbox when it is no longer...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Modular Full Sized Synthesizer That Folds Up Into a Convenient Portable Carrier When Not In Use first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Unique retailer Fred is selling a nostalgic set of kitchen sponges that look like classic cassette mix tapes. Each cassette has a clever name scrawled on the label stickers such as “Spruce Springclean”, “‘NSink”, “Sponge N’ Hoses”, and “Greasy Boys”. The sponges are sold as a pack of four inside...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Nostalgic Set of Cassette Mix Tape Kitchen Sponges first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Film Spaced has provided a wonderfully detailed analysis of the infamously mythical “Lost Cut” of the original Star Wars film. He explains the history behind the first cut of the iconic series, where the original film is located, how the bloated original film had to be completely re-edited, how much...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Detailed Analysis of the Mythical ‘Star Wars: Lost Cut’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Nomadic travelers Kara and Nate found themselves in the Black Hills of South Dakota at a former military base that has been converted into Vivos XPoint, a series of underground bunkers housing the world’s largest survival community. XPoint is made up of 575 underground concrete and steel bunkers that are...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Exploring the World’s Largest Survival Community Located in 575 Underground Bunkers in South Dakota first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Austrian shoe company Tec-Innovation has partnered with students at the Graz University of Technology in Austria to implement camera-based AI image recognition into their line of shoes that are specifically made to help those who are visually impaired. The original version of these “seeing eye” shoes features ultrasonic sensors, which...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Amazing Seeing Eye Shoes With Camera-Based AI Image Recognition to Assist the Visually Impaired first appeared on Laughing Squid.

James of The Action Lab (previously) took a steel ball and bounced it on a rubber surface with a coefficient of restitution of over 97%, making it one of the most bouncy surfaces on Earth. Due to the surface’s incredible springiness, each ball continually bounced without any intervention. Surprisingly, this...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Bouncing Balls On a Balloon Stretched Over a Cup, One of the Bounciest Surfaces in the World first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Musician Jordan Rudess of the band Dream Theater rocked out an incredible rag on a portable and detachable Pocket Piano while his friend, guitar tech Maddi Schieferstein, began taking the keyboard apart by removing sections and putting them away. Rudess stated that he felt like he was under pressure, but...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Musician Rocks an Incredible Piano Rag As Sections of His Detachable Portable Keyboard Are Being Removed first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Marcin Wichary, a designer, writer, and typographer in San Francisco gave a fascinating remote talk in which he addresses the film technique of rotoscope looping. This time-bending process was deftly demonstrated by Michel Gondry in the video for the Kylie Minogue song “Come Into My World”. Wichary notes that in...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Fascinating Looped Presentation About Looped Videos first appeared on Laughing Squid.

@firefly_droneshows 300 Firefly Drones taking off ?? ##droneshows ##SipIntoSummer ##dronetiktok ##LoveMeMode ##epic ##WorthTheWait ##dronelife ##OneStepCloser ? original sound – Firefly Drone Shows Firefly Drone Shows of Detroit, Michigan captured remarkable footage of 300 of their Firefly drones taking off into the air in sequenced formation over the course of just...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post 300 Drones Take Off In Remarkable Sequence first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The Voyageurs Wolf Project (previously) once again captured absolutely adorable footage of a wolf pup trying his very best to let out his first howl. Unlike his vocal sibling, this pup wasn’t quite as successful. This Paradise Pack pup was trying his best to howl but just couldn’t quite get...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Wolf Pup Attempts to Howl But Can’t Quite Get It Out first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Photographer Jens of Another Perspective (previously) captured super slow motion macro footage of the chemical reaction that occurs when one “flicks their Bic” when using lighter. Have you ever asked yourself what is going on when using a lighter? Let’s go macro and see the process in detail with extreme...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Extreme Slow Motion Macro Video of a Lighter Being Lit first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Drew Gooden decided to take advantage of the new Peacock streaming service in order to watch one episode of Saturday Night Live from each of the 46 seasons of the show in order to find out whether the show was really better in its earlier days. So I’m a big...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Man Watches One ‘Saturday Night Live’ Episode From Each Season To See If It Was Really Better In the Past first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper-Jones of Map Men take a rather dry look at the history of country declaration. The humorous pair look at such unsuccessful declarations as those of Stuart “Captain Calamity” Hill, who declared a rock off of Scotland as his own country, the Lakota Nation...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post How to Declare a New Nation Anywhere in the World first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Stephanie Lopez Villalobos (@bakedlikepie) Brave and quick-thinking teenager Hailey Morinico ran out into the backyard of her San Gabriel Valley home in Southern California to save her dogs from a protective mama bear who was climbing the backyard wall. The bear...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Fearless Teen Saves Her Dogs by Pushing Away the Protective Mama Bear Climbing Over the Backyard Wall first appeared on Laughing Squid.

British vlogger Half-Asleep Chris, who previously attached GPS trackers on his cats Ralph and Tom after they went missing overnight, decided to put a tiny Bluetooth enabled camera onto Ralph’s collar. Chris was able to monitor Ralph’s movements and interactions in real time. He was also able to adjust the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Man Attaches a Tiny Camera to His Cat’s Collar for 24 Hours to Reveal His Kitty’s Secret Life first appeared on Laughing Squid.

While driving to Wales, the amusingly irascible chef Gordon Ramsay made a stop at a fast-food restaurant where he questioned the drive-through staff about the origins of the ingredients using the order microphone. When he drove up to retrieve his food, he let was a bit disappointed. I’ll take the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Chef Gordon Ramsay Amusingly Critiques Drive Through Orders at Fast Food Restaurants first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Sam Denby from Half as Interesting, in his distinctively manic manner, explains a unique situation in which the hijacked flight of Pan Am 103 from New York to London crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland, the legal site of the crime. Ultimately, when it came to where the trial for the hijackers...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post How the Hijacked Pan Am Flight 103 Trial Temporarily Turned Part of the Netherlands Into Scotland first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The very talented people behind The Brick Wall (previously) have built a bridge building factory using only LEGO parts. Each exquisitely engineered piece moves individual sections of the structure into place before the roadway is connected to the other side. A new kind of bridge construction machine with telescoping support...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Exquisitely Engineered LEGO Bridge Factory first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Engineer Fabricio H. Franzoli, who previously used a trio of hand-built Tesla Coil to perform a rather fitting cover of the classic Daft Punk song “Around the World”, continued his tribute to the now defunct duo with an electrifying cover of their pop hit “Get Lucky” on a musical coil...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Electrifying Cover of the Daft Punk Hit ‘Get Lucky’ Performed on a Quartet of Musical Tesla Coils first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Sam Denby from Half as Interesting, in his distinctively frantic manner, did his very best to explain the grammatical contents of the experimental constructed language of Ithkuil. The language, which was developed by John Quijada, builds words through “informationally dense”, economical roots. The sounds known as phenomes are added as...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Building Words in the Complicated Language of Ithkuil first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by CoyoteVest™ | Pet Body Armor (@coyotevestco) CoyoteVest Body Armor is a very clever line of spiky and whiskery vests that protect small dogs and cats from coyotes and other predatory animals. The vests work to defend pets in several different ways....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Clever Spiky Vests for Small Dogs and Cats That Discourage Attacks by Coyotes and Other Predators first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A rather determined and beautiful long-haired cat very quietly interrupted a live CBS News report to stare intensely at a fly on the wall. The cat’s human stopped what she was doing to laughing ask her feline “why?” after a moment of silence. Honestly just incredible what lengths cats will...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Cat Interrupts News Report to Stare Intensely at a Fly first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Taylor Glenn (@taylor_tries) Taylor Tries, a talented juggler, captured amazing footage of herself from above as she constantly kept five turquoise balls in the air while juggling. This particular angle made it look like the balls had increased in size and...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A View of What Juggling Looks Like From Above first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Danish guitarist Soren Boedker Madsen performed an absolutely magnificent cover of the iconic Ennio Morricone instrumental theme “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” on classical guitar using a variety of finger style and strumming techniques. Ennio Morricone´s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” arranged and played by Soren...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Magnificent Cover of Ennio Morricone’s ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ Performed on Classical Guitar first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Jamie Dupuis, a remarkably talented musician who performs absolutely wonderful cover versions of classic rock songs with his harp guitar, sat at the edge of the water in the sunshine and performed the classic Neil Young song “My My, Hey Hey, (Out of the Blue)” on his signature instrument. Dupuis...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Engaging Acoustic Cover of the Classic Neil Young Song ‘My My, Hey Hey, (Out of the Blue)’ on Harp Guitar first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Korean a capella group MayTree covered the iconic theme from Star Wars by John Williams using only their voices. The performance was seemingly flawless as each member took on the role of a different instrument. Particularly impressive was the female vocalist who made her voice sound like a theremin. via...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An A Capella Cover of the ‘Star Wars’ Theme first appeared on Laughing Squid.