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“The Fabric of You” by Josephine Lohoar Self is a beautiful, heartbreaking stop motion animation about a young anthropomorphic mouse named Michael who works anonymously as a tailor in a small shop. When a customer named Isaac comes in for a new suit, he seeks out Michael’s opinion and compliments...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post ‘The Fabric of You’, A Heartbreaking Stop Motion Film About a Young Mouse Grieving the Loss of a Lover first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Art vlogger James Payne of Great Art Explained offered up a fascinating compiled essay that interprets the meaning behind “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, the iconic triptyk by Hieronymus Bosch. Payne explains that Bosch was not trying to express an awareness of sexual freedom or fantasy, nor was it an...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Fascinating Interpretation of the Meaning Behind ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Hieronymus Bosch first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Percussionist and clown Fuman of Musica Loco performed an impressive routine by playing a single drum then bouncing his sticks onto a larger drum kit a few inches away and then catching them, all without missing a single beat. He also did a bit of juggling before tossing his sticks....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Coordinated Percussionist Juggles and Bounces His Sticks Off Another Drum Kit Without Missing a Beat first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Multilingual comedian Loïc Suberville, who previously translated an absurd English sentence into French so that every word sounded the same, amusingly personified the French language and then proceeded to shame that person for the grammatical rules within. Of course, French rightly took English to task as well. Related PostsThe Complex...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Humorous Argument About the Illogical Grammar Rules in Both the French and English Languages first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Pet food company IAMS has launched NOSEiD, a cleverly designed app that uses a dog’s unique nose print to help alert, identify and reunite lost dogs with their beloved humans. This nose print is as unique to each canine as a fingerprint is to a human. The app scans the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Clever App That Uses Dogs’ Unique ‘Nose Print’ to Identify and Reunite Lost Canines With Their Humans first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Joy Chapman of Surrey, British Columbia is a country singer who has broken the Guinness World Record for the “lowest vocal note reached by a female” with the performance of a C1, which registered at 33.57 Hz. The note was held for several seconds. Chapman explained that she has hypermobility...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Canadian Vocalist Sets the Guinness World Record for the Lowest Vocal Note Ever Reached by a Female first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The Dungeon & Dragons themed podcast Dark Dice announced the incredible news that the great Jeff Goldblum will be joining their second season. Goldblum will be playing an elven sorcerer named Balmur who is embarking on a search for his daughter’s locket. Jeff will be joining us in Chapter 1B,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Jeff Goldblum Joins Second Season of the Dungeons & Dragons Podcast ‘Dark Dice’ as an Elven Sorcerer first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Musician Luna Lee, who plays playing popular songs on her traditional Korean Gayageum, performed a beautiful cover of the heartbreaking classic George Michael song “Careless Whisper”. According to Lee, the song was “built” for her instrument. Because this is so perfect for Gayageum sound I think. I really enjoyed it...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Beautiful Cover of the George Michael Song ‘Careless Whisper’ Played on a Traditional Korean Gayageum first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by MANAMI SASAKI / sasamana (@sasamana1204) With the popularity of toast increasing worldwide, Japanese food artist Manami Sasaki has taken to creating incredible, edible pieces of art using this particular medium. While some of her pieces mimic that of great artists, much...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Incredible Edible Shoe That’s Made Out of Bread first appeared on Laughing Squid.

French musician Grégoire Blanc (previously) showcased 10 different scenarios in which a musical saw could be creatively played with the help of synthesizers, effects pedals, the wonderful instruments themselves, as created by Alexis Faucomprez, and of course Blanc’s immense talent. The results are a bit unpredictable, but we managed to...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Musician Showcases Ten Different Creative Ways That a Musical Saw Can Be Played Using Pedals and Effects first appeared on Laughing Squid.

DIY creator JoopB1 shows how to build a very cleverly designed birdhouse that looks just like a security camera out of scrap wood. The bird nesting season is up and running and so it was time to get creative making a birdhouse. Not just a birdhouse but also a fake...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post How to Build a Fake Security Camera Birdhouse first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Woodworker Nick Zammeti, who previously built a giant colored pencil made out of many colored pencils and a playable ukulele, also made out of colored pencils, left the writing instruments behind and created an amazing waterfall table. This incredible table used epoxy resin and 10,000 LEGO bricks in order to...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Incredible LEGO Waterfall River Table first appeared on Laughing Squid.

With the release of their new line of single-serving “Petite Feasts” for cats, Fancy Feast has also compiled a cookbook book for humans that coordinate their meal with what their cat is eating. Recipes such as “Salmon and Zucchini with a Miso Honey Glaze” pairs for humans perfectly with the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Fancy Feast Releases a Cookbook For Humans to Coordinate Their Meals With What Their Cat Eats first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Wonderfully affable Australian pelicans go for walks with their beloved keepers at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. Like other animals in their care, these big billed birds are provided with care and enrichment. Walking is part of that enrichment and the pelicans appear to enjoy it a great deal....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Affable Australian Pelicans Go For Enriching Walks With Their Beloved Keepers at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A colorful caique (parrot) quite amusingly let out a wonderful impression of a blaring metal detector while rotating back and forth in a semi-circle, just like a detector would do. Doesn’t this caique sound a bit like a metal detector? Here’s how a real metal detector sounds. Related PostsThe Universal...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Parrot Does a Great Impression of a Metal Detector first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Finnish five-man band Steve ‘n’ Seagulls performed a hearty, up-tempo bluegrass version of the classic 1979 earworm “My Sharona” by The Knack while seemingly at a ski lodge and in between fooling around on the slopes. It’s a bit reminiscent of “Weird Al” Yankovic‘s classic parody “My Bologna”. Original song...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Highly Up-Tempo Bluegrass Cover of the Classic 1979 Earworm ‘My Sharona’ by The Knack first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Josh DeWall of Ignite Glass Studios in Chicago has created an absolutely gorgeous, hand-blown glass wine decanter in the shape of an octopus. The wine is poured through the cephalopod’s head and travels down its eight graceful arms aerate the wine on its way into a rounded receptacle at the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Gorgeous Hand-Blown Glass Octopus Wine Decanter first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Photographer Jens of Another Perspective (previously) captured macro slow motion footage of the fascinating sight of a raw egg that had crystallized over ten days into a remarkable, almost Van Gogh-like swirling pattern. Egg time lapse. Watch a raw egg crystallizing over a period of 10 days and breaking like...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Fascinating Timelapse of a Raw Egg That Crystallizes Into a Remarkable Swirling Pattern Over Ten Days first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development team is developing a very short but freely mobile robot that can play the part of small characters in films. According to Disney, the robotic actor can walk, gesture, and emote according to whatever is needed at the time. Their first prototype is...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Disney Imagineers Build a Walking Baby Groot Robot first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Cody Don Reeder of Cody’s Lab, who previously flushed a toilet using 240 lbs of mercury instead of water, deliberately inhaled two different chemicals from separate balloons with amusing results. While it’s rather common for people to do this with helium balloons to make their voices higher, these actually made...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Man Deliberately Inhales Two Different Non-Toxic Gases That Make His Voice Sound Deeper first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Volunteer firefighters with the Devils Peak Vredehoek Neighbourhood Watch took a moment out from their hard work fighting fires in Cape Town, South Africa to give a very parched tortoise a long drink from the cap of a bottle of water. These firefighters manage to give a turtle a drink...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post South African Firefighters Give Parched Tortoise a Much Needed Drink of Water From a Water Bottle Cap first appeared on Laughing Squid.

British comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper-Jones of Map Men humorously dug into the origins of the word “America”, how the word came about, how early maps portrayed America, how the it became synonymous with the United States, and why many around the world take issue with the use...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The Origins of the Word ‘America’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A pair of curious goats named Alex and Junior who live at Tammy’s Oberlin Hobby Farm in Oberlin, Ohio, stood upon a seesaw and tried to figure out what it was and what it did. The hircine pair walked back and forth until they got a reaction. The movement proved...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Curious Goat Teaches Himself to Balance On a Seesaw first appeared on Laughing Squid.

While performing in 2005 at the Barbican in London, The talented musicians of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (previously) played a rather quaint and proper cover of the 1978 disco smash “Le Freak” by Chic. This performance of ‘Le Freak’ is taken from our 2005 show at The Barbican,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Quaint Ukulele Cover of the Disco Song ‘Le Freak’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The Genesis Museum has taken classic 16mm film footage from a 1973 Genesis concert and remastered it to 4K high definition. They also used an AI tool to reduce noise and to fill in video gaps where the image was blurry or missing. This was a really big project. Not...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Incredible 4K Remastered Footage From a 1973 Genesis Live Concert at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Musician The Doo, a guy who likes to “…play games and guitar, sometimes at the same time”, performed a flawless medley of 50 musical memes. Some of the songs originate from video games, from Tiktok, and from television shows, but mostly they come from popular memes. 50 of the best...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Flawless Guitar Medley of 50 Popular Musical Memes first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Matt Mikka of Warped Perception (previously) put both a GoPro and a dive case enclosed Insta360 camera inside a brand new dishwasher in order to capture what happens behind the closed door. Mikka filmed the entire cycle, which included the release of the soap at around the six-minute mark. For...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A GoPro and 360° Camera Inside of a Dishwasher Capture What Happens During a Full Cycle first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Animator Joel Haver, who imagined how NPCs acted when a disconnected controller kills the player and the subsequent waning enthusiasm for said game, demonstrated the uselessness of subtitles at times when a character starts speaking a made up alien language. so you don’t think we’re supposed to be understanding what...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post How Subtitles Become Useless When a Character Starts Speaking an Made Up Alien Language first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a towering Ted Ed video essay written by Alex Gendler (previously) and animated by Wow How Studios, narrator Addison Anderson explains the revolutionary architectural design behind the construction of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The building stands at an incredible 828 meters (2,716.54 feet) high and considered the tallest...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The Revolutionary Architectural Design Behind the Construction of the World’s Tallest Skyscraper first appeared on Laughing Squid.

@jauncydev If dog breeds were people ? original sound – jonny devaney Performer Jonny Devaney amusingly acted out what different breeds of dogs would act like if they were people. The four-part series features such breeds as Pit Bull, Poodle, Corgi, Bernese Mountain dog, Doberman, German shepherd, English Mastiff, and...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post An Amusing Series of Videos That Imagines How Various Dog Breeds Would Act If They Were People first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jack Black (@jackblack) After an injection, the ever-comical Jack Black hilariously transformed himself into his own version of Captain America. Black, who was dressed in a mask and a rather skimpy American flag bathing suit, happily flung his shield while unselfconsciously...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Jack Black Hilariously Transforms Into Captain America first appeared on Laughing Squid.

French comedian Loïc Suberville quite amusingly made fun of his native language, taking the absurd English sentence “A green worm pours a glass towards a glassmaker around 8 PM” and translated it into French. The resulting phrased is very alliterative, assonant, and repetitive “Un ver vert verse un verre vers...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Very Alliterative and Repetitive Absurd French Phrase In Which Almost All the Words Sound the Same first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A colony of playful Galapagos sea lions upon a Santa Cruz Island barge that they hijacked for their own, hilariously engaged in what sounded like a rather raucous burping contest. As it turns out, the distinctive noise is just juvenile pups sounding off to one another. The young sea lions...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Raucous Colony of Galapagos Sea Lions Engage In an Apparent Burping Contest Upon a Hijacked Barge first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A very focused Australian shepherd named Roo stared directly at her human and licked her nose whenever she heard the squeak of her favorite squeaky toy, as if the noise was a switch that activated her little pink tongue. According to her human, this trick was never taught. This is...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Dog Licks Her Nose Whenever a Squeaky Toy Squeaks first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Saeed A (@saeedawawdeh) Saeed Awawdeh quite hilariously photoshops pictures of himself onto the digital screen on his refrigerator just to make it look like he’s in there with his food. Awawdeh says he does this when he’s bored. everyone takes their...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Man Hilariously Photoshops Himself Onto the Screen on His Refrigerator to Make It Look Like He’s in There first appeared on Laughing Squid.

When a group of ducklings got stuck in his backyard pool in 2012, homeowner Evan Zucker and his friend Brian stepped in to help after the frantic mother exhausted all her own options. I found this mother duck and her 10 ducklings in my backyard swimming pool this morning. The...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Compassionate Humans Help a Frantic Mother Duck Rescue Her Ducklings From a Swimming Pool first appeared on Laughing Squid.

While touring the Sand River in the MalaMala Private Game Reserve at South Africa’s Kruger National Park, safari guide and photographer Reggi Barreto captured the remarkable sight of a rather cheeky turtle fearlessly informing invading lions stopping for a drink to promptly leave his swimming hole. The tiny terrapin first...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Fearless Turtle Chases Lions Away From His Waterhole first appeared on Laughing Squid.

An enduring episode of the KQED series “Deep Look” examines the hydra, a tiny, seemingly immortal organism that lives in tropical freshwaters. The hydra has neither eyes nor brain but does have a big mouth and an uncanny ability to regenerate every part of itself despite the most catastrophic injury....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post The Incredible Immortality of the Fresh-Water Hydra first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Twitter user CinnamonBear9 shared photos of an amazing personalized bedroom that they built for their beloved tuxedo cat. The room, which was built in the corner of what appears to be a dormer space, features a braided rug, a little bed on a wooden frame with fluffy pillows and a...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Couple Builds Beloved Cat His Own Personal Bedroom With Matching Blankets and a Working Television first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Reddit (@reddit) Gamer Yamaha234 shared on Reddit a surprising discovery that his in-laws made underneath the carpet of a room in their home. The couple had been tearing out the carpet when a giant Monopoly board that was pained directly onto...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Homeowners Find a Giant Monopoly Board Painted on the Floor While Tearing Out the Carpet first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Swedish artist and craftsman Love Hulten (previously) has created a commissioned cabinet that is a near replica of the IBM 2401 Magentic Tape Unit. While reels are non-functional, every bit of this remarkable piece is a replica of the original machine from 1964. The cabinet itself offers ample storage space...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Clever Custom Storage Cabinet Inspired by the Classic 1964 IBM 2401 Magnetic Tape Unit first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Los Angeles Funk band Scary Pockets partnered with Frankfurt Radio Big Band to perform a brilliant cover of the 2001 Daft Punk song “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”. Singer Swatkins effortlessly performed all the vocals using a talk box with his mouth. A funk cover of Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Brilliant Funk, Big Band and Talk Box Cover of the 2001 Daft Punk Song ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A very resourceful beaver named Filbert, the “branch manager” at the Oregon Zoo located the perfect wooden branch for himself and his faithful partner Maple the “stick broker”. Sadly, the branch did not fit through the doorway. For others, this would present a problem but Filbert quickly gnawed off the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Resourceful Beaver Gnaws Off the Large End of a Tree Branch When It Won’t Fit Through the Door first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Photographer Jens of Another Perspective (previously) captured super slow motion macro footage of graceful drops of water falling into coffee, milk and oil. Water Droplet Macro Art – Mixing water droplets with milk, coffee, and oil droplets, filmed with macro lens and high speed camera at 20.000 frames per second....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Graceful Water Droplets Captured in Super Slow Motion first appeared on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Landon Dickerson Jr. (@boops_alot) An absolutely adorable and very clever two year old who goes by the name Boops walked up to a map on the wall and correctly located all of the US states and bodies of water that an...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Clever Toddler Correctly Locates US States on Map first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Comedian Scott Seiss quite amusingly took on the persona of a frustrated “part-time seasonal” employee of furniture giant IKEA and offered very honest answers to some of the most common inane questions and comments that are asked/made by customers. Seiss’s forthright responses are most likely in the heads of real...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Frustrated Part-Time Seasonal IKEA Employee Offers Honest Answers to the Most Inane Customer Questions first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Dutch artist Rajacenna van Dam, who is known for being ambidextrous and for her hyperrealistic portraits, sat down with 60 Second Docs to explain how she is able to draw using each hand independently from the other. Rajacenna also talks about her favorite subject to draw (Taylor Swift), her beloved...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Ambidextrous Artist Draws With Both Hands at Once first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Japanese infrastructure company Kandeko has created a beautiful ad for which material artists used a special Smart X electro-conductive thread, which easily connects to circuits and batteries, to sew a wondrous miniature city landscape with working lights. When you make various shapes with a special conductive thread Smart-X on the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post A Wondrous Miniature Cityscape Sewn With Electricity Conducting Thread to Make the Lights Shine first appeared on Laughing Squid.

An adorable pair of peach-faced lovebirds sat on the kitchen table and kept themselves busy making new feathers out of printer paper that their human had left for them. The pair diligently cut out “feathers” with their beaks and attached them to their respective backsides. I always take videos of...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Busy Lovebirds Make New Feathers Out of Paper first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Animator TrTveT had a bit of fun when his cat climbed inside a long horizontal box with open sides that he was holding. The man then made his way over to the bed with the box and launched the cat onto the soft surface. The cat had such a blast...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, and Subscribe by Email.The post Cat Repeatedly Jumps Into a Long Horizontal Box to Be Launched Onto the Bed Over and Over Again first appeared on Laughing Squid.