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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cole and Marmaladeâ„¢ (@coleandmarmalade) on Oct 12, 2018 at 12:28pm PDT Know Your Cats, a helpful guide by Cole and Marmalade via Miss Cellania Related Laughing Squid PostsCole and Marmalade Offer Helpful Tips for Keeping Cats Happy and Healthy for a Long TimeThe Feline Duo of...The post Know Your Cats! appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a burrowing episode of the TED original series Small Things, Big Idea, host and legendary designer Michael Bierut explains how the iconic Transport For London (TFL) tube map came about after a first design proved too cumbersome. In response, an engineering draftsman named Harry Beck put to paper a specific principle that guided the...The post The Fascinating History Behind the Iconic Geometric Design of the Transport for London Tube Map appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, who was out on assignment for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert during the Conan hiatus, traveled to the great state of Texas to visit with the respective rallies of Senate candidates Beto O’Rourke and the previously hard to reach Ted Cruz to crack wise about this unexpectedly close race....The post Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Visits Senate Candidates Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz at Their Rallies in Texas appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Jun Yoshizuki of Jun’s Kitchen, whom we know to be a talented culinarian, decided to step out of his kitchen and head outside into the sunshine for a walk with his two beloved long haired orange and white cats Haku and Nagi. The adorable group explored the majestic scenery of a local park that has...The post Talented Cook Takes His Beloved Food Watching Cats Out of the Kitchen for a Lovely Walk in the Park appeared first on Laughing Squid.

As part of their ongoing series of deconstructing the rich symbolism and character development within the sublime AMC series Breaking Bad, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of ScreenPrism offer a really insightful list of characters, rates them in terms of their overall wickedness and presents them in ascending order. Walt Jr. starts the list as...The post An Insightful List of Several ‘Breaking Bad’ Characters Presented in an Ascending Level of Wickedness appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a rather thoughtful episode of Everything Is a Remix, host Kirby Ferguson shares why he finds closing credits of a film or television show to be a time of reflective meditation or of quietude in order to catch one’s breath before going back out into a very busy, overwhelming world. He also states that...The post The Forgotten Luxury of Taking a Reflective Moment During the Closing Credits of a Film or Television Show appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Superfan QueenAllTheWay edited together a rather heartbreaking but beautiful tribute to the late, great Freddie Mercury. Using a montage of interviews, performances and clips, the video rounds out the artist’s final days, showing him to be a wonderfully dedicated and generous soul who loved his cats, his boyfriend and most of all his bandmates, who...The post Freddie Mercury’s Final Days Documented in an Amazing Series of Interviews, Performances and Clips appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2012, we wrote about the “Song Map”, a whimsical road map by British design group Dorothy, that reimagined all roads and locations with names taken from song titles (e. g. “Highway to Hell” and “Heartbreak Hotel”). In 2017, we wrote about their World Song Map and at the beginning of 2018, we wrote about...The post A Vintage Style Art Print That Imagines the Map of the Entire United States Made Up Over 1,000 Song Titles appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In the fourth episode of the humorous Funny or Die faux Carl Sagan style documentary series Our Fascinating Planet, host Ted Rimmarniet (Demetri Martin) looks for ways to rob the Earth of energy through light. He provides some very funny origins of light, some wobbly science behind how light is made, a particularly odd history...The post Science Series Host Ponders How Best to Rob the Earth of Its Energy Through Various Sources of Light appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Is this the real life or is this fantasy? Hong Kong video editor This Game Is Easy brilliantly juxtaposed the video footage of Queen‘s 1985 Live Aid performance against the staged version for the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody in a side by side comparison. While the scripted version does vary greatly from the real show due...The post A Brilliant Comparison of Queen’s 1985 ‘Live Aid’ Show With the Staged Remake in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2017, champion free climber Alex Honnold scaled El Capitan at Yosemite National Park, a 3,000 foot cliff from base to summit, without the benefits of ropes or safety gear. The attempt alone was dangerous enough, but Hohnhold allowed filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and husband Jimmy Chin to document this incredible feat as well. In...The post Filmmakers Detail the Immense Care They Took Capturing Free Solo Climb Up El Capitan in Yosemite appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Toulouse Tourisme officiel (@visiteztoulouse) on Nov 3, 2018 at 6:32am PDT La Machine, the incredible machine art group based in Nantes, France, have built a giant kinetic Minotaur named “Le Gardien du Temple” (The Guardian of the Temple). This new sculpture along with “La Princesse”, the...The post A Giant Mechanical Minotaur and Enormous Spider Invade the Streets of Toulouse, France for Three Days appeared first on Laughing Squid.

An absolutely adorable pet otter named Bingo loves taking a bath, especially when he can luxuriate in the water while his human keeps the shower flowing from above. Bingo’s human shared how to create this simple shower by simply using a plastic water bottle and its cap. I’ll show you how to make a shower...The post An Adorable Pet Otter Luxuriates in a Blue Tub With a Homemade Water Bottle Shower Flowing From Above appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a rapacious episode from his land and sea animal focused video series True Facts, narrator Ze Frank examines the insatiable appetite of the predatory insect species Odonata, which includes both damselflies and dragonflies. This incredible voracity begins underwater as an aquatic sea nymph and continues above ground with a pressing need to reproduce and...The post Ze Frank Hilariously Narrates the Voraciously Full Lifecycle of the Insatiable Damselfly and Dragonfly appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In the third episode of the wonderful Goreytelling series by photographer/filmmaker Christopher Seufert, famed artist Edward Gorey opened up in a previously unpublished interview about how much he loves his cats, even though they cause a great deal of disruption within his solitary life. Edward Gorey a world-class curmudgeon but no one could deny his...The post Edward Gorey Opens Up About His Love for His Disruptive Cats in a Previously Unpublished Interview appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In yet another brilliantly illustrated episode of After Skool, an earnest Jim Carrey tells the 2014 graduating class of Maharishi University of Management, that the future is a wide open horizon into which they should all go to challenge themselves. Carrey also talks about the need to shun acceptance in favor of self. Failing to...The post A Beautiful Whiteboard Illustration of Jim Carrey Telling 2014 Graduates to Shun Acceptance In Favor of Self appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Neuroscientist Gilles Laurent who works at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research explains to the International Journal of Science site Nature what it means when he says “cuttlefish wear their thoughts on their skin”. Laurent and his team are studying how cuttlefish use camouflage to hide in plain sight. These cephalopods are very clever...The post How Cuttlefish Use What They See to Activate Camouflaging Pigment Cells to Hide in Plain Sight appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2014, an adorably fat tabby cat who got trapped in a closet, was able to figure out how to escape by squeezing through the small crack at the bottom of the door. The cat first grabbed onto the door and then onto carpet in order pull that big body on through. via Geekologie Related...The post An Adorably Fat Tabby Cat Figures Out How to Escape a Closet by Squeezing Out From Under the Door appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Host Jimmy Kimmel of Jimmy Kimmel Live! presented an adorable compilation of the parents who participated in the Eighth Annual “Hey Jimmy Kimmel I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy” challenge 2018. As in previous Halloweens, some of the children’s responses were absolutely priceless. For the past seven years, we’ve asked parents...The post An Adorable Compilation of Parents Telling Their Children That They Ate All of Their Halloween Candy appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Greg Nicotero, the special effects expert and executive producer of The Walking Dead, opened up during an interview with Topic, about his love of scary movies, a couple of spooky experiences he had and the surprising one thing that scares him the most. Blood doesn’t bother me. That stuff doesn’t scare me, but you know,...The post The Walking Dead’s Special Effects Expert Greg Nicotero Opens Up About What Scares Him the Most appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Filmmaker Kristian Williams, who is also known as “kaptainkristian”, takes a look the iconic metamorphosing monsters featured in a number of films by legendary director Guillermo del Toro, why that particular change is important and what makes them so memorable. Williams also notes that del Toro is a visual storyteller who masters the art of...The post How Guillermo del Toro’s Metamorphosing Monsters Create Necessary Drama Within Their Own Stories appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay very astutely studies the Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright subtle zombie comedy film Shaun of the Dead, particularly pointing out how the entire story and all of the characters are built around the context of the underachieving everyman Shaun. Edgar Wright films are always full of flashy, fun style,...The post How the Zombie Comedy ‘Shaun of the Dead’ Builds a Contextual World Around the Protagonist of the Story appeared first on Laughing Squid.

For Halloween 2018, really creative dad Andrew Guy labored for several months in order to transform his young son Aiden’s bicycle into a fantastic silver Star Destroyer from Star Wars. This moving costume is equipped with lights and plays the “Imperial March” out of an embedded speaker. Inaugural test drive! After months of gluing and...The post Creative Father Transforms His Young Son’s Bicycle Into a Fantastic ‘Imperial March’ Playing Star Destroyer appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The enigmatic yet quite subdued Morrissey (formerly of The Smiths) covered the classic Pretenders song “Back on the Chain Gang” (with only a bit of word changes) as a bonus track for the deluxe edition of his 2017 album Low in High School. The accompanying sepia toned video calls back to a 1960s talk show...The post Morrissey Covers the Classic Pretenders Song ‘Back On the Chain Gang’ in a 1960s Style Showcase Video appeared first on Laughing Squid.

With the upcoming release of the Freddie Mercury biopic on November 2, 2018, the knowledgeable music essayist Polyphonic makes a beautiful introduction to an operatic Queen song that is lesser known than the one performed carside in Waynes World. The song, “Innuendo”, may not be as ubiquitous as “Bohemian Rhapsody”, but it is no less...The post The Sorrowful Beauty of ‘Innuendo’, the Lesser Known Musically Complex Operatic Anthem by Queen appeared first on Laughing Squid.

For Halloween 2018, craftsman Mike Warren a.k.a. “mikeasaurus” created a truly badass Ghost Rider mask complete with blinking LED eyes and working smoke effects. Warren show how he made the mask in an amazing timelapse, but for those of us who need to take things a bit slower, he also posted step-by-step instructions on Instructables....The post An Amazing 3D Printed Ghost Rider Mask Complete With Blinking LED Eyes and Working Smoke Effects appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In the short animated film “Hands”, filmmaker Jesper Lindborg has captured the tactile satisfaction that a pair of hands represent in various ASMR situations such as running fingers through sand, clapping while covered in glue and tangled up in ribbons. The film is beautifully accompanied with an original soundtrack by Mount Audio. The focus lay...The post A Short Film About the Playful Movement of Hands appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2015, we wrote about the short film “Covers” by German visual artist Henning M. Lederer who animated the geometric patterns of 55 vintage book covers. In 2017, Lederer followed up with “More Covers”, which featured animated vintage psychiatric books. In 2018, Lederer has returned with a third film of the series entitled “Even More...The post Even More Covers, A Short Film That Animates the Colorful Geometric Cover Art of 66 Vintage Books appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While appearing on the Howard Stern Show in May 2017, actor and comedian Jamie Foxx spoke about Quentin Tarantino‘s work ethic. Foxx took the opportunity to share a story about meeting that ethic head on. While filming Django Unchained, Tarantino had pulled Foxx aside to chastise him about his performance in a very distinctive voice,...The post Jamie Foxx Performs a Spot On Impression of Quentin Tarantino Chastising Him For Not Doing His Job Well appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a phasmid episode of The New York Times series ScienceTake from 2016, host James Gorman explains the fascinating mechanics behind the movement of stick insects and how this data was directly applied to a six-legged rescue robot named Hector. The hind legs provided most of the power pushing the insect forward. The middle legs...The post The Fascinating Study of How Stick Insects Walk appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Climate data scientist and interactive mapmaker Neil Kaye has brilliantly animated the difference between the size of countries represented on the Mercator Map and the true land layout of each country. Because the Mercator Map distorts land size in accordance with increased distance from the Equator, countries like Greenland, Russia, Canada and the United States...The post An Animated Mercator Projection That Reveals the Actual Size of Countries Around the World appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The very talented special effects artist Steve Richter created a brilliant replication of the villianous Toht, of the 1981 film Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, out of crayons, clay and paint. After placing Toht’s glasses and hat on his sculpted head, Richter took an industrial heat gun and recreated the iconic...The post A Brilliant Recreation of the Iconic Face Melting Scene From ‘Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A young man named David Mzee who lost the use of his legs due to injury, was given the chance to walk again with the amazing use of electrodes implanted into his spine. This implanted targeted neurotechnology doesn’t necessarily cause movement, rather they amplify the message being sent within the body. A combination of the...The post Man Who Lost the Use of His Legs Regains the Ability to Walk Due to Electrodes Implanted Into His Spine appeared first on Laughing Squid.

On Halloween night 2018, the LED screen at the top of the rather distinctive Salesforce Tower in San Francisco turned a bright orange before revealing a brilliant “Eye of Sauron”, the symbolic emblem of the iconic villain who appeared throughout The Lord of the Rings series. This remarkable event came about through a public petition...The post The San Francisco Salesforce Tower Turns Into the ‘Lord of the Rings’ Eye of Sauron on Halloween appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Fabulous Duo of Doodles (@fabulous_doodle) on Oct 26, 2018 at 3:25am PDT Fabbe and Nisse are two absolutely adorable Goldendoodle brothers who seem to do everything together, made no exception when it came to Halloween. This doggie duo dressed as matching ghosts and knocked on at...The post Two Adorable Goldendoodle Dogs Dress Up as Matching Ghosts to Go Trick or Treating for Halloween appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Amazing JIRO (@amazing_jiro) on Oct 28, 2018 at 3:28am PDT Participants in the annual Halloween parade that takes place in the city of Kawasaki in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan, like everywhere else, have the opportunity to dress up as their favorite characters. A very clever...The post Art Students Cleverly Dress Up as Famous Paintings For the Annual Halloween Parade in Kawasaki, Japan appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Davie504, the incredible bassist who is constantly performing in new and creative ways, responded to a viewer’s question about the notoriously difficult-to-play classical piece “Flight of the Bumblebee”. In his usual style, Davie responded by impressively playing it at lightning speed. Playing one of the hardest songs ever composed, “Flight of the Bumblebee”, on the...The post The Notoriously Difficult ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ Impressively Performed Lightning Fast on Bass Guitar appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a spooktacular 1933 Halloween episode of the classic animated series Betty Boop, a chilly scarecrow gets an invitation to a Halloween party at Ms. Boop’s home and heads on over to help her get ready. As she’s in the kitchen preparing pumpkins, the scarecrow is busy painting witches and cats on the wall. As...The post Betty Boop Busily Prepares Her Home For a Halloween Party With the Help of a Well Dressed Scarecrow appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In the fifth installment of his ongoing “Monsoon” series, photographer Mike Olbinski again employed his sharpened storm-chasing skills across the American west and southwest to create an absolutely stunning video that celebrates giant dust storms, intense lightning strikes, beautiful sunsets and even gorgeous green clouds spitting out copious pellets of hail. My original plan this...The post Monsoon V, The Stunning Beauty of the American West Summer Skies Captured in a Gorgeous Timelapse appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Darryl Cheng of The House Plant Journal (HPJ), posted a really amusing timelapse that shows exactly how what two very different, but equally beautiful houseplants do to occupy themselves during the day. This was made as part of a collaboration with Angus and Celeste, an Australian ceramic design company that specializes in planters. Cheng states...The post An Amusing Timelapse Showing How Two House Plants Occupy Themselves Over the Course of a Single Day appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a funerary lesson for Ted-Ed written by educator Keith Eggener and animated by Gerta Xhelo, narrator Adrian Dannatt quite elegantly explains how cemeteries came to be. He also spellbindingly tells about how the dead were laid to rest before cemeteries existed and what cemeteries look like now and what they might look like in...The post The Intricate History of How Cemeteries Came To Be appeared first on Laughing Squid.

German competitive kayaker Adrian Mattern impressively took a ride down a 110 foot waterfall at Alexandra Falls in the Northwest Territories of Canada. This fall is so challenging that only two other people have accomplished this same feat in the past, Ed Lucero and Tyler Bradt. Mattera was able to arrange for a drone to...The post Amazing Drone Footage of a Competitive Kayaker Successfully Riding Down a 110 Foot Waterfall appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Talented makeup artist Meaghan Ashley transforms a UCLA neuroscience student named Matthew Quigley into the fearsome, steely blue eyed Night King from the HBO series Game of Thrones. As she applied each piece of the costume, Ashley explains what she’s doing, why she’s doing it and what products she’s using, just in case a really...The post Makeup Artist Transforms a Cheerful UCLA Student Into the Steely Blue Eyed Night King From Game of Thrones appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Josh Sundquist (@joshsundquist) on Oct 26, 2018 at 7:44am PDT Josh Sundquist, a Paralympian, motivational speaker, comedian and author who lost one of his legs to cancer when he was young, partnered with legendary Disney illustrator (and fellow amputee) Broose Johnson and costume designer Jenny Newman...The post One Legged Paralympian Josh Sundquist Dresses as ‘Genie of the Lamp’ From ‘Aladdin’ for Halloween 2018 appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Cyriak Harris, the clever mind behind many creative films has created “RIP“, an oddly cheerful Halloween themed animaed video that features a surplus of silly skeletons dancing their little hearts out in a variety of different combinations. A spooky halloween extravaganza. Nightmares guaranteed. Related Laughing Squid PostsCyriak’s Bizarre Halloween CostumeMeow Mix Cat Music Video by...The post A Surplus of Silly Skeletons Dance Their Little Hearts Out in an Oddly Cheerful Halloween Video by Cyriak appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Hot 8 Brass Band from New Orleans recorded a truly badass version of the classic Joy Division song “Love Will Tear Us Apart” in that particular way that only a marching band can. The single from the album of the same name, is available for purchase. We’re bringing the love with our cover of “Love...The post New Orleans’ Hot 8 Brass Band Performs a Badass Cover of the Joy Division Song ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2007, the now tragically late singer Chris Cornell appeared on The Howard Stern Show and performed a haunting acoustic version of his iconic Soundgarden song “Black Hole Sun”. Before doing so, Cornell shared with host Stern how he wrote the song. Cornell stated that it was mostly written in his head while driving home....The post Chris Cornell Tells Howard Stern How He Wrote ‘Black Hole Sun’ Before Performing the Song Live in Studio appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A brilliantly illustrated episode of After Skool features the very timely words of comedian Bill Hicks from his “It’s Just a Ride” routine. Hicks compares life to a rollercoaster ride and in doing so laments about the unfairness of the world when good people die and bad people live on, how a nation of fear...The post A Brilliant Whiteboard Illustration of a 1992 Bill Hicks Commentary About Choosing Love Over Fear appeared first on Laughing Squid.

An absolutely adorable little girl in a pretty flowered dress named Maya went trick-or-treating around her neighborhood for Halloween in a fabulously creepy costume that required her to carry her head on a plate. The hollow place where her head should have been, served quite well as a receptacle for the Halloween candy. Maya’s mom...The post An Adorable Little Girl Creepily Carries Her Own Head on a Plate While Trick or Treating for Halloween appeared first on Laughing Squid.

On October 8, 2018, Fred Lyon, the legendary former LIFE Magazine photographer and author of San Francisco, Portrait of a City: 1940-1960 and San Francisco Noir, gave a talk at The Interval at Long Now. During the talk, the lifelong San Franciscan shared stories of the events, sights and people that were represented in his...The post 94 Year Old Former LIFE Magazine Photographer Fred Lyon Shares His Incredible Photos of San Francisco appeared first on Laughing Squid.