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When you are the last cat built for the day…and there are no matching parts. via Miss Cellania Related Laughing Squid Posts9-9-09, A Day Without Cats On The InternetThe History of Cats and Dolphins Together On The InternetIka Zaru on CatsterFollow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post When You Are the Last Cat Built For the Day first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In October 2018, Barnaby Dixon premiered his “Creepy Face Puppet” — a full-body finger puppet with LED eyes and Dixon’s digitally projected mouth. Creepy Face, who is now part of Dixon’s extended family of regularly performing puppets, performed a “live” version of the Kavinsky song “Nightcall” from the soundtrack of the film Drive. Ryan Gosling...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Live Performance of Kavinsky’s ‘NightCall’ by Barnaby Dixon’s Creepy Face Puppet (and Ryan Gosling) first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Filmmaker Daniel McKee spent quite a bit of time sourcing images of international flags (and their variations) to create “A Film of Flags”, an incredibly rapid animated montage of over 2,000 flags, appropriately set to Beethoven’s very fast moving “Sonata No.14 ‘Moonlight’ 3rd Movement”. Featuring over 2,000 flags in motion to Ludwig van Beethoven, centuries...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post An Animated Montage of Over 2,000 International Flags first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Finnish couple Lauri Vuohensilta and Anni Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel and Beyond the Press replaced all four tires on their Subaru hatchback with giant serrated table saw blades to see what would happen. Their first test site was a frozen lake near their home. After a bit of a rough start, they found...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Driving Over a Frozen Finnish Lake in a Subaru Hatchback With Giant Table Saw Blades as Wheels first appeared on Laughing Squid.

terribletan posted an absolutely astonishing, lightning-fast performance of the Wolfgang Amadeaus Mozart piece Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545, which features a surpise twist at the end. The composer of the piece played in this very same manner, at least in the fictional version of his life. via reddit Related Laughing Squid...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Unique Performance of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16 first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Director Todd Douglas Miller of the documentary Apollo 11 explains how he threaded together restored archival footage to craft a stunning narrative of the mission. Miller talked about how he used split screen to really hone in on the gravity of the scene- footage of the first very first moon landing in 1969. In this...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Director of Restored Archival Film ‘Apollo 11’ Explains His Use of Split Screen in the Moon Landing Scene first appeared on Laughing Squid.

While promoting their Netflix film Polar, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund took part in an amusing game that tested their knowledge of Nordic culture. Aptly named “How Nordic Are You?”, the two men answered the same questions and were graded in how thorough the answer was. Mikkelsen lost the bulk of...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Danish Actor Mads Mikkelsen and Swedish Director Jonas Åkerlund Play a Game of ‘How Nordic Are You?’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a haunting episode of the aptly named video series You Can’t Unhear This, the knowledgable host explains the concept of ghost vocals on music recordings, specifically what they are, how they get there and the (at least) three reasons as to why they stay there. He then offers several examples of this recorded anomaly...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post How Ghost Vocals Appear in Music Recordings first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A lively Kevin Smith sat down with the IMDb series “Director’s Trademarks” to talk about some of his distinctive filmmaking techniques. In order to effectively demonsrate his point, Smith verbally revisited some of his most notable films that display these specific trademarks. Welcome to the Askewniverse. From the crass dialogue of ‘Clerks,’ ‘Mallrats,’ and ‘Dogma,’...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Kevin Smith Revisits Some of His Most Notable Films While Talking About His Distinctive Film Techniques first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A pair of curious Labrador retrievers named Sugar and Spice in Kodiak, Alaska, actively disobeyed the calls of their human Robert Higgs in order to try to play with a couple of mischievous dockside otters. The dogs were quite determined to catch the incredibly evasive mustelids, who repeatedly jumped in and in and out of...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Pair of Curious Dogs Ignore Their Human While Attempting to Play With a Couple of Mischievous Otters first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In 2013, we wrote about the profile that The New York Times did on Beastie Boys founding member Mike Diamond (Mike D) and his gorgeously renovated Brooklyn Townhouse. Six years and 3,000 miles later, the performer welcomed Architectural Digest into his beautiful custom-designed Malibu home that he shares with wife Tamara Davis and their two...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Mike D of the Beastie Boys Gives a Personal Tour of His Beautiful Custom Designed Malibu Beachside Home first appeared on Laughing Squid.

British artist Terry Cook translated his deep love for birds into highly realistic balloon art that he situated in natural surroundings. These reproductions brilliantly mimic the plumage and the stance of various species found around Britain and Europe. I am obsessed with birds (Mostly British and European) and have been since I was a child....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Common European Birds Recreated With Balloons first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner of Famous Last Nerds hilariously compressed the classic William Shakespeare play Hamlet from its traditional five acts, reworking it as a two-and-a-half minute musical. This brevity was explained at the beginning of the piece with the news that MTV had acquired PBS. Due to MTV’s recent acquisition of PBS this...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ Told as a Two Minute Musical first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A pair of surprisingly adorable nerite snail sisters named Randolph and Mortimer, named after the Duke characters in the 1983 film Trading Places, seemed to really enjoy the baby carrots that their human had given to them. At first, the sisters had no idea what to do with carrots, so they just played around, turned...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Pair of Surprisingly Adorable Nerite Snail Sisters Take Turns Playing With Their Yummy Baby Carrots first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The trailer for the 52-episode award-winning Argentinian stop-motion animated series “Así Son Las Cosas” (The Way Things Are) by animator and director Juan Pablo Zaramella, inanimate objects everywhere take on distinct personalities that they express in different humorous vignettes, all outside of human presence. An indiscreet look at the secret life of objects. via Colossal...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Inanimate Objects Take on Distinct Personalities in Trailer for ‘Así Son Las Cosas’ (The Way Things Are) first appeared on Laughing Squid.

A great big owl who was seemingly in no mood for any company appeared rather upset to find the family cat sleeping on the couch. The owl poked, prodded, bullied and kicked the cat for a good while before the drowsy feline decided to quit fighting the stubborn bird and go sleep elsewhere. Related Laughing...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Great Big Owl Kicks a Sleeping Cat Off the Couch first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Cavegirl Productions and X-Ray Films have joined forces to create highly anticipated film Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons and Dragons. The film is about the uniquely imaginative and lavish illustrations that were vividly present on all things Dungeons & Dragons. The film crew talks to artists, players, authors, and others who contributed...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post ‘Eye of the Beholder’, A Film About the Talented Artists Behind the Imaginative Art of Dungeons & Dragons first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Gifted multi-instrumentalist Seb Skelly performed a wordless brass cover of the classic Nena song “99 Luftballons”, which is known in the United States as “99 Red Balloons”, on five different tracks using four different instruments. The instruments he played were trumpet – 2x, solo horn, Flugelhorn, and soprano trombone. As it turns out, a number...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post An Instrumental Cover of 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons) by Nena Played on Four Different Horns first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Vlogger Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter takes a look at the Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece “Night Café” (“Le Café de nuit”), the painting that the artist considered to be his ugliest work of all. Puschak explains that Van Gogh was probably referring to the ugliness of the colors (red green) he purposely used to create...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post How Vincent Van Gogh Created Optical Anxiety With His Deliberate Use of Conflicting Color in ‘Night Café’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In October 2017, we wrote about how director Sandy K. Boone and producer Louis Black were raising funds through Kickstarter in order to create Slacking Towards Bethlehem, a fascinating documentary about the legendary parody religion, The Church of the SubGenius. The Church of the SubGenius has been called “the most aggressively preposterous theology the world...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Fascinating Documentary About J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius Premiering at SXSW 2019 first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a surprising episode of The New York Times series Science Take, host James Gorman talks about the dangerous side of hummingbirds. While this species often gets along with one another or becomes very demanding of their favorite humans, a certain group of South American male hummingbirds can become downright violent especially when it comes...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post How South American Male Hummingbirds Use Their Evolved Beaks as Swords to Attack Their Rivals first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Finnish artists Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho have created “Lines (57° 59′ N, 7° 16′ W)”, an prescient, site-specific interactive installation that uses LED lights and sensors to show where the high tides will reach on existing structures when the sea level ultimately rises. The name of the project refers to the location of the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post An Interactive Light Installation That Shows Where the Future Sea Level Will Reach in a Scottish Coastal Town first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Vivid Maps has posted a fascinating map that plots what international borders will look like as Pangaea Ultima (Neopangea), a supercontinent that is posited to develop over the next 250 million years. As shown, the world will once again become a giant landbridge with as the oceans continue to rise and spread wider until they...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Fascinating Map Showing What Current International Borders Might Look Like in 250 Million Years first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In February 2019, CBS took a retrospective look at Electric Lady Studios, the legendary New York City recording studio built specifically for rock royalty Jimi Hendrix. Acoustician John Storyk of Walters Storyk Design Group spoke a little about the ceiling design of the studio. Unfortunately, Jimi only got to play in his envisioned, custom designed...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Retrospective Look at Electric Lady Studios Nearly Half a Century After Jimi Hendrix’s Tragic Death first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Musician Katharina Spreckelsen of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment offers a wonderfully melodic demonstration of the incredibly elegantly sounding, oddly shaped Oboe da Caccia with a performance of “Wie schön leuctet der Morgenstern” by J.S. Bach. Afterward, Spreckesen explains that his double-reed woodwind instrument was first invented in 1722 by J.H. Eichentopf who...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post An Elegantly Melodic Introduction to the Peculiar Looking Baroque Woodwind Instrument Oboe da Caccia first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Turkish artist Ekrem Pala brews up some absolutely amazing 3D illustrations whenever he takes a coffee break. Pala first sketches an outline in pencil before filling in the details with different shades of diluted coffee. Pala has stated that he is very inspired by the world around him and really enjoys making these videos for...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Turkish Artist Brews Up Amazing 3D Illustrations Using Diluted Coffee as His Paint first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In 2016, we wrote about Belgian artist and filmmaker Vincent Bal and his very clever series of ingenious illustrations created from shadows cast by sunlit household items. Since that time, Bal has been working on a television series, making films and creating even more of these clever shadow drawings, some of them from less typical...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Very Clever Illustrations Created From of Shadows Cast by Items Less Commonly Found Around the House first appeared on Laughing Squid.

LEGO aficionado Fievet Aymeric submitted his LEGO Ideas design for “Central Perk”, a LEGO version the beloved coffee shop featured on Friends. Aymeric was sure to include every last detail (using over 1,700 bricks) in his vision to recreate one of the most iconic fictional coffee shops in the world. Luckily, his submission was officially...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A LEGO Recreation of ‘Central Perk’, The Beloved Coffee Shop Featured on ‘Friends’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Iranian artist Salman Koshroo creates brilliant, anthropomorphic, humanoid figures out of ENT electrical wire. Each starts off as a basic wireframe onto which Koshroo winds and weaves the more colorful ENT wire, determining whether the figure has short, curly hair, a sleek chignon, long straight hair that hangs everywhere or even no hair at all....Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Humanoid Figures Formed Out of Colorful Wire first appeared on Laughing Squid.

The floats of the Viareggio Festival, which takes place in Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy, have historically had a sardonic, political bent to them and the floats of the 2019 event were no exception. One such float is of a giant whale choking on and being strangled by single-use plastic that pollutes the oceans worldwide. The float,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Heartbreaking Parade Float Featuring a Giant Whale Choking on Trash at the Viareggio Carnevale in Italy first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Industrial Light & Magic shared an expertly edited, extremely detailed breakdown of the incredible visual effects that were created for various scenes within the enigmatic, record-breaking Netflix film Bird Box. A breakdown reel of the visual effects behind Netflix’s record-breaking thriller ‘Bird Box’. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Visual Effects Breakdown of The Force Awakens Scene...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Breakdown of the Visual Effects That Were Created for the Enigmatic Netflix Film ‘Bird Box’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Michigan woodworker Matt Thompson of Thompson Woodworks, who previously built a beer-holding Michigan State shaped chair and a Rube Goldberg-inspired automatic dog petter, decided to see what would happen if he combined the best features of both ideas together. The result is a really satisfying-looking automatic back-scratching reclining chair for humans, complete with footrest and...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Hand Crafted Wooden Chair With a Pair of Automatic Rube Goldberg-Inspired Back Scratching Hands first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Japanese online novelty gift retailer Felissimo (previously) is featuring an adorable set of squishy, chocolate-filled marshmallows that are shaped and decorated with a Shiba Inu’s smiling face. The set comes as nine to a box and each marshmallow is individually wrapped for easy sharing. (translated)Shiba Inu with a full smile appeared on popular Japanese style...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Adorably Squishy Smiling Shiba Inu Marshmallows first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Paper artist Louise Cassidy of Foldiloxs creates absolutely brilliant origami recreations of pop culture characters from television and film. via LangweilDich.net Related Laughing Squid PostsA Look Inside the National Audio Company, One of the Last Companies Still Producing Audio CassettesBrilliantly Illustrated Timelines Showing the Evolution of Various Pop Culture Icons Over the Years‘Geek-Art: An Anthology’,...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Brilliant Origami Versions of Pop Culture Characters first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Filmmaker Richard Vezina (previously) has created “A Stanley Kubrick Odyssey – 2019 Edition”, an absolutely gorgeous, high-definition video tribute to the late legendary director on the 20th anniversary of his death. This thoughtful piece, which originated in 2003, released in 2011 and updated for 2019, showcases Kubrick’s pioneering vision and vivid scene execution with montaged...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Beautiful High-Definition Tribute to Visionary Director Stanley Kubrick on the 20th Anniversary of His Death first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Dorothy has released a series of detailed posters with iconic rock albums reimagined as colorful, oversized postage stamps. The posters come in four different music genres; psychedelic, post-punk, post-rock and electronic. Each genre also has a coordinating Spotify playlist. Each stamp features a graphic inspired by the album (or tracks on the album), the date...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Colorful Posters With Iconic Rock Albums of Different Genres Reimagined as Oversized Postage Stamps first appeared on Laughing Squid.

After Skool (previously) in collaboration with Health Chronicle, presents a colorful explanatory whiteboard and illustrated animation about the myth of right-brain, left-brain personalities. While the separate halves of the brain perform different functions, it’s not as cleanly divided as has been previously reported. The same processes exist on both hemispheres of the brain, although the...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post The Myth of the Left Brain Right Brain Theory Explained first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Southern California engineer William Osman (previously) and his pal Morgan built a bicycle completely out of wood in order to see if it would actually roll. The test ride revealed a couple of problems that Osman is planning on rectifying in a future video. Are you tired of not having splinters in your butt when...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Taking a Handbuilt 100% Wooden Bicycle for Test Ride first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In the film Midsommer, an American couple makes their way over to Sweden to join a friend for a traditional summer festival that takes place in the friend’s hometown. Unfortunately, the relaxing scene they envisioned quickly devolves into a frightening, brutish experience that none of them saw coming. A couple travels to Sweden to visit...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Midsommar, An Eerie Film About a Swedish Summer Festival Gone Wrong by the Director of ‘Hereditary’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a fraught and frenzied trailer for the eighth and final season of the long-running and often imitated HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, each house prepares for battle now that winter has finally come. The promise had been made in the previous season to fight together against the White Walkers before deciding who wears...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post The Houses Within ‘Game of Thrones’ Prepare for Winter Battle Their Own Way in the Final Season Trailer first appeared on Laughing Squid.

Canon Australia ambassador and nature photographer Sean Scott captured absolutely stunning photos of sharks riding inside ocean waves in the waters of Red Bluff in Western Australia. This area is a rich natural feeding ground for these sharks, which Scott explains in a gorgeously shot, informative Instagram Story. Scott also captured dolphins doing the same...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Stunning Photos of Sharks Riding Waves first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In “The Farce Awokens”, a stop-motion animated Star Wars parody by Robot Chicken, a very vocal Gary the Nerd inserted his pasty presence into the character of BB-8 and rolled around the plot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Needless to say, Gary’s version of the adorable round robot was a lot less happy-go-lucky than...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post The Nerd Forces His Way Through Robot Chicken’s Star Wars Stop-Motion Parody ‘The Farce Awokens’ first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In March 2017, we wrote about Turkish musician Sarper Durman and his beloved tabby cat who stared lovingly at him while he played the piano. As it turns out, there’s more than one music appreciating feline in Durman’s family. Fevsi is a beautiful orange and white cat whom Durman rescued as a kitten from a...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Super Affectionate Rescued Cat Happily Snuggles With His Beloved Lullaby Playing Human at the Piano first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In 2011, Tyrone Douglas, a very talented musician in Decatur, Alabama, performed “Water Drops”, a gorgeous, hypnotic song played upon a wooden tongue drum. The song is from his album Tongue Drum and was the only complete album of songs played on this beautiful, percussion instrument. “Tongue Drum” is the first of its kind to...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post A Hypnotic Song Played Upon Wooden Tongue Drums first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a departure from their otherwise happy-go-lucky music, Portland, OR nerd rock duo Megathruster talks about the serious side of things with a heartfelt acoustic song entitled “Weird Al Rules” from their Wands at the Ready album. The song addresses singer Chris Waffle‘s childhood bullying experiences in school, his fascination with “Weird Al” Yankovic and...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Weird Al Rules, A Heartfelt Song About Childhood Bullying by Nerd Rock Duo Megathruster first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In 2015, we wrote about Minim, a gorgeous set of sleek minimalist playing cards by artist Joe Doucet with just enough reductive design to keep the regulation label intact. Online gift retailer Areaware has these beautiful cards back in stock and is offering them for sale while supplies last. The black set is available for...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Modern Minimalist Regulation Playing Cards first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In 2015, filmmaker Daniel Šuljic created “Transparency”, a raw, colored pencil animation that shows a hapless man as he freely gives away his privacy through a variety of electronic means in every part of his life. While the man acknowledges his openness, he also tells the air that he’s a good man with nothing to...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Man With Nothing to Hide Freely Gives Away His Electronic Privacy in a Raw Colored Pencil Animation first appeared on Laughing Squid.

In a lyrical report for Vox, multimedia producer Kimberly Mas explains how birds can mimic complex sounds due to their fascinating physiology, which is specifically designed for sound. Parrots are especially tuned into communicating from birth. They listen closely and recreate sounds from their flock in the wild. In captivity, the domesticated parrot sees humans...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post The Fascinating Physiology That Explains Why Parrots Can Mimic Complex Sounds Like Human Speech first appeared on Laughing Squid.

British illustrator Rosie Upright in partnership with Suck UK, has created a whimsical set of four rolls of decorative masking tape in various sushi designs. These designs are so realistic that they could be easily mistaken as edible, so make sure to check twice before reaching for the wasabi. A set of four playful paper...Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard and Subscribe by Email.The post Whimsical Rolls of Tape That Look Just Like Sushi first appeared on Laughing Squid.