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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Max the Corgi (@cookingwithfatmax) on Sep 24, 2018 at 4:04pm PDT An adorably smiling Corgi named Max is a real foodie who lives in San Francisco with his human, New York Times tech writer Brian X. Chen. Every time Chan is in the kitchen, Max readily...The post Cooking With Fat Max, A Smiling Corgi Sits at the Table to Review the Quality of His Human’s Homemade Food appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram 2000 photos merged into one image of a butterfly wing. A post shared by Chris Perani (@christopherperani) on Dec 4, 2018 at 7:58am PST Extreme-macro photographer Chris Perani specializes in taking microscopic photos of butterflies, which he then seamlessly stitches together to create beautiful macro images of butterfly wings. Each...The post Thousands of Microscopic Photos Seamlessly Stitched Together to Create Macro Images of Butterfly Wings appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The Mauritshuis at the Hague and Google Arts & Culture have worked with 17 international cultural partners across Europe and the United States in order to create “Meet Vermeer”, a unique ultra-high resolution Augmented Reality exhibition that brings the complete works of Dutch artist Johann Vermeer into a single accessible place (36 paintings from 18...The post Meet Vermeer, An Augmented Reality Gallery Featuring the Complete Works of Dutch Artist Johannes Vermeer appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Talented musician and dedicated gamer Nathan Mills of Beyond The Guitar performed a quiet but absolutely beautiful classical guitar medley of songs from the soundtrack of “Red Dead Redemption 2”. Red Dead Redemption 2 guitar medley featuring That’s The Way It Is, May I Stand Unshaken, Cruel Cruel World, See The Fire in Your Eyes,...The post A Quietly Beautiful Classical Guitar Medley of Songs From the Soundtrack of ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In the “official tease” for the eighth and final season of the long-running HBO series Game of Thrones, a sheet of crackling ice meets a burning trail of fire, perhaps indicating that battle lines will be drawn amongst the houses as Night King‘s newly acquired undead dragon faces off against Daenerys Targaryen‘s very live ones....The post Ice Meets Fire in the Teaser Trailer for the Eighth and Final Season of ‘Game of Thrones’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A very cranky little bobcat kitten, to whom wildlife officials from the Center for Biodiversity referred as “Mr. Murderbritches”, hissed, growled and swatted at the helpful humans who were trying to his transport carrier to set him free. Once the men got the carrier open, however, the irascible little feline felt the need to threaten...The post Cranky Bobcat Kitten Threatens the Humans Opening His Carrier Before Releasing Himself Into the Wild appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by MONDO (@mondonews) on Dec 5, 2018 at 12:35pm PST Designer Logan Faerber has brilliantly illustrated a trilogy of posters that match up with the infamous Cornetto Movie Trilogy, which consists of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End. Faerber shared his love for...The post Brilliantly Illustrated Cornetto Movie Trilogy Posters: ‘Shaun of the Dead’, ‘Hot Fuzz’ and ‘The World’s End’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Music writer and vlogger Polyphonic takes a look at how Led Zeppelin and the subsequent progressive rock bands of the 1970s such as Rush and Genesis, incorporated the timeless mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien into the lyrics of their storytelling songs. Polyphonic posits that musicians on the road feel a particular kinship with those from Middle...The post How the Timeless Mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien Inspired Progressive Rock Bands of the 1970s appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Typographer Fábio Duarte Martins of the Norwegian design company Anti Hamar created the Optician Sans font for their client Optiker-K that very cleverly uses both the historic Snellen and the current Sloan letters used on eye charts around the world. The client liked the typeface so much that the company decided to release it as...The post Optician Sans, A Free Font Based Upon the Letters Historically Used on Eye Examination Charts appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Legendary script supervisor Martha Pinson, who has worked with such luminary directors as Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Oliver Stone, Milos Forman, Brian De Palma and Peter Yates, sat down with Vanity Fair to dissect a scene that was deliberately strewn with serious continuity problems. Pinson spotted many of these errors, explained what was wrong and...The post Legendary Script Supervisor Dissects a Scene to Correct Continuity Errors Being Made in Real Time appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Jay Myself: Photography, the Bank, and Me is a beautiful documentary about the iconic artist and photographer Jay Maisel, his incredible gift for seeing the beauty in random objects and his legendary 35,000 square, 72 room home in the Bowery known simply as “The Bank”. Maisel purchased the building 1966 and lived and worked there...The post A Beautiful Film About Photographer Jay Maisel Moving Out of His Legendary Bowery Bank Home of 48 Years appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The online Christmas tree retailer Treetopia, who carries holiday trees in a fabulous rainbow of colors, is selling an amusing tree that faces upside down when properly placed. This unique shape saves space and offers more room for presents and while it’s not as cat-proof or toddler-proof as the umbrella-shaped, top half Christmas tree, it...The post A Space Saving Upside Down Christmas Tree appeared first on Laughing Squid.

BBC One, in cooperation with Netflix, has released the first trailer for the animated series based upon the 1972 Richard Adams book Watership Down. Like the book, the series tells the story of a brave group of anthropomorphized rabbits who band together to survive. The series was directed by Noam Murro and features the voices...The post The Classic Richard Adams Book ‘Watership Down’ Adapted as Animated Series for BBC One and Netflix appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The Super Friends, including such animated heroes as Superman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Aquaman, Batman and others from the DC Universe each rap a verse the Wu-Tang Clan song “Triumph” in a explicit mashup by Adam Schleichkorn, who may be better known as “Mylo the Cat“. Starring in order of appearance Samurai as ODB,...The post The Super Friends Rap Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Triumph’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

“Dance, Dance Evolution” is a wonderful visual essay animated by Rosanna Wan and Andrew Khosravan of Aeon Video that explores and celebrates the universality of dancing throughout the world. Narrator Simon Mattacks further explains that dancing helps unify groups, forego arguments and make everyone feel good from the sense of community it brings, as well...The post The Amazing Universality of Dancing Around the World appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Kodi, the beautiful black and white cat who makes up one half of the ShoKo Show, watched with his sister Shorty as their human walked out the door. Shorty, being the catnip addict that she is, found something else to do. But poor Kodi just sat in the hallway, staring at the door meowing loudly...The post Kodi the Cat Meows Loudly in an Empty Hallway After Watching His Beloved Human Walk Out the Front Door appeared first on Laughing Squid.

American Museum of Natural History has put together a truly informative animated timeline that shows 7 million years of human evolution using data from fossil sites around the continent now known as Africa. The timeline documents the earliest Homo Erectus and notes that the closest relative to humans is the Hominin, now extinct except for...The post An Animated Timeline of Human Evolution Over Seven Million Years as Determined by Clue Giving Fossils appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Puppet Master Andy Gent, who worked with director Wes Anderson on the stop-motion film Isle of Dogs recounted to Variety the numerous challenges he faced in building the puppetry in miniature, ensuring that the the puppetry was believable and keeping the flow of the story going through that puppetry. It was a huge challenge –...The post The Puppet Master for Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’ Recounts Challenges He Faced While Making the Film appeared first on Laughing Squid.

On his eighth visit to Greenland, Swiss nature photographer Stefan Forster captured absolutely gorgeous footage of the numerous icebergs and ice floes that had formed since his last visit. The unfortunate cause of this beauty, however, was due to the heartbreaking number of retreating glaciers and the increasing temperature of the country itself. Today quiet...The post A Gorgeous But Heartbreaking Video Tour of the Quickly Retreating Glaciers of a Warmer Greenland appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Juan David Gómez of Flavour Machine has created the SoundtrackMap, a really cool interactive visualization that shows the musical connection between movies and television shows. You can change the search settings from title search to route search, this mode will allow you to find the fastest route among two movies or tv shows. …TV show...The post SoundtrackMap, An Interactive Visualization Showing the Musical Connections Between Film and Television appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a revealing episode of the fact-finding series Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains the real story behind the iconic song “Strawberry Fields” by The Beatles. Rather than it being a merry tale of endless fruited lands as the melody might indicate, the song is about John Lennon’s troubled childhood. which included removal...The post The Real Story Behind The Beatles’ ‘Strawberry Fields’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Forensic experts Thiago Piwowarczyk and Dr. Jeffrey Taylor of New York Art Forensics demonstrated the comprehensive process they use in order to determine whether a painting is real or if it’s a forgery. Using a purported Jackson Pollock piece from one of their clients, Piwowarczyk and Taylor explained each step of the process while performing...The post Forensic Experts Explain the Comprehensive Process Used to Determine if a Piece of Art is Real or a Forgery appeared first on Laughing Squid.

“King of the Night” is a beautiful short film by Lonelyleap LTD about the last surviving chess shop in New York City and its paternally amicable owner Imad Khachan. Khachan, a son of Palestinian refugees, came to America as an immigrant from Lebanon in pursuit of his PhD. During his down time, he worked at...The post Touching Film About the Last Surviving Chess Shop in NYC That Always Invites Everyone to Come In and Play appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 1973, the BBC set out to interview and document the only British chapter at the time of the infamous Hells Angels at their London clubhouse where they met then-president Mad John, who was a father of four and had a dog named Hitler, Sergeant-at-Arms Karl, a self-described psychopath who “has been cross-eyed ever since...The post Classic 1973 BBC Documentary Featuring the Antics of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club London Chapter appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Prank-O, a Minneapolis-based comedy company, has a hilarious line of fake gift boxes known as Prank Packs. These gift boxes are printed with items of questionable taste while hiding the real presents inside. Such absurd items include a Plant Urinal, a “Crib Dribbler”, “My First Fire”, “Bathe and Brew”, “Tech Neck”, “Tweet Printer” and “Sizzl...The post Hilarious Prank Gift Boxes Printed With Items of Questionable Taste That Hide the Real Gift Inside appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A very bouncy little French bulldog named Pickles decided she wanted out and quite effortlessly leaped out of her enclosure and right onto the top of the frame. Pickles then very cleverly took a step forward onto the safety gate and landed safely on the other side. Pickles’ canine sibling just watched from behind the...The post French Bulldog Escape Artist Leaps Onto the Top of Her Enclosure Then Over Safety Gate to the Other Side appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Bose Frames is a fantastically futuristic line of sunglasses embedded with miniature Bose speakers in each arm that can play music and take calls. The glasses come in two classic styles – Alto and Rondo – and offer a personal immersive audio experience. Additionally, the glasses come pre-enable with AR capabilities that can be unlocked...The post Stylish Sunglasses Embedded With Tiny Bose Speakers appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A group of professional designers and puppeteers for Disney Animation, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Nickelodeon, Disney Imagineering and The Muppets Studio have pooled their talents to create “Merry Christmas, Krampus”, a unique children’s holiday book that tells the story through staged still photograph of handcrafted puppets and elaborate sets. The story itself features “Santa’s horned...The post Merry Christmas Krampus, A Unique Children’s Holiday Book Told Through Beautifully Staged Photographs appeared first on Laughing Squid.

On April 1, 2018, the online novelty company Archie McPhee debuted their hilariously reverential “Rubber Chicken Museum”, which sits at the back of their store in the Wallingford Neighborhood of Seattle. A museum of such cultural stature needed a great piece of work to sit at the front, so they built the world’s largest rubber...The post Archie McPhee Builds the World’s Largest Rubber Chicken For Their Acclaimed Rubber Chicken Museum appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The British garden store Argos is selling a clever top-half only Christmas tree for those homes that have either cats or toddlers living within. The tree is six feet tall and sports branches only at the highest levels, discouraging adventurous felines and little humans from climbing and getting caught in the limbs of a traditional...The post A Clever Cat-Proof Top-Half Only Christmas Tree appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While promoting his long-awaited new book of the Song of Ice and Fire series entitled Fire and Blood, author George R. R. Martin offered up a helpful and cleverly animated guide to the best places for pizza in New York City. Martin states that he prefers coal-fired (via dragon) over wood-fired pizza, although he admits...The post George R. R. Martin’s Guide to New York City Pizza appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In the third video of her informative mini-series about American Jazz, video producer Estelle Caswell of the Vox series “Earworm” traces the history of smooth jazz. Caswell digs into its origins, the pioneering musicians who mashed together pop music with jazz, how this particular genre got its name, its skyrocketing popularity in the 1990s and...The post The Incredible Rise of Smooth Jazz in the 1990s appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a timely episode of the Wired series [De]Constructed, New York City watchmaker Ryan Jewell deliberately takes apart two beautiful Carpenter timepieces – one with Swiss movement and the other Japanese – in order to show the inner workings of each. Today we’re gonna break apart these two watches made by Carpenter watches. The one...The post Watchmaker Takes Apart Two Timepieces to Show the Difference Between Swiss and Japanese Movements appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While Seinfeld has been off the air now for over 20 years, it’s still fun to look back at which celebrities appeared on the show before hitting it big in their own right. Such stars include Debra Messing, Kristin Davis, Courtney Cox, Patton Oswalt, Teri Hatcher, Michael Chiklis and the brilliant Bryan Cranston who hilariously...The post Celebrities Who Appeared on ‘Seinfeld’ as Minor Characters Before They Became Really Famous appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In an auricular video essay, filmmaker Patrick Sullivan explores how the Hanna-Barbera animation studio historically kept their animation very simple and instead emphasized aural components such dialogue, music and sound effects to illustrate the story. Per legendary cartoonist Chuck Jones, they were creating “illustrated radio”. The difference between what we did at Warner Bros. and...The post How Hannah-Barbera Utilized Simple Animation to Emphasize the Dialogue, Music and Sound Effects appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Woodworker Keith Williams shared a remarkable timelapse showing how he transforms flat plywood boards into gorgeous geodesic spheres of different sizes. The large sphere is made of 180 triangles which are made into 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, while the smaller sphere that rolls by at the end is made up of 60 triangles that...The post Timelapse Showing the Intricate Process of Turning Plywood Boards Into Gorgeous Geodesic Spheres appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In the brilliant 3D CGI animated short entitled “Grow”, the elderly keeper of the last plant on earth braves a brutal storm rolling through the desert wasteland in order to rescue his leafy charge from danger. Not only does he rescue the plant, but he also helps the tiny plant grow into a mighty tree....The post The Keeper of the Last Plant on Earth Braves a Brutal Desert Wasteland Storm to Rescue His Leafy Charge appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2016, we wrote about Brian Kane who cleverly hacked a Big Mouth Billy Bass robotic singing fish with an Amazon Echo so that it answered as Alexa. Kane’s idea was so good that Amazon decided to make an official version of the voice activated singing fish. Billy lip syncs with Alexa as she responds...The post An Official Alexa Enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass Singing Fish That Was Inspired by a Clever 2016 Hack appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Expert drone operator Steele Davis and his team at Ethix Ltd. capture amazing, adrenaline fueled FPV (First Person View) footage of high speed rally cars drifting around race tracks at numerous official events across the United States and around the world. via Jalopnik Related Laughing Squid PostsPOV Footage of a High-Speed Racing Drone Chasing After...The post Amazing Adrenaline Fueled FPV Footage From Chase Drones Filming Rally Cars Drifting Around Race Tracks appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Remote control hobbyist Ran D. St. Clair quite ingeniously created the Flex-Plane X-9, a line of nine RC planes attached wingtip-to-wingtip, and successfully set it aloft in the skies above Baylands Park in Sunnyvale, California with a little help from his friends. The line of conjoined airplanes soared smoothly as a single unit, although the...The post Nine Conjoined Remote Controlled Planes Fly as One appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats in One More for the Road is the the fourth book of the series by cartoonist Adam Koford. Like his other books, this most recent installment features single panel comics documenting the adventures of a pair of wisecracking hobo cats 11 years after their 2007 debut. Eleven years on the road have...The post The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Return For New Adventures in Adam Koford’s New Book ‘One More For the Road’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While demonstrating the formidable capabilities of the Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN (aka CIMON) aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the wonderfully prolific and communicative ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst asked the smiling, 3D printed, voice activated assistant to play his favorite song. CIMON responded with “The Man Machine” by Kraftwerk. Cimon weighs around 5kg and has a...The post CIMON the 3D Printed Voice Activated Assistant Aboard the ISS Plays Kraftwerk for Astronaut Alexander Gerst appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Holiday shoppers in Moscow were taken by surprise at the sight of a diminutive owl who skillfully balanced and operated a Segway MiniPRO. The little strigiform rode back and forth across the busy city plaza, adorably leaning in towards the sound of her trainer’s voice. Related Laughing Squid Posts10 MPH, Driving Across the US on...The post Tiny Owl Rides a Segway Across a Moscow City Plaza appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The talented Six-String Soldiers of the United States Army Field Band performed a beautiful 3 piece acoustic guitar and banjo cover of the classic Pink Floyd song “Wish You Were Here” with the last verse of “Time” seamlessly tacked onto the end. Six-String Soldiers perform an acoustic cover of Wish You Were Here live on...The post Six-String Soldiers of the U.S. Army Field Band Play a Beautiful Cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Russian filmmaker and graphic artist Vladimir Tomin has created “Sketches”, a montage of different very entertaining video clips that show the real world interacting with graphics and computer commands with some wonderfully absurd results. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vladimir Tomin (@tomin.works) on Sep 20, 2018 at 9:16pm PDT View this...The post A Montage of Computer Graphics Interacting With the Real World With Wonderfully Absurd Results appeared first on Laughing Squid.

David Neevel who has built some incredibly efficient, if not weirdly ingenious machines to assist him at work, has brilliantly combined voice control technology with automation. In doing so, he created the ultimate office assistant that turns on lights, pops candy and ibuprofen into Neevel’s mouth, tosses a beer and opens/shuts the door, all with...The post An Automated Voice Controlled Office Assistant That Turns On Lights, Tosses Beers and Opens Doors appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2014, we wrote about artist Don Moyer and his Calamityware, a creative line of porcelain dinner plates with traditional blue-on-white designs that are augmented with flying monkeys, sea monsters and other calamities. In time for holidays, Moyer has created porcelain ornaments that sport the same wonderfully calamitous patterns in the same signature dinnerware blue-on-white....The post Mini Porcelain Dinner Plate Christmas Ornaments With Traditional Designs Enhanced With Random Calamities appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a technological episode of The Nerdwriter, video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak posits a valid question – “Why Are There So Few Smartphones In Popular Movies?“. He then puts a finer point on his question by tabulating how many characters in the highest grossing films of 2018 used a smartphone and how they...The post A Fascinating Tabulation of the Lack of Smartphone Usage Depicted in the Highest Grossing Movies of 2018 appeared first on Laughing Squid.

3GI, the hosts of the annual “Shrekfest”, asked their attendees to recreate scenes from Shrek in their own unique way. They received clips from over 200 people which were then edited together as Shrek Retold. We got over 200 people to remake Shrek. This is it. for those asking for the songhttps://t.co/Kl1LcCRvar — 3GI ?...The post 200 People Recreate ‘Shrek’ Scene-by-Scene appeared first on Laughing Squid.

“The Watchmaker” is a beautiful, award-winning short documentary by filmmaker Marie-Cécile Embleton about a solitary Iranian-British man named Faramarz, who finds personal peace in the calm order of his craft while a chaotic world goes on around him. Embleton had just moved to London when she came upon Faramarz’s shop in the eastern part of...The post A Beautiful Film About a Solitary Watchmaker Who Finds Order in a Chaotic World by Repairing Timepieces appeared first on Laughing Squid.