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For her graduation, film student Hanna Rybak wrote and directed a wonderful animation that illustrates the very witty Sir Winston Churchill quote entitled “If You Can”. If you can start your day without caffeine, If you can always be cheerful and ignore aches and pains, If you can resist the claims and not to bore...The post If You Can, An Amusing Animation Illustrating a Very Witty Quote by Winston Churchill appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Nicolas Vuignier, a professional skier from Switzerland who previously created a 360º video by swinging an iPhone in circles above his head, went nighttime skiing by the light of bright red flares flying overhead. This incredible feat was captured in the short film “Heatseeker” by Jules Guarneri, which took four years to make. I’ve been...The post Nighttime Skiing Lit by Red Flares Fired Overhead appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Talented filmmaker and photographer Michael Shainblum has created “Liberty”, an absolutely stunning high definition timelapse of the bustling beauty of New York City in all its iterations throughout the day. The inspiration for this visual odyssey came to Shainblum from a fond memory of the wonder he felt the first time he visited the city....The post A Stunning High Definition Visual Journey Through New York City Captured in a Seamless Timelapse appeared first on Laughing Squid.

When he’s not trying to drive his human’s car or pouting in the bathtub, stubborn Siberian husky Zeus can be found in bed, where he’d prefer to stay. In fact, when his human tried to get him up to go outside one day, Zeus employed his distinct whine to loudly objecting to the idea. Zeus...The post Stubborn Siberian Husky Loudly Objects to His Human’s Idea About Getting Up and Out of Bed appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by ??? (@cardboardnose) on Oct 27, 2017 at 12:32am PDT Taiwanese origami artist ZhongGe creates absolutely brilliant, lifelike animal sculptures of animals (both real and fictitious) that are crafted entirely from cardboard. Among his amazing subjects are an English bulldog, a leopard cat, a squid, a variety...The post Brilliantly Lifelike Sculptures Created From Cardboard appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Musician Davidlap removed his colorful toesocks and instead donned a pair of special gloves own design, which allow big flames to burn freely without injuring the hands underneath. Once his digits were alight, he performed a badass solo on a gorgeous cherry sunburst Gibson Les Paul guitar with his hands on fire. While the musician...The post Guitarist Plays a Badass Solo With His Hands on Fire appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rafael Herrin-Ferri (@allthequeenshouses) on Dec 6, 2018 at 3:00am PST Architect Rafael Herrin-Ferri has put together “All the Queens Houses” a really cozy photo series that captures the colorful diversity of the many different house styles situated in the populous New York City borough of Queens....The post A Cozy Photo Series Capturing the Colorful Diversity of Different Homes Found Around Queens, New York appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a really thought provoking, prescient essay, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of The Take discuss the Marvel character of Thor Odinson and how he personally grew over the course of several films. Thor’s selfish arrogance and entitlement in the beginning eventually caused his hammer to be taken away from him. It was only when...The post Why Thor Needed to Embrace His Weakness, Humility and Humanity Before He Could Become a Worthy King appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Amazing Drone Shots (@drone__up) on Dec 30, 2018 at 10:17am PST The Bailong Elevator in Zhangjiajie, China, is a glass lift that climbs an amazing 1,070 feet up a sheer mountain cliff and spectacular views of the beautiful Wuling Mountain Range. The elevator was built in...The post World’s Tallest Outdoor Elevator Climbs an Amazing 1,070 Feet Up a Mountain Cliff in Zhangjiajie, China appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In December 1938, South African museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was curiously sifting through a fisherman’s haul for the day when she spotted one particular fish that appeared unusually prehistoric. As it turned out, this fish was a Coelacanth, an ancient species that was believed to have been extinct for over 70 million years. The Howard...The post A Fascinating Cut Paper Animation Describing the Unexpected Discovery of a Living Fossil Fish in 1938 appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Researchers at the Balsara School at the University of California, Berkeley and Dr. Steven Hetts of the University of California, San Francisco Radiology Department, have discovered an ingenious way to lessen the side effects of directed chemotherapy with a custom Carbon 3D printed device called Chemofilter. This device, is cylinder-shaped in order to easily snake...The post An Ingenious 3D Printed Device That Acts Like a Sponge to Soak Up Excess Chemotherapy Side Effects appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2013, Philadelphia photographer Bruce W. Berry created a wondrous timelapse of the Earth as viewed by the International Space Station (ISS). In December 2018, Berry followed up with “The World Below”, a different but equally incredible timelapse using ultra HD footage taken by the astronauts aboard the ISS, which is available on the NASA...The post A Stunning Timelapse of Earth’s Orbit Created Using 4K Footage Taken Aboard the International Space Station appeared first on Laughing Squid.

After thinning out the Marvel Cinematic Universe herd a bit in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, a rather entitled Thanos made his way over to The Simpsons‘ Springfield home and parked himself on the sofa in order to greet the family when they arrived home. Unfortunately when they did, the family didn’t have enough time to...The post Thanos Disappears ‘The Simpsons’ in a Couch Gag appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Jamie Dupuis, the remarkably talented musician who performs absolutely gorgeous cover versions of classic rock songs with his acoustic harp guitar, performed truly heart wrenching covers of both “Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd and “Hotel California” by The Eagles to a live audience. For each song, Dupuis simultaneously captured the vocal line, the bassline and...The post Heart Wrenching Covers of ‘Comfortably Numb’ and ‘Hotel California’ Performed Live on Harp Guitar appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Jonathan Mann, the infamous “Song-a-Day Man”, has been writing a song everyday for ten years now and to celebrate, he’s releasing his first album. The album, entitled “I Used to Love My Body, is a compilation of what he considers to be his best songs over the past decade. It’s about adulthood, forgiveness and how...The post Jonathan Mann Releases an Album of His 10 Best Song-A-Day Original Songs From the Past 10 Years appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Musician Elizabeth Kenny of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment played a beautiful Baroque era song on a theorbo, which she explained is a long double necked lute that was first invented by Alessandro Piccinini in the 17th century in order to address the growing need at the time for a fuller instrument sound....The post A Short History of the Long Necked Theorbo Lute appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Crafting With Cat Hair by Kaori Tsutaya and translated from Japanese by Amy Hirschman is an instruction book that shows how to make fun items from shedded cat hair. Full color pictures along with simple to follow directions allow readers to create finger puppets, Christmas ornaments, coin purse and even an adorable set of mittens....The post A Quirky Book About Crafting With Cat Hair appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While sitting in the nursery, a really alert Shiba Inu named Daifuku immediately jumped to attention when the tiny baby in the rocking cradle began crying. Concerned for the infant’s well being, Daifuku immediately went upon his hind legs and began licking the little girl’s hand. Shiba Inu Daifuku tries to take care of his...The post Concerned Shiba Inu Dog Comforts a Crying Baby appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The crew from The Muppet Show put on the show as themselves in at the very end of the first season in 1976. They sang the opening song, made the introduction and some of their most iconic recurring slapstick scenarios were done without a single muppet to be found (except for two in the back...The post The Crew of ‘The Muppet Show’ Hilariously Perform as Themselves Without Any Muppets in a 1976 Episode appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Design editor Wendy Goodman of the New York Magazine series The Cut visited artist Doug Meyer at his Chelsea, New York City one bedroom apartment. Goodman discovered that the generic exterior of Meyer’s building betrayed the colorful, textured wondernment Meyer’s building betrayed the colorful wondernment that lives inside his apartment. Goodman also notes how Meyer...The post A Visit Inside Artist Doug Meyer’s Fantastically Colorful One Bedroom New York City Apartment appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a triune essay for Vox, developer Cleo Abram explains how triangles are at the root of the beautiful amount of detail in video games. Essentially, the three points of a triangle represent a flat surface that can repeated over and again and are easily digested by computers that have to render all of the...The post How the Use of Triangles in Video Game Design Lowers Computational Burden During the Rendering Process appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Musician FinnMK very cleverly performed a jaunty piano accompaniment to Jack Black’s giddy announcement that his new video channel, Jablinksi Games, had hit 1 million subscribers in two short weeks. I am so fully on board the ‘Jack Black is on Youtube’ train. Here’s the original (vertical) video announcing the subscriber count. And here’s the...The post Jaunty PIano Accompaniment to Jack Black’s Giddy Reaction to Reaching 1 Million Subscribers on YouTube appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Star Wars Kids decided to examine how many times the word “yes” and the word “no” were uttered within each film in the iconic series franchise. Surprisingly, there were over three times more negative responses than positive responses, thus showing that Star Wars seemingly, comes more from a place of no than a place of...The post How Many Times the Words ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ Are Said Throughout Every Film Within the Star Wars Franchise appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Antarctica, where every other direction is north. Contient via Miss Cellania Related Laughing Squid Posts‘Antarctica: The White Continent’, Surreal Photos of Warm Weather Objects in AntarcticaWho’s Your Favourite?, Adorable Baby Humorously Grilled by Her DadCreative Solutions to a Simple ProblemThe post Antarctica, The Confusing Continent appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Musician and music essayist Rick Beato put together an amazing series about the world’s most influential guitarists. Because the subject was so big to tackle, Beato split it into three separate parts. The first part spotlights guitarists from 1929-1969, which includes such talented musicians as Andres Segovia, Julian Green, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, BB...The post An Amazing Three Part History of the Most Influential Guitarists Between the Years of 1929 and 1989 appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram Thank you and farewell, @therealstanlee.? #excelsior . . . Portrait inspired by his Big Hero 6 cameo. #stanlee #legend #icon #madethepapers #paper #paperart #handcut #cutout #handmade #art #papercut #papercutportrait #papercutting #papercraft #design #papersculpture #illustration #artph #designspiration A post shared by John Ed De Vera (@battery_full) on Nov 18, 2018 at...The post Brilliant Cut Paper Portraits of Popular Characters appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sabine Fallend Fotografie (@sfallend) on Apr 3, 2018 at 12:53pm PDT A beautiful white and orange cat named Kazou, who lives with his beloved pet photographer human Sabine Fallend and his feline siblings in Graz, Austria, is a wonderfully playful, affectionate, curious and adventurous cat in...The post A Beautiful White and Orange Cat Lives a Very Happy Life Despite Having Both Eyes Removed as a Kitten appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Weird City is an upcoming YouTube Originals series by Jordan Peele and Charlie Sanders, that takes a satirical look at the current way we live now through the prism of the “not-to-distant future”. In this particular future exists a society which there are only two classes of people, “Above the Line” and “Below the Line”...The post Weird City, A YouTube Originals Science Fiction Anthology Series by Jordan Peele and Charlie Sanders appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Detroit photographer Michelle Gerard has created “The Artist Diet” a wonderfully whimsical photo series in which she has recreated meals reflecting the eating habits such luminary artists as John Steinbeck, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jack Kerouac, Andy Warhol, Charles M. Schulz, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Marcel Proust. Gerard stated that she got the idea after reading about...The post A Whimsical Photo Series That Imagines Meals Based on the Researched Eating Habits of Famous Artists appeared first on Laughing Squid.

As he did in previous years, engineer Cameron Beccario of NullSchool has created mesmerizing timelapses in calming blues and greens showing ocean surface wind patterns over both theThe post Hypnotic Animated Timelapses Showing Which Way the World’s Surface Winds Blew During a Tumultuous 2018 appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Russian video editor 4096 paid elegant tribute to the long since eclipsed blank VHS tape with a seamlessly morphing animation that connects and celebrates the beautifully sleek design of their covers. blank vhs covers were kinda beautiful The animation is set to the song “Before the Night” by Home. via Jason Scott Related Laughing Squid...The post A Seamless Animation Connecting the Beautifully Sleek Designs Found on Blank VHS Tape Covers appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a particularly touching clip from the television series Ozzy and Jack’s World Detour, an excited Jack Osbourne surprises his father Ozzy Osbourne with a private performance by the fast food themed heavy metal Black Sabbath tribute band Mac Sabbath (previously). At first Ozzy was a bit confused by the rather evil looking clown fronting...The post Ozzy Osbourne Meets the Fast Food Themed Black Sabbath Tribute Band ‘Mac Sabbath’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A brilliantly illustrated episode of After Skool features a talk given by author, botanist and psychedelic drug advocate Terence McKenna in 1998, during which he spoke about the acceleration of time. McKenna had formulated his own sense of time through fractals and the I Ching, topics included in his remarkable speech. Towards the end of...The post Terence McKenna’s Remarkable 1998 Talk About Time Acceleration Told Through Whiteboard Animation appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A really beautiful orange tabby cat appropriately named Outlander has found a safe and comfortable home in the chicken coop after the alpha male cat at the White House on the Hill farm in Easton, Missouri banished him for good. Outlander is a happy cat who doesn’t mind bunking with the chickens, in fact the...The post An Orange Tabby Cat Lives in a Chicken Coop After Being Banished by the Alpha Male of the Farm Clowder appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a methodical episode of the BuzzFeed series Professionals React, biophysicist James Bodecker of the Dornsife School at the University of Southern California scientifically analyzes several different plotlines from Rick and Morty. Among those subjects Boedicker addresses are multiverses, wormholes, the Big Bang theory and carbon-based life forms. Boedicker also mentions that he’s a big...The post Biophysicist Scientifically Analyzes ‘Rick and Morty’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The wonderfully talented performer Jonathan Coulton has thoroughly embraced his 1970s with his new album Some Guys. On this tribute album, Coulton recreates some of the most iconic soft rock songs that came out at that time, covering each song as it was played in its original form. Coulton explains that with current events being...The post Jonathan Coulton Recreates Sensitive Soft Rock Hits From the 1970s on His New Album ‘Some Guys’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Lithuanian filmmaker and musician Saulius of Backward Picnic, who’s currently studying music in the U.K., has created a series of fascinating videos that show him talking backwards while narrating his performance of reverse footage stunts as if they were occuring in real time. Using this method, Saulius reveals the secret to relaxation, demonstrates how to...The post Man Talks Backwards While Filming to Narrate His Performance of Reverse Footage Stunts in Real Time appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The Z6 by Robugtix is an adorable 3D printed foldable six-legged robot that keeps itself in tip top shape with a very lively aerobics routine set to a catchy 1980s soundtrack. In all seriousness, the Z6 is an extremely agile robot that can get into tight spots and report back to base with its built-...The post A 3D Printed Foldable Six-Legged Robot Keeps in Tip Top Shape With a Lively Aerobics Routine appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Wildlife photographer Julia Sundukova and a couple of friends visited the Upside Down House in Moscow where everything about and within the house is indeed, upside down. Being the talented photographer that she is, Sundukova captured this tipsy-turvy adventure on high definition video during a crisp, clear, snowy night. Moscow photographer Julia Sundukova, 32, visited...The post A House in Moscow Where Everything Is Upside Down appeared first on Laughing Squid.

When a person stares at a picture such as the one above for 10-20 seconds, the image starts to disappear. This is due to a fascinating optical illusion known as Troxler’s Fading. This illusion is associated with visual adaptation. When a person’s eyes are focused on a specific stimuli, the rest of the image in...The post Images That Begin to Disappear After Staring at Them For 10-20 Seconds Due to a Fascinating Optical Illusion appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Londonist Editor-at-Large Matt Brown, with the help of many friends, has created “Fake Britain” (larger version), a map of England, Scotland and Wales that plots over 720 names of fictional cities, towns and villages used in films, books, poems and television series. Prints of the map are available through More T Vicar. Take a look...The post A Clever Map of Great Britain That Plots Fictional Locations From Film, Television and Literature appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Here’s the full performance of nerdcore pioneer MC Frontalot, aka “The World’s 579th Greatest Rapper”, performing at MAGFest 2019, a “Music And Gaming Festival” in National Harbor, Maryland. MC Frontalot hates your blog (but I bet he still loves Laughing Squid). MC Frontalot’s latest album “New Split” is now available for pre-order. Supercomputer on the...The post MC Frontalot at MAGFest 2019 appeared first on Laughing Squid.

View this post on Instagram See how #transparent some parts of this #inkalily can be in this image. . . . #decorationideas deco #interior #decoration #homedecor #homestyling #design #creative #print #wallart #style #artoftheday A post shared by Lanuma-art (@lanumaart) on Jan 6, 2019 at 9:20am PST Artist Aleks Reba has created an absolutely gorgeous series...The post Gorgeous Portraits of Colorful X-Rayed Flowers appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Musician Luca Stricagnoli, who often performs with his custom triple necked guitar, played a brilliant acoustic guitar cover of the Michael Jackson blockbuster “Thriller”. For this song, Stricagnoli did employ another neck, but it was attached to a second guitar that he was playing at the very same time. View this post on Instagram The...The post A Brilliant Acoustic Cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Simultaneously Played on Two Guitars by One Musician appeared first on Laughing Squid.

On the first of January 2019, firefighters from Budapest were called out to the city of Pécs to help rescue a frightened dog from the middle of the frozen Lake Csunya. Two of the firemen very carefully crawled out onto the ice while holding onto an inflatable slide and safely reached the dog. The men...The post Hungarian Firefighters Use an Inflatable Slide to Rescue a Dog Who Was Stranded in Middle of a Frozen Lake appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Artist and sculptor John T. Unger is embarking on a quest to make mosaic recreations of the 16th century engravings from the Tabulae Anatomicae by Bartolomeo Eustachi, the father of anatomical study. I chose Eustachi’s drawings because of their beauty and because their rich colors made them easier to interpret than black and white illustrations....The post Life Sized Mosaic Recreations of 16th Century Anatomical Engravings by Bartolomeo Eustachi appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a mythological Ted Ed lesson written by educator Scott A. Mellor and animated by Remus Buznea and Kyriaki Kyriakou, narrator Addison Anderson explains how Thor got his hammer and why it was so specific to him. As it turns out, the gift of hammer was the result of a trick that the mischievous Loki...The post How a Mean Prank by Loki That Went Terribly Awry Ultimately Led to Thor Obtaining His Iconic Hammer appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A confused, wayward bear somehow wound up on the porch of a Florida home. After knocking over some Christmas soldiers guarding the house, the unexpected ursine visitor put a big nose up to the camera and rang the video doorbell. A dog then barked before a human voice came over the speaker and told the...The post Wayward Bear Rings Video Doorbell of Florida Home appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While performing for the Prince’s Trust Gala “We Are Most Amused and Amazed” at the London Palladium in October 2018, the extremely talented musical comedian Bill Bailey explained the difference between the major key (“like me, like me, like me”) and the minor key, demonstrating how much can change when the third note above the...The post Why the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ Sounds Eerily Like a Russian Ballad When Performed in a Minor Key appeared first on Laughing Squid.