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An helpless little sheep who became stuck inside a tire swing, tried in vain to run towards the rest of the flock. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any traction to be had. Whenever the animal ran forward, the tire would lift all four feet off the ground. The same happened whenever the sheep moved backwards as well,...The post A Hapless Sheep Stuck in a Tire Swing Goes for an Unexpected Ride While Trying to Run Away appeared first on Laughing Squid.

An oddly adorable pet crab with a fondness for all sorts of human food, such as potato chips, watermelon and banana, became a bit confused when she was presented with a bowl of cooked noodles. The hungry crab attempted several different ways to access the noodles and finally settled on holding them in her claws...The post An Adorably Confused Pet Crab Attempts To Figure Out How to Best Eat a Bowl of Noodles appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Myad has created a hilariously irreverent fireproof demon skull gas log designed to be used in a gas fireplace or fire pit. Like the fireproof human skull logs we previously posted, this creepy little fiend is more than happy to keep burning for hours and may occasionally spit flames out of its eyes. Flame can...The post A Hilariously Irreverent Demon Skull Fireplace Log appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A post shared by Iantha Naicker (Deaf) (@ianthaartlife) on Aug 22, 2018 at 2:20am PDT Artist Iantha Naiker has taken the very unique step of incorporating live ants into her skillfully drawn wildlife portraits. Naiker explained on Bored Panda that she bribes the ants with sugar to make them temporarily succumb to her will. Leaving...The post Artist Completes Wildlife Portraits Using Live Ants appeared first on Laughing Squid.

DIY crafter TheCrafsMan of Steadycraftin gathered up his collection of 1980s action figures and introduced each and every one to the camera in a fabulously velvet voice. Included in the introductions were members of Action Force, Playmobil characters, GI Joe, Star Wars and Micronauts. Here are some action figures from the 1980s, and one from...The post DIY Crafter Introduces Each of His 1980s Action Figures by Name in a Fabulous Velvet Voice appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2015, we wrote about a original acoustic instrument called the Yaybahar, which can create a wonderful array of ethereally musical sounds. More recently, the designer of the instrument Görkem Sen performed a beautiful improvisational piece on the beach with a restless dog and the rolling sea as his audience. The vibrations from the strings...The post Musician Performs Beautiful Seaside Improvisation on a Yaybahar Instrument That He Designed appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The fast talking doodling music theorist and musician 12tone explains the origins of the Bebop scales and how they incorporated chromaticism and chord scales (modes) to give a whole new color, flavor and sound to modern jazz. Bebop transformed the face of jazz forever, and it brought with it lots of new ideas and devices,...The post How Bebop Musicians Used Chromatic and Chord Scales to Give Jazz a Whole New Sound appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Everyone wants to be Don Draper, but the sad truth is we’re all Pete Campbell. As part of their ongoing analysis of the well-defined, flawed characters of Mad Men, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of ScreenPrism dove into the seemingly shallow character of Pete Campbell, only to realize that there was so much more to...The post How Pete Campbell of ‘Mad Men’ Garnered Respect and Approval Only When He Stopped Expecting It appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In the beautifully poetic short film “Letters of Fire“, filmmaker Glen Milner visually retraces the ill-fated steps ofSir Ernest Shackleton along his relentless drive to explore the Antarctic and his disappointment of not doing so due to thick ice that left heand his crew stranded for 28 days. Actor Dominic West (The Wire, The Affair)...The post A Poetic Retracing of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Ill-Fated Steps in His Relentless Drive to Explore Antarctica appeared first on Laughing Squid.

My dad saw that viral video of the guy who cut holes in his fence for his nosey dog so he decided to test it out and the results did not disappoint pic.twitter.com/MatcopjKmL — lindsay (@ptvlinds) August 18, 2018 Inspired by the California firefighter who cut dog face shaped holes in her fence so her...The post Surprised Daughter Comes Home to Find Her Dogs Peeking Through Strategic Holes Cut in the Fence appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In an interview somewhat reminiscent of the 73 Questions series, Great Big Story visited with Dr. Jacques Bailly, a foremost expert phonologist, and tossed out random words from the dictionary for him to pronounce. Dr. Bailly, who has acted as the Official Word Pronouncer for the iconic Scripps National Spelling Bee since 2003, has a...The post Former Champion Speller Grows Up to Become the Official Word Pronouncer For Scripps Spelling Bee appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A very vocal rescued bear named Maddie at the Orphaned Wildlife Center in Otisville, New York, was moaning in the summer sun, welcomed sight of Susan, her human keeper, who was armed with a big brush. Maddie immediately succumbed the the relief of the stiff tines running through her shedding coat and readily rolled over...The post A Vocally Appreciative Rescued Bear Gets a Very Thorough Summer Brushing by Her Human Keeper appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While cleaning out the trap in her backyard pool, a kind woman noticed a tiny mouse and a tiny frog sitting on the very top of the trap handle, waiting patiently right next to each other. With a great sense of compassion, the woman went over to the grassy part of her yard and gently...The post Kind Woman Rescues a Mouse and Frog That Were Stuck Next to Each Other in Her Swimming Pool Trap appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2016, Stuart Hilton‘s son Stanley had his brain scanned in slices for some scientific reason. Being the creative filmmaker he is, Hilton animated theses scans in a wonderfully surreal manner, set them to original music and very cleverly titled the result “Stanley Scanley“. I made some music to help. If you’ve ever sliced through...The post Filmmaker Creates Surreal Animation of Son’s Brain Scan Slices With a Soundtrack of Original Music appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In the absolutely brilliant stop-motion animation “Fabricated” which took filmmaker Brett Foxwell ten years to create, features a gorgeous mechanical world brought to life. As seen through the eyes of Oto, a creature made of metal and bone who wanders through a rusty jungle. As Oto makes his way, he encounters a robotic brass being...The post A Fabricated Robotic Creature Searches a Gorgeous Mechanical World to Find Its Own Sense of Self appeared first on Laughing Squid.

An absolutely adorable, long-legged, big-eared Oriental Shorthair cat named Teddy quite generously employed his unique honking meow in order alert his human to open the dryer door so he could climb in and take a nap on the nice warm sheets inside. After a couple of protestations, Teddy’s human complied, particularly since each of of...The post An Adorably Impatient Cat Loudly Honks at His Human to Open the Dryer Door for Him appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A post shared by Leslie Vigil (@_leslie_vigil_) on Aug 17, 2018 at 10:52am PDT The very talented Leslie Vigil of Tasteful Cakes in Corona, California, creates absolutely beautiful cakes, cupcakes and other desserts that feature highly realistic flowers, plants and succulents all made out of buttercream. eternal optimist – flour child – buttercream enthusiast A...The post Beautiful Desserts Decorated With Realistic Buttercream Plants, Flowers and Succulents appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Back in May 2016 while visiting Vienna, Scott and I took the Twin City Liner down the Danube to Bratislava, Slovakia. While exploring the city we came across a wonderful bronze sculpture of a man in a hard hat resting his head on his arms while poking out of a manhole cover at our feet....The post Amusing Brass Statue of Man in a Hard Hat Poking His Head Out of a Sewer in Bratislava, Slovakia appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The Scientific Visual Studio at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has gorgeously combined the quiet, moving lull of Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” with stunning visualizations of the path of the sun as it crossed over the moon. The visualizations were developed with the use of 3D global elevation maps and images by the Lunar...The post A Stunning NASA Visualization of the Sun Crossing Over the Moon Set to Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Japanese artist Takayuki Todo has created SEER (Simulative Emotional Expression Robot), a wonderfully expressive robot that can simulate emotion with intentionally large eyes inside a face that is recognizably human. The SEER also has a set of functioning eyebrows that convey a sense of compassion and empathy. If we understand and identify with robots which...The post SEER, An Emotionally Expressive Robot With Big Eyes and Functioning Eyebrows appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While on holiday with his family at Walvis Bay Lagoon in Namibia, 18 year old wildlife photographer Juan van den Heever intentionally put his head inside the giant biting beaks of the feisty great white pelicans who landed on their boat. While Juan was having fun with the pelicans, the birds appeared less than enthralled...The post Photographer Intentionally Puts His Head Inside a Biting Pelican’s Beak During a Selfie appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Video artist Angel Nene, who created a really wonderful video series in which photos of celebrities are seamlessly morphed into live 3D timelapses and accompanied by time appropriate soundtracks, did the same for the long running Rolling Stones. The aging process begins in 1962 and goes through present day. Along the way there were some...The post The Rolling Stones Age Together From 1962-2018 to a Soundtrack of Their Songs in a Brilliant Timelapse appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A goofy Rottweiler named Bruno who was wearing a GoPro Fetch Harness, paced restlessly around the house while his humans had gone out for a little while. The wearable camera caught every move the dog made as he explored the house in an unsuccessful search for his companions, stopping a few times to drink from...The post Dog Wearing GoPro Fetch Harness Documents What He Does in the House While His Humans Are Away appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a brilliant student animation by Amy J. Xu entitled “Melt Down“, an agoraphobic boy who lacks a body, is sent out to the store to buy more paint after he spills a whole can on the floor. Along the way, he encounters all sorts of people who are just as anxious or self-loathing as...The post An Agoraphobic Boy Without a Body Tries to Comfort People Literally Melting Down From Stress appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Body modification expert and self-described cyborg Russ Foxx who has had an NFC (Near-field communication) implanted into his left wrist and an RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip implanted into the index finger of his right hand, shows how these tiny pieces of body technology help make things more convenient for him. Foxx demonstrated how he locks...The post Body Modification Expert Lives a Key-Free Life With the NFC and RFID Chips Implanted in His Hands appeared first on Laughing Squid.

With the sad news of the great Aretha Franklin’s death on August 16, 2018 at the age of 76, Vox put together a beautiful tribute showing how her distinctively brilliant style was formed. Forever known to all as the “Queen of Soul“, Franklin incorporated her strong gospel roots into songs that weren’t necessarily originally written...The post How Aretha Franklin Fully Incorporated Her Gospel Roots Into a Distinctive Sound of Her Own appeared first on Laughing Squid.

An enormous flock of pink flamingos decided take a much needed rest after flying for so long and landed along the banks of a salty lagoon. While the birds were peacefully feeding, cleaning and perhaps mating, they were disturbed by the thunderous sound of a herd of stallions stampeding towards the shore. The thousands of...The post A Flock of Peacefully Feeding Flamingos Take Quick Flight to Avoid a Herd of Galloping Wild Stallions appeared first on Laughing Squid.

When a panda gives birth to more than one cub in the wild, she will usually only attend to one and leave the remaining cubs to perish. So when a giant panda gave birth to twins at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, a vigilant team took extraordinary steps to make the new...The post Newborn Panda Twins Are Switched Out With Each Other to Make Their Mother Believe There’s Only One appeared first on Laughing Squid.

BBC Earth Unplugged has put together a fascinatingly detailed slow motion compilation of mammal, birds, reptiles and insects going about their respective daily business in order to ensure their comfort, satiate their hunger, travel safely and accomplish whatever task is most important at that moment. Watch some of the most stunning slow motion footage of...The post A Wonderful Compilation Animals in Slow Motion appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a Eunice episode from his hilarious land and sea-focused video series True Facts, narrator Ze Frank shares the unique habits of a wide variety of seaworms. Throughout his explanation, Frank elegantly compared these creepy polychaete specimens to human male anatomy. The likeness is particularly obvious in the way these sand strikers pop in and...The post Ze Frank Hilariously Provides Interesting True Facts About the Unique Habits of Sand Striking Seaworms appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The Q shows how to build an awesome Super Mario Bros. style maze for a rat using cardboard and paint. He then tested it out with an adorable rat named Shelly who figures out how to make it through to the end. How to Build a Musical Model of the Mushroom From ‘Super Mario Bros.’...The post How to Build Super Mario Bros. Style Maze for a Rat appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A post shared by Miguel Vasquez (@marvelous_mikee) on Aug 17, 2018 at 8:44am PDT 3D artist Miguel Vasquez has created a fantastic 3D rendering that imagines what Homer Simpson would look like in real life. Last year Vasquez created real life versions of SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick. My 3D re-imagining of what Homer Simpson would...The post Homer Simpson in Real Life appeared first on Laughing Squid.

During the 1969 Festival Actuel in Mont-de-l’Enclus, Belgium, a very pensive, straight-faced Frank Zappa joined Pink Floyd onstage to perform a loose, somewhat directionless version of “Interstellar Overdrive“. Years later, Zappa told a reporter that he didn’t know what he was getting into with this gig at the time. “That was after the Mothers [of...The post A Pensive Frank Zappa Jams Onstage With Pink Floyd at a Belgian Music Festival in 1969 appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A fascinating 2016 video by the Science Channel tells of a compassionate team of archeologists who were able to reconstruct the face of a soldier of Pompeii, who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted and engulfed in unbearable heat and suffocating ash. Created with high resolution photography, x-rays and computer modeling, the reconstruction offers a sense...The post Determined Team of Archeologists Reconstruct the Face of a Soldier Who Died in Ancient Pompeii appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Italian artist Marcello Barenghi, whose amazing work we’ve previously posted, has created a really wonderful rapid timelapse tutorial showing how to create a 3D drawing of a hyper-realistic fried egg. The artist used a combination of colored pencils, airbrush, and graphite to create the drawing’s realism and standout three dimensionality. Barenghi also offers step by...The post A Rapid Timelapse Tutorial Showing How to Create a 3D Drawing of a Hyper-Realistic Fried Egg appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A woman named named Vicki who is a patient at Optimus Prosthetics in Columbus, Ohio and wears a prosthetic leg by Ottobock North America, hilariously rode her horse Bailey through the drive-thru of the local Starbucks on a dare from her brother Tim who works at Optimus. The Starbucks employees were so amused by Vicki...The post Woman With a Prosthetic Leg Hilariously Rides Her Horse Through a Starbucks Drive-Thru on Dare appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In March 2018, Jack Brandtman of Chicago Aussie shadowed second generation fine art conservator Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago as he delicately restored a self portrait of Emma Gaggiotti Richards, an Italian painter whose work was popular with Queen Victoria. Baumgartner’s process, as shown, requires a delicate hand, an exacting eye...The post A Fascinating Demonstration of the Delicate Craft of Restoring Damaged Fine Art to Its Former Beauty appeared first on Laughing Squid.

An absolutely adorable, round-bellied, polydactyl rescued homeless Russian blue cat named Bruno, who stands on his back legs when he’s hungry, is as of this date living at the Wright Way Rescue Shelter in Morton Grove, Illinois in search a safe, warm, loving home. There are some things that interested parties should know about this...The post An Adorably Quirky, Big Bellied, Polydactyl Cat Who Stands Upright When He’s Hungry Needs a Home appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Scientists at the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) used daily scientific data to create an absolutely gorgeous computer generated visualization showing what the magnetic field of the sun looked like on August 10, 2018. They further clarified the image by superimposing defining lines so that viewers can easily spot the different areas of the fields....The post A Gorgeous Computer Generated Visualization of the Sun’s Magnetic Field on August 10, 2018 appeared first on Laughing Squid.

As part of his ongoing series that imagines how current technologies and services would look if they had been created in previous decades, Jo Luijten of Squirrel-Monkey took a look at how the ubiquitous on-call car sharing behemoth Uber would have worked in the pre-smartphone, DOS/matrix printer environment of the 1980s. Actress Kinna McInroe-Luitjen provided...The post How the Car Sharing Service Uber Might Have Worked in the Pre-Smartphone Era of the 1980s appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Stop-motion animator Kevin Parry of LAIKA (The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings), who has previously demonstrated numerous ways one can sit on a chair, enter a room and walk, among other actions, continued his hilarious video series with 50 different ways to stand. 50 Different Ways to Enter a Room50 Different Ways People Wake...The post 50 Different Ways to Stand in 50 Different Situations appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A really talented cook with a great sense of humor named Internet Shaquille figured out how to reconstitute leftover pizza to its original glory with a simple french toast batter. This clever method restores the chewiness of the dough without burning the cheese and is very easy to make. All you got to do is...The post How to Reconstitute Leftover Pizza to Its Former Glory With a Simple French Toast Batter appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2012, musician and composer Andy Rehfeldt, whose brilliant work we’ve previously posted, created a phenomenal jazz remix of the anthemic Rage Against the Machine song “Killing in the Name“. In doing this, Rehfeldt made the song seem less angry and a bit more bouncy. As with his other videos, Rehfeldt arranged and played all...The post A Bouncy Less Angry Jazz Remix of the Rage Against the Machine Anthem ‘Killing In the Name’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Thousands of army ants in Costa Rica amazingly worked together to build an impressive ropy bridge using their own bodies in order to swarm a highly placed wasp nest. Attack of legionary ants, also known as army ants or marabunta, to a wasp honeycomb. It’s impressive the level of swarm intelligence and collective computation they...The post Thousands of Army Ants Build an Impressive Bridge With Their Bodies In Order to Swarm a Wasp Nest appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 1964, musician Pete Drake appeared on The Jimmy Dean Show and played his “talking steel guitar” for a really appreciative audience. The song he chose was “I’m Just a Guitar”, an amusing ditty about how everyone picks on him. The sound of Drakes voice was so unusual, it caused one concerned viewer to ask...The post Legendary Musician Pete Drake Plays His ‘Talking Steel Guitar’ on ‘The Jimmy Dean Show’ in 1964 appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In an extremely insightful essay about the iconic original series The Twilight Zone, artist Zane Whitener of In Praise of Shadows takes a look at how subjects that appear to be too fantastic for real life were actually written to be culturally relevant through the use of allegory. Whitener cites examples from such episodes as...The post How Rod Serling Used Allegory to Make Episodes of ‘The Twilight Zone’ Feel Culturally Relevant appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In April 2018, British cosmologist and astrobiologist Stephen Webb spoke to a Vancouver TedX audience about seeing a UFO as a child. This event, he stated, made him wonder exactly “Where are all the aliens?“, is there life on other planets in other galaxies? How would they exist or would we need to grow life...The post Cosmologist Stephen Webb Addresses the Age Old Question About There Being Life on Other Planets appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2010, a dramatic drummer with a very distinct style became rather popular when a video of him playing surfaced with the caption “this drummer is at the wrong gig” went viral. Since that time, the drummer, whose name is Steve Moore aka “The Mad Drummer”, has appeared in commercials, on international talk shows and...The post ‘The Mad Drummer’ Who Was at the Wrong Gig Decimates Kevin in a Drum Battle on ‘The Office’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2015, digital compositor and visual effects artist Rousselos Aravantinos created an impressive age reduction demonstration with actress Michele Valley. In 2018, Aravantinos conducted a very similar demonstration, this time using new technology and increased knowledge of the human body. This time I experimented with new techniques. The goal was to preserve more fine details...The post Stunning Side-by-Side 4K Footage Showing How Visual Effects Can Completely Erase Signs of Aging appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The School of Life explains via animation “How Psychotherapy Works” despite its demanding schedule, by positing three different ways the therapist is able to reach the patient. Their first reason is that psychotherapy encourages patients to reflect and bring to the surface those thoughts that live in the unconscious mind with vocalization in an environment...The post How Psychotherapy Encourages the Vocalization of Self-Reflective Thoughts Without Judgement appeared first on Laughing Squid.