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A post shared by Made From Drone (@madefromdrone) on Dec 3, 2017 at 8:16pm PST The city of Dubai is known for its devotion to opulence and its newest addition to the skyline is no exception, though not without its own controversy. Mexican architect Fernando Donis submitted his original frame design in 2008 to the...

In a fascinating video for Big Think, technology entrepreneur Brian Behlendorf, the executive director of HyperLedger, an open source blockchain project that’s thinking beyond cryptocurrency, talks about the benefits of putting the security of blockchain ledger technology to use within the voting system. At the same time, Behlendorf also acknowledges that it wouldn’t be prudent...

Downsizing visual effects supervisor James E. Price sat down with WIRED to explain the history behind shrinking people down in movies. In this timeline, Price explains the special effects techniques like forced perspective, compositing, the Schüfftan process, rotoscoping, motion control, motion capture and more. Movies include Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Cylops, The Incredible Shrinking Man,...

On an facinating animated episode of The Infographics Show, they conduct an in-depth comparison of the beloved Star Trek and Star Wars franchises. Trek Wars, A Star Wars Themed Star Trek T-ShirtStar Wars vs. Star TrekWilliam Shatner on Star Trek vs Star Wars

David Letterman, legendary comedian and former host Late Night With David Letterman, decided that he had enough of retirement and is returning to television with a monthly, six episode interview series on Netflix entitled My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman. The first guest of the series will be President Barack Obama, who...

Fran García has created an amazing 4k timelapse video of a Suezmax motor tanker two month voyage on the Mediterranean Sea from Algeciras to Sidi Kerir. From sunrises to sunsets, including thunderstorms, showers, rough seas, the full moon and stars. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips Incredible 4k Timelapse of a Cargo Ship’s 30 Day Journey...

A fascinating video from Crows Eye Productions offers a realistic view into the past with a demonstration showing the specific steps involved with how an 18th Century working woman got dressed in the morning . A working woman gets dressed in the fashion of 18th century. A separate video explains the use of stays and...

In an organized TED-Ed lesson by Brian Christian and animated by Marko Dješka, narrator Addison Anderson explains how computers schedule information, fix errors and manage interruptions and why machines can provide a blueprint of sorts for personal time management. Human beings and computers alike share the challenge of how to get as much done as...

While en route to one of their zones, riders with the Newfoundland snowmobile club Sledcore noticed that a young moose had been rendered completely helpless by incredibly deep snow, which had completely enveloped his entire body, leaving only his head exposed. The compassionate snowmobilers stopped and carefully dug around frightened animal until he was liberated...

Tesla enthusiast Bjørn Nyland traveled to a special spot on highway 155 in Hole, Norway to take a look at how they installed a series of motion sensing street lights to help cut down on energy costs. At highway 155 in Nes i Hole, 220 radars have been installed on each light pole. They detect...

Tony Zagoraios of Yell created “THE MA(D)CHINES,” a surreal animated short about ordinary household appliances that come to life in the real world in unexpected ways. via The Awesomer BarCamp Second LifeMiniatur Wunderland: The World’s Largest Model Railroad InstallationIntricate Fantasy Animal Sculptures by Ellen Jewett

A post shared by PANTONE (@pantone) on Dec 18, 2017 at 7:03am PST The Pantone Color Institute has declared Ultra Violet (Pantone 18-3838) to be the 2017 Color of the Year. While the name might bring to mind electromagnetic radiation, a 2006 science fiction film and a women’s advocacy group in the United States, this...

The Bed Hog Shop has created a comfy looking Star Wars themed Sarlacc Pit pillow for newborns and toddlers. It is available to purchase from their Etsy shop. This newborn pillow lounger can be used for many years to come. It has a low pile minky top with a kona cotton bottom, and two minky...

Gus Johnson, a comedian and musician with a goofy sense of humor, once again donned a pair of pointy ears, drew a set of whiskers on his face and proceed to attack plants around the house while singing an original song entitled “I’m A Stupid House Cat And I Want To Eat Your Plants“. Comedian...

SpongeBob SquarePants and the Bikini Bottom gang rap along to the Dr. Dre song “The Next Episode” in a funny mashup by Mylo the Cat. SpongeBob stars as Dr. Dre, Patrick as Snoop Dogg, Squidward as Kurupt, and Mr. Krabs as Nate Dogg. Here is the original music video. Greedy Mr. Krabs Wants Some of...

As we previously posted in October 2017, the film WINCHESTER tells the bizarre story of Sarah Winchester, a mad widow who inherited her late husband’s estate and Winchester Repeating Arms business, who began building a fantastic mansion. Winchester continued nonstop construction for many years, yielding a wild labyrinth of stairs, doors and hallways leading nowhere...

A post shared by West Coast Aerial Photography (@westcoastaerialphotography) on Jan 1, 2018 at 4:53pm PST The Atlantic recently inverviewed aerial photographer Mark Holtzman who precicely explained how he took his stunning photograph of a Stealth Bomber flying over the 2018 Rose Bowl game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Georgia Bulldogs. Holtzman, who has...

Kaitlynn Toporzycki of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania posted a hilarious video of her fiance Jonathan Schill‘s very creative solution to clearing their snow covered driveway. Schill built a custom plow by attaching a large cardboard television box to the front of his riding lawn mower. via Balkan Live Sport, Boing Boing A Parody of Ken Block’s ‘Gymkhana’...

In 2014, we wrote about the odd phenomenon in which a cat will always sit inside a circle on the floor. It appears that this inexplicable need also applies to squares, as demonstrated by Alvi, a beautiful orange tabby. As if on cue, Alvi rose from his bed, investigated the square and immediately made himself...

Swiss mechanical engineer Dario Brescianini and ETH Zurich professor Raffaello D’Andrea worked together to create The Omnicopter, a super agile omni-directional drone that can fly in any direction, at any time. By adding a “computationally efficient trajectory generator,” their “six-degrees-of-freedom” Omnicopter gains the ability to impressively play catch with a ball. Marvel Comics Themed RC...

An absolutely adorable romp of hungry Asian small-clawed otters at the Chester Zoo in Cheshire, England stood at full attention when they saw their keeper come by. Knowing that he was there for a certain purpose, the excited little mammals began chirping and hopping up and down on their hind legs like kangaroos in anticipation...

Darren Marter created an amusing compilation video in 2013 that features Arnold Schwarzenegger repeating the same lines in multiple movies. via reddit A Compilation of Funny Movie Death ScenesChildren Point Out Movies Scenes Featuring a Real Arnold Schwarzenegger and a Fake ArnoldArnold Schwarzenegger and James Corden Reenact All of Arnold’s Films in Six Minutes on...

In October 2017, a rather cranky and territorial pelican did his best to bite the camera belonging a Twycross Zoo visitor when it got too close to his enclosure. Despite the threat of biting, the visitor was able to capture amazing shots of the inside of the bird’s amazing pouch, mouth and throat. This camera...

Cooperative of Photography (COOPH) presents a great new video where they share eight tips and tricks for shooting hilarious portrait photography with friends using household items. Using some creative ideas and a few household items, there is no limit to the weird and wonderful images you can create. Simple and Free Photography Hacks Using Regular...

In a powerful episode of MinutePhysics, narrator Henry Reich explains via whiteboard animation why black holes are considered the most efficient yet unlikely vehicles for converting mass into energy, as compared to chemical and nuclear reactions. Reich also explains in detail how black holes work, the difference between rotating and nonrotating black holes and the...

A post shared by Amelia Lo? (@machodoodle) on Jan 1, 2018 at 11:32am PST Freelance illustrator Amelia Lo created a cute Star Wars themed illustration that features Rey (Daisy Ridley) getting ready to workout with her personal trainer Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who is only really interested in drinking his blue milk in peace. via...

Carlos Torija Muñoz of the Dream Walker crew performed the longest static line rope jump ever last year in Kjerag, Norway. He set a world record for free falling an amazing 1,393.7 feet. A post shared by CARLOS TORIJA MUÑOZ (@carlosxfly) on Sep 2, 2017 at 7:39am PDT GoPro Short Film and Super Bowl Ad...

A bold little black cat named Dude decided that he really wanted to go for a ride in the New Jersey snow and climbed upon the back of a very accommodating miniature horse named Gallant and joined his young human who was already perched there. This isn’t the first time this happened and in fact...

A group of skiers at the Vemdalen Ski Resort in Jämtland County, Sweden were treated to the stunning sight of a crisp sun halo appearing over the snowy mountain. Luckily, resort employee Håkan Hammar captured this very rare natural phenomenon so beautifully on video. According to Hammar, he’d never seen anything like it. (translated) Was...

Haru, the vocal Shiba Inu who was confused and visibly annoyed by a fidget spinner, watched as his humans attempted to set up 1,000 domino chain to knock down. After a short while, Haru became impatient, causing a few false starts, but eventually allowed them to finish. Once the chain was set, Haru was invited...

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober used science and a super accurate robot that he built to win an arcade game every single time. Instead, Rober discovered that the Cyclone arcade game was totally rigged. Don’t feel bad. You don’t suck, the game makers do. The Loudest Way to Cheer as Determined by ScienceAn Engineer Uses...

Rick Webb, a successful entrepreneur, author and good friend of Laughing Squid, is currently raising funds through Kickstarter in order create a fascinating photobook featuring the best of the over 5,000 pictures he shot with the Hipstamatic app between 2010 and 2016, up and down and all along the Amtrak Northeast Corridor line between Boston...

Musician Jeremy Reiser of Fifth Species posted an adorable video of his mom showing how her beautiful, snuggling black cat named Angel would automatically lick at her bib fur whenever a certain spot on her back was touched. Angel has herself a little sweet spot where she licks herself when you touch her on the...

In a fascinating clip from the the BBC Earth program Gorilla Family and Me, Scottish wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan captured amusing footage of his adopted gorilla family as they viewed themselves in a camera-backed mirror that he attached to a tree in order to gauge their responses. While Buchanan prepared himself for a raucous reaction,...

During their A Symphonic Tribute to Comic Con: The Tetralogy performance in 2017, Christopher Dragon of the Colorado Symphony got into costume as a T-Rex and did a fantastic job of conducting the symphony as they played John Williams‘ classic theme song from Jurassic Park. Last week, I went to see the Colorado symphony orchestra...

JapanThing created a 15-minute compilation video featuring some of the best weird and funny Japanese commercials that were created in 2017. via Tastefully Offensive Compilation Video of Weird & Funny Clips From Japanese Game ShowsA Compilation of Weird Japanese Commercials, Part TwoA Compilation of Weird Japanese Commercials

Sony Pictures released the first official trailer for Slender Man, the upcoming supernatural horror film directed by Sylvain White based on the creepypasta internet meme character created by Eric Knudsen in 2009. The scary movie follows a group of girls who attempt to prove that Slender Man is fake, but things go awry. Slender Man...

In a departure from their normally serious, yet insightful video essays, the folks at ScreenPrism created a playful quiz using clips from different Star Wars films to help a person decide whether they identify with either the Light Side or the Dark Side of the Force. Do you belong to the Light Side or the...

In a fascinating video essay, filmmaker Will Schoder explains how the familiar and comforting memories of childhood cartoons makes animation the perfect medium to express satirical commentary. The freedom of animation allows for exaggerated worlds with unique characters who possess any variety of features and personalities, providing the perfect vehicle to express what the animator...

In a bright eyed episode of The Atlantic series Animalism, science writer Ed Yong posits why humans and animals need sleep, offers theories addressing his supposition and explains via animation the rather varied sleep patterns that exist amongst different species within the animal kingdom. Sleep is universal in the animal kingdom, but each species slumbers...

While exploring off the Revillagigedo Archipelago off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, the ROV Hercules, launched from the E/V Nautilus captured the sight of a beautiful Halitrephes maasi jellyfish whose illuminated tendrils and translucent body reflected the lights of the ROV in a beautiful burst of vivid color. The frilled tentacles of the Halitrephes...

YouTuber Tyler Stalman recruited his photographer friend Jason Ang who owns a Hasselblad H4D-31 over to help him to conduct a side by side comparison between Ang’s $20,000 camera and Stalman’s new GooglePixel 2. Not surprisingly, the Hasselblad did a much better job at smoothly revealing details at larger sizes but the Pixel did fine...

A post shared by Omid (@omidasadiart) on Jan 1, 2017 at 1:44pm PST Visual artist Omar Asadi has created an absolutely gorgeous series of highly detailed negative space designs that are skillfully carved into the delicate blades of brown leaves. Some of these beautiful carvings include faces, birds and trees with some of them making...

The King of Random released a new instructional video where they demonstrate how to easily make black snake fireworks at home with fire and various combinations of alcohol, baking soda, lighter fluid, and sugar. 5,200 Black Snake Fireworks Ignited At Once Expand Into a Massive Flaming Tower on the 4th of JulyHow to Make Quick...

In an instructional video by Brent0331, Dr. Christopher Larsen of the One Shepherd Leadership Institute in O’Fallon, Missouri demonstrates how the Unites States Army, South Korea Armed Forces, and British Army use differing techniques for properly applying camouflage to the human face. via reddit Photographer Uses the Eyes of the Animals She’s Posing With as...

At the Symbio Wildlife Park in Sydney, Australia, an adorable mob of tiny meerkats lined up dutifully during feeding time to get a chance to spend some time with their favorite human and keeper, Beth. Beth carefully doles out kernels of corn from a bright green cup to each hungry suricate who climbed onto her...

Travel blogger Mac of Halfway Anywhere and his buddies made their way across the 3,100 mile Continental Divide Trail from the Mexico–United States border to the Canada–United States border, filming one-second from each day of the journey. Photos from the 133 day hike through New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana are available to view...

In a hilarious closing clip for episode number 206 of Muppets Tonight in 1997, a pierced, punked out band of gastropods calling themselves the Nine Inch Snails performed a slow existential, industrial emo-ish song about how their delicate identities are connected to their cumbersome shells. Give me some salt, and turn me to gel. via...

Zuleika Sequeira of Toronto, Ontario captured footage of her dad using an old sword to hilariously slice through a hill of snow that covered a table outside of their home, pulling out the perfect piece of snow cake, and then taking a bite. via Tastefully Offensive Swedish Chef Creates a Smörgåstårta, A Giant Sandwich Cake...

In an amusing instructional video, a Brazilian military police officer shows exactly what to do when they find themselves boxed in by parked cars and need to get away in an emergency. With cones boxing in their vehicle, the officer seemingly pulls the emergency brake, turns the wheel to the left, revs the engine, and...