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Kayla Barham of Bird Memes posted an amusing compilation of an adorably mischievous white-faced cockatiel who evidently enjoys creating entropy wherever he goes. He achieves this feat quite effectively by knocking all sorts of items off of various surfaces around the house. It doesn’t seem to necessarily matter to the bird the size, weight or...

Just about half way through the 48 hours of HI8 video I shot related to @burningman 1996. A post shared by Scott Beale (@scottbeale) on Jan 30, 2018 at 12:35pm PST Way back in the early days of Laughing Squid, before I launched this blog, I used to shoot a lot of video, documenting events...

In Paws & Chores, a well-intentioned Simon’s Cat tries to do a bit of housekeeping without inflicting too much damage on Simon and/or the house. The animation is made up of a compilation of previous Simon’s Cat episodes including “Hidden Treasure“, “The Monster“, “Washed Up”, “The Box“, ““Lunch Break”, Shelf Life“, “DIY“, “Bed Sheets” and...

Musician and composer Andrey Vinogradov performed a gorgeously mournful original medieval tune on a beautiful hurdy-gurdy, which is also known as a wheel fiddle. The instrument is an unusual combination of strings and keys that are all played with the strategic turn of a crank. This original song is available through Vinogradov’s Bandcamp page. CDs...

In a humorous video essay, filmmaker Karsten Runquist explains the critical significance of a taking the time to create a good title so that the film will stay in the respective memories of audience members for a long time. Not only is making titles fun, I feel making titles is one of the most important...

Olek, the prolific crochet artist, yarn bomber and friend of Laughing Squid sat down with Great Big Story to share details about her life, her work, her inspirations, the people she’s worked with, the places she’s been and her vision for changing the world – one loop at a time. Crochet is not generally viewed...

During a 2011 TED Talk, renowned primatologist Frans de Waal spoke at great length regarding the subject of animals having morals that seem so specific to humanity. In doing so, de Waal offered up a couple of charming examples of such as he’d seen with elephants, chimps and apes, each of whom showed varying degrees...

Bill Hammack (a.k.a. “Engineer Guy“) takes an in-depth look at the engineering behind the Drinking Bird toy. The classic heat engine toy is available to purchase on Amazon. Bill reveals the operation and engineering design underlying the famous drinking bird toy. In this video he explores the role played by the water the bird “drinks,”...

Award-winning New York City street artist and filmmaker Humza Deas who previously captured seldom seen overhead views of his native city, has created Double Exposure: NYC, a gorgeous short film that perches mirror images of various points of the New York City skyline opposite from one another; one dropping from the sky, meeting the other...

The Dad has created a hilarious commercial for “AphukenbrakE,” a fake prescription drug offered to adults who suffer from PAR•ENT•ING. Symptoms include: “having kids, children, tots, youngins, boys, girls, boys and girls of your own.” If you suffer from any of those symptoms, kick back and take AphukenbrakE. Do you suffer from headaches, chronic fatigue,...

The German sound design company ShakeUp has created a wonderfully cheerful cover version of the “Papageno and Papagena” duet from the Mozart opera The Magic Flute using the chirps, hoots and tweets from a forest full of various different birds. Enjoy the The Magic Flute “Papageno/Papagena Duet” recomposed into a colorful bird song aria. Listen...

A post shared by ????@????1? (@tanryug) on Jan 14, 2018 at 2:57pm PST The Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan has had a particularly cold 2018 winter season and one of its residents, an adorably big bellied cat named Busao, has appeared to ward off the chill by making it his life’s mission to never leave the...

Marvel has released the first trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp, their upcoming superhero film directed by Peyton Reed and a sequel to Ant-Man from 2015. Scott Lang (Paul Rudd as Ant-Man) and Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly as Wasp) team up for some super shrinking action and to dig up secrets of the past....

The very talented pianist Lord Vinheteiro gave his fingers a rest and simply stared at the camera as he visually posited the question “Can You Recognize a Song Played at High Speed?” and then let a player piano do all the work. The piano would start a song at an extremely high BPM (beats per...

Master & Apprentice is a web series, created by Rooster Teeth, where production designer Marcus Gray LaPorte and novice cosplay-maker Adam Ellis make pop culture props from scratch. On episode three, LaPorte and Ellis show how they built their own custom Star Wars lightsabers. The Verge Sets Out to Build a Realistic Replica of Luke’s...

A pounce of real life, street smart cats hilariously sat around a game of Hungry, Hungry Hippos and settled in for a serious round of chasing marbles as they rolled around on the game board. According to their human, these rescued cats were having a fine time with a child’s toy. My cats that were...

Taras Kulakov the “Crazy Russian Hacker” takes a look at how a Levitating Light Bulb that he received magically floats over top of its base and gives off a decent amount of light with the press of a button. The light is currently available to purchase from Amazon. Flyte, A Levitating LED Light Bulb LampFather...

Bethesda, Maryland artist Mike Marrocco (a.k.a. “FunkBlast“) has built an amazing multicolored version of the LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon. images via Mike Marrocco via io9 A Scaled Version of the Star Wars Millennium Falcon Built Out of LEGO Bricks and MinifigsStar Wars Fan Spends a Year Building Detailed Millennium Falcon Out of...

For part five of their The Super Slow Show, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys teamed up with special guest Mayim Bialik (The Big Bang Theory, Blossom) to smash objects, drinks, and food with rare earth magnets in 4K slow motion. Super-Strong Neodymium Magnets Crushing a Series of Objects in Slow...

Filmmaker Kaipo Jones of Kaipotainment has created “Doctor Strange Cat,” a mind-bending special effects-filled Doctor Strange parody where “Benedict CumberCat” takes his human on a spectacular journey to another realm. More Magical Mind-Blowing Mysteries Are Revealed in the Second Trailer for Doctor StrangeDoctor Strange Retold as an Old School 8-Bit Animated Video GameHow Industrial Light...

Filmmaker Jacob T. Swinney has created a montage of the nine films that are nominated for Best Picture at the 2018 Oscars. He features scenes from Call Me by Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, The Post, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. A Montage Featuring...

I shot this video in 1996, prior to the official start of Burning Man, when Doc and Honeybadger invited a group of their closest friends to help them celebrate their recent marriage in a very unique way. In the Black Rock Desert, miles away from camp, a special wedding cake had been constructed that housed...

Onion Powder created a hilarious Dungeons & Dragons parody illustration, a module for “Escape From Flavortown”, which takes place in the delicious game Dungeons & Diners & Dragons & Drive-Ins & Dives, where adventurers battle a giant Guy Fieri dragon! Onion Powder is selling t-shirts with this wonderful illustration, which are avaible in his RedBubble...

While leading a Polar Bear Migration Fly-In Safari in Nunavut, Canada, expedition leader, Dave Briggs got a surprise visit from a friendly arctic fox who just wanted to say hello before taking a nearby nap in the snow. A rare occurrence, the curious fox approached Dave while he was sitting on the tundra photographing the...

In 2013, YouTuber CowProd posted a video of an amazing show in 1992 by a very young Rage Against the Machine at Zed Records in Long Beach, California. CowProd and friend Nanda captured the entire performance on two cameras, which was edited into a single amazing video by Chester Copperpot5. almost 21 [26] years ago...

In a really insightful video by Vox and accompanying article by 99% Invisible, video producer Christophe Haubursin, 99% Invisible creator and host Roman Mars and digital director Kurt Kohlstedt also of 99% Invisible, explain the scientific, philosophical and design challenges of creating enduring, understandable symbols that warn against danger and dangerous situations. Chances are you...

Eric Paulos, an associate professor at UC Berkeley and friend of Laughing Squid, made a dramatic impression upon the astonished students of his Critical Making class when he suddenly threw his laptop across the room, smashing it into pieces. Paulos was making a point about leaving expectations and proverbial baggage behind. On the first day...

In 2016, Dean Anderson captured footage of a troop of young, somewhat friendly foxes who had made their home underneath the industrial sized storage containers in a lot where Anderson worked. The kits were scavenging for food and seemed to have found something of interested that had them piling on top of each other. These...

Robert Irwin, the incredibly amiable son of the late Steve Irwin returned to the Tonight Show for a third time and per usual, brought along animals that both delighted and terrified host Jimmy Fallon. Included in this visit was a hungry beaver, a testy tarantula, a high flying hyacinth macaw and an absolutely adorable baby...

In an effort to settle a relationship issue, YouTuber Oscar Fury and his partner each took turns asking their Google Home how to accurately spell the word color/colour. When she, an American, asked, the response was in an American accent that omitted the “u”. When he, a Brit, asked the response was appropriately British and...

The startup tech company, Robomart, has created a brilliant self-driving store on wheels that is capable of driving a wide variety of fresh produce to a consumer’s front door. The fully electric autonomous stores, which use NVIDIA’s Inception program to control the fleer, can travel a total of 70 miles on a full charge and...

After a certain expletive was uttered in Washington, DC regarding certain countries, talk show host Conan O’Brien decided to visit Haiti, one of the countries named, to find out for himself whether it was accurate. What he found instead was a lively classroom of very smart elementary school children at Ecole Nouvelle Zoranje. O’Brien danced...

SpongeBob SquarePants animator Sean Charmatz released episode 19 of his amusing video and photo series, The Secret World of Stuff, that features all sorts of adorable objects expressing their emotions in the real world through anthropomorphic animations. A post shared by sean_charmatz (@sean_charmatz) on Nov 11, 2017 at 9:35pm PST A post shared by sean_charmatz...

This blog post was originally published January 25, 2018 on John Law’s personal blog. Carrie at the 1st Atomic Cafe 1989 “Oh Death, where is thy sting?” This was the quote from Corinthians that was chosen out of dozens suggested by the 40 people crammed into Gary Warne’s Circus of the Soul bookstore on Judah...

While walking her dog a few years ago, redditor crazyperson15‘s mother captured footage of Boston Dynamics taking their Atlas robot on a brisk walk through the woods in Lincoln, Massachusetts. via reddit The Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Walks Through the Woods in a New Balance and Movement TestA Bleak Remix of the Boston Dynamics Atlas...

Bradford, UK film critic Ross Fearnley of The Unusual Suspect has created a wonderfully edited video of The Proclaimers classic song “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” being sung using clips from 127 movies. Here is the original song. ‘Lost Dog’, A Touching Budweiser Super Bowl XLIX Ad That Features a Lost Puppy Trying to Find...

The Ketchup and Mustard Cake by Shared Food is exactly what it claims to be. A fluffy red cake made with ketchup and other traditional items that’s topped with an icing made from mustard and other ingredients. Although the combination seems odd for a cake, the resulting confection appears to be appetizing. You might want...

Juggling expert Josh Horton of Jake & Josh set a new Guinness World Record for the most samurai swords juggled on November 3rd, 2017 at The ART Factory warehouse in Paterson, New Jersey. He was able to juggle a total of four dangerous swords. The same day, Horton also set the record for the most...

Upon hearing his human in the hallway, a beautiful rescued tuxedo named “GentlemanCat” whose back legs are paralyzed,

For part four of their The Super Slow Show, Gavin Free of The Slow Mo Guys runs and jumps through glass in super slow motion. Crashing Through a Wall in Super Slow MotionSuper Slow Motion Video of Air Pistol Pellets Shooting Through Old Spice Deodorant SticksWater Droplet Bouncing on the Surface of Water in Super...

Adult Swim UK posted a compilation of some of the funniest and darkest Sesame Street moments featured Robot Chicken. Stevie Wonder Performs ‘1-2-3 Sesame Street’ in an Classic Clip From 1973The Top 10 Stop-Motion Animated Star Wars Scenes From Robot ChickenLuke Skywalker’s Funny ‘Face-to-Helmet’ Moments With Darth Vader on Robot Chicken

HBO Sports and WWE released an electrifying new trailer for their upcoming documentary, produced by Bill Simmons, all about the life and career of professional wrestling legend André the Giant. The trailer takes a look at how “The Eighth Wonder of the World” was truly larger than life is all aspects of his wrestling career....

The Boring Company, Elon Musk‘s company that is working on creating a network of underground tunnels to cut down on traffic congestion, has built 20,000 fully functional flamethrowers to sell off and raise enough money to dig a small tunnel. They are available to pre-order from The Boring Company website. They are also selling a...

A robot lamp attempts to use a Sani-Hut porta potty at Burning Man 1996. The lamp was a constant companion to the motorized couch that cruised around the Black Rock City that year. Recently I’ve been digitizing and uploading a bunch of video I shot at Burning Man 1996. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to...

In a clip from the three part PBS series “Animals With Cameras“, a rescued chimpanzee named Kimbang was outfitted with a camera and sent along to climb some trees so that her caretaker could assess her diet and ensure she was making the right choices before being set out into the wild. When Kimbang began...

A post shared by Gerard Mas (@gerard_mas) on Feb 7, 2017 at 9:20am PST Spanish artist Gerard Mas has created a gorgeous series of busts that are sculpted in the Renaissance style but reimagined with some very humorous, surprising and modern twists. These additions include sporting tan lines, blowing a bubble with gum, wearing customer...

A post shared by Twiggys Lagoon (@twiggyslagoon) on Mar 2, 2016 at 9:47am PST A tiny squirrel named Twiggy is quite the party animal. She and her human travel arounds the world in order to showcase her incredible talent of waterskiing. Making appearances at such events Toronto Boat Show, The X Games and The Richmond...

Wired UK went inside the High Voltage Laboratory at the University of Manchester to witness first hand the incredible lightning that they create indoors via Tesla coils to test electrical equipment and predict failures within the electrical grid. The lab works to predict failures on the electrical grid and protect it from blackouts. To do...

Pink Donut has created the RokBlok, a small wireless record player that instantly plays music when you place it on top of a vinyl record. The RokBlok is currently out of stock, but the next batch being made is available to reserve from the RokBlok website. Rock out to your favorite records with RokBlok’s built-in...

A pair of very limber Staffordshire bull terriers named Cooper and Emma leaped to great heights in a cooperative effort to keep a red balloon aloft in the air. These two adorable canine siblings do absolutely everything together and don’t limit themselves solely to red balloons. A post shared by Cooper & Emma (@cooperandemma) on...