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Netflix released the first official trailer for their upcoming reboot of the classic 1960s sci-fi television series, Lost in Space. The thrilling new trailer follows the Robinson family as they become stranded on a fascinating, yet dangerous planet, discover alien intelligence, and try to form an escape plan. The new sci-fi drama series, written by...The post The Robinson Family Discovers Alien Intelligence on a Dangerous Planet in New ‘Lost in Space’ Trailer appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a No Small Parts series for IMDb, host Brandon Hardesty took a look at the career of Sally Hawkins,the award-winning actress who played the stunning role of Elisa Esposito in the Oscar winning Guillermo del Toro film The Shape of Water opposite actor Doug Jones whom Hardesty previously profiled. Hawkins studied at the Royal...The post How Sally Hawkins Uses Her Typecasting as a Shy, Nervous Character to Bring Complexity to Her Roles appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a puzzling episode of Things You Might Not Know, host Tom Scott made an honest attempt to respond to a viewer’s question about Moiré leading marks, a subject completely unknown to him. So he did whatever research he could do. He eventually learned that this idea was developed and patented by the Inogon Corporation...The post The Little Known Brilliance of Inogon Beacons That Use Moiré Patterns to Guide Ships Safely Into Port appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In a very clever animation by Joren Cull, Miles Raymer and RJ Bentler of Pitchfork, four red-eyed, metalhead students presented the history of Heavy Metal music and its various forms using strobe and lightning effects to illustrate the point (warning). Unfortunately, this also caused their classmates to have violent and/or sickening reactions to the narrative,...The post Four Metalheads Present the History of Heavy Metal Music to Their Bewildered Classmates appeared first on Laughing Squid.

An adorable little miniature long haired dachshund named Takao rather hesitantly walked through a maze made of water bottles that his human had set up in the hallway for him to run. All was going well until Takao turned around as if he were expecting something. Giving up on that idea, Takao finished the maze...The post A Little Long Haired Dachshund Hesitantly Walks Through a Maze Made of Plastic Water Bottles appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Talented musicians Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs and Seth Everman teamed up to perform a fantastic cover of the song “Take On Me” by A-ha in 20 different music styles. The dynamic duo also performed the song “All Star” by Smash Mouth in 10 different music genres. Musician Performs the Red Hot Chili Peppers’...The post Musicians Perform ‘Take On Me’ by A-ha and Smash Mouth’s Song ‘All Star’ in Different Music Styles appeared first on Laughing Squid.

On an amusing episode of the First We Feast series, Hot Ones, Modern Family star Ty Burrell (Phil Dunphy) talked about his life, career, and ate progressively spicier wings while being interviewed by Sean Evans. Ty Burrell is one of TV’s most iconic dads, playing Phil Dunphy on ABC’s Modern Family. Unfortunately, that in no...The post Ty Burrell Talks About His Life and Career While Eating Progressively Spicier Wings appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Last year, Miso Robotics created a robotic kitchen assistant, named Flippy, that was designed to flip, cook, and help prep the perfect burger. According to KTLA 5 News, the wondrous robot has since then received its first job flipping Southern California style burgers at a CaliBurger fast food restaurant in Pasadena. Flippy uses thermal imaging,...The post Flippy the Robot Gets Its First Job Flipping Burgers at a CaliBurger Fast Food Restaurant in Pasadena appeared first on Laughing Squid.

To celebrate the 10th birthday of his beloved cat, Simon brought home a yummy cake made just for the feline palate. The normally hungry Simon’s Cat, who was bathing himself, took a sniff and went back to cleaning. A somewhat deflated Simon tried to encourage the cat to enjoy this special confection and forgetting that...The post Simon’s Cat Finds the Box That His Birthday Cake Came In To Be More Desirable Than the Cake Itself appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The very talented musician Steve Onotera aka samuraiguitarist quite modestly demonstrated the most difficult thing he can do on guitar. With this trick, Onotera showed how he was able to accurately strum his guitar on the first beat of the first bar at 120 bpm and then accurately strum on the right beat after a...The post Samuraiguitarist Showcases the Most Difficult Trick He Knows How to Do on Guitar appeared first on Laughing Squid.

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In a heartwarming episode of his newly minted “Acting Oddities” segment, host Brandon Hardesty of No Small Parts spoke fondly about the time in which the late great Fred Rogers had a small acting role (other than as himself) on the classic CBS show Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman. Mr. Rogers played the role of Father...The post The Small Acting Role That Mister Rogers Played on the Classic Show ‘Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Motivational speaker Simon Sinek gave a talk to members of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), during which he spoke about how acting with contemplated consistency is far more productive than acting with impetuous intensity, using examples such as going to the gym, brushing one’s teeth and laying people...

As part of their ongoing series of deconstructing the individual personalities of the characters on the now-classic sitcom series Friends, film and television analysis platform ScreenPrism set their sights on Ross Geller. Ross started out in the series as a neurotic idealist who always felt the need to be right, even at the cost of...

Westminster, Massachusetts mother Amelia Cenotti sat down with her son Connor in 2010 to read him the text-to-teach book, It’s Time to Call 911. After typing in “911” on the book’s touch pad, which had a very low battery, they were greeted by an urgent response followed by a string of demonic screeching sounds. What...

In advance of the second season premiere of the badass Netflix series Jessica Jones on March 8th, actress Krysten Ritter appeared on The Late Show where she tried to teach host Stephen Colbert how to knit. While doing so, Ritter talked about the upcoming season and recounted what she’s been up to since The Defenders....

Osaka, Japan YouTuber kiwami japan demonstrates how he made a very sharp knife out of pasta noodles. As a reward for his hard work, he cooked up the pasta knife with some cheese and eat it for dinner. A Master Sushi Chef Makes a Complex Garnish by Cutting Super Thin Tomato Slices With an Extremely...

Lauri Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel posted a video showing him gloriously cutting through ten decks of playing cards, which were all stacked up on top of each other, with his hydraulic press equipped with a giant blade. Vuohensilta also sliced through other objects like a rubber band ball, a CO2 cartridge, and a...

Bon Apétit editor Amanda Shapiro spent a day in December 2017 shadowing Nana Araba Wilmot, first meeting Wilmot at her apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and accompanying to her job as a line cook at the upscale restaurant Le Coucou in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. During Wilmot’s 11 hour shift, Shapiro learned that Wilmot doesn’t...

Nate of The King of Random conducted a viewer requested experiment to find out what happens to whipped cream and meringue when they are placed into a vacuum chamber. The results were quite creamy. In today’s video we’re finding out if you can de-whip whipped cream and meringue in a low pressure environment. An Experiment...

An artist named Simon (a.k.a. “lily-liver“) posted a great timelapse video that shows him drawing a scene from the 1993 first-person shooter video game, DOOM, on an Etch a Sketch. A Man Tells His Life Story While Drawing it Out on an Etch A SketchEtcher: Etch A Sketch for iPadArtist Draws Impressive Recreations of Iconic...

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NBC released “Star Warriors,” an unaired Star Wars sketch from Saturday Night Live starring host Charles Barkley. The sketch began with J.J. Abrams introducing a new standalone Star Wars film, titled The Mos Eisley Five, and then cut to a scene with Barkley struggling to understand all of the different languages being thrown around during...

??Sound ON?? When #science is done, it's fun to drop ice down a 90 m deep borehole in an #Antarctic ?? #glacier ??. So satisfying when it hits the bottom. Happy hump day. pic.twitter.com/dQtLPWQi7T — Peter Neff (@peter_neff) February 28, 2018 Seattle glaciologist Peter Neff captured fascinating footage of him and his crew dropping a...

“Life Is Pain” by the very clever animator 4096 RED is a wonderful series of vignettes capturing the sheer frustration of futile situations that often delay the satisfaction of resolution. Whether the problem is phone orientation, an inability to insert a USB properly, a broken pencil, a broken cork, burned toast, a stubborn thread or...

Lucas the spider Lucas the Spider, the animated arachnid by Joshua Slice who’s led quite an adventurous life thus far, adorably mistook Dexter, a very furry golden retriever who was sleeping on the kitchen floor, for a polar bear. In order to get a closer look, Lucas hopped off the counter and crawled right up...

Jeopardy!, the beloved game show that has been on television for over 30 years, made history last week. Defending champion Laura McLean and challenger Sarah Norris both dropped to scores of $6,799, after being stumped on the Final Jeopardy clue. Host Alex Trebek then had them both face-off in the first-ever sudden-death tiebreaker. Although the...

During the Oscars 2018 last night, Disney released a new teaser trailer for Mary Poppins Returns, their upcoming musical fantasy film directed by Rob Marshall and a sequel to the 1964 Mary Poppins film. The magical trailer features Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) descending from the sky 20 years after the original film to bring back...

Henry Rollins, musician, writer, actor and former lead singer for the legendary punk band Black Flag, sat down for an interview with The Sound of Vinyl to talk about his incredible obsession with (vinyl) records. Rollins specifically spoke about how he became obsessed, how he listens to vinyl, the best time to listen to vinyl,...

A post shared by Little Quill Studios (@littodino) on Feb 4, 2018 at 2:37pm PST Artist Rachel Beltz of Little Quill Studios creates amazingly realistic, miniature watercolor portraits that are truly no bigger than the size of a U.S. quarter. Each creation reveals such incredible detail that would seem so prohibitive in such a small...

In a snappy episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss, linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually explain the etymological origins of the word “cool”, specifically how its connotative use has essentially remained the same within the English language for centuries. In other words, how cool stayed so cool...

Life Noggin, narrator Pat Graziosi aka Blocko very succinctly and logically explained the very real mental disorder of schizophrenia, when it’s most like to appear, the symptoms, existing treatments and those currently on the horizon, the mythical suppositions around the disorder, and how one can help a friend or loved one with the disorder. …our...

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sabina Zweiacker performed a phenomenal cover of composer Jeremy Soule‘s bard song “The Dragonborn Comes” from the popular video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. via reddit Skyrim Dragonborn Statue Holding an Illuminated FireballBattle Damaged Skyrim Dragonborn Iron HelmetA Dragonborn From Skyrim Practices His Forceful Shout on Innocent Civilians...

Musicians BR Somashekar Jois and Kumari V Shivapriya performed a duet in which they both took turns reciting syllables in an impressively rhythmic, percussive manner known as Konnakkol for which they are both widely known. They will be reciting few exciting rhythmic phrases set to Mishrachaapu Tala followed by a special Mohara-Korvai composed by Vidwan...

Jeffrey Lipton, Adriana Schulz, Andrew Spielberg, Luis Trueba, Wojciech Matusik, and Daniela Rus, a skilled team of researchers from MIT‘s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), worked together to develop the Autosaw, a robotic carpenter that can cut mass quantities of wood on its own and help keep workers safe while building custom furniture....

Weird Al Yankovic is widely known for his good-natured habit remixing songs with new lyrics to make them funny, however when it came to Hamilton, Yankovic played it kind of straight. He kept the lyrics intact, but added his own unique spin with a fabulous polka beat to a medley of songs from the show’s...

Artist Chris Scalf released a fascinating timelapse featuring hin creating a detailed painting of an fearsome dragon with airbrush acrylic paints. Scalf’s realtime, 6.5-hour video is available to download from Gumroad. Was really desiring to get back into traditional art again. So I chose to do a basic pose to kinda “warm-up” back into it,...

In February, we wrote about the talented actor Doug Jones and his amazing ability to transform into fantastic creatures without complaint even though it rendered him completely unrecognizable when playing big parts in film and television. In an interview with Great Big Story, an rather amiable Jones personally shared some of these very sentiments, particularly...

Vox video fellow Tian Wang took a look at the concept of method acting, the actors who employ these techniques, the correlation between method acting and winning awards, the marketability of method acting and how these techniques allow an actor to become their character rather than portraying a role There’s been this sort of evolutionary...

A post shared by aloe design (@aloedesign) on Jan 1, 2018 at 12:32pm PST Aloe Design Studios created a bizarre 3D animation in Cinema 4D that shows a bunch of donuts flying at a man’s face and then going berserk. The donuts slide around all over the gentleman’s face, fly all over the place, and...

The Screen Junkies series The Dailies has reimagined the iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey scene during which HAL-9000, the sentient computer onboard refused to open the pod bay doors to let Dave back inside the craft. In doing so they replaced HAL’s voice and functionality with that of Amazon Alexa, adding a hilarious bit of...

A post shared by Love Hulten (@lovehulten) on Mar 1, 2018 at 10:12am PST Swedish designer Love Hultén has created the PET De Lux, a luxurious handmade console built as a tribute to the classic Commodore PET 2001 series computer from 1977. The PET 2001 was released by Commodore in 1977 and was the first...

A tiny little fennec fox with gigantic ears named Kuzma and a British shorthair cat named Zima live happily together under the same roof in Moscow, Russia with beloved human Milana Valevskaya. The two adorable little creatures snuggle together, play together and even get a bit testy with one another, but in the end they...

A post shared by White on Rice (@white_onrice) on Feb 3, 2018 at 10:08pm PST “MiniatureGami” is a fun little project by Cape Town artist Ross Symons of White on Rice where he creates adorably tiny piece of origami art, designed by himself and other artists from around the world, every day for the next...

British animator Lee Hardcastle created a dark Simpsons claymation short where characters from Springfield reenact a concept robbery scene from Quentin Tarantino‘s 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs. The animated short features music by ruiji. A post shared by Lee Hardcastle (@leehardcastle) on Mar 1, 2018 at 6:19am PST A post shared by Lee Hardcastle (@leehardcastle) on...

Brazilian artist Juliana LePine, who made a miniature sculpture of Freddie Mercury, is back and this time she sculpted an incredible mini model of Doc Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future films. Official LEGO ‘Back to the Future’ DeLorean Time Machine PlaysetHUVr Board Video Claims to Show a Real Life ‘Back to the...

Death Wish star Bruce Willis sat down with Wired to answer the web’s most searched questions about himself during an Autocomplete Interview. Did Bruce Willis go to college? Was Bruce Willis in the military? Was Bruce Willis Batman?? Patton Oswalt Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions About HimselfChris Evans Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions...

In a somewhat prescient departure from his usual subject matter of films, video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka the Nerdwriter takes on what he considers to be “The Most Disturbing Painting” – “Saturn Devouring His Son” by Francisco Goya. This work was inspired by the legend in which Titan Cronus, fearing a prophesy...

A very determined border collie inexplicably decided to roll a giant snowball across the backyard. Being there was still snow on the ground, the ball got bigger as he rolled it and the tenacious little dog had to take a number of breaks to catch his breath. According to his human, this behavior came out...

A post shared by Dain Yoon ??? (@designdain) on Oct 22, 2017 at 8:01am PDT In 2016, we wrote about Dain Yoon, a talented artist who has an amazing ability to create highly detailed, real-looking illusions with makeup that can sometimes be appear a bit creepy. Since that time, Dain has created new illusory styles...