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Over 90 kids teamed up with artist Shing Yin Khor (a.k.a. “sawdustbear“) deep in the woods of New Hampshire at Beam Camp to build Salvage Station No. 8, an incredible abandoned space salvage station. The immersive installation was brought to life to “create a sci-fi narrative of an abandoned space salvage station lost in the...

While she was out and about, an adorable basset hound named Lady unknowingly acted a skilled herder when dozens of sheep at a South Cambridgeshire, England farm began following her around the yard. According to her human, Lady’s skill was discovered quite by accident. Michael Jobson, 29, adopted three-year-old Lady three years ago before discovering...

“Insider’s Guide to New York City” by comedian and filmmaker Ryan Mazer is a rather absurd stock footage film short that hilariously warns visitors to avoid typical tourist traps and provides safe alternatives in their place. According to Mazer, the film “goes off the rails” pretty quickly. @alanresnicks do u like this guide to NYC...

Funko created a life-size Rick & Morty Portal Gun Toy. The interactive replica, which discharges a variety of lights and sounds, is available for pre-order from Amazon with a release date of December 15th, 2017. This full-size roleplay Portal Gun is primarily used for travel, but don’t be afraid to use it offensively or defensively...

German company, Volkner Mobil, released a dreamy new luxury Performance S motorhome so large that it comes with a built-in garage underneath the vehicle to store a car. The 40-foot behemoth also comes equipped with a double bed, a kitchen, a large lounge area, and a heated bathroom. images via Volkner Mobil via Bored Panda...

A post shared by Nobel Truong (@nobeltruong) on Sep 23, 2016 at 7:44am PDT Artist Nobel Truong has created a beautiful line of fluorescent green cactus and monstera leaf sculptures that are expertly laser cut out of translucent acrylic. Many of the cacti also fit into a lighted base that makes the acrylic softly glow...

On an interesting episode of his Homemade Science series, Pennsylvania physical science teacher Bruce Yeany shows off a collection of marble tracks that he built to introduce his students to motion, acceleration, and inertia. via reddit A Mexico City Science Teacher Dresses up as Spiderman to Capture the Attention of His StudentsKinetic Marble Track That...

Employing the old adage that bigger is better, Hidden Valley is offering a wonderfully decadent five liter mini-keg filled with their signature ranch dressing for the 2017 holidays. The $50 keg can be pre-ordered through the Hidden Valley Ranch Flavour Gallery for delivery beginning on December 11. It isn’t a party unless the Hidden Valley®...

Sony Pictures Animation and Frederator Studios has released their first GO! Cartoons short, titled “The Summoning“. The creepy cute short, created by Brisbane, Australia tattoo artist and taxidermist Elyse Castro, follows a witch named Claire, accompanied by her cat Edgar, who is missing one key ingredient for her summoning spell. The Summoning is available to...

Illustrator Jenni Sparks, whose work we have written about in the past, was commissioned by Evermade.com to create a series of 10 Hometowns prints celebrating different unique boroughs in London. She also made city prints for Bristol and Brighton. Sparks’ prints are available to purchase from Evermade.com. images via Jenni Sparks submitted via Laughing Squid...

Determined Scottish YouTuber Mike Boyd of the Learn Quick series challenged himself to shake the dust off of his downhill biking skills by learning to go faster than ever before. With help from British downhill champion Ben Cathro, Boyd was able to shave 23 seconds off of his original time. A post shared by Mike...

A remarkable Jacobean re-emergence after 200 years of yellowing varnish 1/2 pic.twitter.com/yBGNGDcNd7 — Philip Mould (@philipmould) November 6, 2017 Philip Mould, an art dealer and host of the BBC One show Fake or Fortune, live tweeted an incredible project in which he was removing over 200 years of yellowing varnish from a 400 year old...

A post shared by Brian Goldfarb (@briangophoto) on Jan 30, 2017 at 10:43pm PST Brooklyn photographer Brian Goldfarb creates amazing images that have a whimsical sense of the surreal with just a hint of hilarity just below the surface. This can be seen in a photo of a woman flying away with her balloons, reading...

A post shared by Andy Seliverstoff (@andyseliverstoff) on Aug 30, 2017 at 8:00am PDT As with his wonderful photo series and book “Little Kids and Their Big Dogs“, Russian photographer Andy Seliverstoff has once again captured that truly special bond that exists between a little ballerina in a tutu and a couple of doting standard...

Going through our archives recently, I came across the June 1998 issue of the Japanese internet culture magazine Konpeito, that interviewed me almost two decades ago for a feature story on Laughing Squid. The article includes a screenshot of what the Laughing Squid website looked like in 1998, as well as mentioning our coverage of...

Artist and filmmaker Eric Dyer gave a wonderful TED talk about his love of the zoetrope, sharing a number of stories about what inspired him to create such beautiful but complicated kinetic works of art, how he was able to soothe the hours he put in on the computer by building these animations and his...

Joshua Slice has created an adorable animated short about a cute little spider named Lucas. The tiny arachnid announced that he has too many eyeballs to look around with. He then ran off to his spiderweb. The spider was voiced by Slice’s nephew, also named Lucas. This is an animation test of a character I’ve...

Concerned about the growing problem of “Noodle Harassment“, Nissin, the Japanese company known for their Cup Noodles brand, has created the Otohiko, a noise canceling noodle fork that connects with a proprietary smartphone app that plays specific music whenever the sound of slurping is detected. This unique utensil can be pre-ordered through the company website...

Former MythBusters co-host Jamie Hyneman and his team are currently in the process of creating the seventh generation of their Vortrex virtual reality shoes. Hyneman is currently raising funds on IndiGoGo, which will aid the team in building a prototype that works exactly like they intended. We want to create electric shoes for VR gaming....

While on his Makerspace Tour, a very neighborly Adam Savage of Tested didn’t have to go far past his own backyard to get a comprehensive tour of the makerspace NIMBY. NIMBY is an enormous 60,000 square foot shared industrial art space in Oakland, California featuring studios, storage and shops (some inside of shipping containers) that...

A very sweet but seemingly picky homeless cat refused to eat the food that shelter volunteers provided in front of them, but instead preferred to take a “doggie bag” with her. Curious to see what was going on, one of the volunteers followed the cat and to their surprise, a little ginger kitten came running...

In a random, non-sponsored episode of Amazing Places, host Tom Scott visited the San Francisco headquarters of Cloudflare, a reverse proxy company that improves website performance and security. Upon entering the office, Scott encountered a beautiful wall of colorful lava lamps. While pretty to look at, these lamps are actually used to generate cryptographic entropy...

An adorable but demanding little orange kitten named Daisy is very loved by her humans. So much in fact, that the tiny feline refuses to stop meowing unless she is picked up, played with or snuggled. If none of these things are happening at any one time, little Daisy will certainly have something to say...

“Moodles” is a brilliant animation by filmmaker Ari Winkel in which animated human figures that are frozen in place, suddently unravel into shapeless strands of spaghetti. Each vignette is of a different color in order to represent various moods, fears anxieties and emotions such as stress, exhaustion and panic, which are often the only things...

ThinkGeek is featuring a plush Feisty Pets Christmas Bear, who goes by the name Ebenezer Claws, that quickly changes from nice to naughty when squeezed. Ebenezer Claws understands. A holiday Feisty Pet, this adorable teddy bear wears a little scarf and a Santa hat that reads “Naughty/Nice.” And he’s definitely on both lists. You see,...

On the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the kids and a demogorgon from Stranger Things united with the cast of the 1980s sitcom, Perfect Strangers, for an epic “Perfect Stranger Things” mashup. A Mashup of the Opening of Perfect Strangers and the Stranger Things Eerie Theme SongStranger Things Reimagined as a 1980s SitcomWhat the...

Braziliandanny created an amusing video where they used the new Animoji feature of the iPhone X to recreate popular movie scenes. They featured scenes from Pulp Fiction, A Few Good Men, and Star Wars: A New Hope. iPhone X Users Make Animals Sing in Hilarious Karaoke Videos Using the New Animoji FeatureRick and Morty Claymation...

Davie504, the incredible bassist who is constantly performing in new and creative ways, played an impressive continuous solo on 25 different basses. The instruments ranged from very traditional at various price points to rather esoteric, including a triple neck bass, a 15-string bass and an incredible 24-string behemoth that he’s sure to bring back soon....

At the end of 2016, Larry Smith, the creator of Six Word Memoirs and friend of Laughing Squid, partnered with the ABC television show Fresh Off the Boat to put out a call for six word stories about how a nation of immigrants came to the United States. The call received well over one million...

In a fascinating essay, video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter looks into the specific origins of time travel, when the genre was first developed and how it made its way into in popular culture through the advent of utopian fiction as a basic narrative of cause and effect. Human beings have...

While promoting his new film Thor: Ragnarok, the wonderfully affable Jeff Goldblum sat down with Wee Claire of the BBC Scotland show The Social to answer a few Scottish-themed questions about the end of the world. Claire asks Jeff about his survival skills (since Thor: Ragnarok is all about the end of the world). She...

While on a walk with his human in Stonehaven, Scotland, a very clever dog named Bailey came upon a sign featuring a yummy sandwich. Bailey must have thought he hit the jackpot with a giant sandwich all to himself. After giving a few sniffs, however, a confused Bailey couldn’t figure out how to get it...

Toymaker Kevin Holmes of 4-Mation created an handmade zoetrope that features 3D printed green fish with yellow fins and big teeth endlessly dining upon other fish while spinning. This and another zoetrope of the company’s design featuring frogs ceaselessly jumping upon lily pads, were made from a modular 3D kit of original design, which will...

Philadelphia artist and teacher Andrew DeGraff has released Cinemaps, his new book filled to the brim with incredibly detailed illustrated maps of thirty-five popular movies. It features maps and the charted routes of major characters from beloved films like The Princess Bride, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, Ghostbusters, and The Breakfast Club. The hardcover and Kindle edition...

A post shared by Quimera twofacedcat (@gataquimera) on Sep 9, 2016 at 12:24pm PDT A beautiful longhaired tortoiseshell cat quite appropriately named Quimera has a unique chimeral face that is divided almost perfectly in half. Quimera’s adorable little visage sports black fur and a blue eye on one side and orange fur and a gold...

To celebrate the second season of Stranger Things being released on Netflix, guitarist Eric Calderone (a.k.a. “331Erock“) performed a heavy metal cover of the song, “Kids,” from season one of Stranger Things and the original Ghostbusters theme song. A post shared by Eric Calderone (@331erock) on Nov 3, 2017 at 5:56pm PDT A Heavy Metal...

In a simultaneously heartbreaking and inspirational episode of “Binging With Babish“, host Andrew Rea revealed his normally hidden face to talk about Garmt van Soest, a devoted fan and good friend who passed away on October 28, 2017 from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in his native Utrecht. Garmt van Soest was quite a known figure...

For his two-part VFXcool series, Captain Disillusion explores how the diverse visual effects were made in the Back to the Future trilogy. Captain Disillusion teamed up with London YouTuber Ami Yamato to demonstrate how the moving split screen shots were accomplished in the films. How the Mandela Effect Causes People to Share False Memories and...

In fascinating behind-the-scenes footage from the excellent BBC Earth series Blue Planet II, marine researchers got into their submarine and dove deep into the water in order to determine what happened to the body of a deceased whale. Once they reached the seabed, they found a frenzy of enormous sharks who were fighting for possession...

District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp of Oats Studios is back to “test the waters” with Praetoria, their mysterious new sci-fi short film about a troubled General Krisch who is decked out in futuristic armor and wielding an intimidating sword. The short teaser features Krisch and his crew taking on an intergalactic mission to...

For his six-part web series, How to Learn Anything, Stephen Robinson of 52 Skillz spent three months learning how to do the splits and building a life-size remote control Jeep. For his stunt, he had to do the splits while flipping a remote control Jeep over in a field. Tiny Tortoise Scurries After Erratic Remote...

And then we proceeded to waste half our day. #animojikaraoke #iphonex #queen #bohemianrapsody #carriedaway pic.twitter.com/4TBBg6qQKS — Mia Harrison (@ManxomeMia) November 4, 2017 During the Apple Event in September 2017, the audience looked on interest and amusement when Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi made animal faces and sounds while showing of the...

Musician and comedian Mike Phirman humorously turned video of a long stack of parking restriction signs in Culver City, California into a classic Star Wars opening crawl. Star Wars Intro Creator, A Website That Lets You Write Your Own Star Wars Style Opening CrawlStarRSS, A Creative RSS Feed Styled After the Iconic ‘Star Wars’ Opening...

Father and son team Dan and Lincoln Markham of What’s Inside cut open the newly released iPhone X to find out what all is inside of the animoji making machine. Cutting Open a Big Mouth Billy Bass Singing Fish to Find Out What’s InsideiPhone 7 Plus TeardowniFixit Teardowns of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c

On the latest episode of Saturday Night Live, host Larry David got back into his role as Bernie Sanders for an amusing “The Price Is Right Celebrity Edition” sketch. The cameo-filled sketch featured Alec Baldwin as Tony Bennett and Miley Cyrus appearing as Chris Hemsworth‘s (Alex Moffat) teammate, alongside his real life brother Liam Hemsworth....

This lady dropped her hat, and Houston came in clutch to get it back up to her #earnedhistory pic.twitter.com/1thxzO7B6i — enokez (@AlanEnokian) November 3, 2017 Alan Enokian posted a video on Twitter of Astros fans helping out a fellow fan at the official World Series parade in downtown Houston. A woman accidentally dropped her hat...

Colorado artisan Randy Rollheiser has created an absolutely gorgeous line of wall hanging shelves that are built directly into the hollowed out bodies of recycled acoustic guitars, guitar cases and even recycled violins. All of these items are handmade and available through the aRRTstudios Etsy store. I believe my shop offers some truly unique items...

A Laurel, Montana homeowner was surprised to see a giant flock of birds suddenly and inexplicably descending upon his lawn. Luckily, he kept his wits about himself to not only record the event, but to do so horizontally. The birds left as quickly as the arrived, rolling off the lawn in gorgeous waves. I saw...

Robert Bobo, a motivate and inspired contrabassoon player is designing and building an original “Subcontrabassoon” – a unique instrument of his own invention. Similar to the subcontrabass saxophone, the subcontrabass tuba and the Tubax, Bobo is creating his instrument to play at full octave range lower than his existing instrument. In choosing the low range...

Feeling a bit peckish, a rather cautious Simon went to the kitchen to make himself a ham sandwich carefully looking around for any unexpected surprises. As he was preparing his food, Simon’s Cat pressed himself against the kitchen window to warn Simon he only had a limited amount of time before the hungry cat was...