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While promoting his new book Are You Anybody?, award-winning actor Jeffrey Tambor of Transparent, Arrested Development and The Larry Sanders Show hilariously sat down with four of his young children to answer their questions about his career. Unfortunately, the children were too young to understand the references in the questions and one child adorably mispronounced […]The post The Young Children of Jeffrey Tambor Hilariously Interview Him About His Award-Winning Career appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Talented musician Rob Scallon used an assortment of bells and a xylophone to perform a rockin’ cover of the song “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Metallica. Fans of Rob can help support his future work on Patreon. Here is the original song. RelatedMusicians Rob Scallon and Sarah Longfield Perform a Ukulele Cover of Slayer’s […]The post Rob Scallon Performs a Cover of Metallica’s Song ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ on Bells and a Xylophone appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A post shared by WeddingLlamas (@weddingllamas) on Feb 19, 2017 at 1:41pm PST The animals of Mtn Peaks Therapy Llamas & Alpacas offer a wonderful service to their Portland, Oregon community through therapeutic visitation and educational events during the week. On the weekends, however, these gentle, friendly animals known as the Wedding Llamas, are available […]The post Formally Attired Therapy Llamas and Alpacas Who Add an Extra Furry Something to Wedding Parties appeared first on Laughing Squid.

On an revealing episode of Cracked‘s Honest Ads series, businessman Roger Horton (Jack Hunter) stars in a commercial that uncovers the truth about how superstores are destroying mom and pop shops in our local communities. Sure, you can buy two 20-gallon drums of mayonnaise for the price of one at your local Superstore, like the […]The post An Honest Ad Revealing How Superstores Destroy Mom and Pop Shops in Local Communities appeared first on Laughing Squid.

One Nation Underwood In a truly chilling trailer for the fifth season of the political drama House of Cards, a truly menacing Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) tells Claire (Robin Wright) of his imminent plan to secure a lifetime appointment to the Presidency by giving to the American people what he decides they need. We have […]The post Frank Underwood Seeks Change in a Chilling Trailer for the Fifth Season of ‘House of Cards’ appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Artist Steve Casino, who’s celebrity peanut art we’ve written about in the past, is back with a collection of vintage wooden pull toys that he made featuring characters from popular television shows and movies. A post shared by Steve Casino (@stevecasino) on Oct 5, 2016 at 12:43pm PDT A post shared by Steve Casino (@stevecasino) […]The post Artist Builds Vintage Wooden Pull Toys Featuring Characters From Television Shows and Movies appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The filmmakers of Macro Room have made a truly hypnotic video in which planetary-themed and other small objects interact with pillows of colored ink that have been freshly and directly injected into water, creating incredible illusory images as seen through a macro lens. RelatedEveryday Mystery Objects Shot Close up With a Macro Lens and Revealed […]The post Hypnotic Video of Small Objects Interacting With Colorful Pillows of Ink Injected Into Water appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Engineer James Cochrane programmed his robotic glockenspiel and a hacked set of hard drives to play a great rendition of Crazy Frog‘s electronic cover of the song, “Axel F.” The Glockenspiel’s servos are controlled by an Arduino Uno, Adafruit Servo Controller and MIDI shield. Hard drives are controlled via a PIC 16F84A microcontroller. Here is […]The post A Robot Glockenspiel and Hacked Hard Drives Perform a Cover of ‘Axel F’ by Crazy Frog appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Photographer Katherine Cundiff took an awesome series of Mad Max: Fury Road themed photos last summer that features children of all ages dressed in steampunk garb and having a blast in the wasteland. Katherine shared her entire photo shoot on Facebook. This was a children’s shoot inspired by Mad Max done last Summer. We used […]The post An Awesome Mad Max: Fury Road Photo Shoot Featuring Children in the Wasteland appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Perhaps bothered by the unpredictable movement and/or the sound it was making, a very clever fox red Labrador retriever named Shasta repeatedly switched off a Roomba vacuum as it was banging its way around the room. Unfortunately, every time Shasta turned the cleaner off, her beloved human asked her sweetly to turn it on again. […]The post A Very Clever Dog Repeatedly Switches Off a Roomba Vacuum Despite Her Human’s Objections appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The very funny Aziz Ansari of the Netflix series Master of None answered 73 random questions posed to him by Joe Sabia of Vogue. During the interview, the high energy comedian made Sabia a smoothie, spoke Italian and attempted to rank his favorite Kanye West albums in order from best to worst. On the eve […]The post Aziz Ansari Tries to Rank His Favorite Kanye West Albums During a Round of 73 Random Questions appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In December 2016, wunderkind Elon Musk mused aloud to his millions of Twitter followers that he wanted to bore a tunnel to escape the frustratingly slow traffic that was keeping him from other, much more important things. In that very moment, he conceived “The Boring Company“. After just a few months, Musk revealed his high-concept […]The post The Boring Company, A Continual Track Tunnel Roadway System Conceived by Elon Musk appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Inside the Magic created a series of sneak peek videos of their awesome early look at Pandora – The World of Avatar, a new land based on James Cameron‘s Avatar film coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida on May 27th, 2017. Meet the Na’vi Shaman of […]The post Early Look at the New ‘Pandora – The World of Avatar’ Expansion Coming to Walt Disney World appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Primitive Technology demonstrates how to make a water powered hammer called a “Monjolo,” commonly used for grinding down grains, with only fire and primitive stone tools. Fans of Primitive Technology can help support his future work on Patreon. I started by making a water spout from half a hollow log to direct water from the […]The post How to Make a Primitive Water Powered Hammer Called a ‘Monjolo’ Used For Grinding Grains appeared first on Laughing Squid.

LEGO Group community specialist Hasan Jensen has unveiled the first look at a commemorative model of the NASA Apollo Saturn V rocket designed by LEGO Ideas members Felix Stiessen (a.k.a. “saabfan“) and Valérie Roche (a.k.a. “whatsuptoday“). The beautiful LEGO model, which stands a little over 3-feet tall, will become available in stores sometime in June […]The post First Look at Official LEGO Model of the NASA Apollo Saturn V Rocket That Stands Over 3-Feet Tall appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Marvel released a behind the scenes video for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 where Chris Pratt (Star-Lord) shows off some of the awesome props from his upcoming superhero film. Pratt is especially fond of his favorite prop of all, Dave Bautista (Drax). Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will blast its way into theaters […]The post Chris Pratt Presents His Favorite Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 2 Prop and It’s Dave Bautista appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In 2015, Ben Higgins, an incredibly talented guitarist for Guitar Master Class musically demonstrated the various distinctive sub-genres that exist within the world of metal within one five minute song. These include blues rock, heavy (hard) rock, heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal, black metal, groove metal, progressive and metalcore, just to name a few. […]The post Talented Guitarist Musically Tells the History of Metal and All Its Sub Genres In a Single Song appeared first on Laughing Squid.

While taking a break from his studies, nature photographer Tyler Hulett mixed $40 worth of art paint with oil and captured the results with his camera. The resulting film entitled “Chromogenesis“, offers a sense of resounding calm as the beads of color randomly move together in a way as to evoke a sense of an […]The post Chromogenesis, Beads Paint and Oil Randomly Move Together to Evoke a Celestial Sky appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In February 2016, a young Romanian man named Cosmin Cioca performed an incredible ten minutes straight of his own style of flute beatboxing to a very appreciative audience at a TEDx event in Bucharest. Cosmin Cioca, this otherwise shy young man, shows onstage a real talent in mixing his flute performance with his passion for […]The post A Young Man Beatboxes While Playing Flute for an Incredible Ten Minutes Straight appeared first on Laughing Squid.

A tiny little tabby kitten and an equally small white bunny hilariously chased one another around the green grassed yard in an absolutely adorable game of tag. No matter how much the kitten tried, however, he couldn’t catch up with the speedy little rabbit who refused to be caught. via Incredible Things RelatedA Fleeing Little […]The post A Tiny Kitten and a White Bunny Chase Each Other Around the Yard In an Adorable Game of Tag appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Wes Modes, an artist and lecturing professor at UC Santa Cruz and a crew full of creative mates built a shanty boat out of found materials and trash and rode down both the Mississippi River and the Tennessee River over the course of the past two summers. The collective purpose of these journeys is to […]The post Artist Rides Rivers in a Homemade Shantyboat to Learn About the People Who Live on the Banks appeared first on Laughing Squid.

For his highly informative video series “Only In Japan“, host John Daub, a Tokyo-based reporter, decided to take a deeper look into the country’s unique fascination with decorated manhole covers. First he attended the annual Manhole Summit, which offered among other wares, manhole trading cards. Daub then traveled to a number of towns across Japan, […]The post How the Beautifully Adorned Japanese Manhole Covers That Tell the History of Each Town Are Made appeared first on Laughing Squid.

French artist Matthieu Robert-Ortis has created really incredible wire sculptures that appear to be one thing when viewed from the front, but then forms another shape when viewed at a different perspective. In a sculpture entitled “The Revolution of Giraffes“, the artist’s clever use of anamorphic techniques first offers the observer the image of two […]The post Amazing Anamorphic Wire Sculptures That Appear to Shift Shape When the Perspective Changes appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The RiffShop‘s David Wu, founder and guitarist of the band Cyborg Octopus, teamed up with vocalist Travis Bartosek to sing an awesome heavy metal tutorial on how to properly drive a stick shift. via Digg RelatedMetalcore Vocalist Linzey Rae Sings a Heavy Metal Tutorial on How to Make Spaghetti and MeatballsMetalcore Vocalist Linzey Rae Sings […]The post A Heavy Metal Tutorial on How to Drive a Stick Shift appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Los Angeles voice actor Mikey Bolts performed the tongue twisting Blackalicious rap song “Alphabet Aerobics” in the voices of popular cartoon characters. Mikey used his vocal skills to effortlessly get into character as Iago from Aladdin, Luigi from the Super Mario Bros., and Peter Griffin from Family Guy. Here is the original song. Related Laughing […]The post Mikey Bolts Sings the Blackalicious Rap Song ‘Alphabet Aerobics’ in Cartoon Voices appeared first on Laughing Squid.

The Garden is about love Great Big Story visited with Bishopville, South Carolina resident Pearl Fryar, who transformed his backyard into an incredibly lavish garden with towering abstract topiaries. Fryar first created his garden in order to constructively prove an ignorant comment wrong and using clippings from the compost dumpster at a local nursery, set […]The post The Talented Topiary Artist Who Created a Magnificent Public Garden From Composting Scraps appeared first on Laughing Squid.

In celebration of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 landing in theaters next week, host Ashley Jenkins of The Know shares details about the superhero team’s history that “goes all the way back to the 1960s.” Related Laughing Squid PostsChris Pratt Shares His Excitement About Working on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2Everything Wrong With […]The post A Brief History of the Guardians of the Galaxy That Goes All the Way Back to the 1960s appeared first on Laughing Squid.

Leigh Lahav has created a clever animated short for the How It Should Have Ended (HISHE) YouTube channel that illustrates the five stages of watching a Disney movie remake. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Animated Short by Leigh Lahav Illustrating the Five Stages of Watching a Marvel MovieThe Five Stages of Watching a Young Adult MovieAn […]

In her latest tutorial video, the super talented Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome demonstrates how make a geektastic Legend of Zelda themed “piescraper” depicting the gigantic Great Deku Tree. We previously wrote about Jessica‘s Kraken piescraper that towers about all other pies. Hi there! I’m back with another Piescraper video tutorial… this time […]

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In the second of the two-part episode “Dinner Date“, Simon’s Cat persisted in rudely interrupting a romantic dinner that between Simon and a lady friend. To reach his ends, the consistently hungry feline scarfed down food when neither of the humans were looking and enlisted an unlikely buddy to scare the female interloper away for […]

In a wonderfully hypnotic film created for the “Made in Sheffield” exhibition at the Millennial Museum Sheffield, the historic British company A L Simpkins Ltd showcased the start-to-finish process by which they make their iconic handmade tinned sweets. Simpkins was founded in 1921 after Albert Leslie Simpkin returned from the First World War. They began […]

A post shared by Aja Trier (@sagittariusgallery) on Feb 16, 2016 at 8:42pm PST Calvin and Hobbes Scotia, New York artist Aja Kusick of Sagittarius Gallery has created a wonderful collection of mashup paintings that merge together pop culture television shows, video games, and movies with the iconic style of Vincent van Gogh‘s oil on […]

While appearing on BBC Radio 1‘s The Matt Edmondson Show, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 star Chris Pratt took on Matt‘s “AlphabetiCall” challenge by prank calling an exotic pet shop and asking for information about his talking stick bug (Baby Groot). Pratt cruised through the conversation with the pet shop employee while starting each […]

On a scorching episode of the First We Feast series, Hot Ones, Guy Fieri conversed with host Sean Evans about his life while powering through a line of progressively spicy wings without flinching. Today is a very special day at First We Feast. After years of dutifully reporting on the Mayor of Flavortown—covering everything from […]

In a mouth-watering episode of Binging With Babish, host Andrew Rea demonstrated how to make Julia Child‘s tasty boeuf bourguignon dish, as seen in the 2009 film Julie & Julia. Frequently, watching a Meryl Streep movie means you’re watching it for Meryl Streep, and not much else. But in the case of Julie & Julia, […]

FlightLapse #01 – MilkyWay offers a stunning look at the night sky on a transatlantic flight from Zurich to São Paulo. Taken by Swiss pilot Sales Wick, a photographer and founder of SkyProduction, the footage captured not only calm of the journey, but an incredible view of the Milky Way and shooting stars as they […]

Filmmaker Kristian Williams who is also known as “kaptainkristian” has created a really thoughtful video essay taking a look at the rise of Wonder Woman from a debut in the back pages of All Star Comics Number Eight (despite the fact Batman and Superman got their own covers) to the forceful symbol of societal progression […]

In his ongoing series to quickly teach himself new skills, Mike Boyd decided that he wanted to learn how to draw dotted lines on a chalkboard without having to lift the chalk off of the board. Boyd was inspired by the technique employed by MIT lecturer Walter Lewin and sought figure out his methodology. I […]

A post shared by Little Damage Ice Cream shop?? (@little.damage) on Apr 12, 2017 at 11:58am PDT Little Damage Ice Cream shop in downtown Los Angeles is making a name for itself for their wonderfully unusual cones made with unique natural flavors that include a rotating flavor black ice cream and accompanying cones made with […]

The Q channel demonstrates how to make awesome automatic Wolverine claws from 15 wooden Popsicle sticks, 6 rubber bands, a piece of paper, and glue in their latest DIY tutorial video. Related Laughing Squid PostsHow to Make a Miniature Crossbow Out of Household ItemsHow to Make an LED Arcade Cabinet For Your Phone Out of […]

Saturday Night Live created a behind the scenes video to show off how their VFX department makes the awesome visual effects for various sketches. Related Laughing Squid PostsFixing Breaking Bad, A Parody Series That Tries to Improve ‘Breaking Bad’ With Special EffectsPortal: No Escape, A Live-Action Short Film Based on the Video Game PortalStar Wars Toy […]

JP Lambiase and his wife Julia of HellthyJunkFood demonstrate how to make a giant version of McDonald’s tasty Egg McMuffin sandwich. They shared the full recipe on the HellthyJunkFood website. This sandwich is the reason why I get frisky for Mickey D’s. Don’t ask us how we pulled this off. Just watch the video. Ronald, […]

Ithaca Audio the brilliant minds behind the incredible mock Facebook timeline to tell the history of rock music, have once again shown their amazing creativity with a new film entitled “The Typewriter“, a 35-track audio visual mashup performed live on a hacked 1920s Remington portable typewriter. Using a manual typewriter to create a real time […]

Scott Wadsworth of Essential Craftsman demonstrates how he managed to successfully cook a delicious pepperoni and mushroom pizza in only 1 minute 35 seconds inside his 800° metal working forge. I have wanted to try this for a long time. Worked pretty good I gotta say! via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsA Fascinating Video of […]

In a fascinating Ted Ed lesson based upon the work of educator Emma Bryce and animated by Sashko Danylenko, a narrator explains the physiological reasons behind skin itches, what causes itching and how the act of scratching an itch is really a distracting misdirections that tricks the brain into feeling a sense of relief. Researchers […]

Engineer Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day is back again to demonstrate the insane strength and fragility of glass Prince Rupert’s Drops, which were made by Cal Breed at Orbix Hot Glass, by shooting them with .22 magnum and .38 special bullets. He filmed the entire event in slow motion at 170,000 fps. Last year […]

A post shared by shusaku takaoka (@shusaku1977) on Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00pm PDT Japanese graphic designer Shusaku Takaoka creates incredible digital collages that seamlessly combine together the subjects of such iconic paintings as Girl With a Pearl Earring, Mona Lisa, The Birth of Venus and various self-portraits by Vincent Van Gogh, into young, modern […]

A adorably determined cat in the Netherlands named Hylke attempted to reign in his independent back paw for a good cleaning. The hilariously errant limb remained uncooperative, so the clever cat played along until he could he could trap it for washing. According to Hylke’s human, this happens at every bath time. Hylke is a […]

In an really interesting episode of MinuteEarth, host Kate Yoshida visually responded to a viewer who asked why, if wool clothing shrinks when it gets wet, why don’t sheep? Yoshida explained that it isn’t only water that makes the garment shrink, it’s the heat and bustle of a washer that breaks down the protective structure […]