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Identical twins Camille and Kennerly Kitt, also known as the Harp Twins performed a beautiful combination acoustic/electric version of the anthemic Black Sabbath song “Iron Man” at the incredible San Filipo Estate in Barrington, Illinois. To accomplish their desired sound, the twins employed the use of three harps and lots of effects between the two […]

A wonderful little rescued beagle/basset mix dog quite aptly named Buddy Mercury loves to sing. While he sings, Buddy also enjoys accompanying himself on piano to make sure that he stays on key. According to his humans, Buddy enjoys all the attention he’s receiving for doing what makes him happy. Buddy, our rescue dog, LOVES […]

“The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch has been subject to a number of different interpretations throughout the years. The iconic triptych has been made interactive, animated, visualized and transcribed musically. In keeping with this theme, the Dutch company Parastone offers wonderfully amusing and collectable figurines of many of the odd characters […]

For his latest episode of Abroad in Japan, British expatriate Chris Broad traveled to Tokyo to spend a night at the Henn-na Hotel that is mainly staffed by robots. Chris was greeted by two animatronic dinosaurs at the front desk, robot fish swimming in a tank, and a talking egg that can help control items […]

In the latest episode of their Trailer Mix series, CineFix imagines what The Silence of the Lambs would be like as a romantic comedy. Related Laughing Squid PostsThriller Film ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ Retold as an 8-Bit Animated Video GameAn Examination of the Balance of Power Between Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter in ‘The […]

In 2013, toll lion posted a hilarious video that captured her pet turtle in the middle of an adorably squeaky sneeze. The force was so strong that it sent the little terrapin straight back into its shell. via Pleated Jeans Related Laughing Squid PostsConfused Golden Retriever Dog Tries to Reach Through a Computer Screen to […]

Artist and designer Daniel de Bruin has created the Neurotransmitter 3000, a 23-Foot tall thrill ride that is controlled by the rider’s biometric data. Daniel built the first phase of the machine as part of his graduation from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in 2015. From then on, he developed a plan to control […]

A post shared by Alex Senna (@alexsenna) on Mar 25, 2017 at 2:01pm PDT Brazilian street artist Alex Senna adorns walls around the world with large scale black and white murals of amusingly elongated characters that have a wonderful familiar feel to them. Several murals feature the warmth of a happy family – posing together, […]

An absolutely adorable set of red panda triplets named Mohan, Raj and Phinju, who were born at the Symbio Wildlife Park in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia on December 25, 2016, bravely explored their surroundings for the very first time. The little trio climbed up and down a big tree, occasionally bumping into one another […]

Paul Sellers, a talented self-described lifestyle woodworker and teacher, shared a wonderfully mesmeric video that shows how he expertly forms loose Fibonacci spirals from a block of wood with his trusty razor-sharp chisel. Though Fibonacci developed his numerical sequence to provide a formula that’s used throughout many mathematical considerations, and mathematicians may enjoy its reality […]

“INORI (Prayer),” is an unreal art project by producer Nobumichi Asai and and CG artist Shingo Abe that uses real time face tracking and projection mapping at 1,000 fps. The Japanese dancing duo, Aya Sato and Bambi, groove to the beat while various images are projected onto their faces and almost seamlessly contorted throughout the […]

The 12-sided Dodecagaon Tactile Toys by Tate Selection are designed to calm your wandering mind with a unique game on each side. Both the green and white dodecagaon tactile toys are available to purchase from the Laughing Squid store for $19.99 (60% off retail price). Maintaining perfect focus for 40 (or more) hours every week […]

In a tasty episode of Binging With Babish, host Andrew Rea demonstrated how to make his recreation of Chef‘s legendary chocolate salty balls from South Park. South Park is home to a surprising number of tempting foodstuffs. Granted, they’re all subtly gross in one way or another, but that doesn’t make Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls […]

ViralHog shared dashcam footage of a Russian man attempting to fix a crosswalk light with a stick, but instead accidentally makes the already broken light come crashing down in the middle of the street. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Bearded Man in a Red Tie Stands Frozen in Place While Stepping Into a Crosswalk on a […]

Northern Arizona University student and programmer Michael Reeves built a sophisticated pizza box robot that uses a camera and facial recognition software to shoot a laser straight into the eye of anyone who makes the mistake of using it. No matter where your face moves, the robot with track that eyeball down. Super hot 1000 […]

Warped Perception filmed a see-through model rocket engine burning in slow motion to get an awesome up close look at how the inner workings function. We make a See Through Model Rocket Engine to film the inner workings in 4k Slow Motion and Ultra Slow Motion. these are standard estes model rocket engines found everywhere […]

Luna Lee, the talented musician who plays popular songs on her traditional Gayageum, performed a haunting version of the classic David Bowie song “The Man Who Sold the World“. Related Laughing Squid PostsDavid Bowie Performs a Theatrical Version of ‘The Man Who Sold the World’ on a 1979 Episode of Saturday Night LiveMusician Rick Wakeman […]

Musician Roger Brawn and his beautiful gray cat, very graciously demonstrated the delicate process in which a human can successfully put on a pullover sweater without disturbing a feline who may be atop their shoulders. First place the pullover over your head. That’s fairly easy. Then put your left arm in the left sleeve. This […]

During a 2011 performance at Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver’s Bluegrass Festival, musician Josh Williams and his band were playing a beautiful song entitled “Mordecai” when a wayward bird suddenly landed on Williams’ guitar. Barely missing a beat, Williams turned his guitar over and invited the little interloper to sing with him. When the song ended, […]

The music video for “Fat Robot“, a new instrumental single from Sxip Shirey‘s album, A Bottle of Whiskey and a Handful of Bees, features the bespectacled musician as he is surrounded by beautiful women wearing metallic costumes in a surreal space-theme that wonderfully calls to mind both classic science fiction from the 1960s and the […]

Glad News Productions has created a shot for shot remake of one of the saddest scenes from Disney‘s Finding Nemo featuring face-painted humans, not fish. The touching remake, directed by Zachary Gonzales, stars Alex Wiggins as Marlin and Tierney Conley as Dory. Here is the original scene. A post shared by Tierney Conley (@tierneyconley) on […]

Utah artist James “Jimbo” Bennion has created a very clever collection of geektastic pop culture themed chalk art displays for Harmons Grocery in Utah that are used as advertisements. James has shared more of his brilliant pieces of chalk art on Facebook and Instagram. A post shared by Jimbo (@jimbosart) on Mar 24, 2017 at […]

Iftach Gazit, an industrial design student at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design has created Under Pressure, a project that features very useful Tyvek vacuum bags that allow food to be cooked in the washing machine. The name of the bags, Sous La Vie (Under Life), is a clever play on words for the […]

Llamabrain Inc. shared video of a modern coffee vending machine in Japan that lets customers to watch as their hot cup of java is being brewed live on a digital monitor. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsImpress Coffee Brewer CupDiapered Monkey Buys Himself a Drink From a Vending MachineOtter in Japan Will Fetch Your Drink […]

Riz Ahmed, the breakout star of the HBO series The Night Of appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden to spar with the eponymous host in a round of the show’s epic rap battle “Drop the Mic“. Both men started strong, citing socially relevant issues to brutally cut each other down, but in […]

Sketch comedy group The Kloons has created a clever parody commercial for NIKEA, an amusing build it yourself shoe service from Nike and IKEA. The fake commercial offers a do it yourself NIKEA kit or you can hire a certified show assembly craftsman to come to your home and build the shoes for you. NIKE […]

Antonio Conventi (a.k.a. “Jedidiah515“) created an awesome video game mod that brings Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith, from Adult Swim‘s popular animated television series Rick and Morty, to the wild world of Grand Theft Auto V. The dynamic duo gets schwifty throughout the city of Los Santos. Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Untold Truths of Rick […]

The Jenness Farm in Nottingham, New Hampshire has become well known for their goat milk soaps that are made “with the milk from our pampered herd of dairy goats”, their award winning lip balm and as of April 2017, the farm is known for a unique fitness class called “Yoga With Goats“. The class consists […]

Mr. Hacker created a paper disk for an angle grinder and tested it on a variety of objects. Related Laughing Squid PostsA DIY Compact Disc Gun Created to Destroy a Bunch of Defective CDsThe Backyard Scientist Builds a DIY Bullet Time Camera Rig to Film Explosions With a GoProA Compact Disk Powered Paper Airplane Launcher

Snapchat has just released World Lenses, their new series of creative augmented reality filters. Love the new Snapchat update ???????? pic.twitter.com/ZVq5IQ8vBs — Alex Ignat (@dalexandruignat) April 18, 2017 Related Laughing Squid PostsTracee Ellis Ross Introduces Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter to SnapchatSnapchat Filters Imagined in Real LifeSnapchat Introduces Discover, A New Way for Content Creators […]

A post shared by Nikita Golubev (@proboynick) on Apr 18, 2017 at 5:26am PDT Russian artist Nikita Bolubev aka ProBoyNick has created an incredible series of street art that he calls “Dirt Painting”. With this technique, Bolubev cleverly uses the dust from neglected vehicles as the canvases upon which he creates incredibly detailed, sometimes humorous […]

The Pet Collective has assembled a hilarious video compilation of crazy cats with a lot of adrenaline. From cats sprinting underneath tables, cats going crazy over laser pointers, to cats climbing up things, these are just a few of the crazy cats with a whole lot of adrenaline you’ll find in this adrenaline cats video […]

TheRiverMonkey created an amusing sticker to help St Helen’s Farm market their Goats Butter at a Waitrose supermarket in Sussex, England. I printed the label at work, stored it in my car and waited for the moment when I’d remember this at the supermarket. I went out of the shop when I saw the goat […]

This video shows how race organizers allowed people to cross Beacon Street during the Boston Marathon. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsTwo Explosions Take Place Near Finish Line of the Boston MarathonRoller Derby’s Roots in Depression-Era Dance MarathonsImprov Everywhere Enters Unsuspecting Hotel Guests Into an Elevator Marathon Race

POLI’AHU is a gorgeous timelapse filmed above the Mauna Kea Astronomical Observatories, which captures the cloud activity of the day turning into the hypnotically beautiful starry sky at night. At 14,000 feet above sea level, the dormant volcano is the highest point on the big island of Hawaii. Expertly shot by filmmaker Gavin Heffernan of […]

Two Georgia Tech students in Atlanta used their academic skills when creating the “chainsaw trike.” The clever students built their hilarious new mode of transportation by combining an old chainsaw motor with a tiny tricycle. They then took it out for a cruise around campus for all to see. I have a chainsaw…. I have […]

Ten of the baby goats born in 2017 at the Sunflower Farm Creamery in Cumberland, Maine had themselves a lively little pajama party with each of the hircine youngsters dressed up in colorful onesies. The little kids gleefully romped around the barn and took turns jumping off of hay bales, although some were perhaps more […]

Brian David Gilbert has created an amusing new music video about a guy telling to his roommate about give up on his dreams of becoming a baker through song. That is, until his tastes his delicious loaf of bread. Related Laughing Squid PostsMaster Designers Create an Imaginative Doghouse for a Super-Fan of Pixar’s ‘Up’ at […]

Tony Boloney in Hoboken, New Jersey takes Taco Tuesday quite seriously with their massive 30-pound pizza topped with tasty tacos and guacamole. According to Thrillist, owner “Mike Hauke decided on a whim to appease a group of stoned kids with the ultimate munchies snack: tacos on top of pizza.” The massive pizza (which costs $80 […]

Disney and Lucasfilm has released a video montage of some of the most epic moments that took place at the latest Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, Florida from April 13th to 16th. They feature the incredible fans, actors from the films, and some of the future projects that are in development. A post shared by […]

Lives of Women is a wonderful online documentary series that offers an honest look into the experiences, thoughts and feelings of different women from all walks of life. The series was shot by cinematographer Meena Singh with the first seven episodes directed by Rodrigo Garcia (In Treatment). The remaining episodes were directed by showrunner Kestrin […]

In their attempt to help people understand what they may be feeling as of late, The School of Life again tackles the subject of sorrow, depression (non-clinical) and anxiety, analyzing the unusual theory that depression originates with unexpressed anger. One of the strangest but most provocative insights about depression is found in works of psychoanalysis […]

A post shared by Dschwen LLC (@dschwen) on Apr 6, 2017 at 9:05am PDT In an absolutely adorable partner ad by Dschwen LLC for Whirlpool and Best Buy, a heartbroken, lonely blue sock set off in search of its lost mate. Once in the laundry room, the sock climbed a ladder into the dryer, but […]

As a followup to her fascinating timelapse of cell division in a frog egg over a 33 hour period, Wildlife and Science filmmaker Francis Chee created a new, equally fascinating timelapse that starts where her previous one left off shows the amazing process in which the divided cells develop into a tadpole with visible blood […]

Talented illustrator Adam SB has put together a graceful timelapse that shows how to create beautifully ethereal but ephemeral art using droplets of water that are painted onto a smooth surface. via The Awesomer Related Laughing Squid PostsEddie the Great Gray Shark, Ephemeral Wall Art by SnyderEphemeral Rays, Art Installation Featuring Light Bulbs Suspended in […]

The School of Life very ably addresses the unnecessary stigma that surrounds sorrow, anxiety and depression by explaining how these very real emotions are a normal part of the human condition. While it may seem as if feeling these emotions can be an isolating failure within oneself, they are actually incredibly appropriate responses to the […]

In an informative animation, Great Big Story tells the amazing tale of Adolphe Sax. Sax was also known to have survived at least seven harrowing near-death experiences during his childhood before he went on to become the legendary creator of the saxophone and other eponymous instruments. Adolphe Sax will forever be remembered as the inventor […]

In honor of Rogue One releasing on DVD and Blu-ray earlier this month, nerdy and creative father Donovan Ewing (a.k.a. “The Beardless Man“) released a tutorial video where he demonstrates how to make a Star Wars Millennium Falcon tablet theater for kids. A post shared by @iamthebeardlessman on Mar 25, 2017 at 8:47am PDT A […]

A post shared by @rinne172 on Apr 15, 2017 at 5:35am PDT An adorable cat named Maro who seems to enjoy a bit of cosplay, allows himself to be dressed up as the chef of beautifully prepared meals from all over the world whose origins are reflected in his costumes. These meals include recipes from […]

Looper takes a look at some of the most bizarre visual glitches discovered in modern video games. They feature the demon babies in Sims 4, the clipboard glitch in Grand Theft Auto V, and the horrific glitches in Fallout 4. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Look at Some of the Worst Video Game GlitchesPBS Arts: Off […]