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Washed Ashore is a community-based organization in Oregon that seeks to raise awareness about ocean pollution, particularly plastics. The group organizes beach cleanups to gather as much debris as possible, from which artist and founder Angela Haseltine Pozzi creates amazing giant sculptures of sea creatures known as “Ambassadors“, who travel the country to teach about […]

It’s not a what. It’s a when. The comedic trio of Brian Huther, Ben Auxier, and Seth Macchi of Friend Dog Studio have created an absolutely brilliant trailer in which a menacingly personified 2016 stalks a happy couple with all sorts of news about death, politics and technology. The film promises to be the most […]

The film series, Eyes on Cinema, shared delightful footage from 1980 of Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill appearing on the BBC children’s television program, Blue Peter, to chat about what it was like filming Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Carrie and Mark also talked about the future prequels before enjoying a bowl of “Star […]

Kuma Films has captured footage in California of Los Angeles card illusionist Zach Mueller of Fontaine Cards manipulating a deck of cards in unbelievable ways while hanging out on the Santa Monica Pier. We have previously written about Zach and his masterful card tricks. A photo posted by Kuma Films (@kumafilms) on Dec 19, 2016 […]

Ukranian material artist Yuliya Kosata has created a truly imaginative line of cat caves that add a bit of wonderfully surreal fantasy to a feline’s life. Using exaggerated angles and bright colors, these caves bring a bit of Dr. Seuss‘s distinctive style home. The caves and meta cat toys (with accompanying cat caves) are available […]

ElectroBoom host Mehdi Sadaghdar celebrated the holidays and the end of 2016 by having his Tesla coil play The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. As the music played, Sadaghdar demonstrated his coil’s capabilities with pieces of wire, lightbulbs, and other objects, all while only shocking himself a few times. Let’s celebrate the end of 2016 with a […]

ThinkGeek has created an officially licensed Pikachu Cake Pan for making “perfect Pokémon themed cakes every time.” Remember to grease the head and body of your Pikachu before putting it into the oven. You know Eddie Izzard’s sketch about cake or death? ProTip: when given this choice, always choose cake. So, yes, we can definitively […]

Assembli, a Dutch brand made up of designer Joop Bource and the Lankhorst print company, created a series of marvelous DIY paper beetle sculpture kits featuring the Atlas beetle, Hercules beetle, and Stag beetle. The paper beetle kits are available to purchase from their website and Etsy shop. The fascinating world of insects inspired Assembli […]

The PFM-A5 v2.0 by Papierfliegerei is a 3D-printed paper airplane gun that folds and fires at a rate of 120 planes per minute. The PFM-A5 v2.0 is an upgrade from the original model and features easier to maintain parts and a faster rate of fire. via The Red Ferret, Gizmodo Related Laughing Squid PostsA 3D-Printed […]

Original video, authorisation from the owner. Essential, no one could predict the accident but the radar did and acted by emergency braking. pic.twitter.com/70MySRiHGR — Hans Noordsij (@HansNoordsij) December 27, 2016 Hans Noordsij shared a video of the Autopilot feature of a Tesla electric car predicting an accident two cars ahead of itself and automatically braking […]

Great Big Story visited the Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop in Teshie, in Greater Accra, Ghana, a family business whose skilled craftspeople create amazingly expressive and wonderfully creative custom coffins designed to reflect and celebrate the life of a loved one who has passed. Creative expression is part of what makes us human — why should […]

Talented musician Steve Onotera (a.k.a. “Samuraiguitarist“) has released a video where he plays a mashup of some of the biggest music hits from 2016 in the beautiful style of Chet Atkins. Fans of Steve can help support his future work on Patreon. Related Laughing Squid PostsSamuraiguitarist Plays a Cover of the Super Mario World Soundtrack […]

Youtube Master has created a supercut video featuring all of Stan Lee‘s comical cameos in Marvel films. via The Daily Dot Related Laughing Squid PostsA Trailer Mix of Stan Lee’s Marvel Cinematic Universe Cameos Imagining Him as The WactherMTV Points Out and Explains Nearly Every Hidden Easter Egg Found in Marvel FilmsEvery Stan Lee Cameo […]

Cinema Relics has finally released Fan-O-Rama, their unofficial 30-minute live-action fan film based on Matt Groening‘s popular animated sci-fi series Futurama. We previously wrote about Tested‘s behind the scenes look at the fantastic fan film. A photo posted by Cinema Relics (@cinemarelics) on Dec 22, 2016 at 9:33am PST A photo posted by Cinema Relics […]

Simon Whistler explains why seats don’t line up with the windows on airplanes in a revealing episode of Today I Found Out. The cause has to do with airlines trying to maximize the number of passengers per flight by using different seating configurations than manufacturers recommend. While airplane manufacturers do design the planes with general […]

Eyes On Cinema shared behind the scenes footage of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher having a few laughs while in character as Grand Moff Tarkin and Princess Leia Organa on the set of Star Wars: A New Hope. Related Laughing Squid PostsCarrie Fisher Returning to Star Wars as Princess LeiaPhotos of Famous Film and TV […]

French artist and video editor Pierre-Alexandre Chauvat is back again with “Everybody Wants to Kill Bruce 2,” a sequel to his original action movie mashup from 2013. This time around, Bruce Willis wakes up and finds himself, once again, being pursued by an entire city. Chauvat features scenes from The Fifth Element, Looper, Pulp Fiction, […]

Debbie Reynolds, the legendary award-winning actress, singer and humanitarian passed away on the evening of Wednesday, December 28, 2016, just one day after the unexpected death of her daughter Carrie Fisher. Ms. Reynolds was 84-years old. This tragic turn of events has left many people bewildered and saddened. Ms. Reynolds’s son Todd Fisher spoke with […]

David Letterman is most known as longtime talk show host, but he also appeared in a few acting roles during his career including this clip from the 1979 Mork & Mindy episode “Mork Goes Erk” where he played the leader of an authoritarian self-help group. via Pat Kiernan Related Laughing Squid PostsDavid Letterman NBC Years […]

Stereokroma created mesmerizing ASMR macro footage of fruits and vegetables being thawed with added foley sound effects to enhance the experience. Each clips starts very close and slowly moves out to reveal the item being thawed. Best experienced with headphones and full screen! It’s fairly mundane when you take something out of the freezer and […]

Filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay created a fascinating video essay that analyzes the how the obsessive character is able to achieve absolute perfection with absolute sacrifice. Using the lead characters from both Black Swan (Nina) and Whiplash (Andrew) as examples, Tucker explains the ordered arc of self-destruction that ultimately leads each character […]

The American Chemical Society series Reactions explains the chemistry of alcohol and how it gets people drunk as well as some of its other effects like making bad decisions, stumbling, and having to pee. It’s almost time to ring in 2017. And since most New Year’s celebrations include alcohol, Reactions’ latest episode explains the chemistry […]

In the wonderfully heartwarming animated short “Hum” by Frame48, a lonely rusty robot who’s relegated to a back room for his entire existence under fear of a human bully, learns through a small intruder that there’s so much more to life than the dishes he’s been programmed to wash. A solitary dish washing robot living […]

As It’s Okay To Be Smart host Joe Hanson points out, 2016 has been a rough year, but to combat that he shares 23 scientific discoveries worth being cheerful about as the year draws to a close. The list includes major events like the completion of the Juno and Rosetta space missions and minor discoveries […]

In 2009, an absolutely beautiful but rather vociferous macaw hilariously shushed the handsome parrot that he saw reflected in the mirror. According to his human, the bird had never done such a thing before. My two year-old Harlequin Macaw talking in the mirror and telling my Blue and Gold Macaw to “sssshhhhh.” This was the […]

Lyuba and Max of Krukrustudio, the Russian team behind the adorable R2-D2-style handbag, have come out with an amazing line of animal and sea creature backpacks and bags, including a felt octopus backpack, a sleeping fox leather purse and a felt clownfish clutch, just to name a few. All of these and more are available […]

On a powerful episode of the AWE Me show DIY Cosplay Shop, created by Michael Rainey, cosplayer and costume designer Elizabeth Rage demonstrates how to make your own version of Saitama‘s iconic superhero costume from the One-Punch Man anime webcomic and TV series adaptation. A photo posted by Elizabeth Rage (@elizabethrage) on Dec 23, 2016 […]

“The Birth of Saké” by Eric Shirai is a beautiful short film that documents the hard work involved with the traditional process of brewing saké at the Yoshida Brewery and the sacrifices that a group of skilled men must make in order to keep the business running and successful. The workers at Yoshida Brewery are […]

While creating his short film “Stainless“, German filmmaker Adam Magyar traveled all over the world and captured through high-speed, black and white photography, the life that exists in the subways, under such cities as Berlin, Sao Paolo, New York City, and Xidan. By slowing down the footage, Magyar brought out the eery, but incredible elegance […]

“Just Add Water” by Great Big Story and CNN Films tells the fascinating and dark history of The Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys and their creator Harold von Braunhut. The “monkeys” are a type of brine shrimp that come to life when the eggs are placed in water, but they are as much of a magic trick […]

In the 27th episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, WatchCut Video provides a visually chronological history of the past 100 years of beauty in Sweden as modeled by Caroline Codd, whose hair and makeup were styled in correlation with the expertly researched trends of the time. images via WatchCut Related Laughing Squid Posts100 […]

Lodz, Poland artist Kamila Krawczyk (a.k.a. “Krawka“) has created an adorable Star Wars themed AT-AT walker crochet pattern to help “medium advanced crocheters” make their very own All Terrain Armored Transport figure. The pattern is available to purchase from her Krawka Etsy store. Crochet walker, when finished, is 26 cm tall (10.2 inches), 28 cm […]

Quince, the newly minted three-star Michelin rated San Francisco restaurant, is offering their diners a truly interactive appetizer. Entitled “A Dog Searching for Gold“, the dish offers a “white truffle croquettes on iPad Pros playing videos of water dog on the truffle-hunt” per a message sent to Richie Nakano aka Line Cook. The concept is […]

A young woman named Leila cries while on anesthesia when she thinks a tank full of fish are drowning despite assurances from the person filming the video that the fish are just swimming. Related Laughing Squid Posts‘Underwater Woman’, A New They Might Be Giants Dial-A-Song Track About an Isolated Life Under the SeaWoman Found a […]

The Fowndry is featuring the Bowler Hat Colander, a flexible polypropylene colander for rinsing off veggies or straining spaghetti that is shaped like a classic bowler hat. Colanders make great hats. But never has a hat made such a great colander. Bowler Hat Colander adds a pinch of Charlie Chaplin eccentricity and a dash of […]

18-year-old Japanese high school student Kiyotaka Mizukoshi (a.k.a. “Mozu“) used handcrafted character figures and miniature sets to create “Maru and Mari,” an amazing stop-motion animation about a young blue robot who attempts to skip detention to meet up with his pink robot friend. Kiyotaka spent five months creating his diorama sets and then another five […]

MinutePhysics and physicist Sean Carroll teamed up to explain why time doesn’t flow backwards in a series of videos that shows the relationship between time and entropy. Related Laughing Squid PostsTiny Rescued Dog Drags Her Plate Backwards Across the Kitchen So She Doesn’t Have to Eat by Herself‘The Black Glove’, An Eerie Video Game That […]

In March 2015, students at the Ikeguchi Laboratory at Saitama University performed a fascinating experiment in which they set 100 colorful metronomes, all ticking at different speeds, upon a floating table. After just few minutes, each metronome amazingly became completely synchronized with the others. It is known that when multiple metronomes are placed on a […]

The American Film Institute shared classic footage of the amazing and powerful Carrie Fisher, who sadly passed away yesterday, hilariously roasting Star Wars creator George Lucas during his AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony that took place back in 2005. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsGeorge Lucas Confirms Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill & Carrie Fisher’s Return […]

Funny or Die and Boo Ya Pictures have created “Why Walt?,” a parody trailer mashup of Bryan Cranston‘s characters in the newly released movie Why Him? and Breaking Bad. When a loving father (Bryan Cranston) discovers his little girl is dating billionaire drug lord Walter White (Bryan Cranston), he will go to any lengths to […]

On a force-filled episode of the AWE Me show DIY Prop Shop, host Hendo demonstrated how to build your very own Star Wars lightsaber. Related Laughing Squid PostsBuild Your Own Star Wars Lightsaber at DisneylandSystm On How To Build An Exact Replica of a Star Wars LightsaberA Star Wars Kylo Ren Lightsaber Room Light

Australian bricklayers filmed a row of bricks falling perfectly into place like dominoes. After the initial toppling, the bricks each nudge themselves tightly into their final position to cap the wall. All we did was shoot a video of capping the wall using the technique that we filmed. via Geekologie Related Laughing Squid PostsAmazing Domino […]

Director and animator Austin Williams (a.k.a. “thebrickranger“) and Paradox Pictures have recreated the trailer for the upcoming Marvel superhero film Logan using LEGO. Here is the original trailer. via Entertainment Weekly Related Laughing Squid PostsAnt-Man Trailer Recreated Using LEGOX-Men: Apocalypse Trailer Recreated Using LEGORogue One: A Star Wars Story Recreated in LEGO

Lord Aussem has created a video where the entire film, Star Wars: A New Hope, is played through to the end and sped up every time someone shoots a laser. They were able to recap the full movie in only 1 minute 13 seconds. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsStar Wars Battle Drones That Fly […]

“China From Above” is a gorgeous compilation of aerial shots taken over China by videographer Stef Hoffer. Hoffer filmed with a DJI Phantom 4 drone and edited the footage to show the diversity of landscapes around the country. This little adventure took me from the Northern ‘rust belt provinces’ to the beautiful mountain landscapes of […]

Blacksmiths operate massive machines to forge large pieces of metal in an fascinating video filmed inside Kihlberg Steel AB in Sweden. Awesome and hypnotic video filmed inside an impressive forgery using a massive pneumatic Hammer. Kihlberg Steel AB is a Swedish company specialized in the forging of a wide variety of parts. via Sploid Related […]

In an episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler reveals the truth about how dangerous piranhas are, and also explains how President Teddy Roosevelt helped skew the truth about the toothy fish for generations. Although still potentially harmful to humans and animals, piranhas are far from the cartoonish eating machines often depicted in […]

Artist Albo has created a wonderful mashup tribute to both the classic cartoon Peanuts and the BBC time-traveling series Doctor Who by positing Charlie Brown‘s iconic dog Snoopy as each of the twelve iterations of the Gallifreyan Time Lord. This very clever design is available through TEEPUBLIC in a variety of forms, such as a […]

In June 2016, a tiny kitten went to sleep in a nice, warm safe place that turned out to be the bumper of a beloved BMW auto belonging to Royal Navy helicopter pilot Lieutenant Nick Grimmer of the 814 Naval Air Squadron. Grimmer had driven the car over 300 miles to his assignment before he […]

Zero is a new app for tracking fasting created by Kevin Rose that is designed to help users keep to a regimented eating schedule. Rose says the inspiration for the app came from learning about the 16-hour fasting regime Hugh Jackman used to prepare to play Wolverine. Zero is available to download now from the […]