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Leaked footage from the upcoming Rogue One sequel is starting to spread online. Thanks David Klass! Related Laughing Squid PostsA Mashup of Pixar’s Animated Films and the Second Rogue One TrailerRogue One Easter Eggs and ReferencesRogue One: A Star Wars Story Celebration Reel Features New Behind-the-Scenes Footage

The United States Postal Service has introduced The Most Wonderful Ornament, a festive connected device designed to track holiday packages. The ornament displays tracking updates like when the package arrives and even when the box is opened using a colored display. This season, we’re introducing an innovative way to experience the joy of gift giving. […]

Appearing to be in somewhat calmer state than when he watched the trailers for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the excitable Kylo Ren sat down to give an honest review of the film in a new video by the Auralnauts. Now the dark warrior didn’t hold back on his criticism of the movie, nor […]

Saturday Night Live released a behind-the-scenes look at the crew completely changing the set between the show’s cold open and monologue during the December 17, 2016 episode hosted by Casey Affleck. The change took just under two minutes, the length of time it takes to run the show’s opening credit sequence. A behind-the-scenes look at […]

Filmmaker Devin Graham (a.k.a. “Devin Super Tramp“) teamed up with visual effects artist Clinton Jones to create a real life version of Super Mario Run where free run athlete Calen Chan dresses as Mario and uses his parkour skills to collect coins and save Princess Peach from a group of Shy Guys. A photo posted […]

A photo posted by Scott Beale (@scottbeale) on Dec 21, 2016 at 4:44pm PST Last night we went to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story at Cinépolis Chelsea and at the concession stand they were offering a limited edition Death Star Combo featuring a really cool Death Star popcorn tub filled with popcorn, a […]

Vsauce host Michael Stevens explains the science of spinning and how gyroscopes seem to defy gravity. Although their behavior can seem strange, gyroscopes behave exactly how physics dictates they should. Stevens explains the complex ways they move as well as other principles like the Coriolis effect. Related Laughing Squid PostsHow to Defy Gravity with a […]

Recards are special greeting cards that allow you to construct a manual turntable from the packaging and a needle to then play a fun birthday or Christmas message using the included 7″ vinyl record. They are available to purchase from the Recards store. via The Awesomer Related Laughing Squid PostsTurntable WristwatchSong by Scottish Band FOUND […]

An eight-year-old boy receives a strange and unexpected Christmas present in a VHS tape from 1992 found in a thrift store by the comedy channel Buh. A family VHS tape uncovered from a thrift store shows one of the best gifts ever (12/25/1992). Related Laughing Squid Posts‘How to Have Cybersex on the Internet’, A Hilarious […]

In 2012, Mike Tamplin of Semi Sweet Designs used original artwork by Glen Hanson to create a series of delicious cookies depicting Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia of the The Golden Girls television show. images via Semi Sweet Designs via Nerdist, Foodiggity Related Laughing Squid PostsLEGO Set Based on NBC’s Classic Sitcom ‘The Golden Girls’ […]

Up Side Down is an online geography quiz that reorients the countries, cities, and bodies of water of the world to create a new challenge. We’ve taken the world map, spun it around, ripped out chunks and reoriented it to show how a minor change can shift our point of view. Who says Cape Town […]

Adam Cox of Creatura has created “Ginger Cat vs The Paper Army 2,” a follow-up to his 2013 short film where a small paper army beefs up and goes to war with a villainous house cat for a second time. Will they finally be torn to shreds? Or can the General lead his men to […]

A photo posted by roman_fedortsov (@roman_fedortsov) on Dec 12, 2016 at 8:08am PST Roman Fedortsov, a deep-sea fisherman in Murmansk, Russia happily shares photos of the incredibly fascinating, unusual and somewhat disturbing discoveries that he’s made, some of which have rarely been seen by land dwellers outside of scientific endeavors, museums and aquariums. While many […]

The Toys Asia has created a life-size and fully animated version of Iron Man‘s Mark 43 (Mark XLIII) armor that was seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Chinese company spent two years developing the 1:1 scale model featuring 46 motors that power the 567 amazing moving parts. via Toy People, io9 Related Laughing Squid […]

Officer Martin Folczyk of the Menomonie Police Department helped a University of Wisconsin-Stout student tie his tie after pulling him over for speeding. The student was running late for a presentation and didn’t know how to tie the tie himself. Related Laughing Squid PostsPuzzling Evidence Releases His Video Archives To The WorldA TED-Ed Animation Describing […]

After watching his friends Mark Crilley and Jazza perform a speedy art challenge, Ubisoft artist James Raiz (a.k.a. “The Box Office Artist“) took it upon himself to do a 10-minute, 1-minute, and 10-second sketch of Batman. James’ 10-second drawing looks like how my 10-minute sketch would turn out. A photo posted by James Raiz (@boxofficeartist) […]

Casey Neistat gives an inside look at the world’s largest homemade drone that he used to launch himself on a snowboard for his “Human Flying Drone” Christmas video. The drone spans 10 feet and makes use of 16 rotors on independently controlled motors that can provide up to 150 lbs of thrust and enough lift […]

Wes Anderson has announced his new stop-motion animated film, Isle of Dogs, and gave viewers a very quick look at Edward Norton‘s canine character named Rex. Anderson also teamed up with the fundraising website, CrowdRise, to hold a charity raffle and offer one lucky winner the chance to win a trip for two to London […]

CineFix released a mischievous new episode of 8-Bit Cinema where they retell the story of John Hughes and Chris Columbus‘ 1990 Christmas comedy film, Home Alone, as an old-school 8-bit animated video game. This animated episode was created by Norwood Cheek and Raz Mergian. Ho-Ho-Ho-Home Alone returns as a retro action-packed arcade game for your […]

“The Magic of Christmas” is a gruesome animated short, created by Cyriak Harris, that finds Santa Claus stuck inside of a Christmas tree and pooping out presents filled with deadly baby ornament spiders. The creepy crawly spiders find old Saint Nick to be rather tasty. A little something to celebrate the end of a wonderful […]

CableTV.com has created a map of the United States that features the most popular holiday movie in each state. As you can see, there are some titles that come up consistently across large parts of the United States. Elf (2003), the story of Buddy and his quest to find his father, dwarfs the competition. Many […]

http://nanofabrication.tumblr.com/post/154552479516/the-worlds-smallest-snowman-stands-less-than-3 A truly teeny tiny snowman has been created using three 0.9 micron silica spheres, a face carved with an ion beam, and with arms and a nose made of platinum. The image was created at Western University in Ontario, Canada using electron beam lithography. The World’s Smallest Snowman stands less than 3 microns tall. […]

In the true adventurous spirit of allowing oneself to get stung or bitten by insects, BBC Earth Unplugged host Maddie Moate, under the expert guidance of Dr. James Logan, stuck her arm into a mosquito box and let the little parasites suck away at her blood. To date, Maddie has had her blood sucked by […]

In honor of the holiday season and the release of Rogue One, the tough but lovable Chewbacca performed a touching rendition of the classic Christmas carol “Silent Night” in his native Shyriiwook.The effect was achieved through a montage created by the folks at How It Should Have Ended using Scott Andersen‘s very clever idea. Merry […]

During a fascinating real-time demonstration in 2016, two very talented sculptors – Professor Sarath Chandrajeewa of the University of Visual and Performing Arts in Sri Lanka and Professor Cao Chang Xu of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing – simultaneously carved each other’s likeness out of clay in less than ten minutes. via […]

In an Peanuts-inspired clip from Adam Ruins Everything, Adam Conover explains the raucous and pagan origins of Christmas traditions, and how it came to be thought of as a more somber religious holiday. Instead of worrying that Christmas isn’t Christian anymore, maybe just let people celebrate the way they want. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Quick […]

Scientists with the Australian Antarctic Division deployed a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) from O’Brien Bay in East Antarctica to offer a rare glimpse into the flourishing flora and fauna that thrives beneath the thick protective frozen layer of the vast Antarctic Sea. We’re diving under the sea ice in O’Brien Bay, south of Casey research […]

In order to find out what makes certain Christmas songs sound so comforting and cozy“, videographer Estelle Caswell of Vox spoke with journalist and professor Adam Ragusea about his wonderful musicological explanation of the now-classic Mariah Carey song “All I Want For Christmas” on Slate. What Ragusea discovered when comparing the aforementioned song with Darlene […]

Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer from Corridor Digital launched a GoPro from their powerful “Master Blaster” air cannon to capture the view as the camera sails through the air. Pueringer said they liked the effect of launching a GoPro with an arrow, but wanted to keep the camera in the air longer. Potato Cannon we […]

Hasbro has released Clue: Star Wars Edition, an interesting Star Wars version of the classic Clue murder mystery board game. The object of this game, however, is to steal the plans, escape the 3D Death Star, and finally save the entire galaxy as Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, R2-D2, or C-3PO. It is currently available to […]

The filmmakers at Corridor Digital have created “Darth Santa Strikes Back!,” a fun Star Wars themed Christmas video where young Kylo Ren spends time with Grandpa Darth Vader during the holidays. The two cause plenty of trouble around town while getting in some much-needed bonding time. This was a sequel to their 2015 Christmas video, […]

The staff of Conan compete in an over-the-top holiday sweater competition with garments that feature Santa’s sleigh, a mountain with working ski lift, and a full nativity scene. Can anyone top Barbara’s “My Body Is A Winter Wonderland” holiday sweater? Conan is definitely going to try. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Holiday Sweater That Reads ‘Merry […]

Blink Productions, the creative house behind such masterpieces as Buster the Boxer and “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, has created “The 12 Days of Christmas – A Tale of Avian Misery” a brilliant animation that offers a literal interpretation of the classic Christmas song. From the narrator’s (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) hilarious viewpoint, the gifts offered by […]

In episode 5 of the series Coolest Thing I’ve Ever Made, Bill Wann of Aquarium Engineering shows off his elaborate handmade 20,000 gallon reef tank. The tank is so large that Wann had to design a house around it, and he has to suit up in full scuba gear in order to get in and […]

In a fascinating episode of the wonderful Time series “100 Photos“, the voice of Rockefeller Center archivist Christine Roussel shares the history of the incredibly famous 1932 photo entitled “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper“, featuring brave, but unknown men eating 800 feet off the ground. The question of the names of all these men comes up […]

The Holiday Card Plott3r is a robot built by Sanjay and Arvind Seshan with LEGO Mindstorms that quickly prints and signs holiday cards. Users can select the design by placing a cube in the desired configuration to draw a snowflake, a Christmas tree, or even Santa’s signature. The Holiday Card Plott3r solves the holiday card […]

In the ninth episode of the wonderfully informative series “Simon’s Cat Logic“, animal behaviorist Nicky Trevorrow explains why cats like to hunt while Simon Toland illustrates a scene in which a determined Simon’s cat chases after an acorn-flinging fleeing squirrel. Cats are perfectly adapted to hunting, they have excellent eyesight, and they can see low […]

In the absolutely creepy psychological horror film A Cure for Wellness, directed by Gore Verbinski, an ambitious employee (Dane DeHaan) is sent to a remote Swiss wellness spa to locate the company CEO and bring him back home. Instead, the hapless young man finds himself infected after a car accident and at the mercy of […]

With Christmas fast approaching, the team at Creative Lighting Displays created a fascinating Christmas light show synced to Luke Bryan‘s version of the classic holiday song “Run Rudolph Run,” which was originally made famous by Chuck Berry in 1958. Related Laughing Squid PostsAmazing Christmas Light Show Synced to Iconic Star Wars SongsBing Crosby Sings a […]

Vsauce2 host Kevin Lieber collaborated with Two Bit Circus VR to create an interactive 360° video that turns you into a virtual realty Tyrannosaurus rex. Kevin explains everything that he knows about the prehistoric dinosaur while we stand tall as a “tyrant lizard.” Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Interactive 360 Degree YouTube Video Featuring 500 Episodes […]

Cookie Monster reads “A Visit From St. Nicholas” (commonly known as “Twas the Night Before Christmas”) while trying not to eat Santa’s cookies in a Christmas video by Sesame Street. Twas the night before Christmas and Cookie Monster was having a real hard time controlling himself. All those delicious cookies for Santa Claus were just […]

ThinkGeek is featuring an officially licensed Star Wars Death Star Bean Bag Chair Cover that will create a “looming presence of the Empire in your house.” The Death Star bean bag chair cover, which does not come with its own fill, is “perfect for Sith Lords, stormtroopers, and Imperial officers.” Fight back against the Empire […]

Figured out how I'm gonna keep these AirPods from falling out of my ears pic.twitter.com/5AKmzVIX5b — Andrew Cornett ????????? (@amotion) December 21, 2016 Andrew Cornett posted a photo of himself using his stretched ear piercings to keep his wireless Apple AirPods from falling out. Some customers have expressed concern that the small wireless earbuds would […]

Mondo is featuring a collection of awesome Christmas ornaments based on the fiendish 1980s toy rubber balls, Madballs, and a metallic sentinel sphere from Don Coscarelli‘s classic horror film, Phantasm. The 4-pack Madballs set (Slobulus, Horn Head, Skull Face, and Dust Brain) and Phantasm sentinel sphere ornaments are available to pre-order from the Mondo shop […]

Bodega Studios, Northern Lights, Mr. Wonderful, and SuperExploder have created “Barb’s Revenge,” their new holiday stop motion animation where a marshmallow Marty McFly and a Ghostbuster join forces to save Stranger Things‘ Barb from the demonic Demogorgon. We previously wrote about Bodega Studios’ Ghostbusters animation from 2014 and Marty McFly animation from 2013. image via […]

Jimmy Fallon teamed up with The Roots, Paul McCartney, and the star studded cast of Sing to perform an a cappella cover of McCartney’s 1979 Christmas song, “Wonderful Christmastime,” on a festive episode of The Tonight Show. Related Laughing Squid PostsPaul McCartney And Jimmy Fallon Sing Scrambled EggsJimmy Fallon, The Roots, and Music Superstars Sing […]

KQED Arts spoke with the projectionists of San Francisco’s famous Roxie Theater to learn more about their craft, what it means to them, how there will always be a need for this skill and the pride of a job well done. The thing about this place. They still have projectionists to do video. In most […]

The Unipiper is back, this time as Santa playing the flaming bagpipes and holding a stack of presents while riding a unicycle around downtown Portland, Oregon. A photo posted by Brian Kidd (@theunipiper) on Dec 19, 2016 at 1:31pm PST Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Unipiper Playing the 1812 Overture With Flaming Bagpipes While Riding a […]

In 2009, Los Angeles balloon artist and musician Addi Somekh performed a range of songs with his amazing balloon bass. Somekh’s friend Andy Sanesi joined in with percussion created from a wooden box. Addi Somekh plays a bass that is made 100% out of latex balloons and air. It is built using an 11 inch […]

An adorable little kitten named Selenite found the comfort that he craved by clinging onto a therapeutic salt lamp that emitted a soft amber glow that warmed the young feline’s bones. Selenite’s human, Celeste Louise Broxsom, who works at Island Iridology and Holistic Healing on the island of Fiji, says that this is a pretty […]