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Filmmaker Gioacchino Petronicce has created “Everything Is In Your Hands“, a fascinatingly nimble visual essay that shares the inspiration he garners from the wonder of human hands in motion. Hand : ” The terminal part of the human arm located below the forearm, used for grasping and holding and consisting of the wrist, palm, four […]

Brooklyn illustrator P.J. McQuade has created a new geeky collection of pop culture Christmas cards for 2016 featuring characters from movies and television shows. This year, McQuade added characters from The X-Files, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and more. They are all available to purchase online from his Etsy […]

Canadian musician Christopher Prendergast has created the JamStack, an ingeniously handy lightweight amp that easily attaches directly onto the strap button of any electric guitar or bass (except Flying V‘s) and integrates with most smartphones to provide 10-watts of fully amplified sound. The JamStack works with existing apps as AmpliTube and AmpKit to record tracks, […]

Powerful neodymium magnets dance and snap together in slow motion in a video by TAOFLEDERMAUS. Neodynmium magnets and a high speed camera? It turns out it is, as the kids say, oddly satisfying. I was practicing with some macro shots with the Chronos high speed camera, using LED lighting and filming at around 4000 frames […]

On an interesting episode of the online trivia series, Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains why men’s bikes have a horizontal crossbar and women’s bikes typically do not. It would seem that having a slanted crossbar like on women’s bikes would make much more sense for men’s bikes, decreasing the chance of racking […]

Adam Jakowenko tricks his Amazon Echo and Google Home devices into an infinite loop of asking each other about calendar events. via Coudal Partners Related Laughing Squid PostsGoogle Home, A Device That Uses Conversational Speech to Let Users Interact With Google ServicesAmazon Echo Dot and Amazon Tap, Two New Smaller and Portable Versions of Amazon […]

A very mischievous Simon’s Cat joyfully hid under the freshly laundered bed covers that Simon had just lain on the bed, wanting only to play with his human for a bit. Things got out of hand, however, when his claws dug in a little too deep. A harried Simon wisely offered up treats to distract […]

Jun Yoshizuki of Jun’s Kitchen who is a very talented sushi chef who always cooks with his beloved longhaired orange cat named Kohaku nearby, sharpened a one-dollar knife in such a way as to make it into a tool that rivals the performance of a more expensive knife. Jun demonstrated the results by slicing paper, […]

Smartphone users can now put a virtual White House on a dollar bill with the new 1600 app. The app illustrates White House events and celebrations throughout the year, and is narrated by White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. 1600 is available now in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. As you experience […]

In his wonderful culinary video series “Binging with Babish“, filmmaker Andrew Rea moved away from the innocence of Ross’s stolen sandwich from Friends and instead Rea focused on hard time being done by wiseguys. Specifically, the old-school tomato sauce prepared by Paulie (Paul Sorvino) and Vinnie (Charles Scorsese) during the classic prison dinner scene in […]

Space by Tinybop is the eighth app in their Explorer’s Library suite. It lets kids explore the solar system with interactive games and lessons, and parents can follow along with the Space handbook with tips, facts, and discussion questions. The app is available now in the iTunes App Store. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips Related […]

At approximately 4:30 PM on the afternoon of November 29, 2016, a remarkably brazen thief walked up to an armored vehicle and very casually grabbed an 86-pound bucket containing over $1.6 million worth of gold flakes destined for Canada. The truck was stopped outside of 48 West 48th Street in Midtown Manhattan. The loitering thief […]

Dave Hax demonstrates how to easily screw a Lékué Citrus Sprayer into a lemon and use it for all sorts of household chores in his latest life hack video. Related Laughing Squid PostsFood Life Hacks That Make Life Easier in the KitchenMental Floss Tests Out a Collection of Money Saving Life Hacks to Find Out […]

Felicity Jones guest starred on The Tonight Show and managed to scare host Jimmy Fallon with her fierce Star Wars fight moves. Felicity will be playing the part of Jyn Erso in the fast approaching Star Wars standalone film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which releases on December 16th, 2016. Related Laughing Squid PostsHarrison […]

Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day met with Cameron B. Prince from Tesla Universe and filmed slow motion video of lightning shooting out of a handheld Tesla gun at 28,000 fps. In the video, Sandlin also builds a Tesla coil of his own, explains how they work. Related Laughing Squid PostsTesla Coil Lightning Viewed in Matrix […]

Napoleon Dynamite stars Napoleon (Jon Heder) and Pedro (Efren Ramirez) reunite in Burger King‘s clever commercial for their limited time Cheesy Tots. The tots are available nationwide and come in a box of eight. Cheesy Tots got me like…#CheesyTotsAreBack pic.twitter.com/a8FOLWFK7N — Burger King (@BurgerKing) November 30, 2016 Related Laughing Squid PostsMac n’ Cheetos, Burger King’s […]

A photo posted by theoatmeal (@theoatmeal) on Nov 30, 2016 at 1:16pm PST The Oatmeal illustrates the proper way to use a selfie stick without bothering other people. Related Laughing Squid PostsDigitally Manipulated Movie Stills Where Guns Are Replaced With Selfie SticksPizza Hut Warns of the Dangers of Selfie Stick Use in a Combination PSA […]

Kurzgesagt explains how Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) work and how they are being treated around the world. Although treatable, NTDs largely affect people in remote areas without regular access to care or even basic infrastructure. Thankfully, pharmaceutical companies and governments are working to eradicate 10 NTDs in the next few years. There are a group […]

On an amazing episode of Great Big Story, talented extreme athlete Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham talks about how he doesn’t let his disability get in his way at all when he hits skateparks and pulls off all sorts of insane wheelchair tricks. As one of the pioneering forces behind wheelchair motocross, or WCMX, Aaron is taking […]

Orpheus by ThinkGeek is an absolutely adorable and cheery looking DIY robot who just snaps together easily upon arrival. Orpheus also doubles as a light up music box. With just the turn of his hand-crank, Orpheus will light up, twirl his little head and play a sweet little sad song that could make even the […]

“Different” by Alex Norris on webcomic name Related Laughing Squid PostsWebcomic Name, A Daily Comic Featuring Blob Characters in Silly and Awkward Situations‘Monikers’, An Updated and Illustrated Version of the Classic Party Game ‘Celebrity’Sirron Norris Studio & Gallery Grand Opening

Upon the embarkment of his newest project entitled “Meghalaya“, San Francisco installation artist and longtime friend of Laughing Squid Brian Goggin sat down with Cynthia Stone of KQED Arts to talk about his creative process, his drive and the amazing large-scale creative projects that have literally become a part of the city. These surreal, high-concept […]

For CineFix‘s ongoing Trailer Mix series, New York filmmaker Bobby Burns and Dustin McLean worked together to create a fake movie trailer that reimagines Robert Eggers‘ supernatural horror film, The Witch, as a quirky Wes Anderson movie. H&M just released a Christmas commercial ad directed by the great auteur, Wes Anderson. Now what if he […]

Former NASA engineer and YouTube creator Mark Rober used the scientific method to determine the loudest way to cheer. Rober used special equipment to measure audio levels in a full stadium during a football game, and then returned to the empty stadium with some volunteers to measure how loud various cheering methods are and which […]

Christian Gassner of Rapid Liquid has created a great multitrack video of Gabe, Jesse Hamel‘s cute little dog that’s a mix of American Eskimo and Pomeranian, barking an exuberant version of Mariah Carey‘s song “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Intense Christmas Light Show Synchronized Across a Suburban BlockA Funny […]

New York graphic designer Ji Lee has created the Redundant Clock, a “simple and totally redundant” wall clock that comes equipped with redundant instructions on how to read the Redundant Clock. Lee is currently raising funds on Kickstarter for manufacturing costs. This is a redundant clock, and this is a redundant description. images via Ji […]

A photo posted by Fondoodler (@fondoodler) on Nov 13, 2016 at 3:58pm PST The Fondoodler by the newly established BuzzFeed Product Labs, is a super fun food-safe reloadable hot gun that melts most types of string, shredded, block or sheet-style cheese in a cylindrical canister, just like a hot glue gun. From there it’s easy […]

“The King of Random” Grant Thompson made a realistic four-pound chocolate chicken by pouring melted chocolate into the mold he created by casting a real cooked chicken in silicone. In an effort to meet HUNDREDS of viewer requests, I make another candy chicken, but this time out of solid milk chocolate. This just keeps getting […]

Back in October, Adobe Creative Technologies Lab intern Zeyu Jin announced the addition of VoCo coming to the Adobe Creative Cloud suite at the Adobe MAX 2016 creativity conference, co-hosted by Jordan Peele. VoCo (voice conversion) is one of eleven experimental technologies demoed at the creativity conference. It will allow users to flawlessly edit recorded […]

Comedian Seán Burke shares an alternative guide to London in a sequel to a similarly ridiculous video about Burke’s hometown of Swords, Ireland. Burke focuses on some of London’s tourist attractions, its expensive real estate, and high cost of living. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsWhite Walkers Being Lectured by Their Accountant for Nearly Going […]

Designer Rafael Esquer of Alfalfa New York has created a gorgeous, limited poster entitled Iconic New York Illuminated, which recreates a very specific feeling of being in the midst of Manhattan at night. Inspired by the distinctive style of Gustav Klimt, the poster is made of sparkling foils and metallic inks that reflect beautifully on […]

Ron Munsey, a Bedford, New Hampshire night custodian at Peter Woodbury Elementary School, delightfully surprises the students by creating playful rug art designs each day with his vacuum cleaner. His entire collection of rug designs are available to view on the Peter Woodbury School News blog. Mr. Munsey is new to Peter Woodbury this year. […]

In “Every Story is the Same“, filmmaker Will Schoder explains the history of story structure, starting with Joseph Campbell whose theory of the Monomyth, also known as the “Hero’s journey“, explained what every fictitious story has in common. Schoder then moved on to how Dan Harmon of Rick and Morty and Community fame and his […]

Coders at the Google Creative Lab are working with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to teach an experimental artificially intelligent (AI) database to learn, organize and visualize the incredibly varying sounds of different birds “by ear”, without any other information. Using data from the Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds: Essential Set for North America and […]

Netflix has announced a new feature that will allow subscribers to download content to their tablet and smartphones for offline play. The feature lets users take Netflix movies and television shows with them even when they don’t have internet access. It is available for all Netflix subscribers and works on both Android and iOS platforms. […]

Vox explains how the growing Chinese film market is influencing Hollywood film production. China is expected to soon overtake the United States in box office sales and cinema screens, and American studios have started catering to Chinese audiences. Although Hollywood is pursuing the Chinese market, the Chinese government has tight restrictions on foreign films entering […]

In 1996, legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola sat down with author R.H. Greene to talk about his films, working with Robin Williams and his understanding of death. This interview was wonderfully animated for the lost interview series “Blank on Blank” We move through life very fast and it’s not a matter of how long you […]

BETC Paris has created “Canal Kitchen”, a truly ingeniously zany ad promoting the variety of choices available on the French premium cable television channel Canal+. The scene is set inside a busy French kitchen where skilled chefs cook with colorful ingredients made from the characters from the available television series on the channel. As with […]

Researchers at the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition have programmed the Atlas humanoid robot to walk over partial footholds using a new balancing algorithm. The improved balance lets the Boston Dynamics robot balance on edges that only make contact with part of its feet. In simulation, the robot can also take quick steps over […]

In a Thanksgiving episode of her humorously informative grammar series, the very knowledgable and witty Mary Norris aka “The Comma Queen” explained the proper use of the comparative words “like” and “as” within a descriptive sentence. We’re going to talk about like and as. Like is a preposition and it’s followed by a noun or […]

Google updated their 30-year Google Earth Timelapse with four more years of data and even sharper images from two new satellites, giving a clearer and more complete view of the planet from above. The company partnered with Time to highlight some of the most interesting features on the planet as they change over time including […]

Toronto, Canada artist Douglas R. Witt captured hilarious, yet creepy slow motion footage of his friend’s baby crying. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsDe Staat’s Music Video for ‘Witch Doctor’ Is Creepy, Yet Incredibly MesmerizingAmazing Slow Motion Footage of Big Cats Enjoying a Yummy Treat‘Underwater Diving Dogs’, Slow-Motion Footage of Swimming Canines Doing the Doggy […]

How It Should Have Ended (HISHE) has released episode five of their animated series, Villain Pub, where Batman manages to invade the evil pub lair and engages in a heated boss battle with all sorts of iconic movie bad guys. Related Laughing Squid PostsVillain Pub, A New Animated Series Where Iconic Movie Bad Guys Throw […]

The father and son team of Dan and Lincoln Markham from What’s Inside? got into the Christmas spirit by using a pair of scissors and brute strength to cut open and tear apart a brand new Elf of the Shelf figurine. Elf on the Shelf has been a great thing in our home the past […]

On a magical episode of How To Cake It, host Yolanda Gampp provides a step-by-step guide on how to make a chocolate cake based on the friendly snowman, Olaf, from Disney‘s Frozen. A video posted by Yolanda Gampp (@yolanda_gampp) on Nov 29, 2016 at 8:09am PST A photo posted by Yolanda Gampp (@yolanda_gampp) on Nov […]

Things go horribly wrong a person trying to follow a recipe in a cocktail tutorial video. The sketch by The Layoff Kids parodies the popular top-down-view instructional videos often seen on Facebook, but with a dark twist. The dos and don’ts of making the perfect Old Fashioned. Do: Use a good rye whiskey Don’t: Have […]

While on holiday in 2014, Lancastrian landscape photographer Melvin Nicholson captured the absolutely stunning image of a white rainbow (fog bow) curving over a solitary tree growing in the boggy peat of Scotland’s Rannoch Moor. It is a colourless rainbow that is made up of tiny water droplets that cause fog. It’s an amazing thing […]

Mat of the really interesting gadget channel Techmoan took a look at the calibrated oscilloscope, the remarkable pre-digital device that visualizes sound through voltage changes and waveforms. By way of explanation, he rebuilt an old Tektronix 760A to show how the machine works. Mat also spoke about online resources that easily simulate oscilloscope music and […]

Veritasium shared the history of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit and the Fahrenheit temperature scale in a video animated by Marcello Ascani. The video explains some specific numbers on the scale like what 0°F means and why water freezes at 32°F. The crazy story of the arbitrary temperature scale used in a tiny minority of countries. Related […]

The CollegeHumor office celebrates an almost never-ending list of Twitter holidays, and Mike Trapp has had enough. You will never know the pain of being truly alone on national calico cat appreciation day. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Series of Movie Scenes That Were Incredibly Hard to Shootlinks for 2009-11-30Supercut of Kisses in Movies Being Interrupted […]