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In a new episode of SciShow, host Michael Aranda explains why songbirds sing at the break of dawn, why the songbirds that sing are usually male and what the song says to his female fans out there. Scientists call this phenomenon the dawn chorus, and they think it has to do with clarity of the […]

photo by Gene Hanson North Dakota farmer Gene Hanson created a lovely tribute to Prince by plowing the late artist‘s former name symbol into his field. Once finished, Hanson flew above to see the results and was happily surprised. In an interview with the Grand Forks Herald, Hanson explained how he came up with the […]

In May 2015 we wrote about Ink Whiskey founder Matt Cornell and his team who created a concealable collection of whiskey flasks that are all made from classic Nintendo video game cartridges. The Drunk Hunt, Super Bar-Hop Bros., and Kega Man game cartridge flasks are now available to purchase from the Laughing Squid store. This […]

French filmmaker Quentin Dumas has created a fantastic supercut video that explores the remarkable use of colors in Guillermo Del Toro films like Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, Blade II, and more. music by Barry Manilow – “Can’t Smile Without You” via Sploid Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

Joe Penna (a.k.a. “MysteryGuitarMan“) has created “Paper Video Games,” a wonderful stop motion animated video featuring classic video recreated using paper cutouts. Joe breathes new paper life into games like Pac-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, and more. This video is made ENTIRELY with printed or projected stock images and videos! Host your WordPress blog with Laughing […]

Harlem Knight Fight is a short film, created by MEL Films, that follows Wall Street management consultant Damion DiGrazia as he talks about his fascination with being the captain of the New York chapter of the Armored Combat League. The Armored Combat League is a fight club style tournament where combatants beat the hell out […]

Hammacher Schlemmer is featuring The Bunyanesque Hammock, a giant suspended bed that supports up to 1,100 pounds, “a herd of children, or a single oversized axe-wielding woodsman.” It is available to purchase from the Hammacher Schlemmer store. Handcrafted in Colorado from sturdy ripstop nylon by an FAA-certified parachute rigger, it supports up to 1,000 lbs. […]

Daisy Ridley (Rey), and some of her close friends from The Force Awakens, recently wished fans a happy “Star Wars Day” and sent out a huge thank you to all who have supported CrowdRise‘s “Star Wars: Force for Change” charity campaign from Disney and Lucasfilm thus far. All donations help to support Make-A-Wish Foundation, UNICEF, […]

Mr. Gear demonstrates a technique for lighting a match using a rubber band and another match. The technique looks like it may take some practice to master, but Mr. Gear uses it to light several matches and even a small fire. Hi, there, my dear friends, in this video I will show you an amazing […]

The Slow Mo Guys celebrate the fifth anniversary of their first balloon video by having Dan Gruchy painfully climb inside a six-foot balloon while Gavin Free inflated it using a leaf blower. This was not Gruchy’s first time inside a giant balloon. In 2015 he climbed inside another six-foot balloon being filled with water. Here is their first balloon […]

Chicken John Rinaldi, musician, performer, prankster, former San Francisco Mayor candidate and author of The Book of the Is, is currently raising funds through Kickstarter for his second works The Book of the Un. The Book of the Is was all about failure and Show. …Now it’s time for The Book of the Un, a […]

The organizers of the Coachella Music Festival recently announced their new project,”Desert Trip“, which at the same desert location over the weekend of October 7, 2016,and features an absolutely amazing lineup of The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young and The Who. The show is all ages and a full list of pass […]

How It Should Have Ended gives their interpretation of how Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice should have ended. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

Grant Thompson (aka The King of Random) shows how to make “Teddy Bear” toast for your “snack-time warriors”. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

The colorfully animated video for Radiohead‘s new single “Burn the Witch” directed by Chris Hopewell incorporates a number of different but distinct influences including The Wicker Man, The Prisoner and Burning Man. The animation tells the story of a stranger who arrives at a small bustling village where he’s introduced by an ambassador to the […]

In celebration of Captain America: Civil War‘s theatrical release and the start of phase three, CLS Videos created a powerful supercut video featuring some of the best scenes from phase one and phase two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid Web Hosting.

In a clip from their new series Super Powered Owls, a BBC Earth team set up a fascinating experiment to show the silent graceful flight of a barn owl. The team also gauged the noise and turbulence level of a pigeon and a peregrine falcon in comparison. When air moves, it creates sound. The more […]

Professional car cleaner Paul Dalton demonstrates his elaborate 61-step process for masterfully cleaning exotic cars in a video for Fifth Gear. The channel called Dalton the “World’s Best Car Cleaner,” and he regularly charges customers a starting price of £5,000. Besides the care and attention to detail Dalton puts into the cleaning process he also uses […]

IGN recently shared an awesome behind the scenes look that showing the detailed steps that were taken to create the Deadpool mask. The design team did a fantastic job of taking the mask from the pages of Deadpool comic books and making it movie screen worthy. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog […]

In the first of his 2016 May-tallica videos, multi-instrumentalist Rob Scallon played a mean banjo version of Metallica‘s 1985 classic song “Master of Puppets” with the help of Craig Benzine aka Wheezy Waiter on keytar. Every take of the my Keytar solo in @RobScallon's video https://t.co/6yDf6Rqbo5 — wheezywaiter (@wheezywaiter) May 3, 2016 → Help Laughing […]

Small Steps Are Giant Leaps is a stunning father and son photo project, created by Aaron Sheldon, that documents the journey of a little astronaut who is discovering our giant world. Aaron is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help turn his touching photo project into a book and gallery show that shares the young […]

On the May 3rd episode of the Tonight Show, comedian Louis C.K. spoke with host Jimmy Fallon about his incredible online series Horace and Pete, how he funded it, how he kept it a secret and how he garnered the star studded cast for the show. Louis C.K. and Jimmy discuss how he hijacked the […]

Fullest House is a site with a never-ending stream of daily Full House scripts generated by computer using an artificial neural network. The site was created by Sam Kronick and Joe Veix using transcripts of the series from the fan site Full House Forever. Veix wrote about the creation of the project in an article for New […]

A tiny black kitten excitedly bounded after an errant ping pong ball, adorably mimicking the distinctive bouncing motion until the ball calmed down. After that it just became a simple chase. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

News Be Funny has created a compilation of some of the best news bloopers from April 2016. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

#Smökers / #Broadway and #Grand #NYC /// #publicart #mobilehome #smokersnyc A photo posted by Mark Reigelman II (@reigelman) on Apr 25, 2016 at 10:50am PDT Artist Mark Reigelman II created “Smökers“, a “site specific art intervention” that features tiny monochrome houses built over New York City steam vents, replacing the distinctive but industrial orange tubes […]

Medley Weaver is back with an epic new modern trailer for the classic original Star Wars trilogy. We previously wrote about Weaver’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens style trailer for the original trilogy. music by Twelve Titans Music – “Artifice” via GeekTyrant → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge […]

GIPHY Keys is an iOS keyboard for quickly searching and adding GIFs in any app. Users can search for GIFs by mood, the source of the original clip, or by specific keywords to find exactly what they’re looking for. GIPHY Keys is available now in the App Store. Anywhere you have a conversation, GIPHY is […]

Great Big Story recently visited creature designers Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis of Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. and spoke with them about the many popular movie monsters and props that they made by hand for the big screen. They designed the variations of Deadpool and created the Blob suit for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, made the […]

In absolutely amazing footage taken in 2015 by the NeuroMedical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a brave patient named Mr. Richardson and his doctors Dr. Paul Waguespack and Dr. Gerald Calegan demonstrated how well his recent deep brain stimulation surgery delivered electrical current to his brain and immediately relieved the intense tremors that were wracking […]

Fadi Saleh of Baracksdubs created a clever edited video that makes it look like President Barack Obama is singing ‘No’ by Meghan Trainor using various video clips of Obama speaking. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

It’s three in the morning in Minnesota. I really need a camel. In a clip from the 2002 movie An Evening With Kevin Smith, filmmaker and raconteur Kevin Smith shared the story of his strange experience being hired to make a documentary for the late Prince. The half-hour tale is a bizarre but intimate look at […]

The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service (CATS) is a new project from the creative individuals at Glimpse who are also cat lovers in London. CATS is currently raising funds through Kickstarter in order to buy all of the advertising space at an unspecified tube station and fill that space with pictures of cats. Because “a) it […]

Lincoln and Dan, the father and son team behind the What’s Inside?, partnered with Minecraft gamer Stacy Plays to cut open diamond ore both in the game and in real life. The team cut open a 25-pound sample of kembrolite, a material known for sometimes containing diamonds, to see if they had a lucky piece. Lincoln and […]

Xbox France recently unveiled a special edition Stark Industries (Iron Man) Xbox One console. In honor of Captain America: Civil War‘s theatrical release, Xbox France will giving away three of the custom consoles “designed by Tony Stark.” More information on the giveaway will be released on their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. A video posted […]

The North Face Access Pack is a new backpack designed with a spring-loaded latch for quick access to the bag’s main compartment. Other design features include “ejector tabs” in the device pockets, allowing phones, tablets, and laptops to fit into fleece pockets snuggly but still be quickly and easily removed. Our most innovative backpack was […]

A photo posted by offtrackoutlet (@offtrackoutlet) on Apr 10, 2016 at 8:10am PDT OfftrackOutlet has recreated a large collection of modern-day movie as fully watchable VHS tapes, which also include custom-made retro style cover art. Their entire series of modern VHS tapes are available to view on Tumblr and Instagram. A video posted by offtrackoutlet […]

Filmmaker and songwriter Scott Winn has created the second episode of his Fruit Ninja in Real Life series where, this time, two sword wielding ninjas compete as they slice through pieces of flying fruit in slow motion. Another fantastic tribute to the popular mobile game, Fruit Ninja. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent […]

Authors J. R. R. Tolkien and George R. R. Martin recently faced off in a very heated episode of Epic Rap Battles of History created by Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD. They also released two behind the scenes videos that take a look at the making of the episode. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an […]

When the plane's shadow gets trapped inside a rainbow #fly #flyinghigh #rainbow #shadows #italy #sicily #straightofmessina #onmywayhome A photo posted by Catherine Marshall (@zizzyballord) on Mar 25, 2016 at 9:21am PDT Travel writer Catherine Marshall photographed the shadow of the plane she was flying in as it was caught in a rainbow. The plane was […]

In honor of the 75th anniversary of M&Ms, Nick Bertke (aka Pogo) created a remix using footage from M&Ms ads over the years. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

Mr. Gear demonstrates how to build a simple DIY plastic foam cutter using a nine-volt battery and some wire. The video shows the device in action as it quickly cuts through a styrofoam board. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

Disney presents the story of Star Wars: The Force Awakens told using only emoji. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

Designer Sebastian Ly Serena has created a beautiful Rube Goldberg Machine using only HTML form elements. The site is a carefully arranged series of text fields, radio button, and other HTML objects that activate in a chain reaction that culminates in a link to email Serena. via Scott Schiller → Help Laughing Squid grow as an […]

College student, GRob, recently created a compilation video featuring footage of him repeatedly scaring his easily frightened roommate Wiener. This is my friend and roommate Wiener…he scares easily. This video compilation was made using 25 clips that I personally filmed 24 of, and received the last one from a friend and fellow fan of the […]

In a recent episode of the fascinating fact-finding series Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains how the idea of The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde came to author Robert Louis Stevenson, the condition he was in when it came to him and the real life inspirations who fleshed out the […]

Gonzo and Kermit perform “Ms. Jackson” by Outkast in the latest Muppets mashup by editor Adam Schleichkorn (a.k.a. “Mylo the Cat“). In the video Gonzo stands in for André 3000 and Kermit plays the role of Big Boi. For comparison, here is the original music video for “Ms. Jackson.” → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent […]

Koka’s Beat Machine No. 1 Musically trained engineer Koka Nikoladze has created a couple of amazing analog beat machines that are made entirely by hand. Each machine is completely programmable, offering an amazing variety of rhythmic and melodic patterns. Koka’s Beat Machine No. 2 via reddit → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog […]

Adult Swim has discovered a rare 1986 concert, “Live at the Necropolis”, by legendary synth musicians The Lords of Synth which they are showing nightly at 4am ET as part of their Infomercials series. Three legendary synth musicians compete in a cosmic battle for synth dominance, in this recently-unearthed concert from 1986. → Help Laughing […]

The group of creatives at 5 Mad Movie Makers recently built a large Hot Wheels track at a beach in San Clemente, California. They put the sandy track to good use by strapping GoPro Hero 4 cameras onto their cars and capturing POV footage of the cars racing to the finish line before launching into […]