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Egg Addiction, a fun company based in San Francisco, has created a cat-shaped egg mold that allows you to make purrfect sunny side up eggs. Egg Addiction is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help with manufacturing, production, and fulfillment costs. Cooking isn’t just about eating. It’s about expression, creativity, love and most of all […]

NeatMike has created a video where he acts out a normal day in the life of a airline pilot in the video game Grand Theft Auto V. NeatMikes tribute to the awesomeness that is our worlds pilots! Captured on a PS4 completely unmodded, I tried to capture the greatness as best I could. Also, a […]

French filmmaker Mathieu Stern has created “Paris Lifelapse“, a hauntingly beautiful time lapse video that floats through the lanes and among the statutes of Père Lachaise, the oldest and largest cemetery in Paris proper. Over 1 million people are interred at the cemetery, including such luminaries as composer Frédéric Chopin, Jim Morrison of The Doors, […]

Thai artist Chompoo Baritone has created a wonderfully satirical photo series tagged #slowlife.The photos depict Baritone physically juxtaposing an Instagram post against the entirety of the scene in which it was shot, cleverly proving that while every picture tells a story, it just may not be telling the entire story. photos by Chompoo Baritone via […]

Walt Disney Animation Studios has created a great practical guide to their powerful path trace rendering software, Hyperion. They explain how the software can be used to “take all of the virtual models, animations, textures as well as lights and other scene objects and produces the final image that make up an animated movie by […]

Just yesterday, Doritos and PepsiCo announced that they had partnered with the incredibly supportive It Gets Better Project to create a Doritos Rainbows, a bag of which to be sent to anyone who made a contribution of $10 or more. The venture was so successful that every single bag was claimed within 24-hours. Due to […]

A Comprehensive Curtain Call of Broadway Costumes is an art print by Pop Chart Lab that features a visual history of Broadway costumes. Signed and numbered prints are available to purchase online. Light up your wall with this vivid, visual history of Broadway costumes! Stretching all the way from Show Boat (1927) right up to […]

The latest episode of How to Adult offers 9 handy college hacks for study tips, motivation and money. College, the transition into adulthood for many people, can be overwhelming. So in this video, we discuss little-known life hacks for memorization, procrastination, saving money, and more!

Norwegian rocker Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios created a multitrack heavy metal cover of “Hey Jude” by The Beatles. You can help him make more awesome covers by joining his Patreon.

Juggler Joseph Viatte is joined by a bassist and accordion player on the street for an impressive contact juggling performance. via Twisted Sifter

Thrillist shows us the proper way to roll a burrito in case you decide to roll your own.

They Might Be Giants has released “Trouble Awful Devil Evil”, the new music video directed by Paul Sahre and animated by Zak Tebbal, that was created for week 37 of their year-long Dial-A-Song Direct series.

Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created “Wes Anderson – Mirror Effect,” a great video that gives us a mirrored look at the beautiful symmetry found in films by Wes Anderson. We’ve previously written about Pablo and his wonderful videos.

The Bindle Bros. is a Williamsburg, Brooklyn company that makes and sells locally-grown naturally-fallen artisanal bindles, the iconic symbol of American hobo culture. The Bindle Bros. were the subject of a recent “Business Company” profile, and were also featured in the New York Times style section. photos via The Bindle Bros. via Vimeo Staff Picks

Tensions build in late Apple founder Steve Jobs‘ personal and professional lives in the latest trailer for Steve Jobs. The movie was written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Danny Boyle, and stars Michael Fassbender as Jobs. The film will be released in theaters on October 9, 2015.

New York City-based filmmaker Dominick Nero of Magnalux Pictures has created an awesome supercut video of almost every Wes Anderson-themed supercut found on the internet. He included artist Rishi Kaneria‘s “Red & Yellow: A Wes Anderson Supercut,” a Star Wars: Episode VII audition tape in the style of Wes Anderson by the Conan show, and […]

The wonderful 10 Cats, who have patiently allowed themselves to be put into all sorts of situations, were given a chance to play inside an inflatable shark-mouth kiddie pool that was filled with colorful balls. At first the cats were unsure of this opportunity, but eventually came around and started started having a bit of […]

With the October 7th premiere looming close, the actors of American Horror Story: Hotel, including Kathy Bates, Lady Gaga, Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett, Wes Bentley, Matt Bomer, Chloë Sevigny, Denis O’Hare, Cheyenne Jackson, Evan Peters and Finn Wittrock, each offer a glimpse inside the Hotel Cortez, the spooky locale for the next chapter of the […]

A recent downlink from the New Horizons mission revealed a stunning backlit panorama of the dwarf planet Pluto. The image was taken just 15 minutes after the probe’s historic flyby of the Pluto system. The image gives a beautiful and detailed view of Pluto’s features. Another image gives a closer view of Pluto’s icy Sputnik Planum, […]

A very clever mama raccoon nicknamed “Rocksy” is a frequent visitor to the house of YouTuber ZOOSIELOVESCONCERTS (“Zoosie”), where she knocks against the sliding glass door with a rock that she rolls between her paws. Usually Rocksy knocks like that to let everyone know that the cat food bowl is empty and needs to be […]

Philip Bitar, a professional slackliner at Gibbon Slacklines, captured really great footage of the Globetrotter World Slackline Masters 2015 finals that took place in May at the Königsplatz in Munich, Germany. Competing for the championship were teams from Estonia and from the United States. Despite some amazing performances by the Americans, the Estonia team was […]

Climber Nick Courtney and his companion Chad Brenner are lucky to be alive after narrowly avoiding a fall while taking a jump at 14,000-foot jump across the “Leap of Faith” at Maroon Bells Traverse in Colorado. Several large rocks slid out from underneath the first man as he made the jump. He landed safely on the other […]

In a video posted by GoPro World, cyclist Primož Ravnik rode down the incredibly steep wall of a dam in Žirovnica, Slovenia and filmed the incredible ride with a helmet-mounted GoPro. The video was submitted as part of the GoPro of the World Best Line Contest, which is offering $20,000 to one winner who submits the most […]

Three years ago, filmmakers Jesse O’Brien and Samuel Baulch released a low budget short film titled Arrowhead: Signal. The full-length feature adaptation, simply called Arrowhead, is now finished and ready to be released by Odin’s Eye Entertainment sometime in 2015. An interstellar Jekyll and Hyde, Arrowhead tells the tale of survival set amongst the distant […]

Door-to-door salespeople are surprised by a living human door knocker in a commercial for Energy Online. The unsuspecting victims are shocked when the door knocker comes to live and loudly orders them to remove themselves from his veranda. via reddit

Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Fernández Eyre has created a great new video that explores the visual symmetry between John Carpenter’s classic science fiction action films Escape From L.A. and Escape From New York. We previously wrote about Pablo and his fantastic comparison between the original and prequel Star Wars trilogies.

The popular web series Everything Is a Remix by filmmaker Kirby Ferguson is celebrating its five-year anniversary with a remastered release and new merchandise. The new release features unified styling throughout all four parts of the series, remastered audio, and for the first time all four parts of the series are available in a single […]

Judy and Gavin Holt, creative husband and wife wedding photographer team, recently came up the clever idea of making a creepy horror movie trailer to announce that they are having a baby. Baby Holt will join the world in March of 2016. Thanks to my loving wife Judy and our new family that we will […]

The Backyard Scientist, an audacious experimenter who often tests out ideas submitted by viewers, poured molten aluminum into the cores of a cantaloupe and a honeydew melon just to see what would happen. As it turns out, the cooled metal came out looking like hand grenades. Pouring molten aluminum in a watermelon turned out to […]

In “To Scale: The Solar System” filmmakers Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet spent 36 hours meticulously creating a seven-mile-wide scale model of the Sun and eight planets of the Solar System in the Nevada desert. The model, which Gorosh and Overstreet say is the first of its kind, uses a model of the Earth the size […]

Filmmaker Casey Neistat and his friend Oscar Boyson recently paid a trip to the “fancy McDonalds” on 3rd Avenue near 58th Street to test out the “Create Your Own Burger” kiosk. Oscar built a burger that had 3X the bacon, 3X cheese, 3X the onions and a boatload of other condiments that wound up costing […]

British stunt driver Terry Grant recently set a world’s record by completing the largest loop-the-loop ever in a car at the Niederrad racecourse in Germany. Grant successfully completed the 63 feet tall, 360 degree circle in Jaguar‘s F-PACE performance SUV a short time prior to its official unveiling at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. […]

The trailer for the new season of popular reality show Shark Tank announced that they will be adding new judges to its lineup – actor Ashton Kutcher, media executive Troy Carter and Chris Sacca, a venture capital investor and longtime friend of Laughing Squid. Congratulations Chris! It's on. I probably need to stop smiling now. […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that a “Dislike” button would soon be added to the social media site, but Conan O’Brien thinks there needs to be more options. During a recent monologue on Conan, he gave some suggestions for other new buttons Facebook could add like the “Your Baby Is Not As Cute As You Seem […]

In a new compilation video by Screen Rant, host Rob Flis reveals 10 huge mistakes that have been found in popular television shows. He points out Alex Vause‘s moving salt shaker tattoo in Orange Is the New Black, Opie using a slim jim on a car door that is already unlocked in Sons of Anarchy, […]

David, you look really fake old. Netflix has released the first clip from its upcoming Mr. Show series With Bob and David. The short clip features stars Bob Odenkirk and David Cross stepping out of a porta-potty looking both older than when Mr. Show went off the air, and older than they currently are in real life. All episodes […]

CineFix has released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema that retells the story of the 1986 comedy film, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off , as an old-school 8-bit animated video game. This animated episode was created by David Dutton of Dutton Films with music by Henry Dutton.

Last night on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert asked Kevin Spacey who his character Frank Underwood is talking to when he speaks directly to the camera in House of Cards. Cant believe @StephenAtHome updated the IPad w/ my name on the door -Thanks! P.S.: Loving new IPad I took home today! pic.twitter.com/wTDeZgBZ0a — Kevin Spacey […]

The mysterious and majestic lion-dog aka Fritz Dog, an adorable golden retriever in a disconcertingly believable lion costume has fun as he hunts his prey – shiny soap bubbles atop a California mountain. Aside from almost losing his mane a few times, Fritz may actually have a chance to act as understudy for the MGM […]

While filming a public service announcement about the importance of the Amazon Rainforest earlier this year, Carter Roberts, the CEO of the World Wildlife Fund – U.S. and his film crew noticed a male black jaguar swimming across the river and set their cameras rolling. Black jaguars only make up about 6% of the species […]

The silly feline duo of Cole & Marmalade graciously allowed themselves to be studied by their beleaguered human Chris and personally demonstrated the incredible range of emotions that felines have and how they go about expressing those emotions. The science of cats, do cats show emotions? … Of course they do! I’ve been owned by […]

Video journalist Christian Nilsson of The Huffington Post went to great lengths to determine which establishment is truly the oldest bar in New York City. Interviewing the proprietors of McSorley’s Old Ale House in the East Village, Neir’s Hall in Queens and Fraunces Tavern in Downtown Manhattan, Nilsson discovered that all three places, each with […]

Splacer is a service similar to AirBNB for finding and booking event spaces. Owners can list their locations for free, and anyone looking to host an event can browse the Splacer site for the perfect venue. When a venue is booked, Splacer simply takes a percentage of the fee. The service is currently only available […]

On a recent episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon played a game of “Wheel of Musical Impressions” with singer and actress Ariana Grande. Ariana nailed her performance of the classic children’s song, “The Wheels on the Bus,” that she had to sing in the style of Christina Aguilera.

Jean-Pierre Roy Volume 37 of Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine has recently been announced and it will be packed full with amazing artwork created by contemporary artists from around the world. Jean-Pierre Roy, a talented New York city artist who teaches at the New York Academy of Art, will be featured on the cover […]

“Pixar’s SadLab” is a video by Above Average that takes a behind-the-scenes look at the place that performs research to make Pixar audiences as sad as scientifically possible. Researchers in the lab talk about their greatest and saddest achievements in films like Up and Monsters Inc. as they expose test subjects to increasingly sad stimuli.

????????????????( ??? )???… #??P?????#?????#?????#hedgehog #sleep A video posted by kazu_p (@kazu_p) on Sep 14, 2015 at 5:52am PDT A portly hedgehog named Hana was recently on the receiving end of what appears be a rather blissful belly rub from her accommodating human, who also took advantage of Hana’s supine position to clip her long nails. […]

Foxed! is a fantastic stop motion animated short film by director James Stewart and animator Nev Bezaire of Guru Studio about fighting for what you believe in. The Foxed! short is currently available to purchase online from iTunes. It was recently announced by Hollywood Reporter that “David Cronenberg collaborator Martin Katz” of Prospero Pictures will […]

Selfie from Hell is a terrifying short film by actress and producer Meelah Adams and director Erdal Ceylan of Fuck you Zombie about a woman who attempts to take a selfie to send to her boyfriend. The only problem is that a deranged monster appears in the background of every photo she takes. Dreamy is […]

Stephen Colbert and Emily Blunt pretend to hold back from vomiting on The Late Show. Blunt told Colbert how much she enjoyed his vomit takes, a technique he often used on The Colbert Report and even during his time on The Dana Carvey Show, so the two read the final lines of Gone With the Wind while pretending […]