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image via Dismaland Dismaland is a art exhibit parody of Disneyland, curated by Banksy, that is located at the Tropicana in the North Somerset, England-based resort town of Weston-super-Mare. The “bemusement park” show features artwork from artists like Josh Keyes, Axel Void, Polly Morgan, Brock Davis, Pure Evil, and more. The exhibit will also feature […]

An adorable baby dressed in a polka dot starfish-like sleep sack, flapped her limbs excitedly when her mom brought the family cat to her crib to visit. While the baby was absolutely elated, the cat was less than impressed. She’s incapable of controlling her limbs when her kitty is around. The obsession grows every day. […]

A corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) nicknamed “Stinky” has bloomed at the Denver Botanic Gardens to an enthusiastic crowd of smell seekers. The flower is known for its pungent stench which has been compared to rotting flesh, and for the fact that it can take up to 15 years to bloom. Some visitors reported being disappointed […]

Kurt Russell as John Ruth, “The Hangman” and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy Domergue, “The Prisoner” All seven character posters have been released for The Hateful Eight, Quentin Tarantino‘s upcoming feature film about a group of dangerous bounty hunters who are trapped together in a post-Civil War Wyoming. The Hateful Eight is schedulued to only […]

A hungry cat gets the last slice! An ever-demanding Simon’s Cat repeatedly begged, badgered and cajoled his beleaguered human into surrendering the very last piece of pizza using every possible scheme in his arsenal.

Calgary-based couple, Marcia Andreychuk and Joel Hamilton, have remodeled their real-life kitchen to look a lot like Marge‘s kitchen from the animated television series The Simpsons. According to CBC News, both Marcia and Joel are huge Simpsons fan, “but Hamilton is the bigger fan.” “Every winter I watch every single episode that’s been released,” Joel […]

“Diehard Detroit” is a wonderful aerial tilt-shift time-lapse of “Detroit’s beautiful decay and and the amazing city beyond it”, created by Joerg Daiber of spoonfilm on Little Big World. Shot at the Michigan Theater, Packard Plant, Michigan Central Station, Lee Plaza Hotel, around the Masonic Temple and the Heidelberg Project and many other abandoned buildings […]

Emily Murray recently posted a video showing her color blind father receiving a surprise gift of EnChroma glasses that allow him to see color properly for the first time in his life. Murray’s father is thrilled with the lenses and claims to want to glue them to his head. via reddit

In 1968, director David Lynch created the short film “The Alphabet“, a bizarre and somewhat horrific recitation of the ABCs that seemingly invokes and reflects an extreme fear of learning. via reddit, Neatorama

Scott Raabe, a profession welder at Enerflex and metal sculptor in Houston, Texas, recently posted a series of photos showing the elaborate and colorful designs that he’s created over the past few weeks. images via Scott Raabe via reddit

The Fly Pry is a small titanium multi tool that can be used to replace a standard zipper pull. The tiny device serves as a bottle opener, box cutter, can opener, and zipper pull among other uses. The inventor is currently trying to raise funds for the Fly Pry through a Kickstarter campaign where interested buyers […]

Ziye Liu, a student at Savannah Collage of Art and Design has created “Themes & Variations” a fascinating short film that reimagines the existing art of Yayoi Kusuma and Ai Weiwei through CGI rendering. The film is part of Liu’s thesis towards a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Effects degree. Contemporary art such as […]

The city of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada is trying to make public transportation cool with an intense trailer for their ETS bus service. The video features enthusiastic riders demonstrating various features of the bus. They’ve also released a blooper reel from the shoot. via reddit

In August 2013, Scott and I were honored to be amongst the guests present at the wedding of Rick and Emma Webb, an incredible event for which Rick took on the planning responsibilities. With this experience in hand, Rick is currently faising funds through Kickstarter to publish his new book Man Nup : A Groom’s […]

TomSka has created a compilation of all 9 of his absurd asdfmovie animated shorts. via The Awesomer

“Catch Me” is a speedy teaser for the upcoming second season of The Flash. In the ten-second teaser, viewers see new and returning villains as well as a brief appearance of a Bat-Signal-like device with The Flash’s logo. The Flash will return to The CW on October 6, 2015.

Kuma Films‘ newest video features Yo-Yo Hero, Takeshi Kamisato, performing all sorts of incredible gravity-defying spintop tricks in Las Vegas, Nevada. Takeshi Kamisato is one of the world’s best spintop players. He shows us some of the most insane gravity defying tricks with a spin top that we didn’t even know were possible. He is […]

Laughing Squid circuit board, original photo by Scott Beale Emoji Mosaic is a new tool created by Eric Andrew Lewis that converts uploaded images to mosaics made up of emoji. The Great Wave off Kanagawa, original image via Wikipedia A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, image via Wikipedia via Product Hunt

The Flying Robot International Film Festival (FRIFF), the world’s first open international competition dedicated to video shot by drones, is currently putting out a call for entries of “creative short form cinema” taken from a drone’s perspective. Videos submitted by September 15th will be judged and the winners will be screened during the event in […]

Field Day is a YouTube channel that helps well-known artists create their dream video and then features what they comes up with. In their latest episode, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys capture slow-motion footage of a deadly asteroid slamming down on a diorama version of Earth and destroying a group […]

Detective51 gets Ralph the dog to confess to eating his tater tots. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

KFC has replaced Saturday Night Live alum Darrell Hammond with Saturday Night Live alum Norm MacDonald as its new “real” Colonel Sanders in a series of new ads. Hammond only recently stepped in a the fast food chain’s spokesman, but as MacDonald (as Sanders) claims in the new ads, Hammond was merely an impostor. It’s […]

While filming an upcoming episode of BBC Big Blue Live, host Mark Carwardine encountered a giant blue whale who decided to make himself known after Carwardine declared the weather conditions to be unfavorable to watching. Zoologist Mark Carwardine outlines just how hard whale spotting can be. And promptly gets upstaged by the biggest whale there […]

Bad Lip Reading presents a hilarious bad lip reading parody of the first Republican presidential debate that took place on August 6, 2015 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Donald Trump talks about his special pigeon that he takes shopping while Ohio governor John Kasich sings about giving the people cheese and Christmas […]

Bill Gribble (a.k.a. “Rebel Scum™“) recently shared a funny image on Twitter featuring a bag of Starbucks coffee that was digitally reimagined as a bag of Star Wars: The Force Awakens highly caffeinated coffee. Yoda approved, it is. image via Rebel Scum™ via That’s Nerdalicious!

In a recent video, Quartz took a look at what it’s like to sit inside the MegaBot Mark II giant fighting robot, and spoke to one of MegaBot’s founders Matt Oehrlein. The two-story Mark II robot will represent the United States in a giant robot battle against Japan’s Suidobashi Heavy Industries and their giant robot Kuratas. MegaBot is currently […]

During a recent presentation, Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert showed footage of the Atlas robot walking through a wooded area to test its balance and movement capabilities. Although the robot was still attached to a power tether, Raibert said they are working on a version without one. The presentation was part of a longer event […]

Joshua Hanlon of BrickPodcast.com talked with LEGO fanatics Calvin Hartley and Jarren Harkema about a custom 10,000 piece LEGO version of the Sandcrawler from Star Wars: A New Hope that they spent 500 hours planning, designing, and building using a Mindstorms set. Hanlon conducted his interview at Brickworld Chicago 2015 for the YouTube series Beyond […]

The new trailer for The Martian features even more astronaut survival as Mark Watney (Matt Damon) works to stay alive long enough to be rescued, while back on Earth the debate intensifies about whether to stage a rescue mission at all. The film is an adaptation of the Andy Weir novel of the same name, and […]

London-based filmmaker Steve Ramsden recently created a fun tutorial video showing how to add yourself into historical footage, just as they did in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, using Adobe After Effects.

In part one of his new instructional video series, The iBookGuy explains how “oldschool” computer and video game console graphics worked back in the 1980s. He dives into the 8-bit color limitations of classic machines like the Commodore 64 and Nintendo Entertainment System. via Hacker News

Kevin Ulrich of Brotherhood Workshop spent 200 hours creating a funny LEGO animated short of the entire plot to Jurassic World being retold in 90 seconds. The impressive water effects were created by Christopher Ulrich. Fans of Brotherhood Workshop can support their future work on Patreon. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

“Go, And Be” by Josh Brine is a beautiful visual love letter to the Scottish Highlands and the important lesson he learned from spending time in Quiraing on the Isle of Sky and at Loch Garry with his wife earlier this year. Last month, my wife and I had the joy and privilege of exploring […]

A funny new sketch on Key & Peele features a college student who is embarrassed in front of his friends when they watch the DVD that was sent from his “MC Mom”.

An adorable little hamster named Enoki enjoyed some very yummy snacks while lying on her back, swinging back and forth in her tiny little hammock. As her human Jaieden Ace Shen said, “Eat, sleep & repeat…”. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

They Might Be Giants has released “Another Weirdo”, their new music video for week 33 of their Dial-A-Song Direct series. It’s a beautiful instrumental song featuring Stan Harrison on saxophone.

Professional strongman Chris “Wonder” Schoeck easily demonstrated how to rip phonebooks in half, tear up a deck of cards and bend nails of varying thickness in half. The Watercooler staff who attempted the very same tasks, however, weren’t nearly as successful as the strongman.

WordPress 4.3 “Billie” has been released and includes a number of improvements to the popular platform. The new version, named for jazz legend Billie Holiday, features easy menu editing in the customizer, simple formatting shortcuts to improve workflow, and a utility for generating stronger and more secure passwords. images via WordPress

Overshare: The Links.net Story is a fascinating documentary by my friend Justin Hall (who is considered to be one of the first bloggers) about the story of how he has been sharing his personal life “in explicit detail” online since 1994 through his website Links.net. The documentary is free to watch online and there is […]

Baker Yolanda Gampp has created “How To Cake It“, a wonderfully fun YouTube series in which Gampp offers step-by-step instructions for making unusual, intricate and decorative cakes along with the basics of baking in order to get there. How To Cake It. Yolanda is taking her love of making objects out of cake to viewers […]

Photographer Brian Maffit posted an amazing composite image on reddit that depicts a flock of hummingbirds swarming underneath the feeder. The “flock” was actually comprised of just a few birds over the course of a few hours whose ghosted images were reflected back using an angled glass mirror. The image was then further manipulated in […]

Woman holds up fellow riders while searching for MetroCard. New York Public Radio WNYC has created a series of 35 stock photos depicting “real New Yorkers doing things” like eating dollar slice pizza, jaywalking with impunity, and dealing with a variety of subway frustrations. The photos are available to share and use freely for non-commercial purposes. […]

In the latest episode of DIY Prop Shop on Break’s AWE me channel, host Dustin McLean showed how to make a low-budget replica of the M41-A pulse rifle from Aliens using a plastic gun and household objects. Flame Thrower optional.

A fascinating look at the journey luggage takes after it is checked it in at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Here’s an interactive 360 degree version of the video. via Thrillist

OnHub is a new Wi-Fi router by Google that pairs with a the Google On app for easy connection and management. The OnHub uses a circular antenna design and can prioritize connected devices to provide the best Wi-Fi connection across multiple users. The OnHub is available to preorder now and will begin shipping in the next […]

In honor of Drink Steam Week (August 16-23) in San Francisco, Humphry Slocombe, who are known for their unique ice cream flavors, created “Anchor Steam Cream”, an Anchor Steam beer flavored ice cream. New Flavor Alert! Anchor Steam Cream has arrived. @AnchorBrewing is now on a cone. #flavorboards #lickyourbeer pic.twitter.com/1BPCDYWdWZ — humphryslocombe (@humphryslocombe) August 17, […]

20th Century Fox has released an official trailer for Victor Frankenstein, a modern day drama film based on the classic Frankenstein novel written by Mary Shelley in 1818. The movie, directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Max Landis, will star Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, and many other great actors. Victor Frankenstein […]

Filmmaker Devin Graham worked with Warner Brothers Games to create an incredible short film inspired by the upcoming Mad Max video game. The fun and gritty short follows Mad Max as he drives a go-kart across the fury road while battling a gang of War Boys with a paintball gun. Devin and his talented team […]

French filmmaker Sébastien Montaz-Rosset documents some of his extreme jogging in the French Alps. via Digg

Otto Dieffenbach has created a giant 2′ diameter remote control flying eyeball. Dieffenbach’s previous projects include a flying R2-D2, Snoopy and TARDIS.