Laughing Squid

BearyTheBear imagines what it might happen if Princess Anna from the Disney film Frozen asked Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad if he wants to build a snowman. Here’s a similar edit we previously posted. Animeme took things to the next level with their animated parody “Do You Want to Build a Meth Lab?”. via reddit

Landysh, in-house artist for the language learning company Lingvistov has created a wonderful series of adorable on-point illustrations that express the value of sleep to those of us who would much rather take a nap than take a hike. f you love the sight of your bed and pillows, if you can fall asleep anywhere […]

The French company Mecanroc has created the Swincar Spider, an extremely nimble and ecological electric car that can tackle all sorts of nature with its unique tilting technology. Here we are, Swincar comes to life after many years of research, reflections, testing and developments, we are now ready to share with you our Adventure … […]

Bill Nye, The Science Guy, reads some mean tweets that have been written about him. Nye is helping to promote a Kickstarter project for The Bill Nye Film, a definative documentary being made about “his quest to change the world with science” by two of his fans, David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg, of Structure Films.

A remarkably talented woman named Kate Mullady from New York has been named the 2015 Female World Beatbox Champion by the Beatbox Battle Championships that were recently held in Berlin, Germany. Mullady is also the 2014 ABC Loop Station Champion and Beatrhyme Champion. Kaila Mullady is a New York based performer – The 2015 World […]

dondrapersayswhat spent three months creating a brilliant edit of the song “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson (featuring Bruno Mars) being sung using clips from 280 different movies. Here’s the original music video:

JulioNIB of GTA X Scripting created a Grand Theft Auto V mod that adds Iron Man in Mark III armor to the game (shown here going on a rampage). Support JulioNIB’s future mods by contributing to his Patreon. via Polygon

Embracing Tentacles Pint Glass Gift Set Tucson, Arizona-based artist and designer Jeffrey Woods of Woodeye Studios has created a beautiful collection of colorful handmade beverage glassware that features etched and painted tentacles grabbing the wide range of glasses from below. Pint glasses, double and espresso shot glasses, and cocktail shakers are available to purchase, with […]

Law & Order cast members S. Epatha Merkerson (Anita Van Buren), Jill Hennessy (Claire Kincaid), Carolyn McCormick (Dr. Elizabeth Olivet) and Dann Florek (Donald Cragen) recap 25 years of the show in 30 seconds in a video by Entertainment Weekly.

Canadian woodworking engineer Matthias Wandel recently built a wonderfully fun hand-cranked moving set of wooden stairs to create an escalator for his toy Slinky. While Wandel did all of the work, he admitted that this started out as someone else’s idea. This project started with some idle chatter with some guys I used to work […]

Former Iceland basketball player and strongman competitor Hafthor “Thor” Bjornsson, known for playing the part of Gregor Clegane (a.k.a. “The Mountain”) on Game of Thrones, recently defended his Europe’s Strongest Man competition title for the second year in a row. Bjornsson also set a personal best during the contest on the deadlift by pulling up […]

While diving off the Mediterranean coast of Fethiye, Turkey, underwater photographer and videographer Lutfu Tanriover of Derin Underwater Film discovered an enormous gelatinous mass that he named “The Thing“. Tanriover filmed the mass, set the footage to ethereal music by the band 2002 and created a stunningly beautiful video which he then posted social media. […]

Grosseto, Italy-based LEGO designer Daniele Benedettelli has created a wearable telemetry exoskeleton that allows Benedettelli to move around and remotely control his humanoid robot, Cyclops MK II. In a video from this past May, Daniele demonstrated exactly how his exoskeleton and robot worked together. Cyclops MK II is redesigned from scratch, after suggestions by my […]

Snoop Dogg interviews Lil Dicky for a position of “Professional Rapper” in a great aninmated music video directed by Douglas Einar Olsen, which coinsides with the release of Lil Dicky’s album Professional Rapper. via Billboard

“More Unbelievable Spreads” by Gemma Correll

“Great Aspirations” by Grant Snider (Incidental Comics), from the Summer 2015 issue of The Southampton Review.

A teeny tiny Pomeranian puppy named Roux in South Louisiana let out a really big, really loud motorboating sneeze while his human Jake Kulbeth was watching television. According to Kulbeth, this was one “epic sneeze” from such a cute little dog. images via Roux Pom via reddit

Swedish photographer and retoucher Erik Johansson has released an entire behind-the-scenes video series that gives us a look at how he is able to create his surreal and optical illusion images in Adobe Photoshop. Johansson‘s impressive techniques start with a simple idea and sketch, which then ends with amazing layers of photo manipulation work to […]

Spicy Interviews is a web series by Spicy News Network where two people eat hot peppers before engaging in an interview. In a spicy episode from 2012, comedians Pete Holmes and Chris Thayer devour hot habanero peppers and struggle a lot while trying to get through their interview session. via reddit

BuzzFeed has created a video where BuzzFeedVideo writer and actor, Eugene Lee Yang, gets transformed into twelve different popular hairstyles in two minutes from trichologist and celebrity hairstylist David Dang. Proof that men don’t have to stick with the same haircut their entire lives. A video posted by Eugene Lee Yang (@eugeneleeyang) on Jul 28, […]

British inventor Colin Furze recently built a wild High Voltage Ejector Bed that flips up and dumps the heavy sleeper out onto the floor when an alarm goes off in the morning. The Taylors of Harrogate coffee and tea company asked Furze to build something to get people out of bed, just like their new […]

UK-based artist Slinkachu recently teamed up with Marvel to make a creative collection of miniature Ant-Man installations all over London that show the tiny superhero riding his trusty carpenter ant steed Antony, fighting the villainous Yellow Jacket (Darren Cross) in a city-crushing battle, and more. The full series of photos from Slinkachu‘s Ant-Man installations are […]

Utah-based construction worker and self-taught jewelry maker fencekid demonstrates how to make a ring from a coin in just two minutes, provided the right tools are available. This video shows how easy coin ring making is with the proper jewelers tools. This video shows the shaping process, which is the difficult, time consuming part of […]

Instructables designer Natalie Walsh created a unique fiber optic coat for her friend Gordon Kirkwood that is also companion piece to her fiber optic dress. Like the dress, the coat is made up of a free-flowing array of fiber optic filaments that can be purchased from Ants On A Melon. Detailed instructions on how to […]

When a beautiful black jaguar kitten named Cielo saw that her human caretakers at the Black Jaguar White Tiger Foundation were enjoying themselves in the pool on a hot summer’s day, she decided to take a running leap into the pool and go for a swim with a little help from her friends. Black Jaguar […]

In “Words That Aren’t Words” by Quartz features different people explaining the phonosemantic phrases that are specific to their native languages. In English, the sound “tsk” expresses disapproval, “meh” expresses apathy and “hmm” can express a variety of meanings including complete disinterest. Such is the same with every language in the world. OCH (Scotland), it’s […]

In a recent episode of the KQED and PBS Digital Studios series Deep Look, writer Amy Standen explores the capabilities of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering‘s swarm of 1,024 autonomous kilobots. The quarter-sized bots are programmed as a group, and must work together to execute their orders. In the episode, […]

An electric car built by students at the University of Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany recently set a new world record for “Fastest 0-100km/h Acceleration – Electric Car” with a time of 1.779 seconds. This broke the previous record of 1.785 seconds set in 2014 by AMZ Racing who supplied the motors for the Stuttgart car. The team expects […]

In the gorgeous photo series “Drosera“, Finnish nature photographer Joni Niemelä has captured the incredible up-close beauty of the colorfully tentacled carnivorous plants commonly known as Sundews. Sundews are also featured in his newest series “Other Worldly Blues“, where Niemelä played upon their alien-like appearance and their predatory nature. Sundews have always fascinated me, and […]

The R2-D2 USB Desktop Vacuum Cleaner is an officially licensed, handheld version of the famous astromech droid from Star Wars designed to either play with or tidy up a dirty computer desk. It is available to pre-order online from TheFowndry and scheduled to release on September 4th, 2015. The Force is strong with this one. […]

Lightning researcher Tom A. Warner and his daughter recently filmed an active lightning storm in slow motion at 2,000fps using a Phantom Miro eX4 high-speed camera. The footage captures the lightning as it appears to slowly creep through the sky and down to the ground. via Twisted Sifter

Crosswalk for Hedgehogs Tiny Road Sign is a photo project by the Vilnius, Lithuania-based CLINIC 212 creative agency where gentle woodland animals are posed by small road signs all over Vilnius to remind city residents that they “not the only ones living in the city.” All photos were taken by freelance photographer Greta Gedminaite. The […]

A beautifully stoic owl, who’s quietly hanging out on a tree limb, refuses to let himself be bothered by the lowly and annoying birds who are repeatedly hitting him in the head and flying in his face, as if to to break his sightline and shoo him away.

On the latest episode of StarWars.com 10, StarWars.com picks their top 10 best sidekicks in the Star Wars universe. In this installment of the StarWars.com 10, we’re picking the top 10 Star Wars sidekicks, from daring droids to plucky pilots — but no Jedi or Sith apprentices. We figure, if you’re strong with the Force, […]

A video captured by a man named Corey shows him driving a golf ball directly into the lens of his brand new GoPro HERO2 camera, breaking it during its very first use. Although the original camera was sadly destroyed, a representative from GoPro commented on Corey’s video that they would replace it with one of their […]

The Rockin’ Thousand is a group of 1,000 incredibly talented musicians who came together from all over Italy to simultaneously perform the now-classic Foo Fighters song “Learn To Fly” in a historic effort to persuade the band to play a concert in Romagna, a historical district in northern Italy. Conceived in 2014 by Fabio Zaffagnini, […]

photo by Marion Curtis The Hunger Games: The Exhibition is a fascinating exhibition — created by Lionsgate, produced by Imagine Exhibitions, and designed by Thinkwell — that explores the science, art, and culture present in both The Hunger Games films and books. The exhibit opened on July 1st, 2015 at the Discovery Times Square museum […]

Laughing Squid circuit board, original photo via Scott Beale Color Palette Generator is an online tool created by Steven DeGraeve that generates a ten-color palette from online images. Users paste a link to an online photo or image, and the tool returns matching HTML hex codes that can be useful when creating design featuring the original image. […]

A tiny baby elephant at Kruger National Park in South Africa, attempted cross a paved road in the face of a flock of very playful, low-flying swallows who just wanted to have a little fun with the young pachyderm. According to Latest Sightings, this happened on the H3 highway near the Berg-en-Dal Rest-Camp inside the […]

3D streetpainting artist Leon Keer (previously) created an incredible Trompe-l’œil style 3D optical illusion painting in the corner of a room earlier this month at the Life Festival in Schaan, Liechtenstein. He posted a video of a man who appears to walk through the 3D painting, the effect is quite amazing. photos by Leon Keer […]

EDGE is a new series by The Onion media empire that appears to parody Vice television documentaries. The brief trailer for the series features reporters going on extreme adventures in remote places and looking for “cocaine that doesn’t suck.” The series will premiere on The Onion on August 3, 2015.

16-year-old Canadian artist Emily has created a cute animated GIF, titled “Adventure Pops,” that imagines eight characters from Adventure Time as various ice cream popsicle flavors. The crazy Ice King is, of course, portrayed as a mystery flavor. image via THE DRAWS?¿? via Tumblr Staff

Andrew Lloyd entered 1,000 different contests, sweepstakes, and competitions to see how many prizes he could win and chronicled his efforts in a short video. Lloyd laid out three rules for himself to follow: 1. Enter 20 competitions a day. 2. Don’t enter the same competition twice, and 3. Begin immediately. After spending 50 days […]

60 beautiful rocks and gems from around the world come to life through the use of dynamic and kinetic effects in this colorful, majestic music video for Michna and MNDR‘s song “Solid Gold“. Designer Christophe Thockler created the music video, which mixes both stop-motion and motion design, with over 8,500 photos that explore the beautiful […]

“TeachingCenter” is a sketch by comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele from their Comedy Central series Key & Peele about a world where teachers are treated and paid like professional athletes. The sketch is modeled after the popular sports television program SportsCenter, but focuses on the accomplishments of teachers.

Earl the Grumpy Puppy is an adorable little canine who wears a perpetual frown throughout every waking hour, just like the incredibly famous Grumpy Cat. And like Grumpy Cat, Earl’s mean visage doesn’t really reflect his sweet personality. images via Earl the Grumpy Puppy via Woofipedia, Incredible Things

Taco Belle is a beautiful gown by artist AvantGeek that combines Taco Bell elements and the gown worn by Disney princess Belle from Beauty and the Beast. The dress uses Taco Bell wrappers and tacos made from cardstock, tissue paper, and felt. photo via AvantGeek via Geeks Are Sexy

Richard Stevens of Diesel Sweeties has created Great Job!, rolls of dog poop bags that each feature an image of the smiling pile of poo emoji on the front. The dog poop sacks are available to purchase online from the Diesel Sweeties Store. Yup, these are totally dog poop bags with an encouraging happy poo […]

Skilled animator, Dono, has created a beautiful 3D animated tribute to the fantasy work of Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of the legendary anime film studio Studio Ghibli. Dono used Blender, Gimp, Octane, and Natron to bring his fun 3D short to life. It stars animated characters from films like My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, […]