An Incredible ‘Back to the Future’ Time Machine Bass

Steve Doner and his son Richard Doner of Doner Designs created a incredible Back To the Future themed Time Machine Bass. This badass bass guitar is a | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Visiting the World’s Largest Truck Stop in Walcott, Iowa

In a transportive episode of the video series Off the Cuf, host Harris Dirnberger pays a visit to Iowa 80 Truck Stop, the largest truck stop in the world. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Look Behind the Brooklyn Company That Creates Incredible Hand-Painted Photo-Realistic Billboards

In a colorful report for Art Insider, producer Abby Narishkin visited with the creative folks at Colossal Media at their highly decorated shop in | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

An Animatronic Spy Pig Becomes the Unfortunate Victim of a Very Defensive Male Komodo Dragon

In a wild clip narrated by David Tennant from the PBS/BBC series The Islands' of Spy in the Wild 2, an animatronic spy pig built by John Downer | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Determined Labrador Retriever Remarkably Fetches Anything That His Human Throws For Him

An adorable black Labrador retriever named Yogi brought a tiny wood chip to his human while she was sitting outside in the backyard in an effort to play a | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Brooklyn Drive-In Movie Theater That Shows Classic Films Against a Stunning View of the Manhattan Skyline

The Skyline Drive-In is an outdoor movie theater that recently opened in Greenpoint, Brooklyn featuring a spectacular location on the East River that | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Livestream of Wonderful Library Themed Bird Feeder

Kevin Cwalina and Rebecca Flowers, two very creative people who live in Charlottesville, Virginia, have created a novel bird feeder that looks like a | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

An Amazing Stop-Motion Animation of a Dance Video Made From 1,400 Hand Cut Pieces of Paper

Vlogger BLACKHAND very patiently printed out 1,400 different images from a music video, carefully cut each and every piece of paper and then sorted them | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Very Meta Stop-Motion Film About an Emotionally Distant Couple Working on a Stop-Motion Animation

French-Canadian filmmaker Frédérick Tremblay has created a powerfully meta environment in the stop-motion animated short "Dolls Don't Cry". The subjects | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Magnificent Satellite Photo of Bombetoka Bay in Madagascar That Looks Like a Giant Octopus

The U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team captured an absolutely magnificent satellite photo of the northwestern coast of Madagascar where the saline waters of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Monkey Does Gymnastics on the Horns of a Goat

A tiny monkey adorably took a running start and climbed onto the great horns of a goat. The incredibly patient animal just stood in place while the nimble | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Disarming Masks Custom Printed With Your Own Face

Danielle Baskin, a designer in San Francisco who previously created a line of unique N95 respiratory masks that worked with facial recognition software | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Fantastic Low Budget Cardboard Remake of ‘Alien’

The folks behind the Cardboard Movie Co. have remade the iconic 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien with a very small budget and lots of recycled cardboard. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Stylish Canary With a Groovy Beatlesque Bowl Cut

A really stylish canary named Barry Birb sports a unique feathery coif that is incredibly reminiscent of the styles worn by members of the The Beatles | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Amazing 3D Origami Paper Animal Sculptures

Faith C. creates absolutely amazing 3D sculptures of animals and fictional creatures out of cleverly folded strips of paper. Each piece is adorably | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Grounded Travel Photographer Creates Tiny Outdoor Scenes in Her Home Using Items From Her Refrigerator

When outdoor travel writer and photographer Erin Sullivan found herself having to stay indoors, she used what she had at hand to create an ingenious photo | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Territorial Red-Wing Blackbird Repeatedly Dive Bombs People Who Walk Past a Toronto Condo Complex

A rather aggressive red-wing blackbird has evidently made a home at the Liberty Village condominium complex in Toronto, Canada. The territorial bird | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Video Game Where You Play a Stray Cat Navigating a Futuristic Robot City in Order to Find Way Your Home

Stray is an amazing, long-awaited video game, in which you play a lost and lonely cat wearing a backpack who navigates a bustling futuristic city to solve | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

An Ingenious Hard Hat With Seven Full Sized Hummingbird Feeders Attached With Sturdy Wire

Self-described "bird nut" Spencer Staley who evidently loves hummingbirds, ingeniously took a bright red hard hat and attached seven full-sized feeders | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Handy Infusion Kit That Makes Gin Glow in the Dark

Scott and Gabriel of Sandy Leaf Farm in Oxfordshire, England have put together a wonderful DIY kit to make five batches of gin that glows in the dark. The | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Clever Pop Culture Wood-Burning Stoves and Barbecues Made Out of Recycled Materials

Danny Lyons of Trash Metal Fabrications builds wonderfully clever wood-burning stoves and barbecues in the shape of pop culture characters and nostalgic | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Yusuf/Cat Stevens Releases Updated Version of ‘Where Do the Children Play’ With a Powerful Animated Video

In an incredibly powerful music video for an updated version of the very prescient 1970 Yusuf/Cat Stevens song "Where Do the Children Play" directed by | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Intricate Designs Made From Simple Household Items

Artist Adam Hillman, who previously arranged candy and other items into visually pleasing colors and geometric shapes, has continued refining his unique | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

The Members of The Boston Typewriter Orchestra Perform Original Symphony From Home via Video Chat

In 2017 Great Big Story visited with The Boston Typewriter Orchestra, a group of talented alternative musicians who compose and perform original | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Young Leopard Investigates a Defensive Porcupine

A young leopard on a road near the Rhino Post Safari Lodge of Seolo Africa in South Africa's Kruger National Park, tried to investigate an equally young | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A ‘Free Falling’ Compilation of 50 Hit Songs from 1989 That’s ‘Like a Prayer’ to ‘Fight the Power’ That Be

As part of their Thursday music series, Aaron Brink and Steve Reidell of The Hood Internet compiled 50 hit song music videos from 1989 and remixed them | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Mournful Medieval Cover of ‘Creep’ by Radiohead

Bardcore singer Hildegard von Blingin' (previously) performed a melodic yet mournful cover of the Radiohead song "Creep" in semi-traditional medieval | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Tiny LEGO Train Rides on Tiny Tracks Through a Canadian Forest in Celebration of Springtime

In celebration of springtime, vlogger TinyTrainTracks laid a long row of LEGO tracks across a trail of the local forest. A tiny LEGO train was set upon | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Brilliantly Integrated LED Fender Telecaster Guitar Faceplate That Synchronizes With a Band’s Lighting Rig

Immerge Interactive built an impressively brilliant faceplate for a Fender Telecaster that features integrated reactive LEDs that turn the guitar into a | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Autumn Leaves Become the Flames For a Stick Acting As a Match in a Wonderful Stop-Motion Animated Short

While at the Sasso Art Residency, filmmaker William Crook created "Stickmatch", a wonderful stop-motion animated short of a wooden stick that becomese as | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Kit Kat Jingle Composer Talks About the Song’s Origins

Great Big Story visited with legendary television and film composer Michael A. Levine to talk about one of the most iconic pieces he's ever written - the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

The Real Reason Raccoons Dip Their Food in Water

In a procyonid episode of SciShow, host Olivia Gordon explains the real reason that raccoons dunk their food in water. Let's just say that cleanliness is | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

How a Crowdfunding Project Is Trying to Save the Footpaths of the Oldest Road in Britain

In a historical episode of Things You Might Not Know, host Tom Scott (previously) explained the history of The Icknield Way, the oldest known road in | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Supercut of Characters From ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ Using the Phrase ‘Some Kind Of…’

Ryan Powell of Ryan's Cinematics, who previously integrated blooper footage from Star Trek: The Next Generation into the original scenes, has created | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Hand-Welded TIE Fighter and X-Wing Candlesticks

Alex Dodson of Burned by Design has again added to his incredible Star Wars inspired collection with amazing TIE Fighter and X-Wing candlesticks. Like his | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

An Ingenious Kinetic Chess Set Based on the Folding Principles of Origami for Easy Portability

Brian Ignaut, a talented engineer who previously designed unfolding solar arrays for SpaceX, has designed an absolutely ingenious kinetic chess set that | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Hot 8 Brass Band Performs a Jazz Cover of ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ to Raise Money for Musicians

We previously wrote about Hot 8 Brass Band from New Orleans performing a truly badass marching band version of the Joy Division song "Love Will Tear Us | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Gorgeous Violin Medley Showing How the ‘Star Trek’ Theme Has Evolved From 1966 Through 2020

The very talented Becky Sánchez of VioDance performed an absolutely gorgeous medley showing how the Star Trek theme has evolved over the years with every | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Supervillains Attempt to Use Video Chat to Plan Their Evil Schemes in Doc Pop’s Song ‘The Legion of Zoom’

Doc Pop, an artist, musician, performer and good friend of Laughing Squid edited together classic clips of Legion of Doom cartoons that show the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

How a Nonexistent Austrian Artist Conducted a Quiet Political Protest at the São Paulo Biennial in 2002

Johannes Grenzfurthner, founder of the Austrian art and technology group monochrom (previously) and longtime friend of Laughing Squid, is featured in a | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Playful Black Cat Interacts With All the Characters In the Opening Sequence of ‘The Office’

OwlKitty, the beautiful black cat who previously stood loyally by Walter White in a Breaking Bad parody, inserted herself into the opening sequence of The | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Funny Little Dachshund With a Great Sense of Rhythm Plays Drums With Her Tail on the Trash Can

Moonpie Starbox is an adorable little dachshund who is also a very talented percussionist who strikes a rhythmic beat with her happily swinging tail | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Saxophonist Cleverly Plays Into Giant Piece of Pipeline to Accompany Himself With an Echo in Perfect Pitch

During the evenings, Armin Küpper likes to play his saxophone into a giant piece of pipeline pipe near his home. The echo from playing directly into the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Fantastic Mashup of the Classic Ram Jam Song ‘Black Betty’ With a Variety of Songs and Characters

DJ Cummerbund (previously) has seamlessly stitched together "Weird Betty", a fantastic mashup that combines the classic Ram Jam song "Black Betty" with | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Fantastic Mashup of the Classic Ram Jam Song ‘Black Betty’ With a Variety of Songs and Characters

DJ Cummerbund (previously) has seamlessly stitched together "Weird Betty", a fantastic mashup that combines the classic Ram Jam song "Black Betty" with | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Melodic Medieval Cover of ‘Pumped Up Kicks’

Bardcore band Hildegard von Blingin' performed a wonderfully melodic cover of the Foster the People song "Pumped Up Kicks" in a traditional medieval style | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Colorfully Detailed Pop Culture Tattoos

Israeli tattoo artist Eden Kozokaro, who's known as Kozo Tattoo, creates brightly colored, highly detailed tattoos that feature characters and images from | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

A Wonderfully Detailed Millennium Falcon Fire Pit

Alex Dodson of Burned by Design (previously) has added a new piece to his incredible Star Wars inspired collection with a wonderfully detailed Millennium | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago