I Hate Being a Box

"I Hate Being a Box" by Alvin Juano on The Square Comics via Geeks Are Sexy | Continue reading


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A Tiny Paralyzed Rescued Orange Tabby Kitten Rolls Around the Vet’s Office on a Pair of Homemade Wheels

In 2016, a compassionate human brought a tiny orange tabby kitten to Massapequa Pet Vet after finding him on the streets, abandoned by his mother and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

ROV Hercules Captures First Live Sighting of an Asperoteuthis Mangoldae Squid in the Remote Pacific

While out near the Jarvis Seamount in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, the ROV Hercules on the 2019 Kingman Reef Expedition captured | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Aquanaut, An Autonomous Electric Submarine That Can Transform Itself Into a Wireless Underwater Robot

Texas robotics company Houston Mechatronics has created the Aquanaut, an amazing autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV or submarine) that literally | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Pair of Naughty French Bulldogs Accidentally Turn Themselves Green While Raiding an Open Cupboard

While their human Yada Ornsomjit was sleeping, a pair of curious French bulldogs in Lamphun, northern Thailand, raided an open cupboard that contained, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How Quentin Tarantino Seamlessly Blends the Work of Other Directors He Admires Into His Own Original Films

I steal from every single movie ever made. If my work has anything, it’s that I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How The Who’s Pete Townshend Channeled His Newly Sober Disdain for Rock Star Life With ‘Eminence Front’

Music vlogger Noah LeFevre of Polyphonic takes a look at "Eminence Front" an often overlooked song from The Who's late-career album It's Hard, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Illustrator Cleverly Reimagines the ‘Great Wave Off Kanagawa’ by Hokusai With Cats Wearing Glasses

Illustrator Roberto Maki, a "Japanese-Brazilian living in Brooklyn", has quite cleverly reimagined the famous woodblock print "The Great Wave Off | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

‘Stranger Things’ Creators Ross and Matt Duffer Talk About the Many 1980s Films Referenced in the Series

In an amusingly informative interview with Wired, twin brothers Ross Duffer and Matt Duffer talk at wonderful length about the incredible number of films | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How the Subjective Perspectives in ‘Chernobyl’ Served to Engage the Audience on a More Personal Level

In his fascinating video series around the HBO show Chernobyl, video essayist Thomas Flight examines how the use of changing subjective perspectives | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Captain Native America at San Diego Comic-Con 2019

Cosplayer Hot Glue Burns, who is of Osage Nation and Oglala Lakota heritage, made a very prescient and personal statement with his native interpretation | Continue reading


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An Angry Mother Goes to Extreme Culinary Steps When Her Teenager Wakes Her Up in the Middle of the Night

In an alternative culinary stop-motion animated short by filmmaker Omozoc (previously), an angry mother who is woken up in the middle of the night by her | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Beep, A Silicon Cover for Streaming Remotes With a Built-In Locator That Beeps When a Button Is Pushed

Jenn and Brett Epstein of True Bloom LLC (previously) have created "Beep", a handy silicon cover for streaming device remotes that pairs with a small, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Vividly Colorful Bo-Kaap Homes and Muizenberg Beach Bungalows in Cape Town, South Africa

While in Cape Town, South Africa, the very talented photographer Richard Silver (previously) captured the very colorful homes that dot the hills of the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Nova Effect, A Profound Short Animated Tale About the Incredibly Random Nature of Luck

The short animated tale "The Nova Effect" by The Pursuit of Wonder tells the story of a man named Eric who lost his dog Nova to a taunting rabbit while | Continue reading


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TasteAtlas, An Interactive Map That Plots Where Popular Local Food Around the World Can Be Found

TasteAtlas is a wonderful searchable, interactive map that plots exactly where the best and most popular local foods can be found anywhere in the world. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Runner Creates a Mapped Portrait of Artist Frida Kahlo With His 28.9 Mile Route Through the San Francisco

San Francisco distance runner Lenny Maughan very strategically planned out a route for an endurance run that created a city street portrait of artist | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Brilliant Art Installations Created With Strategically Hung Smaller Items To Create Distinct Images From Afar

Visual artist Michael Murphy of Perpetual Art in Brooklyn, New York crafts absolutely brilliant installations out of smaller pieces that are strategically | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Colored Clay Strips Strategically Rolled Together to Reveal Stunning Designs When Sliced Crosswise

Clay artist Dean McRaine of Lightwave Pottery creates absolutely beautiful, psychedelic millefiori ceramic art. McRaine achieves this gorgeous effect by | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Artist Jeremy Mayer Shares How He Makes Such Remarkable Sculptures Out of Vintage Typewriters

Artist Jeremy Meyer, whose amazing recycled typewriter sculptures we've posted about previously, was featured on the 17th episode of the Wired series | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Adorable Lion Manes for Cats and Dogs

Nothing is cuter than seeing a cat or a dog trying to channel their inner lion with handy pull-over costume lion manes. While some animals may be more | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Invisible Dramatic Convention That Runs Throughout the Unconventional Film ‘Before Sunset’

Filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay takes a look at the 2004 film Before Sunset, the second film in the Richard Linklater "Before" | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Deep Scrolling Project Encourages Social Media Users to Unfollow Negativity and Follow Creativity Instead

Deep Scrolling is a digital project that encourages social media users and consumers to unfollow those things and people who post negative ideas designed | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Freequencies, A Musically Themed Spinning Chocolate Cake Zoëtrope by Alexandre Dubosc

Artist Alexandre Dubosc (previously) has created a brilliant chocolate cake zoëtrope entitled "Freequencies". This incredible spinning optical illusion | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Mischievous Little Bird Gleefully Tosses Grapes From the Refrigerator Onto the Kitchen Floor

When his human stepped out of the room to take a phone call, a beautiful but mischievous little white-bellied caique (parrot) named Jalapeño Pancake | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Dr. Edith Widder Explains How Her Bioluminescent Camera Captured Rare Footage of a Giant Squid

In June 2019, we posted about incredible footage of the rare sight of a giant squid just 100 miles south of New Orleans that was captured by marine | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Japanese Man Challenges International Tourists to Find Public Trash Cans in Shibuya, Tokyo

That Japanese Man Yuta, a vlogger in Tokyo who teaches Japanese, challenged several pairs of international tourists to go off in search of a public trash | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Sleek Watches That Incorporate the Ticking Hands of Time Into Mesmerizing Kinetic Art

Artist David Sze of Humism creates stunningly sleek wristwatches and timepieces that use the moving minutes and hours of a ticking clock to create | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Incredible Ska Cover of the Song ‘Pure Imagination’ From ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’

The incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Hunter of Skatune Network performed an absolutely amazing ska cover of the classic Willy Wonka and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How Premium Movie Formats Differ From Each Other

In a vivid video essay for Insider, narrater Nate Lee explains how premium digital movie formats, such as Dolby Atmos and IMAX, differ from one another in | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Disconcerting Beauty of Pills Dissolving When Submerged in Water Captured in Macro Timelapses

Ben Ouaniche of Macro Room captured what various vitamins and pills look like when they dissolve after being submerged in water. The resulting timelapses | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Greg Nicotero of ‘The Walking Dead’ Reboots ‘Creepshow’ for Shudder Horror Streaming Service

While at San Diego International Comic-Con 2019, horror fan Greg Nicotero, who is the special make-up effects supervisor and an executive producer of The | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

‘The Moon’s Milk’, A Stop-Motion Animated Short About the Final Time the Moon Could Be Reached by Ladder

In mid-2018, filmmaker Ri Crawford more than successfully funded his idea for "The Moon's Milk" a stop-motion animated short taking place at a time when a | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

‘You’re Not a Monster’, An Insecure ‘Para-Therapist’ Treats Troubled Monsters in Animated IMDb Mini-Series

You're Not A Monster is a funny new animated IMDb mini-series for adults about a very troubled "para-therapist" Max Seward (Eric Stonestreet) whose | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Mister Rogers Gently Advises Parents About Grieving After Tragic 1968 Assassination of Robert F Kennedy

On June 5, 1968, the United States and much of the world were taken by tragic surprise when Robert F. Kennedy, a sitting U.S. Senator, was suddenly gunned | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Celebrates ‘Friends’ 25th Anniversary With ‘Central Perk’ Coffee, Tea and Drinks

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the iconic 1990s sitcom Friends, the coffee chain The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf has collaborated with Warner | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Clock is Ticking for Masked Vigilantes to Choose a Side in Damon Lindelof’s Adaptation of ‘Watchmen’

HBO has released a trailer for the highly enigmatic series Watchmen, a serial interpretation by Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers) of the legendary | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Independent Hosts Find Out the New World Isn’t What They Expected in the Third Season of ‘Westworld’

In the trailer for the third season of the HBO series Westworld, the newly independent hosts find out that the outside world isn't what they expected it | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Cartoonist Depicts 30 Years of His Life Over 30 Seconds in a Dreary Self-Deprecating Animation

Cartoonist Lenivko Kvadratjic of Lazy Square, who interpreted the classic Simpsons Couch Gag as a Russian art film, previously created a rather | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Amusing Images of Animals Cleverly Merged With Food

Talented image manipulator Ronald Ong has created a wonderful series of animals that have been cleverly merged with matching foods. Ong has replaced a | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Animated Jeff Tweedy of Wilco Talks About the Benefit Revisiting Music That He Once Shunned

During an April 2019 interview with journalist Jancee Dunn in Washington D.C., Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy talked about the music that he hated while | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Captain Jean Luc Picard Finds Terrestrial Life Trying as He Looks Upward to Put Right What Once Went Wrong

In the trailer for the upcoming Star Trek series Picard on CBS All Access, a troubled Captain Jean Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) finds that his regrets | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Tom Hanks Plays Fred Rogers in ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’, Based on an 1998 Esquire Article

In September 2018 we wrote about a wonderful photo that Sony Pictures had posted of actor Tom Hanks dressed in a red sweater and blue tennis shoes for his | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Cheeky Bald Eagle Steals a Fisherman’s GoPro

After a day of angling, a generous fisherman on a Haida Gwaii beach on the northern Pacific coast of Canada, decided to share a bit of the wealth by | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Sneak Peek Into Jim Henson’s ‘Dark Crystal’ Prequel Netflix Series ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’

In 2017, we wrote about how Netflix partnered with The Henson Company to create the prequel to the late Jim Henson's visionary 1982 film The Dark Crystal. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Restaurant in Bangkok Has Been Simmering Their Renowned Beef Noodle Soup for 45 Years

Producer Austin Brown of Great Big Story visited the Wattana Panich restaurant in Bangkok to learn about and sample their renowned neua tuna (beef noodle) | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Compassionate Man Builds a Floating ‘Wheelchair’ Device to Help Keep His Disabled Goldfish Afloat

South Korean fashion designer Henry Kim very cleverly built a unique floating "wheelchair" device that helps a disabled fancy goldfish remain afloat | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Mutated Monster Hunter Finds That Humans Are More Evil Than the Creatures He Hunts in ‘The Witcher’

During the San Diego International Comic-Con 2019, Netflix released the trailer for their new series The Witcher. The series is based off a popoular | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago