Why a Butt-Trumpet Playing Man and Other Unusual Images Appeared in Margins of Medieval Manuscripts

In an enlightening TED-Ed lesson written by Michelle Brown and animated by Wow-How Studios, narrator Adrian Dannatt explains how unusual illustrations, | Continue reading


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A Bright Red Fiat Coupe Cut Horizontally in Half Is Transformed Into a Working Mobile Chip Shop

Artist Benedetto Bufalino, who is known for his incredible transformative installations, took a bright red Fiat Coupe and cut it horizontally into two | Continue reading


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CarLens, A Smartphone App That Uses AI Machine Learning to Instantly Identify Different Cars on the Street

CarLens is a very clever app that connects with a smartphone camera that uses AI machine learning and augmented reality to instantly identify the | Continue reading


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The Unassuming Alabama Artist Who Hand Forges Authentic Swords and Props For Film and Television

Great Big Story visited with the very talented yet unassuming Kenneth Spivey of Fire and Brimstone Forge in Vestavia Hills, Alabama who learned how to | Continue reading


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Backwards Crawling CG Man Disintegrates In the Wind

CG artist fx_mania created an absolutely amazing animation depicting a supine man crawling back from a strong incoming gust of wind. As he makes his way | Continue reading


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How the Wikitongues Project Actively Seeks to Save Endangered Languages From Complete Extinction

Mariano Carranza of Great Big Story accompanied Wikitongues founder Daniel Bögre Udell around different New York City neighborhoods to record speakers of | Continue reading


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Jason Alexander Recalls the Very Moment He Realized That George Costanza Was Actually Larry David

In a 2013 interview with the Television Academy Foundation, actor/director Jason Alexander talks about how he interpreted the character of George Costanza | Continue reading


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Game of Thrones Creators Talk About How They Adapted George R. R. Martin’s Books for Television

Game of Thrones writer Bryan Cogman and creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss talk about how the series came about, what they envisioned for the series | Continue reading


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Gorgeous Animation on the Mystical Journey of Jimmy Page’s 1959 Telecaster Narrated by Page Himself

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin, guitar legend Jimmy Page narrates a gorgeous animation by Nexus Studios that shares the mystical | Continue reading


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Dancers on Treadmills Gracefully Perform Synchronized En Pointe Ballet Routine While Working Out at the Gym

While working out at the gym, a pair of talented dancers on side-by-side treadmills performed a really graceful en pointe ballet routine in perfect | Continue reading


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An Overview of Fantasy Book TV Series Competing For the Same Cultural Significance as Game of Thrones

Now that we're on our way towards the very last episode of Game of Thrones forever and ever, video producer and host Granger Wilson of New York Magazine | Continue reading


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Marvelous Latte Art Featuring Vividly Colorful Designs

baristaxiaoyao is an extremely talented, award-winning latte designer and teacher in Shanghai, China who creates amazing art within the space of a | Continue reading


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Charting the Most Popular Internet Memes 2004-2019

Cary Huang of Abacaba compiled 15 years worth of internet memes into a really fun, slightly dizzying visualization that charts the most popular memes from | Continue reading


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A Comedic Cover of the Game of Thrones Theme Song With Hilarious ‘Historically Accurate’ Lyrics

In keeping up the ongoing trend of re-making the theme song from Game of Thrones, comedy troupe The Warp Zone decided to try one of their own. In doing | Continue reading


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Etch-A-Snap, A Brilliant Raspberry Pi Powered Camera That Slowly Outputs Images as Etch-A-Sketch Drawings

Engineer Martin Fitzpatrick of Two Bit Arcade has created the "Etch-A-Snap", a unique camera powered by Raspberry Pi that very slowly outputs images as | Continue reading


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Steve Jobs Explains How the Thought of Death Inspires Living a Good Life in a Colorful Whiteboard Animation

Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple and Pixar, gave an inspiring commencement address to the graduates of Stanford University in Palo Alto, | Continue reading


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False Advertising

Things are not always what they seem... via Miss Cellania | Continue reading


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Musician Calculates the Time Signature of Jeff Goldblum’s Distinctive Laugh in ‘Jurassic Park’

In 2015, musician Lee Presson hilariously calculated the time signature of Jeff Goldblum's very distinctive laugh while playing the role of Dr. Ian | Continue reading


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Jamie Dupuis Plays a Rich Acoustic Cover of the Game of Thrones Theme on His Signature Harp Guitar

In honor of the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones, musician Jamie Dupuis (previously) performed a beautifully rich acoustic cover of the | Continue reading


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A Harnessed Herd of Ten Four-Legged SpotMini Robots Pull a Truck Across the Boston Dynamics Parking Lot

In 2015 Boston Dynamics introduced the world to SpotMini, their nimble four-legged robot. Since that time, the company has been releasing amusing videos | Continue reading


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Heartbroken Woman Reunites With Her Beloved Pet Deer After Two Years Apart From Each Other

A heartbroken Diggin Britt finally reunited with her beloved pet deer Albert after being separated for two years. Before their time apart, Britt and | Continue reading


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Woman Does a Perfect Imitation of a Car Alarm

My secret talent... CAR ALARM pic.twitter.com/tflB1ondAK— Peyt? (@P_gibb) March 28, 2019 Peyton Gibson demonstrates how she can do a perfect | Continue reading


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Weary Cat Tries to Sleep Next to the Hammers of a Piano While a Human Plays a Boogie-Woogie Tune

A weary kitty who was napping between the piano keys and hammers on an upright piano found that sleep would be hard to come by once a human started | Continue reading


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A Remarkable 3D Rendering Timelapse Showing How Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Can Be Restored

In and around 2014, the Passion for Innovation Institute of Dassault Systèmes, created an incredibly realistic rendering of how the Notre Dame de Paris | Continue reading


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Intricately Carved Coins With Embedded Surprises

Russian engineering artist Roman Booteen creates absolutely gorgeous, intricate carvings on disused U.S. Morgan Dollar coins. Not only are Booteen's | Continue reading


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The Joy of Cereal, A Colorful Bob Ross Marshmallow Cereal That Makes This World as Happy as You Want It

Pop culture retailer FYE has created a wonderful tribute to legendary television artistic instructor Bob Ross in the form of breakfast cereal. The crunchy | Continue reading


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Keanu Reeves Shows Off His Extensive Collection of Prized Bikes at Arch Motorcycle in Los Angeles

Actor Keanu Reeves, of such classic cult films as The Matrix, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed and John Wick, shared with GQ his extensive | Continue reading


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Amazing Tattoos That Look Like Embroidered Patches

Brazilian ink artist Duda "Tattoo You" Lozano creates amazing tattoos that look like colorful patches that have been embroidered directly onto the | Continue reading


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An Excited Little Westie Puppy Tries to Jump Through the Screen Whenever She Sees Another Animal on TV

. An adorable little West Highland White Terrier (Westie) puppy in Miami, Florida excitedly jumps up and down on her hind legs and appears to be trying to | Continue reading


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Long Before He Picked Up a Sword as Bronn in ‘Game of Thrones’ Jerome Flynn Was a Blonde Pop Singer

Long before he ever picked up a sword as Bronn in Game of Thrones (or a shield as Bennet Drake in Ripper Street), actor Jerome Flynn was a singer in the | Continue reading


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A Young Ian McKellen Elegantly Explains the Difference Between Stage and Film Acting to Dick Cavett in 1981

In a wonderfully honest interview from 1981, a young, dark-haired Ian McKellen elegantly explained to talk show host Dick Cavett the difference between | Continue reading


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Game of Thrones Characters Hilariously Rap ‘Ice Ice Baby’ in ‘A Song of Vanilla Ice and Fire’ Mashup

In 2017, Sky Atlantic commissioned video editor Swedemason to create a promo for the seventh season of Game of Thrones. Using the concept of fire and ice, | Continue reading


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Charmin Forever Roll, A Handy Subscription Service That Delivers Giant Rolls of Toilet Paper to Your Door

The Charmin Forever Roll is a wonderfully handy subscription service that delivers giant rolls of toilet paper to your door. The rolls come in single and | Continue reading


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‘Jerry Pulls the Strings’, A Bizarre 1938 Promotional Film That Uses Marionettes to Explain the Coffee Trade

' The promotional film "Jerry Pulls the Strings" is a bizarre, if not biased, look at the coffee trade told entirely by marionettes. The film was made in | Continue reading


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Quirky Shoes and Apparel Made Out of Branded Items

Graphic designer Nicole McLaughlin creates wonderfully quirky shoes and apparel out of randomly branded items. Amongst the items that McLaughlin uses for | Continue reading


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A Stunning Yosemite Park Waterfall That Looks Like Cascading Molten Lava When the Sun Hits It Just Right

The Yosemite Firefall is a naturally occurring phenomenon that makes the flowing water of Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park appears to turn into | Continue reading


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Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Successfully Completes First Flight as the World’s Largest All-Composite Aircraft

On Saturday, April 13, 2019, Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, successfully launched Allen's dream of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

‘You Can’t Take My Door’, A Country Song Created by a Neural Network That Studied a Catalog of Country Hits

Elle O'Brien and a team from Botnik Studios created a predictive AI country song entitled "You Can't Take My Door". The song was created by training a | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Flock of Seagals

Wil Wheaton, Anne Wheaton and Bonnie Burton were making a bunch of puns and came up with "A Flock of Seagals". Wil then commisioned Joshua Ellingson to | Continue reading


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An Elegant Wireless Speaker With a Soft LED Flame

DiKaou has created a very elegant, somewhat egg-shaped wireless speaker with softly flickering LED flames that is a perfect all-in-one device to set the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Striking Similarities Between the Star Wars IX Trailer and an Iconic ‘North by Northwest’ Scene

Creative fansite Star Wars Scenes very insightfully juxtaposed a key scene from the trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker with an | Continue reading


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Rey Ascends to Jedi in the Final Film of the Sequel Trilogy ‘Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker’

In the very brief teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, a determined Rey (Daisy Ridley) tries to outrun an incoming attack. | Continue reading


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A Meditative Aquatic Opera Featuring a Musician Gracefully Playing a Rectangular Cello Underwater

While he was artist-in-residence at Middlebury College in 2017, choreographer Gabriel Forestieri created "Breathe", a highly meditative, graceful | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Proud Mexican-American Women in Brooklyn Who Make a Widely Distributed Homemade Mole Sauce

Great Big Story went to Brooklyn in order to visit with the Mole Poblano Asunción Corp., a shop in Brooklyn, New York where three generations of | Continue reading


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A Whimsical Audio Cassette Tape Wireless Speaker

British product concept designer Nick Forrester created for SUCK UK a wonderfully whimsical portable, pocket-sized speaker that looks like a retro audio | Continue reading


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A Gorgeous Orange British Longhair Cat Takes Her First Tentative Steps Out Into the Backyard

An absolutely gorgeous orange and white British longhair named Smoothie sat at the back door for a few seconds before taking her first tentative steps | Continue reading


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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Successfully Lands All Three Boosters at the Same Time on First Operational Mission

On April 11, 2019, the incredibly powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket (previously) was officially launched on its first operational mission since | Continue reading


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How Leonardo da Vinci Created a Bird’s Eye Satellite Style Image of Imola, Italy From the Ground in 1502

In a delineating episode of Vox Almanac, correspondent Phil Edwards explains why and how the great Leonardo da Vinci created bird's eye satellite-style | Continue reading


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