Hilarious Illustrations That Generalize the Typical Layout of Cities Across Europe and the United States

View this post on Instagram This week: a handy map of every city in #europe. #travel #maps #cartophilia A post shared by Itchy Feet Comic | Continue reading


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A Uniquely Beautiful Cover of ‘Africa’ by Toto Performed on a Traditional Japanese Koto

A trio of Geisha styled musicians performed a uniquely beautiful cover of the internet's favorite song aka "Africa" by Toto on a traditional Japanese | Continue reading


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Avengers: Endgame, Tony Stark Says Goodbye While Surviving Superheroes Scramble to Save What’s Left

Part of the journey is the end. In the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Studios film Avengers: Endgame, an unarmed Tony Stark finds himself alone on Titan | Continue reading


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Cooking With Fat Max, A Smiling Corgi Sits at the Table to Review the Quality of His Human’s Homemade Food

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Max the Corgi (@cookingwithfatmax) on Sep 24, 2018 at 4:04pm PDT An adorably smiling Corgi named Max is a | Continue reading


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Thousands of Microscopic Photos Seamlessly Stitched Together to Create Macro Images of Butterfly Wings

View this post on Instagram 2000 photos merged into one image of a butterfly wing. A post shared by Chris Perani (@christopherperani) on Dec 4, 2018 at | Continue reading


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Meet Vermeer, An Augmented Reality Gallery Featuring the Complete Works of Dutch Artist Johannes Vermeer

The Mauritshuis at the Hague and Google Arts & Culture have worked with 17 international cultural partners across Europe and the United States in order to | Continue reading


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A Quietly Beautiful Classical Guitar Medley of Songs From the Soundtrack of ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’

Talented musician and dedicated gamer Nathan Mills of Beyond The Guitar performed a quiet but absolutely beautiful classical guitar medley of songs from | Continue reading


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Ice Meets Fire in the Teaser Trailer for the Eighth and Final Season of ‘Game of Thrones’

In the "official tease" for the eighth and final season of the long-running HBO series Game of Thrones, a sheet of crackling ice meets a burning trail of | Continue reading


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Cranky Bobcat Kitten Threatens the Humans Opening His Carrier Before Releasing Himself Into the Wild

A very cranky little bobcat kitten, to whom wildlife officials from the Center for Biodiversity referred as "Mr. Murderbritches", hissed, growled and | Continue reading


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Brilliantly Illustrated Cornetto Movie Trilogy Posters: ‘Shaun of the Dead’, ‘Hot Fuzz’ and ‘The World’s End’

View this post on Instagram A post shared by MONDO (@mondonews) on Dec 5, 2018 at 12:35pm PST Designer Logan Faerber has brilliantly illustrated a trilogy | Continue reading


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How the Timeless Mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien Inspired Progressive Rock Bands of the 1970s

Music writer and vlogger Polyphonic takes a look at how Led Zeppelin and the subsequent progressive rock bands of the 1970s such as Rush and Genesis, | Continue reading


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Optician Sans, A Free Font Based Upon the Letters Historically Used on Eye Examination Charts

Typographer Fábio Duarte Martins of the Norwegian design company Anti Hamar created the Optician Sans font for their client Optiker-K that very cleverly | Continue reading


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Legendary Script Supervisor Dissects a Scene to Correct Continuity Errors Being Made in Real Time

Legendary script supervisor Martha Pinson, who has worked with such luminary directors as Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Oliver Stone, Milos Forman, Brian | Continue reading


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A Beautiful Film About Photographer Jay Maisel Moving Out of His Legendary Bowery Bank Home of 48 Years

Jay Myself: Photography, the Bank, and Me is a beautiful documentary about the iconic artist and photographer Jay Maisel, his incredible gift for seeing | Continue reading


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A Space Saving Upside Down Christmas Tree

The online Christmas tree retailer Treetopia, who carries holiday trees in a fabulous rainbow of colors, is selling an amusing tree that faces upside down | Continue reading


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The Classic Richard Adams Book ‘Watership Down’ Adapted as Animated Series for BBC One and Netflix

BBC One, in cooperation with Netflix, has released the first trailer for the animated series based upon the 1972 Richard Adams book Watership Down. Like | Continue reading


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The Super Friends Rap Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Triumph’

The Super Friends, including such animated heroes as Superman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Aquaman, Batman and others from the DC Universe each rap | Continue reading


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The Amazing Universality of Dancing Around the World

"Dance, Dance Evolution" is a wonderful visual essay animated by Rosanna Wan and Andrew Khosravan of Aeon Video that explores and celebrates the | Continue reading


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Kodi the Cat Meows Loudly in an Empty Hallway After Watching His Beloved Human Walk Out the Front Door

Kodi, the beautiful black and white cat who makes up one half of the ShoKo Show, watched with his sister Shorty as their human walked out the door. | Continue reading


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An Animated Timeline of Human Evolution Over Seven Million Years as Determined by Clue Giving Fossils

American Museum of Natural History has put together a truly informative animated timeline that shows 7 million years of human evolution using data from | Continue reading


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The Puppet Master for Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’ Recounts Challenges He Faced While Making the Film

Puppet Master Andy Gent, who worked with director Wes Anderson on the stop-motion film Isle of Dogs recounted to Variety the numerous challenges he faced | Continue reading


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A Gorgeous But Heartbreaking Video Tour of the Quickly Retreating Glaciers of a Warmer Greenland

On his eighth visit to Greenland, Swiss nature photographer Stefan Forster captured absolutely gorgeous footage of the numerous icebergs and ice floes | Continue reading


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SoundtrackMap, An Interactive Visualization Showing the Musical Connections Between Film and Television

Juan David Gómez of Flavour Machine has created the SoundtrackMap, a really cool interactive visualization that shows the musical connection between | Continue reading


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The Real Story Behind The Beatles’ ‘Strawberry Fields’

In a revealing episode of the fact-finding series Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains the real story behind the iconic song "Strawberry | Continue reading


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Forensic Experts Explain the Comprehensive Process Used to Determine if a Piece of Art is Real or a Forgery

Forensic experts Thiago Piwowarczyk and Dr. Jeffrey Taylor of New York Art Forensics demonstrated the comprehensive process they use in order to determine | Continue reading


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Touching Film About the Last Surviving Chess Shop in NYC That Always Invites Everyone to Come In and Play

"King of the Night" is a beautiful short film by Lonelyleap LTD about the last surviving chess shop in New York City and its paternally amicable owner | Continue reading


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Hilarious Prank Gift Boxes Printed With Items of Questionable Taste That Hide the Real Gift Inside

Prank-O, a Minneapolis-based comedy company, has a hilarious line of fake gift boxes known as Prank Packs. These gift boxes are printed with items of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

French Bulldog Escape Artist Leaps Onto the Top of Her Enclosure Then Over Safety Gate to the Other Side

A very bouncy little French bulldog named Pickles decided she wanted out and quite effortlessly leaped out of her enclosure and right onto the top of the | Continue reading


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Stylish Sunglasses Embedded With Tiny Bose Speakers

Bose Frames is a fantastically futuristic line of sunglasses embedded with miniature Bose speakers in each arm that can play music and take calls. The | Continue reading


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Merry Christmas Krampus, A Unique Children’s Holiday Book Told Through Beautifully Staged Photographs

A group of professional designers and puppeteers for Disney Animation, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Nickelodeon, Disney Imagineering and The Muppets Studio | Continue reading


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Archie McPhee Builds the World’s Largest Rubber Chicken For Their Acclaimed Rubber Chicken Museum

On April 1, 2018, the online novelty company Archie McPhee debuted their hilariously reverential "Rubber Chicken Museum", which sits at the back of their | Continue reading


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A Clever Cat-Proof Top-Half Only Christmas Tree

The British garden store Argos is selling a clever top-half only Christmas tree for those homes that have either cats or toddlers living within. The tree | Continue reading


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Author George R. R. Martin Offers a Helpful Animated Guide to the Best Places for Pizza in New York City

While promoting his long-awaited new book of the Song of Ice and Fire series entitled Fire and Blood, author George R. R. Martin offered up a helpful and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Incredible Rise of Smooth Jazz in the 1990s

In the third video of her informative mini-series about American Jazz, video producer Estelle Caswell of the Vox series "Earworm" traces the history of | Continue reading


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Watchmaker Takes Apart Two Timepieces to Show the Difference Between Swiss and Japanese Movements

In a timely episode of the Wired series Constructed, New York City watchmaker Ryan Jewell deliberately takes apart two beautiful Carpenter timepieces - | Continue reading


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Celebrities Who Appeared on ‘Seinfeld’ as Minor Characters Before They Became Really Famous

While Seinfeld has been off the air now for over 20 years, it's still fun to look back at which celebrities appeared on the show before hitting it big in | Continue reading


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How Hannah-Barbera Utilized Simple Animation to Emphasize the Dialogue, Music and Sound Effects

In an auricular video essay, filmmaker Patrick Sullivan explores how the Hanna-Barbera animation studio historically kept their animation very simple and | Continue reading


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Timelapse Showing the Intricate Process of Turning Plywood Boards Into Gorgeous Geodesic Spheres

Woodworker Keith Williams shared a remarkable timelapse showing how he transforms flat plywood boards into gorgeous geodesic spheres of different sizes. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Keeper of the Last Plant on Earth Braves a Brutal Desert Wasteland Storm to Rescue His Leafy Charge

In the brilliant 3D CGI animated short entitled "Grow", the elderly keeper of the last plant on earth braves a brutal storm rolling through the desert | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Official Alexa Enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass Singing Fish That Was Inspired by a Clever 2016 Hack

In 2016, we wrote about Brian Kane who cleverly hacked a Big Mouth Billy Bass robotic singing fish with an Amazon Echo so that it answered as Alexa. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Amazing Adrenaline Fueled FPV Footage From Chase Drones Filming Rally Cars Drifting Around Race Tracks

Expert drone operator Steele Davis and his team at Ethix Ltd. capture amazing, adrenaline fueled FPV (First Person View) footage of high speed rally cars | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Nine Conjoined Remote Controlled Planes Fly as One

Remote control hobbyist Ran D. St. Clair quite ingeniously created the Flex-Plane X-9, a line of nine RC planes attached wingtip-to-wingtip, and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Return For New Adventures in Adam Koford’s New Book ‘One More For the Road’

The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats in One More for the Road is the the fourth book of the series by cartoonist Adam Koford. Like his other books, this most recent | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

CIMON the 3D Printed Voice Activated Assistant Aboard the ISS Plays Kraftwerk for Astronaut Alexander Gerst

While demonstrating the formidable capabilities of the Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN (aka CIMON) aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Tiny Owl Rides a Segway Across a Moscow City Plaza

Holiday shoppers in Moscow were taken by surprise at the sight of a diminutive owl who skillfully balanced and operated a Segway MiniPRO. The little | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Six-String Soldiers of the U.S. Army Field Band Play a Beautiful Cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’

The talented Six-String Soldiers of the United States Army Field Band performed a beautiful 3 piece acoustic guitar and banjo cover of the classic Pink | Continue reading


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A Montage of Computer Graphics Interacting With the Real World With Wonderfully Absurd Results

Russian filmmaker and graphic artist Vladimir Tomin has created "Sketches", a montage of different very entertaining video clips that show the real world | Continue reading


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An Automated Voice Controlled Office Assistant That Turns On Lights, Tosses Beers and Opens Doors

David Neevel who has built some incredibly efficient, if not weirdly ingenious machines to assist him at work, has brilliantly combined voice control | Continue reading


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