"The Visitor" by Australian filmmaker and designer Pete Majarich is an absolutely stunning, atmospheric short film about a lone astronaut exploring the | Continue reading
An elderly pet rat who has had trouble getting around the house as of late, was able to walk through the kitchen inside a homemade sling held in place by | Continue reading
As part of their ongoing series of deconstructing the rich symbolism and character development within the sublime AMC series Breaking Bad, Debra Minoff | Continue reading
The doodling, fast talking and extremely knowledgeable music theorist 12Tone takes on one of the most puzzling, but beautiful pieces of modern classical | Continue reading
In the trailer for the upcoming film Anna and the Apocalypse, a young woman named Anna and her friends are getting ready for Christmas when they discover | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by @robyniko on Aug 23, 2018 at 2:40pm PDT It all started out with a tweet by architect Donna Sink, who asked if | Continue reading
In a disquieting Ted-Ed lesson written by educator Elizabeth Cox and animated by Gerta Xhelo, narrator Christina Greer explains how memory is connected to | Continue reading
The Jammy by RnD64 is a really neat super portable digital guitar that can be easily disassembled for traveling and reassembled for playing. When | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by S.N.O.R.T. Rescue (@snortrescue) on Aug 7, 2018 at 6:03am PDT A teeny tiny French bulldog puppy who was given | Continue reading
The fabulous online novelty retailer Archie McPhee, that has a fascination for innovative ways to reinvent the candy cane, has released their unique | Continue reading
For the 11th year in a row, the innovative students of Musashino Art University along with those in the community, worked together to create incredible | Continue reading
An adorably downy baby owl obligingly hopped across the grass with fluffy spread wings upon hearing a whistle in the air. When the owl arrived, the hoped | Continue reading
In their ongoing analysis of the popular series The Office, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of ScreenPrism analyzed the highly abrasive but very | Continue reading
A fascinating video from National Liverpool Museums offers a view into the past with a comprehensive demonstration showing the specific order involved in | Continue reading
Video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter took a reflective look at the timelessness of Michael Jackson's 1979 song "Don't Stop 'Til | Continue reading
In the amusingly brilliant stop motion animation "Captain 3D" by Victor Haegelin, a superhero action figure sitting upon a desk accidentally comes to life | Continue reading
Some readers may realize this, but Laughing Squid is also a web hosting company that focuses on Managed WordPress hosting. The revenue from our hosting | Continue reading
Stephen Bacque, a Cranford, New Jersey resident by way of Houston, Texas, rides around town on a battery powered horse of his own original design. | Continue reading
Justin Roiland, the brilliant mind and voice behind the sublime animated series Rick and Morty, offers up some hilarious tips that can come in handy for | Continue reading
In the haunting Reed Morano film I Think We're Alone Now, the incredible Peter Dinklage plays the role of Del, an involuntarily reclusive man who is the | Continue reading
The New York Times has put together a fascinating interactive chart that reveals just how much the temperature has increased (by number of days) in your | Continue reading
A post shared by kevin lai (@kvnlai) on Sep 5, 2018 at 6:05am PDT Since the passing of the great Aretha Franklin on August 16, 2018, some very creative | Continue reading
Over the July 4 weekend in 1977, the iconic southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd played to a sold-out crowd at the Oakland Coliseum in Northern California. | Continue reading
A pair of rather frisky fawns decided to play a game of tag, with a little hide-and-seek thrown in, around giant rolled up bale of hay. The owner of the | Continue reading
The enigmatic HBO series Sharp Objects is anything but light and fluffy, yet the folks at Doing OK edited together some of the "happier scenes" of the | Continue reading
Filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay had an opportunity to speak with legendary sound designers Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn about | Continue reading
Morgan Fallon, the Director of Photography for Parts Unknown, sat down with Variety to talk with them about the tragic, unexpected loss of his friend and | Continue reading
Funny or Die has created an funny, perfectly-timed mashup using scenes from the American version of The Office with those from the Amazon Prime series Tom | Continue reading
When hoodied musician Dr K (Brendan Kavanaugh) of Badass Boogie encountered a couple of teenagers who had never heard of Boogie Woogie, he sat down at the | Continue reading
Engineers at Embodied Media have created Fusion, a truly remarkable wearable robotic backpack that sports an convenient pair of arms that can be | Continue reading
The very creative design shop Hello Velocity has created Brand New Roman, a ingeniously hilarious font that is made up entirely of highly recognizable, | Continue reading
Claire Wineland, the wonderfully brave, outspoken, inspiring and insightful young woman who had been sharing her first hand experience dealing with cystic | Continue reading
Gus Johnson demonstrates what might happen when you forget that your headphones are plugged | Continue reading
While walking around the 2014 DeLorean Car Show in Dayton, Ohio, actor Christopher Lloyd of Back to the Future appeared to be taken off guard when spot-on | Continue reading
The keepers at the Oregon Zoo use a custom made catapult known as the "Cheetahpult" to launch balls far into the enclosure of the resident cheetah | Continue reading
"TINK" is an absolutely wonderful CGI animated short by UK based digital production team Mr. Kaplin that features a Rube Goldberg-esque machine with all | Continue reading
A Russian man named Jon decided that he would stop shaving while he and his wife Eva traveled around the world for an amazing 911 days. When the couple | Continue reading
In November 2017 we wrote about toy maker Kevin Holmes and his amazing handmade 3D zoetrope that features fish with giant teeth endlessly eating other | Continue reading
In the first episode of their video series Microworld Unseen, educational channel The Beauty of Science takes an incredible look at the Pseudozizeeria | Continue reading
French travelers Eloise & Luc have captured absolutely stunning footage of the mineral rich peaks of the Italian Dolomites during winter. This beautiful | Continue reading
A post shared by Wire Hon (@wirehon) on Aug 29, 2018 at 8:37am PDT Amateur photographer Wire Hon has created a wonderfully fun illusory series in which he | Continue reading
In a fascinating clip from his 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival talk, esteemed author, Atlantic contributor and Columbia University Linguistics professor John | Continue reading
Lucas the Spider, the animated arachnid by Joshua Slice, who has proved himself to be quite a talented musician on several instruments, showcased his | Continue reading
A post shared by Nail Sunny (@nail_sunny) on Aug 20, 2018 at 10:08am PDT Nail Sunny, a well-known salon in Moscow, Russia creates some really fascinating | Continue reading
In 1999, actor John Turturro (Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, The Night Of) partnered with search engine Lycos to provide "Beginner's Guide to the | Continue reading
A post shared by ??????? (@arimurataishi) on Aug 24, 2018 at 1:27am PDT Graphic designer Taishi Arimura has created a brilliantly fun series of Japanese | Continue reading
DIY miniaturist Cath of The Square to Spare offers up a really concise and helpful tutorial on making tiny Fender Stratocasters with simple crafting | Continue reading
In an adorable clip from the BBC One series Animals Unexpected, a clever racoon named Rascal demonstrates her problem solving skills in real time. | Continue reading