In a rather meta video for the Atlantic/HBO series "Question Your Answers" (previously), actor Jeffery Wright, who brilliantly plays the dual roles of Arnold Weber and Bernard Lowe (in various iterations) on Westworld, attempts to calm different versions of himself on a bumpy air … | Continue reading
In a measured episode of Half As Interesting, the frenzied narrator Sam from Wendover explains why a single stretch of Highway 19 moving south across the Arizona desert is marked in kilometers rather than miles. As a means of providing context, Sam recounted the history of the me … | Continue reading
With the always uncertain future of PBS funding, it's important to remember that day, 49 years ago, when a young children's television show creator, puppeteer and ordained minster named Fred Rogers sat before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications to challenge significant cuts … | Continue reading
In 2016 we wrote about the plan to create Vessel, a beautiful climbable honeycomb centerpiece made of stairways created by Thomas Heatherwick, for the new Hudson Yards Public Square and Gardens, which is scheduled to open in 2019. Scott recently took an amazing photo of this beau … | Continue reading
There's a reason why hugs are so important. They establish a sense of comfort, safety and trust, while increasing oxytocin levels in the blood to help calm anxiety. While nothing can replicate this experience exactly, studies have shown that weighted blankets and wearables help t … | Continue reading
Fascinated by the sudden booming business of celebrity holograms, Wired UK spoke with two rival companies, Pulse Evolution and Hologram USA, about their respective philosophies around the virtual reincarnation of dead celebrities. While the priorities differ vastly between the tw … | Continue reading
20th Century Fox released the first trailer for The Predator, the upcoming sci-fi action horror film directed by Shane Black and fourth installment in the Predator film series. The trailer features genetically upgraded aliens returning to Earth, after a young boy accidentally tri … | Continue reading
Simone Giertz, who calls herself the "Queen of Shitty Robots", gave a really amusing, inspiring and honest TED talk about the importance of making useless things. A born perfectionist, Giertz found that by giving herself permission to purposely fail, she was able to release herse … | Continue reading
Deadpool digs deep and heads to the home of David Beckham to formerly apologize for making fun of his voice in the first Deadpool film. Another hilarious promo from 20th Century Fox for the upcoming Deadpool 2 film, which is set to pop into theaters on May 18th, 2018. After survi … | Continue reading
redditor citrusvanilla posted to the Data is Beautiful community an absolutely fascinating 3D histogram that measured the population of New York City on a hourly basis for every day of the week. Amongst the prevalent trends were the midday highs, evening lows, a good amount of ac … | Continue reading
Vlogger and former NASA engineer Mark Rober arranged a rather wonderful experiment in which he and a number of co-conspirators casually dropped 200 identical wallets around towns and cities across the United States to see if people would return it or not. Each of the wallets cont … | Continue reading
Nexus Studios dropped an amusing video for HotStepper, their character based augmented reality wayfinding app for iOS devices. It features a fun character who dances around in the real world, while guiding you to your destination. HotStepper is available to download from iTunes. … | Continue reading
ThinkGeek has released a snazzy collection of Star Wars blazers that are subtly based on Darth Vader, Chewbacca, and Boba | Continue reading
Mini Gear demonstrates how to make a Hot Wheels launcher at home out of cardboard, rubber bands, bamboo sticks, and popsicle sticks. They then gave a tutorial on how to to build a motorized | Continue reading
"Some" by Ryan Rumbolt of the Halifax animation house Wonderlust is a really beautiful animation that invokes the minimalist spirit of designer Ettore Sottsass while capturing the very essence of an unnamed poem that addresses the wide range of human emotions that are felt on a d … | Continue reading
A post shared by Daniel Kordan (@danielkordan) on Apr 15, 2018 at 6:04am PDT Russian photographer and world traveler Daniel Kordan has created an absolutely gorgeous photo series that captures stunning swirling star trails of his own making that appear to engulf the nighttime des … | Continue reading
Alexandr Misko, the remarkably talented Russian guitarist about whom we've previously written, performed a wonderfully rich and dramatic fingerstyle rendition of the classic Survivor song "Eye of the Tiger", which also served as the theme song from the film Rocky III and one of M … | Continue reading
Actor Zachary Quinto and his partner, model Miles McMillan, opened up their beautiful NoHo loft to the cameras of Architectural Digest. During the tour, Quinto and McMillan showcased their wonderful design aesthetic, their large crystal collection, unique taste in art from all ov … | Continue reading
An absolutely adorable rescued, domesticated raccoon was lazing on the sofa with his beloved human, enjoying a really yummy back rub. Whenever his human stopped petting him however, the little Procyon reached out his front paw and dragged his human's hand back to the same spot wh … | Continue reading
While appearing on The Late Show, reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian shared with host Stephen Colbert the rather random way in which he met his future wife, tennis star Serena Williams just by missing breakfast one day while at a conference in Rome. I happened to be at a conference … | Continue reading
Atomic Heart is an upcoming adventure first-person shooter video game, being developed by the Moscow design studio Mundfish, that takes place in an alternative universe "during the high noon of the Soviet Union." The game is set to release sometime in 2018 for PC, PlayStation 4, … | Continue reading
Christopher Judge, the voice actor behind Kratos in the God of War video game, sat down with Polygon and tried to hold back the laughter while telling hilariously bad dad jokes. What’s holding God of War back from being a perfect game? In our opinion, it’s that series mainstay an … | Continue reading
In the first season of the highly controversial but truly heartfelt Netflix series 13 Reasons Why told the story of a despondent student named Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) who explained the sequence of events that led her to commit suicide through a series of 13 tapes given … | Continue reading
During the Google I/0 conference, CEO Sundar Pichai announced thenew Google Assistant and gave a live demonstration of one of the features - The Google Duplex. The Duplex is a highly interactive chatbot able to engage in specific conversations when attending to user assigned task … | Continue reading
In the past we've written about various designs of the cleverly designed KeySmart, a sleek device that replaces bulky key rings by lining the keys up in an orderly, retractable manner. We're happy to announce that, for a limited time, the Laughing Squid Store is featuring a fanta … | Continue reading
Amazing sculptor Nick Brown of the LoreCraft channel released a stunning timelapse video that shows him sculpting and airbrushing a sinister looking bust of Venom from the upcoming Marvel superhero film. A post shared by Nick Brown (@lorecraftr) on May 8, 2018 at 7:36am PDT A pos … | Continue reading
A post shared by Xi Ding (@xidingart) on Apr 5, 2018 at 5:07pm PDT Vienna, Austria caricature artist Xi Ding has created a stunning collection of illustrations that imagine well-known movie and television show characters as cartoons. Ding's entire series of drawing are available … | Continue reading
In Spring 2017, a reluctant little dog named Tasha who lives in Rossford, Ohio, really didn't want to come inside when her human repeatedly called for her, so she ducked behind a terra cotta flowerpot near the driveway. Unfortunately for Tasha however, her pointy little ears betr … | Continue reading
The Q channel demonstrates how to build a giant Coca-Cola F1 race car using Coke and Diet Coke cans, PVC pipe, and glue. To build this car we spent more 400 man/hours, near 1000 empty coke cans, used 5 different types of glue, more than 12 meters of pvc pipes and made really a lo … | Continue reading
INSIDER met up with special effects artist Joel Harlow to find out how Michael B. Jordan's intense Killmonger makeup process was created for the Marvel film, Black Panther. To play Killmonger in "Black Panther," Michael B. Jordan had to be covered in 3,000 prosthetic dots. Makeup … | Continue reading
Steve Onotera aka samuraiguitarist, who is a talented musician in his own right, offered a heart-wrenching list of guitarists who have overcome incredible adversity of different kinds, mostly through no fault of their own. Onotera's list includes two-fingered Roma musician Django … | Continue reading
A post shared by Ossi Saarinen (@soosseli) on Mar 28, 2018 at 11:18am PDT Wildlife photographer Ossi Saarinen ,who is also a Geography student in Helsinki, Finland, spend a great deal of time taking photos of all sorts of wonderful creatures, but the photos that really stand out … | Continue reading
Double Negative, the British production house that created the VFX Oscar-winning dystopian, futuristic Los Angeles landscape of the film Blade Runner 2049, has released a remarkable behind-the-scenes VFX look at the 2014 film Ex Machina, which includes a visual breakdown of the s … | Continue reading
An adorable clowder of curious cats followed a vacuuming robot along its cleaning path until it scooted under the table and out of sight, except for one brave one who followed all the way through. Once hitting the wall, the little vacuum turned itself around and moved over to the … | Continue reading
The Ubarre is a really handy, stylish, sporty and portable U-shaped weight that was invented by Kodi Kitchen of Best U Studio. The simple, but unique shape of this weight allows its users to incorporated into a variety of workout routines such as yoga, stretching and strength bui … | Continue reading
In a somatic episode of Life Noggin, narrator Pat Graziosi who voices the animated Blocko explained the terrifying but harmless experience of sleep paralysis, the physiological reasons why it occurs, why some people see hallucinations during an episode and what can be done to sto … | Continue reading
" Dr. Uri Burstyn, aka the Helpful Vancouver Vet, who showed how to properly pick up a cat, graciously demonstrated how one should properly introduce themself an unfamiliar dog. Dr. Burstyn first showed what not to do before what should be done. If I want to approach a dog, I nee … | Continue reading
A post shared by Prissy and Pop?? (@prissy_pig) on Apr 28, 2018 at 12:44pm PDT While planning for Priscilla the pig's fifth birthday, she and all her siblings, including bestie Poppleton once again loaded themselves up into a red shopping cart and comfortably nestled inside with … | Continue reading
Brian Hopjins of Martian Archaeology created a funny compilation video, from footage found in the NASA archive, of Apollo mission astronauts tripping and falling over on the surface of the moon. via | Continue reading
Far Cry Arcade is the new mode in Far Cry 5 that allows players to make custom solo, co-op, and multiplayer maps. YouTuber Un-Break-Able used the game mode to recreate the island from the Lost television series. Everything from as small as Sun's garden to all 9 Dharma Initiative … | Continue reading
Missouri stormchaser and photographer Brian Davison of WSXChasing captured an absolutely amazing but horrifying dashcam timelapse showing incoming river of lava that breached a sturdy metal fence with ease and was headed directly towards a Mustang parked on the side of a Pahoa, H … | Continue reading
New York filmmaker Matt Silverman of Free Dad Videos rocked out while performing a wonderful kid's version of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire." The fun cover featured singing by Matt's super cute five-year-old little daughter Amelia and drumming by his two-year-old … | Continue reading
In a rapacious episode from his hilarious flora and fauna-focused video series True Facts, narrator Ze Frank rather amusingly explains how carnivorous plants work, how they catch their prey and the rather grotesque symbiotic relationship that certain carnivorous plants have with … | Continue reading
LEGO builders Grant Davis and Eli Willsea teamed up in a timelapse video where they piece together the wrecked Super Star Destroyer, as seen in The Force Awakens, found on the sandy surface of Jakku. The massive LEGO ship came complete with Rey scavenging for parts inside. via | Continue reading
Netflix released an amusing trailer for the upcoming fifth season of Arrested Development. The trailer follows the Bluth family as they reunite for Lindsay's (Portia de Rossi) election for Congress and their running for Family of the Year. Season five will premiere on Netflix May … | Continue reading
Epic Games and Marvel joined forces to bring an amazing Avengers: Infinity War mashup event to the Fortnite world. Solo battle royal players can fight to retrieve the Infinity Gauntlet, after it drops from the sky in a meteor. Whoever manages to wield the gantlet will transform i … | Continue reading
In "Stretched Out", a drowsy Simon's cat who has been sleeping outside all day was awoken by his human who was ready to feed him dinner. As with many cats, it took a bit of proper stretching to get all the sleep out of his feline bones, frustrating Simon immensely. Simon took the … | Continue reading
Irene McGee, an alumnae of Real World Seattle, good friend of Laughing Squid and Lyme disease spokesperson performed a rather silly but adorable parody of the Beastie Boys song "Girls". McGee paired this parody with Nap4Lyme - the slumberous theme from her latest fundraising idea … | Continue reading