A Mind-Bending Compilation of Clever Optical Illusions

Visual artist Kevin Lustgarten created a fascinating compilation of his astounding optical illusions. While these mind-bending performances are created | Continue reading


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A Lonely Older Man Becomes Obsessed With Building a Machine to Relive a Past Moment in ‘The Last Dance’

"The Last Dance" by Chris Keller (previously) is a starkly beautiful, powerful short film that tells the visceral story of an older man named Hugo | Continue reading


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A Clever T-Shirt That Features the ‘Lorem Ipsum’ Placeholder Text as the Iconic Star Wars Opening Crawl

Teespring is selling a very clever T-Shirt that features the text of the placeholding "Lorem Ipsum" paragraph as the iconic opening crawl seen in almost | Continue reading


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A Whimsical Google Home Mini Charging Stand That Looks Like a Retro Bell-Ringing Alarm Clock

Wassers has created an old school charging stand that transforms the simple Google Home Mini into a retro-style alarm clock. The stand comes in white or | Continue reading


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Kayaker Vertically Plunges Down a 113 Foot Waterfall

Champion kayaker Dane Jackson quite skillfully sent himself safely down the near vertical drop of the Toketee Falls in Douglas County, Oregon. Jackson was | Continue reading


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A Beautiful CGI Animated Film About an Unlikely Friendship Between a Lonely Fox and a Hunted Mouse

In the beautifully GGI animated short film "The Short Story of a Fox and a Mouse" by students at École Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques (ESMA) in | Continue reading


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The Cure Performs the Entire ‘Disintegration’ Album at Sydney Opera House on 30th Anniversary of Release

To mark the 30th anniversary of the release of their 1989 seminal album Disintegration, The Cure performed the album in its entirety at the iconic Sydney | Continue reading


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A Magical Calico Cat Reaches Through the Television Screen to Knock a Motorcycle Racer Off His Bike

French racing fan William Besserve captured very funny footage of an evidently magical calico cat as she reached through the television screen to knock a | Continue reading


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IKEA Recreates Rooms From ‘Friends’, ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Stranger Things’ With Their Own Furniture

In an ingenious ad campaign for IKEA United Emirates entitled "Real Life Series", the iconic living rooms from Friends, Stranger Things and The Simpsons | Continue reading


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The Pros and Cons of Treating Dogs as Fellow Humans

The New Yorker spoke with a number of humans who either live or work with dogs to find out why some treat their canines as fellow humans, while others | Continue reading


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Ex-FBI Agent Explains the Basics of Body Language

Former FBI agent and best-selling author Joe Navarro sat down with Wired to talk about the basics of reading body language. Using real-life examples, | Continue reading


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Game of Thrones’ Long-Awaited Cleganebowl Gets Upgraded as Swords Are Replaced With Lightsabers

In a very clever mashup from Immersion VFX, the long-awaited Cleganebowl from Game of Thrones is given a weapons upgrade. Rather than swords, brothers | Continue reading


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A Beautiful Translucent Electric Guitar Made Out of Multi-Colored Epoxy Resin With a Purple Wooden Neck

Burl, the incredibly creative luthier of Burl's Art built for himself a colorful translucent guitar made completely out of epoxy resin. Having used this | Continue reading


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An Incredible Visualization of the Explosive Growth on the Island of Manhattan Over the Course of 400 Years

Content expert Danny Ashton of NeoMam Studios created an incredible visualization for client Angie's List that shows the explosive growth on the island of | Continue reading


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374 Rolling 1965 Ford Mustang Hot Wheels Play a Tinkly Tune on Xylophone Keys Hung on the Tracks

The aptly named 5MadMovieMakers, who create wonderful videos featuring the creative use of childhood toys, very cleverly hung black-and-white xylophone | Continue reading


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Artists Around the World Will Be Hiding Mushroom Art Around Their Cities in Attaboy’s ‘Game of Shrooms’

Attaboy, the talented artist, author, co-founder of Hi-Fructose Magazine and friend of Laughing Squid, has announced "Game of Shrooms" a wonderful project | Continue reading


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Manivald, a 33 Year Old Heartbroken Fox, Realizes He Needs to Grow Up and Move Out of His Mother’s House

"Manivald" by Chintis Lundgren is a brilliant, short animated film that tells the story of an anthropomorphic fox in his thirties who lives with his | Continue reading


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How ‘Breaking Bad’ Used Swimming Pools to Wash Away Any Character’s Chance of Attaining Happiness

In an extremely insightful video essay, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of | Continue reading


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Darth Vader Approaches Power With Uncharacteristic Logic in Reimagined Key Scenes From Star Wars

Auralnauts have very cleverly reimagined several key scenes from the original Star Wars IV: A New Hope, giving Darth Vader (voiced by Vader impressionist | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Astronaut Simultaneously Drops Hammer and Feather on Moon to Test Galileo’s Theory About Falling Objects

In 1971, David Scott, a NASA astronaut and subsequent author, tested out Galileo Galilei's proven theory about objects falling at the same speed by | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Creating and Erasing Colorful Spirals in Corn Syrup Using the Principles of Laminar Flow Fluid Mechanics

Engineer Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day excitedly performed an experiment using the principles of the Taylor–Couette flow, which describes the steady | Continue reading


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A Custom Built Life-Sized Human Foosball Arena

The proprietors of Velocity Karts in Christchurch, New Zealand have installed a custom-built life-sized human Foosball arena that is available to rent on | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Handy Public Punching Bags Located Around Manhattan That Let New Yorkers Vent Their Frustrations

donttakethisthewrongway, a design studio based out of Savannah, Georgia, installed a series of "Public Punching Bags" around Manhattan during their visit | Continue reading


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HGTV Invites ‘Brady Bunch’ Cast Members to Restore Real Life Brady Home Interior to the Original Set Design

When the real-life version of the iconic home that provided the exterior shots for the long-running series The Brady Bunch went on the market in August | Continue reading


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Home Depot Employees Build an Orange PVC Pipe Walker for Little Boy With a Muscle Weakness Condition

When employees at the Home Depot store in Cedartown, Georgia learned that the Moore family was in the midst of buying supplies to build a walker for their | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Gorgeous Orchestral Tribute to the Late Keith Flint of The Prodigy

The Kaleidoscope Orchestra of Manchester, U.K. performed an absolutely gorgeous medley of The Prodigy songs in tribute to the late, great Keith Flint who | Continue reading


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An Itchy Kitty Is Unable to Get in a Good Scratch Due to an Inconveniently Placed Computer Monitor

An evidently itchy tabby cat was unable to satisfy said itch due to an inconveniently placed computer monitor that prevented his foot from connecting with | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How Elements of the Classic Hero’s Journey Live Within the Iconic Led Zeppelin Song ‘Stairway to Heaven’

Noah LeFevre of Polyphonic has taken an extensive look into the iconic Led Zeppelin song Stairway to Heaven. Despite its somewhat ubiquity throughout the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Dave Grohl Talks to Howard Stern About the Challenges of Working With Kurt Cobain In the Last Days of Nirvana

In 2011, Dave Grohl of The Foo Fighters and formerly of Nirvana, sat down with radio host Howard Stern to talk about his remarkable career of being in not | Continue reading


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An Elderly Porcupine With Only One Remaining Tooth Samples a Variety of Fruits to Determine His Favorite

An 11 year old porcupine named Kemosabe who lives at Animal Wonders in Montana sampled a wide variety of sweet fruits to not only determine whether or not | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

K9 Cinemas, A Pet-Friendly Movie Theater in Texas That Shows Dog-Themed Films and Serves Free Wine

K9 Cinemas in Plano, Texas is a wonderful pet-friendly theater that shows dog-themed movies seven days per week. While being able to bring your dog to the | Continue reading


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Retiring Mercedes-Benz CEO Goes For a Drive in a New BMW After Saying Goodbye to His Employees

BMW poked lighthearted, but respectable fun at Daimler in a touching tribute to retiring Mercedes-Benz CEO Dieter Zetsche on his last day of work. A | Continue reading


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Traffic Waits As Pedestrians Help a Flock of Hundreds of Ducks Waddle Across a Busy Bangladesh Road

Pedestrians held up blue plastic sheeting across a busy road in Sirajganj, Bangladesh in order to stop two-way traffic in its place and create a safe | Continue reading


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A Five Minute Tirade of Profane Insults Uttered by The Hound During All Eight Seasons of ‘Game of Thrones’

In memory of the recently concluded series Game of Thrones, Supercuts Delight (previously) has edited together five wonderfully profane minutes of the | Continue reading


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Trying to Swim in a 15 Ton JELLO Swimming Pool

In 2016, former NASA engineer Mark Rober and The Backyard Scientist filled up a backyard swimming pool with 25 million Orbeez water balls. On that same | Continue reading


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Samsung AI Machine Learning Turns Mona Lisa and Other Famous Portraits Into Realistic Talking Heads

Researchers at the Samsung AI Center in Moscow, Russia have quite amazingly turned Mona Lisa and other famous subjects of photos and art into realistic | Continue reading


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McHive, A Tiny Replica of a McDonald’s That Also Serves As a Fully Functioning Beehive

Several McDonald's in Sweden have been putting beehives on their rooftops in order to safely house and replenish the worldwide dwindling bee population. | Continue reading


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Dedicated Father Captures 13 Years of His Daughter’s First Day of School From Kindergarten to Senior Year

In 2017, dedicated dad Kevin Scruggs shared a wonderful compilation of interviews he conducted with daughter Mackenzie on the first day of school from | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Bipedal Robot That Makes Front Door Deliveries After Being Transported to the Curb by a Self-Driving Vehicle

In February 2019, Agility Robotics announced the development of Digit, an anthropomorphic version of their bipedal robot Cassie. Digit sports an upper | Continue reading


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A Raft of Sea Otters Perform an Unintentionally Synchronized Backstroke Routine Across an Inlet

An absolutely adorable raft of Southern sea otters at the Elkhorn Slough in Moss Landing, California, happily performed an unintentional synchronized | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Captain Jean-Luc Picard Explains Why He Left Starfleet Over Some Wine in the CBS All Access Series ‘Picard’

A teaser for the upcoming CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard shows a retired Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation walking | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Playdate, A Retro Yellow Crank Controlled Handheld Gaming System With a Black and White Screen

Panic, the company behind Transmit, Coda and the adventure game Firewatch, teamed-up with Teenage Engineering to create Playdate, their unique version of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

San Francisco Engineer Accidentally Dosed by LSD While Repairing a Vintage 1960s Buchla Synthesizer

While repairing a vintage Buchla synthesizer from the 1960s, KPIX broadcast operations manager and instrument repair volunteer Eliot Curtis came across an | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Banksy Sets Up a Street Stall at the Venice Biennale With Art Critical of the Canal’s Cruise Ship Problems

During the Venice Biennale 2019 art exhibition, elusive street artist Bansky stealthily set up a stall along artist's row to feature multi-panel artwork | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Student Bravely Shares His Struggle With Sleep Paralysis Hallucinations in a Haunting Animation

Art student Andrew Ognibene bravely documented and shared his truly frightening struggle with sleep paralysis and associated hallucinations in a haunting | Continue reading


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New Exquisitely Detailed Balloon Animal Sculptures by Japanese Artist Masayoshi Matsumoto

In 2015, we wrote about the amazingly detailed colorful balloon animals by Japanese artist Masayoshi Matsumoto. Since that time Matsumoto has created | Continue reading


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An Amazing One Minute Timelapse of a Self-Tweeting Plant Slowly Growing Over the Course of Three Years

In 2016, Brooklyn game designer Nicole He set up a meditative experiment in which a webcam would take a picture of a fiddle-leaf fig plant she named Grow | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Science Behind a Hummingbird’s Hover

Nat Geo WILD takes a look at how tiny hummingbirds are able to hover in midair for so long while feeding in place. As it turns out these petite aviators | Continue reading


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