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


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‘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


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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


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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


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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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How a Porcupine’s Razor Sharp Quills Are Helping Doctors Create Surgical Staples That Ward Off Infection

An aciculated episode of the KQED series Deep Look (previously) explains how the incredibly sharp quills from a North American porcupine's rear area can | Continue reading


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16 Guitars Battle for the Iron Throne in an Electrifying Cover of the Game of Thrones Theme

In honor of the Sunday, April 14, 2019 premiere of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, musician Cooper Carter (previously) performed an | Continue reading


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Laura Linney Returns to Barbary Lane 20 Years Later in Netflix Sequel to the 1993 Mini-Series ‘Tales of the City’

Netflix is bringing back Tales of the City, the classic San Francisco story based on the series of books by novelist Armistead Maupin which was turned | Continue reading


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A Crotchety African Grey Parrot Orders Amazon Alexa to Stop Playing Frank Sinatra’s ‘New York, New York’

An adorably crotchety African Grey parrot named Mr. Magoo appears to be no fan of the late, great Frank Sinatra. The frustrated bird made his feelings | Continue reading


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Ned Flanders Inspired Heavy Metal Band Okilly Dokilly’s Music Video Plays Over End Credits of ‘The Simpsons’

Okilly Dokilly, the Ned Flanders-inspired heavy metal band aka the world's only heavy Nedal band, were taken by surprise when they find out that their | Continue reading


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An Extremely Obese Cat Looking For Permanent Home With Loving Humans Who Will Help Him Lose Weight

On April 5, 2019, an extremely overweight cat named Barsik was surrendered to the Animal Care Center of New York with his feline sister Sukie when their | Continue reading


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Stephen Colbert and Oscar the Grouch Sing a Hopeful Duet in Light of the Overwhelming Amount News

While onstage for The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert felt so overwhelmed by the news that he decided to go for a walk. He went outside and into the alley | Continue reading


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Every Artistic Reference Made in ‘Shaun of the Dead’

On the 15th anniversary of the 2004 iconic zom-com Shaun of the Dead (the first installment of the Cornetto Trilogy of films), the folks at Vanity Fair | Continue reading


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A Clever Wallet That Looks Like a Cheeseburger

Toddland, a unique clothing and accessory store, is featuring their very popular delicious wallet that looks like a cheeseburger and comes in both seeded | Continue reading


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Actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau of Game of Thrones Gives a Quick Tutorial on Danish Slang and Expressions

Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau who plays Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones, the one-armed Kingslayer in love with his twin sister, provides a quick | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An All Saxophone Cover of ‘Game of Thrones’ Music

The musicians of Sax.co.uk performed an all-saxophone cover medley of the music from Game of Thrones. This composition was arranged by | Continue reading


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How Heavy Metal Excesses Led to the Implementation of Parental Advisory Stickers on Recorded Music

In a really informative episode of the Vox series Earworm, video producer and host Estelle Caswell explains the history behind the "Parental Advisory | Continue reading


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A Catchy Compilation of People Using the Word ‘It’

#IT by Eclectic Method is a really catchy, danceable tune made from a compilation of famous people from television, film, and video who use the word "It" | Continue reading


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How a Lack of Photoreceptor Cells Causes Most Mammals to Be Less Colorful Than Fish and Birds

SciShow host Olivia Gordon explains why most mammals are not as richly colorful as fish, insects, and birds. As it turns out, color is not perceived well | Continue reading


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Game of Thrones Cast Members Reflect Fondly Upon the First Seven Seasons of the Series

With the first episode of the final season just days away, several of the Game of Thrones cast members reflect fondly upon the first seven seasons since | Continue reading


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A Spicy Mariachi Cover of the A-ha Song ‘Take on Me’

The wonderful Mariachi Entertainment System (previously) of San Antonio, Texas performed a spicy cover version of the classic A-ha song "Take on Me" with | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

LEGO Luke Skywalker’s Hand and Lightsaber

Mark Hamill is less than thrilled about the new LEGO Luke Skywalker's Hand and Lightsaber. Someone tell me this isn't a real #StarWars toy. PLEASE. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Determining the Size of Star Wars Planets and Spaceships Against Locations on Planet Earth

Mechanical engineer turned VFX expert Wren Weichman of Corridor Digital visually explains the relative size of Star Wars planets and spaceships by | Continue reading


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Stationery Supply Employees Build a Giant ‘Game of Thrones’ Fire Breathing Paper Dragon for Their Office

In anticipation of the April 14th premiere of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, the employees of the British office supply company Viking, | Continue reading


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A Dilapidated Vintage Coffee Grinder Is Quietly Restored Into a Bright Shiny Working Version of Itself

After purchasing a somewhat dilapidated vintage coffee grinder on eBay, Swiss craftsman My Mechanics went about quietly restoring it. He pulled apart the | Continue reading


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‘Apollo 11’ Composer Talks About Writing the Score Using Only Instruments Available at Time of the Launch

Composer Matt Morton shared with TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) what it was like writing the score for the highly anticipated documentary | Continue reading


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T.Hanks

Tom Hanks "T.Hanks" you for throwing away your trash at Vinnie's Pizzeria in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. | Continue reading


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Quirky Colorful Cut Paper Masks by Lobulo Design

Cut paper artist Lobulo Design created four wonderfully quirky paper masks in celebration of the 2018 Grec Festival of Barcelona. These colorful pieces, | Continue reading


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