Danish Freediver Opens Up About Facing His Fears

In the inspiring short documentary entitled "Screw the Box" by photographer Daan Verhoeven, champion Danish freediver Stig Pryds talks about being put in | Continue reading


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An Amusing Twitter Feed That Tests Out Whether the Dogs In Various Video Games Can Be Petted or Not

Can You Pet the Dog? is an amusing and insightful Twitter feed that researches whether or not the dogs featured in a variety of video games can be | Continue reading


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When You Are the Last Cat Built For the Day

When you are the last cat built for the day...and there are no matching parts. via Miss Cellania | Continue reading


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A Live Performance of Kavinsky’s ‘NightCall’ by Barnaby Dixon’s Creepy Face Puppet (and Ryan Gosling)

In October 2018, Barnaby Dixon premiered his "Creepy Face Puppet" -- a full-body finger puppet with LED eyes and Dixon's digitally projected mouth. Creepy | Continue reading


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An Animated Montage of Over 2,000 International Flags

Filmmaker Daniel McKee spent quite a bit of time sourcing images of international flags (and their variations) to create "A Film of Flags", an incredibly | Continue reading


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Driving Over a Frozen Finnish Lake in a Subaru Hatchback With Giant Table Saw Blades as Wheels

Finnish couple Lauri Vuohensilta and Anni Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel and Beyond the Press replaced all four tires on their Subaru | Continue reading


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A Unique Performance of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16

terribletan posted an absolutely astonishing, lightning-fast performance of the Wolfgang Amadeaus Mozart piece Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545, | Continue reading


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Director of Restored Archival Film ‘Apollo 11’ Explains His Use of Split Screen in the Moon Landing Scene

Director Todd Douglas Miller of the documentary Apollo 11 explains how he threaded together restored archival footage to craft a stunning narrative of the | Continue reading


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Danish Actor Mads Mikkelsen and Swedish Director Jonas Åkerlund Play a Game of ‘How Nordic Are You?’

While promoting their Netflix film Polar, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund took part in an amusing game that tested their | Continue reading


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How Ghost Vocals Appear in Music Recordings

In a haunting episode of the aptly named video series You Can't Unhear This, the knowledgable host explains the concept of ghost vocals on music | Continue reading


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Kevin Smith Revisits Some of His Most Notable Films While Talking About His Distinctive Film Techniques

A lively Kevin Smith sat down with the IMDb series "Director's Trademarks" to talk about some of his distinctive filmmaking techniques. In order to | Continue reading


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A Pair of Curious Dogs Ignore Their Human While Attempting to Play With a Couple of Mischievous Otters

A pair of curious Labrador retrievers named Sugar and Spice in Kodiak, Alaska, actively disobeyed the calls of their human Robert Higgs in order to try to | Continue reading


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Mike D of the Beastie Boys Gives a Personal Tour of His Beautiful Custom Designed Malibu Beachside Home

In 2013, we wrote about the profile that The New York Times did on Beastie Boys founding member Mike Diamond (Mike D) and his gorgeously renovated | Continue reading


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Common European Birds Recreated With Balloons

British artist Terry Cook translated his deep love for birds into highly realistic balloon art that he situated in natural surroundings. These | Continue reading


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Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ Told as a Two Minute Musical

Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner of Famous Last Nerds hilariously compressed the classic William Shakespeare play Hamlet from its traditional five | Continue reading


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A Pair of Surprisingly Adorable Nerite Snail Sisters Take Turns Playing With Their Yummy Baby Carrots

A pair of surprisingly adorable nerite snail sisters named Randolph and Mortimer, named after the Duke characters in the 1983 film Trading Places, seemed | Continue reading


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Inanimate Objects Take on Distinct Personalities in Trailer for ‘Así Son Las Cosas’ (The Way Things Are)

The trailer for the 52-episode award-winning Argentinian stop-motion animated series "Así Son Las Cosas" (The Way Things Are) by animator and director | Continue reading


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A Great Big Owl Kicks a Sleeping Cat Off the Couch

A great big owl who was seemingly in no mood for any company appeared rather upset to find the family cat sleeping on the couch. The owl poked, prodded, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

‘Eye of the Beholder’, A Film About the Talented Artists Behind the Imaginative Art of Dungeons & Dragons

Cavegirl Productions and X-Ray Films have joined forces to create highly anticipated film Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons and Dragons. The film | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Instrumental Cover of 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons) by Nena Played on Four Different Horns

Gifted multi-instrumentalist Seb Skelly performed a wordless brass cover of the classic Nena song "99 Luftballons", which is known in the United States as | Continue reading


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How Vincent Van Gogh Created Optical Anxiety With His Deliberate Use of Conflicting Color in ‘Night Café’

Vlogger Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter takes a look at the Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece "Night Café" ("Le Café de nuit"), the painting that the artist | Continue reading


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How South American Male Hummingbirds Use Their Evolved Beaks as Swords to Attack Their Rivals

In a surprising episode of The New York Times series Science Take, host James Gorman talks about the dangerous side of hummingbirds. While this species | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Interactive Light Installation That Shows Where the Future Sea Level Will Reach in a Scottish Coastal Town

Finnish artists Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho have created "Lines (57° 59' N, 7° 16' W)", an prescient, site-specific interactive installation that uses | Continue reading


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A Fascinating Map Showing What Current International Borders Might Look Like in 250 Million Years

Vivid Maps has posted a fascinating map that plots what international borders will look like as Pangaea Ultima (Neopangea), a supercontinent that is | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Retrospective Look at Electric Lady Studios Nearly Half a Century After Jimi Hendrix’s Tragic Death

In February 2019, CBS took a retrospective look at Electric Lady Studios, the legendary New York City recording studio built specifically for rock royalty | Continue reading


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An Elegantly Melodic Introduction to the Peculiar Looking Baroque Woodwind Instrument Oboe da Caccia

Musician Katharina Spreckelsen of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment offers a wonderfully melodic demonstration of the incredibly elegantly | Continue reading


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Turkish Artist Brews Up Amazing 3D Illustrations Using Diluted Coffee as His Paint

Turkish artist Ekrem Pala brews up some absolutely amazing 3D illustrations whenever he takes a coffee break. Pala first sketches an outline in pencil | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Rescued Long-Horned Bull Adorably Pouts After Accidentally Deflating His Ball on Barbed Wire Fence

A really sweet, rescued long-horn bull named Tex at Ima Survivor Sanctuary in Cleveland, Texas was having fun chasing after his big red yoga ball across | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

In The RP2A Over The Sea, A Chiptune Cover of ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’ by Neutral Milk Hotel

Pixel artist Doctor Octoroc (previously) has created "In The RP2A Over The Sea", a chiptune cover of the indie rock album "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Mousr, An Adorable Autonomous Robotic Toy That Intelligently Learns How to Entertain a Cat for Hours

Mousr is a brilliantly designed, smart robotic chase toy that works with a proprietary app (iOS and Google Play) to design a plan to keep that cat | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Weezer Joins Jimmy Fallon and The Roots for a Classroom Instruments Cover of a-ha’s ‘Take On Me’

While promoting their Teal album of cover songs and other new projects, the members of Weezer joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots in a Tonight Show | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

All Queens Chess, A Unique Chess Game Solely Made Up of Powerful Queens That Can’t Be Captured

ThinkFun has created All Queens Chess, a unique strategy game that combines the rules of chess with the logic of tic-tac-toe. All of the game pieces are | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

What a Popping Balloon Sounds Like Inside an Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Tower

While visiting the new NWAA acoustic test lab built inside an abandoned, unused nuclear plant in Elma, Washington, project engineer Matt Ballos and audio | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Farmer Pulls an Enormous Carrot Out of a Dirt Barrel

Back in 2014, Dan of Allotment Diary pulled his very first show carrot from a greenhouse dirt barrel after seeing a hopeful crack in the dirt. The root | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How Jack White’s Love for the Number Three Shows Up in Various Aesthetic and Musical Aspects of His Career

Music essayist Noah Lefevre of Polyphonic takes a tertiary look at musician Jack White and his obsession with the number three. In doing so, Lefevre | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Preview of the A100 Audio-Animatronic Hondo Ohnaka Robot at Disney’s New ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’

In advance of the opening of "Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge" at Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida, a team of Imagineers offers a sneak peek | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How a Missing Oxford Comma in Maine Employment Law Cost a Portland Dairy Over $5,000,000 in Overtime

In 2014, Oakhurst Dairy in Portland, Maine was named a defendant in a class-action lawsuit brought by their drivers, who claimed that they were due | Continue reading


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Jimi Hendrix Talks to Dick Cavett in 1969 About His Electric Church and How He Prefers Music to Politics

In a really wonderful clip from a 1969 appearance on the Dick Cavett Show, a brilliantly attired, shy Jimi Hendrix opened up about his idea for an | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Marvelous Set of Optical Illusion Playing Cards

Illusion d'Optique is a marvelous set of playing cards that feature incredible optical illusions and hypnotic holographic designs that change color with | Continue reading


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Movement Act, A Hypnotic Star-Shaped Juggling Machine With 16 Crisscrossing Balls That Never Collide

Japanese juggling graduate student Shun Onozawa has created "Movement Act" an incredibly hypnotic, rhythmic juggling machine that simultaneously keeps 16 | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Talking Gargoyle at the Denver Airport Hilariously Engages With Skeptical Travelers and Curious Children

The Denver International Airport has always been very candid about the conspiracies and rumors surrounding the questionable adornments of unusual murals, | Continue reading


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A Smaller, Lighter Version of the MIT Four-Legged Cheetah Robot That Can Do Backflips on Command

Scientists from the Biomimetic Robotics Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a smaller 20 pound version of their hurdle jumping | Continue reading


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Embr Wave, An Ingenious Wristband That Automatically Regulates Skin Temperature

The Embr Wave is an ingenious wristband developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists that automatically regulates skin temperature, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How a Specific Scene in ‘Silence of the Lambs’ Was Structured to Reveal a Lot About Each Character

Michael Tucker of Lessons From a Screenplay takes a look at a scene from the iconic film Silence of the Lambs to show how it embodies a specific film | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Why the One Who Wins the ‘Game of Thrones’ Will Be the One to Write ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ For the Ages

In a somewhat prescient video essay that was first posted in 2016, Sage Hyden of the series Just Write poses the very interesting question as to why the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Restless Beauty Within Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Art

In a colorful TED-Ed lesson written by Jordana Moore Saggese and animated by Héloïse Dorsan Rachet, narrator Dr. Christina Greer tells of legendary | Continue reading


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Amazing Microscopic Footage of Immune System Cleaning Lymphocytes Attacking a Cancerous Cell

In 2014, the Synapse Center for Health and Healing in Egan, Minnesota shared fascinating microscopic footage of a human immune system in action. The | Continue reading


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An Oblivious Cat Inconsiderately Stomps Right Through the Creamy Chocolate Pudding Center of a Snack Cake

A seemingly oblivious cat jumped up onto the dining room table and inconsiderately stomped right through the creamy, chocolate pudding center of a | Continue reading


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