Six-String Soldiers of the U.S. Army Field Band Play a Beautiful Cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’

The talented Six-String Soldiers of the United States Army Field Band performed a beautiful 3 piece acoustic guitar and banjo cover of the classic Pink | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Montage of Computer Graphics Interacting With the Real World With Wonderfully Absurd Results

Russian filmmaker and graphic artist Vladimir Tomin has created "Sketches", a montage of different very entertaining video clips that show the real world | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Automated Voice Controlled Office Assistant That Turns On Lights, Tosses Beers and Opens Doors

David Neevel who has built some incredibly efficient, if not weirdly ingenious machines to assist him at work, has brilliantly combined voice control | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Mini Porcelain Dinner Plate Christmas Ornaments With Traditional Designs Enhanced With Random Calamities

In 2014, we wrote about artist Don Moyer and his Calamityware, a creative line of porcelain dinner plates with traditional blue-on-white designs that are | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Fascinating Tabulation of the Lack of Smartphone Usage Depicted in the Highest Grossing Movies of 2018

In a technological episode of The Nerdwriter, video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak posits a valid question - "Why Are There So Few Smartphones In | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

200 People Recreate ‘Shrek’ Scene-by-Scene

3GI, the hosts of the annual "Shrekfest", asked their attendees to recreate scenes from Shrek in their own unique way. They received clips from over 200 | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Beautiful Film About a Solitary Watchmaker Who Finds Order in a Chaotic World by Repairing Timepieces

"The Watchmaker" is a beautiful, award-winning short documentary by filmmaker Marie-Cécile Embleton about a solitary Iranian-British man named Faramarz, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Two Playful Foxes Gleefully Romp Around a West Midlands, England Backyard During a Snowstorm

In 2017, a pair of very playful red foxes gleefully romped around a backyard in the West Midlands town of Wolverhampton, England while copious amounts of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

How to Neatly Wrap a Gift Without Using Any Tape

The smiling host of Beat the Bush shares how to neatly wrap a gift without tape. Instead he demonstrates how to employ clever folding techniques to | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Cleverly Designed Attachable Sensor Device That Automatically Closes a Toilet Seat After 90 Seconds

The SmartNudge is a very cleverly designed sensor that attaches to the top of a toilet seat and automatically nudges it closed with a jutting mechanical | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Why Sweden Added February 30th to Their Calendar For One Year to Transition to the Gregorian Calendar

In a menologic episode of Dan Lewis' new video series Now I Know, host Matt Silverman explains why in 1712, Sweden added an additional day at the end of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Heavy Duty Mailbox Mounted Shredder That Pulverizes Junk Mail With Its Mechanized Teeth

Colin Furze, the wonderfully creative extreme gadget inventor, created an incredibly heavy duty shredder with double motors that can pulverize just about | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Modified Street Signs That Display Unexpected Thoughtful Messages of Random Kindness

Artist April Soetarman has been anonymously decorating the fences of Seattle and around the country with modified street signs that display thoughtful | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Amusingly Sober ‘Rick and Morty’ Pickle Rick Christmas Tree Ornament That Stays in One Dimension

Just in time for the holidays, ThinkGeek is offering an amusingly sober Rick and Morty Christmas ornament in the distinct cylindrical shape of the salty | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Long Term Residual Psychological Harm That Remains Even After the Bullying Itself Has Ended

In a helpful episode of Life Noggin, the animated narrator Blocko (voiced by Pat Graziosi) and pal Triangle Bob (voiced by Michael Reeves) discuss their | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

An Inside Look at the 1977 Recording Session of the Iconic Queen Anthem ‘We Are the Champions’

As part of their 40th anniversary celebration of the iconic Queen album News of the World in 2015, the band released Raw Sessions, unheard raw recording | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The World of UPA, A Video Essay About the Legendary Animation Studio United Productions of America

"The World of UPA" by Andrew Saladino of the Royal Ocean Film Society, is a three part video essay that tells the history of United Productions of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

The Curious Psychological Phenomenon Explaining Why Those With Lesser Ability Overrate Their Skills

In a mordant lesson for Ted-Ed written by educator David Dunning and animated by Russell Etheridge, Allen Lasseter, Ezequiel Matteo, Andrew Embury and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Popular Film, Television and Theater Plots Cleverly Diagrammed as Minimalist New York City Subway Maps

Artist and designer Jake Berman of Fifty Three Studio has created a really clever series of prints that diagram the plots of popular films, television | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

While appearing on the Howard Stern Show on XM Radio, the legendary Ringo Starr bemusedly recalled the historic phone call from Brian Epstein, who asked | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Advice From The Beatles Based on Their Song Lyrics

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Michelle Rial (@michellerial) on Nov 27, 2018 at 4:43pm PST Michelle Rial, who creates amusing charts, has | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

A Lively Fox Cub Zooms In and Out of Leafy London Sidewalk Hedge In an Adorable Invitation to Play

While walking in the Docklands of East London, a sharp-eyed passerby captured footage of a lively fox cub zooming in and out of sidewalk bushes in a | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

The Seven Most Evil Characters of ‘Breaking Bad’ Ranked and Categorized in Terms of Their Deadliness

As a follow up to the first half of their very insightful list of Breaking Bad characters rated in terms of overall wickedness, narrators Debra Minoff and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Clever Pizza Socks With a Variety of Toppings Packaged in Cardboard Pizza Delivery Boxes

Meg Cyprian and her husband of Warsaw, Poland create incredibly cute and very clever cotton socks that look like different flavors of pizza toppings such | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

A Wooden Borderless Infinity Puzzle of Earth With Pieces Shaped Like Animals From Around the World

The Earth Puzzle by Nervous System is a wonderfully unique way of viewing the world in through very different eyes. The creators took a standard Mercator | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

How First Ten Pages of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Script Comprehensively Sets Premise for the Entire Film

In an insightful video essay regarding the economy of storytelling, filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay takes a look at the first ten | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Handcrafted Wooden Bookshelf Inserts Depicting 3D Dioramic Urban Back Alley Scenes With Working Lights

Japanese artist Monde has created a beautiful series of wooden bookshelf inserts that are the size of a paperback book and depict realistic urban back | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Thoughtful Photographer Builds Little Log Pile House for a Mouse Family to Help Keep Them Safe and Warm

While out in his Sheffield, UK backyard one day, photographer Simon M. Dell came upon a little family of mice, George, Mildred and Mini, in his garden and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson Honor Julia Louis Dreyfus by Performing the Seinfeld ‘Elaine Dance’

During the 21st Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, comediennes Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson of the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Western Australia City Uses Highly Effective Trash Nets to Capture Debris Coming Through Drainage System

View this post on Instagram A post shared by City of Kwinana (@cityofkwinana) on Aug 21, 2018 at 12:28am PDT The City of Kwinana, just outside of Perth, | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Heavy Duty Tethered Cleaning Drones That Safely Wash Windows of High Altitude Skyscrapers

The Latvian company Aerones has introduced their line of heavy duty tethered cleaning drones that wash the windows of high altitude skyscrapers in an | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Gigantic Cow Whose Immense 6’4″ Height and 3,000 Pound Weight Saved Him From the Slaughterhouse

View this post on Instagram A post shared by PerthNow (@perthnow) on Nov 27, 2018 at 9:07pm PST A rather reserved but towering Holstein Friesian named | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Stop Vegans, Before It’s Too Late

The kale forests are almost all gone... | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

The Nebulous Origins of the Heavy Metal Music Genre

In "Who Invented Metal", music writer Polyphonic traces the somewhat nebulous origins of the constantly changing, ever evolving heavy metal music genre. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

The Surviving Members of Queen Reflect Upon the Genius of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ In Great Detail

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the release of their iconic song "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 2015, the surviving members of Queen re-released the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

A Cleverly Designed Skylight That Turns Into a Balcony

French glazier Alexis Brisacier of Entreprise Brisacier shared a video demonstrating the mechanism behind the VELUX CABRIO, a custom installed skylight | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Compassionate Tourist Attempts to Feed the Huge Number of Homeless Dogs Who Live in Cusco, Peru

While visiting Cusco, Peru, travel vlogger Nicki of Hello Nicki Travels noticed the unusually high number of stray "plaza dogs" who live outside of the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Macros Shots of Common Household Items That Appear Unrecognizable Until the Camera Pulls Back

The creative filmmakers at Macro Room always present a different perspective in which to view the world and "Everyday Objects From Inside" is no | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

An Incredible Marble Run Machine That Can Release Up to an Amazing 11,000 Marbles All at One Time

In 2015, Jelle Bakker of Jelle's Marble Runs created an incredible marble run machine that holds 11,000 marbles, 10,000 of which can be released all at | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

The Adorably Efficient Method That Polar Bears Use to Dry Off Their Thick Fur After Going for a Swim

In a niveous clip from the PBS show Snow Bears premiering on November 28, 2018, a polar bear mother and her two young cubs demonstrate their adorably | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Sophia the Robot Returns to ‘The Tonight Show’ To Sing a Romantic Duet With the Human Host Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon put on a brave face and gave his audience the opportunity to watch how several different robots work with some | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

First Time Hang Glider Realizes His Harness is Not Attached During in Terrifying Flight Over a Swiss Town

Gursk3 went hang gliding for his very first time while visiting Switzerland. While he was all set to ride tandem on a guided flight, the instructor forgot | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

The Likely Consequences of Sending So Many Forms of Obsolete Technology Into Space For So Many Years

The highly informative design house Kurzgesagt explains via colorful animation, how so many years of sending various types of obsolted technology into | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Forever Pizza, Individual Slices of Plain or Pepperoni Pizza Encased in Clear Acrylic Available for Purchase

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Steph Mantis (@stephmantis) on Nov 20, 2018 at 3:35pm PST In 2012, we wrote about Brooklyn artist Steph | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

How the Increasing Complexity of Cinematic Villains Allows Them to Garner Greater Audience Sympathy

In a fairly comprehensive and truly insightful video essay, Jared Bauer of Wisecrack talks about the history of cinematic villains and how they evolved | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

The Longest Timelapse Taken From Space Features the International Space Station Circling the Earth Twice

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station, German astronaut Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency shared a stunning | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Sculptor Responds to Fans’ Request With an Amazing Watermelon Carving of Gollum From ‘Lord of the Rings’

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Valeriano Fatica (@valeriano_fatica) on Nov 26, 2018 at 9:00am PST Italian sculptor Valeriano | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago

Illustrator Transforms Starbucks Paper Cups Into Clever Three Dimensional Dioramic Storytelling Scenes

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Soo Min Kim / ??? / ??? (@fseo) on Nov 13, 2018 at 2:14am PST In 2017, we wrote about South Korean artist Soo | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 6 years ago